#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

[yumenari]

Happy (totally not late) Valentine's Day 💌

Made these sillies for a twst stamp rally (the prize was a set of postcards of all the characters with funny stupid pick-up lines to commemorate the classic Valentine's postcards. Please don't take them seriously-) and thought I could share them here as well since the con is over 🫡

[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.

[nicollekidman]

the heavy lifting the angelus vs. angel name change does to absolve him of his actions meanwhile spike is always just spike and his ledger is dripping with blood even as he is not allowed the luxury of being perceived as a being with free will….. reinforced by anya vs. anyanka like HELLO don’t piss me OFF….. this is also why the soul irritates me because he gets it most truly as a way to allow the narrative to neatly categorize the growth that was already there is Provable and reinforcing the false dichotomy of good ensouled / bad soulless that the show had otherwise already grown past

[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

[tiktaaliker]

since its the ides of march, id like to shout out my favorite blaseball season name: season 14, the -ides

like... it began on the ides of march but ALSO this was when flooding really ramped up and when the players returned from elsewhere theyd have missing letters.... so its also the (t)ides. still obsessed. Happy fourth birthday to the -ides

[gavv-hannah]

finals done so im sharing gavv related shenanigans during class

[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 😳"

[bigmoon-is-bigwife]

I just don't think Ros realizes that other people do face backlash when they kill people. Bad is haunted by his accident reputation and he didn't even intentionally do most of those kills. Ros still holds it against Krow when it killed Aimsey to survive. Pili1 was hated by majority of the server to the point where most people cheered when he died and he had to kill to survive.

Ros says she had a reason to kill when all of those people did not but that's just not true. Bad is the only one you could argue does kill pointlessly but he owns it and doesn't try to deny it. Ros, on the other hand, has killed 8 people and denies any wrongdoing whatsoever. I don't think she realizes that most people usually get more push back then she has gotten.

[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

[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.

[shayandwildlifepack]

One of our hyperfixations/special interests (we aren't quite sure which it is, lol) is service dogs.

Does anyone want to hear (or see, lol) us rant about service dogs?

If multiple beings say that they want us to rant about service dogs, we will post at least one post about service dogs!!

- Shay 🐾 (Shirley 🦮 might be in the background rn, lol)