#dorothy and the witches of oz

[girl-drink-drunk]

if a movie has jeffrey combs and is written/directed by leigh scott. well. haha. i'm in trouble

[witchesoz]

Fashion in Oz: The Good Witches (7)

And now we get to the actual final work I want to cover for this series (I might cover more in a far away future). "Dorothy and the Witches of Oz", the mini-series which... is bizarrely one of the worst and best Oz adaptations at the same time. This is their Glinda, here acting as the Good Witch of the North. Because you see, they decided to actually go for an in-between, crossing elements of the MGM movie with the original books, and so we do have two Good Witches, but Glinda is the Good Witch of the North like in the MGM movie. This is actually her "battle outfit" for the grand final battle of the mini-series, and as you can see they made the... let's say "interesting" choice of hammering in the "northern" aspect of her by giving battle-Glinda a Valkyrie in battle vibe. The headwear with the two wings on each side of the blond head being the most obvious give-away. Like it or not, that's what they did. Glinda has a strong blue motif, it being her official color, as you can see from her blue dress - and from a bluish-grey fur cowl that you can't really see well in this picture, because it is pushed back to show the blue-and-silver dress of Glinda, with little jewels covering it (similar to the ones covering her headwear). Of course, the blue and the fur were purposefully added to reinforce the "cold north" vibe they went with here. You can also see she wears a necklace in this picture, but I don't remember what it is supposed to represent. Interestingly, I managed to find shots of Glinda's actress posing with the Wicked Witch's actress in costume - except here Glinda wears a variation of her costume, an outfit she wore in Oz back when Dorothy lived there. You will see the dress and the fur-cowl are actually identical to her final outfit, it is just the headdress that changes, now being a crown of white flowers :

You can also see in those pictures Glinda's magical item - in this version of Oz every witch has a magical item, and while Glinda's is a magic wand, it is actually an unusual one, that is handled by the middle instead of one end, and can project magic out of both ends.

And to end this series, the other Good Witch of Oz in "Dorothy and the Witches of Oz", that unfortunately has very little screen-time and no lines, so we can't see much of her. But from what we do see, she was modelled after her counterpart (or sister maybe?) - except where Glinda wears blue, she wears red, and instead of the more mineral-like wand of Glinda she wields a wavy piece of wood as her own wand. Both are however clearly good-looking blondes. You can also see she has lots of red and white flowers, in her hair and on her dress, which seems to give her a more "nature" theme. Oh yes, and as I said before, this mini-series decided to mix together the book and MGM lore, so while the second witch is named "Locasta", like the original Good Witch of the North, she rather is here the Witch of the South - which might explain why they decided to give her a red color.  

[jeff-grzebienie]

Combsverse

Character vs Character

Part 37

[ichiwashername-o]

In honor of our very first sneak peek of the movie Wicked, my nostalgia kicked into high gear and I'm honoring one of my earliest fandom crazes with a silly little comic I'm calling "Fiyero Doesn't Get Enough Recognition For All The Shit He's Been Through."

Enjoy Fiyero having the weirdest 72 hours of his life.

Wicked Master Post Here

Sequel comic here.

And here he meets the Lion.

[m4lted-cr3am]

"We must be over the rainbow!" No Dorothy you are IN THE GODDAMN RAINBOW

[jryno]

WICKED (2024) dir. Jon M. Chu

[pinkpinkmermayyy]

in honor of the wicked musical movie coming out, transformers fans hear me out

@sassycandypoetry

[astralbondpro]

The Wizard of Oz (1939) // Dir. Victor Fleming, George Cukor, and Mervyn LeRoy

[alicesbread]

I really need to write a fic where Glinda sees Dorothy and goes "yup. You're my child now." And then after a torturing slowburn her and the wicked witch get together so Dorothy has aunt Em and Uncle Henry at home, and whenever she goes to Oz she has her witch lesbian moms waiting for her.

[browsethestacks]

Kansas vs Kansas

Art by Dan Schkade

[greentrickster]

It's never going to stop being wild to me that the Wicked Witch of the West was never seen as green-skinned until the original movie came out, and the look was just so iconic it stuck, and also the movie's still under copyright (including the exact shade of green used for her) which is why more recent movies and productions have to be super finicky with the shade of green they make her due to copyright.

All of which is to say, if I ever do my own take on the Wizard of Oz (og!book version), I'm making her blue. Or maybe purple. I'd go with orange, for contrary funsies, but there's WAY too much history with various groups as being described as red or yellow, and I'm not going to risk going too far in either direction and adding unpleasant unintentional undertones in a choice that's about as deep as a puddle. There will also be no point in my take on events where anyone (even the narrator) makes a comment or joke about her not being green.

Might make a joke about how Dorothy's dress matches her skin and neither of them knowing what to do with this discovery, though.

Also I wouldn't go the full 'the Wicked Witch owns slaves' route from the original book and make her more similar to Madam Mim from The Sword in the Stone in her flavour of wicked/evil, and I would go with the 'Dorothy and the Wonderful Wizard in Oz' backstory regarding the Wizard and Ozma (basically retcons him having usurped the throne), so he's still something of a conman and trickster figure, but still definitively an ally to Dorothy & Co. Not only does this satisfy my own personal sensibilities for these characters, it sets up the delightful scenario of dangerously powerful evil witch versus some guy from Omaha with a quick tongue and a knack for stage magic and making gizmos desperately trying to keep a couple steps ahead of her.

