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thenomekingdom · 1 month
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Oz + The Onion Headlines Pt. 4
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ozmas · 1 year
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idk if anyone can tell but a lot of my doodles rn are actually just me figuring out how i want to draw each character so if they look a little wacky that's sorta why 💪
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YELLOW BRICK ROAD CH. 4.5: JINJUR & LOCASTA
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Sorry, another short one this week after a long break. I'll try to keep to a bi-weekly schedule from here on out if I can, I burned myself out a bit with that straight month and change of drawing nonstop.
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quailfence · 10 months
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[Image description: a lineart drawing of General Jinjur and Tip from The Land of Oz that has been colored in by OP. They are marching together. Jinjur is looking at Tip, who is holding a picnic basket and eating a sandwich. Jinjur is wearing a blue-green hat with a green button, a blue-green shirt with green collar and blue, red, and purple buttons, and green gloves. She also wears a green belt, a green double sash, a blue, yellow, and red skirt, and blue-green boots with green trim. She has brown skin and curly black hair that goes to her chin.
Tip is wearing a blue coat with yellow buttons, a green-gray and red hat, a red bow tie, green-gray shirt and shorts, long red stockings, and blue shoes. He has pale skin and straight black hair that goes to his ears. The basket he is carrying is covered by a blue-green cloth. End description.]
I’ve been reading the Oz books with the Beyond the Wizard substack, and when we got to this illustration I decided to color it in. I used a foundation pen brush on Sketchbook. Feel free to use for icons/banners/headers, just give me credit
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witchesoz · 1 year
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What we know of Oz: Book 2, the secrets of Oz
The next journey of our protagonist is thus a flying one, on the Gump (animated with the Powder of Life), from Emerald City to Glinda’s palace in the South.
# During their travel, since the last dose of the Powder of Life has been used, the heroes look at the empty pepper-box that contained it once and want to throw it aside – however the Scarecrow notices that the box has a secret compartment at the bottom of it, a false bottom that unscrews and contains three silver pills carefully folded in paper. On said paper is written in red ink: “Dr. Nikidik’s Celebrated Wishing Pills” “Directions for use: Sallow one pill, count seventeen by twos, then make a wish. The wish will immediately be granted. CAUTION: Keep in a dry and dark place.” Now, once more we have the slight incoherence of Tip apparently knowing how Mombi got the Powder of life (despite this not being described or mentioned in the beginning of the book): here Tip mentions that he “heard” from Mombi that she got the powder of life from Nikidik (so we know that the “crooked sorcerer” is actually Doctor Nikidik, also referred to as a “powerful Sorcerer” with a cap, but the incoherence stays – HOW DID HE HEARD IT? It was nowhere in the beginning… anyway). He also wonders if Mombi knew of the existence of those pills (and it is safe to assume she did not knew about them, since they are only mentioned here and Mombi was only angry about Tip stealing from her the Powder of Life and nothing else).
Now the question is: how to count to seventeen by twos? It seems apparently impossible. But there is a solution the characters end up finding! At first of course the Woggle-Bug uses his “education” to try to find an answer through mathematics with “x’s and y’s and a’s, and such things, by mixing them up with plenty of plusses and minuses and equals, and so forth” (his words, not mine), to which Tip answers that Mombi would have never been able to do such things because she never went to school (though again there is a fault in the reasoning: if Mombi was unaware of the pills existence, it does not matter what she would have or wouldn’t have done…). The actual answers comes from the Sawhorse (usually considered “the most stupid of the entire party” but whose good sense here saves the day). And it is… starting to count at one half. As in, the half of a one. So it goes “One-half, one, three, five, seven, nine, eleven, thirteen, fifteen, seventeen”. Yeah I don’t know either how it works or what kind of mathematics Baum used, but apparently it works! With a slight side effect…
Tip is the first to use the “Silver Pills” as they are called, so he swallows one and starts counting – but as soon as he is done counting he feels an immense pain, so great he has “contortions”, rolls at the bottom of the Gump, and screams of “murder” and “fire”, claiming the pills poisoned him. However as soon as he makes his wish “I wish I had never swallowed the pill”, the pain stops, because the wish is done. The party later decides to have the Woggle-Bug swallow the pills to make the wishes, because he is the only other creature able to eat things, and the stomach of a Woggle-Bug is much stronger than those of young human beings, so he does not feel the pain of the Wishing Pills.
