#not hmc

[sophiesweedkiller]

thank u all for participating in the annual sophiesweedkiller April fools day prank! see you all next year! Boop!

#favorite is still the musical post #but this one #oh this one was GOOD #shoutout to everyone genuinely concerned ily all #text #gabby talks #not hmc

[chavahlahdraws]

wip painting just bc i haven’t been posting but i want to update everyone on my art :) it’s starting to get real w college deadlines coming up so i am knee deep in portfolio prep and art is starting to feel like a real career…. anyways this is not done at all but. yes

#chavahlah rambles #not hmc #painting #acrylic #acrylic painting #portfolio #my art

[howl-bottoms]

Penis anon I think I'm in love with you actually

#cannot stop thinking about our exchange #not hmc

[dilwica]

hey i used to post my art here sometimes so heres my oc nejdana

#not hmc #my art #dnd oc #it would take an extra terrestrial source of pure power to make me draw an oc that isnt slavic #embracing my features like full face no jawline chubby cheeks #i have a theory and it is that all poles are born with the same chin #so far i have not seen a pole that has a different chin naturally

[born-to-strange-sights]

yo I got a crazy amount of notes today is there like an Event happening or something. but thank u guys<3

#slay ig #not hmc

[sadfishkid]

green slime be upon ye

#howl's moving castle #howl jenkins #sophie hatter #howl's niece mari #and the skull (already forgot again whether it was sullivan's or prince justin's) #i reread hmc and came to the following conclusion #movie howl: slightly whimsical but still very much a byronic hero #book howl: sopping wet pathetic meow meow #(he even turns into a literal wet cat at some point) #art tag

[oexas]

A lil practice in perspective with this piece mostly, so here's Howl and Sophie, who I designed based 50/50 on their book and movie counterparts! I actually would love to revisit this piece and paring in the future, since the book is one of my all time favs

#howl's moving castle #howl's moving castle fanart #hmc #hmc fanart #studio ghibli #howl x sophie #hmc movie #hmc book #howl jenkins pendragon #sophie hatter #howls moving castle

[amazing-amilia]

Room clutter in studio ghibli films.

#studio ghibli #animation #animated film #howls moving castle #kikis delivery service #my neighbor totoro #spirited away #aesthetic #hmc #room aesthetic

[shebsart]

Im sick with flu so naturally I picked up my newly bought copy of Howl's Moving Castle which includes DWJ interviews in the back.

And im in love with the way she tells these stories feels like a part of her books.

And my favorite:

The magic in the mundane :)

edit: I'm copying the ID by @princess-of-purple-prose below, thank you!

[ID: Excerpts of printed text which read:

I suppose there's also a biographical element in that Sophie is the eldest of three sisters, and so am I. The idea for Sophie grew out of the time I discovered I had a very severe milk allergy. I almost lost the use of my legs and had to walk with the aid of a stick. I was moderately young, but because of this I suddenly became old.

I had to wait until I knew what Wizard Howl was like. I began to discover Howl about the time when one of my sons took to spending several hours in the bathroom every morning and I got really, really, really annoyed with him.

Where were you when you wrote it? I wrote the book the way I write everything, stretched out on the big sofa in my sitting room, in everyone's way. This often annoys my husband rather a lot.

which made me burst out laughing. I laughed and laughed at the seven league boot, and when I came to the bit where Sophie accidentally makes Howl's suit twenty times too big for him, I laughed so much that I fell off the sofa. My husband was really irritated by this time. He snapped, "You can't be making yourself laugh!" And I gasped, "But I am, I am!" and rolled about on the floor.

Are any of your relatives or friends included in the book? Yes, well the thing that started me off writing the book was a friend of mine who never does her laundry. She has it around the place in huge bags for often as much as a year. When she does tip it all out and try to wash it, she discovers all sorts of clothes that she has forgotten she had.

