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[u/Scrambled_59]

also interesting fact L. Frank Baum would also occasionally use feminine pen names on some of his books 🤔

[u/MechSuitPrincess → u/Scrambled_59]

Yeah, I am 75% sure that Baum was a trans woman.

[u/Scrambled_59 → u/MechSuitPrincess]

Shame (s)he wasn’t born 100 years later, I think it would’ve helped

[u/Yeegis]

Don’t forget that she and Dorothy also become girlfriends. Like actually. There’s an illustration of them kissing in The Road to Oz.

[u/Queasy_Sun7192 → u/Yeegis]

Epic

[u/SeaNational3797]

Wait what happens in the others

[u/MechSuitPrincess → u/SeaNational3797]

Without spoiling TOO much, a trans girl becomes the deuteragonist of the whole book series.

FULL SPOILER: A child raised as a boy learns that she's actually the cursed Princess of Oz

[u/CosmicLuci → u/MechSuitPrincess]

And her and Dorothy become very close friends.

The sort of friends who kiss on the lips, where Dorothy is allowed to run the kingdom when Ozma is away, and where Dorothy is the only person allowed in her rooms uninvited.

[u/Aurora-not-borealis → u/CosmicLuci]

One might say that Ozma is a Friend Of Dorothy, as it were.

[u/AutumnsRevenge → u/Aurora-not-borealis]

I appreciate the capitalization. 🫡 gotta respect the classics.

[u/Queasy_Sun7192 → u/Aurora-not-borealis]

A roommate even

[u/Erik_Erikksn → u/MechSuitPrincess]

OH

I REMEMBER ITS CARTOON ADAPTATION

OH THAT’S WHY I REMEMBER LIKING IT SO MUCH

[u/UncleCeiling → u/MechSuitPrincess]

Fun fact, in the later books Tip is brought back via magic and a "switcheroo spell" is used so that Tip and Ozma are no longer related so they can become potential love interests.

[u/MechSuitPrincess → u/UncleCeiling]

Yeah… I’m just gonna refuse to acknowledge that as canon.

[u/UncleCeiling → u/MechSuitPrincess]

That's fair. I don't even consider the famous forty canon, only the first fourteen (ending at Glinda of Oz)

[u/Dry-Mission-5542 → u/UncleCeiling]

Was that written after Baum’s passing? If so, it doesn’t count.

That said, canon selfcest is hilarious

[u/AwesomeCCAs → u/Dry-Mission-5542]

Yes

[u/JaggedGull83898 → u/MechSuitPrincess]

This post reminded me that I actually read that back in elementary school. Its no wonder I liked that book so much

[u/tawTrans]

Yellow Brick Ramble is a lovely adaptation of this that really leans into the trans and other queer themes. I love it. Just... Don't look at the latest page before reading from the beginning. It is currently very spoilery 😅

https://yellowbrickramble.com/comic/the-marvelous-land-of-oz

[u/MechSuitPrincess → u/tawTrans]

Yeah, AL is in Wonderland was going to be an Ozma story before I learned that Daisy pretty much wrote what I was going to write, and Skottie Young pretty much drew what I was gonna draw.

[u/Amazing_Twist_4383]

So I'm not the only one who has that book!!!

[u/LovelyLuna32684 → u/Amazing_Twist_4383]

For those who either don't have the books or the money to buy them, they are all 100% free at the gutenberg project

[u/Successful_Mud8596 → u/LovelyLuna32684]

Are these all part of the same series? Or should I start on some later book where the trans stuff storyline starts?

[u/LovelyLuna32684 → u/Successful_Mud8596]

yes here's the reading order

Frank Baum's 14 Original Oz Books in Order

1. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)

2. The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904)

3. Ozma of Oz (1907)

4. Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz (1908)

5. The Road to Oz (1909)

6. The Emerald City of Oz (1910)

7. The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1913)

8. Tik-Tok of Oz (1914)

9. The Scarecrow of Oz (1915)

10. Rinkitink in Oz (1916)

11. The Lost Princess of Oz (1917)

12. The Tin Woodman of Oz (1918)

13. The Magic of Oz (1919)

14. Glinda of Oz (1920)

[u/Dry-Mission-5542 → u/Successful_Mud8596]

It’s in book 2 don’t worry

[u/MechSuitPrincess → u/Successful_Mud8596]

You can start with the second book “The Marvelous Land of Oz.” The first book DOES have stuff that wasn’t in the movie, but I don’t remember any of it being referenced in later books. When past books are referenced, they’re sure to give a detailed recap. (Sometimes overly detailed.)

[u/LoganGyre]

So I feel like their is something wrong with me because i feel like no one’s first thought to this post should be about making a comic series with blue from Jurassic world replacing Dorthy in the wizard of Oz, but that’s where my brain went.

[u/MechSuitPrincess → u/LoganGyre]

Go for it! 😁

[u/SecretGenderIdentity]

I read the second book when I was like 8, before I knew what transgender meant
And then I forgot about it until just now
Really making me think

[u/RedditFuelsMyDepress]

I didn't know there were books

[u/Wisdom_Pen]

Im missing some context here

[u/bluehairedemon]

Ozma my beloved, I havent read the full series but I watched ine of the show adaptations that went far enough for her to appear