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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Replying to @BootlegGirl @mermaidofhyrule
I'd write her as "NB" to the extent that the 19th-century message that transitioning to a woman means no more physical activity isn't great
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"I don't want to stop running around and exploring" SCARECROW: "But girls can do other cool stuff like being pretty and having empathy"
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(And reality-warping magical powers, in her specific case, which is why this narrative is a bit of a fairytale cheat)
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