#Emerald City of Oz

[joemerl]

Ozma, when an army of evil magical creatures are invading Oz:

Nick Chopper, whenever his team is threatened:

[showamagicalgirls]

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

[realtalk127]

thinking about how the best case scenario that elphaba can imagine in the wizard and i is that finally someone will come along who will be able to change everything about her. even in her wildest dreams, she views that as her best option.

and then.

along comes galinda. who - after spending an entire night attempting to give her a makeover - settles on: ‘actually, you’re perfect just the way you are. i wouldn’t change a thing. except maybe to tuck a little piece of myself in with you, just there.’

and i just think that’s neat.

[thephantomofanastasia]

This fanart is so creative. I love the stained glass window approach!

“'Look To The Western Sky'

For this piece, I explored something new by creating everything in a stained glass style.

I framed it with my storytelling border to guide you through the journey of Elphaba, Glinda, Fiyero, Boq and the Lion. For those familiar with The Wizard of Oz, you might notice a few hints about these characters.

This piece took 20 consecutive hours.”

Art credit to Braeden C. (braedens.creations) on IG. Go check out their page and artwork

[jryno]

WICKED (2024) dir. Jon M. Chu

[nobodysdaydreams]

I have a theory about Wicked Part 2 and what they are going to add to it, and why it's going to add so much to the movie.

I think they are going to add Dorothy's POV.

In the musical, she's mentioned, but Dorothy never appears on stage. We never know her POV or how much she knew about the witches, Fiyero, Boq, the lion, or what was actually going on in Wicked beyond the Wizard of Oz plot. But in the Wicked two trailers, we see scenes of Dorothy and those scenes are shot as if from the Wizard of Oz, not the traditional Wicked musical, in which Dorothy's character is only briefly mentioned or shown as a shadow. Which means we're going to get to see her story this time!

However, if I was going to include Dorothy's POV for Wicked, I don't think it would be anything like the Wizard of Oz, for a few clear reasons:

Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz is a perceptive and animated child and unless they plan on erasing that aspect of her character, she is not going to go home from Oz at the end of the Wicked movie with the same beliefs as the Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz. She sees the Wizard is a fraud and calls him out just like Elphaba does. Besides this, there is no way she would just not pick up on the fact that Galinda, the dead witch, Boq, Fiyero, Elphaba, and the lion have a deeper history together than meets the eye for the entire trip.

This one might sound stupid, but trust me, it's important: Toto as a character. Here me out. In the Wizard of Oz, Dorothy's distress in the real world is centered around a mean lady trying to drown her dog and the Witch of the West tries to do the same in Oz. However, in this version, Elphaba's whole thing is animal rights. She'd probably be horrified that Toto can't talk or Dorothy would be surprised and delighted to find that in this world, Toto can talk depending on what they decide to do with the dog. And if Dorothy comes to this world distressed about a lady trying to kill her poor dog, Elphaba would surely empathize. There might even be a misunderstanding between them if Elphaba believes Dorothy is working for the Wizard and Toto is a dog that needs rescuing.

So how does this change things?

There are a number of wonderful options.

The most obvious one is that we could see Dorothy put together and discover the story of Boq, Nessarose, Galinda, Elphaba, Fiyero, and the Wizard. She and the rest of the gang would formulate a plan to help Elphaba fake her death to save her from the people of Oz and the Wizard.

Within that narrative, we could see Elphaba enchanting the sleeping poppies to stop them from getting to the Wizard with the goal of protecting them from the Wizard (rather than to stop them from getting home). In Act 2 of Wicked, the Wizard again tries to form an alliance with Elphaba but Elphaba rejects his offer when she discovers what he's done to her Animal friends. It's possible that Elphaba believes the Wizard is trying to use Dorothy too and is trying to protect her from the same fate.

We could also see conversations between Dorothy and Fiyero about Elphaba (and there are many AO3 fics that have been going with that concept. I see y'all, thank you for doing the Lord's work 🙏🏻) and possibly some conversations between Dorothy and Boq since they'll be traveling together and we don't really get to hear about Boq's ending in the musical. I think the last we see of Boq is that he's angry at Elphaba for his condition and rallying crowds against her, but with all that traveling time and secrets coming out, I could see him getting, I don't know if I'd call it a "redemption arc" per say, but finding his heart again (a real one). Additionally, conversations between Dorothy and the lion about how Elphaba saved him would be nice too. Even if the lion had learned to blame Elphaba for what happened to him, I'm sure Dorothy would be quick to correct him once she discovered the full truth.

But my favorite, my absolute favorite and darkest possibility is the interactions that Dorothy can have with the Wizard. In the Wizard of Oz, she exposes him as a fraud, but in the Wicked movie, he's much worse than that, and I can totally see Dorothy being the one to point that out to him. Why?

