#connection: howl jenkins

[nadiajustbe]

There's something incredibly strange and funny about the FIRE DEMON from Ingary who somehow managed to work at some random Welsh school for at least a couple of weeks, maybe even longer and not get caught.

Like, did WoTW just lecture ms. Angorian about stuff like printers, photocopies or, well, the whole English Literature program she was supposed to teach for a good amount of time? Or was it just a kind of scripted info for the new form the demon was taking?

And — most importantly — how did WoTW (who, again, lives in Ingary with little to no connection to our world at all) get all this info about Welsh education in a matter of days?

Wikipedia page informs me that she kidnapped Suliman to ask him about it and she did, in fact, asked Sophie about Wales as well. But I cannot believe any of this guys can tell her enough to make a whole fire demon an English teacher, unless Ben was one himself and did willingly tell her the school curriculum — wich is no less hilarious of a concept.

And If she didn't, how couldn't anyone, kids or other schools staff, notice she has no clue about any English literature besides John Dohn and one (1) poem.

I have so many questions.

[hetiwr]

more tags.

╰     ‘ 𝘙𝘌𝘓𝘈𝘛𝘐𝘖𝘕𝘚𝘏𝘐𝘗 ’     ›  connection : howl jenkins pendragon. ╰     ‘ 𝘙𝘌𝘓𝘈𝘛𝘐𝘖𝘕𝘚𝘏𝘐𝘗 ’     ›  connection : morgan jenkins. ╰     ‘ 𝘙𝘌𝘓𝘈𝘛𝘐𝘖𝘕𝘚𝘏𝘐𝘗 ’     ›  connection : michael fisher. ╰     ‘ 𝘙𝘌𝘓𝘈𝘛𝘐𝘖𝘕𝘚𝘏𝘐𝘗 ’     ›  connection : calcifer. ╰     ‘ 𝘙𝘌𝘓𝘈𝘛𝘐𝘖𝘕𝘚𝘏𝘐𝘗 ’     ›  connection : lettie hatter. ╰     ‘ 𝘙𝘌𝘓𝘈𝘛𝘐𝘖𝘕𝘚𝘏𝘐𝘗 ’     ›  connection : martha hatter. ╰     ‘ 𝘙𝘌𝘓𝘈𝘛𝘐𝘖𝘕𝘚𝘏𝘐𝘗 ’     ›  connection : fanny hatter.

[loveatfirstsightbracket]

Reasons to vote for each of them below:

They have an immediate connection, down in the dumps. It takes a while for them to get together, but they catch some sort of feelings right away.

-- anon, on Alphyne

The ultimate malewife x girlboss ship. The argument could be made that Howl's been in love with Sophie and has been looking for her since he was a child, but from the time that they meet as adults to when they get together at the end of the movie is like a week max.

-- @lethal-liability, on Howl/Sophie

[flownintothesun]

 ⋆ ✰ ⋆ ───    𝐇𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐚 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠? 𝐈𝐟 𝐬𝐨, 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤?

                            ⋆ ✰ ⋆ ─── 𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐞 ( @twcheaded )

       𝐒𝐎, 𝐁𝐄𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐈 𝐌𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐃 𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐓𝐎 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐁𝐋𝐎𝐆, my blogroll was about fifty characters and most of them were canons! Aside from my very first tumblr blog in 2019 which was a multimuse that we do not talk about because it was a disaster, I started my time here on a solo blog for Dean Winchester from Supernatural, and then Francis Valois from Reign (who later evolved to be the Francis Devereaux we know and love today). To be honest, I’ve written so many muses that I can’t even think of them all. I felt a very close and personal connection to Dean from 2015-2021 — and then, we kind of hit a wall, and that makes me sad. I know retiring him was the right thing to do, but I still do think about him a lot.

     Honestly, I am in my era of enjoying the freedom of writing original characters. I think it’s lovely that people take canon characters and make them their own and write them beautifully and I have a lot of respect for that — but when I wrote canon characters, I constantly felt boxed in and I don’t feel that with the originals as much. I do sometimes think about some of the muses I used to write though and am like ‘dang, I wish I didn’t know it would stress me out to write canons again’. I’m sure I’m forgetting some but among them — Dean Winchester (Supernatural), Ben Linus (LOST), Jaime Lannister (Game of Thrones), Alistair Theirin (Dragon Age: Origins), Howl Jenkins-Pendragon (Howl’s Moving Castle), Arthur Pendragon (Merlin), Stede Bonnet (Our Flag Means Death). I don’t see myself bringing back canons any time soon, but I do think about them often. ♡

[atwistedtalehq]

CHARACTER INFORMATION: 

**CHARACTER NAME:** Howl Pendragon (real name Howell Jenkins)

**KNOWN ALIAS'**: Wizard Howl, Jenkin the Sorcerer, Heartless Howl, Howl the Heart Eater, Sylvester Oak, Malcom Orion Blackwell, Wizard Pendragon, he literally has fifty million of them please kill me

**CHARACTER FACECLAIM:** Jamie Campbell Bower aka that fuck from twilight

**CHARACTER AGE/DOB (if from enchanted forest, general age okay):** 27, born December 1996

**CHARACTER PRONOUNS/GENDER IDENTITY/SEXUALITY ETC:** He/They; Gender Fluid; Likes Women Like A Lot

**CHARACTER FANDOM:** Howl's Moving Castle Book

**OC OR CANON:**  Canon

**WHICH LAND ARE THEY FROM: ** Wales, technically. Magical Land - Ingary. However he has a magic house that has has a portal connected to the enchanted

**CHARACTER BIOGRAPHY:**

- fuck boy

- grew up in Wales to a perfectly ordinary family. He has an older sister named Morgan. Morgan and Howl grew up loving each other dearly until Howl began showing he was different. It wasn't a Petunia/Lily Evans situation, as Megan was originally taken in by the magic and wonder... the problem came when their parents despised it.

- Their parents did everything in their power to get him to stop and be normal. But how do you tell a child with magical power to cut the shit? Especially one that's literally a genius.

