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Crazy how every modern Wizard of Oz interpretation ends up making the Wizard a horrible person. From a fascistic despot, to a selfish power-seeker, or worst of all; James Franco.

Yeah sure, in the original novels he was a charlatan con artist (and yeah, that’s pretty easy to make into a villain), but at heart he was a silly little goof who still cared about the citizens of Oz and wanted them to be happy (even if tricking them was the easiest way from him to do that). His most evil action in the whole series (giving Ozma to Mombi) was soft-retconned/ignored, and later books have him return to Oz as a badass studying under Glinda and willing to die to protect Dorothy.

So really, The Wizard in an “ideal” modernized Wizard of Oz adaptation would just be Grunkle Stan.

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Wait, Mexico is a part of North America? I was always told that it was 'Central America'.

okay I did accidentally say that chocolate doesn't grow in North America when, well. Mexico. But when I say North America I always mean US/Canada. Mexico doesn't count to me, it's Latin America, it's south here with us, they're our neighbors no matter if they're in the other hemisphere. I can walk down a couple streets and I'm in Mexico.

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this post was too cassunzelcore for me to not mention:

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you will never make me watch arcane. idgaf I'm never letting anything close to league of legends into my life. I will be the last resistance

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I want more Skrunkly Transfemme X loser lesbian Butch representation

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Oh, wow, this is an interestingly obscure little work.

Same author (well, technically for the Marvel adaptation it would be more format-translator than author) as the comic adaptations, different artist. Personally, I think Skottie Young's art is more appealing; the over-realism of the art in this book feels a little uncanny and stilted, compared to the stylized and almost toony look of the comics. Also weird-mouth-pancake-head scarecrow has a threatening aura. That being said, this is still a very interesting find, and I'm interested in seeing how it ends up faring in the writing department; thanks for sharing!

Ok so I so vividly remember this comic book that was called something like "Dorothy returns to Oz" and it was beautiful and colorful and the particular one I recall had Dorothy rescue the new queen of emerald city who had red curly hair and a green chiton type dress with massive red posies in her hair from an ice dude and I NEED TO FIND IT. I am not even sure it existed but I remember it so vividly and I remember being like 8 and thinking there was romantic tension between Dorothy and the queen whose name I think was like Ozma or Gloria (NOT Glenda!). Does anyone else remember these comics? Or can point me in a direction?

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Your description sounds a LOT like Ozma of Oz, albeit imperfectly filtered through memory.

The red flowers (poppies, specifically) are a signature indicator of Queen Ozma, and Marvel's adaptation really goes whole hog on their size.

As for the hair color, well, the comics do like playing with lighting, and there might be a conflation with Marvel Glinda and/or Dorothy.

The romantic tension is a gimme; the narration heavily indicates that Dorothy falls in love with Queen Ozma the moment she hears her voice when she's rescued by her, and Dorothy does end up becoming Ozma's princess-consort in all but name (the consort part, the princess part is very named)

There isn't exactly an ice dude, but Ozma of Oz does have the Nome King, whose design is heavily reminiscent both of Santa and Adventure Time's Ice King. And, indeed, Ozma does end up in peril thanks to him turning her into a figurine.

Though ultimately, it's Billina, Dorothy's chicken, who saves Ozma this time. Right, as for the green - well, she does wear white a decent bit, which a little green lighting can make look green - not to mention that green is Oz's royal color, so as ruler of Oz it's only natural that she'd have a decent number of green dresses.

Though, if you do find an Oz work that better fits your description, let me know, most every Oz work I know of that has much of Ozma in it at all has either her or Dorothy being evil or a non-entity. The idea of older Dorzma flirting is quite appealing.

