Sophie Dear...

Never getting over how differently howl's moving castle book and movie treat the scarecrow

Found this on my fyp

obsessed with the fact that howl movingcastle, like, is the ideal portal fantasy protagonist. he's a welsh rugby-playing grad student who enters a magical world where he discovers he's a wildly powerful wizard. there's an evil witch out to get him and the king needs his help and there's a curse catching up with him. he has a magical creature sidekick and an orphan apprentice and a mentor who gets killed by the evil witch halfway through and a love interest under a terrible curse. the story is BEGGING for him to be the main character. and he's just like. no <3.

The Millinery Shop

Description

Of at least fifteen pastels, drawings, and paintings that Edgar Degas created on this subject during the 1880s, The Millinery Shop is the largest and perhaps the most ambitious. As a result of its unusual cropping and tilted perspective, it seems to capture an unedited glimpse of the interior of a small nineteenth-century millinery shop. The identity of the young woman in the painting remains unclear: she may be a shop girl or a customer. In an early version of the composition, the woman is clearly intended to be a customer; she wears a fashionable dress, though her hat - a prerequisite token of bourgeois culture - is absent. In the final painting, however, the woman appears with her mouth pursed, as if around a pin, and her hands gloved, possibly to protect the delicate fabric of the hat she holds. Degas seems to have deliberately left her role as a creator or consumer ambiguous. She is totally absorbed in her activity and, like most of the women in Degas’s paintings, seems unaware of being watched. The bonnets that are displayed on the table next to her like a still life present an analogy to the artist’s creative process: where they are unfinished, so too is the painting.

@applebutterbabie suggested the “cone sold stober” scene from the Howl’s moving castle book. 

Calcifer: (looks directly into the camera like he’s on The Office)

Howl ♡ might redraw this or finish it

Hi my name is Howell J’enkins Hatter Pendragon Movingcastle and I have a sick ass moving castle (that’s how I got my name) and fantastic gorgeous totally natural blond hair that reaches my mid-shoulders and green eyes like glass marbles and a lot of people tell me I look like Robert Plant (AN: if u don’t know who he is get da hell out of here!). [[I’m not related to David Bowie but I wish I was because he’s a major fucking hottie. I’m a draft-dodger but my robes are expensive and stylish. I have incredibly clear and perfect skin. I’m also a wizard, and I go to a magic school called Mrs. Pentstemmon’s in Ingary where I’m top of my class (I’m twenty-seven). I’m a wizard (in case you couldn’t tell) and I wear mostly suits. I love Kingsbury and I buy all my clothes from there. For example today I was wearing a blue and silver suit with matching triangles on it and huge trailing sleeves, blue jewel earrings on my ears and a frilly collar. I was wearing lip gloss, foundation, black eyeliner and bronzer. I was walking outside Cesari’s. It was May Day and sunny so there was no rain, which I was very happy about. A lot of girls stared at me. I did not put up my middle finger at them.

oh she's down bad ( ͡° ل͜ ͡°)

Thinking about Howl distracting Michael from his unwise financial decisions by showing him spells

 #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   

#meanwhile sophie tells a bar of soap that its perfect for her skin and will make it exceptionally beautiful#and it does!!#infuriating 

You are so right @procrastinatingplatypus​

green slime be upon ye

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

My Roman Empire is how the fuck does Sophie know about the Roman Empire

Wait educate me why wouldn’t Sophie know about it?

The howl's moving castle book lore is actually crazy (from what I've read so far) because while Howl is from Wales, Sophie is from the fictional land of Ingary (where the story takes place). At one point she accompanies Howl, via portal door, to his sister's house in Wales where she sees (and is baffled by) Howl's nephew playing a computer game.

The narration in the book seems to be third person limited, so while we know Howl's nephew is playing a computer game, the text never actually calls it that, because Sophie doesn't know what a computer is. that's why like hey, who told her about Rome