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Shapeshifters All Around

Posted on June 11, 2026 by Nathan

Dragonsphere – This is a MicroProse point-and-click adventure game from 1994, which is quite similar in its interface to the last two games I played, Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender by the same publisher, and Inherit the Earth … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Arabian, Art, Celtic, Games, Language, lucasarts, Magic, Maps, Mythology, Names, Sierra, Video Games | Tagged bears, bryn-fann, butterfly king, cailleach, dragonsphere, fairies, grand callahach, hightower, king callash, microprose, rex nebular and the cosmic gender bender, rocs, sanwe, seals, shaks, shape shifters, slathan ni patan, snakes, soptus ecliptus, toads, transformation | Leave a comment

Women’s Realm

Posted on June 25, 2024 by Nathan

The Marvelous Land of Oz, by L. Frank Baum – The second Oz book is 120 years old, and since I just recently reread the first one, I thought it made sense to do the same with this. While Baum … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Characters, Feminism, Gender, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Politics, Prejudice, Relationships, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged cowardly lion, deadly desert, dorothy gale, emerald city, fighting trees, glinda, griffins, hammer-heads, illusion, jack pumpkinhead, jinjur, misogyny, mombi, ozma, pastoria, professor wogglebug, sawhorse, scarecrow, the marvelous land of oz, the wizard of oz (1902), the woggle-bug, the wonderful wizard of oz, tin woodman, tippetarius, transformation, wicked witch of the west, witches, wizard of oz | 2 Comments

Let Me Kluya In

Posted on April 12, 2024 by Nathan

I’ve reached Zeromus, the final boss in Final Fantasy IV (the Game Boy Advance version), but haven’t been able to beat him. I can’t really think of anything to do other than just leveling up some more, but I suppose … Continue reading →

Posted in Fairy Tales, Final Fantasy, Games, Magic, Monsters, Technology, Video Games | Tagged a.e. van vogt, airships, black destroyer, cagnazzo, cecil harvey, cid pollendina, coeurl, damcyan, displacer beasts, dragoons, dungeons and dragons, fabul, final fantasy ii, final fantasy iii, final fantasy iv, final fantasy vi, fusoya, game boy advance, gil, golbez, kain highwind, kingdom of baron, kluya, lunar whale, lunarians, minwu, moon, mysidia, palamecian empire, pigs, ricard highwind, robots, toads, tower of zot, transformation, weapons, zemus, zeromus | Leave a comment

Magical Morality Tour

Posted on August 15, 2023 by Nathan

At a discussion of the supernatural in Oz at the last OzCon, it was pointed out that there usually isn’t a moral dimension to magic in Oz. As mentioned elsewhere, it can be used for good or evil, like many … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Fred Otto, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged akbad, blankenburg, bob up, cowardly lion, crunch the stone man, enchantment, fairies, flowers, forest of burzee, good witch of the north, grampa in oz, immortals, king cheeriobed, lurline, morality, nickadoodle, notta bit more, ozcon international, ozga, ozma, pastoria, perhaps city, princess pretty good, professor wogglebug, queen orin, quiberon, skyle of un, snip the button boy, stichwell j. threadneedle, tattypoo, the cowardly lion of oz, the giant horse of oz, the lost king of oz, the woggle-bug's new clothes, tik-tok of oz, transformation, urtha, wizard of oz | Leave a comment

Serious About Series

Posted on March 9, 2023 by Nathan

I’ve finished reading the latest issue of The Baum Bugle, which is largely dedicated to Kabumpo in Oz. Editor Sarah Crozter co-wrote a piece with Nick Campbell on the book and Oz as a series in general. I’ve seen a … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Book Reviews, Cartoons, Characters, Christmas, Cults, Discworld, Dr. Seuss, Families, Games, Holidays, L. Frank Baum, Language, Magic, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Plays, Religion, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Terry Pratchett, Toys | Tagged allison mcbain, black gold saya, cora-lee marcus, cory in oz, curious cottabus, dinosaurs, edward eager, fabia, fumaro, garrett kilgore, glinda, halloween island, i am jinjur, international wizard of oz club, jinjur, jonathan markoff, kabumpo, kabumpo in oz, kalidahs, kaliko, kuma party, limbo, lin carter, mary austin, nick campbell, nome king, nomes, on beyond zebra, ozma, ozma of oz, ozwold, pigasus, radiation, sarah crozter, teddy bears, the baum bugle, the gnome king of oz, the green glass castle, the man who didn't believe in christmas, the tired tailor of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok of oz, transformation, wizard of oz, writing, wumbo | 4 Comments

Rustles and Flutters

Posted on August 24, 2022 by Nathan

It’s that time again, and here’s the 1997 Oziana. The cover shows an Oz shield that was made to be colored in, but I never did. Original illustrations are sparse this time, and many of them just repurposed John R. Neill … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Characters, Families, Fred Otto, Games, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, March Laumer, Marcus Mebes, Melody Grandy, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Poetry, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged a cozy castle in oz, a generic oz story, beenie in oz, big enough mountain, braided man, button-bright, computer virozes, computer viruses, danny wall, dave hardenbrook, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dragons, eleanor kennedy, emerald city, forever in oz, frank joslyn baum, gili bar-hillel, glinda, imps, international wizard of oz club, jeremy steadman, john n. white, junk mail, karyl carlson, oziana, ozma, ozzy digest, patchwork girl, percy vere, percy's problematic poetry, prince pompadore, professor wogglebug, pyramid mountain, robin olderman, ruby imp, the abcs of oz, the braided man of oz, the dollmaker of oz, the forbidden cave of grapelandia, the haunted castle of oz, the laughing dragon of oz, the lost princess of oz, the oz gazette, the seven blue mountains of oz, theresa hogue, tin woodman, transformation, tyler jones, ugu the shoemaker, wishes, wizard of oz, word find, zim greenleaf of oz | Leave a comment

