#the woggle-bug

[blancamz]

Possibly the most clever citizen of Oz is the Woggle-Bug, also known as Mr Highly Magnified Woggle-Bug, Thoroughly Educated. He has humble beginnings as an ordinary Woggle-Bug who lived in the fireplace of a schoolhouse, passively absorbing knowledge whilst nestled in his little hidey-hole. One day Professor Nowitall discovered the Woggle-Bug and decided to do an impromptu lesson for his pupils on this particular species. He used a magnifier to project an image of the bug on a screen, and during an opportune moment the highly magnified Woggle-Bug stepped off the screen and to sweet freedom.

(Wait. Does that mean that this Woggle-Bug is the projection, or is it the original Woggle-Bug made large? Is there still a small, unmagnified Woggle-Bug hiding somewhere in a classroom? Um...)

Since then, the Woggle-Bug has achieved greater status. After helping the gillikin boy Tip on his journeys, and returning Ozma to the throne, he received a good position as head of the Wogglebug College of Arts and Athletics. He's something of a chemist too, having invented School Pills and Square Meal Pills, allowing all his students to receive a full education and nourishment in seconds, so they can focus all their energy on what really matters when you go into higher education: sports.

(He's also a prosecutor in Ozma's criminal court. See the case of Oscar Diggs v. Eureka the Pink Kitten.)

Anyway, I think we can agree that the Woggle-Bug is much, much more clever than the Scarecrow. What's the point in having Brains (even if you get them from a Wizard), if you're not also Thoroughly Educated?

P.S. Also his puns are very funny and if you don't get them then I guess that's a skill issue on you buddy.

[kazachokolate]

I participated in a broken tablet challenge back in February, now I can show the result

designs from "Adventures in the Emerald City"

[poppies-from-oz]

[woggle-bugger-me]

"What Did the Woggle-Bug Say?" from The Woggle-Bug, a 1905 musical with lyrics by L. Frank Baum and music by Frederic Chapin. Performed by Vancha March.

[funnuraba]

I downloaded that Wizard of Oz DS game at least ten years ago but never played it, so there's probably an alternate universe where I did play it and I'm some kind of celebrity right now, explaining to everyone the arcane lore that I memorized about the meme game

[joemerl]

It's kind of sad that each Land of Oz book now begins with Baum begging his readers to let him write something else.

Spoiler alert: this is the fifth Oz novel out of fourteen. And that's only counting the ones that he wrote.

[musickickztoo]

CONTRA2024-7 MISCHIEF

(all new releases)

TRACKLIST:

Shop Regulars - Mischief John Cale - Shark-Shark The Ar-Kaics - Stone Love Lambrini Girls - Body Of Mine Silicone Values - GABBA Receptor Jessica Pratt - The Last Year Googon - Elmer Fudd's Stutter Busted Head Racket - Go Go Go! 10 000 Russos - Demokratia Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds - Silver For My Sister The Woggles - Telling Me Lies Bloodshot Bill - Tres Tacos The Bug Club - Quality Pints Neutrals - That's Him On The Daft Stuff Again Girls In Synthesis - Lights Out Thurston Moore - Rewilding Tramhaus - Beech The Fall - Slates, Slags Etc. (Live) - The Fall

RIP Steve Albini, Duane Eddy and Chan Romero

The 7th playlist of the year!!

HEAR: https://www.mixcloud.com/Contraflow/contra2024-7-mischief-all-new-releases/

[mrdrhenwardhykle]

This man is so Ed Wynn coded I know the timeline doesn’t line up but tell me he wouldn’t sound like that

[brothermouse-skeleton]

AND THEN THIS GIANT INSECT STARTS BUGGING YOU WITH HIS PUNS

I feel so sorry for Jack Pumpkinhead. Imagine, you've been alive for only a few days and then you meet a guy who just will not shut up about how you are going to die some day. How your head is going to rot away but everyone will run away from you before then because your head will be so gross but if your head doesn't rot away it'll be because someone eats it which will also kill you because, as said before you're definitely going to die.

And you can't really say anything because that guy is the King and also, apparently, one of the smartest guys in the world.

[nevertoomanyspiders]

decided to turn this post into a silly diagram.

transcript under the cut.

How Wheelers Express Affection by Professor H. M. Woggle-Bug T.E.

Most of you may know the Wheelers as uncouth ruffians originating from the Land of Ev, but you may be surprised to learn about their complex social lives. For instance, how do they display fondness towards one another?

That is what I attempt to answer here!

Wheelers, as creatures with wheels in place of hands and feet, lack the stability to be able to stand in place let alone embrace one another… Without it ending in disaster.

When interacting with bipedal people, a Wheeler may, however, perform a "Wheeler hug", a somewhat awkward attempt at replicating how bipeds hug one another.

How Wheelers display affection and trust is in a number of different gestures, such as nuzzling, leaning into one another, as well as headbutting. The intensity can vary, but thankfully, Wheelers have hard heads and can roughhouse without much ill effect.

[yellowbrickramble]

I think giving General Jinjur a kind face in the last panel makes what she says much more disturbing than if I gave her a cruel face. She has no idea that she's saying anything upsetting. She gets pretty vile while insisting she's not wicked in the original book:

“You see how foolish it is to oppose a woman’s wit,” said Jinjur, gaily; “and this event only proves that I am more fit to rule the Emerald City than a Scarecrow. I bear you no ill will, I assure you; but lest you should prove troublesome to me in the future I shall order you all to be destroyed. That is, all except the boy, who belongs to old Mombi and must be restored to her keeping. The rest of you are not human, and therefore it will not be wicked to demolish you. The Saw-Horse and the Pumpkinhead’s body I will have chopped up for kindling-wood; and the pumpkin shall be made into tarts. The Scarecrow will do nicely to start a bonfire, and the tin man can be cut into small pieces and fed to the goats. As for this immense Woggle-Bug—” “Highly Magnified, if you please!” interrupted the insect. “I think I will ask the cook to make green-turtle soup of you,” continued the Queen, reflectively.

