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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Replying to @BootlegGirl @mermaidofhyrule
Oh no I'm talking about the TV series Emerald City
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mermaidofhyrule
Ah. I didn't know any adaptation version had even acknowledged Ozma's origin
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @mermaidofhyrule
Yeah and interestingly both the modern deconstructive adaptations I know go with Tip being a trans man
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In Son of a Witch his transformation is against his will and traumatizes him and breaks him up with his girlfriend
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It's a background event in that book but Emerald City makes Tip/Ozma's a central character and his angst a central plot point
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