- Is a genius but is also So Fucking Stupid.

- Their parents practically gaslit Megan, and as Howl distanced himself from his family to be with other like individuals, she couldn't help feel abandoned... thus bringing that tension.

- Howl went to University early, and graduated even earlier with a fucking DOCTORATE in Paranormal Occulpt Studies, Charms and Spellwork, and Magic theory. Don't fucking ask me what university he went to, he's in Wales.

- Howl played rugby as a sport and was quite fit

- He also is into old cars.

- Remember when I said he was a fuck boy? Yeah, he's a fuck boy slut whore who sleeps around and can't commit to anything.

- He ghosted a girl when he was 18, and when her three brothers came to beat the shit out of him, he did a fucky and opened a portal to another universe. Oops! Because his parents threw him out when he was 16, no one but his sister and some of his magic friends noticed.

- In a strange land called Ingary, he found a master - a Witch named Mrs. Pentstemmon. This woman loved him like a mother and taught him everything she knew in a matter of twoish years, after being able to tell his power level could grow to be on the level of the Witch of the Waste.

- At some point during this apprenticeship, his sister MegN gets married to a fucking asshole who is implied to be emotionally abusive. She has two children named Neil and Marianne (Mari). Howl adores all three of them, but especially Mari. His relationship with Megan and Neil are strained.

- And here's where he fucks up.

- While wandering a mood to watch the a meteor shower, he manages to do the impossible and catch a falling star after feeling a strange magical pull. The star, he realizes, is screaming in fear, for once a falling star touches the ground, it dies. The star doesn't want to die, and Howl, having a weak heart, asks the star what me can do. The two form a bargain, which ended up being both the worst and best decision he ever made.

- The bargain transforms the star into a fire demon. In exchange for boosting Howl's power, Calcifer retains hold on his heart... But both realize their mistake right away. Calcifer must be kept alive and bright, otherwise they will both die. Another issue: not having a heart for so long will cause Calcifer to consume Howl's soul. Now, Calcifer is a demon now, and normally wouldn't give a shit, but he has Howl's heart and included is his empathy and love. Howl saved him. He isn't an old enough fire demon to not give a shit. But they're stuck relying on each other.

- Howl has always had, let's say, commitment issues. Stemming from parental issues and watching his sister in a loveless marriage as she became bitter and jaded, and maybe some more internal complexes too, but Howl abandoned his apprenticeship (that was basically done anyway) and became a nameless hermit. He is a Grade A Coward which is why everytime he dates someone or someone expresses any time of feeling, he runs Away!

- "Nameless Hermit"

- In comes the Moving Castle. This is a magical feet, a ginormous fucking machine that prowls the moors of Ingary, near what they call the Wastes. It's run by Calcifer.

- But here's the thing, fucking Howl is high maintenance. The son of a bitch has so may vanity potions and make up and fine clothes and everything that he could send a fucking diva to shame. and to do that he needs Money.

- ENTER THE PORTALS.

- There's a magic door in the "castle", which is, in reality, the little stupid house he lives in in Wales that's connected to Ingary. It's the guest house in his sister's estate (bc her trash husband is rich). So, depending on what color changing blob the door is set too, it takes you different places. One, always black, takes him back home to Wales to his sister and his neice/nephew.

- THE CURRENT PORTALS: Purple takes him to Kingsbury in Ingary, where he is Wizard Pendragon. He upsells his charms and potions and what have you to the rich, where he makes most of his money. This alias also does business with king, though he always dodges the "when will you become one of my official wizard" question. Green is where the castle is currently roaming. People who know the moving castle as the home of "Heartless Howl", a fearsome wizard that eats beautiful women's hearts. Blue is Portshaven, a seaside town in Ingary that is mostly low to middle class. He undercharges his customers here, as most can't afford it but need the help.

- Not having his heart doesn't mean he's "soulless" or feelingless, but it's almost as if his feelings are being passed through a filter, or there's a film inbetween them and him. His eyes are green, and are noticably a glassy color, as if they're empty.

- SO, when he finds a poor recently orphaned boy sleeping on his doorstep in Porthaven... Well, actually, he doesn't do anything. Calcifer let Michael Fisher (13 at the time) in. And Howl, listening to his circumstances... just never told him to leave. Mind you, he never told the kid to stay either, but suddenly, six months went by with Michael (who has no where else to go) helping out around the various shops before either of them realized that Michael was effectively Howl's apprentice. Michael, who was too chicken shit to ask to say just... moved into the spare bedroom and Howl didn't say a WORD. this mans cannot commit to anything.

- Surprise! Howl fuck up again. Well, truthfully, he fucks up a LOT but here's the big fuck up.

- as mentioned before, Howl sleeps around. He runs head first whenever someone catches feelings (or god forbid he has an iota of a feeling) just fucking goes ghost. dips outta there like no one's business. See ya. wouldn't wanna BE YA. This was all fine and good until... well, The Witch of the Waste.

- The Witch of the Waste was beautiful, rich, dangerous, and the perfect temporary sugar mommy — until he realized something was very, very wrong. that magnetic pull he felt when near her wasn't just him being horny, it was her ancient fire demon .

- No one knew how old the Witch of the Waste was - just that she was a giant cunt all throughout history, cursing anyone who pissed her off. Stories said it was a title passed down between mother and daughter... Sorry to disappoint but it's the same lady.

- The Witch of the Waste made the same mistake howl did centuries ago. Her original soul is gone, and all that's left is a demon who no longer has a heart to feel anything anymore, and the Witch is just a flesh sack being used as a puppet. The fire demon wants Howl's heart AND wants to consume Calcifer to beef up the power.

- When Howl realized what the fuck was happening... Well. Howl tried to go ghost. Dip the fuck outta there.

- Yeah that didn't work.

- The Witch of the Waste put a curse on him, binding him to her essence ... which means no matter how far he runs, the demon will always find him. And no matter where he runs, how much protection he gives himself, she always finds some way to slither through.

