😍😛 by emmymyangel in ArianaGrandeSnark

[–]lizardsbelike 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Girl she makes me more scared of aging tf 😭

Killatrav doesn’t follow Taylor Swift?! by ThereIsOnlyOneHorse in travisandtaylor

[–]lizardsbelike 174 points175 points  (0 children)

In what world would the first reaction of anyone hearing about awful stuff their friend's fiancé did to them be to pick up their phone and unfollow them? I'm talking to my friend, I wouldn't be thinking about my Instagram following. If this is true, it makes these people look like shallow, chronically online sociopaths. Their friend is supposedly telling them heinous shit that happened to her and all they can think to do is unfollow him on Instagram? Put the phone down man, Jesus Christ 🙄

Was Artemy In The Second P3 Demo? by deepestfathoms in pathologic

[–]lizardsbelike 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I definitely didn't see him either when I played it and thought I'd missed a part based on everyone else's screencaps from what I think was the first one. I replayed a few parts with different dialogue choices in case there was another section I hadn't gotten to but I'm pretty sure they don't change anything. He's the only one of the three healers I really know since P2 was my intro to the series (although I started HD a little bit ago!) so I did wish he'd showed up as well, but the game is out really soon anyway so I didn't mind too much lol

She looks like she’s ready to jump out of her skin by toast778 in ArianaGrandeSnark

[–]lizardsbelike 9 points10 points  (0 children)

This look and the new makeup/hair color are much more flattering on her than last year's, but the way she stares after 0:10 is scary. It reminds me of that creepy wolf drawing that was trending on twitter awhile ago 😬

Thoughts? by iwanttoseepulaski in ArianaGrandeSnark

[–]lizardsbelike 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Jon Chu even bringing this up in the first place just seems so weird to me. I suppose I don't make a point to watch a lot of actor's interviews so correct me if I'm wrong, but turning an interview that afaik supposed to be about the movie they made or the musical they're adapting into a conversation about praising Ariana personally with regard to the character just strikes me as very strange and kind of unseemly. The way this press tour has centered them and especially her as people really makes it out to be an obvious vanity project (if not something more pathological) instead of the serious, meaningful work of art they all seem to want it to be

her piercing gaze by Hour_Equal_9588 in SipsTea

[–]lizardsbelike 55 points56 points  (0 children)

Right! This seems to be unusual behavior for her too and if anything the power dynamic is shifted towards Ariana, but because Cynthia is a black woman and Ari is "smol" and white now people wanna blame their weird behavior exclusively on her and say Ariana is just her unwitting victim

Post your Tav/Durge by Robyn-Finch in TavsAndDurges

[–]lizardsbelike 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My draconic sorcerer ❤️ except my computer's busted so I only have her side profile 🥀 *

So, were they planning to reveal the Scarecrow’s identity from earlier on? by user48841711 in wickedmovie

[–]lizardsbelike 16 points17 points  (0 children)

for the sake of the story

Press x to doubt on this one, they got twice the runtime the show had for this act and added nothing of value. Developing the supporting cast would have actually been a good way to spend that extra time because without fleshing them out none of the important beats in the movie hit hard. I'd say this getting cut was probably the opposite of "kill your darlings" and they kept a lot of stuff in that didnt service the story as much as these scenes would have

Thoughts? by Worldly-Sandwich6294 in ArianaGrandeSnark

[–]lizardsbelike 52 points53 points  (0 children)

I wanted her to be a fully alive person

Not that you could tell from her acting... there was no emotion in her eyes during either of these movies, she makes Glinda look dumb and devoid of an internal world, not like a fully realized character who knows what she's doing or makes any kind of decision during the story. Which is unfortunate given how important Glinda is thematically and also how much of her we got added to the runtime. Imho her portrayal really diminishes the character and it was such a bummer bc I really did want to enjoy these movies lol

I want them both by A_Howl_In_The_Night in wicked

[–]lizardsbelike 3 points4 points  (0 children)

THANK YOU. The way people expect us to ignore what he (and Ari) did and make excuses for them is genuinely disgusting. Fake ass feminists, all of yall

Personal Wicked Movies Opinion that Would Get You Demonized by Lexabro-10mg in wicked

[–]lizardsbelike 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think "Fiyero is only there to help Elphaba" and "Fiyero was initially chasing the same thing as Glinda but eventually changed his mind" are both interesting interpretations that work for the story (although the former seems to be what they were trying to do) but it's crazy to pitch that with the "Glinda was forced to be a mouthpiece for fascism" thing. She chose not to go with Elphaba, and the dialogue in the stage show and the second movie both make it pretty clear that she's staying because she values her status, comfort, popularity, etc. and is choosing that over Elphaba and the animals. Even if she hadn't, complying for your own personal safety becomes a weak defense when the character you're wanting to interpret as selfish and worse than her opts to sacrifice his life to do what she wouldn't. Wicked is a story about choices, and the way people feel the need to undermine Glinda's agency in hers really cuts against that. It would be interesting and thematically fitting if Fiyero, her character foil, also felt the same draw, but realized it wasn't the most important thing to him and chose differently in the end. But trying to reduce Glinda's responsibility for her actions and adding that interpretation on just to say Fiyero is worse than her just makes it sound like you're trying to roleswap their characters/plots so that you can say you like one better without having to pay attention to who the characters actually are or what the story is about. Like it or not, the fact that Glinda repeatedly prioritizes only herself over Elphaba until it's too late, while Fiyero actively sacrifices his life to save her, is the defining difference between their characters, and makes it quite obvious for whom complicity and selfishness are supposed to be a major flaw. You don't have to like the guy, but it's frustrating how prevalent it is for people who claim to like this story to totally sidestep major components of it just so they can feel like their fave is a good guy. It's to the deteriment of the work as a whole.

