Mel 💚💙

Happy pride month my peeps!! (Why the fuck are we half way thru the year already?)

dorothy's very blunt "you'd be no worse off than you are now!" line to the Scarecrow is actually SO fucking funny in the wicked context like. imagine you just got tortured to death for protecting your witch wife but your witch wife brought you back as a scarecrow so you're alive now (yay 👍) but barely know how to move now and you're very clumsy (boo 👎) and this little girl helps you down from what was basically your crucifixion pole and you really play up being a silly scarecrow for her sake and when she says she's going to the Emerald City to get the wizard (who you KNOW is a fraud) to send her home you ask this sweet little darling if she thinks he might be able to help you too (you know he can't but you cant exactly tell her "hey so the bubble lady lied to you and the wizard can't help and you're in a GREAT deal of danger" without scaring her out of her mind so you figure that acting like you need her help in getting to the wizard is the best approach) and she basically says "...I dunno but you can't get much worse than THIS right? <:T"

Fiyero: Guess what I’m about to get!!

something about Fiyero immediately locking in with a plan to save Elphaba the millisecond he sees a little girl strutting down the road in Nessa's shoes, despite the fact that he was fully convinced that Elphaba would abandon him immediately due to his crippling self doubt and body dysphoria, is so. so sad to me.

Oh, you think you're safe now?

Honestly I love to think about the possibility that Fiyero didn't totally choose to be a soldier. I know we mostly assume he did, but how much evidence is there for that? And, in a story about lies and propaganda, how much can we trust that evidence?