#Enchanted Island

[thriftygeekdiva]

Had the Enchanted Island Lady Lovely Locks and the mermaid. I also had Silky Pup.

🧜‍♀️ Toys from the Lady Lovely Locks Enchanted Island advertising pamphlet by Mattel, 1987 🧜‍♀️

You can find the full pamphlet here!

[illustratus]

Circe and the Swine by Albert Goodwin

[lepetitdragonvert]

The Enchanted Island of Yew by L. Frank Baum

1903

Source : typepunchmatrix.com

Artist : Fanny Y. Cory

[heckyeahladylovelylocks]

Yes! Her name is Maiden Goldenwaves💛

Dear God,Lady Lovelylocks had a mermaid friend and I didn’t know that!

[nordsea-horizons]

collecting items for a future build, working on a green maze and stressing out my villagers(im sorry, idk how i got him to look so stressed! also why are the sheep villagers on this island so angry all the time??)☘️✨🧚🏻🫧

[gawrkin]

(From The Welsh Triads, translated and edited by Rachel Bromwich)

Man, the concept of Wizard-King Uther Pendragon...

Like, the idea Uther never really needed Merlin for anything magical - he would've just it done by himself.

Also, the implication that Uther is very magically powerful. The other people listed in this triad are nothing to scoff at: Math and Gwydion are the two supreme magician characters of the Mabinogi. Gwythelyn/Rudlwm the Dwarf is unknown, but his protege, Coll ap Collfrewy, is a powerful swineherd who owned Henwen, the magic pig that gave to a bunch of things, including the dreaded monster Cath Palug.

Neither Merlin nor Blaiddud (the Necromancer King from Historia Regum Britanniae and father of King Leir) are included here. AFAIK, Merlin's magical deeds are seemingly never lauded by the surviving Welsh poetIc material.

[miscellaneousrenaissant]

It's been almost a week since Episode 3, and I want to highlight two things:

Thing #1: In Episode 3, Shadow!Evan looted his shoes off his dead body

In Episode 2, Evan went into the hot springs in just his black boxer briefs

That means Evan fucking Kelmp went into the magic healing hot springs while wearing just his underwear and wingtip shoes and nothing else, and I need you to imagine - to visualize - the palest, whitest man possible in just black shorts and black shoes chilling in a hot tub

Thing #2: In Episode 3, K and Shadow!Evan toweled off the blood and arm goo that got on Sam

In Episode 2, the only towels they had were the ones T2 brought them

Meaning L.O., whoever they are, is going to find their fluffy, embroidered, freshly laundered, gorgeously lavender-scented towels - that got taken by a teacup pig - now covered in blood

[magicaldogtoto]

Realized not too long ago that shoujo works like Princess Knight, The Rose of Versailles, and Revolutionary Girl Utena that like playing around with gender in regards to how they have girls who dress like boys echo L. Frank Baum's characters like Ozma and Prince Marvel who start out in one gender and end in another, from books nearly half a century earlier.

The commonality between all of them is that theater definitely played a role in their inspiration. The Takarazuka Revue was a huge influence on Tezuka, and Ikuhara, for one thing (I'm not overtly familiar with what would have inspired Riyoko Ikeda, but I wouldn't be surprised to learn that she knew about Takarazuka). And on the other side of the Pacific, Baum also dabbled in theater. I remember reading a book that said that The Marvelous Land of Oz may have been written to be a play, which explained the gender-flipping, and the all-girl armies that Jinjur and Glinda have (it's common for women to portray boys in theater, and actresses in uniform is another thing).

[roseunspindle]

Tim Curry: What I've Seen Him in

Rocky Horror Picture Show - Dr. Frank N. Furter

Annie - Rooster Hannigan

Legend - Darkness

Clue - Wadsworth

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York - Mr. Hector

The Three Musketeers - Cardinal Richelieu

Muppet Treasure Island - Long John Silver

Addams Family Reunion - Gomez Addams

Charlie's Angels - Roger Corwin

Criminal Minds - Billy Flynn

Ferngully - Hexxus

Beauty and the Beast Enchanted Christmas - Forte

Scooby Doo and the Witches Ghost - Ben Ravencroft

Bartok the Magnificent - The Skull

The Cat Returns - The Cat King

The Greatest Adventure: Stories from the Bible - The Serpent, Judas Iscariot

Gargoyles - Dr. Anton Sevarius

The Wild Thornberrys - Nigel Thornberry

Over the Garden Wall - Auntie Whispers

[mitzis-make-believe-band]

Some beautiful new Enchanted Voyage photos via Dennis Shepard on FB

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Anne Mather - Enchanted Island - Lancer - 1969

[mistoffeleesisawitch]

Everyone always mentions Ozma in terms of Baum’s gender queer stuff (as they should) but not enough talk about my love Prince Marvel 🩵

[wyrmword]

Circe: 🎵 I don't know who you are nor why you're here 🎵

Odysseus, like 20 seconds ago: hey heard my scouts got turned to pigs in your house--that true? I'm looking for my men. following up on that specifically, if you know anything about my pig men

[super-oddity]

found a few gems in my letterboxd’ liked reviews…

that’s all folks… i tried to sort it by vibe :)

[lepetitdragonvert]

The Enchanted Island of Yew by Lyman Franck Baum

1903

Artist : Fanny Y. Cory

[calciumcryptid]

Sometimes I wonder why people make all these Hades and Persephone retellings that miss the cultural connotations of the story and the importance of Demeter getting half the year with her daughter, when Calypso is right there prime pickings for the most sapphic story ever.