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Kiernan Shipka attends the Chloé Womenswear Fall/Winter 2024-2025 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on February 29, 2024 in Paris, France. 

BEARDED SLIDER IN A CARDIGAN

What the heck, I’ll give it a shot.

How bad could it be?

Guys I’m not ok

Do tell

Oh jeez where to begin

Ok, First of all, Dorothy Gale is played by a young Fairuza Balk.

These pictures do not do justice to the raw Traumatized Child energy she brings to this role.

A bit of plot: Dorothy Gale won’t sleep. She’s always talking about Emerald Cities and Talking Scarecrows and Ruby Slippers. At her wit’s end, Aunt Em decides to commit her to the sanitarium for electroshock therapy.

Disney made this.

It is strongly implied that her journey back to Oz is a hallucination caused by the electroshock treatment. Herr Doktor flips the switch, lightning flashes, and the supernatural part of the movie begins.

Ok. So. Dorothy gets to Oz by almost drowning in a flash flood. She rides to safety in a produce crate with one of her family chickens.

This is where one of the core Uncanny elements of the film first appears; this movie does not share continuity with the 1939 Judy Garland film.

It is a much more faithful adaptation of L.F. Baum’s Books, but despite being a sequel both objectively and canonically, it really just pretends the ‘39 film doesn’t exist.

They land in a desert that turns people to stone called the Deadly Desert. They get food from a Lunch Pail Tree. The chicken can talk. The Scarecrow is King of Oz, allegedly.

But, like,

Here’s her house from the first movie.

The one that landed on a witch? Right smack dab in the middle of a whole dang Munchkin Village?

There was literally a whole song and dance!

Where did the Munchkins go, you might ask?

Well, while Dorothy was away,

There was an Apocalypse.

OZ HAS FALLEN

And this is where we meet the nightmarish Eldritch spawn of Roller Disco and David Bowie:

The Wheelers

Alright. The fucking Wheelers.

I don’t-

What is-

What these pictures don’t convey is that, as they move, they make the exact same sound the gurneys in the sanitariums make. The Wheelers are played by the same actors who play the orderlies. Oz is the sanitarium.

Now, let’s discuss Jack Skellington Pumpkinhead

This is one of the Good Guys

He’s just a guy. Like, really, very much, Just A Guy of a character. His entire personality, such as it is, is comprised of

His mom ends up being this girl:

We’ll get to her.

I had this fever-dream memory of the Army of Oz in the Hall of Ornaments from when I was a kid as well and I gotta say it’s kinda nice to finally put that memory in some kind of context. A horrible, terrible, awful context, but a context nonetheless.

One and the same, friend.

I LIVE TO PLEASE

Ahem. Sorry. Anyway.

So. I mentioned an Apocalypse.

Behold! The citizenry of Oz!

They have been turned to stone by the evil Nome King! Why, you ask?

For stealing his Emeralds, of course!

But I’m getting ahead of myself. I forgot to introduce The Army of Oz, affectionately referred to as Tik-Tok!

This guy

That’s… apparently the whole army?

He’s spring-wound. Has 3 winding keys: one for moving, one for talking, and one for thinking. At one point his thinking gears wind down while his action and talking gears are still tight and he creates a lot of trouble. He has a… spin attack…

I really don’t know what to make of him to be honest.

Ok so like fully half of what makes The Wheelers so unsettling is the audio so I found a clip:

Hospital gurney noises and echoing, mocking laughter. The way it’s cut doesn’t help. Nor does the… craft store kitsch of the Wheeler outfits. I genuinely have no idea what they were going for. David Bowie vibes, a little bit, but not in a good way.

Oh this film. This isn’t even the end of it.

This is one of the few films that tried for, and managed to succeed for the most part, at capturing the same sort of dark magic of films like Labyrinth, the Dark Crystal, or the Secret of NIMH. That time when some creators were willing to tell stories to children that reflected the darkness that we already saw in the world.

It’s got some problems, but Return to Oz is honestly great. I also never felt like it was patronizing me when I watched it as child, which seemed like an awfully hard ask for most movies.

