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ichiwashername-o · 8 days

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Elphaba stop bullying your boyfriend.

#wicked #wicked the musical #fiyero #fiyeraba #elphaba #wicked musical #elphaba thropp #fiyero x elphaba #he cant help being a himbo

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jbaileyfansite · 2 months

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Jonathan Bailey as Fiyero's fanart by jbaileydaily

#jonathan bailey #jonny bailey #fiyero #fiyero tigelaar #fiyero x elphaba #elphaba x fiyero #fiyeraba #wicked #wicked movie #fanart

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darklinaforever · 4 months

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I never liked Fiyero & Elphaba, but let's face it... with Jonathan Bailey in the role, things will completely change !

#jonathan bailey #fiyero x elphaba #elphaba x fiyero #fiyero and elphaba #elphaba and fiyero #fiyero tiggular #wicked movie #wicked musical #wicked the musical #wicked broadway #glinda upland #gelphie #glinda x elphaba #elphaba x glinda #glinda and elphaba #elphaba and glinda

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bellesheres1219 · 2 months

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It's okay, Elphaba.

I'm a huge Wicked fan. I wanted to make this because I feel like Elphaba has been through so much and I have always seen Scarecrow as the type of friend who will comfort you no matter what. So I wanted to portray a moment where Elphaba has a traumatic breakdown and Scarecrow/ Fiyero is there for her to let her know that everything is going to be okay. I also picture him calling her Fae like in the original Wicked book.

#bellesheres #drawing #illustration #sketches #wicked #wicked fanart #elphaba thropp #wicked elphaba #fiyero x elphaba #elphaba #fiyero #wizard of oz #the wizard of oz #wizardofozfanart #scarecrow #wicked the musical #fiyeraba

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derekklenadaily · 2 months

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From Sue and Tommy, Eddie and Rose, Fiyero and Elphaba, Dmitry and Anya/Anastasia, Christian and Satine, Joe and Norma, Joe and Betty! Who is your favorite couple? ♡

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borrowthemoonlight · 2 years

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"we met — in our mutual gaze — in between a third place i’d not yet been."

fiyero & elphaba, wicked // the affliction, marie howe

#wickededit #broadwayedit #musicaledit #musicaltheateredit #wicked #wicked the musical #wicked musical #wicked broadway #musical theater #fiyeraba #fiyero x elphaba #elphaba #elphaba thropp #fiyero tiggular #fiyero tigelaar #them them them #lol i realised my gifs suck so. back to basics ig !!

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that-ari-blogger · 2 months

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Who exactly is this about? (I'm Not That Girl)

When you are finding someone to play Elphaba in a production of Wicked, you need someone with range. Not just vocal range, but acting skill. Because they need to be able to perform with the stage presence and anger inherent in Defying Gravity, but they also need to be able to reach the devastating low that is I'm Not That Girl.

To me, I'm Not That Girl is at the core of what Wicked is, and what musicals are in general. It is a combination of singing and acting, and is someone excelling at both.

But, I would like to drive home the queer reading of this story, and try to explain why I think that reading adds to the message and power of the musical.

Let me explain.

SPOILERS AHEAD (Wicked)

I don't think I need to explain why this song hits so unbelievably hard. It's about unrequited love, and its a strength of the satire that is this musical.

Usually in musicals and fairy tales, the love story is fairly uncomplicated, with an extra option thrown in but not really given much depth and the audience doesn't really buy the drama.

Seriously, how many of you shipped Belle and Gastone?

So, this is a song about that love not working out, not because of plot reasons, but because its entirely one sided at this point. To Elphaba's knowledge, and probably the audience's as well, Fiyero loves Galinda, and there's nothing she can do about it.

"Don't wish, don't start Wishing only wounds the heart I wasn't born for the rose and the pearl There's a girl I know He loves her so I'm not that girl"

This is the other side of love, heartbreak.

Elphaba is a relatively rational character. She has been through the ringer and has ended up detached and restricted in her emotions. Now, someone has pushed through her barriers and she doesn't know what to do about it.

This song seems to me like Elphaba wrestling with love as a whole. Don't feel, don't try. It'll hurt too much, it's not worth the pain. So why can't she stop thinking about it?

The term "rose and thorn" sent me down a spiral.

Both Florists' Transworld Delivery and Bloom and Wild gave a ton of meanings for roses that boiled down to "it's romantic."