- Michael, when traveling to the various towns for supplies, makes up absolutely BONKERS stories about Wizard Howl to keep people away from the Moving Castle, which is the sturdiest when it comes to protection wards. His favorite so far is the "he eats beautiful young women's hearts" as a reference to his white behavior

- Howl added a fifth spot onto the portal door. Storybrooke. Look, he knew it was a cursed fucking town okay? He knows curses. But here's the logic: why the fuck would she looked for a cursed fucker in an already cursed town on EARTH??? So he let them live their repetitive lives over and over again... and well, _okay_, he _said_ he wasn't going to do anything - not his monkeys not his circus.

- He's a fucking liar. The only way he's able to get himself to do something is tell himself he isn't going to do it under any circumstances, ESPECIALLY if it's scary.... and by the time he got around to be like "Oh maybe i should stop pretending to be the weirdo homeopathic magic wizard boy in town and actually do something", someone else already broke the curse! Not his fault.

- Except, apparently, there's a whole other place some of these fuckers have to get to and now his apprentice doesn't want to leave because he "feels bad" and Calcifer is COMPLAINING about being moved again, AND he has to go see a rugby game next week that moving makes him cranky —

- Plus, the Witch hasn't found him again yet. So he's still safe, for now.

- So now he's fifty shades of 🧍

- Howl may be a coward, but he is one of the strongest sorcerer's in the world. If you do manage to pin him down, maybe don't. Big Do Not Fuck With Him energy. ESPECIALLY when he has Calcifer bumping up his power. Despite him running away from the Witch of the Waste like a little bitch baby, he CAN go toe to toe with her in battle.

- He has a temper when it comes to people he cares about - not that he would admit it. But go after his sister, niece, or nephew and he'll fucking live up to his fake reputation and rip your heart out.

- Bad With Money. It's a miracle Amazon doesn't take gold coin.

OOC INFORMATION: 

MUN NAME/ALIAS: Love

MUN AGE: 26

MUN PRONOUNS: She/Her/Hers

[nadiajustbe]

OH YES. Sometimes while reading comments at Tiktok I can't help but question WHERE did these movie fans got that "book information" they're talking so confidently about. Because this looks like someone got this quote from someone who read the book ten years ago when they were five as bedtime story and haven't reread at since and then that someone told that to someone and THAT someone posted this info under random movie-related video as a "fan fact" and from there the rumour spred. Because some of them are absolutely random and have little to no connection from what happened in the book or lacking all possible context.

(the only one I have sinned with is that I sometimes joke about Howl invading taxes but more as a funny headcanon that anything else cause the book didn't even mentioned taxes once. That would be no less funny If he had to pay taxes for all four houses he uses for portals — especially knowing one of them in an drastically different currency which he literally cannot earn because HE DOESN'T HAVE ANY ACTUAL INCOME IN WALES. Absolutely hilarious)

Other popular miscomprehensions I saw people talking about:

1. Howl being instead of "soldiers" in the movie.

This one is lacking context so badly: yes, they wanted to make him a better person to the point they completely erased his actual first appearance, making him look like a hero instead of random slightly strange man and yes they were afraid to show him in any negative situation, and yes it gives me a laugh everytime I watch the movie but Howl wasn't even NEARLY as creepy as the soldiers. Quite contrary: it was a pretty normal thing for man at a time in May Day to go and court girls at the main square, wich is underlined at the text previously. The second he heard that Sophie is not interested and she's just going to see her sister he let her do so. He wasn't pushing, nor he was trying to insult her. Quoting:

"Then by all means do so," [he laughed] "Who am I to keep a pretty lady from her sister?"

And when she said now to his sincere and kind offer of accompanying her on the way Lettie, he didn't object either.

This doesn't make this moment less awkward for Sophie sure and that's also — shocking — not trying to show Howl as hero of any sort (calling her "a little mouse" was not the best choice of words), but it didn't intend to show Howl as a full-blown weirdo either. What it does it is simply plays with our expectations of the mc meeting her love interest and sets up Howl as a flawed character. Flawed, yet not absolutely villainous.

2. Howl was cheating on Sophie while they were together

That claim is fully impossible. First of all, they got together on about three very last pages on the book. You cannot cheat on someone you weren't even dating. Yes, he was seeing other woman, but he was doing that way before Sophie came. That waa never shown as a good or positive trait of his — If you're gonna use Howell Jenkins as a role model in any possible situation, then maybe you didn't get his character quite as much.

And, ironically enough, after Sophie came almost all of his courting was from investigation purposes only — whether it was his courting of Lettie with ended up forming around getting information about Sophie or his courting of miss. Angorian who ended up being a literal fire demon and Howl clearly suspected it from the early on.

When he actually marries to Sophie in the next two books he shown no intention to cheat on her whatsoever and stays loyal. Hell, they ever had a kid after whom — even in his own ways — Howl looks after. Never ever in any line in CiTA or HoMW there's a single word or rumour about Howl seeing other women while being married to Sophie. And If you think he'd do so just because he was a courting mess in the first book, then you're the one making random illogical conclusions.

Yes, Howl is a mess, a dork, an idiot and a loser, who was a womaniser for the biggest part of his life, but If there's one single thing that actually changed about him from start to end of HMC is that fell in love with Sophie Hatter very, very hard.

3. Sophie hating Howl (or otherwise Sophie and Howl being 10000% toxic and abusing one another)

This deserve a full another post, but to make story short both of their characters simply wouldn't allow them to being nearly as horrible as TikTok HMC book experts say. Sophie argues with Howl not because he is the most horrible man alive (although he IS giving her trouble and she's completely great with it. She agrees to marry this man fair and square), but because she's argumentative and bossy and angry by her nature. That's her character. That's who she is. There's hardly a single character in this book she didn't argue or at least tried to argue with. Her whole arc is about accepting herself for what she feels and who she is and learning to express these emotions without fear. Howl knows this and Howl knows her. He lets her argue because he loves Sophie for who she is — and she is an argumentative, stubborn woman. And there's nothing bad about being stubborn, nor argumentative.

And If you want Sophie to broke up with Howl because he "makes her argue more" you simply want to set her back to that scared, deeply saddened and exploited person she was at the start.

