This Was Too Much For Sophie.

I reblog posts about the book Howl's Moving Castle she/her

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Call me Sophie Hatter in Kingsbury

Cause it's hot and I'm feeling queer

[hmcbook]

Happy May Day aka Howl's Moving Castle Day my darlings!!!

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Last night I dreamt that Howl's Moving Castle was originally a musical (??) and the book was like a script or something (??) and I remember thinking it was strange that I had been a fan of it for so long and never actually seen it. Anyway I didn't see the damn musical in my dream so this isn't particularly interesting sorry.

There was a HMC musical once but it's lost media :(

[ladymissnose]

It's been 5 years I still want to make an HMC comic is it time? It will not EVER be as incredible as it needs to be but i think i should give it a try and see

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DO IT

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This might be the funniest part of Howl's Moving Castle(1986):

First off, why did Howl interrupt her. Why did he feel the need to interrupt her to tell her he didn't know who Ben Sullivan is (he 100% does) and why did he think that would make him LESS suspicious. This bitch just lies for lying's sake. Women be like.

Secondly, Miss Angorian KNOWS he knows who Ben Sullivan is because she's the Witch of the Waste's fire demon. You can only wonder what she was thinking this whole time and how she kept a straight face.

And this STILL doesn't put Howl off asking her out a second time. Like "yeah but are you SURE you're engaged I've never heard of this supposed fiance come to dinner with me". Hate that guy

That whole scene is such peak. Miss Angorian asking for the poem back because photocopies cost money?? Girlie is a fire demon and she's still burdened by the UK education budget. State of our country

Side note if anyone reads this do you think Miss Angorian was lying about the Ben Sullivan thing or do you think there was a real Miss Angorian she's impersonating who really was engaged to Wizard Sulliman before he left Wales?

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TOP TIER HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE BOOK RELATED ACTIVITY

Read sections of Howl's Moving Castle out loud, and whenever Howl does anything, say "women be like"

Can confirm it's really fun

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MOST CRACKABLE HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE SIDE CHARACTERS

10) Prince Justin

9) The King of Ingary

8) The Count of Catterack

7) Fanny Hatter

6) Mrs Fairfax

5) Calcifer

4) Jane Farrier

3) Mrs Pentstemmon

2) The Witch of the Waste

1) Miss Angorian

[hottestthingalive]

'the greatest reveal in the history of media was-' no. the greatest reveal in the history of media was in the novel Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones (1986), wherein after having spent the entire book up to this point in the fantasy land of Ingary, where fairy tales come true, it is revealed that the real reason that Howl is so odd, so strange, so different from everyone else is that he is not, in fact, like everyone else. and this is not because he is a wizard, or a layabout, or heartless--it is because he is Welsh. as in, he is from modern day Wales. as in, he and his pals from Magic World go for a quick trip to visit his family in Wales, circa 1984-6. and suddenly everything about Howl Pendragon aka Howell Jenkins suddenly makes a lot more sense

[bsdtual]

If you haven't read the Howl's Moving Castle book, I want you to know that Sophie throws a bucket of weedkiller at Howl and doesn't talk to him for a whole day after that

[jupiterlandings]

Rip Howl Pendragon, you would’ve loved Korean skincare.

[hydok]

 #i hate to do this to my man but howl would have a tiktok account   #he is trying to share his 12 step skincare routine and his 20 step haircare routine   #but he spends most of it trying to hide that he lives in a moving castle in a different world   

[greentrickster]

I would like to politely put forth that he spends a small percent of effort trying to hide that he lives in a moving castle in a different world, and that the majority of hiding effort is in regards to preventing Sofie from finding out he's futzing around on weird other dimension nonsense instead of doing his damned job. His final tiktok is a live he was doing and where she finally catches him. He's mid-routine when a door bangs open, Sofie yells "Howl!", Howl drops his phone with a quiet but extremely sincere curse, and the feed abruptly dies (because Sofie told the phone to stop working and it did). It's the last time his account ever shows activity, and the fan speculation is rampant on what happened to Howl.

[omegasmileyface]

i feel like he would want so badly to do skincare videos but he would also be absolutely and completely unwilling to leave magic out of his routine unless necessary so his only good solution (that he can think of. he never considers just doing that part of his routine separately.) is to make his own ~Secret Formula~ line of magic skincare items and after audience pressuring he starts to sell it but at a completely fucking ridiculous price so he can keep up. he isnt outsourcing it to any sort of factory, hes literally just whipping shit up in a big pot in his backyard and having michael scoop it into jars. the buyers swear by it, but it is MOST ABSOLUTELY not a legal sale. by the time theres an investigation— "Welsh skincare TikToker's illegal 'mystery potion'," read the article headlines— sophie has already made him shut it down. there was never anything to identifiably connect the account to some disappearing grad student, so the investigation fell short, without him ever knowing it happened in the first place.

michael has asked about the lotion production no less than 60 times and not once gotten an answer.

