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forgot to post these doodles i did on my copy of hmc :)

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did you know that 1/10 howl pendragon stans don’t know that he is:

a) welsh

b) a fucking asshole

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★ 【ひとみん】 「 ハウル詰め合わせ 」 ☆ ✔ republished w/permission ⊳ ⊳ follow me on twitter

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nightmare blunt rotation

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

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Howl’s moving castle was as amazing as the film. But the cover is stunning, I can’t live unless I share it with someone!!

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Look at it

I’m in awe

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If he’s not cunty and slightly mostly definitely insane then what’s the fucking point.

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Calcifer Ceramics // Tottopottery

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Ghilbi Howl and Book Howl in one? YES PLEASE

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Inktober day 5: unexpected.

I listened to House of Many Ways again for inspiration and this scene (where Charmain accidentally lights a magical fire with a soap bar and Peter stumbles in, unannounced and soaking wet from the rain) felt perfect for this prompt! Also it's about time I drew anyone other than Sophie and Howl for a HMC series inspired drawing lol

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oh man I'm re-reading Fire and Hemlock for the first time in a long time, possibly the first time in my adult life, and like, this book defies so many categories. It's fantasy, but the magic is so subtle until right near the end. It's a book about childhood, but it's not exactly a children's book, and it's nothing like our modern category of "YA." The "No Where/Now Here" vases aren't hugely important to the plot, but they embody everything that this book is thematically. And once I'm done I'm going to have a full essay on the gender of it all, because I'm not saying Polly or Tom are trans, but they both do a lot of transing; the hiding in plain sight, the saying by not saying, the tension between perception and being perceived... there's so much going on here. I always struggled with this one and never really "liked" it as much as I liked Derkholm or Chrestomanci, but so much of it has stuck with me in ways that I keep going back to and being like "oh, I get it now!" which is exactly what Diana intended when she wrote it.

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Ruth Speer, A Heart's a Heavy Burden (based around both the 1986 novel by Diana Wynne Jones and the 2004 Miyazaki film), c. 2023, oil on wood, 24 × 30 inches.

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im letting the days go by and i dont even have a beautiful house or a beautiful wife

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Knowing that Howl went "Fuck finishing this PhD, I'm ditching this universe to go chase girls, consort with demons, and live my wizard ladykiller dreams, while owning my own home at age 27" makes him much more understandable as a character

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if you could put your age and where you're from in the tags that would be cool!

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We need to start objectifying wizards. We can't slap them on the ass though they only have 4 hit points they may perish

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just like starlight 🌸✨