Which is your favourite part of the book and why? I like the book all over, but I suppose if I had to choose a bit, I'd choose the place where Howl gets a cold. It so happened that when I was writing this bit, my husband caught a bad cold. He is the world's most histrionic cold catcher. He moans, he coughs, he piles on the pathos, he makes strange noises, he blows his nose exactly like a bassoon in a tunnel, he demands bacon sandwiches at all hours, and he is liable to appear (usually wrapped in someone else's dressing gown) at any time, announcing that he is dying of neglect and boredom. So all I had to do was write it down. End ID]

#howl's moving castle #hmc #hmc book #diana wynne jones #i havent seen some of these before and its a delight #not art #wow i didnt expect this to get so many notes lol #all the people in the tags who decided to read the book because of this post <3<3<3

[mochipong]

Oh, starboy

#howls moving castle #my art #dramatic fruity man #something about eating stars #digital art #digital illustration #hmc movie #hmc fanart #howl’s moving castle fanart #howl pendragon #procreate #ghibli movie #studio ghibli

[tossawary]

Rewatched the Howl's Moving Castle movie (fantastic animated movie, definitely inspired by more than an adaptation of the book) while doing something else and I was struck this time by the fact that the Prince (Turniphead the Scarecrow) says that he intends to go tell his king to call off the war, but THEN he intends on COMING BACK to Ingary to shoot his shot with Sophie again because (as he says to the flirtatious Witch of the Wastes) "hearts change".

And maybe he will come back to make Sophie an offer of marriage and then leave again when he's turned down, but I imagined for a moment that the Prince (who is possibly the movie's version of Prince Justin, so let's call him Justin) might just... move back into Howl's house without asking and stay there. There are several cases of precedent for this. Also, as Turniphead, he's shown several times helping Sophie with laundry, or playing with Markl, or helping the Witch of the Wastes move around, and Sophie deserves that kind of help around the house! Howl isn't going to reliably do chores.

And you know what? I think Howl would be into that shit. There's something very Wynne-Jonesian about it all still. It's tempting to write a post-canon fic about this situation from the movie with an extra dash of flavoring from the books. Like:

This is the infamous wizard Howl Pendragon/Jenkins, a vain draft-dodging flirt who likes to build moving castles to evade taxes too. The beautifully angry young woman with the silver hair over there is his wife, Sophie Hatter, who may or may not be an extremely powerful witch, but right now she's dusting and do not get in her way. This is Calcifer, the fire demon who used to have Howl's heart and is arguably his other life partner and also might be in love with Sophie, and this is arguably kind of actually his house. The old lady smoking a cigar over there is Howl's ex-girlfriend and former nemesis, the Witch of the Wastes, who now lives in their house. This is Markl, Howl's apprentice, kind of his kid, and there is no explanation of where he comes from or what happened to his parents. The dog used to be(?) the Royal Wizard's spy (Howl used to be her apprentice and potential successor) but now he also just lives here. And that's Prince Justin of Strangia, Sophie's house-boyfriend. Don't listen to the propaganda, he wasn't kidnapped by a heart-eating wizard; he used to be a cursed scarecrow and now he wants to be here to help Sophie do laundry. He's trying to homewreck and Howl thinks it's both funny and hot.

#tossawary hmc #fic ideas #howl pendragon #sophie hatter #prince justin turniphead

[sophiesweedkiller]

IS THE RAYBANS AN APRIL FOOLS THING OR.

um

#holy shit ?? #text #ask #gabby talks #this is actually crazy #timing is INSANE THO LMFAO #i will figure this out yall dw #sorry this is just so funny help #OF ALL DAYS 😭😭😭 #not hmc #gonna change my password and hopefully that helps ? #I'm surprised its not affecting my main tho ahha?? #anyway #happy april fools if u read this far #PLEASE click the link #i spent too much time on this 😭

[chavahlahdraws]

“loyalty means everything to the clones” kill me rn

#star wars #not hmc

[ziyuanyuan1113]

Fun fact, in the book, it's explicitly stated that Sophie is a wizard like Howl and has a magical gift for speaking things into existence. Wish they added that into the film bc it explains SO MUCH and adds to the theme that her thoughts were shaping her reality.

There's one scene where she's fixing Howl's jacket and says it looks like it's built to attract ladies. And then SUDDENLY women are swooning over him.

#howl's moving castle #sophie hatter #howl jenkins pendragon #howl x sophie #studio ghibli #hmc fanart

[blithe-bee]

@calysto1395 dropped a Howl's Moving Castle AU in our chat and I could not stop thinking about it, so here are some Howl!Law sketches

#one piece #trafalgar law #turned some of his tattoos into feathers #and I know the bird theme is more movie howl than book howl but it works really well in this scenario #was this just an excuse to draw Law in this particular shirt? you'll never know #hmc au #my art

[born-to-strange-sights]

I refuse to update @howlcore for spring until it actually feels like spring here>:(

#im on strike #we have crocuses and forsythia but thats IT. it is MAY where are the fucking dandelions and violets and buds on the trees im so tired #not hmc #it was 30F degrees on Friday and the entire week was cloudy and freezing