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"Wicked" is a fairly amazing musical. The book it came from is harsh but an engaging twist on the Oz story from the perspective of the witches.This image was a concept sketch I did entirely in photoshop based on Elphaba's (wicked witch of the west) first broom flight.
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HOLY CRAP!!! GO TEAM ELPHABA!!!! Oh, and to whoever sent that one comment just before me. You're not a messed up child... because I loved the wicked witch too. Glenda was to... ditzy and... blond and... shiny... yuck.
GO ELPHY!!
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Hey! I like Glinda!
But still...
GO TEAM ELPHABA! OH YEAH< SHE"S THE BEST!
But I DO like Glinda too! Omigosh I have to hurry and finish the book already!
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OMG yah! HURRY HURRY!!! Then again. I have to too. I only know the musical. 
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I KNOW! Its wonderful so far... I can't wait to see when/if Glinda and Elphie meet again in the book...they ust in the musical? (For Good)
I have the CD and an obsession with it!
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ME OBSESSSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG!!
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Oh God me too! I just love Wicked! Its wicked awesome! Okay yeah that was lame but I ;like it. WICKED FOREVER!
laughs like lunatic 'coughs' keeps laughing
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this is just SO amazing! I love Wicked, and i have ALWAYS been a Wicked Witch fan, even when she was just plain "wicked"...i was a messed up child.
anyways!
you are SO talented, i can't believe it. you drew this ON the computer, or drew it, scanned it, THEN coloured it on the computer? it blows my mind regardless, but i'm just curious.
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no, no, not messed up; I LOVE ELPHIE! Even mporeso when she's played by Kerry Ellis. She makes Elphaba very beautiful.
I'm almost done with the book now! And then I wanna see the play, I may get to see it in Chicago.
I have the soundtrack!
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I haven't read the whole book, just skimmed parts. I just haven't the time late;y
I have seen the musical and listen to the soundtrack about 24-7 myself.
and I like Idina best, sorry.
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Don't be sorry, I love Idina! She's so beautiful and has an amazing voice and seems to have amazing acting talent...Rent, which I haven't seen, Wicked, reading wanna see...
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I would never watcj Rent personally because I don't support it's political views, but i'm sure Idina does a great job.
her voice is just something that blows me away. that voice won her a bloody Tony.
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which views I haven't seen it yet but I wanna...is it the aids ep and gay love? I don't have an issue with it at alll but maybe thats not what you talking about?
yeah, her voice is incredamazing!
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I don't have sympathy for people with AIDS and i don't support the "gay issue" so the whole show sort's alacks any kind of interest for me.
you ever just turn the music up al; the way (while alone) and just sing your brains out along with her? if you haven't i highly suggest it.
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How can you not have sympathy for those people? They are dying from a deadly disease! I have no issue with 'the gay issue' it shoudln't be an issue! People should be able to be how they want without rude comments and anti-gays. Its not fair to them.
And yes I do that a lot! I love to sing!
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Gay is a life-choice, and therefore people have the right to say as they like on the topic. never is there an excuse to be rude, but no where is they any law or rule that one has to accept EVERYTHING. I have drawn a line in the sand, and Gay happens to be on the other side of that line along with every other sexual perversion such as pedophilia, bestiality, necrophilia, incest, rape...etc. If gays don't like that they can ignore it or not be gay. it's all up to them
and how can YOU feel bad for someone that is dying from a disease they gave THEMSELVES through immoral behavior?
The world is overpopulated anyways, we need an epidemic to whip out a number of us. Those in Africa would be dying from starvation and warlords if it weren't for AIDS, so they would hardly be the picture of health, it is almost merciful for them to die.
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Okay I do understan where you are coming fromn here but I have to disagree, I;m not a gay girl but I think, like you, it is a life choice and if thats there choice then thatts just there choice. ITs not like I stand up yelling 'go gays' or anything but I support anyone's thoughts and beliefs-as long as its not like Hitler's beliefs or anything bad like that. I'm sure you know what I mean. I have top say that the epidemic lowering the population statement bothers me little. Maybe its something a friend said to me once about the Holocaust (I'm Jewish and we were talking politics and HS SocialStudies) and he said that at least it lowered the population by six million. Hey,. maybe I'm just sensitive about what he said but I don't support any epidemic. AIDS is brought on by the persons actions but people make mistakes and it can be fatal. Its so sad that they have to suffer so much. And I cannot personally put gays up there with pedophilia, rape, incest...(I don't know what bestiality or necrophilia is?). Gays haven't done anything wrong by being themselves. As for the Africa issue I don't think its merciful for them to die; I think a cure is prefferable and until then some support and love, not to mention food and safety and all.