Ok so I so vividly remember this comic book that was called something like "Dorothy returns to Oz" and it was beautiful and colorful and the particular one I recall had Dorothy rescue the new queen of emerald city who had red curly hair and a green chiton type dress with massive red posies in her hair from an ice dude and I NEED TO FIND IT. I am not even sure it existed but I remember it so vividly and I remember being like 8 and thinking there was romantic tension between Dorothy and the queen whose name I think was like Ozma or Gloria (NOT Glenda!). Does anyone else remember these comics? Or can point me in a direction?

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People know that the whole "don't portray [harmful action] because viewers might recreate it" thing is a rule for children's shows right? It's supposed to be shit like "don't show peppa pig playing with fire so we don't get sued if a kid watches it and burns their house down." Not like, fanfiction for adults.

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How come every discussion of God in Hazbin Hotel ignores the feminine personified image of good worshiped by the angels, which we are often meant to understand as the church. Like if there’s a god here it’s them

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But, I did not mention the ship Wenclair in my conversations with the person who reblogged me. Not in this comments section at all ? It's in another post, in discussion with a commentator, so not even in a direct post, that I said that the person who came to spit on Tyler Galpin and Wyler in reblog of this post was a Wenclair expediter, without being surprised. And why didn't that surprise me ?

it's literally right here

I hate that some people who have seen Beetlejuice 2 take the case of Astrid and Jeremy as a representation of Wyler at face value to argue that Tyler is indeed a pure villain. Okay, me too, when I saw the film I joked with my friend about the superficial resemblance between the two, and that's how I understood that there would be a twist on Jeremy. Except that none of it was of the first degree. The similarities are purely superficial, and what's more, Jeremy serves as a foil to Beetlejuice, to put him in a more positive light for his own character and his relationship with Lydia. But just because Tim Burton is linked to these two works does not mean that resemblance = same thing, and so that Jemery = Tyler. Absolutely not. The characters have nothing to do with it. And frankly, Tyler's haters are really desperate to make this type of comparison, just to push the character down and try to make him a pure villain ? It's ridiculous.

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oooo you wanna play ar tonelico so bad

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they WHAT?

still very angry at writing-prompt-s lol. actually i'm angry at that entire circlejerk going around trying to convince everyone that the palestinians on tumblr are all bots but writing-prompt-s is someone who has a big presence on this site and who knows what kind of damage they're causing by enabling this rhetoric that real ass people trying to survive a genocide are bots trying to scam you. idk i know this isn't productive but i'm feeling really petty right now and i really wanna see them get destroyed for this. cancel writing-prompt-s we as a collective deserve a writing prompt based blog that's run by someone who actually cares about people dying

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snorts a line of instant coffee fuckiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing Izuru Kamakura is trans. She's a fucking egg. Growing floor length hair and refusing to cut it as soon as you stop giving a shit about other people's opinions? 'Too much of a hassle to cut it'? Yeah right. That's not "boredom" that's just what dysphoria is like when you have nothing to distract you from it like Hinata did. The entire Tragedy would've been averted with some E and a dress that go spinny.

Izuru Kamukura doesn't have one fucking iota of facial stubble What's so important about the hair on your face but not the hair on your head huh MISS kamukura??????????????????

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the nature of humanity is just that every so often someone accidentally invents problem sleuth again

Okay, so we all know the real reason for the vampires-versus-werewolves thing in popular culture is because back in the 1930s, the same studio owned the movie rights to Dracula, Frankenstein and the Wolfman, and they decided to moosh them all together into what is arguably the first Big Stupid Cinematic Universe, but what's slightly less well known is that H G Wells' The Invisible Man was also part of that package. I want to see what the goofy we-swear-it's-personal-horror tabletop RPG based on that facet of the mythos looks like, weirdly artificial taxonomies of playable splats and all – everybody's invisible, but there are like five completely different possible reasons for that, plus a sixth, evil reason for being invisible which you're not allowed to play as because they secretly rule the world.

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will never ever ever understand people who hate the original umineko art

look at these fucking things. they're adorable. do they mean nothing to you.

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i am NOT calling my son eustace i refuse

(do you think if we bully capcom enough we can make them change it back)