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OK so one of the minor characters in the Wizard of Oz books is the Gump, who's introduced in The Marvelous Land of Oz as the mounted head of a slain animal, on which the powder of life gets used in order to make a flying couch monster. It makes some sense in context. It's also seen as such in the movie Return to Oz. Anyway after his adventures (in the book) he gets his wish to be taken apart and left to hang on the wall where now and then he talks to people who don't know or who've forgotten that he's hanging out there. And you know, some days, that seems like a fun hang.
And that's all a lot of explanation for a trifle. Also the continuation of a theme where I seem to draw a lot of heads not on bodies. I don't know. Look, Baum wrote a lot of severed heads who're cool with it, so it's not just us being weird, right? Everybody's enjoying it, anyway.
If you want to know more about the Gump you can start from https://oz.fandom.com/wiki/Gump_(Novels) ... also, Princess Ozma prefers the Gump not speak, instead of just not speaking first, so you know, I feel justified saying Tip was more fun.
OK so one of the minor characters in the Wizard of Oz books is the Gump, who's introduced in The Marvelous Land of Oz as the mounted head of a slain animal, on which the powder of life gets used in order to make a flying couch monster. It makes some sense in context. It's also seen as such in the movie Return to Oz. Anyway after his adventures (in the book) he gets his wish to be taken apart and left to hang on the wall where now and then he talks to people who don't know or who've forgotten that he's hanging out there. And you know, some days, that seems like a fun hang.
And that's all a lot of explanation for a trifle. Also the continuation of a theme where I seem to draw a lot of heads not on bodies. I don't know. Look, Baum wrote a lot of severed heads who're cool with it, so it's not just us being weird, right? Everybody's enjoying it, anyway.
If you want to know more about the Gump you can start from https://oz.fandom.com/wiki/Gump_(Novels) ... also, Princess Ozma prefers the Gump not speak, instead of just not speaking first, so you know, I feel justified saying Tip was more fun.
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'It makes some sense in context' is probably a phrase to describe a lot in the Oz books.
The wall of talking heads is always a fun/weird idea. Futurama made a whole sub-genre of it.
Also as an aside, since I've noticed I've been running into a lot more slang than I'm familiar with lately, what is 'being tip'?
The wall of talking heads is always a fun/weird idea. Futurama made a whole sub-genre of it.
Also as an aside, since I've noticed I've been running into a lot more slang than I'm familiar with lately, what is 'being tip'?
Yeah, the Oz books are a good bit of fun. They split between being pretty respectable modern fairy tales on the one side and ``transcription of a role-play group that's been around forever and the DM is half-checked out and didn't really prepare anything so if you want to spend your evening putzing around in the Village of Living Utensils fine, we're going to see everyone in the Village of Living Utensils''.
And oh, yeah, Futurama's floating heads are a great bit; not sure they ever had a scene with them that didn't work.
Being Tip, now, that's not slang, but it is a potential spoiler for at least one Oz book. Well, in at least one of them, Tip --- introduced in the second book as a Munchkin boy enslaved by the powerful witch Mombi (no relation to the Wicked Witches, East or West) --- is an identity that circumstances force Princess Ozma, Rightful Ruler of All Oz, to take on. And I think Ozma was more fun when she had to act like a Munchkin boy. She had adventures instead of just admirers.
And oh, yeah, Futurama's floating heads are a great bit; not sure they ever had a scene with them that didn't work.
Being Tip, now, that's not slang, but it is a potential spoiler for at least one Oz book. Well, in at least one of them, Tip --- introduced in the second book as a Munchkin boy enslaved by the powerful witch Mombi (no relation to the Wicked Witches, East or West) --- is an identity that circumstances force Princess Ozma, Rightful Ruler of All Oz, to take on. And I think Ozma was more fun when she had to act like a Munchkin boy. She had adventures instead of just admirers.
There's a lot of fun stuff in them, and I'd generally recommend reading them. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is the first and best. The Patchwork Girl of Oz is a good candidate for second-best, as Ojo the Unlucky ventures out with the help of a flighty doll to collect the ingredients for the highly illegal potion that might un-petrify his uncle.
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