#out of oz

[upongoblinhill]

𝓞𝓾𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓞𝔃

#illustration #artists on tumblr #my art #fantasy art #the wicked years #elphaba thropp #glinda upland #dorothy gale #son of a witch #wicked #out of oz #gregory mcguire #grimmerie #my wicked years brian rot is finally over

[wyrd-author]

So I’ll be the first to admit this is a weird one. I wanted to experiment with combining separate books into one large omnibus. The Wicked Years Series (which was the inspiration for the musical Wicked) is so full of weird things I figured it would be fitting to combine them into one thicc volume. It’s now up for sale in my shop at the link in my bio.

All four Wicked Years books (Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, Out of Oz) were bound together in black hand dyed sienna leather with green foiled page edges and green vinyl tooling. Normally I would have charged more for this thicc boy but the green foil page edging is a little splotchy in some parts because it was impossible to press the pages tight enough for the edging process.

#wicked #wicked musical #wicked movie #gregory maguire #bookbinding #bookstagram #bookaholic #books and reading #bookshelf #son of a witch #a lion among men #out of oz #wizard of oz #oz #wicked witch #wicked witch of the west #green

[mudefrau]

crying bc i realized this is the closest to animated *hell thropp we have (or him in any visual form)

wicked witch of the west's "bratty little brother"

annoying joker/"good-joke johnnycake"-Nanny

toys with his captives

wants to rule over OZ, not the west or east but all Oz

#shell thropp #cw shell thropp #legends of oz: dorothy's return #wicked the life and times of the wicked witch of the west #son of a witch #out of oz #gregory maguire #queued

[lillifaba]

A concept playbill and Gershwin Theater poster I made for a hypothetical Son of a Witch musical in honor of Pride month ;)

My take on a SOAW musical outline under the cut:

My idea for a SOAW musical is that it would take place eighteen years after Elphaba and Fiyero leave Oz and settle down in Ix, Ev or Fliaan. Liir would be the new protagonist and longs to be independent after being shielded away from the rest of the world by his parents. Like Elphaba, he inherits some of powers, but also has the ability to look into the past based on his location. When his best friend Nor is kidnapped and taken to Oz (Nor wouldn’t be related to him in this hypothetical musical) He escapes The Badlands and travels to Oz to find her. Once there he meets with Glinda for help, who has since taken over Oz and is in disbelief to learn that Elphaba left behind a son. However she’s later usurped by Sheltergod Thropp, Elphaba’s younger brother who seeks to abolish Animals from Oz just like the Wizard did. Liir joins the Loyal Oz Army and meets Trism who later becomes his accomplice and lover in taking down Shell, rescuing his friend and possibly all of Oz. With the help of Trism, Candle, and his Animal companion Iskinaary, he seeks to finish what his mother started.

I’m thinking much like the Wicked musical, this would adapt some parts from the book but would also include some changes. Though this version could be a bit darker and mature while still keeping the light heartedness Wicked has. Liir would have his “Defying Gravity” moment after he escapes the army and goes rogue, then towards the end he declares himself as the son of the witch of the west. 

Idina Menzel, Kristen Chenoweth and Norbert Leo Butz would reprise their roles as Elphaba, Glinda, and Fiyero (and they’d probably be replaced with actors who have previously played the characters every season) Stephen Schwartz, Joe Mantello, and Winnie Holzman would come back to create the show with Susan Hilferty for costume design.

This will probably never happen but it was fun to come up with lol xD

#Son of a Witch #son of a witch musical #wicked #wicked musical #wicked the musical #The Wicked Years #out of oz #Wizard of Oz #liir #liir thropp #elphaba #elphaba thropp #fiyero #fiyero tigelaar #fiyero tiggular #Glinda Upland #Galinda Upland #Galinda #glinda #trism #Trism bon Cavalish #Broadway #broadway concept #playbill #musicals #idina menzel #kristin chenoweth #norbert leo butz #queer

[haveyoureadthisfantasybook]

vote YES if you have finished the entire book.

vote NO if you have not finished the entire book.