# The main misadventure of our heroes journey to the South is that at one point they oversleep as the flying Gump travels through the sky, and they actually go beyond Glinda’s palace and the Quadling country, ending up in “rolling plains dotted with queer villages, where the houses, instead of being dome-shaped – as they all are in the Land of Oz – had slanting roofs that rose to a peak in the center”. There is also the mention of “odd looking animals” in the open plain. None of the party recognizes the countryside, despite their collective knowledge covering the entirety of Oz, so the Scarecrow deduces that the Gump actually managed to fly them past the sandy deserts at the south of Oz, and into “the terrible outside world” that Dorothy came from. Aka – our world. So as we see, in the early days of the Oz books, Baum did consider that Oz was somewhere in the middle of the United-States, and that beyond the deserts of Oz there wasn’t any other “fairy country”, but just our common world, plain and simple.
The party keeps flying until they find a place to land and turn back – they pass a “village so big that the Woggle-Bug declared it was a city”, and then they reach a “range of high mountains with many deep gorges and steep cliffs showing plainly”. This is where they decide to land (I do not know which kind of mountains the south of the United-States have…), though unfortunately the Gump’s wings break upon landing.
The strange thing however with these mountains is that… they have a “monster nest built by a colony of jackdaws in a hollow ledge of rock”, and “quite a lot of them” apparently due to the enormous number of things they gathered. The narration mentions that their nest is filled with the most “curious collection of small articles” (because the jackdaws are described as thieving birds stealing both useless things and valuable ones), and the heroes gleefully search into it for treasures (because they landed right next to the nest/in the nest, and they have nowhere else to go because they are at the top of a deep precipice). There they find a “beautiful diamond necklace” the Tin Man keeps for himself, two handsome bracelets of wrought gold for the Woggle-Bug, rings with “sparkling stones” such as rubies, amethysts and sapphires for the Scarecrow, a fine gold watch attached to a heavy fob for Tip, several jeweled brooches for Jack Pumpkinhead, and a lorgnette with a fine chain for the Saw-Horse. However, their “shopping” doesn’t remove their fear, because they mention that jackdaws are “very fond of pumpkins” (Jack Pumpkinhead) and they are also the “greatest enemies” of the woggle-bug species, and anyway they believe the numerous birds will attack them out of anger and “kill them” if they find the intruders in their nest.
The most strangest part of their findings in the jackdaws’ nest however is that it is filled with money – not just random money, but dollar bills (two dollar, five dollar, ten dollar, twenty dollar and fifty dollar bills, alongside a few one hundred and one thousand dollar bills). The jackdaws visibly stole them from the many American cities they travelled through, but the strange thing is that Tip actually recognizes the dollar bills as money and as dollar. Which is technically not possible given he comes from the Land of Oz, and normally Oz DOES NOT HAVE DOLLARS. The only money we saw so far was mostly coins and under the raw form of gold and jewels, and then Baum would even drop the idea of money even existing in Oz. So not only how could he know paper money, and how could Tip know what a dollar is? But anyway, they stuff the Scarecrow with the dollar bills to replace the hay they lost, and once the Gump is repaired (thanks to a wish) they continue their journey.
# Of course, to return to Oz they decide to go north, and after passing “several cities and villages”, they reach a “broad plain” where the houses are more and more scattered, until they finally reach the “wide, sandy desert” that separate Oz from the rest of the world. (So… technically you can reach Oz by plane, according to this book. Huh… must be quite easy to find when you think about it, once the flying technology is developed enough).
However the strangest thing is that, once they passed the desert, they actually arrive in the Munchkin Country, recognizable because the dome-shaped houses and the fences are all blue. (So it implies they were actually in the East of the USA, not the South… so the mountains were very probably the Appalachians). Though how could the Gump, who flew in a straight line to the South, have ended up in the East is a logical problem that doesn’t make much sense… Anyway. They try to use another Silver Pill to solve their problem but oh surprise! They forgot the pepper-box with the two last remaining pills in the jackdaws’ nest. Goodbye little deus ex machina! Hopefully for them they soon reach the Quadling Country (still by going on a straight line), because they notice all the houses and fences and trees become red. And so they can finally reach the palace of Glinda and land “the Thing” (when the Gump is not called Gump, it is called The Thing) in the “beautiful gardens” of Glinda.