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i simply feel it is a wrong choice to make. I do not hate gay people/throw bricks at them, I just don't LIKE them.
well, i'm kind of unsympathetic towards other people, and if those people dying from AIDS were not dying from AIDS they would be dying anyways, which was my point. food and shelter and "love" wont help them, we tried that back in the early 90s and you know what happened? the people shot down our helicopters, killed our soldures there to help them, and stole the food so that the people that needed it didn't even get it. forgive me for not giving a shit anymore after all that.
since then people in THIS country dying of AIDS got it through their choice in immoral/questionable behavior and therefore i do not have any sympathy for them.
people can make mistakes, and it's fatal...I agree. stupidity is, or at least SHOULD BE, fatal.
Bestiality is sex with animals, and Necrophilia is sex with a dead body. I put gays with those other things because they are all sexually based perversions. they take something that is meant to be procreative and sheared between a (human) man and a (human) woman and turn it into something else, and it is disturbing. what gays choose to do is as wrong as much as what an incest couple does, or a man that has sex with a goatt, or whatever.
and I'm a Jehovah's Witness, my people were rounded up and sent to concentraition and Death Camps in the Holocost too, so don't think just because you are Jewish that you are the only one with the right to hold a grudge, but you seriously NEED to get over it. that was last century.
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hey, will you tell me more about the 90's thin you were talking about. WIth planes shot down or whatever it was you said. I don't know much about the 90's. I'm a real history freak but knoiw almsot nothing against nthat era. I'd love to know from someone who was there more than I would a book! Though I do love reading..sorry, pointless infgo about me. Anyway, I'd love to know.
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Whoa, wait one second before you get mad at me. I can see the unsymapthy thing with you, and that is not an insult. I just understand your thoughts about it and I could back them up. I just feel differently about it. I don't think gays are perversions. I know AIDs is a self stupidity thing but it dcon't thing stupidity SHOULd be fatal because they just get to die but their family has to deal with the loss. Its not immoral to be yourself. It is odd in the eyes of some people, like you, and can understan why you think its immoral because of the AIDS epidemic and all. But still, it is thier choice to bge what they want to be. I can tell your not the 'throwing stones' person but just disagreeing. ANd I get how you feel completely. I'm not a supporter or non supporter like with protester types but I just like to accept people. And as for the Holocaust thing I do NOT hold a grudge at all. Its not like hate Germans like some radical obsessive freak that can't let go of a grudge but it was what my friend said that bothered me. It was only the statement he said that bothered me. It didn't even get me really angry with him it just annoyed me that he would say something like that, thats all.
And wow, okay, I can see why bestiality and necrophilia is disturbing. The thought of it is just, freaky, disturbing, wrong in so many ways I couldn't count them if I wanted to. But gays don't do anything that bad. Its not even really abd. ITs just. them, the way they want to be. ANd I DO NOT think because I'm a Jew I'm the only one who can hold a grudge. No, the people who can hold that are the ones who were there and suffered through it. And I don't have the right to a grudge anyway because I wasn't born until 19-something. (won't say the year or age but I'm only in HS right now so you get it). No grudge, just annoyed with a mean comment from a friend. I'm sorry if offended you when I mentioned that it had bothered me. And I can't "get over it" because I wasn't there. Nothing to get over the loss of like is just saddening and knowing what they (Jews, Jehovah's Witnesses, Gypsy's) anyone who died because one man thought they should. Thats a disturbing thought right there you've gotta admit. But like I said, the loss of 6million lives is just saddening. I'm sorry if I did offend you but please don't hold a grudge against me for saying what I said in the previous comment. God I feel bad now.
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people claim that "loving" animals in that way, or loving dead bodies, or their close relative, or young children is "just them" and yet they are see as perversions. what kind of double standard are you clinging to that these people are perverts for ding (essentially) the same damn thing? Gays are what they are you say? well then, so are all these people, yet you say "The thought of it is just, freaky, disturbing, wrong in so many ways I couldn't count them if I wanted to." that statement is so rampant with hypocrisies and double standars that it is sickening to me. you either accept ALL the ways people choose to have sex, or you don't...you don't pick and choose.
i was not offended, i was merely pointing out that lots of different people dies, none as many as the jews,m but it seems all is over-shadowed and those lost were forgotten if they were not jewish.