(faq · submit a book)

#fantasy #books #The Wicked Years #Gregory Maguire #Out of Oz #poll #result: no #l: English

[someonetookmyawesomename]

Character Analysis of Liir Thropp

From the Wicked book Series by Gregory Maguire

By: ThePlotMurderer

Writer of Pilgrim Souls. A 16,000 word fanfic detailing how Liir and Trism reunite after all they've been through

#wicked #wicked the life and times of the wicked witch of the west #liir #liir thropp #son of a witch #SOAW #Out of Oz #OoOz #Gregory Maguire #Maureen Murdock #Heroine's Journey #Character Analysis #Female Gender Roles in literature

[chavisory]

Most of us flee home to escape how we seem to be becoming. Some of us never stop fleeing. But in this world, hearth-tenders are urgent agents, too.

Gregory Maguire, The Oracle of Maracoor

#quotes #wicked #out of oz #another day #the oracle of maracoor #over the rainbow

[azazel-dreams]

Out of Oz by Gregory Maguire

Rating: ❤️❤❤❤❤

#Out of Oz #A Lion Among Men #books #book recommendations #Wicked #Gregory Maguire #pastiche of the wizard of oz #book reviews

[books-to-add-to-your-tbr]

Title: The Wicked Years

Author: Gregory Maguire

Series or standalone: series

Publication year: 1995

Genres: fiction, fantasy, retelling, classics

Blurb: In the land of Oz, animals talk and strive to be treated like first-class citizens, Munchkinlanders seek the comfort of middle-class stability, and the Tin Man becomes a victim of domestic violence. And then there is the little green-skinned girl named Elphaba, who will grow up to become the infamous Wicked Witch of the West - a smart, prickly, and misunderstood creature who challenges all of the preconceived notions about the nature of good and evil.

#the wicked years #wicked the life and times of the wicked witch of the west #son of a witch #a lion among men #out of oz #gregory maguire #series #1995 #fiction #fantasy #retelling #classics

[thelanguageofbirdsrp]

well, this has the potential to drag me out of jcink retirement ... 😍

It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.

💖

#Gregory Maguire #Out of Oz #The Wizard of Oz #Wicked #Somewhere Over the Rainbow #asked and answered

[homosexualslug]

if I had a nickel for every time seth green played the nice boyfriend of the bookish, nerdy girl who fights supernatural beings with her group of friends (called the scooby gang) led by her pretty but badass best friend (played by sarah michelle gellar) before she eventually came out as a lesbian, I'd have two nickels.

#it's just SO funny #btvs #buffy the vampire slayer #scooby doo #trick or treat scooby doo #scooby doo 2022 #velma #velma scooby doo #lesbian velma #willow rosenberg #seth green #willow and oz #willow x tara #fun fact almost all of the girls in this nerdy student org I was in in college crushed on the same nerdy nice red haired guy too #and most of them were bi/pan/ace or came out as lesbian later on #what an enigma #velma dinkley

[mudefrau]

this guy

#this is the untwinkiest i'm willing to draw my men. sorry #i 1st drew him with brown eyes but the canon said cobalt 😩 #commander cherrystone #<-i've been miscalling him captain cherrystone in early mentions #out of oz #a lion among men #son of a witch #wicked years

[lillifaba]

I THINK I FINALLY FOUND OUT WHERE LIIR’S NAME COMES FROM!

A very long while ago, someone asked about the origins of Liir’s name. I came up with this convoluted, nonsensical answer that probably wasn’t anywhere near spot on but at least reasonable in my eyes.

Or so I thought...

