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a little big.

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howl: sophie i'm confiscating your dog man and turning him back into a man because he is clearly unwell, seriously why didn't you tell me, he looks awful

sophie: howl is.... evil??? howl is unyielding? howl is incapable of love? i am running away. i am packing my little rucksack and going out to explore the world as a lone vagabond. i can no longer thrive in this household

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I think the message of Howl’s Moving Castle is that in order to maintain a successful relationship with some kind of fucked up wizard, you must find it in yourself to also be some kind of fucked up wizard.

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You look around the lecture hall and notice all the other students have fallen asleep. You look towards the lecturer, who has now stopped talking and is staring straight at you. “I don’t know how you’re still awake, but I guess we do this the hard way.” He says before pulling out a sword.

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Inktober day fourteen! Prompt: check

☑ Fill 17 pages of a notebook and feed said pages to Calcifer

To a bowl add: ☑ soot off the chimney; ☑ a withered root from one of the bags hanging on the beams; ☑ a large whorled seashell from Porthaven ☑ many blank pages torn up.

☑ Put the bowl in front of the skull; ☑ Blow on it, so soot and bits of paper whirl all over the bench; ☑ Mash the contents with pestle and mortar;

☑ Add two more rounds of different ingredients from bags and jars; ☑ Cause a mild explosion;

☑ Gather another round of different ingredients; ☑ Put the bowl on the floor; ☑ Chalk five pointed star around it; ☑ Cause a bigger explosion; ☑ Rub chalk out quickly; ☑ Ask Sophie for her opinion/advice; ☑ (Disregard anything she says)

[ID: three images of an Indian ink and watercolour drawing of Michael, Sophie and Calcifer from Howl's Moving Castle. The second and third images are close ups of the first. It shows a scene from chapter nine: In Which Michael Has Trouble With A Spell. Michael is sitting on a high stool by the window at the workbench, where he's made a terrible mess.

He's half turned towards Sophie, who sits in a comfortable sofa next to the fireplace, where Calcifer is gobbling up little blue fabric triangles. Sophie's attention is on Michael, who holds out a sheet of paper in front of him with one hand, and appears to be summing up or counting something, seeing as he holds up two fingers of his other hand. /End ID]

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“𝒶 𝒽𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓉 𝒾𝓈 𝒶 𝒽𝑒𝒶𝓋𝓎 𝒷𝓊𝓇𝒹𝑒𝓃”

❤️‍🔥🏰👒✨

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one of the funniest moments in Howl‘s Moving castle [the book] has to be Howl literally inviting Sophie‘s entire family to distract her and Fanny and Mrs. Fairfax soon getting distracted themselves by the need to clean up Howl‘s bedroom

like, did Howl calculate this risk and accept it for Sophie’s sake?

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been reading Howl’s Moving Castle again

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a compilation of things and names howl calls sophie in the book.. enjoy

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sophie genuinely believed she was stowing away in a cannibalistic wizards moving castle and was only ever mildly concerned… like cannibalism is just some odd trait

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No, you can’t tell me otherwise that Howl and Sophie’s relationship from the start wasn’t an Enemies/Rivals to lovers trope because it is what it is.

HOWL TRIED TO CURE SOPHIES ARTHRITIS

SOPHIE THROWS WEED KILLER AT HIM

And then they get married.

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It was clear to him that he must be at Sophie’s side this moment—or before this moment, if possible. He had the ingredients and thoughts for the transportation spell in his mind in an instant, and another instant after that—slapdash, slapdash, but there was no time to kill in being thorough—Howl was moving across the market in a rush. He ended up leaving Michael behind him shouting something about balsa. Things seemed to be crashing around him as he went—tents and tables and stands, perhaps—but the important thing was that he get to Sophie, now (or sooner than now, preferably).

One good thing was that finding Sophie was soon made easier Sophie herself, who began shouting out in a very clear, precise spell: Stay away, Howl! Don’t come over here! Howl thought that was a load of tripe, although he did feel the magic tugging at his sleeves ineffectively from time to time, the way a small child might.  “There we are,” he said to himself, and followed the whole thread of it right exactly to her, nevermind all the troublesome scree of blankets and pots and pans and a sign with large white letters that flew up in his face at the last moment with a hideous jarring clanging sound—

There she was. And in the grip of a particularly cunning bit of magic. Howl did not think so much as stick his hands out into the spell before he had lost momentum and pray that what he got was Sophie and not something else entirely.  There was the briefest of flashes and he spooled runes frantically through his head and then he had her by the shoulders—“Oh, no, let me go!” she cried, and it was Sophie alright—and everything was going to be alright.

The momentum of the spell she’d been in plastered her face-first against his chest. By some trick she had figured out his identity without even a glance—“Howl!” she said. “Oh, it’s no good, you need to stay away!”

The irritation in her voice had Howl’s innards going gooey with relief. “Garbage,” he said. –ch 8 of the business of happily ever afters by Photosyntheses

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if things HADN’T come to a head with the witch’s curse, how much do you think howl could’ve escalated his nicknames for sophie before she started getting suspicious? he jumped in with “good sophie” and “dear sophie” within a week. surely she wouldn’t notice a casual “dearest sophie.” what about “darling sophie”?? could he escalate it to “beloved sophie”??? i’m having the time of my life imagining him screaming into his pillow bc it’s been TWO YEARS AND HE’S LITERALLY CALLING HER “SOPHIE MY LOVE” WHEN IS SHE GOING TO CATCH ON

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Howl's Moving Castle horror-ish au where the castle is a haunted castle and both Howl and Calcifer are actually ghosts (Michael isn't he just stays there anyway) and that's the mystery Sophie needs to figure out