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Galinda & Peaches

Just a sketch of Galinda and her daughter Peaches from Eternally Yours. They’ve been through a lot recently, but they’re making it work. No bond is more potent than that of a mother with strong genes and her fully deaf, on crutches flower child 🌻🌻🌻

The Gelphie found family is strong between them; these girls need some much needed loving in their lives 😔

Thropple playing catch with the braincell

Fiyero occassionally catches it, but most of the time it just hits him and he's hit with a brilliant idea.

Galinda's hardly trying to catch it, she's too busy playing other sports with other people.

So most of the time, Elphaba's stuck with it.

Rest assured, all goes to shit when they lose the braincell.

so the 'elphaba's promise' deleted scene went like this right

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 :)

gelphie + text post

dorothy, trapped in elphaba's basement: miss wicked witch, why do you call glinda the good "my sweet?"

elphaba: let's stop talking for a little while

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

my beautiful princess with a disorder