#howl writes things

[nadiajustbe]

One of my favorite parts about the writing of Howl's Moving Castle is how easy it is to write off all the things from our world at first as him just being a weird wizard™ (also thanks to bestie @jutenium for spotting this I wouldn't put it like that without you!!/pos). Sure, Sophie uses weird descriptions, but readers have every reason to believe them because of the way Howl is presented as a character. When Sophie says he wrote with a quill that doesn't need an ink, you wouldn't think it was actually a ballpoint pen, you would think Howl had just enchanted his quill so that it wouldn't need ink! When she adds that she can't make out a single word, you think he has matchingly terrible handwriting, but in fact Sophie has simply never seen a pen writing. When she sees the mysterious labels on his books, you think he's keeping a lot of obscure magical literature, but it's really just an encyclopedia and a guide like "Top 10 Rugby Tips." When Sophie notices the bottles in Howl's bathtub, you think they're some kind of magical jars where he keeps girl's hearts, but I'm almost certain that they're just 'Dove' and 'Head and Shoulders' that he's enhanced with his spells and put silly labels on. When you read Calicifer singing a song in a language Sophie doesn't understand, you think it's some kind of ancient cipher or code, but it's actually just a rugby song in Welsh that Howl sings when he's drunk. And finally, when you see the terrifying black door, which is completely shrouded in darkness, you imagine a passage to an eerie, mythical place, similar to what Miyazaki showed us - but it's just fucking Wales.

[ophelia-is-not-okay]

The fact that calcifer is Howl's heart and so basically Sophie tamed his heart. HIS HEART!

(i can never not take this obsessively jhfygrtuyytdegjuyfrfv)

[ancientnames]

Lord Huron said this album is for the sinister and threatening girls ONLY

[orange-peony]

SnowBaz I Explicit I ongoing I Howl's moving castle AU, curses, baker Simon, wizard Baz, mutual pining, eventual smut.

Summary: My eyes wander to the window, where I can see the first timid hues of orange and pink appear over the hills. And then I spot it. Wizard Baz's moving castle. There's smoke coming out of its four, thin turrets, an aura of mystery surrounding it. They say the Wizard steals women’s hearts. Swallows them whole. That he collects souls because he lacks one himself. I shudder at the thought and wonder who would be fool enough to get close to him.

I re-read Howl's moving castle by Diana Wynne Jones last month, and it just felt like such a snowbaz story that I had to write an AU! This is based on the book, not on the film (even though I love both to bits).

You don't need to have read the book or seen the film to enjoy this fic.

An enormous thank you with a cherry on top goes to @thewholelemon for being such a fantastic (and super speedy) beta and for brainstorming ideas with me.

Another big thank you to @pato-roldnart for reading the first draft and to @bubble-gumhead for her support. <3

Read chapter 1 of Things invisible to see on AO3.

In case anyone is interested, here's the cast of characters under the cut:

Simon as Sophie

Baz as Howl

Penny as Michael

Fiona as Calcifer

The Mage as the Witch of the Waste

Shep as Martha

Agatha as Lettie

Mrs Wellbelove as Fanny

Ebb as Mrs Fairfax

Niall as the King of Ingary

Dev as Prince Justin

Niamh as Ben Sullivan/Wizard Suliman

Lamb as Miss Angorian

Miss Possibelf as Mrs Pentstemmon

[bun-lapin]

TWST Voice Line Scene #19

(in the Mostro Lounge)

🍩Ruggie: (watching Jack) Having trouble deciding what to order, big guy?

🐺Jack: (stares intensely at the menu) I can't mess this up. I've only got one shot…

🍩Ruggie: This isn't THAT big of a decision, y'know. You're too serious for your own good.

🍎Epel: You don't understand, Ruggie! Floyd is in the kitchen today and lately he's been doing something called 'menu roulette'!

🍩Ruggie: 'Menu roulette'…?

🐺Jack: Basically, Floyd secretly chooses one item on the menu to sabotage everyday. If you choose the wrong menu item, you could end up with a culinary nightmare.

🐺Jack: (makes a disgusted face) Last time I lost the roulette, I wound up with a pickled onion and marmalade tuna sandwich...

