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Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Adult Fiction: January-June 2025
Due to the delightfully large volume of titles, Romances will be getting their own post later this week! Mothers and Sons by Adam Haslett (January 7th) At forty, Peter, an asylum lawyer in New York City, is overworked and isolated. He spends his days immersed in the struggles of immigrants only to return to an empty apartment and occasional hook-ups with a man who wants more than Peter can give.…
#Afsana Mousavi#Amplitudes#Amy Shearn#Angel Eye#Animal Instinct#Anna-Marie McLemore#Blair Fell#Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil#But Not Too Bold#Caitlin Starling#Checked Out#Claire Lynch#Daniel Black#Dennis E. Staples#Disappoint Me#Don&039;t Sleep With the Dead#Eleanor Pilcher#Elizabeth Harris#Emerald Road#Emery Robin#Emily Austin#Emily Tesh#Erica Rose Eberhart#Exquisite Ruin#Freakslaw#Hache Pueyo#Hammajang Luck#Hungerstone#Isaac Fellman#Isaac&039;s Song
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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!
#the wizard of oz#the wonderful wizard of oz#the marvelous land of oz#ozma of oz#dorothy and 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#dorothy gale#the scarecrow#the tin man#the cowardly lion#princess ozma#glinda the good
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The Emerald City.
#the emerald city#oz#the land of oz#the wizard of oz#the wonderful wizard of oz#wizard of oz#the yellow brick road#dorothy gale#classic films#classic movies#the 30s#the 1930s#1939#30s movies
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Here's an earlier version of Emerald City. Oscar Diggs had a the wall built because, of course, he's terrified of the wicked witches. The wall will be build taller, the city will expand over the years, and a lot of green paint will be used to eventually resemble the version we saw in chapter seven:
--but of course I also had to redesign the castle because I already redesigned it in chapter nine:
I'll probably redraw the castle bit of the city in chapter 7 to match before I publish the book.
The castle is also way too big in the far shot of the city, but that's just a purposeful abstraction because it looks good.
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Thank you so much! The Witch of the East was a lot of fun to think about (since we never see her face in a lot of OZ media XD
#artists on tumblr#artwork#sketch#fanart#digital art#the wizard of oz#the wizard the witch and the wild one#wizard of oz#dorothy gale#ozma#return to oz#wicked witch of the west#wicked witch of the east#good witch of the north#wicked#elphaba#elphaba thropp#glinda#galinda upland#galinda#mombi#princess mombi#good witch of the south#ruby slippers#there's no place like home#fairy tales#fairy tale art#fairy tale aesthetic#emerald city#yellow brick road
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@taylorswift both my tumblr dash and my life will feel so empty in the absence of your Eras Tour.
I hope you say and do everything you want to say and do tonight, and that the last show Vancouver N3 is everything you wanted it to be.
Even if you prove me wrong and you don’t announce the double album, with the rep Vault tracks being songs from the lost Karma album, I’ll be so proud of you nonetheless. Even if whatever you have planned for tonight still doesn’t convince the Hetlors, I am convinced. Gaylors are sooo sure! And we aren’t going anywhere.
We’ve both been lurking on gaylor tumblr far longer than we should have, I fear. Let’s make the gaylor theories a part of Taylor Swift truth, yeah? Let there be Taylor Swift truth and Taylor Swift™️ downfall. It all happens tonight. Or maybe tonight is only the beginning… let’s see.
Thank you, and I love you! Good luck! xx
#taylor swift#taylurking#gaylor#friends of dorothea#lgbetty#the eras tour#eras tour#vancouver n3#yellow brick road#emerald city#wizard of oz#jamstag#ellastag#taylorswift
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The Tin Woodman Tells His Story By Jeff Stanford, 2024 Buy prints at: https://jeff-stanford.pixels.com/
#© Jeff Stanford#midjourney#midjourneyart#ai#discord#digitalart#aiart#Artists on tumblr#wizard of oz#Dorothy#Toto#the wizard of oz#scarecrow#tinman#cowardly lion#emerald city#Judy Garland#yellow brick road#children’s books#Children’s Literature#fiction
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#mine was a machoke that i found while sitting in a coffee shop waiting for my then partner to get off work#i freaked out a little and the dude next to me was like ‘u good???’#i found him on victory road too#anyway im very hyper fixated on shiny hunting right now#im creating a shinydex in violet#20/400 found 🙃#pokemon#polls#scarlet and violet#sword and shield#diamond pearl platinum#fire red leaf green#ruby sapphire emerald#heart gold soul silver#legends arceus#let’s go pikachu#let’s go eevee#crystal#shiny pokemon
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Emerald Lake Road in the Rockies of British Columbia! 🇨🇦 — StayWild
📸: @lukekellytravels
#Emerald Lake Road#Canada#Canadian Rockies#Amazing#British Columbia#Beautiful#Nature#Travel#Adventure#Photography#Winter Vibes#@lukekellytravels
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Road to ninja hinata doodle :3
#emeralds art#road to ninja#rtn#rtn hinata#hyuga hinata#hinata hyuga#naruto#naruto au#naruto shippuden#hinata naruto
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Btw, am I going mad here or -
#ted lasso#the wizard of oz#roy kent#brett goldstein#yellow brick road#emerald city#we’re not in kansas any more
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So you want to know about Oz! (2)
In 1986, an anime was released in Japan: Ozu no Mahoutsukai (which is just "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" in Japanese).
