#howls interests

[hazyhund]

my partner @verminvalley drew some silly psych fanart and it inspired me to draw Gus in my style since he is my favorite character <3 he’s so babygirl

[bigmoon-is-bigwife]

I was thinking about why people hate C!Scott in the life series so much compared to other characters and I think it's because of how he portrays himself in his POV. He almost never displays weakness to anyone, including his own viewers. When things are going bad you'll see most life series POVs start to panic and they'll tell you that they're scared and worried but Scott rarely does that. He may say after the fact he was concerned about a situation but you never really see him properly scared the way you see others.

He doesn't really vocalize his fear because of the facade he puts up. Admitting you are scared and don't have control over a situation is basically like losing. That's something that could be exploited and Scott is nothing if not calculating. (I think you could also argue there's more going on there like self loathing and holding himself to a higher standard)

However, when you see a character afraid or struggling, it humanizes them to you. It makes you feel bad for them and makes you sympathize with them. It makes you want to root for them. When you have a character like Scott who refuses to ever let that fear show it's easy to forget they have feelings. It's easier to demonize a character who rarely shows you their vulnerable side.

I think you could also make a parallel here with Joel who is very similar in the camp of "If I Admit I Have Emotions I Will Die" but Joel is much more volatile and outspoken that his emotions still bleed through. Joel will deny that he's afraid and try to cover it up with threats of violence and false bravado but you can still see the cracks in the facade. That's what makes him endearing. Meanwhile, Scott has a much more practiced cold and calculating demeanor. It's much more subtle and easy to miss. They're both attempting the same thing in the end: Trying to convince you that they're perfectly fine and in control even when they're very clearly not. Scott is just more successful at it and sometimes he even manages to convince himself of it too.

[sleepyorchidmonster]

Okay, but what if, after graduation, all the students band together and create a gigantic contract that states that, after their deaths, their respective UMs are to be given to Malleus, so he'll never be alone?

The contract's paper received protection from Vil's Fairest One of All, so it's basically indestructible (it can only be broken after Malleus himself dies).

Future Malleus tries to use everyone's magic at least once per day.

It's a Deal, Off With Your Head, Bind the Heart and Split Card are very useful for his daily activities as a ruler, he uses Oasis Maker to water his garden and help in times of drought, I See You is mostly used to keep prized possessions in check and Sleep Kiss has saved plenty of people.

The more destructive abilities like King's Roar are mostly used in times of peril (or when he wants to be petty and dramatic), and the same goes for Bet the Limit. Shock the Heart, Laugh With Me and Snake Whisper are very useful for intel gathering or pranks.

He uses Unleash the Beast whenever he visits a colder climate or just wants to change forms without turning into a dragon (he becomes a black wolf with green eyes, very fluffy). Doodle Suit is often used to make food taste terrible (he misses Lillia, even his atrocious cooking), while Fairest One of All protects all gargoyles frim erosion.

Far Cry Cradle is used to reminisce fond memories, and he likes to use Meet Me in a Dream to visit Ortho, who is still alive. He LOVES dashing around with Living Bolt.

He can't exactly use Gate to The Underworld, since it's hereditary and troublesome, so Idia gave him an indestructible tablet with a custom gargoyle game and a "Idia Mode" (the tablet makes annoying remarks, like "GG Folks" or "This RNG really is awful").

BONUS:

Malleus: As your King, I hereby declare that the Senate is to be immediately disbanded.

Senate: WHAT

Idia Tablet: LMAO. Sucks to suck!

[horsemeatluvr23]

hermitcraft s10 is just a documentation of the hermits descent into madness. wdym xisuma spent an hour on his hands and knees recording himself howling like a wolf ??

[laffytale]

really stupid idea lol, bill and his exes

characters in order: jhelesbraum, ford, howling void, romancipina, fiddleford, and random polyamorous cult dedicated to bill cipher

[siderains]

book howl was so real for abandoning his professional career and academic life at the moment a fantasy witchy world was available you go king wear fancy clothes! do magic! fight capitalism! don’t communicate your basic feelings! annoy the woman you would die for!

[jossudoo]

Jaackk >:]

Another favorite of mine. Might just do as many of the twisted characters as I can

[breawycker]

Enid sniffing Wednesday repeatedly before proclaiming “you’re about to have a vision” then catching her before she hits the ground

Oooh I love this and her like growling at anyone who gets close to Wednesday when she's out. I've seen some angst-y art of Enid laying next to Wednesday worrying while Wednesday is in a vision and I just want to write something where Enid is just ready for her to wake up with some water because she knows that Wednesday's visions are often intense and having water and seeing Enid's face helps ground her. I like the idea of Enid's like inner wolf falling for Wednesday before her human self even realizes and then it hits her and she's like "oh wow 😳"

[stagefoureddiediaz]

Feeling so so normal about this

Isolated without anyone to turn to

Uncharted waters (water theming my beloved)

Finally let go of his past - new lifestyle and a new future - 👀👀👀 sounds gay to me!!

