#gbb2025

just like the handmaiden said: ladies truly are the telenovelas of maids

or: the @gelphiebigbang2025 is finally upon us, and i finally get to release my piece into the wild! being paired up with @festivating, who i can only describe as my favourite bookverse gelphie author, still has me positively starstruck. so while i work on blinking the lights out of my eyes, hurry over to read the fic that inspired this piece here:

(when you're done, you can also view my art (again) on ao3 right here.)

here is my piece accompanying the fanfic "The Princess and the Frog" by @angryoilslick!

“Elphaba stayed in her room for a day. Galinda came and went with a dinner. On occasion she would stay for a few minutes.” - Wicked, Gregory Maguire, pg. 123 -- For the first time, Galinda sat down in the room, on the armchair across from Elphaba’s desk. She perched on the very edge of it with her legs primly crossed at the ankles, as if she was preparing to run. Galinda’s sunburn bloomed a soft pink on the high arc of her cheekbones, the bridge of her nose… which was dotted with freckles, as Elphaba would have noticed if she’d cared to look more closely. Galinda’s summer dress hung loosely over her legs. With great effort, Elphaba averted her gaze. -- Or, as we know, a lot can happen in a few minutes.

Elphaba Thropp/Galinda Upland. Other Tags: Bookverse, Shiz-Era, Fluff, First Kiss, Dark Humor

Rating: T

Word Count: 11,217

INCLUDING AMAZING INCREDIBLE SHOWSTOPPING BRILLIANT SPECTACULAR ART BY @ponk-fonk !!!!!!! (tumblr post here!!!)

Thank you to @festivating, @blackseablacksky and @gelphietism for proofreading & support!!!!

Written for @gelphiebigbang2025!

I love this fic so much I had to make more art for it so here are my bonus artworks for @localgaysian !!

Set 2 of 3: Elphaba's pov

Part of the @gelphiebigbang2025 event. Shout out to the author @noheteroexplanation and their story "i am the face of love's rage" which these are based on. Yes, I will tell you to read it in all three posts. Artwork on Ao3

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Wicked (Movie 2024) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Elphaba Thropp/Galinda Upland Characters: Galinda Upland, Elphaba Thropp Additional Tags: Post-Canon Fix-It, Soulmates, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Angst with a Happy Ending, Temporary Character Death, Elphaba dies but then Glinda brings her back to life, Grief/Mourning, Suicidal Thoughts, Additional Warnings In Author's Note, Smut, Glinda and Elphaba as Orpheus and Eurydice but undoomed yuri edition, GelphieBigBang2025, GelphieBB Series: Part 7 of think of what we could do, together Summary:

In another world, another time, there was no death. It would all be a farce, though she wouldn’t have known it. Her grief would have been real and vulnerable and raw. No, one mourns the Wicked.

In this world, the tragedy is all too real: her beloved is dead. But Glinda will not grieve for that which she does not accept to be permanent.

A faked death mourned, a real death refused. What a twisted world Oz is.

Or: What if Elphaba actually died at the end of Wicked? Follow Glinda in her journey to bring her back to life.

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I am so excited to finally be able to share this fic I wrote back in May/June! Posting this fic as part of the @gelphiebigbang2025 event. The biggest shoutout to my matched artist @redkunstler – you made this entire experience so much better with your kind words, enthusiasm and your beautiful art.

I was paired up with @loniceravine for @gelphiebigbang2025 and the fic & art is finally revealed!!

The fic is so good go check it out!