This animated series was an adaptation not just of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz", the first Oz novel by Baum, but of all those that would follow! You had book 2, "The Marvelous Land of Oz", and book 3, "Ozma of Oz"... But then we jump to book 6, "The Emerald City of Oz", which forms the grand conclusion of the series. Book 4 and 5 were not adapted... completely cut out.
Why? Because these two books are, unfortunately, skippable.
Last time I left you on the enormous, ever-growing success of the original Oz trilogy. Now I want to present you... the curse that befell the creator of Oz.
L. Frank Baum wasn't just "the guy who wrote The Wizard of Oz". He was an author for children first and foremost, and he wrote a LOT of other books outside of his Oz stuff. His other most famous children work to this day, the only one able to rival his Oz creation, was his 1902's The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, which was a work of fictional fundamental in the development of the modern image of Santa Claus:
But this was truly the only one of his other works that escaped the shadow of the Oz-mammoth... Before and in parallel to his Oz trilogy, Baum had written many other things. "Mother Goose in Prose", "American Fairy Tales", "The Enchanted Island of Yew", "Queen Zixi of Ix", "Sam Steele's Adventures on Land and Sea", "John Dough and the Cherub"... But none of these books became as successful or famous as his Oz novels. Worse: they sold really bad.
Everybody wanted Oz books. More Oz books, more Oz books! And while Baum had quite some fun working on "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" and "The Marvelous Land of Oz"... he had never intended to serialize them. For him they were stand-alone novel, and that was done. But since his audience only asked for more Oz books, and disdained his other works, well, he had to do what paid! And so he continued the Oz novels... but with a certain "bad will" that clearly transpires in his work.
This already pops up by the third Oz book, "Ozma of Oz".
The first two Oz novels followed a specific rule: the story must happen in the Land of Oz, which is a magical land enclosed and shielded from the rest of the world. The Land of Oz is surrounded by a gigantic desert that one cannot cross unless exceptional events. Beyond this, is the human world... Yes, that's something people tend to forget: in his original vision for the Land of Oz, Baum wanted this magical land to be... somewhere on the American continent. Right in the middle of the 1900s American nations. Hence how a simple tornado can carry a little girl from Kansas to Oz... This is also explicitely told in the second book, where the characters cross the desert by accident, and discover "the world Dorothy came from".
But by Ozma of Oz, the rule was broken. Dorothy gets carried away by a storm in... a new land, the Land of Ev, who as it turns out exists outside of Oz, beyond the desert... Ozian characters cross the desert and join Dorothy in this new land, and most of the story is spent discovering this entire new setting.
While it is very pleasant and delightful to read, and brings some interesting worldbuilding, this already betrays the annoyance Baum was starting to feel towards Oz itself... He had written two novels taking place in Oz, and he was starting to run out of ideas. He had conceived two self-contained novels, two "one-shots" if you wish, and had no idea how to continue within Oz itself. So his solution was to take the characters everybody loved and wanted (he did brought back Dorothy in "Ozma of Oz" BECAUSE his audience kept asking him "Why wasn't Dorothy in the sequel?), but place them in a new "magical land" where he could have a breath of fresh air and work a new plot. This is what makes "Ozma of Oz" so interesting... But it was what would cause the start of the Oz downfall...
In 1908, Baum published "Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz", the fourth book of the Oz series. And a good part of this novel is... Dorothy, alongside the Wizard of Oz himself (who returns after his last appearance in the original novel), ending up sent into an underground realm, and exploring various magical chthonian lands as they try to make their way back to the surface... The last portion of the story does take place in Oz, mind you, but the bulk of the story is in random lands and realms Baum invented just for this book and never reuses later. Because at this point, Baum, who was stuck into doing Oz books but didn't want to continue Oz-stories, had decided to use a trick: only have the Oz protagonists but not the Oz land. Have Oz appear in the last chapters, but only after two thirds of adventures everywhere but in Oz. This was his way to still give what the audience wanted (more Oz adventures) without actually writing Oz books, but rather other fantasies that happened to connect with Oz...
