because galinda upland killed my grandma, okay?

we could've gotten a wicked the musical that actually focused on the witches of oz and we could've gotten glinda being nessa's surrogate sister after elphaba left and it would've added to the tragedy of glinda ultimately selling nessa out and an exploration of their parallel experience with loneliness and how their respective leadership roles isolate them instead we got temu male glinda

one of the best musical moments is during nessa's last scene when the no one mourns the wicked motif starts playing and it transitions into glinda's engagement ball music very sickening things happening there stephen schwartz was diabolical for that one

very funny book glinda is like i prefer stupid men i didn't like that my husband was smart that was no fun and then musical glinda intentionally chooses to date the guy who's whole thing is that he's brainless and dumb and then she starts freaking out when he starts thinking like omg this fucking dyke

let's all go around and say things we don't like about glinda

see glinda's mistake was forgiving elphaba in the bridge of for good. because in the book when elphaba asked sarima for forgiveness and sarima refused her elphaba was like okay well i guess i have no choice but to hang around and thoroughly befriend you. whereas glinda forgave elphaba and elphaba fucked off into the desert immediately

it's so incredibly frustrating the insane burden of proof people seem to have with lesbian relationships so that people will see a kiss between two women where one says "hold out my sweet" and be like well it's not strictly romantic maybe they're just really good friends why are you insisting that it must be romantic when no one would ever hold this standard to a m/m or f/m relationship. we very much make lesbian attraction and love between women invisible or jump through crazy hoops trying to insist it's not romantic. why are we so afraid of just definitively unambiguously saying two women have romantic affection for each other? even gregory gets on my nerves sometimes with this cuz i do understand the importance of ambiguity and characters protecting their privacy in the wicked years i really do and i understand how it ties into the wider themes but how hard is it to just be like these two women had romantic/sexual feelings for each other or they had sex with each other why must lesbian relationships always exist in the margins or in implication? but to be fair to gregory i do wonder if he was aware of this and this colored some of the decisions he made writing ozma/rain's ending in the another day series

the only time i've gotten mildly close to feeling any kinship with fiyero tigelaar is when johnny made some offhand comment about he probably got sent to boarding school as a child because, yeah, boarding school will fuck you up. i'm sorry you went through that. unfortunately every single person to come out of my boarding school is genuinely evil so it's just more proof that he's a terrorist tbh

people denying that gelphie's book kiss is strictly romantic are dumb for a lot of reasons. besides the obvious homophobia of "it says these two women kissed but it didn't specify on the lips" that no one would apply if it were two men or a man and a woman, it also ignores what elphaba's saying in that moment. because she's not just saying goodbye to glinda--she's asking her to hold out. elphaba knows she has to leave shiz and glinda behind and she doesn't know if or when she'll be able to go back, but she wants glinda to hold out for her. elphaba is willing to give up everything for the greater good, but she still wants glinda to wait for her and be there for her should she come home. it's incredibly romantic and i don't really think it makes sense for her to request that of someone she just considers friend