I thought it'd be fun to make each of Jinjur's soldiers a character from Oz canon!
It'll be a while before you see all of their names used in the comic, so I'm including a helpful identification guide to the Army of Revolt below the cut so that you may get to know them right away:
A) Miss. Cuttenclip
A Quadlish delinquent who likes arts & crafts. From Emerald City of Oz.
B) Captain Elfie Bah
A Winkielander delinquent who hates both witches and the daughters of witches. Named after Elphaba from Wicked, but is clearly a legally distinct character. Please don't sue me.
C) Salye Soforth
A Winkielander delinquent who is the younger sister of Queen Ann Soforth in Tik-Tok of Oz.
D) Dyna Nikidik
A Gillikinese delinquent who is related to the Crooked Sorcerer. From Road to Oz, but her last name comes from Marvelous Land of Oz.
E) Tollydiggle
A Gillikinese delinquent from whom you cannot escape. Only has one name, like Cher. From Patchwork Girl of Oz.
F) Blinkie <3
A sweet and kind foreign exchange student who fell in with the wrong crowd by accident! She's Juni Jump's best friend! Don't bother looking up who "Blinkie" is in Oz canon. I'm sure you'll only find lies.
G) Jessiva Pipt
A Munchkin delinquent who is the daughter of Dr. Pipt, aka the Crooked Sorcerer. Dyna is her cousin. From the 1914 film adaptation of Patchwork Girl of Oz.
H) Juniberry "Juni" Jump
A Quadlish delinquent who is in love with Jinjur and is Blinkie's best friend. Named in homage to John R. Neill's Jenny Jump, but is actually a composite character of the rabbit who lives near Nimmie Amee in Tin Woodman of Oz and the bunnies of Bunnybury in Emerald City of Oz.
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Every June, I exclusively make and post new Dorzma art, mainly to spread awareness of what I consider to be one of the oldest LGBT pairings in fandom circles (and one that many should remember in this day and age). This one is Ozma and Dorothy doing a tango of sorts with an LGBT heart as the background.
It was based on this pose provided by @adorkastock
I initially planned to do the whole body... but I find the legs to be too excessive to the whole picture, especially when the hands are in a very unique and difficult pose to draw. I decided to cut the legs and focus on the hands, which was tricky since they are clasping in a manner that is very complex in design, yet also beautiful in overall simplicity. I like how they turned out.
You might also notice that Ozma doesn't have her tall crown in this picture. Well, that's because I wanted Ozma to eventually be animatable, and thus I need to experiment to see if Ozma's design would work without a crown (she still keeps the headdress with flowers). It looks nice overall in my opinion.
I still plan to make more of Dorzma in the future. This is me getting back into the grove.
Okay a more serious post, my blog’s visibility issues have been fixed, and so now we can run the final Jack Off prelims! Thanks so much to everyone for your patience.
To make sure everyone is aware, the prelim match-ups will be listed below the cut, and their fandoms tagged. I plan to run ~half the prelims on Wednesday, May 10 and the other half on Friday, May 12.
So instead of combining these Jacks like I did with the Johns, I thought it would be more fun to have some similar Jacks and the multiple Jacks from the same media fight to see who will be the representing champion!
Bout A: Jack Harkness (Doctor Who/Torchwood) vs Original Jack Harkness (Torchwood)
Bout B: Jack Sparrow (Pirates of the Caribbean) vs Jack the Monkey (Pirates of the Caribbean)
Bout C: Our Boy Jack/Mad Jack Spratt (The Mechanisms) vs One-Eyed Jack (The Mechanisms)
Bout D: Jack Rackham (Black Sails) vs Calico Jack (Our Flag Means Death)
Bout E: Jack Skellington (The Nightmare Before Christmas) vs Jack Pumpkinhead (Return to Oz)
Bout F: Jack Frost (Rise of the Guardians) vs Jack Frost (Jack Frost 1998)
“But op, how will you fill the remaining slots?” Well, patient name enjoyers, I’ve selected ten Jacks who had good but not good enough votes in their prelims to come and fight one on one for the remaining slots (There are only five slots here because the 1998 Jack Frost didn’t win his prelim but I really wanna see them duke it out, it’s gonna be so funny.)
The ten lucky contenders are as follows:
Bout G: Jack Starbright (Alex Rider) vs Lavender Jack (Lavender Jack)
Bout H: Spring-Heeled Jack (Folklore) vs Jack Howl (Twisted Wonderland)
Bout I: Jack Larson (Malevolent) vs Jack Bauer (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
Bout J: Jack/Narrator (Fight Club) vs Jack (Mass Effect)
Bout K: Jack Hodgins (Bones) vs Jack Carter (Eureka)
"Dorothy threw her arms around her little friend and hugged and kissed her rapturously."
- The Road to Oz (1909)
A last artwork for Pride Month 2023 before the month is over. The background is composed of colors of the LGBT flag, Lesbian flag, and Transgender flag.
I need to make more in the near future...
A little trivia, it was inspired by the Lumity kiss in the Series Finale of The Owl House.
i remember seeing a post ages ago along the lines of "actually you shouldn't call israel an apartheid state, south africans have said that's insensitive" and it was just. which south africans? why didnt you just like, repost their post if this is true? are they white? do they still live in za? did they, perhaps, move to fucking israel