wait it’s only just now fully hit me that howl’s moving castle takes place over two months
after two months of knowing each other howl and sophie were IN LOVE and COMMITTED
at the beginning of the book howl theoretically had TWO MONTHS TO LIVE before the witch got him! and his plan was like, FUCK ALL. he didn’t know what he was doing, he didn’t even know the terms of the curse.
howl didn’t have a plan to get out of his contract either. sophie waltzed into the castle and calcifer took one look at her and was like “oh man thank goodness this woman showed up and can CONVENIENTLY talk life into things, she’s gonna get us out of this contract”
this made me laugh so hard bc you’re RIGHT, Howl’s only demonstrable plan re: his impending doom is getting really drunk with the rugby club and then going BACK TO INGARY and letting the curse hit him.
I do think it’s really interesting that he invites all of Sophie’s family over the day the curse is supposed to hit. He saysit’s to keep her out of trouble, which is probably part of it, but Howl seems like one for multi-layered plans (see: taking Sophie to Mrs. Pentstemmon’s to prep her for her visit to the king but also to see if Mrs. Pentstemmon could unspell her).
Who ends up at the moving castle due to Howl’s invitations? Sophie and Michael, Martha, Lettie, Fanny and Mrs. Fairfax. This includes every living magic user that we know of in Ingary. (Fanny and Martha don’t do magic, but they’re also the two that Howl wouldn’t have met, and for all he knew they were powerful sorceresses too, or at the very least hardheaded like Sophie.) So Howl may not have had much of a plan for evadingthe curse, but he arranged things so that once the witch got him, his loved ones would be at the castle, surrounded by every magician he could gather, and incidentally in the best possible position to launch a rescue operation.
i would also like to add that if things had gone askew for Howl, Sophie’s entire contention network would have been there for her, if she was to mourn for him
i’m DYING over the idea of howl, possibly doomed, probably enamored, and definitely wallowing in self-pity, being like “at least now she’ll have GUESTS for the PARTY that she’s going to throw when i’m DEAD” because howl loves imagining himself as a unappreciated martyr
I’ve always loved this movie, finally got around to reading the book by Diana Wynne Jones yesterday, and reeeally wanted an excuse to draw Sophie and Howl. So Happy Valentines everyone!
yet another howl and sophie post movie i guess, i wanted to give a spin on their classic clothes, white shirt - black pants and blue dress but i can’t not give sophie her final-scene-white-hat
i’m [26NB] having some serious problems with my new cleaning lady [17 but cursed to be 90, F]. first off, i didn’t hire a new cleaning lady, she just showed up one day and broke into my house. second of all she’s terrorising my assistant [15M] and my fire demon [semi-immortal, age unknowable, NB], as well as the small colony of friendly spiders i keep in my home. I have a lot of other stuff going on right now (king won’t get off my back, school mate possibly kidnapped, ex wants me dead, am also cursed, etc.), and I hate confrontation so tbh it’s hard to talk it out. Also despite the age gap i think i’m falling in love w her. How do i get her to stop cutting up my suits and throwing weedkiller on everything?
My face feels hot and blue My hands still count on you to let me down Articulate and lonely enough for the two of us But if you want, if you want, if you want to You can call me on my phone, I’ll run to you You won’t ever have to sleep alone ️
mod note: it has occured to me that when i first started making stimboards i was in middle school and i’m almost through with junior year now yes i am three years old /nsrs anyway i’m not sure what drove me to use this colour scheme, or even these gifs, it just felt right. i hope you like it!!! sorry for the wait!!! like geez this ask is from november. i really forgot about this blog. sorry guys!!!
