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my favorite thing about i'm not that girl is that elphaba's description for glinda is "blithe smile, lithe limb," "gold hair with a gentle curl," and her description for fiyero is *checks notes* "boy"

#exactly #I can’t process they made this musical this way #like do they realise what they’ve done #I know I was saying this like a month ago on twitter but everything about Fiyero is just comphet #I’m still baffled about it #like he’s just there a vapid thoughtless jock that is literally his character or what he strives to be #I can’t fully articulate my thoughts about this #I think this post just conveys the idea more clearly than my rambling #wicked

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there's something to be said about wicked's opening and closing numbers both ending with a high cry of "WICKED" and while at the start of the show glinda is singing it with the ensemble, at the end she's silent on that final word. she's said her piece, she's told them the story and they're still crying out that elphaba is wicked, and this time glinda can't bring herself to join, too hurt to keep pretending.

instead, the last thing she sings is a reprise of for good, showing just how much elphaba did change her. she's not willing to join the crowds anymore.

also by not having glinda sing the last words, the narrative further isolates her from the rest of the world. she's truly and utterly alone.

#stop #wicked #wicked meta #I’m fully back into Wicked like more than ever actually #I got to see it live actually and it was great but I’m sad about how fickle my memory is and since you can’t record it and that iteration #just happened and it’s gone I remember there where actoral choices different to the 2003 version I’ve listened to a million times but I cant #remember specifically what they were #I can’t believe it happened already #anyway I will probably keep listening to the soundtrack on loop until I get sick although probably that won’t happen #I can’t like anything just a regular amount #unrelated but #oh have I mentioned how in the forced heterosexuality moments the audience would oooh and aaah and I was dead silent #because that was a salient experience from watching it live

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does anyone know if we have transmasc and transfem love and friendship today

#love this #gender #trans day of visibility

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hold on a second man…

#this is really cool #poem #shakespeare #transformative poetry

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Goddamn. Okay

#now this is why tumblr is special #hide and seek

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I fucking hate James Tissot’s paintings because in ALL OF THEM there is ALWAYS someone staring right at you, but it’s not always immediately visible. You just feel watched by this mf. Sometimes the little shit is right there at the centre, but others the bastard is just gazing from the distance, it is CREEPY, my guys

#art #this is really cool

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hello please can I sleep in a studio ghibli bed it’s urgent

#studio ghibli #now I want to read the Olaf rant

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Gloria Scott bewitched me, it’s all ive thought about for a week. Getting to listen to john and sherlock actually have a meaningful conversation? Queer victor trevor? Nothing beats it. Go listen to sherlock and co

#sherlock holmes #john watson #sherlock and co

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Howls moving castle book fanart

#cute #howls moving castle #howls moving castle book

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A heart’s a heavy burden to bear

#rewatched Howl with my mum tonight #it was lovely as always #such a comfort movie but also I couldn’t stop thinking about how different it is from the book #and now I want to reread the book #where is Howell Jenkins from Wales

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finding out there's a frankenstein ballet and that it was in october of last year…DEVASTATING

look at this. look at these. im foaming at the mouth

#oh my god #reblogging to check later #ballet #frankenstein

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yes yes yes quite quite quite quite quite

#happy anniversary #sherlock holmes #johnlock #john watson

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He was a man of habits, narrow and concentrated habits, and I had become one of them.

The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, the Creeping Man

#get a load of that quote #sherlock holmes #john watson #acd holmes #johnlock

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From Sherlock Holmes: the Valley of Fear

(Something something queerness was considered a form of insanity in the Victorian era something something mostly I am just Moved by Holmes having a crisis of confidence and needing reassurance before he can go to sleep)

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It was late that night when Holmes returned from his solitary excursion. We slept in a double-bedded room, which was the best that the little country inn could do for us. I was already asleep when I was partly awakened by his entrance.

"Well, Holmes," I murmured, "have you found anything out?"

He stood beside me in silence, his candle in his hand. Then the tall, lean figure inclined towards me. "I say, Watson," he whispered, "would you be afraid to sleep in the same room with a lunatic, a man with softening of the brain, an idiot whose mind has lost its grip?"

"Not in the least," I answered in astonishment.

"Ah, that's lucky," he said, and not another word would he utter that night.

#sherlock holmes #john watson #acd holmes #johnlock #comic #ah love the canon quotes #valley of fear

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Alright so everyone knows white is the classic wedding color, with black suits being common too, but what if you want something more exciting for more than two people?

Ta-da!

Honestly I was just thinking about RGB for me and my gfs and then I started getting ideas for how to apply this farther

#oh my goodness #Homestuck wedding #homestuck

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Friendly reminder that Doctor John Watson had no one. He returned from the war ill and newly disabled. He had nowhere to turn at his most vunerable moments and drifted without purpose within his new, alien life.

Friendly reminder that Sherlock Holmes had no one. He was different, no one understood him. He had been battling addiction alone for years. His only chance at survival in a world he was ill-suited for was to carve out his own niche.

Friendly reminder that they met each other when each of them desperatly needed someone. Friendly reminder that Holmes was instantly open with Watson, and Watson was instantly smitten. Friendly reminder that Holmes provided Watson with a mystery, a distraction that Watson desperatly needed. Friendly reminder that Watson showered Holmes in praise when he was so unused to it. Friendly reminder that Holmes let Watson write about his life, and Watson helped him through crippling drug addiction.

They're both broken men who begin to heal in the presence of each other. They built their lives around each other, encouraged each other, comforted each other. If they hadn't met, their lives would have been worse for it.

#ooooooh my god #them this is what it’s all about #I always come back here eventually #Sherlock Holmes #John Watson #johnlock

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I won't lie and say I won't be a little bit disappointed if Johnlock doesn't happen in sherlock and co.

BUT

I'm honestly enjoying their friendship a lot and I'm so grateful for its portrayal. The fact that they're allowed to hug, to talk openly about their feelings. John referring to The Volunteer as "our pub" literally one day after they meet, the way he tries to always make Sherlock comfortable and "are you a happy boy, Sherlock?". Sherlock asking John if he wants to hold hands and "I like you as you are, Watson". Their softness for each other and the fact that it's never made fun of, it's never weird. They're allowed to be vulnerable and fucking tender and I love it.

#oh I feel the same #they are really sweet and it’s all so lovely and natural #like they can just be real affectionate with each other and that’s so refreshing tbh #and the episodes are funny and the mysteries are interesting and I love to hear them unravel!! #it’s just great all around #sherlock and co