And finally — HMC is NOT your quide to romance. It's not "100 right ways your relationship should look If you want to be happy". They're meant to show love as it is. And love is flawed, love is crazy, love is a place where anyone can find a person for themselves no matter who they are. They don't have to show love the way you show it or the way you want. If you look at them bickering all the time and looking at magic explosions going around and go "that's not what I'd want in MY relationship" you're good! You're valid! I probably wouldn't be able to be in this kind relationship myself. But I'm not Sophie. Not Howl. If you want too look up how perfect healthy relationships should look, go search literature on that topic. It's doesn't mean they're inheretly toxic.

HMC shows love and it does it great — If it's not your type of love love, simply don't view it as a guide for you. HMC is not written for 5-year olds, it's written for ages nine and up and sometimes even considered as a YA — in Ukraine this book is given to us by the school curriculum no later than we reach 13, so no, it's not gonna teach children toxic relationships. Simply because it's not actually toxic.

But I said if he and Calcifer were staying, then so was I, and couldn’t he put a spell on me that would simply make the djinn not notice I was there? And we argued about that—”

Lettie chuckled. “Now, why doesn’t that surprise me?” she said.

Sophie’s face became somewhat pink,

This quote brings it somewhat perfectly. Here she's talking about arguing with Howl and when Lettie notes that the woman is BLUSHING.

Sophie and Howl were living—somewhat quarrelsomely, it must be confessed, although they were said to be happiest that way—in the moving castle again.

And If it doesn't reassure you, here's another quote. If someone says there's toxic again I'll start damaging something.

I'll finish it here for today but I swear there's so much more one post wouldn't be enough. People who say the won't/scared to read books because of this hurt my soul

If I see one more person saying that the castle moves in the book because Howl is evading taxes I'm gonna force every Ghibli fan to READ THE BOOK. Or at the very least not post about it online.

For all we know Howl pays MORE taxes as a result of having multiple residences and living in TWO UNIVERSES.

This also applies to people who say Diana Wynne Jones was Welsh, or the striking amount of people with the false recollection that she came up with the claim that the movie is how Howl tells it, and the book is how Sophie tells it.

These people spread rumours better than Michael in Market Chipping.

[katsotherworld]

Ok you people need to stop this shit before my entire life is categorized by these people are these people just in a different form. This is like the fifth I've seen today and I don't like it.

[snowinabottlearchived]

                          𝚊𝚏𝚝𝚎𝚛   𝚝𝚑𝚎   𝚠𝚊𝚛   ,   𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢   𝚠𝚘𝚗𝚝   𝚛𝚎𝚌𝚊𝚕𝚕   𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢   𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛   𝚠𝚎𝚛𝚎   𝚑𝚞𝚖𝚊𝚗   .                              𝚑𝚘𝚠𝚕   𝚓𝚎𝚗𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚜   &   𝚊𝚖𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚊   𝚓𝚘𝚑𝚗𝚜𝚘𝚗   𝚏𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚐   @starfalled

[fabletonrp]

BASICS

Name: Michael Fisher Age: 22 (22) Neighborhood: Town Square Job: Student at Fableton University/Assistant to Howl Jenkins Story: Howl’s Moving Castle Character: Michael Fisher Faceclaim: Alfred Enoch Status: Open

PERSONALITY

+ resilient, intelligent, organized

- jaded, suspicious

BIOGRAPHY

Michael grew up in an orphanage in Porthaven. The seaside town was picturesque in many ways, with white sand beaches and sunny skies, but the part he grew up in was far from beautiful. He was in the alleyways, the parts that weren’t the best. The orphanage gave him shelter, but it closed when he turned thirteen, and he had nowhere to go. He tended to move from doorway to doorway, trying to stay warm and beg food where he could.

That was how he met Howl. He had heard of the wizard, of course. Everyone in Porthaven had, he was the most powerful wizard in Ingary. He didn’t realize it was Howl’s doorstep he crashed on one night though, so waking up to see the wizard staring down at him certainly was a shock, but it planted an idea. If he could be Howl’s apprentice, maybe he could become someone. He could be better, could have a life--so he asked. He was promptly ignored, but the door was left open, so Michael took the invitation. It was two weeks before Howl seemed to notice he was there, and after that, Howl just started teaching him. Michael soaked up the knowledge as quickly as he could, loving being able to help people and to have a trade. Even Howl grew on him, oddly enough.

When Sophie came into the castle, as much as she irritated him, it seemed something fell into place. Howl settled down, and it gave Michael more time to court Martha Hatter with the wizard occupied. Of course, even in a land of magic and mysterious things, love can’t last forever. It was an amiable break, but he was still reeling a little when they were taken to a world he’d only been to once before.  It’s taking him some time to get his bearings.

CONNECTIONS

Sophie Jenkins: The woman has become like a mother to him, and he would truly do anything for her. He loves that she’s accepted him even after he broke it off with her sister. 

Susan Pevensie: He’s seen the pretty girl around the courthouse and they’ve talked a few times in the course of their work duties.  He’s pretty sure one day he’ll definitely get up the courage to ask her out for a cup of coffee or something.

ALTERNATE FACECLAIMS: None yet.

[nadiajustbe]

I know people in HMC books speak English so there's not gonna be any kind of miscommunication between the characters, but sometimes I think about how it would be way more funny If there was some language diversity.

Howell Jenkins falls into the portal to an absolutely unknown, magical realm and... everyone speaks English. He was rather happy about it, finding it funny: it's a new, fantasy, fairy-tale based world with dragons and spells and seven-league boots and magic, and yet its habitants English. What are the odds?

However, it does not takes him long to realise (much to his own frustration) that, even though all of the locals native language is, in fact, English, it is pretty different from the English Howell himself is familiar with. He cant understand it quite well at fist, but it sounded like an odd mix of a modern language, specific dialects and an old tongue people was using around Victorian England/Middle Ages. It has so many words and unusual forms (Howell even called them "slang" once in a while), that it takes him a while to fully get every term and subtexts ms. Pentstemmon was referring to.