# We do get a little description of the gardens of Glinda, which have a “velvety gren lawn” and a fountain that sends sprays of “flashing gems instead of water” high into the air, before they fall with a soft, tinkling sound in the carved marble basin. Glinda is quite fancy. We also see yet again the soldiers of Glinda – and a good parallel is made between Jinjur’s Army of Revolt and the soldiers of Glinda, due to them being two armies exclusively made of girls – but Glinda’s soldiers are clearly the “good” example due to them actually being armed (with swords and spears”, wearing “neat uniforms” instead of hand-made ones, and marching with “a skill and precision that proved them well-trained in the arts of war”. We also know that the captain commanding the troop that welcomes our heroes is actually Glinda’s private body guard. And the soldiers announce that Glinda actually knew they were coming and saw them arrive before they did – as the Scarecrow mentions it is normal because Glinda is mighty enough so that “nothing that goes in the Land of Oz escapes her notice”. (More on that later). As we see, this establishes a clear parallel with Mombi who also uses magic to learn about people’s locations and discover things because they are revealed to her.
We also have a mention that the throne of Glinda is made of “finely wrought gold”. It is also said that she is “greatly amused” by Jack Pumpkinhead and the Woggle-Bug, because they are creatures she never saw before and so she is quite curious about them.
# A main point about Glinda – her opposition to Mombi is also clearly made in the title. While Mombi is always “old Mombi the Witch”, Glinda is called “Glinda the Good, the celebrated Sorceress” or “the mighty Sorceress”. This seems to enter in contradiction with the hierarchy established in the beginning of the book, according to which a “sorceress” was merely the rank of magic practitioner under a “witch”, but here it is used as if “Witch” denoted wicked magic users, and “sorceress” good magic users.
As mentioned before she listens to the pleas and story of the Scarecrow and his friends, but all her answers are “I know. I know. I know already.”, and when they ask her to help for reclaiming the throne, she basically answers no. More precisely she mentions that Jinjur arranged to proclaim herself Queen of the Emerald City (since the beginning the crown disputed is referred to as the crown of the Emerald City only, not of all of Oz), and as such Glinda has no right to oppose her, making Jinjur the legal ruler. The Scarecrow says that Jinjur tried to destroy them, but it apparently doesn’t move Glinda ; he also mentions that Jinjur obtained the throne by stealing it from the previous ruler (himself), and this is when Glinda reveals a bit more of her thinking, by having the Scarecrow retrace the history of the crown.  According to him, he got the crown “from the Wizard and by the choice of the people”, but questioned by Glinda, the Scarecrow also adds that the Wizard “took” the crown from Pastoria, the former King. (All throughout the question, the Scarecrow is mentioned at being uneasy and confused by the intent look of the Sorceress). And once the questioning is done Glinda reveals why she refuses to help them: the throne of the Emerald City does not belong to General Jinjur, but is also does not belong to the Scarecrow. It actually belongs to Pastoria, “from whom the Wizard usurped it”. The Scarecrow has to admit it, but Pastoria is “now dead and gone”… To which Glinda drops the bomb: Pastoria has a daughter! Nobody knew that in Oz apparently, but Glinda insists she is the rightful ruler (and the Scarecrow agrees that if he can leave the crown to someone else who isn’t an impostor like Jinjur, he will be quite happy). Glinda explains that the daughter’s name is Ozma, and that she has tried in vain to discover her location for a very long time. According to the Sorceress, when the Wizard of Oz “stole” the throne from Pastoria, he also “hid” the girl in a secret place and through a “magical trick” that is unknown to Glinda he managed to prevent her from being ever discovered “even by so experienced a Sorceress as myself” she adds. To which begins a debate between the party because the Woggle-Bug explains he has been informed that the Wonderful Wizard of Oz “was nothing more than a humbug”, while the Scarecrow and Tin Man strongly defend that he was a “great Wizard” (though still guilty of some slight impostures).
Anyway, the visits of the heroes decide Glinda to try to find the girl again, and to do so she decides to use a book of hers she keeps in her library: a book “in which is inscribed every action of the Wizard while he was in our land of Oz”. To which she adds “or, at least, every action that could be observed by my spies”. Wait… GLINDA HAS SPIES IN OZ? And she was monitoring the Wizard the whole time? Well talk about a “Good” witch! Though to be fair, she is also identified as the “Queen of the Southland”, so maybe political actions do require… BUT WHAT AM I SAYING? SPIES! BIG BROTHER GLINDA IS WATCHING YOU!
