as small as a world and as large as alone

12:01pm June 20, 2014

fredericksergievsky:

elphaba constantly interrupting class to have impassioned debates with the professors over cisnormative language or heteronormative lessons

elphaba answering the question “are you a boy or a girl” with a monotone “no” without ever looking up from their book

elphaba bonding with fiyero over how bizarre and oppressive the gender binary is, because in the vinkus they have at least a dozen traditional gender identities as in quadling country where elphaba was raised

elphaba lecturing galinda’s friends on respecting people’s pronouns and not making assumptions about people’s gender identities based on the way they dress

elphaba ranting to galinda back in their dorm room about how angry it makes them that people just assume that they’re a woman even though they don’t have noticeable breasts, and getting so frustrated over people asking them if they’re a plant because they’re asexual

elphaba confiding in galinda that they’re intersex, and allowing galinda to be the first ever person to see them naked, and touch them, and galinda is so careful and gentle and runs her hands over every long stretch of skin and bony angle and just touching her and it’s so intimate, and they sleep with their bare skin pressed together and neither of them even thinks about sex, and it’s beautiful

elphaba admitting in a whisper that they’re glad they can’t have children, because they wouldn’t want to pass along their… unfortunate pigment

elphaba secretly having to go to the bathroom to pull themself together after galinda confides in them that she’s been questioning her gender ever since elphaba explained to her that there’s so many different ones and that it was all about how she felt

agender elphaba

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