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So I’ve finally decided to make an “about me” pinned post

A very good post of mine in my opinion that I will be adding to so I’m linking it here: x

URL change: bad--but-sad-boy --> star-boy--7

My other blogs

@generic-blog-name-69 - main blog, asks, comments, and likes will be from here

@mywritingsuff - which has a typo i didn’t notice before, literally just where i reblog things to use later (specifically writing and drawing advice)

Basic Stuff:

I’m Apollo or Caspian. I use he/they/it pronouns, and i’m aroace :)

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#i still need an art tag - art (usually not mine, just art that i like)

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#rhys reads - when i read things

#fictional people i love and cherish and also happened to have created - ocs

DNI:

the usual

#bio post #pinned post #don't rb

dancing-eel

Just reread howls moving castle!! and i had to draw them

amphibimations

Howl Jenkins, my favorite isekai protagonist.

toasterchan

Just discovered the artist miico who has created several little book!Howl animatics! 😍 Definitely check out their instagram reels for more!

midnightella-mass

thinking about Howl’s Moving Castle again and watching the movie after reading the book rlly made the book so much funnier bc the movie is like:

Howl, in Patrick Bateman’s voice: “Hello sweetheart, darling, love of my life, how are you on this fine day? I am going to take you to a beautiful field of flowers before we inevitably have to return to The Plot so that we may further develop our fated romance that you began years ago and just don’t know yet”

Sophie, internally monologuing: “Wow he is so Handsome and Noble, truly the perfect man. I am so glad that this horrible curse led me to be able to know him and his cool moving castle and sentient fire and apprentice, who are my best friends now <3”

Calcifer and Markl, nodding along: “yes we are the best friends and are also in the room”

And then the book is like:

Sophie, angrily hurling things at Howl: “YOU INSOLENT, FICKLE, HEARTLESS EXCUSE FOR A WIZARD DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW STUPID WHAT YOU JUST DID WAS?! WE COULD HAVE DIED!!”

Howl, dodging most of it: “WELL WE DIDNT!! BESIDES IF YOU WERENT SUCH A NOSEY, CHAOTIC OLD BOTHER I WOULDNT HAVE TO RUN OFF, NOW WOULD I?!”

Michael, petrified: “…should we stop them?”

Calcifer, eating logs like popcorn: “no, no, I wanna see who wins. Five bucks on Sophie”

svrt-degraded

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

nadiajustbe

One of my favorite parts about the writing of Howl's Moving Castle is how easy it is to write off all the things from our world at first as him just being a weird wizard™ (also thanks to bestie @jutenium for spotting this I wouldn't put it like that without you!!/pos). Sure, Sophie uses weird descriptions, but readers have every reason to believe them because of the way Howl is presented as a character. When Sophie says he wrote with a quill that doesn't need an ink, you wouldn't think it was actually a ballpoint pen, you would think Howl had just enchanted his quill so that it wouldn't need ink! When she adds that she can't make out a single word, you think he has matchingly terrible handwriting, but in fact Sophie has simply never seen a pen writing. When she sees the mysterious labels on his books, you think he's keeping a lot of obscure magical literature, but it's really just an encyclopedia and a guide like "Top 10 Rugby Tips." When Sophie notices the bottles in Howl's bathtub, you think they're some kind of magical jars where he keeps girl's hearts, but I'm almost certain that they're just 'Dove' and 'Head and Shoulders' that he's enhanced with his spells and put silly labels on. When you read Calicifer singing a song in a language Sophie doesn't understand, you think it's some kind of ancient cipher or code, but it's actually just a rugby song in Welsh that Howl sings when he's drunk. And finally, when you see the terrifying black door, which is completely shrouded in darkness, you imagine a passage to an eerie, mythical place, similar to what Miyazaki showed us - but it's just fucking Wales.

hannahelatham

A lil practice in perspective with this piece mostly, so here's Howl and Sophie, who I designed based 50/50 on their book and movie counterparts! I actually would love to revisit this piece and paring in the future, since the book is one of my all time favs

fayevalentinesgamblingchip

Been reading howls moving castle lately and i do love how idgaf maxxing sophie is about. Everything. Learns her sisters swapped places bc one wanted to learn magic while the other wanted a family😐👍 gets turned into an old lady by the wicked witch of the waste😐👍 meets a fire demon and makes a contract w him before taking a nap on a cozy chair😐👍 learns shes a witch ans has been speaking magic into every hat she ever made😐👍 like i strive to give that little of a fuck. Which is contrasted to howl going on a neurotic spiral every two pages

jupiterlandings

Howl’s Moving Castle gets so much funnier if you imagine all the characters in vaguely fantasy skewed 1800s style fashion and but Howl in straight up 1980s New Romantic attire like such:

sailor-moon-rei

by paint_hin

art republished with artist’s permission // not allowed for AI training

gabisart

Foolish heart, heed my warning

You've been wrong before

Don't be wrong anymore ❤️‍🔥

squidwithelbows

I’ve always wanted to learn how to do more painting-style digital art so I started doing some impressionist / post-impressionist painting imitations with a Ghibli theme just for fun. This one’s Monet’s Woman with a Parasol, shout out your favorites or suggestions in the comments!