Anyway she works all night looking in her book, and she finds three facts that appeared “suspicious” to her. Two of them are actually rubbish (he ate beans with a knife, and he limped slightly on his left foot). But the third seems to be the key to the mystery: the Wizard of Oz made “three secret visits to old Mombi”. Glinda learned through her spies that the Wizard “taught the old woman many of his tricks of magic”, and she thus deduces that he did so in exchange for something… Result: Mombi very likely helped the Wizard to hide Ozma, real heir to the throne of the Emerald City, in order for him to usurp the throne! Two facts here: the Wizard is depicted in this book as much more villainous than in the original one, and it seems that Mombi’s involvement with Jinjur wasn’t her first meddling with the history of Oz from the shadows.
Upon learning from Tip that Mombi is currently allied with Jinjur and living with her in the Emerald City, Glinda decides that she will march her army on the City to capture the old woman. Tip warns her that Mombi is a “terrible” and “obstinate” woman, but Glinda has no fear, because, in her own words, she is “quite obstinate herself”.
# And so marches the “Army of Glinda the Good”, looking very grand and imposing, with uniforms of prtty and gay colors, silver-tipped spears bright and glistening, their long shafts inlaid with mother-of-pearl. That’s just for the “girl soldiers” ; the officers all have “sharp, gleaming swords and shields edged with peacock-feathers”. The heroes follow the army on their flying Gump, and as for Glinda she rides in a “beautiful palanquin” with silken curtains, and resting upon the shoulders of twelve servants. (You could use your magic instead of exhausting your girls, you lazy witch!). When they finally arrive at the Emerald City (which takes only one long day, plus a bit of night), they camp in front of the city, and of course the Sorceress’ tent is described as “larger than the others” and made of “pure white silk”.
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Really, the rulers of Oz are not the best ones to dream for... When they are not wicked witches or lying usurpers, they are incompetent nitwits, cruel selfish brats, or so-called "good witches" that either do nothing or actually have doubtful methods of ruling... Oz - a happy fairy land for all the children! More like a political nightmare...  
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totalchaosgremlin · 2 months
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@yellowbrickramble love corner go crazy
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yellowbrickramble · 6 months
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Ozma right now: 🐥🐥🐥🐥🐥
This is based largely on my own relationship with dresses and the mirror when I was Ozma's age, but I'm perhaps channeling a bit of the spirit of Edward Einhorn's short story, "Ozma Sees Herself", found in Oz Story Magazine #3.
As part of my quest for quasi-historical accuracy, I decided it was okay to give Salye Soforth some anachronistic 70's punk fashion after researching the history of safety pins to make sure they existed in 1904. Also, she's drinking a brand of root beer that no longer exists. I did enough research to make sure I didn't use the logo from the 1960s or 2000s, though I'm not 100% sure it was available in ready-to-drink bottles by then (they only sold it as extract and syrup early on).
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gastrophobia · 4 months
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Okay, we're doing this again.
In round one Logan got 15.8%, and in round two Logan got 23.7%
This time we're adding a new challenger! Will Logan gain more ground? Will Dorothy stay at the top spot? Or will Jinjur take a surprise lead?
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Why are they blonde
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fanartbyherd · 7 months
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Fan art for the wizard of oz I did on top of an assignment.
It’s not finished, but I’m done with the sketchbook it is in, meaning that it’s unlikely to ever be finished.
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mercurybomber · 1 year
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some of my favorite of Val Biro's Marvelous Land of Oz illustrations. i especially like the tin woodman's little colander hat.
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cmonbartender · 6 months
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The marvelous land of Oz (1904) - John R Neill
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thegeekofoz · 4 months
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And now- a sequel
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francoisl-artblog · 8 months
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Commission for @harrietjinjur
Here's Harriet again, on her quest to fight evil Dice in the sky, alongside a magician that have no idea how to deal with any of this.  it's a really quick resume, but if you want to know what the heck is happening here, don't forget to check out more of Harriet's misadventure !
Harriet Jinjur (c) @harrietjinjur Artwork made by me.
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harrietjinjur · 10 months
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New comic where I fondly remember my crappy life back home.
