#Howl-Completed

[minandwon]

I told sunset about you

; he is the mystery and i want to get lost in every pieces of him

Verhao bxb short au

[inkskinned]

she had taken all of the pronouns in my poems and turned them masculine. every she was he. every her was him. i wrote about women dipping their hands into the honey of my chest and she had changed it in this stark, violent way. men now, in my work. in my ribs, i guess. how odd, to stare at it.

i write a lot about worshipping at the knees of my girl. what sapphic can resist the allure of chapel-talk, the divine nature of what is ours and ours alone. her hair in your shower. her chapstick melting in your car. when we say holy here, it is a different meaning. it is the smithing of our own haloes from mix-tape cds. no hammer to the anvil - only our own palms, skin scorching. forging every astral ray with the prayer please don't leave. our bible a history that is never taught in high school. we shape a church from the tent of her arched back. what other word for hymn but her voice. her moaning.

a poem can be stripped of its component parts, maybe, but can it still breathe? is it still the same ship? the words this woman changed, biting and spiraling up at me: my man is holy. i worship at his feet. he is the divinity of saturdays and the wheat of my communion and he is the hushed summer's glorious release.

it's common knowledge that you can say a word too-many times, and then it loses meaning. but here was something new: it wasn't that the words had lost meaning, but rather that they had shifted in the air somehow and turned radioactive to me. all of my words were otherwise unchanged, except for the unkind and glowing eye of him.

ivory-tower glowing in my aorta, i thought about talking to her on the sanctimonious and erudite level. telling her: a poem can be changed, can be erased or added to or demolished or reconfigured; but we do try to respect the original author. i would tell her i would have preferred her not change only the pronouns; that her actions felt like censorship rather than collaboration.

in front of me: you cannot cut him out of me, i was made to love him. no scrubbing, no penance. i will always come back to this house, come back to loving men.

i thought about telling her why her actions were cannibalism, not care. i would tell her about being 18 and pressured by my catholic family to accept a man as a partner; how i'd dated him for 5 years before being able to escape. how abusive he had been. how he had made me kneel in front of him - that i wasn't using the word worship idly, but rather as a reclamation. how i had to be re-taught even the concept of faith. how when i learned peace again, it was by the hand of a woman.

i thought about telling her about the wound behind it, the unceasing loneliness. i thought about telling her shape of the small and quiet hours; the fear; the endless and unpretty nature of just being queer. i thought about saying: all of my work comes from a place of pain.

i thought about telling her everything. when i finally found the words, it was only one: why? in that was the summary of all i felt: why not write her own poem? why change it so violently? and why choose my work, if she disliked it so much? why me?

i imagine she shrugged when she responded. all i got was a single sentence: "i really like your work but i want to be able to enjoy it without being made uncomfortable."

on her insta, her pinned post is of her boyfriend - now husband - proposing. they were married in 2023. congratulations. i really do hope she's happy.

i hope one day it stops hurting.

[fisherrprince]

big fan of @therenobee’s design/model, completely unbiased

[gremnda]

Babe wake up new ship just arrived

[izzyhandsy]

BLACKBONNET SEX SCENE SET TO IZZY SINGING LA VIE EN ROSE IS FUCKING INSANE DJENKS IM IN YOUR WALLS

[crazyneet]

Day five

Finishing up Heartslabyul with their dear leader, Riddle

Next up is Savanaclaw

Manga page from the Anthology Manga (chapter 6)

Heartslabyul: Part 1 — Part 2 — Part 3 — Part 4 — Part 5 | Savanaclaw: Part 6 — Part 7 — Part 8 | Octavinelle: Part 9

[violenteconomics]

antithesis.

[italoniponic]

too late, I know

but don't you love when the characters you love the most are also the most underrated? but they have the best clothes, honestly

[rustedleopard]

People debate about what the best joke is in Undertale Yellow. Some say it's Starlo asking Blackjack to sell a gun to a child. Others say that it's Clover telling Flowey that their name is Gun-hat. And some might argue it's that Clover eats gunpowder.

If you ask me though, this is my favorite joke:

[canisalbus]

Vasco is now voiced by Christian Bale in my mind. Cuz of Howl.

I've never watched any of the Ghibli films with their English dubs, so I went to take a quick look and got such a massive whiplash I thought I was going to pass out on the spot. I like Christian Bale but I don't know how to feel about his voice coming out of Howl's mouth, he sounds like a rugged, perpetually annoyed American action star :'>

I personally tend to think Vasco would sound like the singer Hozier. Not necessarily his singing voice but how he comes across in interviews. Warm, smooth, earthy and friendly.

[4rackn0]

Help this has been circling my mind the whole day i NEED to get it out here

[minandwon]

Won dan mantan-mantannya

; Tentang wonwoo yang ngerate mantan-mantannya

Wonwoo + HHU very short au

https://x.com/ricehowl/status/1909644896006529184?s=46

[twisting-in-wonderland]

some misc twst + pkmn doodles that are in varying states of completion--

(wips under here lol)

[annalrk-art]

thinking about the howl's moving castle novel again. since 2020 i've been working like on and off on a comic adaption of my own just for fun more than anything, it's a good exercise for art too

[vexwerewolf]

So after that ask, I decided to make some Pride Month memes for In Golden Flame. The character art is by @punkr0xy

[mapletine]

howl kite first post of the new year let's go

+ crusty dusty process gif under the cut

if ur here i <3 u

also lmk if y’all like seeing the process gif and i’ll start putting them in more of my posts