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freerangecate · 2 years ago
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some of my art 😵
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ace-artemis-fanartist · 11 months ago
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The Hatter sisters from the book Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones.
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allovesthings · 1 year ago
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I love this book so much.
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mayskalih · 1 year ago
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manikas-whims · 10 months ago
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I've finally read Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones and..
Studio Ghibli Howl is cute n all but he's nothing compared to the Book Howl.
Book Howl is not trying to be some grand hero suffering under his curse. Book Howl is evading every aspect that could lead to the curse taking over him, avoiding it the best he could and hoping it'll just wane away. And he's 20x more dramatic 😭 purposely wanting for attention..
Similarly Ghibli Sophie is fine but an entirely different person than the Book Sophie.
Book Sophie has a magical touch and can breathe life into things with mere words, can imbue inanimate objects with certain abilities. Book Sophie isn't self-loathing and insecure. Book Sophie merely believes her misfortune to be a direct effect of her being the eldest. And she dgaf or console Howl when he's being overly dramatic. Instead she tells him exactly how bad he is 😆 and how much worse he can be..
And the tale is far more convoluted. The whole thing about the Prince and Wizard Sulaiman, the thing about the Witch of the Waste and her fire demon, the fact that Book Simon isn't a child but a 20yo messy apprentice to Howl, the fact that Sophie actually has 2 sisters, the fact that Fanny is not an awful mother but perceived that way..AND THE FACT THAT HOWL IS WELSH!!! THE WORLD HE'S ACTUALLY FROM HAS VIDEO GAMES N SHIT!?..
There's so much to explore with this story and I hope someday we get a of 8-10 episode mini series where we can see some of this from book to screen 🤞😭
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nadiajustbe · 3 months ago
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When it comes to HMC trilogy, I take almost no criticism, as it just a wonderful written-story with alive and relatable characters. However, If I had to name a part I'd found reasonable to criticise and may critises myself, I'd say it's Lettie Hatter's arc.
Not because it was entirely bad, but because it could be so much better If it wasn't written in the 80s and had a different mindset attached to it. And because the way it starts and the way it progress has little to no connection to how it ends.
Because the whole thing of the Hatter sisters, all of them, was breaking social norms and expectations.
Sophie firmly believed that she would stay in the Hatter Shop for the rest of her life with the most boring existence possible — and yet she married the most chaotic, whiny and slither-outing wizard in all of Ingary, with whom everyday is a full-blown fantasy adventure.
Martha, as the youngest, was expected to have the above mentioned fantasy adventures, be a mighty witch, even a hero, maybe — but she decided to chose a happy, steady basic life with a husband and ten kids, and she didn't want to listen to anyone who said otherwise.
Lettie's arc, just as the whole stories of her sisters, were tied on what people wanted from her. She was the most beautiful out of all girls, If we believe Sophie's words, and people almost wished she would marry and find a life spouse, as she had one million proposals a day even before switching with Martha. But that wasn't what she wanted — I'm sure she would reject all of them as often as her sister did, because she wasn't a big fan of it, just as working in the bakery. Lettie wanted to be a witch, and she practically became one, switching with Martha, working with ms. Fairfax.
But while Sophie's arc of expecting to be plane and ordinary ended on being gifted and adventurous, Martha's arc of avoiding busy life ended on finding a person she loves and planning to build a big family, Lettie's arc of searching for greatest achievement and avoiding marriages ended on...a marriage.
A marriage that, as stated by herself — "Ben doesn't like people to know I'm a witch" — kinda disregards her initial want to show that she has intelligence outside of her beauty, the one that he can show and that she can use.
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(This line has absolutely no context whatsoever and we can only guess why Ben wants so, because it's actually so out of his character, even all the bits that were described before. But nope, no context, no explanations. It may be because she was pregnant at the time, but, again nothing like this was ever said and it's a pretty lame excuse anyway. Magical mirrors in their house also do not obey Lettie, at all)
And, as much as I absolutely love Ben and as much as I absolutely love Lettie, I don't think pairing them was a good choice. Mostly because Lettie was seventeen (one year younger than Sophie) in the end of HMC when their "pairing" started, and Ben is described to be noticeably older that Howl in CITA, which brings us to the conclusion he's at least in his thirties. And that's...a bit uncomfortable of an age gap, especially If we take into the account they canonically had a kid about a year later. And also Ben was supposed to be her mentor.
