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ok so like. wicked. we all know the wizard's an asshole, yeah? jackass who would rather invent fascism than admit he's jared, 19. real fuckin loser. However. i've been thinking about it, and really his main personality trait + motive is that he's a people-pleaser above all else. literally desperate to be liked, and even when he's at his most liked he's lonely and sad alone in his palace. his fault but not the point here. anyway but not only is he a desperate people-pleaser he also really wants to be a family man, there's literally no other reason for "sentimental man" than establishing that, yeah? except he made himself too important for people to ever consider to be on their level. again, his fault, the idiot, but again not the point. what i'm getting at is that like. hands-down the funniest fix-it for the musical at least for me rn is the idea that he finds and picks up elphaba when she's like. 7-8. old enough to have been bullied and radicalized. because she's an outspoken stubborn little shit and the wizard is already a massive pushover but ADD TO THAT that she is his daughter who he's absolutely going to spoil and lavish with attention because he wants her love back AND she's got big sad puppy eyes and you have a recipe for her lowkey ending the wizard's reign of terror on complete accident. this little girl who was only shown kindness by one (1) bear is like "hey mister wizard-dad can you stop oppressing the animals" and mr wants-to-be-a-girldad-so-bad is like "yeah ok whatever you say honey <3" and madame morrible just has to be like "bitch. what"

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explain your gender in 10 words or less without using boring words like “male”, “female”, “nonbinary”, “masculine”, “feminine” or “androgynous”.

go!

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the whole "lipstick on a pig" thing makes no sense because the second we gave a pig access to makeup she became god's cuntiest soldier

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omegaverse themed heavy metal band called slickknot

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do you guys wanna see the most perfectest png of my cat

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Vote for me for president, I'll make it so that any country with an active US military base gets to vote in our elections. Not only would it involve people directly affected by our imperialism, but also I think it would be funny bc it would make A LOT of Americans so fucking mad.

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There’s two ends of the horror spectrum

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The side effect of watching kpop demon hunters 😔

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does anyone have that quote that goes something like 'white germans under the nazis lived just fine as long as they were loyal to the state, gave their children to the army, and paid their taxes, and in this sense many americans would be comfortable living under fascism' trying to find who said it but google is giving me jack shit

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I'm kind of obsessed with the way sheep are handled. So efficiently. It always looks kind of unpleasant at first and then you notice the sheep are fine with it. They're always being flipped upside down and rolled down a chute or some shit. A shepherd will be tossing that thang in the air and spinning it like pizza dough & the sheep just lets it happen

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The early war plot line and the associated conversations are really well done and grounded in such a way that it feels very real—the propaganda is incredibly pointed especially in hindsight, the varied opinions and biases are painfully accurate, and the nationalism is chilling—and also watching it this week in particular is making me thousand yard stare like Caleb Widogast upon hearing the name Trent Ikithon.

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My latest cartoon for New Scientist

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All I could think of when drawing this was David Bowie's "As the World Falls Down":

“Wasn't too much fun at all But I'll be there for you As the world falls down Falling As the world falls down Falling Falling in love”

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nice pair of characters who trust each other more than anyone else in the whole entire world it would sure be a shame if one of them betrayed that trust for the sake of trying to keep the other alive. it would sure be a shame to love someone so much you destroy them