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Me who has seen every episode of every campaign watching this video:

this is an incredible map

It’s a cold and it’s a broken mamma mia

Chat I'm cooking so hard rn

IT'S GORGUG, KEEP GOING.

I just thought of a body guard au where Elphaba is hired to be Galinda's bodyguard, on recommendation by her friend, Fiyero.

Its the usual enemies to pining to lovers, where Galinda is a spoiled brat who hates Elphaba because she basically follows her everywhere and sometimes doesn't allow her to go places she deems too crowded, making her miss most of her social gatherings with her friends.

Elphaba also hates her, because Galinda basically treats everyone like they're beneath her( the cook's son boq, specifically, and Elphaba herself).

One day Galinda, with her friends' help, and a manipulated boq, ditches Elphaba to go to a party.

She is attacked, and Elphaba, who finally gets boq to admit the truth, gets badly injured while saving her. But she still gets her home safe and unharmed.

Galinda feels guilty, and starts treating Elphaba like a person, asks her parents to let Elphaba recover from their home while her new bodyguard protects her. Which is unnecessary as she doesn't leave Elphaba's side. She realises her decisions could get someone else hurt and swears to Elphaba to do better.

Elphaba recovers slowly with Galinda's help and they're in their pining/Galinda flirting with Elphaba every chance she gets/ Elphaba trying to remain professional era. The parents don't mind because i don't have the energy for that drama.

The new bodyguard is a plant sent to kill Galinda but Elphaba figures it out and they pull a switch and bait to prove it. At first, elphaba wants to be the one to switch with Galinda and galinda refuses to let her girlfriend put herself in danger again, yes they're dating by now, and boq volunteers after wearing elphaba down.

Am not sure why Galinda is being attacked, maybe money, social status, she offended a mob boss...

It was at this moment my mind told me, but what if Galinda was the bodyguard instead, the personalitties remain the same, just reversed. Bubbly Galinda upland to protect elphaba thropp, stoic eminent heir, while she teaches her that life is more that being just about duty and they fall in love.

Maybe one day i'll fully flesh out these aus, in the meantime, someone please write them and tag me.

I love age progression lineups. also please zoom in tumblr munched it real bad

Something that makes me so emotional about book Elphaba is the incredibly subtle ways she shows her love for Glinda, so on par with Elphaba’s character and so subtle that if you blink you miss it.

Elphaba kisses Glinda on the carriage, that’s explicit, but before that she nearly misses it because she was buying food. For Glinda. Elphaba knew very well she wasn’t going back to Shiz that day, yet she still bought Glinda food with money she definitely needed for herself just so that Glinda wouldn’t be hungry on the way home.

Then you have the way she visits Saint Glinda’s shrine, Glinda’s namesake. Elphaba is not religious whatsoever, she’s very vitriolic towards the idea of religion in the book, yet she visits a Unionist shrine of all places that just happens to have statues of her “best friend’s” namesake.

She also asks the most questions of all about Glinda when Fiyero visits her, and asks about her first to add to that. Elphaba wants to know the most about Glinda. More than her father, Nessarose, Shell, the people who are her family (said loosely). More than even Fiyero, and he’s sitting right in front of her. She couldn’t care less about Fiyero’s wife yet is thoroughly offended when she finds out Glinda “only” married a baronet.

When Fiyero asks if Elphaba is married, she says “yes, but not to a man” and breaks down in tears. In the book water does hurt Elphaba, including her tears, so it stands to reason she doesn’t cry often. But the thought of being “married” to someone that isn’t there, that she can’t be with, is enough to cause her to harm herself even if it’s inadvertently. It would make sense for it to be Glinda, for Glinda is the only person to ever have even brought her close to tears.

And finally, this one is just silly, but the way Fiyero makes a comment on how Elphaba didn’t bleed the first time they have sex and the way she just blows him off by saying “well I’m not as virginal as you think” one hundred percent means Glinda was her first time.

I also do think that Elphaba really does love Fiyero, and I do mean romantically. But in the end he’s still just a distraction, a balm for the fact that the one person Elphaba truly wants is the person she can’t have. And that person is Glinda.