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annie, late 30s, eastern european. for more links and info: about me.

current main interests: hbo war saga, justified.

i make: gifs and funny edits.

everyone listen to dpr ian, generative ai should burn, the point of fan content is freedom, free palestine.

#don't mind me i'm just making a short #pinned

people foolishly dismiss desserts and treats as having no nutritional value when they actually are necessary for refilling your sanity stat. to prove my point please observe the emotional stability of the next person you meet who doesnt let themselves ever eat any form of dessert

childsacrifice

(no beers in) So how do you perceive me in the privacy of your thoughts

#(dick winters)

deepdwellingsteamboat

TWIN PEAKS 1990 – 1991・1x02 Traces to Nowhere

#dale cooper my beloved #twin peaks

staud

nixon & winters in 1x03: carentan

#my god they really left this in there.#winnix #band of brothers #sometimes i wonder what winters told either of these two. just a little

beatasticband

#hell yeah #the cure

mournfulroses

Fyodor Dostoevsky, from a letter featured in Letters of Fyodor Michailovitch Dostoevsky to his Family & Friends

airborneinfantry

Hey, what do you call those people again? Those Cajun healers? - Traiteurs. You know, my grandma was a traiteuse. Your grandma? No shit. - She was. Laid her hands on people and cured 'em. Took away sickness, cancer, you name it. [...] I remember she used to pray a lot. Yeah, I guess she had to. - Talked to God about the pain she pulled out. Asked him to… carry it away.

BAND OF BROTHERS (2001) ↳ Part Six: Bastogne

#incredible #bastogne really is that episode #band of brothers

monkeyfromarctic

Ronald Speirs (for no particular reason, i just love him very much)

Band of Brothers (2001)

#my special guy #band of brothers

pleasuretrade

color study

#wow #masters of the air

mournfulroses

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 3. (1923-1927)

callioope

In an ideal world, everyone has read Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones, and I’m just preaching to the choir.

But if by any chance this post reaches anyone who hasn’t read this marvelous, delightful book, let me tell you what you’re sleeping on:

A perfect example of how to write the most oblivious protagonist while still making things clear to the reader what’s going on

A competent protagonist who still has relatable self-esteem issues

Oblivious p I n I n g she wants Howl so bad and is in SUCH jealous denial

Misunderstandings related to that obliviousness

The most ridiculous Drama King to ever slime his own house

But who also is head over heels for that adorably oblivious protagonist

Like he dotes on her and she just thinks the whole time he doesn’t like her

Okay it’s not exactly enemies to lovers, but like, Sophie has such an impression of Howl’s reputation due to his own efforts to blacken his own name that Howl has a lot of work to do to correct her impression of him

and besides which, he really is a slitherer-outer so you can hardly blame Sophie’s frustration with him

and besides which Sophie does meddle an awful lot so you can hardly blame his own frustrations with her

I mean she basically just barges into his home and insists on staying an indeterminate time, like just tonight or you know, forever?

On that note, it’s not fake dating but these two are essentially living in a domestic relationship before they even kiss

File under: how to write a romance without needing the protagonists to kiss!

When Sophie insists on cleaning all the time Howl is just like “??? why??? do you want to clean when you are so awesome and powerful and could do so much better??? i keep telling you there’s a spell for that and you do not have to clean???? but if it’s what you want to do I guess?????”

like for real he’s just disappointed that she seems to only think she’s good for serving and doing chores and wants her to want more for herself

you can reread the book and try to pinpoint when Howl starts loving Sophie but then you cannot and for sure it just must be a case of ‘he was already in the middle before he knew he begun’

like he cures her aches and pains and he buys her nice clothes clearly trying to cater to her taste and

when he has to redo his whole HOME he asks her what kind of shop she wants to run and he buys her old home like as if they’re already married and they’re building a new home together

and Howl tries multiple times to break her curse, but in the end only SHE can really break it bc like I said this story is brilliant

and the WHOLE TIME, the whole time ALL OF THIS doting and pining is going on, Sophie looks like a 90-year-old woman and Howl is just head over heels for her

I mean with tropes like these???? what are you waiting for?

PS WAIT TRAVESTY I FORGOT – awesome sisters caring for each other!!

#absolutely need to read it bc the adaptation is absolutely essential to my being #“The most ridiculous Drama King to ever slime his own house” is a big part why #literature #howl's moving castle #just thinking about it makes me sniffly

bambamramfan

unironically so important

#lol

blood-suits-and-tears

// You Were Born With Potential - Rumi // Growing Old - Matthew Arnold // Grow Up - Paramore // We Grew Up At Midnight - The Maccabees // On Aging - Maya Angelou //

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