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Diana Wynne Jones wins big once again for understanding that the funniest way to write an isekai/portal fantasy is from the point of view of the people living in the fantasy world who look at the character who got isekai’d from our world and are like ‘WHAT is that guy’s deal???’

Howl/Howell stumbling back into his moving castle drunk after a night with his rugby bros is like the second funniest scene in that book, closely followed by poor Sophie getting reverse isekai’d and taking a day trip to Wales and suffering the terrible ordeal of a ride in a car.

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Michel: I've got a weapon, and I'm... admittedly VERY afraid to use it!

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Howl in Howl's moving castle: Not in Love with Lettie or miss Angorian but a super secret third thing (in love with Sophie).

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I’d like to think that Sophie would tell Howl that she was with child by using her flowers. Like instead of telling him simply and directly, she planted daffodils and baby’s breath around the house until he noticed and asked her about it. It took him 2 days to notice, and a week before he asked. Needless to say, he had no clue ‘till Sophie told him about it :)

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Howl: To everyone who has treated me poorly; I am sexier than you

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calcifer.

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Sweet sisterly encounter

Sophie: When I was your age-

Martha, mocking Sophie: When I was your height.

Sophie:

Sophie: Listen here you little shit-

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Cakes Martha would bake at Cesari’s

For Michael because she loves him:

For Sophie and Lettie because it’s like the Ingarian-baking-apprentice equivalent of sending a funny frog meme to your sisters

For Howl, to congratulate the infamous hearteater on ending up with a girl so incredible as Sophie:

For Michael again because really she loves him so much and they’re absolutely going to get married and have ten children someday:

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Sophie: What are your three best qualities?

Howl: I’m hot, I have soft hair, and sometimes I cry because I love my friends.

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This probably happened at some point

Sophie: Do you ever get pre-annoyed? Like you already know someone is going to piss you off?

Michel: What? No, I—

Howl: enters room

Sophie: *jaw clenches*

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I just love him so much

Howl truly is the man of all time. He’s a playboy. He’s a malewife. He fell in love with a ninety year old woman. He’s a rugby player. He smells like hyacinths. He’s not a natural blond. When dying his hair went slightly wrong, he filled his home with slime. He has a PhD. He’s a wizard. He found a way to another universe and he told absolutely nobody about it. He makes video games about the magical universe for his nephews. He can’t play the guitar. He always takes a guitar with him when he’s trying to seduce a woman. He’s a self-proclaimed coward. He got drunk to trick himself into doing something dangerous. He overcharges for his services to rich people. He undercharges for his services to poor people. A woman invaded his home and declared herself his cleaning lady and he just let her stay. He loves spiders. He lies about his surname to everyone, including royalty. The true spelling of his first name is Howell, but we don’t find out until halfway through the book because the POV character thinks it’s spelled Howl. He’s even Welsh.

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Sometimes you just gotta pull your hair back and Sophie Hatter the crap out of something

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Sophie, upon learning how Howl did a magic trick: So you’re not magic?

Howl: Well, not really.

Sophie: You’re just a liar.

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I adore this!

Okay but what if Howl watched Labyrinth and decided he wanted to emanate the vibes of this otherworldly, hot magical man and that’s one of the reasons he became a wizard in Ingary and it turns out he’s a Jareth wannabe except more of a drama queen

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Sophie: You think you're smarter than everyone else.

Howl: I don't think I'm smarter than everyone else. I know I am.

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Love how in the second chapter of Howl's Moving Castle Sophie meets Howl and is all intimidated and thinks he's "a very courtly young man", and then like four chapters later she's ready to tear him to shreds over the green slime incident

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Is it me or does Jupiter in this also look like calcifer from howls moving castle