#Greenify

[kimmiessimmies]

MINI-STORY | Summer 07: The Greenify Project

Mayor Henry’s project to Greenify Honeycomb Valley is entering phase 2. With the communal areas of the old part of town now done, attention turns to the residential areas. How will the residents respond to these plans?

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[autismsupermusicalassassin]

Do you want to see me green?…

You sure?…

okay…here it goes

*drumrolls*

HERE WE ARE!!!!

[whatevertheywant]

For all the talk of people hating that elphie is green,I think glinda would have a bitch fit and a half if anyone actually tried to de-greenify elphie

[youvebeengalindafied]

Stephanie J. Block, Annaleigh Ashford, and Sebastian Arcelus

Backstage of Wicked (Broadway), October 9, 2007. Taken the night of SJB and Annaleigh’s first show on Broadway!!

I had to crawl through 50pgs of Broadway news articles on the Wayback Machine to find these photos and IT WAS SO WORTH IT

[betty-burnout]

will anything ever compare to the feeling of watching Challengers in theaters for the first time when the camera suddenly becomes the ball

[secular-czar]

something something this too is gelphie

look, i would die to see is qt making a wicked photoshoot like she did for Alice Wonderland, purely because she and Maya would make for the most Gelphie ever

Also, Please, pleaseee, Gelphie nation, i need a reversed height difference fic It's just as funny if Glinda is taller

Look at them!!

For real, gelphies out there, if you ever need art reference, these two do constant engagement photoshoots, look at this!!

And they have some pics that are amazing for shiz era

bonus that they can sing, the vibes match, and they look great in costumes

and if they(qt) somehow could rope Hasan into dressing in thigh white pants, blue makeup for the tattoos and make him book!fiyero I would perish

qt already made him play Dorothy for WOZ it's not any crazier than the dress and pigtails, yaknow

[tinknevertalks]

The feeling when I realised Hannah Waddingham was about my age now when she was the Wicked Witch of the West for Andrew Lloyd Webber's production of The Wizard of Oz back in 2011.

Imma go drink my last cup of tea and cry into it. 👍

[missallanea-aa]

also for the first time in my life I did a half-way decent colour correction

[vampiresinforks]

going to therapy - expensive

finding out it's your colorings that are killing your gif quality and making your gif backgrounds blurry as heck - priceless

I mean would you look at the pixelated background in the top gif (with coloring)

vs. how the background looks in the original. same sharpening settings, same everything, just no coloring on it

[sanguineposhrat]

Hmmm I picked my pallete before because it was Instagramable but now idgaf about insta and it's kind of not the vibe with the colours on here so now I'm thinking about colours hmmmmm

[gameboyhamazing]

Guess who just beat golden sun

[susiephone]

one little thing i loved about wicked is how it shows the difference between offering help and forcing it - like, elphaba is rightfully offended when galinda declares she'll "fix" her green skin once she becomes a sorceress, especially since galinda was doing it to feel good about herself. but in private she admits to herself that, yeah, if she gets to work with the wizard, she'd want him to "de-greenify" her. and in both her imagination and when he actually offers, he ASKS if that's what she'd want rather than just declaring it. like the way the offer is presented makes a WORLD of difference, and it also ties back into glinda's character arc of doing things to be nice vs doing things to appear nice

[schrodingerseurydice]

Glinda's note saying "I hope you get whatever your heart desires" and Elphaba responding with "come with me" IS SO IMPORTANT TO ME.

Elphaba is going to see the Wizard, her childhood dream, but HAVING GLINDA BY HER SIDE is what Elphaba's heart desires.

A big part of the reason Elphaba wanted to meet the Wizard was because "Once you're with the Wizard/No one thinks you're strange/No father is not proud of you/No sister acts ashamed/And all of Oz has to love you."

But that's already what it's like being with Glinda. Most of the bullying has gone away, because Glinda's influence is that powerful. Plus, even when folks do still treat Elphaba as lesser, their opinions matter less because she has Glinda by her side who sees her and loves her for who she is.

Elphaba also dreamed that the Wizard would "de-greenify" her (but that it wouldn't be important to him). She knew it wasn't right that she should have to change her appearance to be palatable to others, but she still craved that change.

But then she befriended Glinda, who tried to give her a makeover that had nothing to do with changing the colour of her skin. And even that, Glinda decided that Elphaba's glasses and dress were fine as they were. She called Elphaba beautiful exactly as she was. She only added a flower and said "pink goes good with green." Glinda not only accepted Elphaba's green skin, but realized it had it's own special beauty that should be celebrated and accentuated rather than hidden.

Without the Wizard, Elphaba and Glinda would have been SO HAPPY together. Elphaba had already found her heart's desire.

[the-herdier]

I think my favorite part of the Wicked movie is when Elphaba talks about being de-greenified because, in that one moment, the camera pans behind a fragment of red stained glass, thus muting out her green skin so that it's indistinguishable from someone with a "normal" dark skin tone. It's a little detail that adds so much.

[likeabxrdinflight]

I think it's possible that this reading of Elphaba's green skin could get lost in the many possible metaphors that could be applied to it, so I want to talk about the very first way I interpreted her skin when I was just a kid.

I had a horrendous eczema as a child. I was born with it. and I'm talking like, scaly red patches, scabs everywhere, flakes of dead skin that looked like dandruff in my hair, constantly scratching myself and bleeding all over my clothes. It was on my legs, my arms, my skull, even my face. It was especially bad around my eyelids. And nothing treated it. I took pills, I slathered myself in creams and moisturizers, my mom used every hypoallergenic detergent and soap she could find. We had dust mite covers on everything, hard wood floors in my room, I was never allowed to have curtains or too many pillows- didn't matter. The eczema persisted.

Thankfully I've (mostly) grown out of it. But you can imagine school wasn't the most fun place for me as a kid. I heard every possible insult in the book- I've been called every version of reptile you can think of, scabby, scaly, gross, ugly, asked if I had chicken pox or measles, told to "put on some lotion" or "take a shower," stared at, laughed at. Because I went to Catholic school I also heard more than one joke about leprosy. On and on it went. Before I was ever called "queer," I was called "lizard skin."

So I probably don't need to elaborate much more on why I related to this line: "Shouldn't a girl who's so good inside have a matching exterior? And since folks here to an absurd degree seem fixated on your verdigris, would it be all right by you if I de-greenify you? And though of course that's not important to me, 'all right why not,' I'll reply!"

I don't want to take away from the racial reading of Elphaba's skin color. Especially now with her being portrayed by a Black woman in the movie. That reading was always there anyways, but Cynthia certainly brings it more to the forefront. She's obviously pulling from her own lived experiences as a Black woman and being marginalized for the color of her skin and the cultural origins of her family and putting all of those emotions into her portrayal of Elphaba, and it's a beautiful thing. It really, really is, and I felt such empathy for that. It shines through so much in Cynthia's performance, especially in "the wizard and I." But I also don't want to lose this reading of it- the disability or skin disorder or disfigurement lens through which you can interpret her green skin. Because that was how I first related to Elphaba, before even the queer reading- I saw a nerdy girl with glasses being mocked by her classmates for the condition of her skin, and I thought, "she gets it. Someone gets it."

[fandomspacenqueue]

There's something about how Elphaba's magic is clearly tied to her emotions and yet it rarely lashes out to protect herself, but instead in an attempt to protect others. In the flashback scene to her childhood, she doesn't even stand up to face the Munchkin children who are bullying her until she sees that they've upset Nessa, and the rocks only get thrown when Nessa's crying starts to become louder. Her magical outburst in the Shiz courtyard happens because she's distressed that Miss Coddle is ignoring and undermining Nessa's wishes and independence. The coin levitation that ends up breaking glass during her sorcery lesson with Madame Morrible is a result of her being upset over the racism shown to Dr. Dillamond and her desire to help. And of course, the poppy spell that puts her history class to sleep is because she wants to rescue the Lion cub. In contrast, there's only one instance that doesn't fit this pattern (the minor argument she has with Galinda in their first scene as roommates - there is also the moment after her birth where she levitates everything in the room but then again she'd literally just been born). It goes to show that at her core, Elphaba has always been selfless, that she feels injustice against others more keenly than she does injustice against herself, which is only affirmed by her decision to ask the Wizard to help the Animals instead of de-greenifying her. And that frankly makes her such an incredible person.