Being In Your Last Year Of High School Is So Fucking Weird. Like Im Never Seeing You People When I've

No one gets that one of the core themes of this damn show is love.

Love motivated Vander to protect Vi, Powder, Myles and Claggor.

Love motivated Vi to continually fight for Jinx.

Love motivated Jayce to explore magic as it saved his mom.

Love motivated Viktor to give the rune to Jayce

Love for science motivated Viktor and Jayce to create Hextech

Love motivated Singe to do absolutely terrible things to save his daughter.

Love was the catalyst for every action every character did.

something something despite the all horrors and tragedies of the world, love was there and that's all that matters

crazy face to make at one half of the couple you’re impromptu divorce lawyering for after you’ve just exposed seventy years worth of his lies including but not limited to aiding abetting and directing the death of two beautiful lesbians one of which was sort of his stepdaughter also btw this couple is comprised of nuclear warheads in the shape of beautiful men and you sort of had a thing with both of them that one time in the seventies when you thought you were going to get high and your dick sucked but instead got saw-trapped by a renegade botticelli angel with all mental illnesses in the dsm-5 and a couple others we haven’t categorized yet. daniel molloy you will live forever

Some people talk about how Glinda and Elphabas fashion slowly merge and they begin sporting similar clothes.

But I'd like to point out something about Glinda's hair. (Someone's probably already mentioned this though)

Before she and Elphaba become friends, she has her hair partially up. One side pinned back, the other loose so it could partially shield her face. Possibly linked to how she's always performing for everyone, curating her persona to be this extremely 1 dimensional good person. When she's not 1 dimensional at all, but by keeping her true nature hidden, she can always stay in the publics favor and therefore popular.

Elphaba, in contrast, always has her hair fully back, out of her face. She's not trying to hide who she is. She knows she's green she knows she's different and owns it because either way, she'll be shunned. She, too, puts on this persona.

Then they become friends. And well, we don't get to see glinda after her transformation we do see elphaba.

Glinda starts putting her hair back entirely. Showing her face. This could be her keeping a piece of Elphaba with her, the same way Elphaba has with Glinda (her hat and cape) based off of context this could also be her removing that part of herself she keeps hidden. She's now entirely the 1 dimensional good person Oz expects her to be. There's no Elphaba to push her to be truly good. It's her (like Elphaba) accepting the persona pushed onto her entirely and just going with that.

SPOILERS FOR ACT 3

the parallels between powder and jinx really kill me

In every universe she carries her sister with her. For example in the alternate reality she literally has a pink streak in her hair. When she put on make up it was blue and pink and purple (her mother had purple hair too im gna sob) her nails are entirely pink (I couldn’t get a screenshot of it.) she lives the “I’m always with you even if we’re worlds apart)

In the reality we know she also always carries her sister with her. I saw a TikTok analysing their hair and tldr they said it’s likely jinx hasn’t cut her hair since her and vi split apart. And she paints her nails both pink and blue which are their respective colours. Even if she stayed powder her mindset towards family is still the same and it kills me I can’t put it into better words omg.

i think the reason why i feel a little sick is because i’ve yearned too much and now have a buildup of love in my body

I heard a tiktok using a sound from lovejoy (Wilbur soots band omfg I'm cringing writing this) and I'm so upset bc why do bands that make good music turn up being pieces of shit. Like they had genuine good songs.

Anyways, does anyone have recommendations for bands with a similar sound?

okay so I'm a chronically online teenage girl who loves analysing anything and everything and recognizing patterns with people. And there's several things I've noticed as of late. and this may be all over the place because it is late but I need to get this out of my head and put it somewhere. this is also a long post I'm so sorry

The rise of Whataboutism, fandom spaces becoming main stream and how it ties to the internet. (I fear this may be already talked about but wtv please let the other analytical people find this and discuss with me)

So there's this phenomenon I've noticed on TikTok (please don't come for me but I've noticed it's largely Americans too) with Whataboutism. I'm going to use a more literal example that I've seen with my own two eyes. Someone will post a recipe and it will contain coriander. Someone will comment "what if I don't like coriander?" (I've noticed this especially on non-western recipes too) Or someone will draw a beautiful ship fanart and someone will comment "love the art hate the ship!" Or "imagining this is x ship"

And it drives me (and others probably) insane because just scroll, don't comment.

ANYWAYS how does this tie to fandom spaces?