Pearls meanwhile have a ton of meanings depending on the culture. The blog My Pearl proposed these, most of which did not have anything to do with love at all. According to My Pearl, pearls are commonly associated with purity, innocence, and wisdom. So, not particularly romantic. However, My Pearl did say this:

"[White Pearls] are often seen as symbols of new beginnings and are often used as gifts for special occasions such as weddings and anniversaries."

So, this is a symbol of a happy ending, and Elphaba is essentially saying that she doesn't deserve that because of her birth. In essence, she is convinced that her difference makes her unworthy of happiness, which... if you think this about yourself, please don't. I don't know who you are, but you are worthy of love.

"Every so often we long to steal To the land of what-might-have-been But that doesn't soften the ache we feel When reality sets back in"

My main point for this series on Wicked as a whole has been that it is about dreams and reality colliding, and this verse fits with that. It's Elphaba letting herself imagine and fantasise about a stolen moment with Fiyero. Once again, at this point she has no idea that Fiyero likes her back, so this is purely theoretical.

I have been using the free sheet music from this website for my analysis, and I would like to stress before I continue that I am far from an expert on the actual theory of music here. I can point to which bits go up and down, and can name a few chords, but I can't tell you about the intricate workings of that.

With that said, allow me to attempt some music theory.

The time signature of this song is all over the place, split between 4/4 and 6/8. In other words, sometimes the bars finish earlier, and so the thoughts within continue, pulling you along as you wait for the conclusion.

In this song, the two signatures differentiate that splitting of reality and dreams. For example, the verse below is in 6/8 time:

As Elphaba imagines, she breaks from reality and the verse is really flowy, almost comforting within the song. But then it ceases the second she comes back to reality.

This keeps happening. Elphaba starts in reality, then drifts into dreams and comes crashing back down.

This time, however, the reality of the verse is about Galinda, the barrier between Elphaba and happiness, the wall she stands in her way. Although, it's a little bit odd to talk about a romantic rival in the way that Elphaba does, isn't it?

"Blithe smile, lithe limb She who's winsome, she wins him Gold hair with a gentle curl"

Let's talk about Dolly Parton.

I genuinely had a whole section trying to argue that this song is the Jolene of musical theatre, but then multiple people mentioned it to me in person by that term, and @a-fast-rebloger referred to it as such here on tumblr. So clearly I'm preaching to the converted here.

So instead, I'm going to explain what that means.

First up, the queer coding of Jolene is barely less than explicit, its essentially the one Romeo and Juliet speech that everyone remembers. "Romeo, romeo, am I in love with you?"

But, the song actually has a history with the queer community, with this article by Nadine Hubbs detailing its implications. The song also has covers and rewrites that bring that subtext to the forefront by Nadine Hubbs, Rainaeiry, Annapantsu (@annapantsu), Jessica Rica, and Dolly Parton herself (Although I have not been able to find footage of this), as well as arguably the versions by Lil Nas X and Caleb Hyles.

Rainaeiry has two covers of Jolene on her youtube channel, by the way, and a cover of I'm Not That Girl that I highly recommend.

Jolene is a song about unrequited love and being unable to do anything about it, and the song focuses on the woman who forms the barrier to this love. It is a song about defeat.

"Your beauty is beyond compare With flaming locks of auburn hair Ivory skin and eyes of emerald green Your smile is like a breath of spring Your voice is soft like summer rain And I cannot compete with you Jolene"

Compare that with this:

"Blithe smile, lithe limb She who's winsome, she wins him Gold hair with a gentle curl That's the girl he chose And Heaven knows I'm not that girl"

This is more than just thematic parallels, this is subject overlap, and remember when I mentioned the dreams vs reality theme being expressed by the time signature? Well take a look at the time signature for that verse.

The verse switches halfway through, as Elphaba begins describing her friend, and that dreaminess comes back as she discusses Galinda, but then dissipates when she remembers where she stands.

This is a love song by Elphaba, about Galinda. It's about how Elphaba isn't deserving, how she isn't pretty, how she isn't chosen. And who does she associate with those traits, but Galinda.

And here is where my reading comes in, finally. I read both of these witches as either biromantic or bisexual, probably both. Galinda for reasons I will get to in a later post, but Elphaba because of this song.

