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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.
#also there are two sequels#sophie and howl aren't the focus but they're still very good#howl's moving castle#howls moving castle#howl's moving castle the book my beloved#diana wynne jones#<- also read everything else she's ever written#me#my text post
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Books > Everything else, always and forever! 📚❤️ What would you choose? #TeamBooks or #TeamAnythingElse? Let's settle this! 👀✨
#Books > Everything else#always and forever! 📚❤️ What would you choose? TeamBooks or BookLover BooksOverEverything ThisOrThatChallenge#booklr#books & libraries#bookworm#book blog#bookstagram#books#fictionlovers#reading community#book quotes#novel
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his guardian angel
#im sure that none of the vampires are after Daniel for writing a book and actively outing them on television#because Armand is always lurking somewhere around#another oil pastels on a cardboard piece!! i think im starting to understand it a little bit better (but honestly just a little bit lmao)#specifically love how Armand's hands turned out#i think i put the most effort in them lmao#everything else was just yaaay i don't have any idea what im doing#iwtv#interview with the vampire#amc iwtv#iwtv daniel#iwtv armand#iwtv fanart#daniel molloy#armand#armandaniel#vampire chronicles#amc interview with the vampire#devil's minion#my fanart
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Everything about The book of Bill and Journal 3 and Stanford Pines' backstory fascinate me, because WDYM the lore and backstory for this children's show where two siblings have Scooby-Doo style mystery adventures all summer and there are multiple gags about the town making it legal to marry animals, is a Sci-fi psychological magnus archives/return to night vale style horror about one isolated barely restrained mad scientist with good intentions and a list of baggage a mile long who gets into metaphorical (and maybe literal(!!!!!)) bed with what is basically an eldritch horror-beyond-human-comprehension being, literally worships and devotes himself to that horror as his god at times, and sorta even loves him, until he realizes that the god he made his house and body into an an altar for is not a benevolent one, and he tries to severe ties with him.
But it's too late, the god is equally as obssessed with him, he made a home of his mind, and he's not letting him go, and even though the horror might even love him back, and in a twist it might even be the one of the most horrifying cases of the "one fell first, one fell harder" trope, it is still cruel and not above unleashing torment on his former devotee to get what he wants.
And then looking back on the scientist life, you also see that he's been haunted by symbols of what would become his god and betrayer literally since birth.
AND WDYM THE WHOLE THING IS (rightly, because it's a children's show and they are not the main characters) BARELY HINTED IN THE SHOW
I AM BITING THE DRYWALL
someone give me a horror podcast about Ford's time with Bill and later his life dimension hopping is what I'm saying
#billford#bill cipher#the book of bill#gravity falls#ford pines#stanford pines#THE IMPLICATIONS OF EVERYTHING ABOUT FORD AND FORD AND BILL ARE INSANE#WDYM THIS GUY MADE MULTIPLE SHRINES TO BILL#WDYM THIS GUY HAS BEEN HAUNTED BY TRIANGLE IMAGERY LITERALLY SINCE HE WAS BORN#WDYM THE HORROR LOVES HIM BACK?!?!?#WDYM THE HORROR IS SIMULTANEOUSLY A PATHETIC DRAMA QUEEN WITH AN OBSESSION ON THE SCIENTIST#AND ALSO THE CHILIEST REPRESENTATION OF A PERSON HAVING COMPLETE CONTROL OVER SOMEONE ELSE AND ABUSING THAT POWER IN TERRYFYING WAYS
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the krampus incident from the book of bill if it was out of character and stupid
#gravity falls#stanford pines#ford pines#fiddleford mcgucket#the book of bill#tbob#young ford pines#turtlearts#also sorry i got the heights devastatingly wrong fidds is so damn short here im sorryyy#for the record i was thinking of when mcgucket and ford reunited at the end where he actually is much shorter and smaller so erm idk man#please dont be mad#also i KNOW this is not lore accurate or whatever and i made it so much more sappy (?) than how it actually went but my hobby is being sapp#so leave me alone <3#also i do love me a ford thats afraid of vulnerability so theres also that haha#my favorite thing to draw was the first panel of fids with the banjo and then the 2nd to last picture#everything else looks like shit sorry#but i haaadd to post it ok . i have nothing else so dont complain and eat up kids#also do NOT laugh at my piss poor comic skills. literally dont even i swear to god
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More Mabel‼️
But seriously I love the way you draw her : )
lol ty!!!! im glad!!! mabel is really fun to draw (and technically write ig?) as someone who was also a preteen twin in 2012 LOL
i’m back to working after spending a six hour session just drawing brainrot so ive got nothin new to offer til i’m caught up with work (i’ve got a few posts of art from that night queued up though!) but here’s a mabel doodle from then that isn’t queued up <:)
#i am a mabel pines defender#she’s also so real for everything she said in the book#’go crush on someone else’s uncle’ so real!!!!!#and i really liked the page with her and ford bonding on the website it’s really cute#mabel pines#gravity falls
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like mother, like son, but less wholesome this time?
