#rapunzel and the wizard of oz discord

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💚WELCOME!!!💚

I’M HAPPY TO ANNOUNCE THIS

For those outside the server have seen I’m in the works of something a project that I’ll get to work on more known as “Rapunzel and the Wizard of Oz” and after months of thinking back and forth I’m excited to announce a discord server to this project that you all can see how I’ll revealed this side project/fan comic and anyone is happily welcomed to join this small server of mine :D

If you want to be invited just DM me privately and I’ll give you a link to join the Discord server!!!

So hang in your houses from the big tornado 🌪 and hope too see you at the amazing land of Oz!!!!

Art by me

Rapunzel belongs to Disney

God bless you :3

[delusionland]

thoughts on gothel's problematically antisemitically-coded caricatured appearance and personality? if you don't wanna talk about this in public we can talk about it on discord but i saw you talking about gothel and that has always been a part of Tangled that bugged me.

tbh i don’t think you can seperate witches from anti-semitic caricatures. my gothel being ethnically jewish is a fundamental part of how i play her because of that. women who are viewed as different by white christian cishet society are witches and theyre killed for it, full stop, always been true, still true.

but just bc a woman is different than society deems appropriate doesn’t make someone ‘evil.’  i play gothel as the hero of her own story, i give her flaws but also STRENGTHS, i try to give her relationships, and i feel like to me gothel / the witch is the most interesting part of rapunzel’s story the same way elphaba is the most interesting part of the wizard of oz. if u take away the real textual ‘otherness’ of witches in the narratives i like to portray fairy tales in--that they’re non-white non-christian non-straight women. you’re left with nothing but empty girl power narratives that don’t say anything at all about groups in power vs the marginalized & the othered. 

as a side note, i also play several other characters i hc as jewish on this blog that are straight up heroes, thru and thru ( steve is half jewish, bucky, peter b., rapunzel and eugene are also jewish.) but they’re all given their own complexities, gothel just happens to be the only canon villain of the bunch which i don’t necessarily erase bc what’s the point of deconstructing fairy tales if you don’t make them as complex as they possibly can be lol

BUT. (more under the cut.)

my gothel isn’t evil, in a traditional sense. she’s a ragana, which is a witch that takes the form of an old woman, and who is hated and thought of as the devil and a ‘bad guy’ --- but who is really a necessary part of nature & balancing nature, just like you have to burn parts of forests to keep from forest fires.

one of her children represents ‘the moon' and was supposed to bear the moonstone. and the other represents ‘the sun.’ the sundrop flower was an important part of a prophecy that was supposed to unite the sundrop and the moonstone & right the universe. it was stolen from her, she then stole the child. in her head, she had to! it was to balance the universe. there are prophecies involved here! it’s for the greater good and the balance of the universe! what’s greater than that!

but more important to my gothel’s portrayal is that her vanity-to-the-point-of-madness is bc she herself was stolen as a child with magical powers by a non-jewish goddess, that locked her away in a tower, and tried to make her hate every part of herself that wasn’t plucked & brushed. 

inside the tower she ends up raising rapunzel in, gothel was allowed to grow up and be a child into her adulthood. she learned her magic in secret from her abusive mother, something that i feel like is a metaphor for her loving herself as a visibly jewish, visibly queer woman. and the second she was finally free of her mother---she left the tower & the grove---and her ragana form manifested. at the tender age of 18, she looked EIGHTY. the sunflower called out to her and she found it. but just when she was beginning to be her own person, her awesome witchy self who would’ve balanced the world and been cool and dope, that chance at an ACCEPTABLE life of being queer & ‘othered’ bc she can still be considered attractive to others is taken from her.

she’s lived HUNDREDS OF YEARS exploring the world and righting wrongs in the balance of nature since! has she been thanked for it, even once? no! but now she’s the bad guy?

abuse like rapunzel & gothel isn’t simple. emotional abuse is so fucking complicated. gothel IS the bad guy in that relationship. but. well i can talk more about that some other time.

idk. i recognize that gothel being jewish-coded is obviously bad but that’s because she’s a VILLAIN in the story of tangled. in her own story, the story i wish desperately i could write more on this blog, gothel is the hero of her own story and is a tragic anti-hero or sorts, who is allowed to be complicated and also very much a product of the ‘otherness’ that she cannot hide or control that adds a deep layer to her character in a way that there wouldn’t be if she was a white non-ethnically jewish woman.

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Win A Commission!

Every month starting on the 10th, I will post illustrations of a (not-obscure) tale/book/movie, a new picture every day. If you guess before I reveal the title, you win a drawing (or we can talk about other types of art*)! All commissions must be pg-13 or lower and non-discriminatory. Guesses, questions and comments are welcome, so please hit me up!

Examples are under the cut. Check out the ones with pride colors!

Here’s an aromantic/no romance list

Queer tales

Here’s the colored versions for the first twenty-two. More later.