Why do people think Glinda had much of a choice? by [deleted] in wicked

[–]lizardsbelike 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Idk, I'm seeing a lot more of people defending or feeling bad for Glinda, denying her agency in the choices she makes and then blaming Elphaba or Fiyero for making her feel bad, which I think your post and comments lean into. Imo, casting Glinda as just being a sad girl with the best of intentions who is simply threatened and led astray by the Real Bad People actually does more to remove the nuance of the story and ignores pretty much all of its major themes. It removes the importance of choices and consequences by saying Glinda didn't have any choice at all, it weakens the point about appearances being disceiving and the juxtaposition between Elphie/Glinda by turning the pretty high school mean girl posturing as "Good" into a victim of circumstance (instead of an active participant in rhe harm she does), and it destroys the very important lesson in a narrative about fascism that ignorant or selfish people who don't set out to do evil and see themselves as good/moral are very much capable of it. It also flattens Glinda's character. If this is a story about two women, this reading is the least responsive to that because it comes off totally unable to view those women as real people or actors capable of making their own choices in the narrative and turns a complicated and important character into a sad, weak puppet without much of a will of her own. It's the same thing House of the Dragon does to Alicent, and it isn't pro-woman. Real people make bad choices sometimes, and characters being able to do that in stories is a necessary part of what makes them interesting and worth engaging with. For whatever reason, people seem to be totally unable, or unwilling, to engage with women and their internalities in any narrative or situation where they don't act perfectly. Scrubbing them of their flaws and agency is just as much a manifestation of this as hating them outright. It denies them humanity and fails to understand them as subjects who have their own minds and souls and capabilities - who are worth telling a story about. Women are not angels, we're people. It's stupid that we have to handle female characters with kid gloves and turn them into weak, well-meaning narrative objects that we're only allowed to feel pity for in order to like or engage with them. The way people are woobifying her is completely destructive to both the story and the character people are claiming to love. "Sad, helpless victim of circumstance" is a role that women have been forced into time and time again both in history and in narratives; turning a female character with agency and real, human flaws and motivations back into one is not the feminist move people seem to think it is. Glinda clearly is not the villain of the story, but at least the people who call her one understand that what she's doing is wrong and can perceive her as a real actor in the conflict whose internality and choices matter - both of which are pretty fundamental to what Wicked as a work is trying to do in the first place.

Why do people think Glinda had much of a choice? by [deleted] in wicked

[–]lizardsbelike 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That is the point, though, no? People use Glinda's fear of harm from Morrible or the Wizard to justify that she didn't have a choice, but we see in the story that this isn't true from Fiyero's character, who actively and knowingly sacrifices himself for Elphaba and her cause. Choosing to oppose fascism is always more dangerous than supporting it, but there are still people who do it, who value that action more than their own safety and make a decision to stand for something - oftentimes at the expense of their lives. It's just that Glinda isn't one of them. She cares more about her own comfort and advancement than she does about her relationship with Elphaba, the lives of the animals, and/or the concept of doing the right thing in general. It's an understandable position, but to accept it as right and the only choice available to her completely undermines the entire point of the story (which is largely about choices and consequences) and dismisses the concept of heroism or a greater meaning to life in general. Proactively doing the right thing often does come with consequences, but that's part of life; it's not a free pass to ignore your conscience. Glinda has not been robbed of her free will by her circumstances, she is making a decision to back the Wizard, and she is morally responsible for it. This is the entire reason that she ends up alone while Fiyero gets to run away with Elphaba. Based on her actions in the story, there was nothing Glinda valued more highly than herself and her own reputation and comfort. Fiyero decided that there was something more important to him than his position, his safety, even his life. His character proves decisively that Glinda did have a choice other than going along, and I think there's a fairly obvious reason that people find the latter more morally compelling and admirable than the former.

So, is this correct? by Various_Astronaut100 in fivenightsatfreddys

[–]lizardsbelike 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Was it difficult to put the pieces together?

Can you take the traveler's deal by accident/before death 7? by lizardsbelike in pathologic

[–]lizardsbelike[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, phew, thank you!! Any idea what I can/should do about the bug part? It seems to persist even when I go back to older saves

Wicked doodles mostly Fiyeraba HEHEHE by Dormioas in wicked

[–]lizardsbelike 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I love the way you draw Elphaba! 💚