🍩Ruggie: (physically recoils) Yeesh! I know I'm usually the guy that'll eat anything, but there are some things you just can't do to food!

🍎Epel: (terrified whisper) The worst part is, if you order the roulette item of the day, Floyd will come out and stand next to your table until you eat the whole thing!

(they all turn to look at the kitchen door where Floyd is peeking his head out and grinning at them)

🍩Ruggie: ….....

🍩Ruggie: (stands up) Thanks for offering to buy me lunch, but I'mma head out now.

TWST Voice Line Scenes Masterlist

[summertimemusician]

Hero's Purpose Episode 6 Release Date

WE ARE SO BACK

[howlingmoonrise]

nameless - the spirealm/kaleidoscope of death

FINALLY IT'S DONE!!!! short-term amnesia au nanqiu for @sunriseverse as a VERY very belated birthday gift, i hope you forgive the lateness of it through the sheer length of this monster 🙏

based on this post

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This Ruan Nanzhu is too pretty?, says a note in this handwriting, maybe also an actor like Tan Zaozao? Very intense, says another one. Won't stop staring at me. Kinda looks like he wants to eat us. And yet another comment, on an arrow pointing above: do we owe him money? We don't work at the company anymore and we're living in his house. Are we his sugar something? Another: dude we're not even into guys. We're recognizing him by the description of 'the most handsome man in the world', don't you think that says something about us? A few more arrows point up towards that one. Doubt, says one. Another says, somewhat confirmed by Cheng Qianli, followed by another going we're trusting the kid that keeps talking about some dog's butt? And then, Li Dongyuan kinda confirmed it also, but I couldn't ask directly, and once again underlined, we are NOT gay. The one after that just says: but wouldn't you put out for that guy anyway, if he asked nicely?

-- Or: Lin Qiushi's amnesia struggles.

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[kanerallels]

Ok, since you opened it up to AU requests from other fandoms, and since you've been TGE-posting the last two days . . . I would LOVE to see a snippet of Maia and co. (any "and co" will do, but my first choice is Csethiro or Beshelar and Cala) in a SW AU. (Also do not feel pressured to do this. I recognize it is kind of borderline on the list of what prompts you're looking for. I'm just. I think it sounds fun.)

OH MY GOSH friend. I was literally JUST thinking about this idea. Like yesterday. This is more a set up for the au than anything else but enjoy it all the same, there is a good chance I snap and write an addition later on:

When Emperor Palpatine died suddenly (from what, it was still unknown. A failure of the heart in his sleep, poison, assassination from enemies both close at hand or mysterious were all explored and summarily rejected), the Senate went into an uproar trying to determine his heir. The Empire had only been a true Empire for fifteen years—the succession rules were unclear, to say the least. There were those who campaigned for a political replacement, for a new election.

But those closest to Emperor Palpatine claimed to know his will. That his rule would be passed on to his closest kin, his half nephew. There was much murmuring over who this half nephew was. They knew of the half brother—a proud man who, unlike his fellow Nabooans, put no stock in the beauty of art and craftsmanship, but seemed to relish the art of war and profit.

However, Varenechibel (for so he was called) had died in a ship crash earlier that year, along with his three eldest sons. The fourth remained—a half human boy of eighteen, who had been raised by a distant cousin on an Outer Rim planet, safely out of the way.

He was out of the way no longer, and rumors flew thick and fast about this Maia Drazhar—whether he would be a ruler like his uncle, if the stories of his mother were true, calling the boy himself an inbred fool who would run their Empire into the ground. Very few had any faith in him, and most hoped that Mas Amedda, the Emperor’s Grand Vizier, would steer him in the right direction.

Some, like Senator Organa or Senator Berenar, seemed to hold out hope. Though when the boy himself finally appeared—tall and awkward and dark-skinned, accompanied by his scowling guardian and an elegant looking Twi’lek man who was as pale as the new Emperor was dark—hope did seem to flicker out. It would seem, it was remarked, that Mas Amedda had his puppet after all.

This all changed a month into the new Emperor’s—who, in Naboo fashion, had chosen a ruling name of Edrehasivar—rule, during which he hired two bodyguards of decidedly non-human descent, politely ignored Mas Amedda’s every suggestion, and began quietly ruling in a way that would have made Palpatine’s heart, should he have possessed one, quail with rage and horror.