Their languages were similar just enough to catch the full sense of the sentence, but not enough to undertand all the little details, not cultural nor linguistic. It would even worst If he wasn't a big fun of Shakespeare and old Arthurian Legends growing up, letting alone studying old English (and old Welsh) at the university.

The language also differs from the area. Michael, for example, uses so many words you can hear in Porthaven only, regarding it's unique aspects. Sophie uses a lot of Market Chipping proverbs, and even more old terms connected with hats. The language he heard the King using wheh he got his first chance to met him at the time of his apprenticeship was so long, confusing and vivid, as If it was taken straight out of old English Literature books. And yet, English.

To this day Howell — at this point long-knowing as Howl Pendragon — finds himself confusing new terms, forms of words, proverbs and sayings. Maybe, he thinks, you have to be truly born there to understand all of - although he did better than anyone else would. Sophie seems to catching up just well.

—

Abdullah ends up with a flying carpet and the magical genie, exited to give away his fist wish to find the love of his love... only to not understand a word of what the genie is saying. This is how, instead of searching for Flower-In-The-Night, he now searching through a whole Zanzib for a proper translator from English because, here's the problem, If he can't understand the genie, then genie can't understand him, and If genie can't understand him, it's pointless to even try making a wish. He knows it's English: there's plenty people all around the world visiting the market, and he had even learnt certain words, important for making a trade, but that's not nearly close to a full sentence on unrelated topic.

With a great effort and after hours of searching for a really proffecional master of languages (who charges Abdullah nearly all of his money for one single session), he finally gets to the point. Except, here's another moment. That's where Abdullah finds out the wish has to be spoken from his heart and not through the other person. Here comes another catch — Ingarian English, no matter how simple or structured is, to put is simply, badly different from Rapshutian Arabic. It's not even the same language group!

So, he sits in the small, hot room near the glamorous bottle and tries to pronounce a bunch of difficult, complex words written on a paper, the kind that translator couldn't cut or simplify to ones he's familiar with, for a whole ten (to fifteen) minutes. And, as If trying to make his task as difficult as possible, genie, when he shows up, starts randomly breaking into the language translator can't even recognise, with no talk about understanding. Abdullah assumes it may be a secret genie language only this creatures know and, annoyingly, gets along with it.

After successfully wishing to understand (and use) English, he also finds out he can't wish for anything more language-related, and he shouldn't even bother himself trying to ask for a foolish things like an ability to speak every language in the world. Language is a big part of human's essence and otherwise shouldn't be messing with, just as magic focusing on it is strictly limited.

Using this fact, the genie also finds a loophole - from now on he speaks his secret genie language half of the time, stopping only when it comes to important tasks, because Abdullah "wished to know only one of his languages" and he, apparently, knows more.

This whole puzzle takes new turns, when, while traveling with the carpet, Abdullah meets the solider. Despite claiming being from Strangia, this strange man from the forest starts speaking with them in English in first and then, noticing they're from different country, easily switches to Arabic.

As they wander together, the soliders explains that he is non less confused than they are: he didn't even noticed he could speak English before the passer-byes from Ingary noticed him, and now, being with genie and Abdullah, he also remembered he knows Arabic. He adds that he can't recall anything before his duty in the army, where he definitely used Stangian and nothing else, but it feels like an strong knowledge he has, even If he doesn't remember learning any of this. He decides to wave it off, focusing on the cats and schemes.

The solider becomes a great translator for them along the journey, up to the day the got the inn. He does not understand the secret genie language, though. Especially when from the jinnies and angels they found out there's, in fact, no such a thing as a "genie language"

The story finally clears itself when Midnight and Whippersnapper turn into humans, the Solider turns into a bewitched Prince and the Royal Wizard surprisingly seems to recognize all of the words the genie was — and still is — using.

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Charmain runs after Sophie with a long, old dictionary she has found in the Great Uncle Norland's Library. The Royals, of course, gave their honored guest the translator, but the things quickly becomes pretty private, with the search for the gold and all this story with lubboks, so Sophie tells them she's gonna manage it by herself.

To say the Dictionary is heavy is to say nothing: it's huge and thick, containing thousands of words from Ingarian English alone, split by topics, marked with tons of colors an additional moments. Even carrying it around is a whole different type of task.

Half of the time Charmain and Sophie communicate with gestures, context clues and even sounds. When they need to say something really long and complex, they write, leaning on the Dictionary, as it's a bit faster than talking. Still, at some moments Charmain has to flip through the massive pages, searching for the right word with her finger, while Sophie has to do the same. Till the end of the day the both learn some basic words from each other's language, which makes it easier.

The poor nanny has even harder times with Twinkle and Morgan, because she has no idea about what they actually want, except they both whining and crying, one louder than another.

Translator does not come in handy that much, as it looks like these children mix languages everytime when speaking to each other. She has to guess things all over the room to finally get what they need, and usually it's the most useless things ever, like striped pants and a bunch of toy horses falling from the sky.

They see Sophie and Twinkle arguing about something, but no one gets the topic of their screaming, let alone the reason why Sophie is so mad at this angelic child. Charmain asks Sophie about it, because she heard an unusual name along the lines of their quarrels, but Sophie looks too annoyed to explain, mumbling something in her native language with some sort of anger.

The only positive side of it all is that, If Chairman can't understand English, then the lubbocks can't either. Wich means that they didn't have to be as cautious when using Dictionary as they would have to If they understood each other perfectly.

Then she has to climb on the roof, where Twinkle is sitting. Charmain tries to dismiss all his attempts to start a dialogue till she's there, huffing and suffocating as she tries to get the Dictionary with her, trying not to fall.

Twinkle seems to be really proud of himself, saying he knows twice more languages that anyone else in this magical House. Charmain flips through the pages, asking either one of is the one she knows (Norlandian, I assume).

Twinkle says no. For a second Charmaine starts to really understand Sophie's feeling, fighting the urge to hit him on the head with this massive book.