(I couldn't decide whether or not to put them together, so have them in all the different ways!)
#art#twisted wonderland#twisted wonderland spoilers#twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers#twisted wonderland episode 7 part 6 spoilers#twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers#twisted wonderland book 7 part 6 spoilers#if i had a nickel for every time a draconia ob'd while trying to save lilia#and had to be taken out by a member of this one specific bloodline with sparkly celestial hair that a fairy blessed#et cetera and so on you know the rest#i mean we know it's going to end better this time but y'know. the parallels!#oh meleanor my beloved#of course...of course she ob'd...it makes sense...#everything about this whole situation just massively sucked for everyone huh#well at least silver's biodad felt guilty about killing her i guess#i dunno i'm just havin' some feelings about all of this#lilia had both the absolute worst and absolute best things about his life come out of all this#down the two great loves of his life and also his job and reputation and 200 years of his life and uhhhh kind of everything else honestly#up some kids though!#(also one of those kids is a baby dragon who is JUST the right size to put silly hats on)#they were worth it to him! or maybe they were worth not giving up? look i am DEEP in the blorbosauce right now#if you don't want to read emotional tags about lilia twistedwonderland then don't come to egophiliac.tumblr.com
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i dont know how else to put this but to approach books (or any media, really) solely for the sake of relatability is genuinely incredibly heartbreaking......to have such little (or such unwilling) imaginative scope that you cannot stretch yourself, even marginally, in a different direction to what you’ve known or are used to knowing when the very POINT of stories is to transport you somewhere else, into someone else, so you can do just that........when fran lebowiz said a book “is supposed to be a door!” and george saunders said good prose “is like empathy training wheels” they were right!!! they were so so so SO absolutely entirely right!!!!!