This song to me, is a true love triangle. Elphaba is desperately in love with both Fiyero and Galinda, but she can't reconcile those feelings, and she can see that they both seem to make each other happy, and she doesn't want to break that for either of them. This is a song about defeat.

I keep separating the line "I'm not that girl" from the rest of the verses, and I've been doing that for a reason. The line gets separated by the music as a melodic outlier.

Every part of the song rises and falls. I'm not sure what this is technically called musically, but it's like a ramp or a ski jump. The notes lower slowly, then raise sharply and drop off even more so, as seen above. This matches the song as a whole, which rises and falls in the same way. But consider the following:

This is the only line in the entire song that only descends. It is a line of resignation, as the reality weighs down on our protagonist. Once again, this is a song about someone who does not feel like she deserves love from either Fiyero or Galinda, because of how she was born.

And I will say this again: If you feel like Elphaba here, that you are undeserving of affection, then you are wrong. Everyone is worthy of love, even you.

Final Thoughts

The correct term for this song is "heart wrenching".

While it isn't my favourite in the musical, you will just have to wait and see for that, it is definitely up there, and is one of the few numbers in all of musical theatre that I would classify as a perfect song.

Also, I would not be able to forgive myself if I wrote this post and didn't mention that Steffan Hughes' rendition of I'm Not That Girl is genuinely the most emotionally resonant video on YouTube and it needs more attention than it has.

Next week, I will be looking at One Short Day, so stick around if that interests you.

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victoriously-wicked · 6 months

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Happy 20 years to Wicked!!

#wicked #elphaba thropp #gelphie #galinda upland #wicked musical #wicked the musical #glinda x elphaba #elphaba x glinda #fiyero tigelaar #fiyero tiggular #fiyeraba

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the-patchwork-girl-of-oz · 6 months

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Galinda: I’m sorry boys, but I’m simply not interested in either of you. I’m in love with Elphaba.

Boq: …oh…ok.😔

Fiyero: that’s fine, I guess.

Galinda: I have a solution. Why don’t you just go out with each other?

Boq: wait what??? I… HIM?!

Fiyero: why would I date Boq?

Galinda: well, you have a lot in common.

Fiyero: what could we possibly have in common?

Galinda: well, you’re both really obsessed with [insert incredibly nerdy movie here].

Boq: *looks up at him* you like [movie]?

Fiyero, confused: yeah, I love it…

Boq: so do I!!! Do you remember when…?!

Fiyero: YEAH AND THEN SHE…!

*proceeds to excitedly rant about their shared hyperfixation*

Boq: I mean… maybe Galinda’s right… maybe we could… watch it together…? I mean just as friends!!! Not in a gay way!!!

Fiyero: I'll pick you up at 6:00?

Boq: okay, great! It's a date! NO WAIT-

*proceeds to go on a date*

#wicked #boq bfeeson #wicked the musical #boq chopper #boq #fiyero tiggular #fiyero tigelaar #boq x fiyero #fiyero x boq #fiq #fiyerboq #tincrow #galinda upland #glinda upland #elphaba thropp #glinda x elphaba #elphaba x glinda #gelphie

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elphabasthropps · 5 months

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gangstagandalf · 2 years

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Whoops!!! My hand slipped…..😘💚🖤

Enjoy more of our lovely Elphaba my lovelies!

#elphaba x fiyero #elphaba #wizard of oz #wicked #wicked the musical #wicked witch

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jbaileyfansite · 2 months

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Wicked's fanart by onderealist

#wicked #wicked movie #fiyero tigelaar #fiyero #elphaba thropp #fiyero x elphaba #elphaba x fiyero #jonathan bailey #cynthia erivo #fanart

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darklinaforever · 11 months

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Wait... JONATHAN BAILEY WILL PLAY FIYERO IN THE FILM ADAPTATION OF THE MUSICAL WICKED ?! AND I DID NOT KNOW ?!

OK... I never liked Fiyero, let alone shipping him with Elphaba. But for once... Well Jonathan could completely change the situation !

Honestly, if they take the gay subtext out of the Gelphie relationship for queerbaiting (especially using the same fucking melody when Glinda tells Elphaba she's beautiful, and when Elphaba and Fiyero touch... Seriously, wtf ?!), and give the Fiyero and Elphaba relationship some real buildup (Which they definitely don't have in the musical, sorry), I'll take it !