Peter does not communicate with this new guest as much and, luckily, he knows the language Charmain speaks, so they don't have to struggle with a language barrier. The way speaks might be a bit different because of the area he grew up and the amount of hiding and spells he encountered, but there's nothing they can't handle. Luckily.

Calcifer knows the Saucepan song, but other than that his linguistic knowledge is far from perfect, certainly not as good as you'd expect from a fire demon. He also cannot use a Dictionary, because it will burn the second he'll come to close to it, and If this happens their main way of communication is basically gone. He makes up for it, talking with Twinkle, Morgan and Sophie, as well as being expressive enough to understand the basics or what he feels and plans. Sometimes someone (aka Sophie) has to translate what he is saying when she's near, wich is a bit longer than Charmain would wish, but still pretty plausible. She got that he desperately needs his logs, after all.

Twinkle could have used some kind of magical bubble to get them finally understand each other fully, but, again, magic connected with languages is pretty difficult and has its important limits, so it wouldn't last long. Little 30 years old boy is enjoying his childhood, running up the stairs and beating these huge bugs, not as much caring about Charmain all this huge book in her hands.

In the end, (as he turnds out to be) the Royal Wizard Howl is right - the only languages lubbocks can understand is punching.

(Many thanks to my rly good friend @your-queen-shuri for being co-author of this concept. A bunch of ideas here are from her!)

[thehobbitwithstickyuppyhair]

rereading Howl's Moving Castle again for the hundredth time (the second time this year already)

and I love how every reread I notice something new

Like this time for the fact that Howl wrote his doctoral thesis on charms and spells... I could have told you that, but for some reason before now I didn't make the connection that Howl may have a PhD???

I feel like if he hadn't completed school or dropped out Megan would have listed it in the scene where she's chewing him out for the way he's living his life

Dr. Howell Jenkins?????

[uuponastarr]

[ jung jinsoul, cis woman, she/her. ] ✧･ﾟ is that [ JULIET JENKINS-PENDRAGON ] who just stumbled into town? rumour has it that they’re the [ TWENTY-TWO ] year old child of [ SOPHIE AND HOWL ] from [ HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE ]. i’ve also heard that they’re [ DEMURE ] but [ INSECURE ] and have [ 1 ] sibling. i could almost swear i heard [ RISES THE MOON - LIANA FLORES ] playing when they appeared.

basics:

full name: juliet claire jenkins-pendragon.

nicknames: jules.

zodiac sign: pieces - feb 23rd.

sexuality: pansexual.

skills/interests: gardening, sewing, traveling.

aesthetic: pale yellows, tall blades of grass between your bare toes, long blonde curls that fall down your back,  floral dresses with lace trimmed sleeves, wicker baskets filled with wild flowers.

[ link to pinterest board here ]

bio tws; none! 

juliet claire jenkins pendragon was born the youngest and only daughter to her parents, howl and sophie. growing up she had a fairly pleasant childhood filled with love and affection, knowing she always had a shoulder to cry on and someone to share a laugh with. she and her family frequently saw the world in their traveling home, letting juliet be exposed to many wonderful sights and experiences. to say juliet lived a fairly extraordinary life would have been an understatement, despite this juliet felt anything but special. unlike her father or brother who inherited her fathers abilities, she was powerless. juliet frequently wished she had powers just like them but her mother always made sure to remind her that she was special even without them but sometimes she wondered if she was only saying so  to make her feel better. instead while her brother became their father’s apprentice juliet filled her time with other things, she learned how to sew, garden and collected many books to fill her library, mostly romances, fantasy and adventures! now that juliet has found herself here she is hoping to find herself. juliet is very shy but sweet, she is a great listener yet can be fairly sensitive and doubts herself often.

wanted connections: 

her big brother 

childhood friends: ( children of calcifer, prince justin, markl ) 

friends she’s made here

someone for her to open up to or can make her come out of her shell. 

someone who she can sew and make outfits for

bookworm buddies. 

more tba... 

[fantomcomics]

What’s Out This Week? 12/29

It’s the last week of 2021! What was your favorite comic from this past year?

Stray Dogs: Dog Days #1 (of 2) - Tony Fleecs & Trish Forstner

A series of vicious short stories howling straight out of the pages of STRAY DOGS, 2021's surprise cartoon/horror smash hit! In DOG DAYS, each stray will get their moment to shine-questions will be answered, mysteries will be solved, and old wounds will be torn open. Starting this December...every dog has its day.

Rise Of Dracula #1 (of 6) - Rich Davis & Puis Calzada

Rejoice! For the great purge is upon you. Come and see! Nations shall fall. Every human shall be held to account. Witness the rise of Dracula! By her blood will the world be born anew!

Chapter two in Rich Davis' award winning Dracula nightmare continues with "Rise of Dracula." Soon to be a television series!

Power Rangers Universe #1 (of 6) - Nicole Andelfinger & Simone Ragazzoni

What is the true origin of the Phantom Ranger? And what is his connection to the Morphin Grid? From the moment he first appeared 24 years ago, fans have wondered about the origin of the mysterious Phantom Ranger. Questions which have never been answered, until now... BOOM! Studios proudly presents a limited series event that will delve into the deepest origins of the Power Rangers Universe. Origins that have the Phantom Ranger at their heart.

Mega #1 -  Salvador Sanz

A gigantic creature has been awaken from its eternal sleep in Antarctica. The destructive monster, only known as "The Salamander," has started a journey of chaos and destruction. The only thing that could stop this menace is another sleeping giant; a creature from under the ocean known as "Mega."

Dune: A Whisper Of Caladan Seas #1 -  Brian Herbet, Kevin J. Anderson & Jakub Rebelka

During the chaos of the legendary Battle of Arrakeen, a group of Atreides soldiers get caved in. So while Paul Atreides meets his destiny in battle, Sgt. Vitt uses his family's gift of storytelling as a Jongleur to transport his men from their tomb to their homeworld of Caladan.

Can Vitt mentally transport them back to the lushness and vast oceans of Caladan and give them the gift of hope in the darkness?