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It wasn't meant to be hypocritical at all! I think its in a differnet catergory though, going that with dead bodies or doing that with animals, than it is to that with some of the same gender. It is different to me. I have to say that you saying I 'sicken you' is hurtful but I can understand you seeing thier actions as the same. I think it is different. And I don't think its picking and choosing if I am okay with same sex doing that but not okay with the animals and dead bodies thing that people do. Thats a totally different way to be "just them" than being gay. To me it just is.
perversions. what kind of double standard are you clinging to that these people are perverts for ding (essentially) the same damn thing? Gays are what they are you say? well then, so are all these people
that paragraph really was hurtful. I'm not a hypocrite and I'm not trying to be mean. Look, I said I was sorry and I am sorry and I am sorry if I am so sicxkening to you but I'm just giving my opinion!
I'm sorry, and you'll probably call me an idiot, but what do you mean double standard?
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I don not mean to make you feel bad, I sometimes come across as harsh.
what you have to understand is I HATE double-standards.
look at it this way. What is sex for? for creating babies. yes if is pleasurable, yes it can be fun, yes every time you do it you wont make a baby, but you cannot deny that that is it's fundamental and primal purpose. Now, look at gays. they have sex but not because the primitive portion of their brain is urging them to procreate, they are simply doing it because it "feels good" because there is no way for a male/male or female/female to have babies. therefore they are not doing what is natural, they are not doing what the act is to entail. the same goes for all other perversions except for pedophilia and incest. though those can result in babies, it is a person's own moral standards that would know allow that. you do not deny that having sex with a child, or a close relative (even if it is consensual) is wrong, so why is sex between two members of the same sex not wrong?
a "double standard" means that you hold one person/group of people to one standard of wehat is acceptable, and another person/group to a different (higher or lower) standard. does that make sense?
here is the definition: Double standard: 1. any code or set of principles containing different provisions for one group of people than for another, esp. an unwritten code of sexual behavior permitting men more freedom than women.
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its okay, i can see the harshness but i'm that way sometimes too. (smiles) i understand.
oh (looks wonderingly) thats what double standard means. okay. i get that. no no, i'm not trying to do that. i just think gay and doing what pedophiles necorphilia and incest do is different. its immoral for what those people do but for gays i just see a difference. like i said i'm not a gay radical, i'm not even gay, but i see how, forgive me if this sounds mean, being a an incest-er, pedophile, necrophili-ac just makes you a freak. but then again people like that may, and probably do, have mental issues. i don't mean that in the 'you freakin retard' way but in the real way where people, sadly, do have problems in their mind and its sad. i can't see any other reason why they would do that. necro-people and bestiality probably comes form mental issues. maybe it has nothing to do with a mental issue; i've got no clue i'm just guessing and wondering; i'd like to know why they'd do that though. i'm gonna take pyshology so maybe i'll learn about it. now incest and child molesters and pedophiles i read somewhere they like the power. its a mental state that may not come from insanity but from liking to see others in pain and enjoying watching the pain and knowing that they casued it. maybe what i reding came from a stupid site or bad source, i don't know. but it might be true. i don't wanna be a double standard becasue i'd like to treat all as equal. but i think that the people i listed are bad people or mental and need help
its not double standard (thanks for the def. it helped a lot!) its just knowing right from wrong and what is in the middle.
and what is in the middle; the shades of grey instead of balck and white; is all about the opinions of others and what thyey think is right and wrong. when there are two sides and no answer. like the gay 'issue'. some support it (black and white) some hate it (black and white) and since there is no way to just say 'its right or its wrong' then i just its grey. the most importatn opinion in the issue is those who are gay,. they matter the most in the situation becasue it them dealing wiht the other opinions. its sad that they have suffer like that. i know its not the 'natural way' but if they are in love with some of the same gender then okay. let them be. if they aren't even love but just prefer same gender then i'd say let them be. i see the diferent POVs and while i know i'm taking the supporting side i think i could fall in the middle because i accept all POV's. hmmm? i don't know?
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it is theorized that homosexuals are just as "crazy" as the rest of the forementioned people, people such as yourself just refuse to see it. They have "mental issues" know as "gender confusion" and are often Nymphomaniacs/Satyrs (people addicted to sexual pleasure)...you try SO hard to be accepting and "open-minded" which is not a BAD thing, but when you say those other things are wrong, but homosexuality is okay, whether you mean to or not, you are subscribing to a double-standard.
I think homosexuals need help, like any one with a mental illness.
i only feel bad for gay people "suffering" when you speak of their mental state. how they are treated as people does not bother me, they chose that.
there is a difference between "loving" someone of your own gender and "having sex with" someone of you own gender. You LOVE your best friend, but you don't have sex with her, i know i sure don't but that doesn't mean i don't love her. Gays can love their own sex while finding someone of the opposite sex to pair off with. no one has a "soulmate" that ONE person you can live your life with forever. this is proven by widows/widowers remarrying/falling in love again, people being married more than once, etc. that way they can still be in love with someone, but it would be natural, and right.
