#Henning Baum

[alexalphajack]

[showamagicalgirls]

The other episode of 1986 Wizard of Oz (オズの魔法使い) anime I watched on the way over on this trip was the thirty-seventh, which is taken from L. Frank Baum's third Oz novel, Ozma of Oz. Apparently the full title of the original book was Ozma of Oz: A Record of Her Adventures with Dorothy Gale of Kansas, Billina the Yellow Hen, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger; Besides Other Good People Too Numerous to Mention Faithfully Recorded Herein. What a name! Anyway, these events may also be familiar to some people because they were included in the 1985 film, Return to Oz.

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21:00 Uhr im SWR

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22:00 Uhr im SWR

Polizeiruf 110: Gefährliches Vertrauen

23:15 Uhr im RBB

[penig]

The books from which all of this except the asylum bits are taken are not scary to most children, because they aren't presented that way. The Wheelers terrorize people because that's all they can do - they have no hands, guys! (Don't ask how they dress themselves, okay?) They have no means of self-defense so they scare people away from their territory. They are terrified of being invaded. Dorothy meets them in the company of the Shaggy Man, whose Love Magnet makes him nearly impossible to be mean to, a much better line of defense than preemptive fear attacks.

Princess Langwidire of the heads feels entitled to swap a head she's tired of for Dorothy's and Dorothy stands up to her and tells her "No, ma'am, we're not doing that." The Nome King wants to invade Oz and tries several times throughout the series, but never succeeds. Tik-Tok, the Army of Oz, is straight-up the first ever Adorable Robot. Billina the Talking Hen is, as one young reader wrote approvingly to Baum, "real Ozzy," by which he meant "weird in a fun way." She also defeats the Nome King by her natural power to lay eggs, of which he is terrified.

Baum specifically tried to write fairy tales without nightmare fodder. He did not entirely succeed: there are a number of nightmarish moments throughout the series. But he succeeded a lot. The grotesques, drawn by John O'Neill, were not scary in and of themselves, and one reason they weren't was that Dorothy, that great American heroine, neither judges people by their looks nor takes guff from anybody.

Ironically, one of the things that really did create nightmare fuel for many readers was one of the things that Baum decided to incorporate specifically to remove the fear of death: nobody dies in Oz. That's why Princess Langwidere can change out her head and the Tin Woodman retains his memory once all of his organic parts are gone. It also means that, in the book The Tin Woodsmen of Oz, he can encounter his old head and have a conversation with it. They don't like each other much! It turns out he's also one of two woodsmen who fell in love with the same girl and got chopped up by the same witch for the same reason, and were provided prosthetic bodies by the same tinsmith. When they finally track down the girl in question, she is married to a man Frankensteined together out of parts of both men, including the other guy's head.

But nobody hallucinates anything and Oz is a place where the power of friendship wins every time and women are in charge, with men (and male-coded sexless beings like Jack Pumpkinhead) supporting their authority.

You really need to read these books. They are much, much weirder, and much funnier, than you have any idea.

What the heck, I’ll give it a shot.

How bad could it be?

[glassandroses]

laur’s 2024 reading log

the reservoir;

Key: 🩷 - favorite | 💌 - arc | 🔄 - reread | 👥 - buddy read | ❌ - DNF

Barbarian’s Prize by Ruby Dixon

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Air Awakens by Elise Kova

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Barbarian’s Mate by Ruby Dixon

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Barbarian’s Touch by Ruby Dixon

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Barbarian’s Taming by Ruby Dixon

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Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros

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Fire Falling by Elise Kova

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Caraval by Stephanie Garber

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Earth’s End by Elise Kova

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Legendary by Stephanie Garber

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Water’s Wrath by Elise Kova

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The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood

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Finale by Stephanie Garber

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Half-Blood by Jennifer L. Armentrout

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House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas

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Crystal Crowned by Elise Kova

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A Touch of Darkness by Scarlett St. Clair

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Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

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A Touch of Ruin by Scarlett St. Clair

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Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross

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A Touch of Malice by Scarlett St. Clair

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Gild by Raven Kennedy

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Glint by Raven Kennedy

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Bride by Ali Hazelwood

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The Awakening by Caroline Peckham & Susanne Valenti

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New Moon by Stephenie Meyer

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Love On the Brain by Ali Hazelwood

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Legacy by Shannon Messenger

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The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

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Crave by Tracy Wolff

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Phoenix Selected by Claire Luana

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Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard

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Phoenix Protected by Claire Luana

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Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer

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The Risk by C.M. Owens

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The Forest Grimm by Kathryn Purdie

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Phoenix Captured by Claire Luana

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Sidetracked by C.M. Owens

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Scarlet Angel by C.M. Owens

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All The Lies by C.M. Owens

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Paint It All Red by C.M. Owens

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The Library of Shadows by Rachel Moore

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Gleam by Raven Kennedy

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Silver In the Bone by Alexandra Bracken

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Unlocked by Shannon Messenger

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Loathe To Love You by Ali Hazelwood

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Pure by Jennifer L. Armentrout

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The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner by Stephenie Meyer

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Phoenix Trafficked by Claire Luana

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The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han

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Crush by Tracy Wolff

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A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder by Holly Jackson

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Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood

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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

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Butcher & Blackbird by Brynne Weaver

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Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson

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Kill Joy by Holly Jackson

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As Good As Dead by Holly Jackson

