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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Replying to @BootlegGirl @mermaidofhyrule
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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I like how Ozma clearly unambiguously is trans in some way and the debate is whether Ozma is a trans girl or Tip is a trans boy
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mermaidofhyrule
Yeah, there's no way around the transness in the narrative. It's treated as casual magic the way any other origin story is
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @mermaidofhyrule
Emerald City treating Tip as the real identity & Ozma freaking out about her sudden involuntary transformation is prolly more transgressive
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mermaidofhyrule
I think enby would be how I would write it today, but Baum's text to me seems to only have her freak out the way certain erotica does
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like, it's still probably uncomfortable to reread these days, but it really strikes me as meant to be positive for the readers POV
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @mermaidofhyrule
Baum's text, let's be fair, has no actual dysphoria and implies the magic changes gender identity as well as gender presentation
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But Ozma being *better* than Tip and indeed perfect and magical etc. certainly lends itself to a trans narrative
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mermaidofhyrule
Yeah I mean the story is"yer a wizard and a girl Harry" except that the magic is something the dursleys have too & being a girl defeats them
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @mermaidofhyrule
Tip's fear of losing his ability to do boy things and Scarecrow talking him through it is ambiguous enough you can tease either reading out
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