[wulfhalls]

be my dog ser...........romance

[kiburebuc]

the urge.... it hits me on this thursday. the urge to disappear into the woods..

i'll settle for a dispersed (unmonitored, backcountry) campsite i just found 8 miles off the road. looks decent, 80 miles drive from my house. 8 miles in a day is totally doable depending on if i can pack my smaller backpack with everything i need. I'll prob stay friday night then hike back.

[huginsmemory]

Even with TBOB and thisisnotawebsite.com there's... Still so much we don't know about Bill. Like ok yeah he's given a tragic background, we know a bit more about his henchmaniacs, but we really don't know a lot. Like, what happened directly after he accidentally destroyed his dimension? It isn't said. Sure time baby KNOWS about Bill's destruction of his dimension, but it seems like he didn't show up after Bill's dimension was destroyed to apprehend him because he only knows about Bill after Bill tries to make a deal with him, causing Bill's wanted poster. And how did Bill become basically the overlord of the nightmare realm, and gather all his henchmaniacs? Like there's a good period where we just don't know. And it's implied he's shocked and horrified (likely even dissociates, since he does that) after he destroys his dimension. But his characterization doesn't seem by that point to be one that immediately goes into a self-destructive, violent god-becoming maniacal spiral of self hatred; it's more one to be overwhelmed with grief and spend a good long time in the midst of his grief, then necessarily he's about to DO anything. And generally speaking trope wise, there's steps missing; typically in this sort of scenario, the usual progression is this:

characterized as monster due to being different in some way

tries to prove their not

ends up hurting someone anyways

gets further villainized, and antagonized by others

Acceptance of being a monster, and goes okay? You wanted a monster? I'll be a monster.

Now this fits Bill's early life, up to number 4, but we don't know what happens immediately after. It's possible he just went into his spiral immediately after, but it feels wrong, because it is missing the part of someone further villainizing him beyond himself which causes him to lash out due to the expectation (and internalized) idea that he would cause harm. I'd assume maybe some kind of interdimensional authority showed up and accused him of purposely trying to kill his dimension, which triggered his "okay, then I'll be a monster", or even a situation where his 'monstrosity' through the badge of killing his dimension is garners him respect. Considering that his henchmaniacs are chosen out of monstrosity and violence as a badge of honor, it feels very much like this would make sense, except none of them really know about Bill's dimension. He doesn't brag about the violence of it; he only calls it a liberation, contrary to the idea that Bill ever used it to gain clout. Instead, it's more likely that an interdimensional authority showed up and accused Bill, except from circumstances, it doesn't seem like it was Time Baby, so not sure who it would be... but at the same time, that expectation is often required for the character to truly embrace their 'monstrosity' and become truly violent. Or perhaps it was delayed after the destruction of his dimension, later when he begins to run with his henchmaniacs and disregards the law, but that also doesn't feel satisfactory for character development. Or perhaps I'm just overthinking this trope...

Also, how did he have his powers? Some is clearly stuff he's always had; pyrokinesis from that one rhyme, the ability to see into 3d, and he was somehow able to destroy his dimension by whatever he did to let Euclydians see the stars (telekinesis?), but beyond that? Was he always all-seeing? How did he become a 'dream demon'? Are his deals actually binding or does he lie? Are these things that he acquired later, because Euclydians seem to be written about as if they usually don't have any of these abilities, nor the abilities Bill is known to have when young, nor did Bill seem to be able to be all seeing when he was younger. Plus, how was Bill able to survive the destruction of his dimension, if he's technically made of the same stuff as everyone else, who all seems to have a physical form? Why then does he seems to be characterized as a being made of pure energy and thought; is that just in Earth's dimension, or does he have a physical form within the nightmare realm? There's multiple things that are contradictory about his body (mouth-eye, yet talked about removing his exoskeleton to feed--not sure exactly when this was mentioned--plus his mouth located under his bricks and bowtie in his exoskeleton in journal 3). But he seems so thrilled by his physical form though on earth, and we know that physical forms exist within the Nightmare realm as Ford was in it... yet it seems like hes characterized to have no physical form, so did he perhaps lose his physical form when his dimension died? Did he technically die with them too, but with his powers was able to survive essentially as a ghost like he tells Dipper you become without a body?

[cloudcountry]

Hope i made it b4 slots closed LOL! can i request the savanaclaw dorm headcanons with how theyd treat a younger sibling?

SUMMARY: your life as a younger sibling to savanaclaw.