(Written by @refrainbowno1 and art by @rachelordwayart)
(cw/rdia: strong language)
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witchesoz · 1 year
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What we know of Oz: Book 2, the Army of Revolt
Of course, one of the huge addition to the Oz mythos this book offered was Jinjur and her army. # Let’s get it out of the way – Jinjur and her army isn’t a proof that Baum was misogynistic. Baum was known to be in favor of gender equality. He accepted quite well the ideas carried on by his mother-in-law, Matilda Joslyn Cage, who was quite a famous woman at the time: a women’s suffragist, but also an activist of Native Americans rights, an abolitionist, and a freethinker! This sympathy for women shows in Baum’s works: in Oz, all of the real and power leaders are females (Witches, Queens, the major allies, villains and heroes are often females) while men are either normal, useless, goofy or fake (Dorothy’s companions, The Wizard, etc…). The confusion this book sparks is simply because Jinjur and her army were conceived as, what you could call misogynistic caricatures. In this book, Baum wanted to denounce many things at once, many attitudes he noted concerning the current suffragette movement. Three things, I would say. 1- A first type of “fake suffragettes”: the ones that didn’t advocate for a gender-equality, but rather for a reversal of the gender roles, meaning forcing the men into the same deprived position as women, and only carried on the same hatred and discrimination. 2- A second type of “fake suffragettes” that joined the movement not to see society progress, but just to gain more advantages and powers, while also trying to protect all of the advantages and comfort the old society where women are “weak things supposed to be taken care of by men”. Basically, these two-faced suffragettes that played on both sides trying to hog all of the advantages of both conditions. 3- Finally, Jinjur was also the manifestation of the anti-suffragette fears, and the embodiment of all the clichés, stereotypes and stupid believes men had towards the suffragettes. Of course, Jinjur is supposed to be a bad role model, a failure and a villain, but it doesn’t mean Baum thought the suffragette were as ridiculous as her! In fact, note that every time the male characters try to defeat her they fail and have to flee, and that the only one able to actually put an end to this is an actual wise and fair queen, with a trained and professional all-women army, and that acts not out of selfishness but merely to put back the rightful ruler on the throne, a rightful ruler that will end up being a girl! Try to find some misogyny in that. (Well to be honest the male heroes have sometimes some misogynistic moments, but it can be excused since said heroes are also proven to be foolish and ignorant many times, and thus are to be taken as goofs and clowns more than serious characters.) # Jinjur is described as a tall girl with a splendor “almost barbaric”,  walking with swifts strides and an air of decision and importance ; having a pretty face but that usually bears an expression of “discontent coupled with a shade of defiance or audacity”. Tip meets her by pure luck, on his way to the Emerald City, as she is eating her lunch. She immediately turns him into her basket carrier, without even asking him for his name or anything, as if he should be naturally be obeying her. She ereveals herself as the General of the “Army of Revolt”, an army entirely made of women, taken out of the four corners of Oz. They goal is to march on the Emerald City and conquer the Scarecrow, with Jinjur overthrowing him and taking power. Why? Because, according to Jinjur, the City has been ruled by men for too long and it is time for Women to revolt against their “oppressors”, Men. Her army is made up of four hundred young women, separated in four companies, one for each country of Oz. All wear the same costume: a silken waist of emerald green, to represent the Emerald City they plan to conquer, and a skirt of four distinct colors (blue, yellow, red and purple, one strip of color on each side) – each girl wears at the front of her skirt the stripe of color that corresponds to her country. Since Jinjur’s front stripe is blue, we see that she comes from Munchkin Country. (Note that no girl in her army actually comes from the Emerald City). It all seems quite justified in a way, especially since the girls keep facing misogynistic comments by the men around them (the Guardian of the Gates telling them to go back to their mothers to “milk the cows and bake the bread”). The only one that doesn’t act in such a rude way towards them is Tip, who is rather worried about the girls dying because they are obviously unprofessional and untrained youths, something Jinjur brushes aside. And this is because Jinjur has ideas and arguments, you see, and this is where the whole feminist façade falls off. Because Jinjur is an extremely misogynistic woman, so to speak. She casually mentions that it is a miracle their plan wasn’t made public, because for her girls are naturally chatters and gossipers. She has her army use knitting needles as weapons, that they usually keep in their hair (not that knitting needles aren’t actually deadly, I know that, I played once a housewife that killed her husband with knitting needles, but still). Her whole strategy relies on how “men would never dare to hurt a woman”, and she specifically chose to only have “pretty faces” in her army to better seduce the enemy, refusing to have any ugly girl join it. Finally, when doing a prep talk to the girls, she quickly realizes what is her TRUE goal and what she really promised these girls (that actually don’t listen to her and spend their time chatting and eating