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1. happens great, happens sweet by gunkymonkey

   Fandoms: Wicked - All Media Types, Wicked (Movies 2024 2025)  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • F/F
   • Work in Progress

   06 Oct 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Elphaba Thropp/Galinda Upland
   • Elphaba Thropp
   • Glinda the Good
   • Fiyero Tigelaar
   • all the usual side characters with special mention to my bestie
   • Chistery (The Wicked Years)
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Humor
   • Slow Burn
   • surface level gliyero dw
   • loathing and post-canon stacked like raccoons in a trenchcoat
   • some politics but not too too much
   • Eventual Smut
   • POV Galinda Upland
   • in all her glorious delusion

   Summary

   “Elphie,” Glinda repeats. “Polling is telling us that Elphaba is too intimidating, not trustworthy enough. A nickname significantly increases approachability. I actually came up with that one myself-” she pauses, pleased, waiting for the inevitable compliment.

    
   Or: Glinda discovers that the hardest thing about being Throne Minister...is the Throne Minister. Yes, that one.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   25,056

   Chapters:

   3/10

   Comments:

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   Kudos:

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