#ruby slippers

[alittlebitbethany]

Hi everybody I’ve posted a new video onto my YouTube channel in honour of Disability Pride Month my Nessarose doll received a makeover and I customised her silver slippers. I also made a background that is themed around disability pride . Please check it out it would mean a lot to me. Image Description: a screenshot of a YouTube video featuring a photo of a doll with curly brown hair who is wearing a black outfit, she’s sitting in a steampunk wheelchair and she is holding a pair of ruby and diamond encrusted silver slippers. The background is disability pride themed. The text reads BC’s Doll Place: Disability Pride Month 2025 Customising Nessarose’s Silver Slippers (Subtitled).

[dinneratgrannys]

You came back for me. I always will.

[fashioncreature]

Ariana Grande wearing Schiaparelli referencing Dorothy’s ruby slippers at the Oscars

[thegivenchythree]

Ariana Grande in Schiaparelli Couture 97th Annual Academy Awards

[konako]

Year 9, leather.

It's not the first time they've tried it in bed. It's been almost a decade together.

DRK AU version ↓

[yellowbugifs]

147/365 days of regina mills

[daensaism]

Happy Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

[goodbyeyellowbrickcloset]

Oh, #performanceartlor why must you send me spiraling 😂

- Cynthia walked and interviewed on the red carpet with Taylor following immediately next

- The sweet moments we got of the two of them inside the Grammys

- The camera panning to Taylor when “somebody grab a broom” was said

[anderii]

There's no place like home.

Hey guess what i found in the garden after that storm we had yesterday, it's weird but I have a real urge to put them on.

Wait what happened, looks like, I'm not in Kansas any more!

[nobodysdaydreams]

In Wicked (the musical specifically), do they ever explain why Nessarose’s silver shoes give Dorothy the power to go home like they do with the ruby slippers in the Wizard of Oz? Was it because Galinda enchanted them or because this was an inherent property of the shoes themselves?

Because if it was not, and the shoes belonged to Elphaba’s mom, one explanation is that these are magic dimension/world jumping shoes that Elphaba’s mom most likely got from the Wizard because he’s from another world, which begs the question of who owned the shoes originally and where did the Wizard steal them from? There’s no way he would just have them or inherit them, and he cannot make them himself. Did he steal them for their powers or does he not even know how they work and was just like “oh these shoes would probably impress a pretty lady someday” and took them and gave them to Elphaba’s mom?

This is what I’m picturing:

Madam Morrible: “Ah. The silver slippers. An ancient magical artifact long forgotten by most Ozians but incredibly powerful. It is said that there is a way, though lost to history, that gives the wearer of the slippers the ability to transport themselves back to their home, across time, space, and the fabric of reality itself!”

The Wizard: “Oh really? Wow. I just stole them because my plan was to use them to impress a pretty lady and women love sparkly shoes, but ancient magic artifact you say? That’s interesting.”

*cut to Jeff Goldblum desperately jumping up and down in sparkly heels trying to figure out how they work*

[friendofelphie]

So, I know that Wicked the Musical is a different beast than Gregory Maguire’s Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West.

They’re different in tone and theme, and they aren’t trying to be the same thing. I usually don’t even think of them in the same breath; Maguire’s Oz is a different world than the one we see on stage.

However, there is one change made for the stage show that I think is a weakening of the story: the decision to have Elphaba fake her death, and run away with Fiyero. I get it, it’s a musical; Elphie melting at the end of her own story is a bummer. But Wicked is a tragedy, and I always thought it was a little bit of a cop-out to give Elphaba a happy ending.

Then I realized something: The book is Elphaba’s story, but Wicked the musical is very explicitly told from Glinda’s point of view. There’s the whole “I did know her once… at school,” thing that turns into an extended flashback.

Maybe Elphaba didn’t fake her death. Maybe the ending of the stage show is Glinda imagining, and hoping, that’s what happened. Perhaps Elphaba turned Fiyero into a scarecrow, and then they ran away together. Maybe it was all Elphaba’s master plan. Probably not. But for Glinda, it’s helpful to imagine — and always, in the back of her mind, to believe that’s what happened.

No one mourns the Wicked. Glinda doesn’t want to mourn. She wants to believe that somewhere, somehow, her friend is still out there.

[dinneratgrannys]

You...you found me. Did you ever doubt I would? Truthfully, the glass coffin gave me pause. Well, you never have to worry. I will always find you. (1.01, Pilot)

I couldn't lose you to Zelena. Well, yeah, but I almost lost you. You didn't. You came back for me. I always will. (5.18, Ruby Slippers)

[gayfergus]

In the original novel of Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, the jeweled shoes are described as being made with beaded glass which refracts multiple colors ─ cleverly paying homage to the silver shoes of L. Frank Baum's novel and the ruby slippers of MGM's film without having to deal with copyright concerns of the latter.

"From a pile of ash shavings she withdrew a shoe, and then another. Were they silver? - or blue? - or now red? - lacquered with a candy shell brilliance of polish? It was hard to tell and it didn’t matter; the effect was dazzling."

I doubt we'll actually see the shoes become ruby red in Wicked: For Good, at most maybe a red shine during a pivotal moment. Still fun to image, in another universe...

(edits courtesy of Justice Gage)

[aesthetic--mood]

The Wizard of Oz Aesthetic

[queenofglassbeliever]

@giftober 2024 | Day 26 "One Gif"

[jluvswicked2]

The wind began to switch, the house, to pitch!

An old ink and marker sketch of Dorothy and Toto that I still really like. Though if I were to do it again, I’d probably leave out the Ruby Slippers and put in the silhouette of Ms Gultch or the Witch on her broom.