[sarchiba]

No because this is how every Howl/Sophie interaction plays out in the book

I love both the book and movie dearly but Howl's Moving Castle is one of my favorite books so I'm a little biased and I'm Normal about the things that I like

[spiritbladed]

something something extremely sexy when magic users resort to physical violence. yeah i have the power of god and anime on my side but i also have THESE HANDS. i cast Punch You In The Face. i take my magic staff through which i channel the vast energies of the elements and the cosmos and i cast Severe Concussion And Skull Fracture. casting time for xenoglossy too long, chose the quicker route of Stab You In The Throat.

[hmcbook]

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

[dovesandmagpies]

Howl's moving castle, illustrated in polymer clay part one

[hmcbook]

the finnish translation title for HMC is just "The Moving Castle" and you know what? Hell yeah. This book is not about him. Guards! remove him from the title #feminism

[hmcbook]

anyone remember the howl x willy wonka edit

[hmcbook]

@glamblaster thank you

[hmcbook]

anyone remember the howl x willy wonka edit

[princesszeldazbyebye-deactivate]

this is the funniest thing I’ve seen in any review ever

[princesszeldazbyebye-deactivate]

[pidgefudge]

[hmcbook]

when I made this blog I was 17 :(((((

[hmcbook]

Seeing all these hmc posts on my dash: ur so right i should re read the book

[hmcbook]

I love the sort of casual body horror in HMC like there are soooo many interesting implications and no one seems to talk about it. I wonder if before Howl got his heart back, would he have had a pulse? I think the implications of that are super unsettling but also hilarious because I can imagine Sophie checking on him when he’s passed out drunk or ill and checking his pulse and being horrified and thinking he’s dead until he wakes up to her freaking out and he just brushes it off and says she couldn’t find it or something. Anyway you are doing gods work having an hmc book blog I need more book discussion and appreciation!

Howl is Edward Cullen -type of vampire confirmed

[hmcbook]

Honestly why haven't I thought of this before.... He can't have a pulse or circulation..... He don't have a heart..

[hmcbook]

I love the sort of casual body horror in HMC like there are soooo many interesting implications and no one seems to talk about it. I wonder if before Howl got his heart back, would he have had a pulse? I think the implications of that are super unsettling but also hilarious because I can imagine Sophie checking on him when he’s passed out drunk or ill and checking his pulse and being horrified and thinking he’s dead until he wakes up to her freaking out and he just brushes it off and says she couldn’t find it or something. Anyway you are doing gods work having an hmc book blog I need more book discussion and appreciation!

Howl is Edward Cullen -type of vampire confirmed

[prokopetz]

I think the message of Howl’s Moving Castle is that in order to maintain a successful relationship with some kind of fucked up wizard, you must find it in yourself to also be some kind of fucked up wizard.

[oswald-privileges]

[prokopetz]

See, I don’t think that’s the case. Certainly, Sophie’s magic is often more practical than Howl’s, but if you think that the practicality of one’s magic is a reasonable measure of how good a fucked up wizard is at being a fucked up wizard, you don’t understand fucked up wizards.

[mstopportunity]

By some metrics, Sophie is a more fucked up wizard - Howl would never mess something up by accident! But here’s the thing, they complement each-other. Sophie is practically-oriented, but she’s not always competent to do what she intends, nor does she know what she’s doing. Howl always knows what he’s doing and why, and it’s usually useless bullshit for terrible reasons. Howl knows what he is intimately. He knows his strengths and his weaknesses and he knows that he’s got a spine like wet, single ply tissue paper. Sophie complements this by doing whatever it is she sets her mind to, but having exactly zero capacity for self-reflection (or if she does it’s through a funhouse mirror)

Your honor, they’re both a better fucked up wizard than the other, just how they’re supposed to be. 

[prokopetz]

[froggmoment]

[nebulations]

[ID: Image one is a tag that reads: “#you must become a BETTER fucked up wizard than your wet peacock of a fucked up wizard boyfriend.” The word in caps is “better”. 

Image two is a reply by @/downtroddendeity that reads: “Howl ripped out his own heart and set it on fire and then immediately went “wait fuck that was a bad idea” and spent the next few years completely failing to do anything to fix it, and Sophie laid an unspeakably powerful, unbreakable curse on herself by ACCIDENT. They’re perfect for each other.”

Image three is a tag that reads: “y’all are perfect for each other. please never get anyone else involved.” End ID]

[secondarysecrets]

Honestly idk people who say Howl and Sophie "have no chemistry" in the books and that the romance "came out of nowehere" obviously missed the part (that was like 80% of the entire book) where Sophie literally keeps bonding with Howl's HEART day after day through Calcifer 😭😭😭

[hmcbook]

just going through my drafts & posting them dw about it

[randomshenaniganery]

My case for longer haired Howl:

btw i will add in new pics every time I have a doodle of him

[daffodil--lament]

the witch of the waste is so funny. and howl too. howl, manic wizard dream boy, dating the unnamed Witch of the Waste. because he is unstable and has no heart he is infatuated immediately. because she is insane she is also infatuated immediately but is more crazy about it and quickly becomes very possessive. ("that'll teach you to meddle with things that belong to me" girl that is a human person)

howl quickly realizes "a) I'm bored now that I have nothing more to achieve from pursuing her b) this woman is incredibly controlling and jacked up in the brain c) that girl I saw at Fairfax's last week was really pretty." he cuts things off, not rudely, but with less grace than he maybe could have used. because she is insane WotW freaks out on him.

later she finds out that he's interested in this hatter girl who's got a natural unhoned magic talent. WotW freaks out extra hard, tries to curse him, tracks down the girl named hatter whose magical hats have been the talk of the valley, and puts her elaborate scheme in motion. all because howl broke up with her. lmao. also she doesn't even get the right girl but the one she does put a spell on is the one that ends up marrying him. suck on that