what would you have me do?

howl’s moving castle

Obsessed with the fact that this really happened😳

– Diana Wynne Jones

 Mundane 80s world is still the best

 Also Calcifer picking up songs from Howl is one of my favorite details :’D

funniest thing about dwjposting on this website is that you can see the exact moment your howell movingcastle post leaves the circle of people who know you’re talking about that welsh fucker. truly instant change from tags calling him a fail king and wanting to switch his $200 purple shampoo for head and shoulders to tags proclaiming their undying cottagecore-themed love for him

Sorry not sorry

howl would make stupid youtube videos like "pretty people problems" and sophie would leave hate comments on them (though not anonymously, but with her own name. She's not a coward).

howl makes the worst clickbait videos with 8-minute-long pointless intros & sophie always falls for the clickbaits and then rages

sophie and howl in howl's youtube comment section:

Sophie: Two minutes of content after 8minutes of sponsored ad??? I will find you in real life

Howl: Haha and then what ;)

[a vlog where Howl cooks eggs in a microwave]

Sophie: omg that is NOT how you cook an egg you dumb Ass

Howl: u want me carnally

Modern AU where this is actually how they meet & then Howl has a meet&greet and Sophie is the only one to show up<3

okay but. a fourth hmc book from older michael's perspective. michael who started out as a poor little orphan boy but was the first to find a home in howl when howl was JUST making a home for himself. michael who loves martha and magic and probably never thought, never dreamed, never hoped his life would have turned out like this. michael who is probably definitely morgan's godfather. michael who is likely a few years older than charmain and peter and would make such a kickass chaotic magical older sibling figure. michael who loves sophie and calcifer and his family and you can't tell me he wouldn't fiercely protect the one he made for himself when his first was taken from him. michael who, in the style of dwj, i want to see subvert an existing path and carve a story of his own. just. michael fisher, man.

Really loving the running cameo joke of the misadventures of Grand Royal Wizard Sophie Pendragon accompanied by her fail wizard husband Howl in this series

Cannot Stress Enough how important it is to read Howl’s Moving Castle written by Diana Wynn Jones immediately after watching Howl’s Moving Castle directed by Hayao Miyazaki. When he made the movie he was of course upset with war and thus included it in the film, but you gotta understand. You really Gotta Understand. Every time in the movie where Howl turns the door dial black to travel to an absolutely hellish warscape? You know where that same dial takes him in the book? The Real World Country Of Wales

movie howl vs book howl (i like both of them)

book howl was so real for abandoning his professional career and academic life at the moment a fantasy witchy world was available you go king wear fancy clothes! do magic! fight capitalism! don’t communicate your basic feelings! annoy the woman you would die for!

Them 😏✨ 2nd picture: *angry welsh screams*

So absolutely no adaption of howls moving Castle will ever live up to the Ghibli one and it remains one of my favourite films.

However, I absolutely would pay so much money for a more accurate adaption. Because Ghibli Howl is low-key a disaster but Book Howl? Book Howl has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TOGETHER.

Dude is a MESS and he's so interesting. Like he carries around a guitar Because he thinks it makes him look cool. He can't play it though. He straight up dates a bunch of girls and dumps them as soon as they start to show genuine interest because hes trying to FEEL something.

Also he's from WALES. like OUR Wales. Motherfucker learned magic somehow and jumped realities. He goes home to see his niece and nephew, and gives his a nephew a video game he magically created about himself.

Like I love Bird howl and the whole witch-of-the-waste-is-old-and-semi-senile-now and I'm glad they went with that but the absolute chaos of the end of that goddamn book. Like there's NO WAY you could translate that shit to screen in an hour. It would have to be a miniseries at least.

Also Howl is... Genuinely kind of shitty like he's not an inherently bad person but he is selfish and childish and a bit of a conniving bastard. And Sophie is also pretty damned flawed and they're so very in love but it's a DISASTER. Their relationship is one step away from being unhealthy at any given time.

And this doesn't even touch on the mess of the Cat Fiasco in Castle in the air or the Twinkle Situation in House of many ways.

Also Sophie's sisters? And their magic stuff? And how Sophie actually stays in the hat shop Because she's the Oldest Sister and the Oldest Sister never goes on adventures or has anything good happen (it's very Pratchett-esque in her obsession with the role stories play in our lives. I love it) and when she goes on her journey and something bad happens she's convinced it's because she never should have left at all because she's the Oldest Sister

Anyway I had a point but I forgot where I was going but

Tldr; I love the Ghibli film but I'd give my left leg and and a big wad of cash to see the true chaos of the books played out on screen.

It is my firm belief that the Howl’s Moving Castle series by Diana Wynne Jones are fantastic books and that the only way in which they could have possibly been improved was the inclusion of a map containing all the different countries mentioned.

I want to know how far High Norland is from Tsapfan, dash it all!

here it is <3 hmc trilogy as Buzzfeed Unsolved <3

howl’s and moving castle // castle in the air // house of many ways

“HowL, you wouldn’t beliVe thiS!”

1/6 for the #sixcharacterschallenge , I’m doing them one by one from my insta suggestions.