#oz lit

[quotefeeling]

You've always had the power my dear, you just had to learn it for yourself.

The Wizard of Oz

[resqectable]

You've always had the power my dear, you just had to learn it for yourself.

The Wizard of Oz

[surqrised]

You've always had the power my dear, you just had to learn it for yourself.

The Wizard of Oz

[thoughtkick]

You've always had the power my dear, you just had to learn it for yourself.

The Wizard of Oz

[tygerland]

Book mural in Salt Lake City, Utah.

[thepersonalwords]

The best way to know the soul of another country is to read its literature.

Amos Oz

[facultyloungecosplay]

I feel like writers are accustomed to getting vaguely rude comments about (free) writing not being to one reader’s specific taste.

In a plot twist, today I received that kind of comment…on a scented candle review I wrote.

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Happy Pride from accidental trans girl Princess Ozma! Her gender reveal and transition scenes in The Marvelous Land of Oz were depicted surprisingly progressively considering they were written by a presumed cishet man in 1904 🏳️‍⚧️

[stay-close]

You've always had the power my dear, you just had to learn it for yourself.

The Wizard of Oz

[instantpansies]

the fact that dorothy chooses to make oz her home at the end of emerald city of oz is so important to me and i never see it in analysis :/ like yeah she decided to return home to kansas at the end of wonderful wizard!! but she couldn't keep away from oz!! she returned to kansas because she loved her family and felt that was where she needed to be but when her family started to despair and no longer wanted to be in kansas she took them to oz with her!!! she took them to the place that had become her home!!!!! and i just. oz is not a story of giving up on chasing a perfect world. it's not a story of trading in idealism for practicality. it's not a story of dorothy rejecting the feminist values she learns in oz for kansas domesticity (an actual thing i just read!!!). she returns because home is where the people she loves are. where she feels her duty is. and when the people she loves no longer love home, she brings them into her world. because oz is her world

i'm just tired of the same old "umm dorothy rejects oz in favor of a bland, familiar, domestic, normal life!! it symbolizes a rejection of queerness or modernity or feminism or ____ (insert value of oz) and a return to traditionalism!!" NO!!!!!! did you read marvelous land of oz??? she keeps a mirror so she can say hi to ozma every day!!! she never stops thinking about oz!!! she's devoted to her family but her heart is in oz!! SHE GOES BACK PERMANENTLY!!!! i just. augh.

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

🧹 When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale, we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? And what is the true nature of evil? Gregory Maguire creates a fantasy world so rich and vivid that we will never look at Oz the same way again. Wicked challenges all our preconceived notions about the nature of good and evil.

❓What are your thoughts on the trailer for the new Wicked adaptation?

💜 Thank you to @gregorymaguire and @williammorrowbooks for these fresh copies of the Wicked series. This gorgeous set comes out on October 1, 2024! It includes:

🧹 Wicked 🧹 Son of a Witch 🧹 A Lion Among Men 🧹 Out of Oz

[quotefeeling]

You've always had the power my dear, you just had to learn it for yourself.

The Wizard of Oz

[atomicpixies]

It’s the squad! Dorothy Gale, Princess Ozma, and Polychrome.

A quick doodle to work out character designs for a set of kid books I wanna make about the friends of dorothy (yes that is intentional) that talks about loving people who are a little different than your normal kansas girl.

Oz has a lot of openings for that, as (for it’s time) it was very progressive. The author was a staunch feminist and the books reflect that, always featuring strong girls having adventures and ruling. Ozma is canonly trans (tho obviously in a very different but also weirdly NOT way), love is for your friends, kindness to all is what wins.

(He also has some really REALLY bad takes on indigenous people, just…fyi. He was still a rich-ish white guy in the 1800s, alas.)

The first one I’m making is for my beloved Polychrome who can’t focus on anything, can’t handle weird textures in food or clothes, wanders away to dance when she can’t focus, and falls apart when her routine is broken. Ethereal rainbow fairy princesses can sometimes be autistic too.

After that I want to explore chronic illness with Jack Pumpkinhead. While Jack can start out good, as the month goes on his pumpkin starts to rot, and he must take it easy until he can spoon out a new one.

Anyway, all of this cane up because of a behind the bastard episode about how the digital market for kids books is being diluted with cheap AI books that are screwing up kids abilities to learn how to read subtext in a story between what the text says and the image shows. In a normal picture book they come together to provide a complete story….in AI books they’re distantly related non-sense that’s screwing kids up

So I figure….I can’t do worse than that, right?

[surqrised]

You've always had the power my dear, you just had to learn it for yourself.

The Wizard of Oz

[notnursenightingale]

I cannot help my smile, for it is carved on my face with a jack-knife.

|| L. Frank Baum, The Land of Oz

[quotelr]

The best way to know the soul of another country is to read its literature.

Amos Oz