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[blancamz]

If anybody is at all curious about my sketches. Over the last couple of years I've taken to thumbnailing quite a bit on the computer. I just have these really big canvases where zoomed in I just doodledy-doodle, doing lots of different iterations of what I'm after. Once I have something I like I just copy paste it into a new canvas, scale up and re-sketch.

To create space I eventually start clustering stuff together, organizing them by general subject. Moving and moving again to create the most amount of empty space, until I end up with a canvas that's chock-full of all these tiny sketches. Once I can't create any more empty space, I move onto a new canvas.

I'm just showing Oz stuff here, but you can see how with some designs I really did a lot of different versions before I hit on something I liked. With Ozma you can see how many many many different outfits I gave her -- some of which I think I like more than what I ended up giving hero. You might even see some characters I've done some designs for but haven't worked up into final illustrations because I just don't jive with the way they feel yet.

[kazachokolate]

The Woggle-Bug from "Adventures in the Emerald City"

[ma-1-s]

Ladybug Miraculous: Woggle Bug

"Good morning, one and all. I hope you are, as an aggregation, enjoying excellent health. Permit me to present my card."With this courteous speech, it extended a caro toward the Scarecrow, who accepted it, turned it over and over, and then handed it with a shake of his head to Tip.

The boy read aloud:

"MR. H. M. WOGGLE-BUG, T. E."

-THE MARVELLOUS LAND OF OZ

[bestworstcase]

i know i’m cranky about fanon allusion readings literally all the time but i NEED people to actually read the marvelous land of oz. please. for the love of fuck.

the wizard leaves oz forever, leaving the scarecrow to rule in his stead. general jinjur usurps the wizard and spends most of the book occupying the conquered emerald city in search of the royal crown. ozma is cursed to live as a boy; he is accompanied by jack pumpkinhead, his creation/“son” who spends much of the book fretting about his own death—his head, a pumpkin, is doomed to rot—and both are guided by the scarecrow. the woggle bug is both cursed and blessed by knowledge learned from a professor who irrevocably transformed him. glinda is searching for ozma and she chases the bad sorceress mombi to the ends of oz to bring her to account and force her to tell the truth and relinquish her power not just over ozma but by extension all of oz. the tin man has become a vain emperor. there is no dorothy; she’s in kansas.

the allusion is extraordinarily straightforward. it screams off the page. mombi is the god of light; ozma is ozma/tippetarius, ozpin is the wizard, oscar is the pumpkinhead (HIS COLOR IS ORANGE. PLEASE–), qrow is the scarecrow, ironwood is the tin man, leo is the soldier with green whiskers who lets the rebels into the emerald city out of cowardice, raven is the woggle-bug burdened by knowledge (and the only one who can use the silver wishing pill to transport everyone back home, which is to say she knows the truth about summer and i firmly believe still has that bond), summer is general jinjur searching for the crown, and salem is glinda.

(glynda goodwitch is a red herring. she’s purple—the good witch of the north, named glynda perhaps as a nod to the popular conflation of these two separate characters into one and chiefly to misdirect away from the real glinda—most ancient and formidable sorceress in all the world, whose color is red.)

it’s ✨simple✨

[stressedlawsecretary]

Today's Focus

And the last one out of the circus has to lock up everything Picture artist credit

03.14.25 - Pi day! I ought to pick some up for dessert; that would be nice on a Friday, right? Lots of ways to do pies. Plus, we have gorgeous weather today; I'm hoping spring comes early and stays and we don't get any weird cold snaps/snowfall.

Work - I'm working from home, so whatever efiles come in, whatever I can do in NYM, and mostly just cleaning up my email inbox.

Background Noise - Well, I'm home so it's mostly the DVR; I have a more reasonable goal today and frankly, since I have the whole weekend to hit it, I'd like to try to regardless. Plus YT slop on mute; speaking of YT, I watched 20 videos yesterday and while that does fall a smidge short of the average, two (2) of those videos (plus part of one (1) other) were Red Thread podcasts over an hr long. In fact, the Casey Anthony ep I watched was over two (2) hrs so I'm actually keeping up pretty well.

Study - Friday (and the weekend) are for Wikipedia reading; I have plenty I have started that I can finish, on multiple devices, so I'm covered.

Yesterday resulted in me reading three (3) press releases, four (4) articles on Astrid & Whim Holleeder, five (5) pages of A Short History of Paper Money & Banking, and five (5) chapters of The Marvelous Land of Oz where we have met Mr. H.M. Woggle-Bug, T.E. and had a wonderful bit about how puns are the mark of genius.

Extras - Friday means I clean the catbox and prep it for the weekend; my weekend is packed so I may also be doing my weekly grocery shopping tonight. If not tonight, tomorrow afternoon for sure before the show; I have a wrestling show on Saturday, and Hunny is taking the car in on Sunday. Since tonight's dinner is the involved savory pancake meal, I think I can make everything happen on Saturday; I have the meal plan for the week and the shopping list is pretty short this time around.

Tonight is the last three (3) episodes of Kiramager and then probably YT; I do want to try and watch a couple episodes of Garo over the weekend, and maybe a movie or a sitcom or something. If I game, it will probably only be tonight.