#king nome

[watcher-in-the-woods]

He said is this the return to Oz? The grass is dead The gold is brown And the sky has claws

Return to Oz (1985)

Directed by Walter Murch Written by Gill Dennis and Walter Murch

Based on The Marvelous Land of Oz and Ozma of Oz, both written by L. Frank Baum

[thebig-chillqueen]

The speed at which Scarecrow and Tin Man denied Dorothy volunteering herself to go next in the Nome King’s twisted guessing game.

[nintendoni-art]

"Hold on, this is Asbestos."

Bumblekast Thumbnail for January 8th. Didja know that in the book the poppy field issue wasn't resolved by snow? It was like a bajillion mice tied to a cart cause the Tin Man straight up killed a wildcat that was chasing the Queen of the Field Mice which earned them a favor.

[i-am-trans-gwender]

I would make this myself but I'm a terrible artist so can someone else draw this for me? (I'm broke so only do this if you want to do it for free sorry)

Amazing Digital Circus characters as Wizard of Oz charecters.

You don't have to do this exactly how I want it and you don't have to do all of them but heres how I would do it if I wasn't a terrible artist

Pomni is Dorothy Gale

Ragatha is Scarecrow

Jax is Tin Man

Gangle is the Cowardly Lion

Gummigoo is Toto

Kaufmo is the Wicked Witch of The East

Kinger is the Mayor of Munchkin land

Zooble is Princess Langwidere/Mombi (specifically the version of Mombi in Disney's Return to Oz who is based on and a combination of both)

The Gloink Queen is the Wicked Witch of The West

The Gloinks are the winged monkeys

Caine is the titular Wizard of Oz

Bubble is Glinda The Good Witch

Princess Loolilalu is Princess Ozma

The Fudge is the Nome King

For some of these I'm obviously stretching. If you can come up with better ideas for this please do so. If you don't recognize a Oz character's name assume there only in the Land of Oz book series and not in the Mgm Wizard of Oz movie. Also please watch Disney's Return to Oz.

[hah-studios]

I blacked out this weekend and when I came too I had drawn several character refs (not just these ones) for my dream of an OZ/Wonderland crossover

[gastrophobia]

Just for fun, I designed some nomes (aka rock fairies) who are not in any planned pages of Yellow Brick Ramble but do exist in the Yellow Brick Ramble universe.

Mariposita's named not after butterflies, but the metamorphic rock Mariposite. Because it's green like her eyes. Her parents are both male. She's one of those fan shipping OC babies.

Rock fairies reproduce by growing babies in geodes and hatching them like eggs. However, it's considered very rude to compare a nome geode to an egg like I just did.

[the-patchwork-girl-of-oz]

Scarecrow: wow! The nome king really hates us, Nick.

Tin man: yes. Perhaps he's homophobic.

Scarecrow:…but we’re not gay, Nick.

Tin man: we’re not?

[totalchaosgremlin]

return to oz was such a good movie

[beth-purcell]

Various doodles of my Oz characters (and Pilripat) and @hah-studios's Wonderland of Oz characters cause the comic is a delight and the plot bunnies be gremlins haha

Enjoy!

[twistedtummies2]

HAPPY THANKSGIVING, EVERYONE! To celebrate in unusual fashion, I present a couple of ref pics for the last of my major Night Raven College OCs, at least for now. I have mentioned him time and time again, but never actually shown him off. Everyone…meet Grit Gravelle. Just like with Theodore and Maelstrom, this art was made by @twisted-brainrot. This was part of a trade that we arranged almost a year ago now; it was more than worth the wait. <3 Grit is based on the Nome King from the movie “Return to Oz” (who is, in turn, somewhat loosely based on the character of the same name from the original Oz books). Like many of my OCs, he is not all he seems at first glance: what you see before you is Grit’s human form. Grit is a half-human, half-Nome hybrid; Nomes, in this universe, are essentially rock monsters - Earth beings who dwell in caves under the ground, and are made of moving stone. They are also absolutely gigantic in size, and consider humans to be a natural form of prey. Grit’s father is a nobleman in the Nome Kingdom, and his mother is a human; the details of how they met and reproduced are sketchy, but as a result, Grit’s true form is a half-human, half-rock monster of gigantic proportions; able to swallow people whole in a single bite, if he chooses.

The word “duplicitous” best suits Grit’s personality. When you first meet him, he’s usually actually quite pleasant. He’s polite, amiable, helpful, and has a sort of impish charm at times; he seems like a pretty nice guy. All of this, however, is a total sham: underneath that seemingly benevolent exterior, Grit has a heart made of stone (perhaps literally). He is sadistic, sneaky, manipulative, and treacherous. He legitimately enjoys causing pain for others who cross him. You can’t trust him as far as you can throw him, and that’s not likely to be very far. However, he isn’t COMPLETELY evil, no more than any of the others at NRC: much of Grit’s cold-blooded untrustworthiness comes from the fact that he, himself, has a difficult time trusting others. More specifically, Grit has a hard time trusting humans and other surface-dwellers.

When Grit was a boy, he always harbored a sort of contempt and distrust for surface-dwelling people. He was envious of them, in some ways, and repulsed by them in others. However, he has always deeply cared for his human mother, Emma. His mother is blind, and Grit is very, VERY protective of her. He sees her as the finest human in the universe, and the only human to whom he shows REAL respect and affection.

Grit’s Unique Magic is called “Ornamentation.” This power allows him to transform any living creature - plant or animal - into a small sculpture; an ornament. The spell can only be broken either by Grit’s direct choice, or by someone placing their hand upon the ornament and speaking the person’s name.

A few fun facts to note: Grit’s stomach actually glows, and this glow is visible through his skin. Inside his belly, his stomach juices have a naturally fluorescent orange hue, almost resembling lava, and his stomach muscles are colored black, with glowing red veins and arteries creating zig-zagging patterns, almost resembling fissures in cooling molten rock. However, his mouth and part of the way down the throat resemble a normal human maw and gullet (minus his sharp, fang-like teeth). Also, I decided to make Grit a big muscular beefcake because…well…it made him different from all my other OCs, really. I had several who were sort of slender and curvaceous, and a couple who were different degrees of plump and chubby, so I thought making him have “rock hard abs” would not only be fun for the sake of silly wordplay, but help to make him different from the rest of the cast. TB was kind enough to draw Grit not only in his “casual” outfit, but also topless, so you can get a nice look at those muscles, and the glow from his belly.

[ophierian-vp]

[woozini-of-oz]

"He rushed to his big gong"

"The Emerald City of Oz" (1910) - John R. Neill

[disneyweirdness]

[slashingdisneypasta]

MOMBI

IS

ALIVE.

[babycharmander]

Almost forgot! Here’s the Return to Oz stickers I acquired. It brought me so much joy to find these, you have NO idea.

Bonus: 40-year old stick of gum that came with it.

I did not eat it.

[hah-studios]

I had this scene in my head and I needed to draw my villains for WoO anyway lol.