...And If he stayed her mentor and nothing more, it would be actually great. Because I believe Lettie deserves the same development her sister had, to get was she initially wanted and what she was fighting for. To be an apprentice of the Royal Wizard, to be a powerful a well-known witch, to show the world who told her that she has to marry to succeed in life that she in fact, doesn't, to show all this guys that tried to propose to her that she didn't need them, at all. But definitely not a wife, or a mother.
Not because being a mother or/and a wife is a bad character development. It worked perfectly with Sophie, because it represents her chaotic happily ever after better than anything else, it worked with Martha because she wanted to had ten kids and marry. It's just not for Lettie's character in particular precisely because everything in her concept of "beatiful middle sister" showed that was she's supposed to be.
Because Mrs. Pentstemmon said Lettie awaits a great, good fate, that she'll be as powerful as the Witch of the Waste — and I want to see it. Because I didn't.
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lenoreamidala · 1 year ago
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hatter sisters
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howelsmovingcastlebook · 2 years ago
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Howl: To everyone who has treated me poorly; I am sexier than you
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chelshiart · 1 year ago
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this is a martha hatter stan account jsyk
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nayvi · 1 year ago
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Hey folks!
It’s time for another HMC Book version sketch ✨
Today I bring you this early concept of the Hatter’s Family that I made few month ago!
I tried to make it look like an old photo, but I was too lazy do it properly🥴
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minisculegemstone · 10 months ago
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Tgcf crowd I need your assistance in this because I'm only partway through book five BUT
I got to the bit where Xie Lian is complimenting Eming, causing it to grow and fight better, to which my brain supplied me with:
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So. Howl's Moving Castle au anyone?
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therabbitthatpostthings · 1 year ago
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Istg Sophie not realizing she might be magic and the Lettie Debacle are funniest fucking things to me in the whole book.
To start, Sophie has two sister: Lettie Hatter her full sister from her father and mother, and Martha Hatter her half-sister from her father and Fanny.
Fanny, who now runs the hat shop, is ready to move on and solidifies Sophie’s role as the eldest when she sends Martha to Mrs.Fairfax to become a witch apprentice while Lettie works at the local bakery. Sophie notices when going to visit “Lettie” that she is actually Martha!
She soon get mixed up with Howl and through the stay small things start to happen, whenever Sophie wills something to happen, it starts to. The best example being Howls patterned cloak which she believed helped bewitch Lettie.
The real Lettie btw. As it turns out Micheal goes down to Market Chipping and falls in love with a Lettie “Martha” Hatter. Which shocks Sophie who tells them she has a niece named Lettie but it can’t be the same Lettie. Then Howl comes along claiming his love for Lettie, the real Lettie who looks a little like Martha still at the Fairfax house. Still assures that’s not Sophie’s Lettie or Micheal’s Lettie. Then Micheal’s Lettie who is Martha tells of her sister Sophie and Martha (Lettie) and Howl’s Lettie (Real Lettie) tells of her sisters Lettie (Martha) and Sophie because she saw through Howl’s Bull shit immediately. So Micheal and Howl confirm that Sophie is Sophie bewitch to be old Sophie but actually a young woman named Sophie who is the sister to Lettie-Martha and Martha-Lettie.
And the Sophie who finds out that they know what she knows and almost kills them with weed killer and still ponders if she’s magic as if her two blood sisters are not magical!
At some point she had to consider that Papa Hatter had some magic attack in the coat pocket for the funniest bit in the fucking book to even be possible.
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pendragonbooks · 2 years ago
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Cakes Martha would bake at Cesari’s
For Michael because she loves him:
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For Sophie and Lettie because it’s like the Ingarian-baking-apprentice equivalent of sending a funny frog meme to your sisters
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For Howl, to congratulate the infamous hearteater on ending up with a girl so incredible as Sophie:
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For Michael again because really she loves him so much and they’re absolutely going to get married and have ten children someday:
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panicsimss · 8 months ago
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After a very long hiatus, I've decided to check in on the ol' La Goule save. With a bit of a timeskip, there are two new additions to the family! Sophie had a (ghost) baby girl with Dante, and she's also adopted a cat named Reaper.
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thasallweare · 2 months ago
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Howl's Moving Castle - 2004
Studio Ghibli
by Hayao Miyazaki
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nadiajustbe · 3 months ago
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HMC modern AU but it focuses on Lettie who is interested in magic and tarot cards, and "Sophie, my dear, you and Howell Jenkins are ABSOLUTELY mismatched, you don't even have zodiac signs, let alone your card spread-"
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