Archive of Our Own

Notes:

• For Bustle.
• In response to a prompt by Bustle in the Battleship 2022 - Prompts collection.

Prompt:

 

 

The part that I like best about Oz and the surrounding countries is how there's just so many tiny little pockets of the world that have something ridiculous and fascinating going on, and how the characters often discover those bits completely unaware that they existed. It makes the world feel really mysterious and fun to explore, full of whimsy, and basically like you could find just about happening in some weird little forgotten corner of Oz.

I'm mostly interested in explorations of some of Oz's many powerful magical women - things like character studies, new little adventures, peeks into daily life for them, deeper looks at their mindsets during existing adventures (especially Glinda of Oz, my favorite!) and or how they'd interact with each other and using that to compare and contrast! For the three adepts, we know little enough about them that I'd be interested in basically anything fleshing them out either pre-fishification, or a glimpse at them stuck as fish. You are also completely welcome to just tack Coo-eh-oh onto any of these characters or relationships for some fun contrast between them! And I forgot to nominate Dorothy and Ozma together, but their friendship is cute and I'd like to see inclusions of that as well.

And as far as the Glass Cat, I just find her vanity and certainty in the superiority of her lovely pink brains super charming. <3

Any tag, shield or main board, that doesn't hit my DNWs below is welcome if it tickles your fancy.

Likes: Repressed self-worth issues and doubts that are soothed by someone the character loves and looks up to / aspires to be better for, Mutually supportive romances, Powerful magical women in general but especially if they have interesting relationships to each other, Explorations of complicated and contradictory feelings, Family fluff and bonding, Different formats like outsider POV or historical archives of love letters, Fluffy romcom-esque misunderstandings and tropes

Art Likes: Tender expressions and blushing, Forehead kisses / hand kisses / kissing on the lips - kissing is very good, Size difference with big man / small woman, Alphonse Mucha pastiche, Watercolors, Happy family scenes, Scenery

DNWs: Bleak endings, Gore descriptions beyond what is typical for canon, Unrequested sexuality or gender headcanons, Unrequested mental illness headcanons