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I Think We Ought To Live Happily Ever After

@wizard-penndragon

Sophie Hatter stan
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I recently got a physical copy of howls moving castle so I'm going to read it and do a live react whenever I can, so exciting

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Reblogged knife-catto
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I have so much respect for the dog-wizard-prince hybrid who made it his life’s purpose to cockblock Howl

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Lettie: please go keep an eye on my sister and make sure she doesn’t fall for a clown like Howl

SulliJustiDog: finally I’m being encouraged to do what I love

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Reblogged hmcbook
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Underrated HMC moments I've never seen anyone talking about part 2

  • Howl choosing "H. Jenkins" for the shop's sign wich is the one and only moment in the series he actually uses his legal initials, as "H" can stand for "Howl" and "Howell" in the same time
  • Lettie being so angry about Prince Justin calling her "a sweet lady" that she said that she would prefer ever Howl over him. Wich is. Telling.
  • The King assuring that he never pushed Justin off and that everyone who knows them both wouldn't assume that.
  • Sophie being so RAGED with the whole weedkiller and daffodils situation she wasn't saying A SINGLE FULL WORD for about a page in the least. All of the sounds were like "argh!" and "Sophie gave the wordless glump of range"
  • The seven-league boots having the funniest description of use ever, as every time someone used it then the effects were simply narrated as "Zip!"
  • Howl raises the skull and quotes Hamlet directly to it, wich becomes a hundred times funnier when you remember that this Skull is canonically and ironically the only "person" in the room who can understand the reference.
  • Howl saying "Denmark" in the same sentence. And, again, they're in a fairly tale fantasy word. Sophie has absolutely no clue what to hell is Denmark. For Howl this is the basic knowledge of elementary school level.
  • Poor Percival being almost KILLED for transforming in the middle of a valley because people thought he's a WEREWOLF.
  • Poor Percival being STROKED with information of him being made of part of two other people right after experiencing heavy trauma, beheading, physical damages, not really well-planed adopting and moving a house.
  • Percival describing laying on the shelf and looking at the other parts of himself. What a lovely kids book.
  • Sophie accidentally making cayenne pepper magical. She would make a great seller-witch career because she doesn't need to know the spell in order to make. She takes random powder. She says it will do the duel fair. It makes the duel fare by making an opponent sneezing uncontrollable (wich is also just a way cayenne pepper affects people lmao)
  • Sophie's first thoughts after she heard that Howl is leaving the black door knob where it is being "Of course! There's miss. Angorian!'. Sophie, dear, he has a family out there.
  • Michael, apparently, hiding the money under the same brick Sophie will soon describe in CITA as "the brick where we're hiding money from Howl"
  • Miss Angorian and Howl acting like the spell in a modern Wales is the most normal thing ever. "That's a spell!!" "Oh yeah of course I suspected that"
  • “Didn’t know I used to fly up the wing for my university, did you, Mrs. Nose?” “If you were trying to fly, you must have forgotten how,” aka Sophie absolutely not understanding modern world sport terminology
  • Drunk Howell trying to get through the door MULTIPLE times, bumping on it before "discovering" the door
  • Calcifer "taking" that huge mention they lived (and almost never visited) in without buying it. It was literally said the owner is just Not Here.
  • Sophie loosing an acces to her own room. Wich must be really sad.
  • Witch of the Waste leaning on a swing when literally capturing Howl's family
  • Additionaly: Howl canonically NOT altering his clothes while rushing to save his family. He was running around in a long-sleeved medieval closes on a welsh playground
  • Sophie and miss Angorian having a whole fight over the guitar pulling it back and forward while it was making horrible sounds
  • Sophie literally pushing miss. Angorian off the house using the said guitar
  • Howl immediatly reacting when someone mentioned that the star Michael tried to catch looks sad.
  • Scarecrow literally running around with parts of Justin's body on its sticky shoulders for eighty percent of the book's finale
  • Howl saying he could be "the evil fairy at his own christening" which is probably a reference to the "Sleeping Beaty". Also. rises a question: did Howl HAD a christening. There's a huge chance he actually did.
  • Ben and Justin just. smiling at each other for enough amount of time for Sophie's narrative to say "If she had paid any attention she would see them". Am I interuppting something???
  • Lettie hating Howl's courting SO MUCH she asked Percival to bite him several times.
  • Additionally: Ben apologising to Howl for trying to bite him. That's also probably first time they're interacting
  • Howl ignoring all of it because sOPHIE HATTER
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Reblogged gravityjunior
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Okay no I need to talk about the book version of Howl's Moving Castle. I love the movie but the book has such a different vibe and you, yes you, should read it.

  • Movie Howl is a soulful and quiet. Book Howl is a drama queen and Causing Problems and has a long string of jilted exes and couldn't shut up if you paid him.
  • Sophie and Howl drive each other up the wall at the beginning and it's really funny. Sophie and Howl are (despite themselves) very much in love by the end and they still drive each other up the wall and it's even funnier.
  • In the movie, Howl has been ordered by the king to participate in The War, and Howl is avoiding it because he is a brave conscientious objector. In the book, Howl has been ordered by the king to rescue his lost brother from the Witch of the Wastes, and Howl is avoiding it by any means necessary because he is a cowardly weasel who wants to stay as far from the Witch as possible.
  • In the movie, the Witch cursed Sophie because she was jealous about Howl speaking to Sophie for five minutes. In the book, the Witch cursed Sophie because Sophie had been doing surprisingly powerful magic for years without knowing it and it was actually starting to cut into the Witch's plans. (Sophie does not discover any of this until nearly the end of the book, but the reader can start to pick it up much earlier and the way Sophie's magic works is pretty darn cool.)
  • In the movie, there's a rumor that Howl eats the hearts of maidens, but this is implied to be nothing but nasty fearmongering. In the book, there's a rumor that Howl eats the hearts of maidens because Howl started the rumor so people would stop asking him to do wizard junk all the time.
  • The book lightly parodies a couple of tropes from Western fairy tales. In particular Sophie has internalized that, as the eldest of three sisters, her "destiny" is to fail so that her younger sisters will look cooler when they succeed, which is why she's so resigned to the hat shop at the beginning. (Sidebar: Sophie's sisters come up much more in the book and they're great.) There's also a really funny bit where Sophie attempts to operate a pair of seven-league boots.
  • In the movie, the fourth and final location that the magic door connects to is some sort of black void / mindscape / time portal dealy. In the book the fourth location is Wales, in the UK, on Earth, so that Howl can visit his family, because from Howl's perspective this is an isekai story.
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Reveal of Welsh postdoc and rugby lad Dr Howell Jenkins (27) perennially one of the funniest things tumblr users can discover in fiction.

It’s unclear whether he finished his PhD or is still a grad student in the process of slithering out of his actual viva.

Here is Calcifer’s “silly saucepan song” that he sings to himself, which Howl sings when drunk (and Sophie doesn’t understand.) It’s a Welsh rugby song.

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SOSBAN FACH?????!?

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@spaghetti-trek I love that this jumped out and BIT you!!’

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Oh my GOD the saucepan song!

but also… yes… I love the outsider to the story, being perceived by the story insiders. And that is why Long Live Evil needed multiple POVs. Because, as so often when it comes to inspiration, Diana Wynne Jones.

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