Well recently since around 2020 I have noticed fandom spaces growing larger. (I have been in fandoms, using wattpad since 2018 I believe HP girlie's unite) And it makes sense everyone was inside so we could only engage with others online and therefore already established online communities would grow larger. However this also meant that people who have never engaged in fandoms are now joining. Which means fandoms are becoming largely mainstream. Even "mainstream" fandoms becoming more mainstream like marvel, DC and Harry potter.

And this isn't only limited to fandoms I've noticed this with reading now too.

I started watching MHA back in 2020 and let me tell you the fandoms were shit. Then in early 2021 I discovered the dreamsmp and oh my god that was another shit show. Everyone was online and that meant everyone was in this vacuum of "contraversies" it gave me a headache I remember literally only using discord and YouTube bc of all the drama.

okay sidebar done sorry.

What does newer fandom members mean? Well it means people who haven't engaged in fandom culture are now reacting in a new way to this new community. Which leads to ship wars blown out of proportion and people getting wayyy too involved. And people posting spoilers. Yes fandoms spaces are a fun way to engage with other people who have similar interests as you especially if you don't have many people who share the same interests. But this also means people live in a bubble where you are only engaging in like minded individuals and not talking to others who oppose your thoughts and opinions. Which is important to grow as a person. (I know fandoms are meant to be fun but if you're critiquing media you have an opinion and opinions can change)

this is sounding so pro conservative IM SORRY I'M SOUTH AFRICAN I'M NOT AMERICAN NOT PRO CONSERVATIVE I'm just trying to say listen to other people in fandoms with an open mind when they talk abt why they may ship or dislike a ship. That relates to anything and everything too regarding opinions, theories etc.

As we know the internet is a vacuum and algorithms mean you will see content you like. So you will only engage with like minded individuals. So you will not generally hear thoughts, feelings, opinions of other fandom members unless you go searching for it. It's a similar phenomenon to the gym bro/trad wife to alt right pipeline. So on top of your internet being directly curated to you. Meaning you essentially live in a bubble both online and in real life. You're also becoming increasingly individualistic. Resulting in shit like "Well I don't like this ship so this doesn't concern me" okay fair but babes scroll. Like it genuinely confuses me why people don't just scroll, even when I was even more chronically online than I am now I would just not interact with shit I didn't fuck with? wtv I wna touch on reading spaces since I've been into reading since birth

Also there was the "reading isn't political" bit a while ago. Which is so fucked. I think fandom culture and generally "nerdy" hobbies and interests becoming mainstream due to online spaces growing in 2020 did a number on already troublesome fandoms. Like the does it contain smut thing on TikTok. People liked reading smut as a relaxer which fair, so they joined online communities to find more book recs and other people. Which made reading as a hobby grow and dark romance grow in popularity. This then led to a once relatively small portion of the overall book internet community growing into something much larger. And because the internet is a vaccum this meant they were only being recommended smut books or they just enjoyed it. But didn't consume in moderation so obviously they got a bit addicted. So now they were in other spaces within the book community. I understand that reading for some is a form of escapism however you cannot turn off your brain while reading, this is not a show. I actually cannot relax in any way while reading or watching a show because I am analyzing and paying attention. Reading will always be political because in some parts of the world you weren't allowed to read because you are a woman. ALSO I understand these communities existed beforehand and I'm not trashing smut (I like reading smut as much as the next person) But now because of the overwhelming popularity of these different spaces and as well as these people living in vaccums it's becoming a tad insane.

I'm losing braincells I'm so sorry I feel like I'm rambling.

OVERALL

living in a bubble is bad for your brain. Give your brain a break maybe indulge in other hobbies where you can switch off your brain. like baking or running or gardening. I also think this has ties to seratonin and being stuck inside making us all sad so this stuff gave/ gives us our dopamine hits so we get too emotionally involved. But even though I am in a biology elective I am wayyy too uneducated to delve deeply into that. Anyways touch grass and realise nothing (regarding fandoms) is ever that deep and in a few months/ years you'll wonder why you were so high strung abt this stuff. If you like reading take a break from the smut, read a whodunit, (me personally I love Hercule Pirot) and touch grass.

Also if you thinking reading isn't political crack open a history book about a topic but from opposing sides and tell me its not political. Read a poem.

I was thinking. Chloe Gong would fucking EAT UP a prequel

”Ekko’s in love with Powder, not Jinx.”

”Jinx and Powder are different people!”

”Episode 9 didn’t count as timebomb, that wasn’t Jinx, that was Powder.”

Did we even watch the same episode??? The whole point was that Jinx and Powder are the same, let me just -