#post by oz

[octopus-defence-squad]

she's something haunted. something of the sea.

(i wrote a song for this, and am working on a more animated version to go with it, but here is my gem design for season 10! watched a lot of dredge while making it)

#geminitay #gemini tay #hermitcraft #hermitcraft s10 #my art #post by oz #art by oz #geminitay fanart #im not GOOD at songs and stuff but it is caught in my head #so im slowly learning how to make music for it #but its taking forever so im posting these now! #similarly with the moving light and hair aspects. taking forever #anyways. hope you like it!

[adobe-outdesign]

The notes on that last Muppet poll I made made me realize that most people seem to mistakenly believe that Muppet adaptations of classic literature are parodies, which isn't true. you have to everything dead straight. in fact, the key to making a Muppet adaptation is to be so faithful to the source material that it's more accurate than 90% of other non-Muppet adaptions

#muppets #the muppets #muppet christmas carol #muppet treasure island #outdesign posts things #the only muppet adaptation that's a parody is muppets wizard of oz and we don't talk about that one #muppet adaptions are allowed to be funnier in tone and might cut down on the amount of death a bit. but the plot beats are usually on point #greatest hits

[fabcreature]

you know what, since we've been talking about how annoying it is when people react like "what drugs were they on when they wrote this 🤪" when someone is creative, i just wanna say

everyone who says "HOW IS THIS A KIDS' MOVIE 😱😱", when a kids' movie is a little bit out of the box and features dark or deep imagery and meanings, owes me one thousand euros

#coraline #nightmare before christmas #return to oz #spirited away #secret of nimh #sorry you guys are fucking boring #kids can watch things with more artistic merit than paw patrol you know #children's media can be interesting and deep and dark #kids aren't made of glass. they can handle creepy things. they can Enjoy creepy things. #so you know. shut the fuck up and give me one thousand euros #eg posts

[qiinamii]

"Xiao does things" (and friends) twitter log part 2

-- UPDATE: removed some of the arts to make its own individual post since I am bad at organizing, sorry! (but the last one is new lol) xD

#the last part and im so close to finishing up posting everything on twitter!! sorry for not answering the asks as of late though #been busy as usual #hard to believe i drew this much silly xiaos over a year #i think he deserves a little more fun with other ppl he trust either friends or strangers #not just solace and peace #qiiarts #xiao #lumine #traveler #paimon #zhongli #ganyu #fischl #kaveh #MEHRAK #oz #THE LAST TWO GETS ME LOSING IT its based on a design dynamic meme back in twt and i love the sheer energy the op portrayed them #draw ur wacko pairs like this #i couldve made the music xiao-lumine-venti-kazuha art and the pant jakt one a separate post but i got lazy BUT #ill try to post the separate one anyways so there Will be two of them (or ill delete them from the this log) #great organizing

[finalatomicbuster]

Oz (1997-2003) ─ 4.08 "You Bet Your Life"

#oz #chris keller #christopher meloni #chris meloni #mine #userpedro #usermichi #i wanted to post this on my main but it's f*cked forever i guess

[mcytblr]

whoopsies. ignore literally every reblog that was here that has nothing to do with mcytblr. i cannot delete posts oops

#post by oz #mod ozzie #look man im just the mod that stepped u #not an admin lol #also i keep forgetting to check with fast reblog lol

[cursemewithyourkiss]

*I tried to select the films that come up the most and the highest on lists of the best films ever, both those by critics and those based on audience votes. I understand there are several others that you see a lot as well, but there are only limited options and I think I managed to select the ones you see the very most.

#the wizard of oz #citizen kane #casablanca #singin' in the rain #vertigo #12 angry men #lawrence of arabia #2001: a space odyssey #the godfather #schindler's list #the shawshank redemption #pulp fiction #my polls #my post

[viktors-filipina-girlfriend]

I need them so bad. (They're fictional and an asshole)

#i just remembered i can have more than one f/o itz over for everyone #where my ppl w asshole f/oz at!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #this one is for yall #i love asshole trope #f/o community #i love my f/o #f/o #average f/o post #f/o post #selfshipper #self shipping #<3 #erm #HELP I FORTGOR I HAD THIS SIDEBLOG

[vanessacarlysle]

THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939), dir. Victor Fleming

#filmedit #userrobin #userfarahz #the wizard of oz #* #help does anyone know how to use that fiddle code for gradient colors in the new post editor?

[salmonella-destroyer-of-worlds]

#dank memes #funny post #meme #dank #funny #silly #funny pics #funny pictures #dankest memes #humor #memes #comedy #anime #anime memes #alice in wonderland #wizard of oz #chronicles of narnia #isekai

[octopus-defence-squad]

i’m really feeling that joe hills speech about jumping on mailboxes right now.

after more than half a decade of wanting to and actively expressing it, i finally cut most of my hair off. and i built it up so much in my head a part of me thought i would end up disappointed. that i would never do it and that just accomplishing it would leave me feeling empty.

