I am a salty bitch that everyone is obsessed with this fan fiction relationship and nobody cares about how gay Dorothy and Ozma are with each other in canon.
Someone make a movie about those two instead, damnit.
FatesEnd
Dec 22, 2024 8:37AM
Seconded! Too much is tied to that mangled adaption, and now the feature film fanfic based on it will ensure it keeps stagnating as the sole vision of Oz.
Fanfiction that does everyone dirty at that. Tin Woodsman and Scarecrow, Dorothy's gay uncles who exhibit a wholesome relationship whilst raising philosophical questions about personhood and how belief interacts with reality? Straight normal guys who eventually get turned into other things A and B. Oscar, stage magician who ends up in a position of power, ends up letting it get to his head, abdicates, risks his life saving Dorothy and fights gargoyles whilst dual wielding flintlock pistols, and ends up getting to learn real magic as Glinda's apprentice? He's just a fascist asshole now. Glinda, 7 foot tall god-queen based on the author's feminist mother-in-law, commanding an army of amazons? She's a basic bitch now.
Hell, from what I can tell, whenever Dorothy shows up in the Wickedsphere, she has even less agency than MGM Dorothy.
The people deserve to see Ozma's piss-and-vinegar girlhusband on the big screen, damn it!
Flip Flap
Dec 22, 2024 5:46PM
Really, y'all? Wicked fucking rocks, and it's bringing new attention to the original Oz books as well. I don't really see how that could be a bad thing. I'm personally thrilled that Judy Garland doesn't have to be the undisputed face of Oz for the rest of time. Different interpretations can have value of their own!
Falleax Dec 21, 2024 9:28AM
I am a salty bitch that everyone is obsessed with this fan fiction relationship and nobody cares about how gay Dorothy and Ozma are with each other in canon.
Someone make a movie about those two instead, damnit.
FatesEnd Dec 22, 2024 8:37AM
Seconded! Too much is tied to that mangled adaption, and now the feature film fanfic based on it will ensure it keeps stagnating as the sole vision of Oz.
Fanfiction that does everyone dirty at that. Tin Woodsman and Scarecrow, Dorothy's gay uncles who exhibit a wholesome relationship whilst raising philosophical questions about personhood and how belief interacts with reality? Straight normal guys who eventually get turned into other things A and B. Oscar, stage magician who ends up in a position of power, ends up letting it get to his head, abdicates, risks his life saving Dorothy and fights gargoyles whilst dual wielding flintlock pistols, and ends up getting to learn real magic as Glinda's apprentice? He's just a fascist asshole now. Glinda, 7 foot tall god-queen based on the author's feminist mother-in-law, commanding an army of amazons? She's a basic bitch now.
Hell, from what I can tell, whenever Dorothy shows up in the Wickedsphere, she has even less agency than MGM Dorothy.
The people deserve to see Ozma's piss-and-vinegar girlhusband on the big screen, damn it!
Flip Flap Dec 22, 2024 5:46PM
Really, y'all? Wicked fucking rocks, and it's bringing new attention to the original Oz books as well. I don't really see how that could be a bad thing. I'm personally thrilled that Judy Garland doesn't have to be the undisputed face of Oz for the rest of time. Different interpretations can have value of their own!
last edited at Dec 22, 2024 5:47PM