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poppies-from-oz · 10 months

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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!

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instantpansies · 3 months

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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.

#wizard of oz #toasty talks #lit #the wonderful wizard of oz #the emerald city of oz #the wizard of oz #dorothy gale #writing

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the-patchwork-girl-of-oz · 7 months

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WE NEED AUNTIE EM LORE

REBLOG IF AUNTIE EM DESERVES LORE

#wizard of oz #the wonderful wizard of oz #l frank baum #gale women are so badass #auntie Em #Emily gale #the emerald city of oz #lore #Oz books

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fanartbyherd · 8 months

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Fan art for the wizard of oz I did on top of an assignment.

It’s not finished, but I’m done with the sketchbook it is in, meaning that it’s unlikely to ever be finished.

#the wizard of oz #dorthy #princess ozma #ozma of oz #the wicked witch of the west #glinda #patchwork girl #glass cat #general jinjur #poppy #billina #the emerald city of oz #tin woodman #scarecrow

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woozini-of-oz · 4 months

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"He rushed to his big gong"

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

#the emerald city of oz #nome king #john r neill #wizard of oz #l frank baum #oz books #early 1900s #illustration

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merp-blerp · 2 months

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This is kind of a silly suggestion, but imagine an Oz adaption where the Emerald City looks like one of those old futuristic city predictions that were made in L. Frank Baum's time.

From rarehistoricalphotos.com:

A Giant Roof over the city to protect from weather (maybe it helps create the illusion that the Emerald City is actually green in the first book?) ↓

Passenger Submarines ↓

Moving sidewalks ↓

Air travel ↓

From publicdomainreview.org:

Funny-looking trains (or mobile houses?) ↓

Funny looking boats ↓

A fireplace that doesn't need wood, just a candle (I think that’s what's going on here) ↓

From themetropole.blog:

More air travel, with a funky upsidedown bus/train ↓

I don't know, just a fun thought

#the wonderful wizard of oz #the wizard of oz #l frank baum #the emerald city #the emerald city of oz

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showamagicalgirls · 9 months

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Another thing I watched on the plane ride for this work trip I'm on were two random episodes of The Wizard of Oz (オズの魔��使い) from 1986.

I have tended not to think of isekai (異世界) stories as a part of this project, but, let me tell you, watching episode 44 from the portion of the series based on L. Frank Baum's sixth Oz novel, The Emerald City of Oz, truly thrilled me, so now I may be rethinking that to some extent.

#the wizard of oz #wizard of oz #オズの魔法使い #animation #tv anime #isekai #異世界 #The Emerald City of Oz #emerald city of oz #l. frank baum #l frank baum #oz

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argyleteatime · 10 months

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My mom had first editions of all of the Oz books and the cover art is just beautiful.

#the emerald city of oz #jno r Neill

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kaixo-agur · 1 year

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John R. Neill (1877-1943)

"The emerald city of Oz" 1910

#john r. neill #the wizard of oz #The emerald city of Oz

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thedepartmentofdiscoveries · 2 months

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I have already posted this image before but I didn't know the name of the actress until I saw her posted on Facebook by The Merry Old Land of Oz page.

Helen Seamon as the woman with cat from "The Wizard Of Oz".

#helen seamon #the wizard of oz #1930s films #siamese cat #cats #felines #cat #feline #the emerald city of oz

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poppies-from-oz · 11 months

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Words cannot describe how much I love Skottie Young’s Princess Ozma. 💕

#the wizard of oz #princess ozma #dorothy gale #dorzma #the scarecrow #the tin man #princess langwidere #the marvelous land of oz #ozma of oz #dorothy and the wizard in oz #the emerald city of oz #marvel comics #skottie young

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magicaldogtoto · 1 year

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Glinda's Spies

In the most recent chapter of my fanfic Parallel Worlds Record, I wrote that Glinda the Good Witch had familiars that helped her keep track of things going on in Oz (and the rest of the world). Anything they saw automatically got recorded in Glinda's Book of Records.

I thought I'd go ahead and explain how I landed on that idea, since it does show how I sometimes have to compromise or add on to bits of Oz canon to make them work in my fic (mainly because Oz has no real continuity, and some details just change from book to book).

Glinda's Book of Records is first mentioned in The Marvelous Land of Oz. Specifically in Chapter 20, "The Scarecrow Appeals to Glinda the Good." Glinda explains the book's power in this manner:

“I have in my library a book in which is inscribed every action of the Wizard while he was in our land of Oz—or, at least, every action that could be observed by my spies."

Glinda's Book gets mentioned again in The Emerald City of Oz. At that point (the second to last chapter "How Glinda Worked a Magic Spell"), it's magic is explained differently (and it's specifically called a Magic Book):

"As soon as an event takes place, anywhere in the world, it is immediately found printed in my Magic Book. So when I read its pages I am well informed."

Notably, this second explanation doesn't mention anything about spies. It seems that the book just writes down whatever happens in the world. If taken at face value, it makes Glinda come off very overpowered. (I've had to downplay the magic in Oz for the sake of drama in my older writings, too.)

So, in order to reconcile the two explanations--and keep Glinda from having a story-breaking power--I ended up pulling some inspiration from L. Frank Baum's other book, Queen Zixi of Ix. In that book, the title character (a centuries old witch who physically remains young through magic) is mentioned in one chapter to have command over "a great many of those invisible imps that serve the most skillful witches." Remembering that passage, it wasn't too hard to imagine that Glinda's spies were in fact magical beings, too.