The reason these are not colored or shaded (very much) is mostly because I am drawing some coloring books for my little cousins. Here is a link showing a filled out storybook.

(Even after my 366 art challenge I still post a new story on the tenth of every month.)

Repeat winners are welcome!

May 2019 (no winner): Snow White

June 2019 (no winner): Cinderella

July 2019 (Winner: Slonker): Sleeping Beauty

August 2019 (no winner): The Little Mermaid

September 2019 (no winner): Mulan

October 2019 (no winner): Labyrinth

November 2019 (no winner lol): The Princess Bride

December 2019 (no winner): The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

January 2020 (Winner: boopboopboopbadoop): The Princess Who Never Laughed/The Golden Goose

February 2020 (Winner: boopboopboopbadoop): Beauty and the Beast

March 2020 (Winner: boopboopboopbadoop): Rapunzel

April 2020 (Winner: boopboopboopbadoop): Gumiho: The Fox Sister

May 2020 (Winner: boopboopboopbadoop): Alice in Wonderland

🏳️‍⚧️June 2020 (no winner): The Twelve Dancing Princesses

July 2020 (Winner: boopboopboopbadoop): Crystal the Wise

August 2020 (no winner): Swan Lake

September 2020 (Winner: boopboopboopbadoop): Aladdin and his Wonderful Lamp

October 2020 (Winner: Lilbookworm1996): Coraline (the book version)

November 2020 (Winner: Lilbookworm1996 and boopboopbadoop): Brother and Sister

December 2020 (Winner: Boopboopboopbadoop): The Frog Princess

January 2021 (Winner: Boopboopboopbadoop): Tarzan (Disney Version)

February 2021 (Winner: Boop [just going to write that for short from now on]): The White Snake

March 2021 (no winner): Godmother Death

April 2021 (Winner: a-bisexual-teenager): Shrek

May 2021 (Winner: Hecho-a-Mano, from now on Hecho): Narnia

June 2021 (🏳️‍🌈 no winner this time): 🏳️‍🌈 The Nose tree

July 2021 (Winner: Hecho): The 🏳️‍🌈 Youth who went forth to learn the Shivers

August 2021 (it was late and released in September, 🏳️‍🌈 due to school. Winner: Hecho): Puss in Boots

September 2021 (no 🏳️‍🌈 winner): The Eyrie

October 2021 (Winner: Boop): Peter Pan

November 2021 (no winner): The Man from Snowy River

December 2021 (tortie-cat): Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

January 2022 (none): The Six Swans

February🏳️‍🌈2022 (Nobody🏳️‍🌈oh Well): The 🏳️‍🌈Snow Queen🏳️‍⚧️

March 2022 (Nobody this time): Dealing with Dragons

April 2022 (Boop): The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

May 2022 (Boop): Mary Poppins

June 2022 (Boop): Wildwood Dancing

July 2022: Honeyguide’s Revenge

August 2022: The Whale Rider

September 2022: The Homunculus

October 2022: OTGW: Song of the Dark Lantern

November 2022: The Last Unicorn

December 2022: Lumaaq & Loon

January 2023: The Second Symphony

February 2023 (Kim): John Henry

March 2023 (BMC and Gwen on discord) Nana Miriam

April 2024 (Answeringmysister): Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

May 2024 (amaros-system): The Two Princesses of Bamarre

June 2024 (joemerl, cat-with-no-name & dragonslayer303): The Neverending Story

July 2024 (pathetic-gamer): Bridge to Terabithia

August 2024 (Merphus basically): Napoleon (1995)

September 2024 (Answeringmysister): 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ West of the Sun, East of the Moon

Extra Stuff

*I write and record audio for fanfiction.

Also some practice sketches I remembered to keep that I’m proud of.

Picrew Versions

Here is a post where I show the commissions I’ve done for the winners!

The text is colored according to pride flags applicable in the story ;) and more stories with queer characters are coming! White or Grey of the flag is represented as normal text, Black as bold. Orange stands in for yellow sorry. A queer flag emoji will be put between different flags if applicable.

Peter Pan has a trans character but it’s not really relevant and she’s barely mentioned, so I’m not putting the flag colors on that one.

Disney Princess Coloring Page masterpost here, because they also went into some of the coloring books, they’re somewhat popular, and this post is basically a general masterpost at this point lol.

OTGWtober 2020

ATLA Kuspuk Week 2022

Post about Holes

Derin Stories Fan Art Masterpost

The stealth-ATLA coloring book I helped to create (proceeds go to wildlife funds)

Art Summary 2023 (and the years before)

I have a description of my library shed in the tags here and I want to be able to find it easily

This is for me

List of upcoming stories to help you guess ;).

*Tatterhood (this version has a dog instead of a goat)

*The Acacia Tree (An adaption of The Juniper/Almond Tree)

*Chantha Rasphone 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️(A sequel to the fairy tale Childe Rowland)