#every day's a good day to roast rpt

[poppies-from-oz]

We all know that Baum really enjoyed writing couples, particularly Dorothy/Ozma and Scarecrow/Tin Woodman. The first fourteen Oz books are chock-full of paragraphs detailing how close these characters are, with John R Neill providing some truly iconic illustrations for them!

But all of that changed when Ruth Plumly Thompson took over for the series. For whatever reason she wasn’t nearly as fond of these couples as Baum was and it showed in her writing. The Tin Woodman was all but written out of her version of  Oz, with the Scarecrow’s companion of choice now being the Patchwork Girl. Ozma got to stick around however, but her relationship with Dorothy was never as affectionate as before; they never kissed again in Thompson’s books. But while Thompson may have wanted to break up Oz’s biggest power couples, it seems that John R Neill didn’t get the memo, bc he just kept on drawing them being hella affectionate!

Gay rights. ✨

#the wizard of oz #dorothy gale #the scarecrow #the tin man #princess ozma #dorzma #tincrow #ozoplaning with the wizard of oz #ruth plumly thompson #l frank baum #every day's a good day to roast rpt