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Cringetober 2025 Day 1: Overpowered

It should be played irratic and desperately sad.

You should feel incredibly pathos and just a little uncomfortable watching it.

This is a Goddess. A woman who literally controls the seasons. A person who's entire purpose is to keep the cycle of Earth in rotation. She can quite literally move heaven and earth to her will.

But none of that matters because all that she is Right Now is a wife in a deeply unhappy and trapped marriage, where her husband is trying to use a younger woman to make her jealous and come back to him. A spouse drinking herself into blissful oblivion who is desperately sad that she cannot fulfil her literal manifest purpose. And she can't escape. She's lost her entire identity.

She calls out for someone to repeat back her name and all they ever respond with is her title.

She wants her name not her purpose!!

She wants people to know her not the title that has been foisted upon her.

She keeps calling and calling "Brother what's my name?" And she never gets an answer that satisfies that deep and base need to be recognised by any other soul.

This is markably different to "Livin' it Up on Top" where people do call her by name. There's a reason she's so much more happy up there -- though equally unstable -- and this is one of them. She's known. She's recognised. She's acknowledged.

Down below she only has her bar supplies. She can't help in a way that matters. She can't relieve this overwhelming suffering. She has no power. She is falling apart and falling fast.

And you should feel that.

You should feel her anger, her frustration, her pity, her restlessness.

WAITRESS GIF MEME. ↳ one production ❤ the art.

WICKED Costume Design from Stage to Screen ↳ part 2 / part 1

@projectbway event 02: adaptations - beautiful: the carole king musical

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the moment I heard elphaba's delivery of "there's a girl i know..." in i'm not that girl i knew i had to draw this comic, i strongly recommend listening to it while you read for the full experience!

this comic is a companion to this piece (which was inspired by glinda's delivery of the same line in the i'm not that girl reprise).

pages 1-4 are from elphie's pov, pages 5-8 are from glinda's.

flower meanings in order of appearance: