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someone asked for glinda in glasses, and i spun out 😵‍💫

Sketched some stage show gelphie pairings I've enjoyed (so far) and by enjoyed I mean that their thank goodness & finale performances low-key hurt my soul

The internet: “Glinda should’ve gotten on the broom!”

Ariana Grande: “First of all, I would’ve died, immediately. I would’ve fallen off the broom. I would’ve been off the broom, dead, instantly.”

gelphie - post canon

pieces of a post-canon gelphie that may or may not come to be

~~~

It takes Glinda four hours to stop crying. It takes her four days to realize that Elphaba shouldn’t have died. It takes her four weeks to figure out what she’s going to do about it. And it takes her four years before she finally manages to succeed. 

It’s the longest four years of her life. 

~~~

Glinda keeps her promise. She does not order Elphaba’s name cleared, and she does not issue a pardon. She allows her citizens their celebrations, but she also makes sure to see that all the posters are torn down, the banners burned, and the paintings scrubbed clean from any buildings. She erases all signs and evidence of the Wicked Witch and what she may or may not have looked like. 

She erases all signs of Elphaba, so thoroughly that, sometimes, Glinda sits in her room with a pen in her hand and a blank sketchbook in her lap, and she is afraid. She is afraid of forgetting.

Is it true you were her friend?

~~~

Sometimes, Glinda has dreams. She dreams of rose petals and snowfall and secrets whispered into the night. There's a certain peace to these dreams, even if she always wakes to tears dripping down her face. 

Most of the time, though, Glinda has nightmares.

~~~

“What do you mean ‘leave’? Oz needs you!”

Glinda sighs, a hefty thing filled with hope and fear and longing and regret. It’s been years, and it’s been hard, but the truth is: Oz doesn’t need her anymore. Not the way it used to. It can last a few months on its own. 

“You’ll be fine,” she tells them. “Oz is in good hands.”

“Will you at least tell us where you’re going?”

The Good Witch turns her head to the west, her eyes finding the distant horizon. 

“I’m going home.”

~~~

Tell me a secret.

Promise me!

Hold out, my sweet.

Is it true you were her friend?

~~~

Glinda sways, the adrenaline of the moment fading as she feels the weeks of travel, the months of planning, the years, really, of worry and guilt and sorrow and grief wash over her with the force of an avalanche.

It rumbles and breaks and crashes against her, burying her in hazy white that creeps over her vision so slowly she doesn’t even realize what’s happening until she feels herself fall, and the ground rush up to her as her world fades to black.

The last thing she sees is the unmistakable sight of green skin.

~~~

“You can let go now, Glinda,” Elphaba says. 

Glinda just shakes her head and buries her nose further in the dip of Elphaba’s neck. She can’t quite breathe, but the idea of letting Elphaba out of her arms terrifies her too much to care. She’s drowning and burning and slipping from reality, something like hysteria clogging up her throat. 

She can’t. She can’t she can’t she can’t. 

 “Glinda?” Elphaba’s voice has softened with concern as she realizes Glinda isn’t just crying. “Hey, it’s okay. I’m not going anywhere.”

Glinda doesn’t believe her. Can’t believe her. Because Elphaba has said it before. Elphaba has promised she wouldn’t leave her before. But she did. She left. And the moment Glinda opens her eyes or dares to let go, it’ll be like she died all over again.

And she just- she can’t.

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the way she hides her brand new practice wand (that she'd first been SO excited to get) in shame and guilt when she meets Elphaba's eyes

haven't seen anyone do this yet so...

no cause like- i had this headcanon buried in one of my gelphie asks:

when she was a kid, glinda's biggest fear was that she wouldn't be remembered. the last thing elphie does before leaving oz is cast a spell to make herself forget

BUT

imagine if, instead, it was glinda who forgot. glinda whose mind had been wiped by magic. glinda whose only knowledge of the wicked witch was of the stories told by morrible and the wizard. the propaganda. the lies.

imagine glinda, a true servant of the wizard who believes she is doing the right thing by helping hunt down the wicked witch. a glinda shaped and twisted and warped by morrible. a glinda who wouldn't hesitate to make the witch fall.

that glinda. facing off against an aching, bruise-hearted elphie who still dreams of shiz every night and wakes every morning wishing she had glinda in her arms. an elphie who misses glinda more than anything. an elphie who cannot, will not, fight her.

"you're my friend," elphaba says firmly. urgently. desperately. "my best friend."

the girl across from her just scowls, her pretty features twisted with hate. "and you're nothing more than a wicked witch."

what if i tell you guys that galinda calls elphie "love" in the brazilian version of popular

I was wondering what cultures and languages inspired you for of emerald and trumpeter swans? I love the absolute richness and detail of everything mentioned about the Gillkinease that many fics lack, a lot of people forget these regions have cultures. :) (love the fic btw!!)

Yes! Each of the four regions in Oz have different varying cultures in OEATS :)

Gillikin takes a lot of inspiration from Italy and Greece, with a comfortable if not a touch warm climate, lush agriculture and a love of wine. Gillikinese as a language is very melodic and can sound a bit sing-songy with a naturally higher pitched timbre. Gillikinese are often pale skinned and pale haired with tall foreheads, sharp jaws and gapped front teeth. They can have dark or light colored eyes, and some have ‘old-world’ ears which are a carry over from the old-Gillikinese people who died out under the Wicked Witch of the North. The Gillikinese mainly celebrate the goddess Lurline, but some closer to the borders of the country also pray to, the Leopard King of the Enchanted Forest. Many Animals also celebrate the Great Leopard God as their token saint.

Winkie Country—better known as the Vinkus—takes inspiration from Russian and German in their language, but culturally are more similar to cold climate ingenious people of places like Siberia or the Arctic. Like in the wicked book, Vinkian people are often darker skinned and paint markings on their bodies to show which tribe/village of people they belong. Kiamo Ko is the only settled area in the entire country, therefore it’s detached from the old world culture. Fiyero is technically only half Vinkus on his mother’s side. Climate wise it’s very cold, but the sun shines often and brutally. When it’s not sunny, it’s snowing, or so windy it’s not safe to go outside. Not much agriculture is done in the far reaches of Winkie Country, though poaching fur from cold weather animals (not ‘A’nimals) is a lucrative trade. The Vinkians celebrate Lurline, but also the great Animal God, Vinka. A winged Polar Bear who was claimed to bring prosperity and survivable winters.

Quadling—or the Singra—culture is easily the largest and most diverse of the counties in Oz. It is a jumble of people, all brought together to become a single country. It’s a mix of all sorts of culture, inspired by places like Mexico, Egypt, Morocco, Singapore, Columbia, India, and many more. They do have a shared language, that being Singrian, which is very fast and wild on the tongue. It’s incredibly hot in Quadling Country due to the Unpassable Desert closely creeping into the country and taking it over, though by the Quadling River it’s more lush and tropical. Their capitol city is made of ruby granite, meaning it’s completely red-pink in color, and has a celebration similar to Mardi Gras or Carnival every year. They do not have a patron saint or god, celebrating many different tokens of faith.

Munchkinland is inspired by the American South, specifically during the California gold rush. Munchkinlanders are either wealthy or peasantry with almost no in between, and they speak in a country-touched twangy Ozian. Their weather is easily the most habitable with a good mix of hot cold, wet, and dry. Munchkinland is known for its ability to grow massive amounts of crops, and are the only country that worship the Unnamed God, rather than Lurline, and are quite pious about it too. Ozian is the natural language of Munchkin Land, and many claim to be above learning other languages as they think others should just learn Ozian basic instead.

Hopefully this helps :)

do you feel the same? I'm too scared to say half of the things I do when I picture you 🩷💚

