#the patchwork girl of oz

[poppies-from-oz]

LAND OF OZ MASTERPOST

Now seems as good a time as any to remind everyone that all of the original fifteen Oz books are public domain and up for free online.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz 

The Marvelous Land of Oz

Ozma of Oz

Dorothy & The Wizard in Oz

The Road to Oz

The Emerald City of Oz

The Patchwork Girl of Oz

Little Wizard Stories of Oz

Tik-Tok of Oz

The Scarecrow of Oz

Rinkitink in Oz

The Lost Princess of Oz

The Tin Woodman of Oz

The Magic of Oz

Glinda of Oz

Happy reading! 

[scribledon]

The aforementioned scarecrow design. (I fucking love him he’s my favorite after Nick) also some misc doodles, tincrow, Trot + Capn Bill, Shaggy Man, Wogglebug and Scraps!!

[glindasbubbles]

just started to do my final art project of the year and of course is something related to wizard of oz hehe

[disneyweirdness]

[woozini-of-oz]

"The Patchwork Girl of Oz" (1914)

Directed by J. Farrell MacDonald

Written by L. Frank Baum

[the-patchwork-girl-of-oz]

I feel like some people tend to be annoyed with the tin woodman in the patchwork girl of oz for not letting them tear a wing off a butterfly, but really it’s perfectly in character.

First thing’s first, animals are sentient in Oz, including insects, as we know from H.M. Wogglebug, thoroughly educated, and he is known for his kind and wonderful heart and wanting to treat everyone with kindness. It is, of course, a reoccurring theme that he is highly sympathetic to insects, therefore he’d probably view everyone equally, including insects.

But that’s not the only reason.

In this scene, he argues how painful it would be for the little creature, who is very sensitive to pain.

He rules Winkie country. The yellow butterflies are under his rule.

But originally, he was from Munchkinland and was born under the Wicked Witch of the East’s rule. She literally forced him to dismember himself by enchanting his ax because he fell in love with a servant girl.

He knows FIRST HAND the kind of pain that the butterfly would go through.

And worst of all, this is happened at the hands of the his ruler. She let him be harmed in this way because he (like all of her subjects) was small and defenseless and she didn’t care about him.

The yellow butterflies come from winkie country, they’re under his rule and are his responsibility.

He wants to protect them.

HE DOESN’T WANT TO BE LIKE HIS TYRANNICAL DICTATOR.

HE WANTS TO BE A GOOD RULER.

HE WANTS TO PROTECT HIS SUBJECTS LIKE HIS RULER DIDN’T PROTECT HIM.

HE WANTS TO PROTECT HIS BUTTERFLIES

[cmonbartender]

The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1913) - John R Neill

[balladofsallyrose]

Walt Disney's Rainbow Road to Oz (1957)

[the-blue-fairie]

Gabriel Gale's redesign of Scraps, which I mentioned in a previous post.

@poppies-from-oz @crimzonstudioz @vovat @calebs-hangout-corner @ingridverse @woggle-bugger-me @normal-looking-male

I'm not sure how often I express how much I love Scraps, so here's my chance - Scraps, my beloved!

[mytemezcal]

I’m thinking about making an Oz Discord server what do you guys think

[poppies-from-oz]

Princess Ozma and her found family.

[sidneypoindexter]

That one meme going around, with my own comfort characters.

[victusinveritas]

Happy Leap Day!

Illustration by John R. Neill from "The Patchwork Girl Of Oz".

[disneyweirdness]

[woozini-of-oz]

"The Patchwork Girl of Oz" (1914)

Directed by J. Farrell MacDonald

Written by L. Frank Baum

[the-patchwork-girl-of-oz]

OMG I HAVE A THEORY!!!

I know how the Oz sequels are connected to Wicked. Are you ready?:>

The Scarecrow isn’t just in the first Oz novel, he’s in all the sequels.

This means he came back to Oz.

But where’s Elphaba?

He wouldn’t just leave her alone and besides, how long could a green girl and a scarecrow exist outside of Oz?

She’s right here.

She’s been here the whole time.

This is Scraps the patchwork girl. She was created in book 7, “The Patchwork Girl of Oz”.

She’s the scarecrow’s love interest.

They can’t just leave Oz, they still need to fight for Animal rights.

They had their entire escape planned out.

Elphaba used her spell book to change herself into Scraps.

This way they can help the animals and watch over Glinda/Galinda.

That’s why the Animals in Oz are being treated better. Especially since:

A. Fiyero was the king.

B. When Ozma became queen, he knew her personally as a young impressionable child who he could teach to be good to Animals. As the “wisest man in Oz”, she would probably trust him.

Which means that little meetup they had was completely staged.

Don’t you think it’s funny that they just conveniently ran into him?

And that Margolotte made her so many colors because blue was the only color munchkins respected and she didn’t want to give her too much confidence.

Doesn’t that sound familiar? It reminds you of someone, doesn’t it?

And scraps doesn’t care what people think of her. No one can tell her what to do. Even though everyone thinks she’s strange.

Sound like someone?