[sophiesweedkiller]

Guys if I were to get a hmc tattoo ..... what should it be .....

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My brain says book accurate Calcifer but my heart says anything from the 1989 edition cover:

I don't know if that's legal, I've never had a tattoo. You should probably get a quote.

But you know you NEED the bespectacled dogman in your life. Or the old Sophie who looks to be drawn by someone who does not know what old people look like (and is wearing gay socks).

[sophiesweedkiller]

Guys if I were to get a hmc tattoo ..... what should it be .....

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My brain says book accurate Calcifer but my heart says anything from the 1989 edition cover:

I don't know if that's legal, I've never had a tattoo. You should probably get a quote.

But you know you NEED the bespectacled dogman in your life. Or the old Sophie who looks to be drawn by someone who does not know what old people look like (and is wearing gay socks).

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I just had a revelation about Howl's Moving Castle. I can't believe I'm still having revelations when rereading this book there's way too much reread value.

Okay, so a year before the story starts, the Witch of the Waste kidnaps Wizard Suliman and makes a jigsaw of him. But everyone thinks he's dead:

Even Mrs Penstemmon seems to think so, and she's a very smart woman:

But Howl knows better:

So how does Howl know that Wizard Suliman isn't dead? Well, it could be that he dated her a few months after she'd kidnapped him:

(which by the way is absolutely insane. Why would he do that.)

But I'm pretty sure she didn't tell him anything about Wizard Suliman, because he seems not to know about the whole situation with the scarecrow and the dog and everything she did to him. But he bought the skull and the guitar together, and what he does know, is that the skull is Welsh:

Because he bought it with the guitar, which is clearly from modern day Wales. TWOTW sold them both at the same time, because they're both Wizard Suliman's. And- here's the kicker- this is his reaction to the skull chattering at him:

He's startled, but not shocked the way you'd expect someone to be when an inanimate object moves. He doesn't further question it. I imagine the skull has done that before. And why does it do that? Well. According to my theory, because some part of Wizard Suliman, who is alive, lives in it. And THAT is how Howl knows he's alive, and why he keeps the skull around.

Take this with a grain of salt because it could also chatter because Sophie talked life into it. But it does chatter when it gets close to the other parts of Wizard Suliman in the scarecrow, which would be strange if its animacy was independent of its identity as a part of the living Wizard Suliman.

Tl;Dr: The reason Howl suspects Wizard Suliman to be alive is because he deduced that the skull he bought was Wizard Suliman's, and that it was alive.

I think too much about this book tell me if I'm overthinking it

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THE HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE BOOK FANDOM WILL NEVER DIE

BOTTOM TEXT

[ladymissnose]

How do you imagine Ben Sullivan?

I'm seeing John Brooke from 90s little women

I DON'T KNOW WHYYY

[born-to-strange-sights]

i love that for all that howl is an all-around disaster he still apparently is very practiced in Customer Service Voice

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this leads me to believe he definitely worked in retail as a teen

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actually tbh it’s more of a mix of Customer Service Voice and Sleazy Businessman Voice it just depends on whether you’re rich or not

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Howl taking spell orders from regular joes: No no ma’am it’s totally fine you don’t need to give me anymore reasons why you can’t pay me yet i totally believe you. oh you WANT to tell me more about it well ok that’s fine too ig pull up a chair (??)

Howl taking spell orders from The Bourgeoisie: Hmmmmm yës well....... that certainly sounds like a difficult and extremely fascinating problem indeed,, welll..... im not supposed to do this but *Just For You* I can give you. ~Threeeeeee spelllllllls~ for the Low Lów price of only. 175 gold coins!!!!!...... a retail value of of over probably at LEAST 200 or something, dont go telling everyone about it though ahahahaa;) btw my goodness where DID you get that absolutely dashing waistcoat,

[born-to-strange-sights]

omg also the flower shop lmao how could I forget....... getting tons of hapless repressed horny chicks to buy literal buckets of flowers they didn’t want..... an icon..... Get this man on Shark Tank.....

[thatfoolsophie]

opposites attract

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I wanna read Howls moving castle because book Howl everytime I hear about him I'm just like.

Aawww~ poor little meow meow, little Welsh babe. My little pathetic baby girl♡