COMMENTS: honestly i kinda just went off in lala land and wrote about what it would *be* like to be their younger sibling so i hope its fine ARGH

It would be easy to say that Leona would brush off his sibling, treating them like they’re a ghost and that they’re not even there. But ultimately, I think it comes down to how his younger sibling interacts with the royal family. If they find that they want to be part of his brother’s rule and take his side, Leona will then distance himself accordingly.

However, if his younger sibling wants what's best for the people, if they're aware of the suffering and the poor and wish to help them directly, Leona will take them under his wing. He leans more on the side of tough love, but make no mistake, Leona cares for them dearly, just as he cares for the people he watches over at Savanaclaw.

Rest assured that under Leona’s care, if you let him guide you, you’ll become a strong leader with even stronger magic. He may not say it all the time, but he likes having you around. Even more than that, he’s thankful someone understands his situation.

Ruggie as an older sibling would mean the two of you wouldn’t get to see each other often. Your reliable big brother will always be working early mornings and late nights, bringing back whatever he can for you and the other kids.

He tries his best to be there for you when you need him, but sometimes he just can’t. Being Ruggie’s younger sibling means learning how to fend for yourself, even after he’s become buddy-buddy with Prince Kingscholar.

Ruggie is a wonderful and dedicated older brother. You’ll inherit his drive and work ethic, that’s for sure. But you’ll also know what it’s like to have to fight tooth and nail for the food on your plate.

Being Jack’s younger sibling means looking up to your older brother hardcore. He’s so strong, and so smart, and so competent! You want to be just like him when you grow up! Jack grows embarrassed at the praise every time, but he takes a lot of pride in his work and is glad you’re noticing.

Because of how impressive he is, however, the people in your life may end up creating a rift between the two of you. They’ll ask you why you can’t be more like him, why can’t you do this or that like him, why couldn’t you have made it into NRC like he did. And so, you go to RSA instead. You two may grow distant over that.

It’ll take work on both of your parts to mend your relationship after your school days. Jack was always more worried about you, not knowing how to talk to you about it without risking the divide between you growing deeper. You’ll have to clarify that you wouldn’t have done that, you were just sick of being compared to him. It’ll take time, but you’re taking the first step, and that's what matters.

[nadiajustbe]

I think a big problem with hmc book content at Tiktok (and also almost every social that is not this hellsite including twitter), is that how movie-centred it still remains. No negativity to movie fans, certainly, it's just the movie and the book are two very different stories, and when I search for hmc book content I want to have well, hmc book content.

Instead of that almost 80% you got are "book versus movie" or "did you know a Howl's Moving Castle is based on a BOOK??" type of videos, mostly targeted specifically on the movie hmc fans to know more "fan facts" about the book, which is, usually, a pretty basic information for anyone who read the said book at least once. Yes, I know that Howl is Welsh. Yes, I know Sophie is a Witch. Yes, I know she has two sisters. Yes, I know Howell Jenkins is a little pathetic idiot.

It's like none of these stuff is actually targeted on an actual book hmc fanbase, and builds everything around it on a movie comparison, instead of, well, making stuff about the book? It would be plausible If movie and the book were similar, like H*rry Potter movies, for example, but they're NOT. The stories are so different they can and should exist as pretty much separate entities.

And all of the wonderful videos targeted on book fans with an actual content for book fans that is NOT "did you know in the book.." kinda gets lost in the sea of the other contentmakers. It's extremely difficult to find a hmc book video that doesn't mentions the hmc movie even once and it's not BAD but it feels like you cannot actually have a content made for you.

I can hardly find memes, or headcanons, or funny videos that are not just repeating the information I already know for like five years.

It's like having a star younger sibling that gets brings up in the every conversation about you and you cannot stop it.

[xxplastic-cubexx]

Ppl who say charles is "a piece of shit" doesn't understand that 1: characters can have NUANCE and 2: these comics have a million different writers for each run with varying degrees of quality for each character and storyline. Some writers fuck charles up bc they dont like him/dont know how to write him. And i dont count those characterizations of Charles bc the "flaws" they gave him are in bad faith interpretation of the character. Now i love me some hypocritical asshole charles but thats not the point of his character, which is that he always struggles with trying to have a peaceful outcome which sometimes in order to get that, you have to be a manipulative asshole to bring the peace. Doesn't mean you have to like doing it either (subconsciously is a different story for a different time)

(Also sorry for giving you a wall of text lol i love your art hope you're doing well)

its just especially Interesting with charles because it's not as if Every Other Character is perfect and saintly and has never made a mistake. like i think everyone understands these characters have nuance and they'll never act 100% in the right, its only really with charles that i see people blow up his mistakes (and sometimes misinterpret his actions if not outright make up Bad Things hes done) and act as if he's ONLY ever done wrong and EVERY action he's done was done with evil or misguided intentions

[the-daily-male]

Today's daily male is 707 from Mystic Messenger!

for @mia-martian