Elphaba:

and if I said there was an Instagram account with 550 followers and apparently no other online presence that consistently posted the most insane Gelphie fanart you’ve ever seen…

Just saw your winged!Glinda little snippet, do you have any headcannons for it?

oh babe i wrote that in like literally 5 minutes lmao. BUT- i will try my best

(also i think the drawing is based off an ao3 fic that i haven't read yet so these have nothing to do with that just fyi!)

its impossible for glinda to wash her own wings. as such, the blood stains a bunch of the feathers closest to her back a pink color. Morrible thinks this is hilarious

glinda has to build up all the muscles for her wings from scratch. which means....no flying yet. in fact- she can barely even lift them for days, resulting in them dragging painfully on the ground behind her and having several feathers break off

she's in pretty much constant pain as her body adjusts

the skin at the base of her wings heals in thick, rough scars

glinda is very lightweight now, but she packs a helluva punch. contrary to popular belief, bird bones are strong

she didn't just get the wings: her senses are sharper too (elphie had been thinking about birds not just wings or flight)

they can't get any clothes to fit her at first. they have to design pretty much everything as a halter top that she can step into and pull over her head, leaving her entire back bare. she hates it and she hates the new instinctual vulnerability of it

learning how to fly is easy. learning how to land....not so much

glinda has no one to preen her wings for her. she isn't even aware of how much better she'd feel if her feathers were properly taken care of

she never stops being scared of heights. she just learns how to fly through it

inspired by that one interview clip

Oh my god... How did I forget about this 😭 This is amazing!! Your art has improved so much, I'm so sorry I didn't reply to you. (It's been three years, but oh well.)

hey :)

just asking if you could draw William aka bunny boi? it’s fine if you don’t want to lol, but it’d be pretty cool

Its kinda rushed, I Hope you enjoy It

😀👍

Warriors is a military-horror novel series by Erin Hunter that chronicles the past and present stories of a militaristic division of sentient cats called The Clans as they indulge the minds of themselves and future generation's in the various beliefs of war, jingoism, religious law, xenophobia, an "Us vs Them" mentality, and intimidation of "the others". With topics of fascism and colonialism addressed, Warriors details the horrors of how such beliefs warp the mind into believing ideas of things such as "Good War" directly from the indoctrinated, twisted perspectives of The Clans.

Thinking about how Glinda never really hated that hat. She actually really loved it. It was dear to her. Her granny made it for her and probably played pretend with her, making Glinda’s dreams of becoming a sorceress come true. Glinda was just embarrassed when Pfannee and Shen Shen found it, so she pretended to hate it.

Maybe when she said she didn’t hate anyone that much to give it away, she really meant she didn’t love anyone that much— she didn’t trust anyone to understand how she could love a hat so hideous.

Maybe she knew Elphaba would understand. Maybe she knew Elphaba would take care of it.

And maybe Elphaba proved her right. And now, Glinda gets to admire as the most fearless person she has ever met cherishes her hat as dearly as she did.

Her intrusive thought won

Nobody's talking about how Glinda called her "Elphaba" at the beginning of defying gravity (when she was mad) and when she softened she inmediatly switched to "Elphie". It's canon that she calls her by her whole name when she's angry.

gelphie ponies but i couldn’t decide between pegasus or unicorn glinda so i did both hehe

AAAAAAAAHHHHH

New chapter icons for Emeralds & Swans! I’ll be adding these to the top of each chapter to signify which country in Oz the characters are currently in, as well as a little brown icon to show if they are traveling :)

These are mainly just for my own enjoyment, and to add a little fun thing to Ao3’s kinda boring interface. I got bored, I dunno ☺️

I just realized Glinda being the narrator means that Elphaba had to have told Glinda about that time she was watching Nessa and those kids started bullying her and she magicked rocks at them and possibly even her birth story if it had been told to Elphaba and I’m spiraling

dear mother and father, i hate this school. i want to go home. the most popular girl in school and the smart green girl have a really intense homoerotic rivalry and they keep roping all of us into their musical numbers. please. i was not made for dancing. i really just wanted to study history

EXCLUSIVE BLACK AND WHITE COVER!

The rumors were right! Just kidding!

After both heavily denying the claims of their engagement, apparently they decided enough was enough and just got married instead!

The limited edition Whizanity Fair magazine gives an all exclusive tour of their grand wedding! The in's and out's of Colwen Grounds, Rush Margins and even the Emerald Palace. Their honeymoon destination is past the impassable desert and into the civilized countries past Oz! Their honeymoon will start on the New Year till the 15th of our first month!

We interview the Eminent Thropp and our Princess with the prospects of future children as well, eliciting flustered expressions and stuttering Thropps! Or is it Thropp-Upland?

Good day and Good-bye! - Pfannee Wu

Emeralds & Swans: Chapter/Outfit Designs (casual)

Just some designs for Gelphie daywear from my fic! I’ve been meaning to do sketches for a while I just never got around to it.

For me I think my favorite designs are Glinda’s stripes from Chapter 12, and Elphie’s casual from Chapter 16. Let me know your faves! I’ll hopefully have more of the casual fits from chapters 20+, and updated formal fits from the first half :3