While People Are Inclined To Whip Out Their Phones And Film When They See Something Alarming Happening,

So... Wicked is coming back in style. And as such I need to make a little informative post.

Because since as early as my arrival onto the Internet, in the distant years of the late 2000s, a lot of people have been treating Wicked as some sort of "official" part of the Oz series. As part of the Oz canon or as THE "original" work everything else derives from (literaly, some people, probably kids, but did believe the MGM movie was made BASED on Wicked...) And as an Oz fan, that bothers me.

[Damn, ever since I watched Coco Peru's videos her voice echoes in my brain each time I say this line.]

So here's a few FACTS for you facts lovers.

The Wicked movie that is coming out right now (I was sold this as a series, turns out it is a movie duology?) is a cinematic adaptation of the stage musical Wicked created by Schwartz and Holzman, the Broadway classic and success of the 2000s (it was created in 2003).

Now, the Wicked musical everybody knows is itself an adaptation - and this fact is not as notorios, somehow? The Wicked musical is the adaptation of a novel released in 1995 by Gregory Maguire, called Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. A very loose and condensed adaptation to say the least - as the Wicked musical is basically a lighter and simplified take on a much darker, brooding and mature tale. Basically fans of the novel have accused the musical of being some sort of honeyed, sugary-sweet, highschool-romance-fanfic-AU, while those who enjoyed the musical and went to see the novel are often shocked at discovering their favorite musical is based on what is basically a "dark and edgy - let's shock them all" take on the Oz lore. (Some do like both however, apparently? But I rarely met them.)

A side-fact which will be relevant later, is that this novel was but the first of a full series of novel Oz wrote about a dark-and-adult fantasy reimagining of the land of Oz - there's Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, Out of Oz, and more.

However the real fact I want to point out is that Maguire's novel, from which the musical itself derives, is a "grimmification" (to take back TV Tropes terminology) of the 1939 MGM movie The Wizard of Oz. The movie everybody knows when it comes to Oz, but that everybody forgets is itself the adaptation of a book - the same way people forget the Wicked musical is adapted from a novel. The MGM movie is adapted from L. Frank Baum's famous 1900 classic for children The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - and a quite loose adaptation that reimagines a lot of elements and details.

Now, a lot of people present Maguire's novel as being based/inspired/a revisionist take on Baum's novel... And that's false. Maguire's Wicked novel is clearly dominated by and mainly influenced by the MGM movie, with only a few book elements and details sprinkled on top. Mind you, the sequels Maguire wrote do take more elements, characters and plot points from the various Oz books of Baum... But they stay mostly Maguire's personal fantasy world. Yes, Oz "books" in plural - because that's a fact people tend to not know either... L. Frank Baum didn't just write one book about the Land of Oz. He wrote FOURTEEN of them, an entire series, because it was his most popular sales, and his audience like his editor pressured him to produce more (in fact he got sick of Oz and tried to write other books, but since they failed he was forced to continue Oz novels to survive). Everybody forgot about the Oz series due to the massive success of the starter novel - but it has a lot of very famous sequels, such as The Marvelous Land of Oz or Ozma of Oz (the later was loosely adapted by Disney as the famous 80s nostalgic-cursed movie Return to Oz).

So... To return to my original point. The current Wicked movies are not directly linked in any way to Baum's novel. The Wicked musical was already as "canon" and as "linked" to the MGM movie as 2013's Oz The Great and Powerful by Disney was. As for Maguire's novel, due to its dark, mature, brooding and more complex worldbuilding nature, I can only compare it to the recent attempt at making a "Game of Thrones Oz" through the television series Emerald City.

The Wicked movies coming out are separated from Baum's novel at the fourth degree. Because they are the movie adaptation of a musical adaptation of a novel reinventing a movie adaptation of the original children book.

And I could go even FURTHER if you dare me to and claim the Wicked movies are at the 5TH DEGREE! Because a little-known-fact is that the MGM movie was not a direct adaptation of Baum's novel... But rather took a lot of cues and influence from the massively famous stage-extravaganza of 1902 The Wizard of Oz... A musical adaptation of Baum's novel, created and written by Baum himself, and that was actually more popular than the novel in the pre-World War II America. It was from this enormous Broadway success (my my, how the snake bites its tail - the 1902 Wizard of Oz was the musical Wicked of its time) that, for example, the movie took the idea of the Good Witch of the North killing the sleeping-poppies with snow.