The general Senate was up in arms, Bail Organa found himself positively delighted, and a young Umbaran woman, whose family was currently in negotiations of a personal sort with the Emperor, was revising her opinions rather rapidly. Csethiro Ceredin hadn’t expected much of Emperor Edrehasivar. What she had expected had been disproved, and she found she would be very interested to see what came of the Emperor’s rule.

She was far from the only one.

[raven-at-the-writing-desk]

twst jp august schedule~

Early August

📝 Unified Exams still ew (Unfortunately, no new NRC Staff lines.)

🏃‍♂️🐺 SSR Clubwear Jack Banner (Like other Clubwears, he comes with furniture instead of vignettes; the next Clubwear will likely be Deuce, since he’s the other boy in Track and Field Club!)

Mid-August

💐🤖 SSR Broomquet Ortho Banner + the return of the last 2 years’ birthday Ortho cards!

BABE WAKE UP, NEW EVENT??????? WITH STITCH??????!??????!?!!!!?!🏝️🚀 Lost in the Book with Stitch ~Midsummer Sea and Spaceship~ (Get prepared for a DOUBLE WHAMMY for a summer beach event we’ve been praying for for 3 years straight 😭 This event will feature 🦇 SSR Lilia, 🦈 SSR Floyd (yes, two of them), 🌹 SR Riddle, ♥️ SR Ace, 🐺 R Jack, and 🐙 R Azul. Also Stitch becomes canon in the TWSTverse… Wild… You think they’re going to the same beachy area that Crowley went to for his vacation in book 4…? Or that Lilia is a SSR bc together it sounds like “Lilo and Stitch”? 🤔)

Late August

💐🌹 SSR Broomquet Riddle Banner + the return of the last 2 years’ birthday Riddle cards!

[boltlightning]

every so often i remember that indoor plumbing canonically exists in f.ourth wing and a.cotar and i simply must laugh. god forbid your characters are common denizens of a fantasy world and have to have human bodies that get dirty like the rest of us

[flavia8]

You know. Something I really hate about a lot of popular fantasy books, and it's especially prevalent in Romantasy, is what passes for Feminism in them. It's a toothless fake, used as an aesthetic/seasoning. A sprinkle of *strong female character* and a dash of deceptively misogynistic everything else, and for the finishing touch a pinch of man who's slightly better than being openly sexist and Boom. Fantasy series led by a FMC.

Generally, the Female Main character either starts out or becomes incredibly powerful, but always, always, always her power is linked to the men around her. She supposedly has agency and makes her own choices but the choices she makes are between choices provided to her by men. Her male love interest is more powerful in SOME way, and ends up besting her in some way. Experience, training, power, there's always some way the man is better than her. Female characters are never allowed to just BE powerful. Or even just BE single. Often they give up their powers, or are forcibly stripped of them. They look down on other female characters for doing "feminine" work. And, they're stupid as hell to supposedly make them relatable or endearing. Often, the male mc is concerningly abusive but it's portrayed as dreamy, romantic and Ideal. (I genuinely get the love for villains, and enemies to not, and the love for morally grey characters, I genuinely do, but this isn't that, what happens in these books is just genuinely bad (if they actually were people) being portrayed through rose colored glasses) [And in some stories that could be genuinely interesting!] If there's a second Love Interest, he will just do the same awful shit to the MC but it's better now bc it's him.

If the female character isn't white, all of this + a staggering amount of racism. They're rarely MCs. They're fridged for the MCs, they serve the MCs, they're never as beautiful or powerful as the MC, they're stereotyped and portrayed as savage, vapid, comically evil, or just as a good guy with no character at all.

These books are presented as feminist and it pisses me off. Feminism is equality for all, and the fight for Women to be equal and have their own agency. To make their own decisions. Genuinely I believe writers should be able to write whatever they want. I have no issues with having "problematic" stuff in books. My issue is when people start to believe that this shit is feminist, and the author is so skilled and amazing, and it's a masterpiece! Fuck that.