This formula would be repeated with the fifth book of the series, which I'll talk about later, and unfortunately it creates a sincere drop in quality in those two novels. While very inventive, and entertaining to a certain extent (if you ignore some heavy doses of racism and old-fashioned xenophobia here and there), these novels are not as good or memorable as the original trilogy, and for one precise reason... They have no over-arching plot. They are just... travel stories. You have a set of characters, swept away into magical lands, travelling the lands, then partying in Oz and returning home. Gone is the "Quest to have our wish granted" of the first book, gone is the "national revolution mixed with a quest for a lost heir to the throne" of the second book, gone is the "let's save an imprisoned royal family" of the third book... Now it's just "Oh, looks like we randomly dropped into a fairy-land! Let's promenade a bit and then return home". An "Alice in Wonderland" type of non-plot, basically... but without the Alice in Wonderland charm.
Things are even sadder when you look at the fifth book of the series, "The Road to Oz".
At least with "Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz", there was a semblance of a mini-plot at the end, when everybody arrived in Oz. You had criminal charges and a trial, and competition-debates as to whether mundane or magical beings are better... But with "The Road to Oz"? You have literaly zero plot. The characters just get dragged from vision to vision, from land to land, and when they arrive in Oz, it is just to have a party, and then they literaly return home once it is over.
But the true desperation of Baum comes from this specific party... Because what Baum did in this novel was maybe the first "crossover event" of the history of American literature. All of the guests at the party are characters that never appeared before in any of the Oz books so far... They are characters straight out of Baum's other, non-Oz, children books! Characters from "The Magical Monarch of Mo", "Queen Zixi of Ix", "John Dough and the Cherub", and many other books you probably never heard about (and that the Oz readers at this point also never heard about!). Yet these characters were described in detail and given quite a space in the final act of the book...
This was because Baum was tired of Oz hogging all of the attention and money. He was so sad at seeing his other children works be forgotten and ignored by mass audience that he literaly decided to bring them into his Oz series in hope that it would interest his Ozian readers and encourage them to check out the other books he did. Yes you heard it right, this novel... as just an big ad for Baum's other books. That's how tired he was of Oz.
And, unfortunately for him, it did not work...
Cut to 1910. L. Frank Baum releases his sixth Oz book "The Emerald City of Oz"... that he also intends to be his final.
With "The Emerald City of Oz" we have the grand finale! Dorothy decides to leave Kansas and to settle permanently in Oz! She brings with her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry who are given a complete tour of the Land of Oz! Meanwhile the greatest and most terrible ennemies Oz ever faced gather for an invasion! And, in the final chapter, Glinda the Good Witch decides that enough is enough, Oz had enough troubles from the outside world: she casts a spell that will make Oz unreachable by anyone from the human world...
And thus, Baum with teary eyes says goodbye to his character, and encourages his audience to say farewell to Oz, as the gates of the Marvelous Land close forever...
THE END
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Who are you kidding? No, not the end! Cursed, Baum was, CURSED! Despite him writing EVERYTHING needed for the grand, conclusive finale, despite him literaly writing "IT'S OVER GET OUT"... His other books didn't sell. His other series didn't start. And he kept being pressured by all sides to write more and more Oz books.
As such, by 1914... a seventh Oz book was made. Opening with Baum writing basically "Sigh... So you know how I told you no other Oz story could be made, because there's this magical barrier and I will never know what happens behind it anymore? Well... sigh... turns out they have radio, somehow? And so... double-sigh. And so I have broadcast in Oz, which means... you'll get more Oz books."
Next post: How we got a HELL LOT of more Oz books
#oz#land of oz#l. frank baum#the emerald city of oz#oz books#road to oz#dorothy and the wizard of oz#oz novels#history of oz#so you want to know about oz
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Wicked Discord Server
This is fairly new, just created it but I am hoping to build a place where we can all obsess over wicked part 1 and stay sane while we wait for Part 2.
Discussion on Wicked The movie, the musical, the book, the soundtrack, the press tours, the fashion, set design, brand collabs etc. is all welcomed :)
#wicked elphaba#wicked the movie#wicked the musical#wicked the book#glinda upland#glinda the good witch#glinda x elphaba#elphaba thropp#wicked movie#galinda upland#wicked galinda#wizard of oz#munchkinland#wicked fiyero#munchkin#defying gravity#popular wicked#the wizard and i#wicked discord#shiz university#emerald city#dancing through life#wicked#fiyero tigelaar#land of oz#the wizard of oz#the wicked witch of the west#flying monkeys#yellow brick road#for good
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Oz
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That rat is not a reference to any lore Oz character. I just thought they'd be fun to draw.
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INKTOBER. DAY 31… LANDMARK
Featured musical: Wizard of Oz
And we are done…
Thank you for following along with me on this journey, it’s been quite the ride… all designs are now available on my Etsy Shop - LONGLIVCURIOSITY - as prints and stickers, if you’re curious…
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