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I made a jokey post some time ago about how in the Wicked musical Glinda is lying through her teeth every time she hits her highest notes in No One Mourns the Wicked and Thank Goodness, but in a less jokey way it really got me thinking about the flip side. I think the moments where she hits her lowest notes are also the moments where she is being the most vulnerable/showing her truest feelings towards the audience. And when I first thought of her lowest note I thought it would be in For Good, where of course she sings the low part and Elphaba sings the high part, showing how they have been changed through their relationship with each other (deviating from both their earlier discordant respective high/low parts in What Is This Feeling? and their singing in unison in One Short Day, which show the evolution of their relationship through how they harmonize). But actually after thinking more about it I think her lowest note in the whole musical is in I'm Not That Girl (Reprise). Which like, I know is nominally about Fiyero. But also is a song where she is longing for and thinking about Elphaba and how she's not like her and yes it's sort of about Fiyero but also it's not in the key of Dancing Through Life or the first I'm Not That Girl, it's in the key of POPULAR-- her song to Elphaba! Do you see where I'm going with this! All of Glinda's moments of true heartfelt honesty in the musical are her dwelling on her relationship with Elphaba and how it changed her and her complex feelings for her and !!!!! Glinda is so in love with her it's not even funny.

NANCY DREW, GEORGE FAN, & BESS MARVIN 2.13 'The Beacon of Moonstone Island'

Some sweet Fanson romance by the sea ♥

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i feel like the youth should be reminded that the point of shipping is not for a ship to become canon. the point of shipping is to collect all the canon crumbs like starved mice, run away cackling and make some fun little scenarios with them just for the hell of it.

girl help I'm having fic ideas incompatible with the amount of free time I currently have

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So I’ve been watching Nancy Drew!

three parts to a whole

AoS + text posts pt. 2/?

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Happy belated birthday, Allison! 🌸

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“Magneto’s backstory should be changed, it’s unrealistic that he’d still be alive after all this time!” Have you forgotten what franchise he’s from?

You can suspend your disbelief for the man transformed into sentient rocks by space radiation, the interdimensional bird, and the flaming biker skeletons, but one guy being a little old is where you draw the line?

It's the ~antisemitism~

#its also worth noting that marvel *DID* change magneto's backstory#he was originally presented as someone who had survived the shoah as an adult#and marvel retconned it to him surviving it as a child#iirc his original debut backstory involved him losing a wife and two kids??

Well, no, not really. When Magneto was made to be a Holocaust survivor, he was a survivor from childhood, though by the end of the Holocaust he was in his teens. His daughter Anya was killed by an antisemitic mob after the Holocaust, at some point in the 1950s.

It's also an attempt to pretend that the Shoah is ancient history, when it's really not.

"It's unrealistic for a Holocaust survivor to still be alive."

Assholes, there are Holocaust survivors still alive in the real world.

They're really telling on themselves because Wolverine is like 170 years old.

wolverine being a hundred and fucking seventy: normal

magneto being the same age as currently alive holocaust survivors: impossible

While there are definitely living Holocaust survivors today, most of them aren't up to doing half the shit Magneto does, and it seems to be affecting the impact his stories have on audiences. I remember reading Magneto stories as a kid in the 90s, knowing he was a little younger than my grandparents, and getting hit with a truckload of sympathy for the dude. He just wanted to have a normal life like Grandma and Granddad, and then the war happened and oh FUCK. Younger readers now are much less likely to have that personal connection; that's just how human lifespans work. And it's only going to get worse. Magneto does need some future-proofing.

That's not to say I think Magneto's origin should be changed, or that he should be permanently killed off. Far from it. This is comics; all kinds of timeline bullshit happens all the time. As someone pointed out above, Wolverine is most of the way into his second century of life.

What I'd do--and what I'm shocked Marvel writers don't seem to have done yet--is wave the mutant bullshit wand and make Magneto functionally immortal. Secondary mutation, maybe. Something something magnetic fields. The mechanics don't matter any more than "Wolverine is functionally immortal because healing factor" does. What matters is this:

At some point, Magneto will be the last living Holocaust survivor. And he will not let the world forget.

There was a story I read as a kid where Magneto took a handful of soil from the camp where his family died and spread it on the surface of the moon, where he was building a mutant haven of some kind. The image of him on his knees with soil running through his fingers and an agonized look on his face has haunted me ever since. To some part of him, it's always 1945. Never again is quite literally now.

I want to see Magneto as the furious conscience of the Marvel universe. I want him to rip a hole in the UN General Assembly building and stride in with his full regalia on--except for one sleeve, stripped to the forearm to show his tattooed number--and read the UN the riot act in all his nigh-unkillable glory. I want him to storm into summits between warring planets, atomize the ferrous metal in everyone's weapons, and lay down the galactic law that is There Will Be No More Genocides On My Watch, And My Watch Is Eternal. And I want future writers to use his story, and his enduring popularity as a character, to make sure that audiences don't forget either.

Magneto being a Holocaust survivor is only a flaw in the storytelling if you're a goddamn coward.

Anastasia Ballet!