#dorothy and the witches of oz

[leeshabeth90]

[showamagicalgirls]

I watched 2011's Dorothy and the Witches of Oz, and this is what I wrote about it on Letterboxd:

I have been having a lot of fun watching ancillary Oz films since seeing Wicked: Part I. Even many of the films that pale in comparison to the major motion pictures have been really fun to watch. Unfortunately, this is just truly not good. I can't believe there are a few somewhat famous actors in it.

[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.

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And here he meets the Lion.

[m4lted-cr3am]

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

[floatyflowers]

Male! Glinda x Dorothy's mother! Reader

"Glind?" You ask in confusion, as you look at the good wizard of the south, while your hands are placed on Dorothy, your daughter's shoulders.

"When Dorothy spoke about you, I never imagined that you would be her mother."

"You both know each other?" Dorothy asks in shock.

Glind gives a small, nervous laugh, twirling his wand in his hand, his usual composure slightly faltering.

Her eyes flicker between you and Dorothy.

"Oh, we... we knew each other, long ago, your mother and I went to university together, though I dare say we were more than friends."

Your eyebrows arch, uneasiness creeping into your expression.

"That's one way to put it," you mutter, your grip on Dorothy's shoulders tightening as the memories flood back.

Glind had been the golden star, dazzling everyone at Shiz University, while you had been more reserved, preferring quiet corners and a life outside the spotlight.

You were originally from Kansas but found yourself transported to the land of Oz after an accident.

The Wizard Oz took you in and offered to help you after you told him your situation, he enrolled you into the university of Shiz.

And that's where you met Glind and also Elphabe who had a unique skin colour along with strong powers.

The wicked wizard of the West used to be your friend.

But Glind told Elphabe that you don't want to be his friend anymore after you two got engaged and soon to be wed.

And thanks to Glind's possessive narcissistic attitude, he ruined this friendship.

So, you asked Oz to return back to your homeland just to escape marrying Glind, and he granted you that.

Now that you are back here, you just want to take your daughter and leave.

"Thank you for helping my daughter, but I think we should leave now."

"Wait a second."

Glind speaks, his wand tapping against his palm.

"We have some catching up to do," he says brightly, though his voice carries a hint of coldness

"Dorothy, darling, why don’t you go check on Toto? I’m sure he’s getting into trouble somewhere. Your mother and I, need to have a little... chat."

Your daughter's eyes widened before rushing to search for Toto, leaving you alone with the light-haired Wizard.

Glind moves towards you before grabbing your arms tightly.

"Is Dorothy my daughter?"

[nobodysdaydreams]

Dorothy, looking at the Witch’s castle: “My, what a dark, twisted, and terrible place this is!”

Fiyero, listening to her insult his home as he prepares to fake break into his own house: “I actually think it has a certain charm to it.”

[ghost-of-an-artist-pp]

dorothy can be damned, my girl can shred!

[spamton-speaks-to-me-actually]

I want a version of Wicked which is also the Wizard of Oz,like Dorothy and the rest of the gang still go on their adventure but the whole time Scarecrow/Fiyero is like "I wish my ex and my other ex didn't start this whole conflict Dorothy" and Dorothy is like 11 years old, dealing with the soap opera drama of this polycule and Tin man/Boq isn't making this any better by being an incel.

[leeshabeth90]

[artwah]

rewatched the wizard of oz !! felt the need to draw dorothy’s and glindas outfits.. so colour and shape.. 🌈

[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.

[rwbyangst12]

I would like a fanfiction that combines the original premise of Oz with Dorothy being a young child (8-12 since it's her book ages and her movie age) and instead of 1900 it's like in the original book it's 1939 and Wicked. Dorothy is worried for aunty Em and Uncle Henri because not only is it the Great Depression and part of the farmhouse is here with her but she's worried because they're have been talks of a potential war (the movie came out in August 25th and the war started in September 1st) but she's worried that her Uncle Henri might be drafted and her aunt might go with them cause what if they think she's dead)

While walking down the Yellow Brick Road Scarecrow asks why Dorothy keeps saying they need to ration they're things? Asks why she's so worried about food? Why is she so insistent on not buying a new dress? You've already re sewn and cleaned those same clothes for the past month. Boq is made of metal and has no clothes, the lion is a lion and therefore does not need clothes, and I'm a scarecrow I can't take my clothes off.

Down the road he begins to realise that this child isn't as okay and innocent as she seems with all of her skipping and dancing with the way she looks out the corner of her eye behind her pigtails or re checks her basket Incase they dropped anything.

Imagine because of all the interruptions, being attacked, the road itself, and then the wizard being a fraud she takes longer to get home. Perhaps instead of two-three months in Oz she's there for two-three years. The shoes don't work and Dorothy believes she's just killed two women even though it wasn't her fault at the time(Elphaba is alive but she's still in hiding with Fiyero) and got kidnapped and locked in a basement and almost burnt alive. She thinks that now she's never going to make it home. But you have fresh food and clothes here do you really want to go back. She can't help but think to herself before snapping out of it reminding herself of Aunty Em and Uncle Henri.

Or if Dorothy does make it home her Aunt and Uncle somehow end up sending her back because not only has World War ii begun but now that America is a part of it and Kansas was essentially a training ground for USAAF bombers and fliers so when she's back in Oz she looks for Fiyero or Galinda and Explains what happened.

Fiyero didn't know a potential war was on the horizon in Dorothy's home world. If he had known would he have sent her back or would he have kept her in Oz even if it was against her will. He takes her to Elphaba and explains what happened and they managed to reach out to Glinda and help give her a proper education, she gets taller thanks to a proper diet, she's at least somewhat healthy thanks to available medicine and hygiene products in Oz. She's lived longer than she thought she would have in Kansas and a lot longer than she thought she would have here in Oz. A LOT longer.

Also potential Dorzma and realising that Oscar Diggs is a name of a guy that went missing a few decades ago that her parents and guardians talked about with their families because this guy with a hot air balloon disappeared in a storm and no trace of him can be found. Obvious propaganda against a coloured women and a selective group of people because I believe Aunty Em not Uncle Henri would've raised her that way. She still wants to meet the wizard in hopes of going home but she's still suspicious because of how she was raised in this au.

[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.

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