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ajaxgb · 3 months

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Okay no I need to talk about the book version of Howl's Moving Castle. I love the movie but the book has such a different vibe and you, yes you, should read it.

Movie Howl is a soulful and quiet. Book Howl is a drama queen and Causing Problems and has a long string of jilted exes and couldn't shut up if you paid him.

Sophie and Howl drive each other up the wall at the beginning and it's really funny. Sophie and Howl are (despite themselves) very much in love by the end and they still drive each other up the wall and it's even funnier.

In the movie, Howl has been ordered by the king to participate in The War, and Howl is avoiding it because he is a brave conscientious objector. In the book, Howl has been ordered by the king to rescue his lost brother from the Witch of the Wastes, and Howl is avoiding it by any means necessary because he is a cowardly weasel who wants to stay as far from the Witch as possible.

In the movie, the Witch cursed Sophie because she was jealous about Howl speaking to Sophie for five minutes. In the book, the Witch cursed Sophie because Sophie had been doing surprisingly powerful magic for years without knowing it and it was actually starting to cut into the Witch's plans. (Sophie does not discover any of this until nearly the end of the book, but the reader can start to pick it up much earlier and the way Sophie's magic works is pretty darn cool.)

In the movie, there's a rumor that Howl eats the hearts of maidens, but this is implied to be nothing but nasty fearmongering. In the book, there's a rumor that Howl eats the hearts of maidens because Howl started the rumor so people would stop asking him to do wizard junk all the time.

The book lightly parodies a couple of tropes from Western fairy tales. In particular Sophie has internalized that, as the eldest of three sisters, her "destiny" is to fail so that her younger sisters will look cooler when they succeed, which is why she's so resigned to the hat shop at the beginning. (Sidebar: Sophie's sisters come up much more in the book and they're great.) There's also a really funny bit where Sophie attempts to operate a pair of seven-league boots.

In the movie, the fourth and final location that the magic door connects to is some sort of black void / mindscape / time portal dealy. In the book the fourth location is Wales, in the UK, on Earth, so that Howl can visit his family, because from Howl's perspective this is an isekai story.

#also there are two sequels #sophie and howl aren't the focus but they're still very good #howl's moving castle #howls moving castle #howl's moving castle the book my beloved #diana wynne jones #<- also read everything else she's ever written #me #my text post

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sadfishkid · 7 months

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green slime be upon ye

#howl's moving castle #howl jenkins #sophie hatter #howl's niece mari #and the skull (already forgot again whether it was sullivan's or prince justin's)#i reread hmc and came to the following conclusion #movie howl: slightly whimsical but still very much a byronic hero #book howl: sopping wet pathetic meow meow #(he even turns into a literal wet cat at some point)#art tag

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yuki2sksksk · 3 months

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Cigarette,

Daydream,

You were only 8 years old...

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linipik · 2 months

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Lance, with watercolor and sketch style tattoos 🌊

#vld #lance mcclain #voltron #voltron legendary defender #fanart #lance birthday #oh you are a leo? show me your lion tattoo #yeah give the brown guy color tattoos that will work FINE #but yeah i also gave him sketch style bc if the color fades the sketch is still very interesting as a composition #the one on his chest is the name of every member of his family #he has some sharks and a sunset beach #of course a red and blue lion...more above the lion is the castle of lions imo #and water and more down his ankle some fire #my own leo tattoo has some blue but it is still a difficult color....

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redbelles · 5 months

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You bought me flowers?

THE PUNISHER (2017-2019) 1.02 Two Dead Men

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hiding-under-the-willow · 7 months

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anyways. What

#atlas.art #artists on tumblr #mcyt #hermitcraft #hc s10 #docm77 #joehills #joe hills #juppet #vintagebeef #doc beef and joe just slowly fucking loosing it throughout this interaction is one of my favorite things that's ever happened on hermitcraf #also. watching his fucking gigantic hour glass slowly grow in the background of other peoples videos for the last week #why did he do that to himself so early in the season omg 😭#it literally is so ridiculously large it is insane. it looks insane next to everything else around it. it takes up the entire skyline #im thinking about keralis. who built his lake facing the shopping district so he could avoid looking at iskall's monolith while fishing #or mumbo and grian joking about making the biggest mega build in the shopping district for their wart shop. good luck with that now lmao #seriously if you haven't already y'all should go watch Wels' last video if only to see that thing grow in the background throughout the vid #wels built an entire castle on accident in that video and i still spent the entire duration going 'DOC WHAT THE HELL' it was so distracting

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ricky-mortis · 1 month

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It’s the perfect place for a picnic!

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piosplayhouse · 7 months

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"Oh dear," the unicorn thought. "I must've really mucked up the story beyond compare! The Red Bull Luo Binghe is protecting the last unicorn scum?! Unconscionable! He should have driven me off the cliff by now!!"