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That does make sense to me and I can see how it is a double standard but I'm not trying to be open minded I just am. But even if I'm open minded there is a borderline and some things that cross it I can't accpet or really understand. Like the sexual addicts and necrophilia and bestiality, those cross a borderline but gay still stands in the middle depending on how you look at it. Yes, I love my best friend but I wouldn't do that with her (we're just friends. typical line isn't it? lol) because I'm not gay and I'm wouldn't do that yet anyway. But I get your point. That is interesting about your soulamte and all isn't it? About how there is never only one person? I've never really thought about that but it is something to wonder about. Why do you think homosexuals need help though? I don't think anything is really wrong with them.
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That does make sense to me and I can see how it is a double standard but I'm not trying to be open minded I just am. But even if I'm open minded there is a borderline and some things that cross it I can't accpet or really understand. Like the sexual addicts and necrophilia and bestiality, those cross a borderline but gay still stands in the middle depending on how you look at it. Yes, I love my best friend but I wouldn't do that with her (we're just friends. typical line isn't it? lol) because I'm not gay and I'm wouldn't do that yet anyway. But I get your point. That is interesting about your soulamte and all isn't it? About how there is never only one person? I've never really thought about that but it is something to wonder about. Why do you think homosexuals need help though? I don't think anything is really wrong with them.
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we need to take this to notes now, I just realized this isn't even my art piece we are talking on. I have one named something similar and just wasn't paying attention, but this is inappropriate and I feel the need to apologize to the artist for this.
Send me a note if you want to continue.
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Are we still on 'Elphaba Defying Gravity'? OMG I am so sorry, well we should say it to the artist, I'll send her a note. Lets just use messages on of my art peices or something cuz I had trouble acessing my notes. Yes I do wanna continue; we're having such a nice converstion I'd hate to end it. Plus I have some more ideas and thoughts on the matter *says last line in snobby accent*
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I sent the artist an apology already by note and i hope our comments are "hidden" so that they are not cluttering up this piece any more.
If you can't use the "notes" option, then just emails me. The_RaineDrop@yahoo.com
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okay, i'll try to figure out notes but if you comment on one of my peieces that'd be alright to use. yeah they should be hidden but i am glad you noticed.
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Wow, that's amazing!
*Sings* Tell them how I am defying gravity, I'm flying high, defying gravity and nobody, in all of Oz, no Wizard that there is or was, is ever gonna bring me down!
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To bad "house began to pitch" on Elphie's sister and that Elphie herself met her fate via a watery grave, courtesy of Dorothy, a farmgirl from Kansas, who stole the "heart" of the Scarecrow (whom Elphaba would never find out was really Fyiero, the man she fell in love with).
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Absolutely beautiful!
And you captured the perfect expression for her.
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Fantastic job! I really love the perspective you got on this one! Great anatomy, and great composition!
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"so if you care to find me look to the western sky as someone told me lately everyone deserves a chance to fly"
i think thats how "Defying Gravity" goes.
Haven't seen play yet, but will, listens to the songs almost daily, owns book, owns piano/song book-advanced version cuz i'm a show off.lol.
i wanna see the play! i love this pic! its amazing! the expression is beyond perfect!
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wicked is one of my top favorite books. I have a strong pull to the bad guys cause I always wonder what makes them bad! great pic
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oh me too! like how idolize Elphie (SHE IS NOT REALLY BAD!) and how I'm in love with the teenage Hannibal Lector...oh yeah, I totally go for the bads!
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HAHHA! That's my favorite song from teh musical!!!! *dies* D'aww, that's a really great picture, LOL - I lvoe her expression, too!
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My god this is FANTASTIC!!! I can't believe it..... you did such a mind blowing job on this.....
You should send it to Idina Menzel....
And print it on black t-shirts for all of us to wear!
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awww that looks great! 
could someone help me:
i know that
elphalba is the wicked witch of the west
nessarose the wicked witch of the east
galinda the good witch of the north
does the south also have a witch? or is the wizard of oz truly the good witch or the south????
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Cool work! I saw the musical and have to say you have captured her perfectly! You should redesign the book for it! Brilliant!
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DAMN! you got SKILLZ!!
This one came out just amazing
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Sweet Oz! this is amazing. She is getting some good speed on that broom. everything about this picture makes my jaw drop.
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