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

#beautiful beautiful beautiful #fan art

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howl does like his clothes, cutting them up is probably a bad idea queen

#ZOE I ADORE YOU #fan art

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rare W for welsh wizard before his wife remembers whats happening

#how did I miss this fr 😭 #adorable actually #fan art

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idk how this boop thing works with side blogs but I see you all and I boop you too🫶🏼

#seeing some urls ive known since like 2015 warms my heart:')

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have you ever read emily wilde’s encyclopedia of faeries? because both the mcs remind me so so much of howl and sophie 😭

I haven't read this but it sounds really fun!

#im sorry i didn't notice this until now😭 #ask

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guys.... Lisa Frankenstein hmc au ......

#valid & same

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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

#exactly exactly

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Book!Howl

#truly

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movie howl: that's my girl! sophie you're hair is so pretty, i want to protect you and love you forever

book howl when sophie wants to clean his room:

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so again, I'm rereading howl's moving castle LMFAO and truly diana wynne jones' disdain for in depth sensory description is sooo cool. I think I've arrived at one of the most basic things that fascinates me about this book and that drew me in and it's something about how descriptive language and tone intersect. there's a lot of two-step visual description, but very little of the specific descriptive language I'm accustomed to. I can know that something looks lightweight because of the way that michael is carrying it, or that the slime is green and has a weird reaction when you dump ash on it, or that michael obviously wished he had not spoken, or that from the way howls feet are braced it's clear he is exerting great force, but it's almost rare that there's a plain description of what's going on. even if there is a proper one, there's always an opinion or extrapolation at the end of it: the wind tore at sophie's face so savagely that she thought she'd end up with half her face behind each ear. generally what I find is that instead of inferring how a character must feel based on how they are acting, you get to make up the specifics about a character's actions or experience based on how the narrator tells you they feel about it. the writing isn't broken down into small pieces for you to put together; it's made of big ones. a single description hits about three different ideas, and there's another similar one in the next paragraph, and you have to keep up. it drives the story along at a committed pace as well as makes the magic system feel very unique, and then that uniquely maintained system becomes scaffolding for the story's themes to grow off of

#never thought about it like that before. interesting

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I'm still thinking about chapters 19 and 20. howl is absolutely terrified of the witch. she is one of very few people who match him on talent, power, and wit. she's already taken out the second most powerful wizard in ingary. howl's backup team currently consists of one fire demon with a metaphysical hand tied behind his back, one 15 year old boy, and a bespelled elderly woman who doesn't know how to direct her magic. all of them he has the misfortune of caring about, and all of them are vulnerable.

then sophie absolutely loses it on him. like, almost irredeemably angry. AND she threatens to leave just before he's supposed to fulfill the prophecy that may very well kill him. I would go get drunk too

#HOWLS BACKUP TEAM MY BELOVEDS

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green slime be upon ye

#I LOVE THESE #fan art

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sophie is trying so desperately to view the moving castle and everything inside it as just a stop on her magical self-discovery journey. she tries to leave like four times because she thinks the narrative is ready for her to move on to a new adventure but she doesn't realize she's been rooted here. she thinks the fairy tale has to keep moving but what she doesn't realize is in real life there aren't perfect beat changes. sometimes you don't leave to represent a change in your perspective or goals. in real life you fall in love and get curious about new worlds and get attached to little brothers and fire demons. in real life you make a home.

#it is both a fairytale and the deconstruction of a fairytale<3

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Sorry had to repost bc I realized it's very different if you think about book or movie so THIS IS ABOUT BOOK HOWL

#nice/respectful nearly got half of the votes. and hot got very little #interesting interesting

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#the people have spoken. he is not a himbo

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sophie taking her anger out on plants

#lmao I forgot I made this

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Sorry had to repost bc I realized it's very different if you think about book or movie so THIS IS ABOUT BOOK HOWL

#howl's moving castle #howl's moving castle book #mine #polls