>that "go patriarchy" is a completely inserted message even in the film; I doubt many would see it pre Wicked
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
I do feel weird if - and to fair, most trans people I meet do know more about the canon than cis folks - but hearing Wicked praised bc queer
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
I mean,I'm like the door to door evangelist of "oh you identified with Elphaba for having the same story as Elsa? Lemme show u Ozma"
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But the yellow brick road academic essay is even worse than Wicked because watching the film at least allows you to notice background sexism
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And that hasn't honestly changed much since the film's time, and it does suck that an explicitly feminist book was a slightly less so film
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But focusing on the imagery of gold would be like reviewing ROGUE ONE, noticing the strip mining of Jedha, and saying all Star Wars=anti-oil
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Replying to @mermaidofhyrule
I mean I really have no grounds to claim that, but he was definitely a very loud feminist man who wanted to center women
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @mermaidofhyrule
I like the really weird off-the-wall shit we learn about the original cast in the very late apocryphal stuff
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mermaidofhyrule
Yup! Some of it is even in the first book! IIRC the Tin Man is basically the Ship of These/Dave's hypothetical axe
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A lot of stuff in Oz about wrestling with the nature of identity. Tiktok and the Patchwork Girl and the Gump
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Tiktok able to open up his own brain and tinker with it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mermaidofhyrule
Also the R rating of the kind that could only exist in texts written for children before we had our current notions of appropriate
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