Yeah this is absolutely of its era, when it comes to terrifying 80’s children’s films.

I used get dad to rent this film for us when I was 8 or so. Mostly because I knew it was the only film my tough little sister was visibly scared of. Children are brutal.

This breakdown doesn’t even touch on Mombi, who scared the living daylights out of me. She is played by the same actress who plays the nurse at the sanatorium. And she is the reason the citizens of Oz up there are missing their heads. She keeps the still living heads locked in glass cabinets in her palace and swaps them out for her own head depending on her mood.

There is a later scene where all the heads are screaming as Dorothy makes a run for it. Mombi’s original head bellowing ‘Dorothy Gale!’ It is genuinely disturbing. I love this film so much.

I’ve never heard of this movie before, and all I can think now is

WHAT THE FUCK

It has been such a long time snice I saw this. I remember reading the books and being terrified of it. Because this is part of more than one book.

I love this movie! WAY better than the first OZ movie, I wanted a Lunch Pail tree SO BAD as a kid.

Karliene wrote a great song about it too!

Scissor Sisters also used it as inspo!

I love this movie so much. It’s weird as hell, but also really charming. Plus the visuals can’t be beat.

oh i loved this movie as a kid!

can i have some of your autism? just a taste bro i swear

thank you for getting exactly what i meant

confirmed: autism transmitted via wanton slutiness. now gimme

autism is an STD: sexually transmitted (neuro)divergence

Qué me estás container???

i actually don’t want twitter peopleTM to come to tumblr not because i’m gatekeeping this place but because tumblr is where i go to be semi-anonymously stupid and talk about the use of ugg boots in eyes wide shut (1999) not directly @ the president of the united states over his foreign policy decisions

IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU SPECIFY WHO IS WEARING THE UGG BOOTS TBH SO HERE YOU GO

Photographer Khánh Phan captures incense production in Hanoi, Vietnam. Beautiful!

ITS HAPPENING AAAA

These Tusken Raiders have cats. That is all.

vvitch better have my money

payeth me what thee owe me

this is black phillip, the money goat! reblog in 10 sec and money will come your way so you can live deliciously

This is my kind of “reblog for the money” post.

The Sorcerer and the White Snake (2011), dir. Tony Ching

snezbians (snake lezbians) 

I don’t know these gay snake ladies, but I support them

Crazy Yearbook Quotes From Students Back in 1911

These alarming and quirky yearbook quotes are found inside Spokane High’s Class of 19111, which include some pretty bizarre ambitions. Some of them include “ambitions” of murdering the faculty and marrying a dwarf. Take a look at their perplexing words below.

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this is wonderful but i urge everybody to check out the original for more gems such as

its refreshing to know that we were and will always be little shits

Let 👏 Alice 👏 Winslow 👏 Rest 👏

May Gwendolyn Hallahan. Irish.

You don’t say?

so today i found out that my great great great grandfather kept a spreadsheet of his sexcapades. my parents, who are writing a book on him, found this out when they were reading his business diary, and they saw an entry that said “fkd. Anne” and my mom was like “lmao that sounds like fucked. ……… Wait” and they proceeded to discover that he kept detailed logs of every single woman he fucked, how many rounds, where he did it, whether he used protection, etc. he fucked approximately 100-300 times per year, and his conquests included:

also, when any of his mistresses had a baby, he would go back in the diary nine months before the birth and mark which fuck was most likely the one that conceived the baby

double also, he would mark the amount of rounds he went with “[number]t” and sometimes he would mark down, say, 3 & 1/2t. we don’t know what this means.

also dude was 5’2”-5’3”, so….. if you ever feel down about being short, remember you too can fuck hugely

A few years ago, when I was still in an all-girls catholic high school, one of my teachers told us in her weekly “it’s just a phase” lectures that lesbian relationships are toxic because unlike a man and a woman, two women understand each other completely, thus, making it harder for one to break up with the other, resulting in them being trapped in a lesbian relationship for the rest of their lives just because they got too cozy with having a partner that supports and cares for them.

Anyway can you imagine being straight and thinking that people understanding their partners needs are toxic im so glad i cant relate