#emerald lands

[hinamie]

i don't normally participate in these redraw challenges but it's megumi so i'll make an exception

[viktorscane]

while most ppl think that techno is the more chaotic part of emduo, i think it’s worth mentioning that both in the antarctic empire and in the dsmp phil pushed and advocated for violence at the drop of a dime.

ae!phil messaging ae!techno that they should just kill everyone at the saint-malo trials rather than come to a peaceful conclusion.

c!phil pushing for the destruction of l’manburg at all costs and encouraging c!techno to destroy more & more & more even when the country lay in ruins.

when c!techno and the voices are satisfied, and the fire has dulled to nothing but sparks and ash; c!phil will always be the first one to add fuel to the fire.

[nevertoomanyspiders]

well, trying to figure out how to draw Strasheela (the 2017-2019 one from the CGI animated features), I like using a monowidth brush to help simplify shapes, lol.

I also started watching the 1974 stop motion animated adaptation of The Wizard of the Emerald City and, while there's no subtitles on the youtube upload beyond auto translate, what I'm seeing is charming enough. when I initially saw that particular version of Strasheela, I thought he looked like a clown, and watching this series, it seems it's a deliberate design choice. he's very cute. if there's better reference images for the puppet other than working from stills, that'd be rad!

[poppies-from-oz]

LAND OF OZ MASTERPOST

Now seems as good a time as any to remind everyone that all of the original fifteen Oz books are public domain and up for free online.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz 

The Marvelous Land of Oz

Ozma of Oz

Dorothy & The Wizard in Oz

The Road to Oz

The Emerald City of Oz

The Patchwork Girl of Oz

Little Wizard Stories of Oz

Tik-Tok of Oz

The Scarecrow of Oz

Rinkitink in Oz

The Lost Princess of Oz

The Tin Woodman of Oz

The Magic of Oz

Glinda of Oz

Happy reading! 

[crueldesire]

saltburn (2023) dir. emerald fennell / i’m your man, mitski

[stone-cold-groove]

The Emerald City.

[grandpabento]

Been doing some background exploration of Oz as shown in the Wicked years for a few years now when I have the time.

Here is one I did of the Emerald City as shown from the Munchkinland Gate (alternatively called the Munchkin Mousehole) done as part of @mcodywiley's Coven of the Arts mentorship!

[wario-land]

Game Boy Advance's All Stars in...

SUPER SMASH BROS. ADVANCE

A concept idea made by me, because i love GBA and it's various games

[themousefromfantasyland]

I watched Return to Oz again yesterday, and despite the darker tone, it still has the most welcoming and joyful depictions of the Emerald City I've seen.

I think it's because the Emerald City feels less like a homogeneous society where everyone dress the same like in the other versions.

It feels more like a natural combination of all the weird and colorful characters that fill the Land of Oz.

Fun fact: Several obscure Oz characters appear in the joyful celebration, like the Frogman and the Patchwork Girl

Even Santa Claus himself appears in the crowd.

@ariel-seagull-wings @thealmightyemprex @the-blue-fairie @witchesoz

[paperstreetlocal]

last batch byebye

[ambersadventuresinwonderland]

The Grimmerie arrived!!! Thank you Insight Editions for creating this beautiful piece. 💚🧹🩷🫧

[ozma-fangirl]

In L. Frank Baum’s novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), the Emerald City is the capital of Oz, which was built early on in the reign of the Wizard to be the seat of his power. It is believed by the common folk that everything within the city is green, and they are all made to wear green eyeglasses, supposedly to protect their eyes from damage caused by the brilliance of the city.

By the end of the novel, though, it is revealed that only the outer walls are truly uniformly green, while everything within is “no more green than any other city.” The eyeglasses created the illusion of greeness.

However, partway through the first of the sequels, The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904), the glasses disappear, the city seems to genuinely be green, and, to my knowledge, the false-greenness plot point/factoid is never brought up again. The Emerald City is also retconned to have existed before the time of the Wizard, when Pastoria was king.

I get why Baum would have wanted The Emerald City—the capital of Oz, the main color of which is green—to be genuinely emerald-colored. But there was a solution to this that would have avoided retconning this particular charade of the Wizard.

He could have had Ozma magic the city into being green.

The final chapter of The Marvelous Land of Oz makes a point of Ozma’s superiority to the Wizard.

“The Wonderful Wizard was never so wonderful as Queen Ozma,” the people said to one another, in whispers; “for he claimed to do many things he could not do; whereas our new Queen does many things no one would ever expect her to accomplish.”

-L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz

Ending the tale with a transformation of the Emerald City would have vindicated this idea very nicely. It would have drawn an excellent contrast between Ozma and the Wizard, and it would have set up an amazing parallel between this novel and the first one. The city of emeralds, which was once revealed to be plain, is now transformed into something truly verdant and glorious- though maybe not so glorious that its denizens have to don protective eyewear. This transformation at the hands of Ozma would have been strong evidence to the people of Oz that her claim to power is “legitimate.”

Pastoria could have just ruled from some other, less urban capital.

It occurs to me, though, that at this point, the idea of Ozma as the daughter of the fairy queen Lurline had not yet been introduced. She was but a human princess, and there was no implication that she had any special latent magical power. Maybe Glinda could have made the transformation- but, then, she believes that transformations are “dishonest.” And it would have undermined the singular glory of Ozma’s ascension.

Someone needs to use this idea (the version where Ozma makes the city green) in some sort of adaption or transformative work. I would say that I’ll do that it if I ever create my own interpretation of Oz, but I highly doubt I ever will make my own interpretation.

[nevertoomanyspiders]

the boy(s), Scarecrow or Страшила as depicted in Alexander Volkov's Magic Land related media.

Fantastic Journey to Oz / Урфин Джюс и его деревянные солдаты (Urfin Jus and his Wooden Soldiers), 2017

Adventures in the Emerald City / Приключения в Изумрудном городе (1999-2000)

1959 illustration by Leonid Vladimirsky.

some of the cutest heckin scarecrow designs in media aaaaaaaa

[scruellltyy]

Forever in our hearts

Fanart of hnk gems that were taken to the moon before story events

[rabid-orannge]

on his way to commit murder

There's an upcoming Wizard of Emerald City live action movie. And honestly, my expectations are lower than the bottom of lake Baikal. The Lumberjack and Strasheela costumes look great, but that's about it. I'm really jaded after seeing glimpses of the other "reboots" of old animated classics (like The Flying Ship, Domovyonok Kuzya and Bremen Town's Musicians) and the state of modern russian film industry in general, so I expect this movie to be mediocre at best or downright suck at worst. I will be REALLY surprised if it turns out better than my expectations

this is a shot from the trailer and it looks so goofy, almost like a meme template

I refuse to pay even a single cent to see the movie when it comes out, i would rather pirate it to watch it in the comfort of my home and poke fun at some things with my sis.

Yeah, I'm totally pirating that film.