It is the year of our gays 2023 and I am still feral about Power Rangers (2017)

"you are tearing me apart lisa" is such a raw line, you could read it in an ancient greek tragedy or a hardcore yaoi doujinshi but actually it's from the room

Me after season 4 of Voltron:

episode 8 looks awesome tbh

It's really not that hard to tell actors from their characters

Like, this is Loki

And this is Tom. They have different colored hair.

This is Castiel

And this is Misha. They wear different clothes.

This is Tony Stark

And this is Robert Downey Jr. They have different names.

Simple

Sinbad: Legends of the Seven Seas works well with Rick Riordan's characters!

Calypso: You…egotistical…  Apollo: You spoiled…  Calypso: Disrespectful!  Apollo: Deluded!  Calypso: Pretentious, pompous!  Apollo: High and mighty!  Calypso: Self-centered, untrustworthy, ungrateful, impossible, insufferable!  Apollo: At least I’m not repressed!  Calypso: REPRESSED?! I’ll show you “repressed!” ………………………………………………………………… Percy: (Throughout the Lightning Thief) Look, this is the way it works. First, I actually commit a crime, then you get to blame me for it! …………………………………………………………………. Magnus: And you are? Loki: Loki, the god of discord. You may have seen my likeness on the temple walls. Magnus: You know, they don’t do you justice. …………………………………………………………………. Carter: Do you realize how serious this is?Sadie: Do YOU realize how many times I’ve heard that today? …………………………………………………………………. Meg: So, how do we get down? Apollo: I don’t know. (She stares at him.) I don’t know yet. Meg: You scaled a thousand-foot tower of ice, and you don’t know how to get down? Apollo: Of all the ungrateful–! Look, if you’d rather take your chances on your own, that can be arranged! …………………………………………………………………. Magnus: [after one of the Viking men was eaten and then spit up my a sea monster but goes back to fighting it anyway] Give that guy a raise! ………………………………………………………………… Reyna: (Percy has his back to Reyna) Honestly you are the most boarish pig headed man I have ever met.

Percy: (Turns to respond) Hey Lady! I’ve seen the high born boys your type hangs out with ha… and I’m the only man you’ve ever met. …………………………………………………………………

Annabeth: Do you have a plan?

Percy: Uh… how about try not to get killed? ………………………………………………………………..

Piper: (Plotting how to escape the monster) So. What do we have to work with? Um… ropes?

Leo: Uh… no.

Piper: Grappling hooks?

Leo: Yeah-no.

Piper: (Exasperated) Your tools?

Leo: Hey, I’ve got this!

(Pulls out a knife)

Piper: Oh, great. He can pick his teeth when he’s done with us!

To The Person Who Was Sitting Near Me On The Train - Jordan Bolton

My first book ‘Blue Sky Through the Window of a Moving Car’ is out Nov 7th and is available to pre-order here - https://smarturl.it/BlueSky

Trans woman needs help to leave an abusive home!

My name is Sara and I'm a 19 year old trans woman in need of serious help.

I've been mentally and physically abused all my life by my parents and brother and that continues to this day. I'm trapped and afraid for my life. I can't take it anymore. I've been suicidal since I were a child and it's becoming too much to handle. I can't take this for who knows how many more years, I seriously can't. I feel so miserable living in these conditions and the dysphoria is intolerable. I can't do anything about it whatsoever because my parents are heavily against the lgbtq+ people. It makes me even more suicidal. I'm miserable and desperate.

My parents are keeping me dependent on them and not allowing me to work, making it impossible to escape. I did find an online job but my parents found out I was working in secret and made me quit. This has also made the home situation even worse :( I'm too scared to try to find anything else, especially non online because of the abuse that will follow. I can't do something like that in secret and I can't take the pain again.

For now I just need the money to guarantee my physical and mental safety: to move out to another city and be able to pay rent and food for a couple of months so I can find a job that pays enough to not end up homeless. I also need money for driving lessons and a cheap car so I'm not tied to one place and can go to work if it happens to be a non walkable distance away. Later I'd like to start therapy and transitioning but that's the lowest on my priority list right now, as survival's most important :(

I'm estimating it to come out like this:

- Rent and food for 2 months: ~$2800

- Driving lessons and a cheap car: ~$2100

- Transport to another city: ~$50

Total: ~$4950

I understand these are hard times and not everyone will be in the position to help me out and that's alright. I'm really sorry for having to ask like this :( I just don't know what to do anymore.

If anyone could donate even one kofi ($3) it will be immensely helpful for me to get out of here 🙏🏻 If you can't please please consider reblogging so more people can see this. Thank you very much!

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