Coping with Immortality

Posted on April 6, 2022 by Nathan

We’re up to the 1978 Oziana, with a cover by Bill Eubank that appears to be partially based on a John R. Neill illustration from Kabumpo in Oz. Then there’s an Oz-E-Gag by Eubank, comparing The Wizard of Oz to … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Characters, Comics, Games, History, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Language, Magic, Magic Items, March Laumer, Melody Grandy, Music, Mythology, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Poetry, Religion, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Star Wars, Winnie-the-Pooh | Tagged atlantis, bears, bees, beyond the rainbow, bill eubank, bronson pinchot, clara jean curzon, daniel k. cox, dave billman, deadly desert, dorothy gale, emerald city, ereol, espa, fairies, forest of burzee, george lucas, george van buren, gili bar-hillel, glinda, glinda of oz, great detective, harry mongold, how ducky!, hugo ball, immigration, immortality, in other lands than oz, jay delkin, jenny jump, joe bongiorno, johanna buchner, joseph campbell, julius caesar, kabumpo in oz, latin, lau shiu fan, luke skywalker, lurline, magic belt, magic picture, menankypoo, number nine, ojo, orks, oz-e-gags, oziana, ozma, patchwork girl, paul ritz, pillars of hercules, pin-up, pixies, plato, princess leia, queen coo-ee-oh, queen zixi of ix, red jinn, sawhorse, scraps' ditty, shaggy man, sherlock holmes, talking heads, the adventure of the missing belt, the green dolphin of oz, the lost king of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, the threat of civil-oz-ation, the wonderful wizard of oz, the woozy's sticky end, the woozy's tale, the woozy's tricky beginning, tippetarius in oz, tollydiggle, toto, transformation, vincent ward, water of oblivion, wizards, woozy, zim greenleaf, zimbo and the magic amulet, zimboobo | 4 Comments

Dragon vs. Dragon

Posted on July 10, 2020 by Nathan

Since I enjoyed my playthrough of Breath of Fire 2, I decided to go back (figuratively, that is), and give the first one a try. I finished it yesterday, and it wasn’t really that difficult. I did use a walkthrough … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Breath of Fire, Dreams, Economics, Magic, Maps, Mega Man, Monsters, Names, Street Fighter, Technology, Uncategorized, Video Games | Tagged armadillos, bleu, bo, bow doggy, breath of fire 1, breath of fire 2, capcom, chun-li, dark dragons, demons, dragon clan, dragons, drogen, emperor zog, fish, gant, gobi, goda, goonheim, guntz, iron ogre clan, jade, karn, light dragons, manillo, mogu, moles, myria, nagas, nina windia, ox, prima, rand marks, ray bradoc, robots, rock monster, ryu, square enix, st. eva church, stone man, stone robot, ted woolsey, transformation, translation, tunlan, tyr, windia, winlan, yellow devil | 1 Comment

War Between the States of Being

Posted on August 28, 2019 by Nathan

Erica Olivera’s presentation on Theosophy and its influence on L. Frank Baum at the latest OzCon included some information on the four kingdoms, those of mineral, vegetable, animal, and human. The animal-vegetable-mineral division is part of general knowledge, as well … Continue reading →

Posted in Alchemy, Animals, Biology, Characters, Christianity, Evolution, Greek Philosophy, History, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Oz, Oz Authors, Philosophy, Prejudice, Religion, Science, Snobbery, Theosophy | Tagged angels, aristotle, carl linnaeus, charles darwin, cowardly lion, creationism, dick tater, dorothy gale, elementals, erica olivera, great chain of being, helena blavatsky, hierarchy, immortals, kingdoms, mangaboos, march of progress, minerals, morality, nome king, nomes, orthogenesis, paracelsus, plants, prince bobo, racial evolution, racism, return to oz, rinkitink in oz, scarecrow, taxonomy, the scalawagons of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tin woodman, tottenhots, transformation, twenty questions, vegetable kingdom, zoology | Leave a comment

What Makes a Fairy?

Posted on August 21, 2019 by Nathan

Happy birthday to Ozma, Fairy Ruler of the Land of Oz! I’ve looked before at how Ozma was basically retconned into being a fairy, but what exactly does that mean? A fairy, in L. Frank Baum’s mythology, can be basically … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged awgwas, ereol, fairies, guph, illusion, immortals, nome king, nomes, ozma, polychrome, prince marvel, queen zixi of ix, santa claus, the enchanted island of yew, the life and adventures of santa claus, the lost princess of oz, the tin woodman of oz, tik-tok of oz, transformation, wisk, wizard of oz | 1 Comment

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