#thinking about that last post still and i'm having so many thoughts#that people have relatability as the sole criterion is astonishing to me#like how else are you going to develop variegated textures in your relationships w others?#not to be dramatic but it seems like a little death to me. truly.#everything i read as a child and teenager was expressly something as different from my world as possible. bc i wanted to relate as something#other than me#once again it is. heartbreaking#truly it is#p#book talks#idir lúibíní
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You can tell that aftg is insane because in his backstory Andrew literally committed first degree murder and it’s like. a footnote. Like I literally forget he did that
#all for the game#and it was his MOTHER#and it genuinely just#doesn’t matter#it’s barely addressed in the books or the fandom#like with everything else going on a little matricide gets forgotten about#andrew minyard#aaron minyard#neil josten#aftg
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echo
#its the way baul called sebek a human with such disdain and sebek looked so HURT. and thats exactly what he does#it's the way this is his chance to face the music. to realize what he has accidentally carried forward in attitude towards everyone else#it's SEBEK TIME BABEYYYYYYYY it's SEBEKKY NATION!!!! the relationship and similarities between sebek and baul are SO interesting AGHHHH#cannot possibly overstate how floored and overjoyed i was that bauls design was getting put in canon. not even in an event#in the MAIN STORY. as an IMPORTANT CHAR im WHEEZING#sebek's internalized everything is so important to his char. yes we KNOW hes annoying and mean. its bc he hasnt gotten his ARC YET this is#GGRGGAHGAHHAHAHAH#twst#twisted wonderland#twst spoilers#book 7 spoilers#sebek zigvolt#baul zigvolt#oh Also shoutout to all the old man yaoi coming from this update. i appreciate it so much#lilibaul nation#suntails
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Friend was talking to her student about our upcoming ttrpg game where we were going to do a murder mystery. The student, who was used to playing D&D asked how she planned to soft railroad us into contributing to the mystery instead of going off and doing something else and she had a hard time understanding that we all got together and agreed upon the social contract of "we want to do a murder mystery and will abide by the fictional and in-character limitations of the scenario"
#I'll be fair and not blame this one on D&D and more on the cultural osmosis culture of ttrpg play that's spawned around it#Somehow people are afraid of asking their players to agree to limitations for a fun time#Like somehow the only rules you can apply are from the book and everything else is sacrilege#Or treating your players like rabid beasts who will knock over your narrative if not properly entertained with jangling keys
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A quick message to everyone out there who hasn't read TGCF, but is considering doing so; may I take a moment to pitch the series to you? Ahem,
An actual, canonical thing that happens in the books:
Our protagonist Xie Lian is on the run from a bunch of angry priests and monks. Said priests and monks are after him because his Ghost Boyfriend beat them all up in the past, and they've come to take advantage of the fact that this Ghost Boyfriend is stuck in the form of a child for reasons to get revenge.
At some point, they get cornered in a clothing store, and are about to get caught. Xie Lian's solution to the problem? Put on a dress, hide behind a curtain, and then scream really loudly while clutching at his skirts when the monks pull it to the side. The monks sputter at having peaked on a lady changing, and quickly close the curtain while apologizing profusely. As they're distracted, Xie Lian grabs his boyfriend turned child and books it out the back, getting confused for a mother and her child at least once.
I'm not joking, I'm not exaggerating, this actually happens in the book. A straight up Looney Tunes skit, starring Xie Lian as Bugs Bunny, happens in the book.
Thank you for listening to my pitch, have a lovely day!
#tgcf#xie lian#hua cheng#These books are actually hilarious and we don't talk about it enough#probably because we're all to busy crying about everything else
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Nico and Percy's dynamic through the series is eternally funny to me, because it's just. like.
Percy's having a constant mental struggle between his fatal flaw of loyalty with a promise he made to Bianca to protect Nico, versus his Big 3 kid desire to maim other Big 3 kids / Poseidon descendant urge to totally maim Nico specifically. He hates Nico so so much. He thinks Nico's annoying and weird at best, and creepy/sketchy when he's older. The only positive thoughts Percy has towards Nico are "He's Bianca's brother and Bianca was my friend and I owe her/He's Hazel's brother and Hazel is my friend and would kill me if I was mean to him," "He's a powerful asset and useful ally (if questionable)," and "He's kinda pathetic and I feel maybe a little bad about it." Percy has multiple occasions throughout the series where he strongly considers - and on one occasionally actually goes through with - throttling Nico.
Meanwhile, Nico is following around Percy like a lost puppy. He explicitly can never bring himself to even dislike anything about Percy no matter how hard he tries. He has a whole bit in BoO where he's mentally going "UGH he's so stupid BUT IT'S ENDEARING HOW DARE HE." He's totally smitten. He's making deals with his dad for Percy. He's making convoluted plans to help Percy stand a chance against Kronos. During the entirety of BoTL it's like he's playing tsundere - "I'm helping NOT PERCY SPECIFICALLY with this quest! Me helping Percy would be SILLY because I DEFINITELY HATE HIM." Then he proceeds to show up to Percy's birthday party to basically ask him on a weird date and spend the entire next book scrambling around trying to help him or protect him or impress him. And Percy could not give less of a shit.