[girlwithakiwi]

where raging storms at midnight howl (this place is haunted)

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Rating: Mature Relationships: Jon Snow/Daenerys Targaryen

Summary:

There is ice in the mirror, and death too—the kiss and the shadow, the inferno and the chasm. She is the Silver Princess, the delight of the realm, and this reflection tells her of a world that cannot be, a world she cannot know. She wants to be comforted, but she cannot reach into that storm-silver surface to touch him and the comely young man with the grey eyes cannot step through to embrace her. His voice is a dream and it is half a memory. It is all her desires and hopes and fears and she wants and wants and wants. • In 283 AC, those who rebelled against the dragons were defeated on the Trident. This is the world Daenerys Targaryen knows, a world where her brother rules over a fractious realm and the dragons still sit on the Iron Throne, a world where the Baratheons and the Lannisters never rose to power. So who is this haunting boy in the frozen winter mirror who tells her otherwise, who tells her that the world she knows is a dream, a lie? And which side of the mirror is the truth?

For @iceandfirejonerysdiscord's Jonerys Falling For You 2024

[fictionadventurer]

"There had to be some such creature as Mary--otherwise God would have found no one in whom He could fittingly have taken his human origin. An honest politician seeking civic reforms looks about for honest assistants. The Son of God beginning a new creation searched for some of that Goodness which existed before sin took over. There would have been, in some minds, a doubt about the Power of God if He had not shown a special favor to the Woman who was to be His Mother. Certainly what God gave to Eve, He would not refuse to His Own Mother.

"Suppose that God in making over man did not also make over woman into a new Eve! What a howl of protest would have gone up! Christianity would have been denounced as are all male religions. Women would then have searched for a female religion! It would have been argued that woman was always the slave of man and even God intended her to be such, since he refused to make the new Eve, as He made the New Adam.

"Had there been no Immaculate Conception, then Christ would have been said to be less beautiful, for He would have taken His Body from one who was not humanly perfect! There ought to be an infinite separation between God and sin, but there would not have been if there was not one woman who could crush the cobra's head."

-Fulton Sheen, The World's First Love

[italoniponic]

I was literally messing around and ended up creating such a wholesome scene

also, what a nightmare to arrange them in their correct heights and proportions in relation to each other (yes, Silver and Epel are pngs thrown into Jack's card bc my wolf boy here is the only one without a png version </3) I still think they're just roughly realistic-ish

[what-even-is-sleep]

thinking about Bodkin again bc I mean,,, ALL THE SYMBOLISM OHHHHHGH. i NEED some tumblr film analysis hobbyists to watch this show and tell me all the themes n such

[howlingmoonrise]

my last work for battleship is done, and it's time to say goodbye to team mermaid!

for @acernor, who i thought was super cool when we last spoke: i was over the moon to see you'd submitted a prompt to the collection and really wanted to write this for you! if there is one thing i can say about this fic is that it very much kept to your prompt of dfs bottoming, even if i wasn't too sure in which direction you'd like to see this ship in particular go. i hope you enjoy it 💖💖💖

many many thanks also to @a-memory-a-distant-echo for the very wrinkly-brained dfs takes, incredible brainstorming, major cheerleading, and for putting up with a truly ungodly amount of whining! i owe you like a thousand and shall continue to bother you ceaselessly 💖

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Pairing: Di Feisheng/Fang Duobing

“You’re so cold,” Fang Duobing says as he pours him a fresh cup of tea, the brush of his hands warming him in ways the blankets will not. “I wish Li Lianhua had left more instructions.” He looks so distressed, Di Feisheng thinks hazily. It’s ridiculous - he’s hardly Li Lianhua, withering away like a plucked flower, and he’s suffered through so much worse besides - and yet the pup is acting like he’s dying on his watch.  This is nothing. He’s just-- cold. Very cold. Colder than he was as an orphan on the streets, shivering in threadbare robes and not yet knowing how to start a fire. Colder than when the sea had claimed him ten years ago, icy and biting down to his bones. Di Feisheng curls further into himself - the dampness of his hair is not helping, soaking into the fabric wrapping his back, and neither is the stray breeze he can feel make its way through Lotus Tower. Every shiver feels like it’ll shatter him into pieces, like ice on the ground. It’s nothing. He just has to wait it out.

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