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Sheep’s cradle

that Diana Wynne Jones interview where she’s like “I don’t understand why so many girls are into Howl, it must be because they want the challenge of fixing him” is so optimistic, like DWJ’s out here hoping I at least want to make him a more functional person as if “rogue academic turned melodramatic fashion disaster whose social skills Do Not live up to his own hype” is not a perfectly valid thing to be attracted to 

DWJ, a reasonable woman: behold this undesirable man. look at him, he dresses weird and he keeps emotional support spiders and doesn’t even question people moving into his house without asking and he has to reverse psychology himself into doing anything he’s actually supposed to do. 

every morosexual in a 100 mile radius: oh fuck yeah babey

god this isn’t even touching on the fact that Howl is??? apparently??? an ordinary-ass Welshman who was studying spells (????) at the doctoral level and then (somehow???) found a doorway into Actual Magic and promptly moved there to set up shop as a wizard with like five different names and two outfits but still goes home sometimes because he loves his niece and likes to hang out with the rugby lads (still working on processing Howl being a jock but?? okay), because PRESUMABLY all of this is supposed to further illustrate that Howl is an absolutely ridiculous sort of person but all I see is a man who made the exact decision I would make in a millisecond if given the opportunity 

Howl Jenkins is what happens when the overpowered ‘thrust into a fantasy world’ man… is not the main character.

Howl Jenkins is what happens when an a normal man gets thrust into a fantasy setting and is mostly excited to dick around and learn some magic to turn his hair different colors, only to realize to his dismay that being a powerful wizard means that people are going to ask you to actually do shit for them

Howl’s real name is just Howell which is one of the most generic welsh names ever and is like a guy named Steve going to a fantasy land and naming himself Stev.

Howl is supposed to be totally ridiculous yes but also supposed to abruptly in the middle of the story turn out to be Extremely Relatable.

We turn the black knob to the Mysterious Destination and afterward Sophie is more confused than ever (though not by much because she isn’t interested enough) but the audience has abruptly had ‘incomprehensible fantasy chaos wizard’ transmogrified before our eyes into an easygoing perpetual grad student with no job prospects whom nobody takes seriously, except he has a secret magic life, which is in fact only slightly less stupid and even more off the rails than the normal one.

poetry.

Just want to add: being invested in rugby does not make a Welshman a jock. It just makes him Welsh

As a longtime filmfan, this discourse makes me Real Excited to read the book.

so I thought this was about howl’s moving castle

it is

It’s also funny to me that DWJ was like, Chrestomanci (bisexual disaster wizard character whom she finds hot) is right there and doesn’t need fixing!! Chrestomanci is much hotter!

In the gulf between the wizards we get an idea of her own tastes and preferences, which is that she really digs a guy with resting bitch face.

Like I get that Miyazaki was going for his own interpretation of the book and so that’s why the movie barely mentions Howl’s backstory (except for a dreamy sequence that does not at all touch the fact that he is from the Real World™️) but

I had been loving the movie for several years when, in one of the best college classes I ever took (400 level 20th Century Fantasy Fiction with the same adorable professor who taught my 300 level Haunted Victorian Lit class *chefs kiss*), I finally read Howl’s Moving Castle for the first time

And I was absolutely Unwell when I discovered that mysterious bisexual disaster wizard was in fact a Welsh perpetual grad student who found a magic portal and decided to move there full time and only go back for visits not only because that’s the only reasonable thing to do when you find a magic portal (duh)

But also for tax evasion.

My hero. Who the fuck wouldn’t??

Also, do me a favor and rewatch the movie imagining all of Howl’s lines in a Welsh accent. 🤣

On Isolation

anyway the actual point of fandom is to inspire each other. reading each other's fics and admiring each other's art and saying wow i love this and i feel something and i want to invoke this in other people, i want to write a sentence that feels like a meteor shower, i want to paint a kiss with such tenderness it makes you ache, i want to create something that someone else somewhere will see it and think oh, i need to do that too, right now. i am embracing being a corny cunt on main to say inspiring each other is one of the things humanity is best at and one of the things fandom is built for and i think that's beautiful

i have to defend fictional women who aren't good people because if i don't who else will

the two flavours of this feeling are "i think she is flawed and going through it and figuring her shit out and that's a very human quality that i appreciate seeing in a female character" and "i think it's good she killed and ate those people and i think it's really hot that she didn't feel bad about it because confidence is attractive"

honestly feeling the need to apologize for not appreciating live action zoro's humor enough the first watch. zoro was really out there in the first episode alone shit talking his opponents and putting a bounty hunter's HEAD on the bar cracking the 'he needs a drink, he's had a rough day' joke. bestie thinks he's so funny / probably internally laughing at his own jokes but he's this intimidating ass demon swordsman & his delivery is so dry that everyone just stares at him like 'r we supposed to laugh or be scared rn???'

#guy who's been on the road (seas) lost and alone for too long#for all his initial resistance to joining the straw hats (not a lot of resistance)#he makes a dark joke in a dry monotone less than two hours in and luffy laughs#finally someone who understands his sense of humour#thinking back to that scene where helmeppo races in with his gun drawn and luffy's laughing like what is wrong with your hair#(first time you see zoro smiling) @dykealloy

the undoing of Boromir

We are touring King Baby in some schools and I love the kids

Actually that no punctuation plot hole ooc wattpad fanfic written by that 12 year old will ALWAYS be better than character ai. And I love that 12 year old btw

they can try all they want but AI speed paints/art process videos will never capture the intensely human artistic endeavor of drawing and undoing and redrawing the same simple shape or line 400 times rapidfire in a drawing thats pushing you closer to the edge with every lift of the pen

if you'd like to watch something but everything feels too much, here is a 24/7 puppy livestream provided by the finnish national broadcaster. the bordercollie puppies are now 11 days old. the livestream will continue for eight weeks in total. this is an annual event and super popular in finland but you can watch it from abroad as well! the puppies will get names on sunday this week.

The puppies have names now! ☺️ They are Tuike (twinkle), Säde (beam), Välke (sparkle), Kipinä (spark), Salama (lightning bolt), Rusko (glow at twilight and dawn), Hämy (twilight), Pilke (glint), Kulo (burning dry grass) and Tähti (star) ☺️

throwing my sapphic porschevegaspete wip at you and running away in terror