Apache Delivery Service #1 (of 4) -  Matt Kindt & Tyler Jenkins

Two haunted men are on a hunt in the jungles of Vietnam, searching for clues to a missing treasure trove of gold that was stolen from all over Asia by a Japanese general during World War II. Eventually they find a series of hidden caves in the mountains near the coast. Bodies start showing up-murder victims and mutilated corpses. There is a rumor that the caves and gold are protected by terrifying witches that have been living in the cave system for thousands of years. As our warriors travel deeper into the mystery, they learn more disturbing facts about each other and become paranoid of one another as they get closer and closer to the gold, while, at the same time, a bizarre serial killer is hunting them down.

A King’s Vengeance #1 -  Peter Ricq & Davilla LeBlanc

A vexed warrior who was once a loving father and husband is brought back to life 25 years later and proceeds to avenge himself on the demons responsible. From the creator of the hit Scout series Once Our Land, get this awesome new first issue!

The Sword of Hyperborea #1 (of 4) - Mike Mignola, Rob Williams & Laurence Campbell

From the ancient warrior Gall Dennar, to Sir Edward Grey, to the B.P.R.D.'s Agent Howards, the iconic Hyperborean sword from the world of Hellboy has landed in many influential hands. And this has been no accident. Trace the sword's path through the adventures and encounters that finally brought it to Ragna Rok, at the end of the world, and witness the sword's journey through history.   Hellboy creator Mike Mignola gives us a new tale from the world of Hellboy, cowritten by Rob Williams and featuring the art of Mignolaverse veteran Laurence Campbell to deliver never-before-seen Hellboy lore!

Whatcha grabbing before the end of the year, Fantomites?

[givemearmstopraywith]

would you talk about howls moving castle? i would love to hear your thoughts about it

ah! it’s one of my favourite stories. its been a few months since i last watched or read it, so bear with me. i’ve talked about this before but there is something so deeply moving to me about how diana wynne jones structured the book thematically: the idea of love as consumption and possession, the idea that while calcifer literally holds howl’s heart, sophie holds his heart figuratively. (sidenote: calcifer’s name always makes me think of may shelley carrying percy’s calcified heart after his death- it was hardened by salt when he was cremated. i wonder if the connection was intentional? i choose to think it is- even the very idea of someone carrying another’s heart is there.) there are a lot of parallels between sophie and calcifer that i don’t often see touched on- they’re both outrageously stubborn, for instance, and both under some level of a curse that they are unable to vocalize to each other because of some outside condition. i find this rather endearing: i’m sure many people will relate to the idea of that sensation, of being subjected to some awful thing and unable to tell anyone else about it. 

howl jenkins is one of my favourite characters in literature: reverse-byronic, as outrageous and selfish a soul as anyone might wish for but without the tragic soul. if howl is tragic, it’s a private tragedy: the tragedy of the mundane. howl is not mundane, but he fears to be: i think it’s a more accurate description of his personality as opposed to vain or shallow, because he’s not- but he cripplingly fears mundanity, boredom, and a condemnation to ordinary life. 

another thing i find interest about howl’s moving castle is that least nominally, it bears a lot of the trappings of a gothic novel without being gothic: the castle itself, moreso in the book than the film, is very gothic in the way it’s inhabited both by a magic of its own and by calcifier himself. it’s a house literally alive, though unlike a gothic space it is not so much haunted as invited to be inhabited. the bodies of both howl and sophie are also fairly gothic in aspect: howl shifts appearance constantly, and the elderly form of sophie is “haunted” by youth while simultaneously condemned to a seemingly wretched form. it is how the characters react to these markers that make the novel not truly gothic: sophie’s ability to make objects come alive, for instance, almost crosses the uncanny valley when the castle is being chased by the scarecrow, which frightens sophie: but her skill is a saving grace, and the things that inhabit the castle are invited, acknowledged, and necessary. even the relationship between sophie and howl bears similarities between that of jane and rochester in charlotte brontë’s jane eyre, particularly if you imagine that there’s a parallel (albeit a fairly problematic one) between the witch of the waste cursing sophie and bertha’s existence preventing jane and rochester’s happiness. this has turned into a bit of nonsense ramble, so i’ll end it there. thank you for asking my love x

[awkward-snake-girl]

The Ghibli-Verse Theory Part Two: Witches

(Oof this took forever)

In this part of the theory, we’ll be looking at how Kiki’s Delivery Service, Howls Moving Castle, Earwig and the Witch, and Mary and the Witch’s Flower are connected. (Yes I’m aware it’s from a different studio, but it ties into this part really well and a bunch of people who made it used to work at Studio Ghibli.)

I’ve noticed that there’s a bit of a pattern in Ghibli movies that have a kind of urban fantasy theme. A good chunk of the time, people react extremely calmly to things like witches, humans with pig heads, talking cats, and fish that turn into little girls. It begs the question, how common is magic in this world? How many witches are there? And are there some parts of the world that are clueless about magic?

After watching these movies I’ve decided that there are three ways that one can become a ‘witch’. You can come from a family of witches and have your powers passed down through genetics, be taught spells by someone extremely powerful, or gain magical abilities through certain substances.

Let’s start out with Howl’s Moving Castle. On the surface, it doesn’t look like there’s any way this film could be connected to any of the movies we’ll be discussing. It takes place in a different universe, there are different rules for magic, and yes it does and there are, but nevertheless, it is tied to the “real” world. There’s a small scene in the movie taken straight out of the book Howl’s Moving Castle is based on. When Howl’s summoned to come to the palace by Solomon, she uses two last names to try and contact Howl. Pendragon and Jenkins. This isn’t really explained in the movie, and for those who haven’t read the book, you could assume it’s just an an alias. Howl doesn’t like to be tied down, he’s being chased by the Witch of the Waste at this point, so it makes sense he’d make up fake names. But for those who have read the book, they would know that Jenkins is Howl’s real last name. Why is this important? Well in the book it’s revealed Howl...is from another world! The “real” world! Specifically a town in modern day Whales. He even visits his home at one point in the book with Sophie. And how does he go back to Whales? The same way he gets to everywhere else, he uses his portal door. Why is does this matter? Well, there’s only one other Ghibli movie that uses similar magic and that is Earwig and the Witch.