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Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood

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It's Not Summer Without You by Jenny Han

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We'll Always Have Summer by Jenny Han

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Ember of Night by Molly E. Lee

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Choosing Theo by Victoria Aveline

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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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Heist Society by Ally Carter

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Assistant To The Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

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The Lies We Conjure by Sarah Henning

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Kingdom of the Cursed by Kerri Maniscalco

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The Hawthorne Legacy by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

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This Time It's Real by Ann Liang

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Fairest by Marissa Meyer

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Heartstopper, Vol. 5 by Alice Oseman

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The Wren In the Holly Library by K.A. Linde

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All of Our Demise by Amanda Foody & C.L. Herman

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King's Cage by Victoria Aveyard

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The Final Gambit by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

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King of Fools by Amanda Foody

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Kingdom of the Feared by Kerri Maniscalco

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Prodigy by Marie Lu

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Phoenix Revealed by Claire Luana

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Prince of Song & Sea by Linsey Miller

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The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater

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Champion by Marie Lu

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Fable by Chanda Hahn

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Fangirl Down by Tessa Bailey

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Apprentice To The Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

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Capturing The Devil by Kerri Maniscalco

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These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong

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Ruthless Vows by Rebecca Ross

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A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer

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The Au-Pair Affair by Tessa Bailey

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Belladonna by Adalyn Grace

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The Foxhole Court by Nora Sakavic

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Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

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Not In Love by Ali Hazelwood

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The Duke and I by Julia Quinn

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House of Ash and Shadow by Leia Stone

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Inheritance by Katharine McGee

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Sanctuary of the Shadow by Aurora Ascher

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The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

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Foxglove by Adalyn Grace

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A Ruinous Fate by Kaylie Smith

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Five Survive by Holly Jackson

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The Improbable Meet-Cute by Abby Jimenez

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The Shadows Between Us by Tricia Levenseller

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Two Can Play by Ali Hazelwood

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Barbarian's Heart by Ruby Dixon

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Cruel Winter With You by Ali Hazelwood

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The Coven by Harper L. Woods

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Rumple Buttercup by Matthew Gray Gubler

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stats;

Overall Reading Goal: 100 Books (Read 110/100)

Minor Goals:

Start 5 Series: ?/5 Series

Finish 5 Series: ?/5 Series

Read 10 New Authors: 31/10 Authors

Read 3 Classics: 2/3 Classics

Stats:

Finished Series: TBA

Up-To-Date Series: TBA

Favorite Reads: TBA

5-Star Reads: TBA

ARCs Read: 7

DNFed Books (Over 50% Read): 1

DNFed Books (Under 50% Read): 2

2024 Releases Read: TBA

Best Book of the Year Award: House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas

Honorary Mentions: As Good As Dead by Holly Jackson, Love On The Brain by Ali Hazelwood, Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood, Ruthless Vows by Rebecca Ross

Worst Book of the Year Award: The Wren In The Holly Library by K.A. Linde

Honorary Mentions: House of Ash and Shadow by Leia Stone, The Foxhole Court by Nora Sakavic, We'll Always Have Summer by Jenny Han, Gild by Raven Kennedy

Most Read Author of the Year Award: Ali Hazelwood (9)

Honorary Mentions: Ruby Dixon (5), Holly Jackson (5), Elise Kova (5), C.M. Owens (5)

last updated 1•1•2025

[politikwatch]

#Bundeswehr #Veteranen

[spokenrealms]

Ozma of Oz

Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum presented by The Online Stage. While traveling to Australia with Uncle Henry, Dorothy is swept overboard. She is able to save herself by means of a floating chicken coop, complete with a Yellow Hen inside, who she names Billina. Dorothy and her new friend explore their surroundings and meet a mechanical man named Tik Tok who joins their adventure. Back in Oz, Princess…

[newguyontheblock]

Sexy guy. German actor Henning Baum.

[littledozerdraws]

was reminded that I hadn’t uploaded these here yet!! imagine being a tv producer in the early 2000s thinking: „I‘m going to make a crime show with a gay protagonist that is so hetero 😎“

so uhm, yeah I got super excited when I learned about „Mit Herz und Handschellen“ having an openly gay crime investigator who lives with his male lover and female best friend/partner in crime solving but it turned out to be one of the most awkward and disappointing tv experiences I‘ve ever had. I had to lay down for a bit after watching and wash away the clown make up that I put on hoping for one little gay kiss between Leo and Bernd 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

[alexalphajack]

Ok. So I’m a sucker for Henning Baum.

[chantalswelt]

Mick Brisgau aka Henning Baum appreciation post

[chucklepea-hotpot]

Henning Baum als Lukas der Lokomotivführer ist das Beste, was uns als Gesellschaft jemals passiert ist.

[watchingalotofmovies]

Jim Button and the Wild 13

Jim Button and the Wild 13    [trailer]

The notorious pirate gang "The Wild 13" has learned that the dragon Mrs Grindtooth has been conquered by Jim and Luke and now swears revenge.

Maybe it's because it's a sequel, and many of the characters are already familiar, I didn't find this second movie as charming and funny as the first one. It felt more pedestrian.

But the characters created by Michael Ende continue to be timeless.

[hoodup]

[wolkenlichtblitz]

the audacity that I have to deny my daddy issues when men like this are my type

Henning Baum