First of all, Dorothy is not from Oz. Most people there would never question the Wizard, but if he's so powerful and generous, why is he sending an innocent little girl and three down-on-their-luck guys to go murder his dangerous enemy? That right there is a red flag, and again, if they don't change Dorothy's character, she's going to be a very honest child and comment on how strange this is.

Second of all, if anything I speculated above is true and Dorothy realizes this the Wizard is an animal abuser who vilified an innocent woman, she's going to be very angry at the Wizard, and rightfully so (I hope Toto bites him).

Third of all, and here's where it gets good: in the musical Wicked, the Wizard discovers he is Elphaba's father at the very end because of the bottle Galinda has. Dorothy is not on stage for that because she's not in the main cast of the musical, only mentioned by the other characters, but what if she was? What if she's the one that discovers the connection? What if she calls him out the exact same way Elphaba did after the Wizard gave his little "I always wanted to be a father" speech?

What if the Wizard had a little animal-loving girl who reminds him so much of the daughter he just sent to her to kill standing in front of him with a horrified expression while he puts the pieces together?

What if Dorothy's POV in Wicked isn't about her exposing the Wizard as a nervous fraud, but as a heartless monster?

What if Dorothy's POV is about her exploring this new world and discovering for herself who is truly wicked or good?

[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! 

[hometoursandotherstuff]

We're off to see the Wizard. This is so cute, but I would put it inside. Looks like a combo of bottles and decorative glass.

[stone-cold-groove]

The Emerald City.

[nevertoomanyspiders]

well, trying to figure out how to draw Strasheela (the 2017-2019 one from the CGI animated features), I like using a monowidth brush to help simplify shapes, lol.

I also started watching the 1974 stop motion animated adaptation of The Wizard of the Emerald City and, while there's no subtitles on the youtube upload beyond auto translate, what I'm seeing is charming enough. when I initially saw that particular version of Strasheela, I thought he looked like a clown, and watching this series, it seems it's a deliberate design choice. he's very cute. if there's better reference images for the puppet other than working from stills, that'd be rad!

[yellowbrickramble]

The Wizard's backstory was ret-conned and white-washed in the later books, but he was unambiguously a villain in Marvelous Land of Oz. Baum has him straight-up give baby Ozma to Mombi to hide so that he doesn't get ousted as the ruler of Oz.

Though, I should note that calling him "the ruler of Oz" is debatable considering the cardinal witches still ruled the four quadrants of Oz, leaving him with only Emerald City in the middle.

My pairing of Oscar Diggs and Mombi might seem like a bit of a crack ship at first glance, but it makes a lot of sense when you think about it. What motivation does Mombi have to hide Ozma for Oscar? I doubt a trade of some humbug magic tricks would be enough to convince her. It's not too big of a stretch to imagine them as about the same age, either.

Of course, you might find out I've gone in a slightly different direction for my version.

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[themousefromfantasyland]

I watched Return to Oz again yesterday, and despite the darker tone, it still has the most welcoming and joyful depictions of the Emerald City I've seen.

I think it's because the Emerald City feels less like a homogeneous society where everyone dress the same like in the other versions.

It feels more like a natural combination of all the weird and colorful characters that fill the Land of Oz.

Fun fact: Several obscure Oz characters appear in the joyful celebration, like the Frogman and the Patchwork Girl

Even Santa Claus himself appears in the crowd.

@ariel-seagull-wings @thealmightyemprex @the-blue-fairie @witchesoz

[showamagicalgirls]

As part of my birthday viewing, I made my husband watch The Emerald City of Oz, the fourth English dub film recut of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (オズの魔法使い) TV anime from 1986.

I didn't enjoy it quite as much as Ozma of Oz but it was still very cute. Three specific things I want to mention: 1.) Ozma is so adorable; 2.) the Chinese-coded gnome adversary is questionable; and 3.) seeing Dorothy fly around on the origami paper crane is everything.

[kodamos-bucket]

Luke, wake up, Luke, we've got the wrong neverland

[buttercup-barf]

There's a whopping Two upcoming movies about Wizard Of Oz-adjacent media, and. Uhm. They certainly are gonna be movies, at least that I know for sure.

The most agonising part is that instead of the funny magic lesbians, I'm gonna be more mentally ill about these fucking things.

I would not be giving a cent of my money to a Russian-owned business of any kind, even if they weren't ridiculously overpriced, but...

They look so fucking stupid. I love them.

[pinkorchidsinspring]

THE EMERALD CITY IS NEAR 💚💛 FOLKS…

CASSANDRA X MAD WOMAN X I DID SOMETHING BAD TOGETHER?!!!!! This is beyond loud…

Reputation TV is coming… and so is a free Taylor.

She’s at the peak of her fame right now according to every media outlet out there, so like mother said: you gotta leave before you get left… 😝

Side note: we have already left the field of poppies and stepped onto the yellow brick road so… we’re real close to emerald city folks 👏

This mashup is yet another step in the right direction…

The way they skip in the movie is just like how tay does it… and for reference another fan recreating the skip…

We’re off to see the wizard 💗