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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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WHOS THAT
#80s billford my beloved#i cant believe the twink bill tm is canon stop#bill cipher#billford#stanford pines#the book of bill#gravity falls
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Good Omens Season 3 Predictions:
(it took all my self restraint not to just use Bildad the Shuhite pictures)
#good omens#good omens 2#go2#good omens 2 spoilers#good omens spoilers#go2 spoilers#go 2 spoilers#bildad the shuhite my beloved#also i know we love Crowley in his cunty turtleneck at the bar drinking his talisker#but imo him grabbing the jane Austen book is his hottest turtleneck sweater moment#someone mustve done this already right?#good omens season 3 predictions#go3 speculation
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can't stop thinking about those skeleton lesbians (pt 1)
#palamedes and camilla my beloveds#pal gets grey hair to match his grey eyes like an anime boy because that's how i first imagined him sorryyyyy#also i think i drew ianthe's skelly arm on the wrong side. im sorry forever#also these only cover the first two books. currently reading nona! dont know wtf is goin on!!#tlt#the locked tomb#harrowhark nonagesimus#harrow nonagesimus#gideon nav#ianthe tridentarius#palamedes sextus#camilla hect#mercymorn the first#augustine the first#griddlehark#harrianthe#harryanthe#gideon the ninth#harrow the ninth#tamsyn muir
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Michael learns of Jeff’s pizza from FNAF Into the pit
#myart#chloesimagination#comic#fnaf#five nights at freddy's#fnaf fanart#michael afton#oswald fnaf#Jeff fnaf#Jeff’s pizza#into the pit#fnaf itp#Jeff from Jeff’s pizza my beloved…#I did finish into the pit btw#(which I might replay soon to get the best ending)#CAN I JUST SAY I love Jeff#He’s just so chill#I like how he doesn’t really stop Oswald at all#he’s actually really nice to the lil guy despite how exhausted he is#so needed any excuse I could have to draw him out#Michael curious what happened to Freddy’s after it shut down etc#SHOCKED that the Jeff in Jeff’s pizza is a real dude named Jeff#Jeff is once again unphased by Michael just think he’s sick#it’s funny cause Jeff is called ‘zombie pizza guy’ ny Oswald in the books#so truly Jeff and Michael might just match in vibes pff#also may draw Jeff again.. I think he’s neat#might update his design too here and there but I think I more or less got him down
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It took the Ring two seconds to make both Isildur and Gollum claim it as their own.
It didn’t take much longer for it to make Bilbo do the same, as he kept it as the key “trick up his sleeve” during the Quest for Erebor and never considered harming it.
But in 17 full years and 6 months, it couldn’t make Frodo claim it. It took being inside Mt. Doom, the place where its power was absolute and drowned out all othere, to get Frodo to claim it.
Inside Mt. Doom, no bearer can resist the Ring. They will inevitably claim it there. But literally ALL of the other Ring-bearers who ever claimed it did so outside of Mt. Doom.
The Ring never needed to apply its utmost, Cracks-of-Doom-level pressure to make any previous Ring-bearer claim it. Frodo was the only one who resisted it so long and so well that it had to force itself upon him and break him just to get him to regard it as his own.
Frodo Baggins is the strongest mortal in the Third Age of Middle-Earth and no, I am not accepting questions at this time.
(Remember our beloved Samwise Gamgee never claimed the Ring, and didn’t have it long enough for it to really sink its teeth into him as deeply as it did into everyone else. I’m talking about those who actually claimed the Ring at some point in their lives.)
#lotr#jrr tolkien#lotr books#lord of the rings#lotr poll#tolkien legendarium#frodo baggins#lotr frodo#one ring#frodo is a hero#the one ring#frodo my beloved#bilbo baggins#gollum#isildur#lotr gollum#the hobbit bilbo#the hobbit#the hobbit book#mt doom#mordor#mount doom#third age
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heir to the house of the ninth
#ahh harrow my beloved#my god am i obsessed#that book has changed me#reading harrow the ninth rn arggg#harrow#harrow the ninth#harrowhark nonagesimus#harrowhark#the locked tomb#the locked tomb fanart#gideon the ninth#harrowhark fanart#fanart#art#drawing#artists on tumblr#space lesbian awoooga#tlt fanart#tlt#tlt brainrot
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new favorite lesbian just dropped
#harrowhark nonagesimus#gideon the ninth#gideon nav#been reading this book this past week and omg i love life#gideon my beloved#i love doomed yuri sm#the locked tomb
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best notification possible
#Libby app my beloved#public library supremacy forever#Got a book today that was one of those ‘we actually don’t even have that as an ebook’ indefinite holds#but I guess they got a new copy and SEE this is why placing that hold is worth it anyway#db
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hey sorry your boyfriend fell into the public library book donation bin. yeah he’s being used to fund vital community programs and support services. yeah beanbag chairs too. if you pay your overdue fines we’ll give him back though
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kinda fucks me up to know that the first among anakin's immediate friends and family to realize he'd become a danger to them was threepio. like what about anakin triggered his threat sensors? was it the way he moved? the expression on his face? what about the youngling slaughter clung to him? how could a droid sense the dark side when those who love him couldn't see it?