I bring to you: Tales Told in Oz. A collection of very short lore stories written by Maguire published by Madras Press. They’re mini tales about Oz that read kind of like fairytales for kids. They weren’t very popular and aren’t available in major retail stores so if you want one, you’ll have to go to the press website and hope that they still have some available. I was lucky lol;;

Here’s a snippet about Lurline in the chapter Skellybones in Fir-Cloak, A Tale From The Lurline Cycle:

“Scholars believe there have been several dozen tales in which Lurline or, in Old Ozish, Liirlina consorted with various men she had just created in order to gestate aspects and attributes of the world.” 

So Liir’s name comes from Lurline’s original name in Ozish, Liirlina (Ozish being the language that those in Oz speak instead of English from my understanding) Considering Liir was born and raised in a monastery, it makes sense he would have a religious name given to him by the Maunts. My interpretation or headcanon if you will, is that Liir’s name was originally a girl’s name that eventually became a male name like Ashley, Dana, Hilary, Lauren, Shelby, etc...  (or if we want to really break gender norms, his name can something unisex akin to the names of Logan, Riley or Parker) Or it can be a name that like with most cultures has different variations depending on the language. For example the name Joseph can be translated to Yousef, Jose,  Yusef, so on and so forth. 

Or I could be going crazy again because I’m paranoid and lonely all the time and using my baby boy as a way to cope ; u ;

#I have a lot of free time that I should be using more productively if you couldn't tell by now #wicked #wicked the musical #Son of a Witch #out of oz #tales told in oz #Wizard of Oz #Liir #liir thropp #Elphaba #elphaba thropp #fiyero #fiyero tiggular #fiyero tigelaar #fiyeraba #gregory maguire #l frank baum

[beyondtheciouds]

#wicked #gregory maguire #out of oz #rain thropp #brides of maracoor #oracle of maracoor #wickeduniverse #characters i love

[someonetookmyawesomename]

Hi! Sorry if I'm being a bother, but I just finished Son of a Witch and Out of Oz, and I noticed that Liir only refers to Candle as his 'wife' (the family tree in the beginning of the book says otherwise), but he's always very creative with his nicknames for Trism. You're kind of the expert on these things, and I was wondering if you noticed them too.

Oh this isn't any trouble at all! I'm actually happy to see a new person get interested in Liir/Trism!

Anyway, I DID notice that Liir's way of referring to Trism is much more colorful compared to Candle! Though NGL, I haven't read the books in a hot minute 'cause Uni is kicking my ass, so my recollection of details may be hazy, but I'm gonna tell you anyway HAHAHAHAHA

I think Liir refers to Candle as his "wife" because he feels devotion towards her. As the mother of his child, and the first person to care for him when he became an adult, she's played a very big role in his life. He calls her his wife because she's basically the only person he knew who's willing to put up with him and hasn't abandoned him.

Throughout his youth, Liir has struggled with his loneliness and despairs the fact that "Nobody will ever come looking for him". When Candle arrives, he's no longer alone and he finally has someone waiting for him whenever he goes somewhere.

On the other hand, Liir is much more creative and flowery with his thoughts about Trism, because he's completely and utterly besotted. Unlike his feelings for Candle, Liir's feelings for Trism are brought by attraction, not necessarily devotion.

I mean, if you read the books, Liir goes to great lengths to reminisce about Trism's looks. From his blonde hair to his apparently very nice ass (I still think it's hilarious Maguire added this detail), Liir spends an inordinate amount of time admiring Trism's appearance.

Not only that, bur Trism also plays a very impactful role in Liir's life. While Candle may have given Liir the domestic life he always wanted and spent roughly 2 decades with him, Trism is the one who is present during the turning points in Liir's life, not Candle. So it makes sense that Trism takes a lot of space in Liir's head.

Trism was the one who told Liir how to enter the military. He helped him complete his plans. Finally, when liir had to pick sides during the climax of his life, it was Trism who told him to "make his own choices for his own reasons". Basically confronting him head-on with his biggest flaws, his lack of initiative and self-identity.

