#wizard of oz

[wiltedfaechronicles]

“If I ever go looking for my hearts desires again, I won’t go looking further than my own back yard”

This line means so much to me as I had moved away from home for a year only to immediately get home sick and move back a year later. Home is home and there really is no place like home🫶🏻

- Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale in “The Wizard of Oz” 1939

- Edit done by: Phantomwise on TikTok

[etherealedges2026]

Emerald City

[wildbeautifuldamned]

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[wiltedfaechronicles]

“Why do I love this place that’s never loved me?”

“A place that seems to be devolving, and even wanting to”

“But Oz is more than just a place, it’s a promise, an idea”

“When you feel you can't fight anymore just tell yourself ‘There's no place like home’”

“When you feel it's not worth fighting for compel yourself, because there's no place like home”

- No Place Like Home from Wicked: For Good, sang by Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba

Painting done by: Thomas Ascott titled “Dorothy”

[the-patchwork-girl-of-oz]

And if I said the duality of Boq Woodsman’s obsessive people pleasing and becoming aggressive in times of stress makes him a more book accurate adaptation of Nick Chopper than most other versions we’ve had but Nick fans can’t accept it because their version of book accurate Nick is incredibly watered down and infantilized what then

[alexiswrite]

So. Let's talk about Kamchatka.

Kamchatka is closely associated with a not-so-cold Cold War, both overtly (it's literally a prison camp in Russia violently holding an American veteran prisoner) and by implication - the Kura Missile Testing Range, an intercontinental ballistic missile (IBM) impact area, operated there into the early 2000s.

Compare with Nina - another significant location in ST4 - which, as previously discussed, is based in a disused IBM launch site

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💬 16  🔁 11  ❤️ 67 · So I just realised that WarGames gets name-dropped in the series (Will says the phone sounds like WarGames when they pho

Kamchatka also has a cultural meaning in a Russian idiom for any far away place, like how we might say Timbuktu in English.

Or Oz. #ozgate.

Or Wonderland. #mirrorgate. #chessgate.

Kids also use it to refer to the back row of desks in a classroom. And then I found this interesting paragraph:

In the central Siberian city of Tomsk, children play a game called Dead Telephone, whispering a sentence around a circle until someone fails to repeat the original wording accurately, and for the child who gets the sentence wrong, the penalty is “you must go live in Kamchatka.” From:

Here The Bear and The Mafia Roam

Kamchatka, east of Siberia. As the curtain rises on the new frontier of adventure outfitting, attendees include your guide (he's the one wit

So when the signal drops out and you are no longer receiving accurate information, you end up in Kamchatka? In a game called ... Dead Telephone?

[9to5buzzcom]

On Aug 15, 1939, The Wizard of Oz, an American musical fantasy film adaptation of L. Frank Baum's book, premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theat