Just. That dynamic is so funny to me. Percy is the founder of the Nico Protection Club in that he's the one they're all protecting Nico from and meanwhile Nico is throwing himself at Percy to the point where the literal god of gay love calls him out on it.
#pjo#percy jackson#nico di angelo#Percy shows up at CJ and squints at Nico like ''hm. why do i feel like i hate you? like i just wanna punch you in the face?''#and Nico just immediately goes ''huh no idea anyways i have to go-'' and jumps into Tartarus#but not before he gives Hazel essentially a detailed explanation of ''this is Percy i cant say much but please dont let him die <3''#and Nico's whole Tartarus trip was basically a whole ''im doing this so no one else has to''#only for Percy and Annabeth to fall in like one book later and Nico proceeds to spend the next book internally screaming about it#and then Cupid calls him out on it and the next book#Nico's just like ''at this point im hoping i keel over within the next week just so i can force this dumb crush to chill the fuck out''#Nico staring pointedly at Will: ''For my own sake i need to form another crush RIGHT NOW so i can finally get over Percy.''#''this has been so bad for my health''#Nico's crush on Percy is just too funny to me. horrible pick my guy. terrible job. love that for you. he could not be less interested.#Percy LITERALLY TRIES TO KILL NICO and ditch him in the underworld and Nico is somehow STILL like ''but i love him''#Percy basically chokes him. beats up his dad. tells him ''go get smited by your dad for me.'' and ditches him.#and Nico's opinions/crush on him DO NOT CHANGE#though also Nico's reaction to Percy beating up his dad + skeletons is SO funny. his jaw is on the floor. he's flustered about it.#he just witnessed Percy be incredibly hot and proceeded to go ''yea i'll do anything for this man. collect reinforcements of 3 gods? sure''#nico you absolute DISASTER with HORRIBLE TASTE. you can do better. raise your standards.#which tbh is funnier when you factor in sun and the star. Nico just wont stop crushing on guys who dislike him and everything he stands for
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Cant believe I never posted my guitar! I covered it in cutouts from my moms big old anatomy book :)
#one of the cooler & sexier projects I’ve ever done imo#the guitar itself is a hand me down from my stepdad it was like a build ur own guitar situation#the little eyes on the back r from magazines n the heart on the rib cage is some red plastic paper I had but everything else is from an#anatomy book my mom had from when she went to massage school :) all mod podged on (my stepdad sanded it first for me)#my art#ask to tag?? it’s a lot I guess but like idk how I’d tag it so lmk#OH & the eyes on the knobs r doll eyes from eBay
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"...I had to forgive Finnick for his role in the conspiracy that landed me here. He, at least, has some idea of what I'm going through. And It takes too much energy to stay angry at someone who cries so much." -Mockingjay, pg 12
#I'll just...leave this here#I was skimming Mockingjay and every time Finnick was mentioned my heart broke a little further#along with everything else in that book honestly#finnick odair#thg finnick#the hunger games#catching fire#mockingjay#thg series#digital art#hunger games fanart#artists on tumblr#katniss everdeen#clip studio paint#fanart#digital artist#odesta#finnick x annie#jolly art#I just realized how similar this is to one of my Peeta drawings from a few weeks back#ah well..#artists have tropes too ig#my friend was drawing Link (they're favorite stinky guy) being silly while I drew this#we show love differently
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This is so legendary Tolkien cannot help being hilarious he tries to be this serious dry narrator but I see you Mr. Stand up comedy
#veesaysthings#his hierarchy of funny books is definitely the hobbit - lotr- everything else. but this killed me#beren and luthien
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