as if they were on a picnic and not preparing a war): luxury. Jinjur (and her girls) want to steal all the “glittering gems” of the Emerald City to make rings, bracelets and necklaces, and to take the entire money of the City to buy a “dozen new gowns”. In general, the girls of Jinjur don’t mind the presence of Tip, but they all use him as pack-carrier without even talking to him, so the poor boy ends up with packets, wraps and packages weighing on his arms as he is dragged along the girls during their attack on the Emerald City. They defeat the Guardian of the Gates and the Soldier with Green Whiskers by attacking them with their needles and enter the City – they would have attacked the Palace straight away, if they actually didn’t stop by to dig out all the emeralds they saw out of the walls and the paving-stones with their knitting needles. This left enough time for Tip to warn the Scarecrow and prepares an escape, the greed and vanity of the girls preventing them from reaching their second goal of getting rid of the Scarecrow. Later, when talking with his friends, Tip mentions some things he over-heard the Army of Revolt say: they apparently intended to make a “rag carpet” out of the outside of the Scarecrow and use his insides to stuff their “sofa-cushion”, before attacking and conquering in a similar way the City of the Winkies and the Palace of the Tin Woodman. # Jinjur’s rule is quite terrible for the Emerald City. She immediately replace all the officials of the City, all male, with female versions of them (for example, she replaces the Guardian of the Gates with a “fussy little fat woman”, even though later the gates of the city are guarded by two young girls). She also forced all of the men of the city to do the chores their women were forced to do: sweeping, dusting, washing the dishes, taking care of the babies… All the men of the city are of course unsatisfied and worn-out, claiming that it is too tiring. (To which follows this very interesting exchange between one of the house-men and the Scarecrow: “If it is such a hard work as you say, how did the women manage it so easily?” “I really do not know. Perhaps the women are made of castiron.”) The women of the city seem to enjoy this new situation, spending times sitting in groups, gossiping and laughing, even mocking and disdaining the former ruler of the City. However, when we reach the end of the book, it is revealed that they grew weary of Jinjur’s regulations, because they couldn’t stand to eat the cooking of their husband, who were all very, very bad cooks, thus they gleefully accepted Jinjur’s defeat if only to cook themselves again. A joke that also indicates that Jinjur actually forbade the women from partaking into any kind of chore or “oppressive” activity. So, if we interpret everything we read, the women were forbidden from cleaning their house, no big deal, but also forbidden to cook and forbidden to take care of their OWN CHILDREN… Now the story gets a lot more messed up. As for Jinjur herself she spends her time on the throne with the “second-best crown” upon her head (a small crown apparently), eating caramels. At least that’s how she looks when the heroes visit her again. This scene also has some interesting dichotomy… on one side, Jinjur is shown to be right by many points. She points out that “the throne belongs to whoever is able to take it”, something the Scarecrow later thinks about and admit is right, while on the other side the Tin Woodman pretends that the laws “were never meant to be understood” and that it is “foolish to make the attempt” ; and the heroes propose all sorts of different ways to take back the throne from Jinjur. Ways that go from reasonable ones (The Scarecrow marrying Jinjur to become his King, or them offering Jinjur all the jewels she wants so she can go home) to ones that are much unreasonable, such as “giving her a good shaking” (note that this proposition comes from the Saw-Horse that is quite a violent creature, but still). So on one side, she is right. But on the other side, she is also shown to be wrong, because she is excessively cruel. She claims “I bear you no ill will, I assure you; but lest you should prove troublesome to me in the future I shall order you all to be destroyed.”, something that is obviously true given that when she invaded the City she planned to destroy the Scarecrow already. And she has a wicked plan for all of Tip’s companion, despite claiming “You are not human, and therefore it will not be wicked to demolish you”. She plans the Saw-Horse and the Pumpkinhead’s body to be chopped off to become kindling wood (and the pumpkin made into tarts), the Scarecrow to be used as a bonfire, the Tin Man to be cut into small pieces and “fed to the goats”, and the Woggle-Bug to be cooked in a green-turtle soup, or a Hungarian goulash, stewed and highly spiced.” Hopefully our friends escape by… unleashing the Field Mice upon the girls. Because, of course, girls are afraid of mice, aren’t they? And the entire Army of Revolt is reduced to shrieking girls hiding on tables when the mice start running around. In general, the girls are seen to less brave than they claim to be. The Army joked about conquering the Tin Woodman and the West of Oz, but when the Scarecrow escaped from her clutches and went to see the Tin Woodman, she was “very uneasy” because she remembers, as everyone does in Oz, the “deeds of these famous heroes”. The narration also seems to imply that Jinjur knows very well what the Scarecrow and the Tin Man did for Oz, but that she doesn’t care at all.
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This book is probably the most progressive of Baum but also the most problematic in terms of women representation Xp
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