Wylan in Crooked Kingdom: Until this moment, Wylan hadn't quite understood how much they meant to him. His father would have sneered at these thugs and thieves, a disgraced soldier, a gambler who couldn't keep out of the red. But they were his first friends, his only friends, and Wylan knew that even if he'd had his pick of a thousand companions, these would've been the people he chose.
Wylan in Rule of Wolves: Brekker get the FUCK off my porch, no you may not borrow my boyfriend to commit crimes, get a fucking job and also get a haircut while you're at it.
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Latvia – the hidden gem of Europe you should know about
Latvia – the hidden gem of Europe you should know about
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every single thing said about kaz is just like, patently false to the point of irony. dirtyhands about a man whose hands are literally spotless because they're never uncovered. without morals or conscience, would do anything for money when it is repeatedly implied he's passed over business opportunities if they involved slavery or indentures. doesn't say goodbye, just lets go about a man who has made it a point to never let anything go. doesn't need a reason when he is proven to never act without a reason, and in all actuality usually has at least two. and this is without mentioning bastard of the barrel about probably one of the only barrel kids to have at least started out with a "normal", happy nuclear family...
and it just makes me think: kaz is deliberately written not to be better than people say he is, but just bad in different ways. he is not good or virtuous or compassionate; the point of having people say things that are not true about him isn't to make a point of his completely different nature.
so the point of it can only be to emphasize how nobody really knows him. to draw attention to his absolute isolation. and maybe to give more credit to how much his 'armour', which is supposed to protect him by keeping everyone away, really only serves to keep him away from everyone else.
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some of the best/funniest moments in house of many ways, the final book in the howl's moving castle trilogy:
charmain convincing peter that waif is magical just so that he HAS to share food with her
when aunt sempronia and mrs. baker check on charmain after a few days and mrs. baker says that she feared charmain left a window open, charmain goes "no no i closed it" and then IMMEDIATELY goes, in her head, 'fuck. peter is DEFINITELY opening it'
peter nearly coming in on aunt sempronia's and mrs. baker's visit and being HORRIFIED by their "respectability" and charmain shooing him off by pretending he's waif, made even funnier when you remember that at this moment the kitchen is being invaded with angry kobolds and peter had to WAIT with them for charmain to finish
honestly the entirety of the visit had me in hysterics it was amazing
okay this isn't even funny but when you reread and realize aunt sempronia was 100% serious when she said nobody needed to fear for charmain when waif was around --
"i told them that you were in charge and they had to wait until you had finished being polite to those witches."
"witches!" said charmain. "one of them was my mother!"
"well, my mother's a witch," peter said. "and you only had to look at the proud one in silk to see that she was a witch."
peter getting defensive about gardening i LOVE this kid
charmain suggesting that peter sit on the trolley to find out where things disappear to when they put stuff on it
the supremely random fact that, for some reason, people of high norland are great on clocks and charmain's house itself had seventeen of them
waif running after charmain every time charmain tries to get her to stay at the house on her first day of helping the king in the library
the fact that princess hilda and the king wanted to poach HOWL?? howl jenkins pendragon??? the most pathetic cringefail man in all of ingary??? which sure they don't realize. but the idea that they want to after everything WE know is so fucking funny
sophie struggling with the butter dripping down her fingers
"charmain could not think why mrs. pendragon was staring at him in such horror. he was surely a truly enchanting child. and what long, curly eyelashes!
'with my husband and his fire demon,' mrs. pendragon finished. her face had gone fiery red, and she glared at the little boy across the toddler's head."
"i have no opinion of men's ability to manage anything." - princess hilda 2023 (or 2008, when this was published)
anyways this entire thing with 'twinkle' was fucking hilarious oh my god
SOPHIE STAMPING HER FOOT AND CALLING HOWL "disgustingly pretty" WHEN HOWL ASKS HER IF SHE THINKS HE'S PRETTY AT ALL
the whole pipe scene when charmain gets home and everything is flooded. also, charmain using a bath brush as a wand
howl sitting very politely on the roof waiting for charmain to rescue him while charmain is panicking about getting him down
THE FACT THAT HOWL IS APPARENTLY SCARED OF HEIGHTS BUT CLIMBED THE ROOF ANYWAYS JUST SO HE COULD TALK TO CHARMAIN IN PRIVATE
bakery apprentice timmy cuddling waif when charmain comes back out to the front and her thinking it means they won't be lifelong enemies after all
all the rocking horses. for protection, obviously
prince ludovic using the kobolds to steal the money from high norland and timminz going "well, nobody asked" when charmain wanted to know why he hadn't told anyone
when all the lubbockins reveal themselves and literally everything dissolves into absolute chaos, particular moments including:
- the king and princess hilda shouting "not in the library!!" so imperiously that the lubbockins actually changed direction
- "i had a miserable childhood, nobody loved me" and "don't listen to him it's all a pose"
- morgan revealing that prince ludovic wears a wig
- HOWL SWITCHING PLACES WITH MORGAN, NOT AS TWINKLE BUT HIMSELF, SO THAT LUDOVIC FINDS HIMSELF WITH AN ARMFUL OF HOT WIZARD WHO IMMEDIATELY PUNCHES HIM IN THE FACE. FUCK YEAH HOWL
- to which ludovic whines "how DARE you do that!" and howl goes "bad luck" and punches him AGAIN
- waif committing murder, twice
peter barreling into the room long after everything had ended and feeling quite proud of himself for finally getting some magic right, about twenty pages from the end of the book
and when he DOES come barreling in he immediately narrows in on charmain ("i knew she was making a stupid fuss, she's never sensible about things")
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