The doors in Bella Yaga’s house function a lot like Howl’s doors, though instead of being transported to to other countries and towns, they are used to access special rooms. For instance, The Mandrake’s study, or a magic Library.

And then there’s Bella Yaga and The Mandrake themselves. Do I think they’re originally from Ingary like Sophie, or some other place in the Howl’s Moving Castle Universe? Well…while it’s a possibility, it’s highly unlikely. At least in Bella’s and Earwigs’s mom’s case. Since The Mandrake is a demon, all bets are off. Though I do like the idea of them having been there before. Maybe for magic potion ingredients?

Speaking of magic, now I’d like to focus the type of magic Bella does. The magic she does throughout the film is very…ordinary. No flashy spells (well aside from the worms) no world ending powers, just simple spells to help people in their every day lives. Since she runs a kind of witchcraft business for the people in their town. And the spells themselves come in the forms of good luck charms and more importantly potions. Now, why would this matter? Well, it’s because Kiki’s mother is a witch that specializes in potions and runs a business very similar to Bella Yaga’s. And like Bella, Kokiri focuses on making potions to help people.

Now, onto Kiki’s Delivery Service (aka my favorite Ghibli movie) In Kiki’s Delivery Service, it’s established that all witches leave home at the age of thirteen to continue their studies on their own for a year. All witches. Why do I believe all witches do this? It’s simple. The fortune teller witch Kiki meets in the beginning of the movie just after she leaves home, the one with the snooty cat. Judging from the brief bit of dialogue we get from her, and her appearance, she’s not much older than Kiki, since she just finished up her own year abroad. So, it’s not just Kiki’s family that sends their young witches away for solo training and since we don’t see any other witches aside from her, Kiki, and her mom, we have to assume that all witches do this. Perhaps they don’t really a choice…?

Going back to Earwig for a bit, there’s something really interesting they mention in the film. A council of witches. Erica’s (aka Earwig’s) mom mentions them briefly, and it’s shown in the beginning of the movie that she’s on the run from them, which is why she has to leave her at the orphanage. They unfortunately never go into detail on the council, or what Earwig’s mom did to make them so angry. But seeing as she doesn’t seem to like it when people tell her what to do, one could assume that she broke one too many of their rules. Maybe one of their rules involved how young witches are to be trained? Is it possible that they’re the ones who ask the parents of these witches to train them by sending them out into the world on their own for a year?

Speaking of training, it’s finally time to discuss Mary and the Witches Flower. Fair warning, this isn’t technically a Ghibli movie, but a lot of former Ghibli employees made it and founded the studio that released it. So it counts in spirit. Anyway, there’s a magic school in this movie! The Endor College for witches. It’s basically a super exclusive boarding school for witches with a corrupt staff that does ethically dubious experiments combining science and magic on their employees, pets, and some of their students. (Side note, they do something I really like in this movie where science is concerned. They straight up teach science classes at the school and say it’s just another form of magic that does different things, and that’s just so unique? Normally science just gets ignored or called Alchemy, but it was refreshing seeing a fantasy story actually incorporate it in it’s world.)

Ignoring the messed up secret experiments, the Edor College looked like a great environment to learn magic in and despite the name, the students there seemed to range from about middle school to high school. Which is in the age range young witches start their training. So, is it possible that certain witches are sent here for their time abroad to train? Or maybe the year alone is a test to see if you’re worthy of attending the school? Maybe the school is connected to the council of witches somehow?

Admittedly this last bit is a stretch, but it’s still a neat idea. But there’s still one remaining question. If there are so many witches in the world, then how come some places don’t have their own witch or think magic is made up, or that all witches are evil? Well, witches might simply be more common in some parts of the world or rare in others. Misinformation about witches get spread around, people who don’t know about real witches don’t believe it unless they see it for themselves, and let’s be real, not all humans would be okay with witches in general. So it makes sense that some choose to hide from the outside world.

I think that just about covers this part of the theory! Except…isn’t Yubaba a witch? She uses magic, she curses people, doesn’t she count? Well…not necessarily…Yubaba is something else entirely…a yokai. What’s a yokai? What movies are connected to Spirted away? Do any of these other movies connected to this this theory? Find out in part 3! Whenever I get around to writing it…😅

[irresistiibles]

finally out here with my post-event starter. so i��m going to be dropping (almost) all of my pre-event threads, however if we’ve got something you want to keep going let me know and i definitely can. for event threads i’m going to kinda be picking and choosing what to keep/transition. chances are threads between connections will stay while i’ll start fresh threads for other stuff. (once again if there’s anything in particular you want to keep though just message me and i will hit up people i gotta talk to about what threads we’re keeping later tonight) since i’ve been kinda mia with school lately this is meant to be a reset for me so i will probably be clearing out a lot, so with that in mind below the cut is a starter call for all my characters! capping it but at 5 so feel free to go a little wild 

asami sato (0/5)

ben hargreeves (1/5) - jiwoon hak

blue sargent (0/5)

ciel phantomhive (1/5) - elizabeth midford

dominique weasley (0/5)

elsa of arendelle (0/5)

entrapta (0/5)

glinda upland (0/5)

haruhi fujioka (0/5)

howl jenkins pendragon (0/5)

ji eun tak (0/5)

jin ling (0/5)

jaskier (1/5) - yennefer of vengerberg

karolina dean (2/5) - tory nichols, killian jones

kyoshi (0/5)

lavender brown (0/5)

lily evans (1/5) - albus severus potter

ling yao (1/5) - edward elric

link (0/5)

michiru kaioh (0/5)

pansy parkinson (2/5) - draco malfoy, marcus flint

rita skeeter (1/5) - rabastan lestrange

sam giddings (0/5)

tessa gray (1/5) - alec lightwood

thanatos (0/5)

toph beifong (1/5) - katara

victor nikiforov (0/5)

zhongli (1/5) - kaeya alberich