*derides your truth-handling abilities* ([info]ijemanja) wrote,
@ 2009-04-05 03:39:00
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Entry tags:deep thoughts: wicked

*uses only sufficiently green icon*
I am on a serious Wicked kick. (Which would be why I'm posting to whine about it at 4am.)

Wicked is awesome. I'm not mad about the book, and I've never actually seen the musical, but the story, the story I love. These two girls meet each other and love each other and grow up to become these witches and not become them at the same time and I cannot get enough of it.

But here's the thing. Wicked fic is freaking depressing.

Yes, there's happy fluffy stuff set while they're roommates, but I find it a little unsatisfying because you know what's coming next. (DOOM. DOOM IS WHAT'S COMING NEXT.) And the rest of the available fic is all angst and pain and tragedy and regret and I am seriously pre-menstrual and it is all just making me cry, god.

I really want decent fix-it fic where Glinda and Elphie take down the wizard together while having tonnes of kinky sex but I can't seem to find any of it. I think my aversion to lengthy multi-part wips is handicapping me here.

Seriously, I cannot take much more of this depressing shit, I will kill myself.



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[info]jaybee65
2009-04-04 07:00 pm UTC (link)
You may not have seen the musical, but musical-verse fic is much lighter in mood overall. (Although if you are planning on seeing the musical and are spoiler-averse, you should probably stay away from musical fic.)

But you're quite right about bookverse fic. It's an angst-fest! I think I've come across a few fix-it AUs here and there, but I'm not sure I could find the links again.

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[info]ijemanja
2009-04-05 11:40 am UTC (link)
I have found that with the musical-verse stuff - yes, I'm spoiled about the differences, though I do hope to see the musical at some point, definitely. I think there's just so much fic to wade through, which, at the same time, is not a bad thing. It's pretty much my entire weekend gone, anyway. :D

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[info]jaybee65
2009-04-05 10:17 pm UTC (link)
There's quite a lot of really excellent stuff out there! Just not much of it that's happy. :-(

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[info]swatkat24
2009-04-05 01:10 pm UTC (link)
But the musicalverse doesn't have *our* Glinda and Elphaba! Fun as it is, I can't really get into that. I want THEM. To be happy. And the *real* reason I know I'll pick up A Lion Amongst Men is because I want to know what happened to Glinda next.

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[info]jaybee65
2009-04-05 10:15 pm UTC (link)
I want A Lion Amongst Men out in paperback soon! *Flails* (Or, failing that, my library having the hardback? Probably too much to hope for with my city's gutted services.)

As much as I love the whole tragic ending thing, I also secretly want fix-it fic, too. But non-fluffy fix-it fic! I am very picky about this fandom. LOL.

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[info]piperrhiannon
2009-04-04 07:41 pm UTC (link)
I don't know why, but it tickles me that your only sufficiently green icon is of broccoli.

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[info]ijemanja
2009-04-05 11:52 am UTC (link)
*needs moar green icons* Nice that it has come in handy, I'm not sure I remember exactly why I made it.

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[info]holdouttrout
2009-04-04 07:44 pm UTC (link)
I'd read that fic, but I don't think I could write it. *g*

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[info]ijemanja
2009-04-05 11:54 am UTC (link)
I'm still looking!

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[info]mandysbitch
2009-04-05 01:13 am UTC (link)
I am so impressed with your icon. I must make myself icons with random vegetables...

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[info]ijemanja
2009-04-05 11:56 am UTC (link)
I'd like to say it's symbolic in some way, but it's really not. Hee, broccoli.

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[info]swatkat24
2009-04-05 01:08 pm UTC (link)
Ooh! I was just reading the Glinda sections in Son of a Witch yesterday and shipping them like crazy. CRAZY, I tell you. I can't explain how OTP I'm about the two of them.

And yes, someday I want to write grown-up!Glinda/Elphaba, where they're witchy and awesome and nobody dies. But meanwhile, if you find those stories? Leave a link, will you?

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[info]ijemanja
2009-04-05 02:24 pm UTC (link)
They are just the most OTP-iest, it kills me.

Will link. (Or you could write!) But seriously, what is fic for if not to fix these things. I mean, besides the porn, obviously.

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[info]swatkat24
2009-04-05 03:02 pm UTC (link)
They met each other! And the meeting changed the way they looked at life! And then they went on an awesome adventure! And then of course Elphaba left Glinda and they grew up to be awesome witches and they had quarrel and then they never saw each other again and poor Glinda had to live with the memory of Elphaba... *weeps*

I'm very tinhatty about them. You cannot convince me that the ship's not canon. Because if you try, I'll point you to lines about 'I love you' and clinging together. And the part where Elphaba feels lonely and unloved, and looks up to find Glinda coming to meet her after *years*. And how, even during the fight, Glinda knows *exactly* what Elphaba is really upset about.

Oh, look what you've done! Now I have to go read every Elphaba/Glinda fic out there again.

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[info]ijemanja
2009-04-05 03:31 pm UTC (link)
and then they never saw each other again and poor Glinda had to live with the memory of Elphaba...

WAAAAH! I know, it's so unfair they BELONG TOGETHER. *cries*

Yeah, their love is so canon. <3

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[info]hihoplastic
2009-04-10 01:00 am UTC (link)
I'm pretty sure that's the cue for you to write it ^^

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[info]ijemanja
2009-04-14 03:12 pm UTC (link)
Can. Not. Stop. Reading. Wickedfic. I don't think I'll be writing any, though, too hard! (I find it extremely difficult to write for book fandoms, because I can't hear the character voices in my head.)

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