Imagine getting a Welsh actor to play a Welsh character but not letting him use his Welsh accent for said character Welsh erasure is real guys and Howl deserves his Welsh accent

Howl’s Moving Castle - book dynamic

(I think the best part is they would have this conversation but at the end of the day still absolutely be there for each other… albeit with a lot of bickering)

I'm reading bk6 and have just met ghostfire!Hua Cheng. i am enamoured...

feng xin and mu qing are trying to be supportive of xie lian's bizarre new castle but they're drawing the line at the evil little fire demon that seems to hate absolutely everyone except xie lian

i drew a thing for this beautiful fanfic by @the-nameless-ramekin >:3c i 100% recommend this fic for people who enjoy crying (and beautiful writing in general!!) anyway hey rame...it's ao3 user bachstreetsolo o(-( i love your writing (i cried!!)

keep reading for rambles and alt images 🌟

fun little detail (kind of) - i gave each character clothes in a hue close to their partner's hair colour...vil's was a bit hard to work in but she has a bit of white in her hat. also sorry for having the opposite of same face syndrome

honestly i think this might be the most detailed piece i've done? even my rook birthday art wasn't this intense omg. i aim to do more detailed pieces in the future 💥 i can't keep doing flat backgrounds forever...i'll keep improving 🔥 and seriously read the fic it's crazy good

Wrathion's Wandering King 👑🍃🐲

Song: Love and War by Diane Birch

A small Twisted wonderland animatic for the first two overblots. I learned a lot and had fun, may go back and do the rest of the song at some point.

weird looking cat!!

Heya, slightly belated heads up: I decided to split the Howl AU epilogue into three different chapters, the first of which is now up for anyone who wants to read it!

There will be two more after this one, because this thing got waaaay too long for a single chapter lol. Hoping to be able to finish those next chapters soon! thank you all for your patience :D

still one of my fav moments from this game

I'm unable to stop thinking about OG!Mobei-Jun. We never meet him like we do Luo Bingge but I have such a strong image of who he is.

To reference a text post I am obsessed with, if Luo Bingge is a male power fantasy, original Mobei-Jun is the ‘one man as an island’ belief. The idea of ‘one man as an island’ is basically the same as the lie of complete self sufficiency.

It means; you don’t NEED help. It means: you are an island, a city, a nation within yourself, and so you are all you need. It means; you aren’t weak and you can do EVERYTHING yourself. And while this isn’t an inherently male concept (everyone can be influenced by it) it does tend to be extra emphasized in male spaces. It’s certainly part of the toxic masculinity package. Because in toxic masculinity, other men are competitors. Rivals. Enemies. You crush them to get what you want and you do it alone.

Airplane takes Luo Bingge and turns a story about the cycles of abuse into the height of male power fantasies. And Airplane thus takes Mobei-Jun and projects his desires to be a one-man-island.

Because islands aren’t lonely. They can’t feel lonely. (You are a one man island and you don’t need people so that means you chose your aloneness. you have control over it.)

And here’s the thing: complete self sufficiency is utter HORSESHIT. ITS A LIE. IT DOESNT FUCKING WORK.

Since complete self sufficiency is a lie, translating Mobei-jun from book to real person gets wayyyy more complicated.

So my view of OG!Mobei Jun is someone who has frozen himself into complete indifference. He’s a man who desperately wants to belong to someone or something but has forgotten how. He’s a closeted romantic who has gouged out all the soft and vulnerable parts of himself. He moves through life as if everything is beneath him and less real than him because if it isn’t then he’ll fall apart spectacularly. He’s a man who’s sat so long with solitude that it’s crystallized him into a moving statue. He’s a flesh and blood person but he is so incapable of letting his guard down that the entire world sees the mountain he wants to be and not the cracks where the illusion fails. He doesn’t know how to live. He refuses to die.

OG!Mobei-Jun is the myth of self sufficiency. And it eats him alive.

He can’t trust his family, so he raised himself while "overseeing his future realm," leading to him being malnourished and touch-starved. He can’t trust his servants, and so he learned how to put on everything himself— in simple styles so that he could do them even injured. He can’t trust his advisors, so his kingdom is governed by fear and precedent rather than understanding. He can’t trust his palace, and so he is short on sleep and good food and relaxation: after all, he must do everything himself and thus he must know everything.

In comparison to SVSSS, original Mobei-Jun is noticeably thinner. He wears makeup to hide the dark circles beneath his eyes. The wound from the Huan Hua dart never healed right: and neither did many, many others. Compared to our Mobei-Jun, he looks…. brittle, with the vicious fear of an animal backed into a corner.

SVSSS Mobei-Jun is taller, bigger. He has that extra essential “I’m not alone and being taken care of” weight. Even just by looking at him, you can tell that he is miles steadier, with people he can trust at his back. He’s not constantly shaking with a combination of touch starvation and paranoia. He has less scars and the ones he does have look better taken care of.

SVSSS Mobei-Jun is just.... a complete antithesis to his original self. A complete deconstruction of the self sufficiency myth.

A one man island wouldn’t be rescued like three times like a damsel in distress! A one man island wouldn’t have a devoted servant to care for him: to heal his wounds and give him food and drink, a place to rest, and information more valuable than gold. A one man island wouldn’t know gentleness if it clubbed him in the head!

I guess what I’m trying to say here is that Shang Qinghua has a MONUMENTAL impact on Mobei-Jun’s life and his entire perception of the world and himself.

This is a man who could have friends! This is a guy who is unguarded enough to actually fall in love! This is a dude who might be close to some distant family members! This is a guy who might have HOBBIES or THINGS THAT MAKE HIM LAUGH!!!! The ripple effect goes and goes and with Shang Qinghua smashing his ‘I need to do everything myself’ belief, Mobei-Jun can relax and actually trust people! Other people even!

Imagine a Mobei-Jun that has not just Shang Qinghua but!! A half sister he really likes!! A couple great aunts he can ask for advice!! Some cousins that have children that call him uncle!! A friend or two!!!!

THIS IS NOT A MAN ALONE!!!

shoutout to Asteroid City for making me pace and cry for a solid ten minutes after watching it

cozy n warm

(zoom in)

but they are so right

Alright now with the freshman

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DL edition // 2nd Years // 3rd years

*Graves & Kali standing outside the Shadow Company base, Kali holding a small wolf pup* Graves, sighing: Kali, you can't adopt a wolf. Kali, pouting beneath his black and blue mask: It's not a wolf, Commander! It's a dog. Graves: *raises his eyebrow and crosses his arms* A dog? It was all the way in the woods, Kali. Take it back into the woods. Kali, pouting even more: But Commander, he was all alone in the woods! His family was nowhere to be found! Kali: *clutches the wolf pup to his chest* He's now my emotional support animal. Graves, sighing even more: Kali, wolves can't be emotional support animals! Kali: Why not?! Wolves can totally be emotional support animals, horses can be emotional support animals! Graves, thinking he finally made Kali slip up: Oh, so it is a wolf and not a dog, huh? Kali, realizing what he said and that he's losing the argument: Please, please let me keep him! I promise he'll be trained! Graves, at his wits' end: No, now take him back to the woods! That's an order! Kali, sighing dramatically: Fine, I'll take him back into the woods and leave him there. *turns away and speaks underneath his breath* Meanie. Graves: *watches Kali go into the woods next to the base and sighs* You'd never know he was 34 and a captain.

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The artistry of these films - I could talk about it for hours.