#Oz ily

[emry-stars-oc]

i am so intrigued by the calendar and would love and explanation if you're willing 👀

Rubbing my little hands together, we got someone to ask lads (sorry I’m late but here we are)

ANYWAY. Calendar of Avan. A year has 532 days, nineteen months, with four weeks of seven days each month. It’s also split into two ‘half-years’, with 8 1/2 months in the first half and 10 1/2 in the second. For moon reasons we will discuss below

Top wheel is the first half of the year, bottom wheel is the second! The first month is Asellio, then follow both wheels around clockwise to get back to the middle. The middle month there is Liba, in its own circle. This is because the 14th night of Liba is ‘brightnight’ (it’s probably going to be all working titles used in this post) - when both moons are completely full! Then we go around the bottom wheel, until you get back up to the dark circle just above Liba. It’s the first day of the year, as you may have guessed, because it’s the night of the twin new moons, or ‘darknight’. The night between Eumenes of the old year and Asellio of the new.

Seasons as follows:

Stormtide - a season of chaotic weather patterns between winter and spring, a literal storm season

Daybirth - spring

Sunpeak - summer

Starfall - I don’t have an excuse for this one, I just think there being a time of the year where the sky is full of comets/shooting stars/etc is too good to pass up

Dayfade - autumn

Frostwake - winter

I think that covers like all the immediate questions about the calendar here.. if I missed something or want me to expound on anything y’all can just lmk

Side note - because the year is so long, some inhabitants of Avan might keep track of their birthdays as well as which half of the year they are in. For example, if our example character was turning 25 years old in our universe, irl, then on Avan they would be in the first half of their 17th year. This is probably officially noted as something like 17-1 or 17/1, but the one is implied, so noted just 17. On the other hand, if the example was turning 23, they’d be in the second half of their 15th year on Avan, something like 15-2 or 15/2.

Or maybe they just keep track of plain old years 🤷 we’re still messing around with everything. For ease of reading and for clarity I’ll probably just refer to seasons and ages as their Earth equivalents most of the time, but just know. I’ve thought about all this lol

[itsamarlfox]

Why in gods name is buffy drinking the milk like that

[k1cha1nz]

im going crazy they’re so fun to draw.

[alpacinosgf]

[ossiethegreat]

I’m pausing my 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂 colorkiller thing to work on very serious stuff

Color belongs to superyoumna

[mistoffeleesisawitch]

Okay I just made a whole post about Dorothy/Elphaba parallels but also the way Dorothy and the Wizard contrast each other is so fun.

Like Oz is the way it is now because of the Wizard. This man from the midwest. Who works at some circus in Nebraska with little chance of breaking out of this life. Then he is whisked to Oz. To a strange land where he is given power and adoration with little actual effort (he doesn’t even really know who to work the hot air balloon). He has no real power but people think he’s a wizard. He is in a new world with odd ways and strange creatures.

He see this and reacts with antagonism. Thinks the ways of his world superior simply because he’s from there. Things here seem wrong to him. Animals shouldn’t talk. But they do. So he’ll make sure they won’t.

Dorothy is also from the midwest. From a dreary farm in Kansas with little chance of breaking out of this life. And she too is whisked to Oz. To a strange land where she is given immediate power and adoration with very little actual effort (it’s not like she could steer the house in a tornado). She has no real power but people think she’s a witch. She is in a new world with odd ways and strange creatures.

But she sees this and reacts with acceptance. Oh sure she’s confused and understandably distressed, but she goes with it. This isn’t her world but that doesn’t make it bad. And things do seem wrong to her. Scarecrows shouldn’t be alive, men shouldn’t be made out of tin, and Animals shouldn’t talk. But they do here. And she accepts that. She treats them with the kindness and respect she would give any human. Because who is she to decide what they can and can’t do?

Oscar spends his whole time is Oz trying to make it adapt to him. Dorothy spends her short time in Oz trying to adapt to it as best she can.

I just love thinking about Dorothy in relation to Wicked.

[cellphonehippie]

and is it over now? do you know how? pick up the pieces and go home

happy birthday claire @ofthirtynine <3 i hope you have the best day!!!

[leoleolovesdc]

I had no idea tincrow was as big of a thing as it is

It quickly became my second favorite thing about the wizard of oz tho

[sleepyzuku]

WALLY DARLING IRL?? /srs

I actually havent drawn a whole lot recently! So ill just dump some doodles here

i cant minimise them all, apologies!!

I also wanted to mention saturday of sept i went to comiccon as wally!

here!

[darkstarshine]

Happy birthday, Oz! (Dec.26th)

[tabooiart]

why did i start a painting at 12 am

[dalloneveryday]

day 159

[weewooooweew]

CHEER UP

I LOVE YOUUUUUUU

i love you too but UGH NO I CANT CHEER UP IM SO FUCJING UVHF FUCK THIS FUCJ HER FUCJ THIS ENTIRE SITUATION SHES PUT ME IN I CANT FUCKING DEAL WITH THIS I NEED TI BASH MY HEAD AGAINST GHR WALL UNTIL IT CRACKS OPEN FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK HER UGH

[dreastmilk]

I wanna talk about George wearing a wedding dress but everyones moved on already :(

I. am the furthest person to talk about this with

[frankozfacts]

FRANK OZ FACT: Frank Oz is a manifestation of God.

[altaruwusmolboiz]

Boy from Oz brainrot