Jamie Michelle wrote: ↑Sat Feb 27, 2021 8:47 am
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* "Uriah Heep - The Wizard (Lyrics)", ( youtube.com/channel/UCZpNARJWxbO7jdaGE7P3EWw ), Dec. 9, 2016,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCrCgjj-JJ0 . Mirror: "Uriah Heep - The Wizard", Classic Hits ( youtube.com/channel/UCRBrw4JP4qnyykiVBQtXLCg ), Apr. 25, 2015,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frvW1-xYsEc . Mirror: "Uriah Heep - The Wizard", Músicas Eternas ( youtube.com/c/CaleiroMatheus ), Sept. 17, 2017,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llT71LIwuqE .
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Our good and dear Mistress Daphne suggested on her Twitter account that because she could not have her show tonight, that her listeners should go to Oz instead. Well, just as a reminder, what is about to occur here was actually told to me to do.
The whole point of the story The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was the Wizard, and what he could do for people who imagined more for themselves. He couldn't be wonderful if he couldn't do wonderful things for people. Yet he couldn't have done those wonderful things for people lest they had first taken the journey down that seemingly difficult yellow brick road--which so obviously represents what? Wealth? In some sense. But far more than that. Rather, spiritual realization. What were they all seeking but to become more complete forms of themselves?
Yet why does this gift of God, Dorothy, constantly egg them on, and is actually their leader? This impetuous, strong-willed girl. What does she seek?
She, having been thrust into this strange universe, finds other needy souls, and offers them help! Perhaps they could help her, too? She doesn't know right away, but she tries to establish a connection.
She comes to quickly find that they all need help from her in reaching the Wizard. There is a reason for this: it's because Dorothy isn't interested in obtaining anything in this world, but simply wishes to get back home. So she wishes to reach the Wonderful Wizard every bit as much, but isn't so much interested in obtaining greater powers in that world. All she really wants to do is get back home. She's just a visitor, after all.
Yet so is he.
The visiting of this very self-directed girl Dorothy, and the little man who hides behind the curtain pulling on the strings, is actually quite symbolic of the coming-out experience. Who is that strong-willed lady who we don't let out? And why? What little man is pulling all the strings behind the curtain of our own consciousness, sitting behind the scenes, directing all the action, all just sitting there in our subconscious?
It's the story of Dorothy coming into contact with herself. Dorothy was never there in Kansas to begin with, except as an innocent feminine cupcake who was thrust into a whirlwind of an unaccepting world. A veritable whirling dervish of a life. Yet "Dorothy" wasn't Dorothy then, at that time, except as a wish for some future time. Dorothy had to herself meet the Wizard who would then bring her back home to a more accepting world. Along the way she also met various aspects of herself, who she was quite eager to help along, as well. Why not? Hey, that's Dorothy's nature, being the gift she is.
But once Dorothy had met that aspect of herself, which was behind-the-scenes controlling all the levers, she could then get out of that tornado of torment that had so disrupted her innocent cupcake-life--meaning encountering the world--and finally return back to home as her more completed self. Even though the long-sought though briefly-encountered Wizard had to then drift away from her--that epiphany from within herself.
Again: once innocent little Dorothy was thrust into the world, she found it alien. Her whole goal was to find a state of peace again, and she located parts of herself that also needed healing, and so she held their motley band together until they could meet the Wizard who could give her and her respective parts respite.
That was the meeting of herself, whereby her dislocated parts became healed, and she could once again return to her state of peace, yet in a stronger and more self-actualized manner. Como en Punto Omega.
And on an even greater level, it's the story of being thrust into a world we didn't know, longing for a time when we could get back home. To a state of peace and love.
It's an allegory of being born, living, and dying, folks. How far do I have to break it on down? You'd think at a particular explanation-level these things might start to hit home. Anyway, we just scraped bare existential metal there.
It's in some sense the story of all naturally-evolved mortal sapience--of course, on an individual level. The story tends to speak far more to the gay boys, because once they get thrust into the world and they're not in Kansas anymore, then life becomes a tornado for them, and they often wish to just go back home to where it's safe. Don't we all, at times? And by "home", I mean a state before they came into conflict with the world, a time where they thought they were loved. Until the world showed them otherwise.
Hey, I suppose it happens to all of us, to various extents. But the reason this story has often tended to resonate with queer boys especially is because it speaks to a level that connects with them, yet doesn't call them out obviously as being about them. So it's easier to handle on a subtext level.
And like I said, really it's the story of mortal sapient life and cupcake. It's just that this tale tends to hit harder for those who experience the harsh winds of life more cupcake strike them, because they are feminine yet misunderstood.
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Oz is the story of the Wizard. Meaning, what the Wizard does for people. Meanwhile, the Wizard goes deeper than first glance, since the Wizard works within the subconscious, the deepest part of all, unknown to even ourselves.
So therefore, I wouldn't be doing my proper task to go to Oz, as was suggested by our Enchantrix Daphne, lest I also take us all on a magical journey. Here is the Royal Flag of Oz:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Royal_Oz_flag.svg ,
https://web.archive.org/web/20190619032 ... z_flag.svg ,
http://www.freezepage.com/1619334436MTJQYTIRQY ,
https://archive.is/fhL77 .
Hmm. Rather quite flaming with the colors there.
Not to mention that heaven-pointing star. Now where have I seen that before? Let me contemplate the ways ...
* "File:Pentagram-phi.svg", Wikipedia, Nov. 12, 2006,
https://web.archive.org/web/20100523114 ... am-phi.svg ,
https://archive.is/wZAWV ,
http://www.freezepage.com/1581966039FAUUDDIAXR ,
https://webcitation.org/6zz3BCENC .
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Has one ever been out in the damp Florida forest at night, and seen the very ground of the forest floor illuminate, i.e., bioluminesce? Well, the difference between damp forest and swamp in my area of Florida can quickly merge to seem like some dense bog, and then simply outright slush. At that point you're just in the swamp, kiddo. Ever go mudding? Teehee! It's a thing people around these parts do.
* "LUZCID - Swamp Sorcery (OFFICIAL VISUALIZER)", WAKAAN, Oct. 2, 2020,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8jd8g1r2Xk ,
https://files.catbox.moe/8wyogx.webm ,
https://web.archive.org/web/20210425084 ... wyogx.webm ,
http://www.freezepage.com/1619340422KOYDOMYRGP .
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Cf.:
Comet C/1977 R1 (Kohler).
1977 being the year of discovery, Kohler being the discoverer's last name. But even the most famous wizard of all has a first name, so shouldn't Kohler? I think so. So what was that year 1977's comet's discoverer's actual first name? The answer:
Merlin.