okay folks, i went and remade and howl is now over at @swynfyr !!! ikd if i like that url rn but ... i'm gonna put this post on queue so people can see it . x

teehee, fit check !!! happy howloween everyone. 💕💕💕

so you all know i love studio ghibli so much and i love hmc the movie so much.   it was my childhood,   it introduced me to the books.   of course i love it so much,   and love the little bits they added in.   but my character is book-based for a reason.   the movie leaves so much to be desired.   there is something about it that is just not satisfying to me.

for example,   they mention the witch of the waste's curse once.   one time,   they say 'you who swallowed a falling star,   oh heartless man,   your heart will soon belong to me' which is a very great reference to the book and all,   but that's literally all they say about it.   they don't mention the poem by john donne,   they don't have the witch acknowledge the curse throughout the rest of the film.   meanwhile,   it's a huge part of the books,   it's literally the driving force behind pretty much everything howl does. he's scared of the witch more than anything else, he wouldn't be so calm seeing her again.

not to mention the movie also only acknowledges once that sophie is a witch,   and even then,   it's missable.   that time sophie follows monster howl into his lair or whatever and he's like 'how do you expect to break my curse when you can't even break your own curse' which i feel like is a reference to sophie speaking the witch's curse into strengthening accidentally.   but like,   that's it.   meanwhile in the books,   sophie is literally a witch who doesn't know she's a witch,   who literally speaks events / transforms objects into existence.   i miss that in the movie so much.

like please don't think i'm a hater,   i loooove the movie with my whole heart.   i just see a whole bunch of differences between book and movie that,   while they are both great versions of the story,   also differ so widely   ( especially in the second half of both versions )   that it makes them fundamentally different pieces of art with different messages that simply come to the same conclusion.   i just think dwj's original world does a much better job tying everything together,   of course,   because she's the one that wrote the original book.   just please remember that my characterisation of howl is going to differ widely from movie howl,   in personality and in the way he describes his past and the circumstances surrounding his curse / contract with calcifer   ( he was 21 in the books when he swallowed the star,   not a child ).   i'm willing to bend canon to fit with the movies,   but only to an extent.   and please don't worry about not knowing anything about the books.   the movie is a good surface-level understanding that is perfectly good to know !

friendly reminder that if you ever gain muse for video game characters, finish the actual game before you consider anything wild. i'm completely in pain about rdr2

all right,   since i've been in such a low mood and sensitive recently,   i'm just going to post a bit of positivity on the dash for everyone.   december is such a bad month for us all,   i think,   mentally and circumstantially,   however … it's incredible that i get to come on my dash every day and see everyone writing about how much they love their muses and how passionate you all are for the characters you write.   literally so impressive all this content everyone generates from their own mind.   i'm quite pumped to get to go into the new year with all of you and see what else you can make.   thank you for those who have spoken to me,   played with me ooc,   plotted with me,   write with me.   thank you for accepting howl back into your lives,   or newly into your lives.   i hope for much more of all this to come.   x

just looked up "daylist" on spotify bc i heard it's playlists spotify recommends to you based on your vibe ???

anyways why does spotify think this of me

hello from the midwest. just invented a new way of getting the mail at the end of the driveway by curling up into a little ball and sliding all the way down my icy driveway to the mailbox and then crawling on my hands and knees up the icy grass all the way back up.

the fact that this is only available as a cover for the thai translation of hmc is tearing me apart

anyone on my dash: *changes their url* me: damn nice to meet you 🤝 them: we know each other me: oh

hello hello everyone,   i've finally woken up on this new year.   i just wanna wish a happy new year to everyone,   to all of you following,   all of you interacting with me and making it so worthwhile to be here.   i've been back only a short amount of time on howl,   yet i've already reconnected with so many of you,   and met so many new friends,   developed so many new dynamics and relationships between howl and all of your muses.   thank you for welcoming me and howl back in late 2023 with open arms, thank you for talking to me endlessly about our muses, and thank you for considering me a friend and rp partner.   i'm so excited to go through 2024 with all of my friends,   and i can't wait to see what sorts of shenanigans howl gets into this year.    *kisses all ur foreheads*

good morning and mark my words ! i am bound and determined to do some drafts today. as soon as i gauge my focus for the day it's over for you all. but mostly me because i'm the one that has to write these drafts.

i strive to portray howl in a way that could never once be mistaken for cisgender straight male anything.   god forbid

good evening everyone !!!

also, hey folks, much of the time i do really like to establish at least an early, working pre-established association between howl and others' muses in my meme replies if we haven't written our muses together before and even if we haven't discussed ooc before once in our lives. it's usually based on what i read from your muse's dossier, stats, etcetc and how i see howl getting along with them based on that. it gives me more to work with in my mind. is this okay with you all ? if it isn't, you can always gently inform me, and i'd be happy to make them completely oblivious to each other ! conversely, also please feel free to do the same when you reply to one of mine as well.

what's your absolute dumbest conspiracy theory ? i'll go first . howl's moving castle was published in 1986 and j krap r.owling didn't start writing h.p till after that , and i think she was fully aware of the book and even read it and decided to steal howell j.enkins' initials for her own wizard protagonist . fortunately there's no room for the two of them in this world and howl's name is better . thanks for coming to my ted talk .

i really love how the book sometimes reminds you that howl was a former rugby player because