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October 1, 2025
Elphaba picked up the fish and threw it on the ground.
Well that’s not poetry, that’s propaganda, and it’s not even good propaganda at that.”
Fuck your irrigation theory when the pubs are open,”
literally
queered his exams!
It often is,” said Boq. “Especially in the shower. You feel like an underdone—”
what the hell are you talking about
(a thin white ribbon around the crown of his head, pulling his hair straight from the nub, so that it burst into curls beneath, like froth exploding from an overturned basin of milk).
can't visualize this
all his eggs in one basket.
how quaint
Boq was learning so much about girls!
He felt a surge of possibility, an inclination to rub his lips on the place where her shoulder became her neck.
oh brother
Just clever. You’re clever and you’re sort of, oh, well, I mean to look at—” “Handsome?” suggested Elphaba. “Dashing?” “You’re fun to look at,” decided Galinda. Boq’s face fell. “Fun?” he said.
But, thank Lurline, she’s got a job,
#employment
between your Miss Elphie and my erstwhile friends here, we have no real hope of friendship at all. Shall we organize a duel and kill each other instead? Count off ten paces, turn and shoot? It would save so much bother.” But Galinda didn’t approve of such joking.
He’s religious,” said Elphaba, and made the circling palms gesture that indicated you could grind millstone against millstone all you liked, but there wasn’t any quern in the land that could produce flour if there was no grain to grind.
*pantomiming aliens taking over the strip mall*
Or it may be perceived to be reversible, which is just as bad. In the interim, while sorcerers are at work experimenting with charms and spells, the Animals lose their rights, one by one. Just slowly enough so that it’s hard to see as a coherent political campaign.
She is my world,” he answered. “Your world is too small if she is it.”
You can’t criticize the size of a world. I can’t help it and I can’t stop it and I can’t deny it.”
This Boq is an old friend, or as good as,”
more the latter
The usual pang of panic Boq felt at her departure was softened by knowing he would see her again in life sciences next week,
give me a break
Boq, that pesky little flea, kept zizzing around her looking for attention.
She was sorry she had let him kiss her. What a mistake! Well,
Well, in a nutshell: he had loved Galinda
and this now was Glinda.
Grommetik found the Animal slumped over a broken lens; he’d apparently stumbled and severed his own jugular vein.
bsffr 😭
You don’t expect a life of high society anyway, not without arms. After all, how can one dance without arms?
feel like you overestimate the importance of arms for dancing
Talk softly but carry a bit stick.
Walk softly but marry a big prick.
“Come on, Glinda—you’ve got better brains—come on! I love you too much, snap out of it, you idiot!”
awwww
Animals, humans, dwarfs, elves, and several tiktok things of incomplete or experimental gender.
me and gang
“He stepped out to use the toilet,” said Elphaba. “Well, we’ll wait.”
“Whooo arrrre youuuu?” bellowed the thing, the Wizard of Oz, whatever.
“But then nothing would keep me from assassinating you, did I not know what wrong was.” “I don’t believe in assassination, I don’t even know what it means,” Glinda called. “Yoo hoo. I’m going to take my leave now while I’m still alive.”
“this nutjob heheh…lol get a load of this broad, boss”
The skeleton fingered its ribs,
gotta have them ribs
From despising the colored girl to claiming we are blood!
#ally !
She put her face against Glinda’s and kissed her.
hmmm
“I rather liked Boq,
that makes one of us
She’s going a little fat after her third child.
wow ok
She waited for him on the appointed evenings, sitting naked under the blanket, reading essays on political theory or moral philosophy.
He had never been in love before, he now saw. It humbled him. It scared him.
He kissed the V between her thumb and forefinger, he sucked on it as if it were a lemon rind.
ugh
she ever allows herself to be the bitch she really is, she’ll be the Bitch of the East.
😭
“She’ll be the Eminent Thropp.” “Better she than I,” said Elphaba dryly. “For one thing, she has great taste in shoes.”
Love is wicked distraction.”
and scene
“I know this: The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness,”
I have no colleagues. I have no self. I never did, in fact, but that’s beside the point. I am just a muscular twitch in the larger organism.”
he spent the evening at the betting parlor, losing money.
keep gambling
If you suppress the idea of personhood then you suppress the notion of individual culpability.”
“What is worse, Fiyero? Suppressing the idea of personhood or suppressing, through torture and incarceration and starvation, real living persons?
I’m a private citizen and I mind my own business.”
hrm
In some way, in the balance of their affections, he sensed she needed an identity separate from his.
“A fortnight, my dear. My pet, as my father used to say. I need a fortnight of privacy now.”
battle royale