She'd still get melted in the final confrontation of the original story, but she'd also get better later, Enchanted Forest Chronicles style. Dorothy is the only one surprised or concerned by this, but is also relieved that she did not, in fact, accidentally murder a second person. The Witch of the West shows up off and on throughout the continuing stories afterwards as a sort of side menace, maybe she has a domestication arc or something, I dunno, this post was just about making her blue instead of green because of who I am as a person, we're two paragraphs deeper than I planned, I'm calling it here before it can get any longer on me. O_OU

[witchesoz]

The Nome King: Adaptations

Now, the Nome King might be less known than the Wcked Witches of Oz, but he is still quite present in numerous Oz adaptations:

# In the television series Emerald City, SPOILERS AHEAD: the Nome King, Roquat, is revealed to actually be the “Beast Forever”. In this version of Oz, the Beast periodically invades and destroys Oz, whenever the two moons of Oz align as one. Every time, the Beast takes a name strange shape to bring as much death and destruction it can. Once it was a great fire that no water could extinguish ; during its last visit (when it killed most of the witches of Oz) it was a gigantic flood. And at the end of the series, it is revealed that all those disasters were actually shapes taken by Roquat, and this time he wants to come back… as a dragon.

# In the mini-series Dorothy and the Witches of Oz, the Nome King appears as one of the threats the Wicked Witch of the West unleashed upon New-York. The Nomes appeared previously as servants of Princess Langwidere, or maybe messengers of the Wicked Witch of the West, it is quite unclear. But in the end their king appears. While the Nome army appear as grey-skinned, dark-haired, evil dwarfs (and thus act as evil counterparts to the Munchkins), their leader is a tall, giant, vaguely troll-like man (played by a professional wrestler), who ends up fighting the Tin Man.

# In the “Legends of Oz: The Wicked West” comic book series, the Nome King is an ancient, powerful and wicked stone-fairy creature that was once locked up under the Emerald City by a previous king of Oz. Jinjur is now searching for the lost city, to unleash the Nome King, hoping that she would control and bargain with this powerful and destructive magical force.

# In the Black Brick Road of Oz, Ruggedo the Nome King is one of the six powers of Oz, one of the three “wicked” rulers, alongside the Wicked Witches of the East and the West (or rather their equivalents). A mix of Baum’s Nome King and Volkov’s Urfin Jus, he is the wicked counterpart of the Wizard of Oz, and despite seeming like a lonely and brooding doomsday-machine creator in love with the Wicked Witch of the West, he is actually one of the survivors of a genocide that almost destroyed all of the Nome species in Oz.

# However the most iconic and well known reinterpretation of the Nome King can be found in “Return to Oz”, the 1985 movie. The Nomes are animated through the Claymation technique of Will Vinton – the Nomes (and the Nome King) appear at first as faces manifesting out of rocks and mountains, then as clay/rock made creatures manifesting out of the underworld’s walls and ceilings. The Nome King acts pretty much like he does in the novel “Ozma of Oz”, though with a few differences. Here there is no Ev, rather the Nome King actually conquered Oz and the Emerald City, “getting back” his emeralds, ruining the city and turning most of its citizens into stone. His mountain-palace is still found across the Deadly Desert surrounding Oz – in fact, he originally would have never attacked Oz, if it wasn’t for one day how the Ruby Slippers fell from the sky, right into his kingdom (and now he wears them). The Nome King does end up taking a human-like shape made of rock: in fact, him turning people into ornaments for his collection is part of hiss process to become more and more human.

Another key difference is that the Nome King did not work alone: he left Oz in care of a new ruler, Princess Mombi (a cross between the witch Mombi and Princess Langwidere from the novels). This witch works as the servant/ambassador of the Nome King in Oz, and it is implied that the Wheelers were also “gifts” the Nome King made to the wicked witch. Finally, the Nomes fear of eggs is played much more here: the Nomes are terrified upon discovering that Dorothy brought with her a chicken, and the heroes end up actually killing the Nome King with an egg. His prisoners released, the King returns to his primal form, a monstrous abomination of rocks, and tries to devour the heroes, only for Billina to drop an egg right into his enormous volcanic throat. The Nome King, poisons, slowly withers away and die.

Since this movie is a sequel to the MGM one, the duality reality VS dreamland is played on. The Nome King is actually the Oz double of Dr. J.B. Worley, a psychiatrist head of a mental asylum obsessed with machines and progress, to the point of cruelty and disregard towards his patients. In the movie, he wanted to inflict on Dorothy electroshock therapy to “cure” her of her Oz delusions. Dorothy ends up leaving Oz during a wild thunderstorm, and when she returns home, she learns that the lightning caused a fire in the asylum, where the doctor died while trying to save his precious machines.

[picspammer]

The Wizard of Oz (1939) dir. Victor Fleming

[ichiwashername-o]

Despite everything, it's still you.

Despite all you've endured, despite how much you've changed, despite the face you barely recognize in the mirror-

It's still you.

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I'm having sad thoughts about my blorbo and I'm taking all you with me.

Wicked Master Post

[kaylie-creates]

pregaming wicked with the og ✨

[down-in-dixie]

Somewhere over the rainbow...