BUT NO!!

I did it and i’m JOYOUS. i look in the mirror and the face that stares back looks like a boy! looks a bit closer to the one i’ve wanted for so long!!

keep jumping on mailboxes.

#post by oz #rambling #trans #ME!! i’m trans #joe hills #just bc i’m thinking a lot about him #and i don’t want to tag him but if he looks through the tag and sees this…

[gaylactic-fire]

Nobody on A03 has written the very specific fic you want to read. 12 dead, countless injured.

#fires posts #ramblings #hate being a L/oZ fan fr #fire lovehates a03

[thegracefulwillow]

Ah, that's the great puzzle! – Alice in Wonderland, Chapter II

Hi @the-mad-owl I was your secret santa this year! Thank for the alice in wonderland prompt, I absolutely loved playing with this idea :D

Thank you @i-prefer-the-term-antihero for the organization again this year!!

To make a long post even longer, here's the first three panels in close up & with no text :)

#phsecretsanta23 #pandora hearts #ph #oz vessalius #jack vessalius #description in alt text #my art #long post #eyestrain #ouuughhh i hope the quality of the upload is okay enough i hate this #anyway i'm a sucker for alice in wonderland motifs in ph and also aiw in general i had a lot of fun w this

[xamag-draws]

BBR thoughts 2024

Since I mentioned that I finally dusted off an old project of mine and was ruminating on how I'd remake it, I thought I'd elaborate a little, now that I've solidified some concepts. For funsies

This is gonna be a bit of a long and unfocused one, but I don't share my personal thoughts here often, especially the stuff about my projects I always marinate in. And for once it's something that people have existing context for, so hey why not

So for anyone who hasn't been following me for a gajillion years, The Black Brick Road of OZ was a webcomic that I posted around 2013-2015, back when I was in highschool going on college (which is kinda crazy to think about). It was sort of a darker twist on The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, although I definitely leaned a lot more into dark humor more than anything in those first few chapters

I don't think it's available to read anywhere anymore, and I know people have been asking me about it. So here's the full proper archive of BBR, as full as it can be with deceased Flash

I totally used it as an excuse to shamelessly and self-indulgently experiment. It had interactive pages and GIFs and was wayyy too overproduced for what I could handle or what was necessary, but I did have great fun making it while it lasted

Unfortunately, that excess and the fact that I've changed too much as a person by the time I was in college is what ultimately killed it. The direction I wanted to go in was practically unrecognizable from the original idea started back in 2011, so there were many old hold-ups that I felt ruined it

At the time I kinda wished I could start/rewrite it all over, but considering that I pretty much had the entire script done at that point, it felt like a pointless sisyphean task. So I just put it on a shelf and didn't look back for about 8 years, because I didn't know what else to do

Now to be fair, the nature of my art has always been iterative and cyclical; when I feel like my creative juices have run dry I prefer to leave a project to marinate and move on to something else; cycle through other old things and bring in new skills and perspectives into the mix when I'm ready again. Not very productive, but it is what makes me happy to work on my OCs; I'm doomed to hit a wall with them eventually and I need some time to be able to find a new direction

So that said, I'm glad that BBR was left to marinate for that long. I don't think I was prepared, emotionally or intellectually, to tackle it again until now. The Wizard of Oz book (and the entire series of them, really) has always been near and dear to my heart, but there's a lot of context around it that I'm only unpacking now that I'm older

I think I always inherently feel negatively about the stuff I've made in the past, like its faults always jump out to me more than the positives, especially the more time passes. I've never liked that, and I do really appreciate the kind things people have to say about BBR to this day. The fact that it still can be recognized and remembered is very sweet

When I left it, I already found it "kinda cringe", and that feeling only deepened with years. When I took my first look back at it, asking the question "how would I rewrite it now?", at first I took a very cynical approach, as in "everything would have to be torn down"

But the more I sat on it, the more I found that I still see some merit and charm in the ideas I was putting out; I just didn't know how to execute them at the time (not to pretend that I know what I'm doing now, but I certainly know more at least). Turns out a lot of my old concepts could be changed substantially with just a few small tweaks. So I'd say that's a nicer way to think about my previous work

If you haven't seen yet, I posted a first draft of my new designs for some of the characters (the main group, the Goods and the Wickeds). Definitely subject to change, but more or less how I see them now

I'm just playing with these concepts; by no means would I attempt to remake BBR right this moment. Call it a pipe dream among my other ones. But just for fun, this is the direction I'd like to take:

Nowadays I'd probably make it a visual novel, with more emphasis on the visual part than the novel because I'm no English prose writer by any means. It'd still let me play a little with the interactivity while helping cut some corners on the drawing part (only some, I imagine I'd go hog wild anyway)