#how did he know?#rots novelization my beloved#god#sw#his first child in a way#anakin skywalker#darth vader#sw books
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AFTG is Well Written: a Masterlist
Many people have said the book series All For The Game by Nora Sakavic is badly written. However, I believe it is not. To prove this, I made a compilation of posts that explain why the books are meticusly crafted and amazingly written.
*disclaimer: I'm not claiming the books are perfect or have no mistakes, it is impossible for any book to be that way, I'm just saying that it's not even half as bad some people claim it to be
Plot
Why The King's Men's plot structure is genius
In defense of AFTG crazy plot
Characters
MCs and trauma responses by @skydaemon
Mirrors of eachother by @sirandking
Riko and Neil parallels by @notlacrosse
Jean: Number, name and the narrative by @owlarchimedes
Metaphors/Symbolisms
Characters and their respective chess metaphor
Number symbolims in AFTG by @darkblueboxs with additions by @whydamnitwhy
Writing style
Conveying feelings by @lochenfreh
Here by @joejhang
The reason for the simplistic language by @afurtivecake
Neil/Nathaniel switch by @obsessing-over-fictionn
General
Here by deactivated account
The reason why people tend to think the book are bad by @thetamingofspike
Here by @the-foxhole-clutter
If I'm forgetting something or you know a post that could fit in this masterlist, share it pls!
#aftg#all for the game#nora sakavic#aftg meta#tfc#the foxhole court#trk#the raven king#tkm#the kings men#tsc#the sunshine court#aftg fandom#aftg trilogy#aftg books#aftg hot takes#aftg my beloved#aftg thoughts
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Harowhark study because i got the flu (Nonegesimitis).
#the locked tomb#harrowhark nonagesimus#the way i really couldn't make myself like harrow during the first book#harrowhark the ninth#how the mighty have fallen#i also hope gideon and ianthe make alecto friendship bracelets and unionise#i hope harrow is left alone with the dog (for a while)#harrow the ninth#gideon the ninth#tlt#i love seeing her grimmey#rat girl my beloved#rhyme art#pine art#love to see her suffer#i have shrimp feelings for her#my art
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“Then glorious Hector kissed his darling son
and took him in his arms to rock and cuddle”
- The Iliad 151, Wilson
#art#the iliad#iliad#hector of troy#hektor#andromache of troy#hector and andromache#scamandrius#astyanax#bro this scene makes me so ill it’s not even funny#hector my beloved andromache my beloved THEY DESERVED BETTER AUUUUGHH#my beloveds#based off that scene in book 6#and that one pottery art#deadbaguettesart
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Interview With The Vampire – 2.01: What Can the Damned Really Say to the Damned
#interview with the vampire#cinematv#filmtvcentral#userthing#smallscreensource#dailyflicks#userstream#tvarchive#filmtvtoday#usersource#tvedit#usertelevision#userbbelcher#pocedit#iwtv spoilers#userrobin#usermandie#usergiu#oh louis she can read you like one of your beloved books#1k
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i got myself some new prismacolors, and I knew what i needed to do
#sundrop#chicken doodles#fnaf#fnaf sb#fnaf fanart#i went to Barns N Noble#and I found a security breach book#AND IT TOOK ALL OF MY ENERGY NOT TO GASP AND JUMP AROUND#ARHFHFHFHFHFHHF#sun fnaf#fnaf sun#sunnydrop#my beloveds#five nights at freddy's#fnaf security breach#sun drop#dca#the daycare attendant#dca fandom#prismacolor#sketch
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