Unlike Candle who is mainly a comfy person Liir can go home to, Trism is the one pushing him to take action throughout his life. They may not have spent that much time together, but every encounter they have sends their lives spiraling into a completely different direction. That's why I think Trism takes so much real-estate in Liir's mind.

Those are my thoughts anyway. Glad you decided to ask me! I'm flattered you think I'm an expert on this, but I'm really not TBH. I'm just a zoomer who's completely in love with the relationship between a neurotic witch boy and his sexy but really full of himself soldier BF.

I hope I gave a satisfactory answer, and feel free to give your own two cents! Don't worry about being a bother too! Talking about Liir/Trism is a stress-reliever for me!

#wicked #liir thropp #liir #son of a witch #trism #trism bon cavalish #liir/trism #out of oz #BTW just a random thought: I can't believe this is all just based on wizard of Oz fanfiction by Gregory Maguire

[vaxxman]

Could I request Medic having The Mom Grip on Scout’s shoulder after the speedy moron almost let a mercenary secret slip while they weee getting groceries?

Three Europeans and two Americans walk into a grocery store in New Mexico.

I hope this is the right meme.

More silliness below.

This comic is the antithesis of the "wtf is a kilometre" joke.

The faces they make when they can't quite identify the type of brown bread in the bread aisle.

You don't know how [insert nationality here] you are until you go overseas and things are different.

Spy obviously has no problems with pretending to know how much a gallon of milk is, he just peeks into his conversion chart notes, pretending it's his shopping list.

I want to think Heavy is completely fine with having to readjust to a new unit system, he just eyeballs most practical things anyways by holding them up and mumbling about how they approximately weigh like a chicken or his kettle bell etc. He's always been living in practical ignorant bliss.

Medic has a peer reviewed meltdown the first time he realises there's no uniformity in "a cup of ____" because every object has different densities. He's diligent about memorising the conversion rates for ounces, pounds, the most common things etc., and recovers ok. He goes through the same stages of grief rage when he finds out about distances and lengths.

Just remember four inches are 10.16 cm and pray no one asks you to specify anything bigger than inches.

Everyone does a mental victory lap when they manage to guess how much Celsius the weather is because they keep forgetting it's Celsius*5/9+32=Fahrenheit, Engineer reminds them patiently.

The true victories are the correct temperature guesses we've made along the way.

One time, a friend asked me if I actually knew how much a tablespoon of flour was in gramms to convince me that metric users also make use of volume based units without thinking about them. But little did she know a heaped spoonful of 405 flour is about 15g and a level tablespoon is 10g.

They claim Oolong just tastes better when it's boiled to 80°C exactly with a Bunsen burner.

You only asked for one scene but somehow I came up with a bunch of other things. This post was drawn across 2 months so the artstyle is all over the place. Thanks for your ask!

#team fortress 2 #tf2 #tf2 medic #tf2 scout #tf2 spy #tf2 heavy #tf2 soldier #Medic's reaction to a stick of butter is 100% based on my own reaction after reading an American recipe for the first time #Like I didn't know butter in America came in this normed stick-form I genuinely thought it was some arbitrary unit like ??? A Stick?? #As in I didn't know if the recipe required the butter to be in this specific shape; like sometimes you have to add butter in shaves or molt #no biggie lemme whittle away at my butter block until it's shaped like a stick? And then I learnt it was the portions that butter comes in #Cut me some slack; I'm used to recipes using eggs as the scale-up ingredient; not butter #I also learnt that medical labels is where metric units are mostly encountered simply because medicine is international #But that is the main reason why I think Medic would not realise he'd have to deal with imperial units until he goes grocery shopping #The man's just been ignoring the “oz” information right below everything he's ever used; out of sight out of mind #I want to think Engi is the most normal person about the entire metric-imperial-units thing he just does some mental arithmetic and done #King just learned système international d'unités during one of his 11 phds; it's not unrealistic