I've always intended for some events inspired by the sequel books to take place in BBR's past. Stuff like Jinjur's revolt or Ozma's rule preceeds the main events here. So I think it would be fun to follow the past of a few key characters alongside the main story. One chapter focusing on the present quest to see the Wizard, then one focusing on the past events (that are maybe reflective thematically); rinse and repeat

I'm also sticking a little closer to the original text in some regards. Not everything that I enjoy from the books would be translated here, it's still just a very loose fantasy on the material; but I'd like to be closer in spirit at least

I like mature, wise and powerful Glinda, I like kind and vulnerable Tin Man, I like the Wizard being a pathetic yet loveable liar, so I'm sprinkling in more of that for example

I'd like to keep some whimsy, but make it more grounded and a bit more serious to be coherent in tone. I think the original TWWOOZ book was a more realistic fantasy in some ways, even for the standards of the time; I like its simple but vivid tactile descriptions and details like bringing attention that Dorothy needed to eat and sleep

I find it funny that Baum specifically was averse to making his books scary or unpleasant, finding that unnecessary for telling a compelling kids story, but they still can get pretty dark and disturbing, at least for our modern sensibilities. Let's just say that I intend to use the Evoldo and Chopfyt storylines for my purposes. In that way, I feel like a "darker" Wizard of Oz retelling can still mostly be tonally in line with the original and balance it with enough heart and occasional humor

I slowly grew to appreciate the quaint old-timey quality of the original series, as well. The first book is both timeless and very much a product of the 1900s. Originally I tried to give it a little modern or at least anachronistic spin, but it was moreso because it's what I knew best, so these days I'd rather intentionally lean into the time period. Still not fully historically accurate by any means, but at least directly acknowledging the influence

The events of the story span across 40 years of these characters' lives, so I'm drawing inspiration from the entire so-called La Belle Epoque: the time period around 1880s-1920s. Basically I'm cooking, and my soup is old Victorian fashion morphing into Edwardian fashion and slowly inching towards flappers

Some new Dolly outfits

Lots of crazy things, political changes and innovations were happening at the turn of the century, which I think is noted and reflected by Baum in the books as well; the character of Tik-Tok might not blow any minds now, but he was one of the first robot characters in literature at that point; and don't even get me started on Jinjur, etc. Plenty of really interesting stuff one could lightly ponder in an Oz adaptation these days

Aesthetically, art nouveau has always been a big artistic influence for me, and it'd definitely be its time to shine here. John R. Neill's illustrations of the Oz books often keep me company as well. Nouveau architecture in particular fits that fairytale whimsy extremely well imo

I'd allow myself a little bit of art deco here and there, but ultimately its intimidating geometrical splendor is an antithetical to the flowery nature of nouveau and I associate it with a completely different era. Definitely fitting some characters like my Wicked Witch of the West, but shouldn't be overused

One of my main problems with the original BBR was that eventually I lost track of what it was even about; and the original ending felt too mean and unfulfilling to be worth it. Now I'd like to stick to the theme of home and family as my main theme, but in a different, more bittersweet way than in the book

An interesting connection I made is that a lot of my aforementioned older key characters (the Witches, Jinjur, the Nome King, etc) all came from the same reformatory as kids, that's how they know each other. In my recent research I learned that in those reformatories it was usually frowned upon to release the children back to the families, which were seen as the original corrupting influence regardless of the circumstance. The reformatory did everything in its power to cut that connection and make itself the only family those wayward kids were supposed to know and love. That's an unexpected tie into the theme of home that I'd like to explore as well

So yeah that's the current state of it. I have a bunch of outfit concepts I'm slowly cooking, although I'm now sure whether I'd post them... But I do miss these funny guys, and I'm glad some people still do as well :)

#my art #xam rambles #the black brick road of oz #long post #ohsees tag

[droewyn]

Tumblr Meme University: Life Skills 101

This works with any stainless steel object! They actually sell "magic soap" for this purpose, but save yourself the $7 and just grab a piece of flatware from your kitchen drawer. I use serving spoons for the larger surface area.

#tumblr meme university #uncommon “common knowledge” #garlic #this post has been brought to you by the 3 bulbs that are currently being infused into 24 oz of duck fat and ghee #another garlic tip: #to completely peel large quantities of garlic #(say 3 bulbs) #in about a minute #put the bulbs in a large hard-sided container with a lid #and shake the everloving fuck out of them #the cloves will separate and most of them will peel #the ones that don't will still be loosened and very easy to peel by hand

[retracexcviii]

Oz and Break Nendoroids

Hello theree.

I have been working on this for a lot of hours. I made the cleaning and translation.

Repost with credits.

#pandora hearts #ph #Oz Vessalius #edits #gilbert nightray #alice #b rabbit #xerxes break #reim lunettes #cleaning #my cleaning #edit #my edit #translations #my translation #i have this page total clean and redraw #but i will keep it to myself for a while #maybe i will post that last Break clean