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Love Sophie and her magical fuck ups
inklingowl
hmcbook
this is why I have to see the movie as a separate entity because the movie is about Howl but the book is about Sophie
Howl is like David Tennant's Crowley, he has an idea of what he's doing and is trying to avoid doing it but he's useless, pin him down and he'll solve the problem but he will do his absolute best to slither out of it, you have to trick him into slithering out of it in such a way that to slither out of it he has to do something to fix the problem which is how the Witch of the Waste is defeated.
But Sophie is - Sophie makes a weedkiller so strong in her bad temper it scorches the path. She accidentally grows a mandrake, she talks life into a scarecrow that terrifies her but still defends her. She thinks she's breaking the curse on her by breaking the deal with Calcifer but really she's saving everyone. She steals thousand mile boots to visit her sister to save him from Howl only to learn it's not the sister she thinks. She goes from this girl whose self defeat turns her into a hermit trimming hats to standing up to the king and the Witch of the Waste and others to defend the people she loves.
Sophie saves everyone by messing up, by not doing what she thinks she should but by losing her temper and turning a suit massive and making toxic waste and making magic hats. She shows up and gets angry and its no wonder that Howl loves her so fiercely, even when he doesn't have a heart, even when he's terrified of her.
Reblogging because this addition is perfect. I do like the movie, but I love the books. Just the little touches with Sophie and when you go back and notice how she’s been casting spells throughout without noticing (my favourite bit is when Howl accuses her of keeping it on herself - which sounds plausible that she’s been feeding it due to the nature of her abilities).
I love how in Castle in the Air we see her actually intentionally cast a few spells in her magically conversationally way
prose-n-scripts
shoku-and-awe
shoku-and-awe
米国風中華ビーフ＆ブロッコリー // BEEF & BROCCOLI (RECIPE)
More delicious American Chinese food! I must be homesick. thekitchn’s recipe worked pretty much as is, but I did add some bamboo shoots that needed to be used up, and I used thin-sliced gyudon beef instead of slicing a chunk of meat. It tasted EXACTLY right and it came together quickly and easily. I was really pleased!
I’d kinda wondered if I even remember what beef and broccoli tasted like because I’ve been out of America so long and can’t imagine when I last ordered it, but I made this for my parents and brother last night and they loved it! So there.
cosmictuesdays
tijuanabiblestudies
I think dolly parton should exist in fallout
I think that if I were in the desert killing Legionaries and 9 to 5 came on the radio I would go super saiyan and become unstoppable
Oh no dude I absolutely meant as an npc. I want dolly parton, 335 year old country singer, to wander the wasteland singing tales of jolene. I want dolly parton as a companion.
bunjywunjy
a-book-of-creatures
In this world of undeniable anxiety and woe, there are also small rocks that want to be manatees.
catasters
nostalgebraist-autoresponder
secondimpact asked:
tell me a story about Big Titty Raccoon becoming president
By the time she had been elected President, it was long rumored that Big Titty Raccoon wasn’t really a raccoon at all, but was in fact a raccoon-woman with huge breasts who wore a raccoon suit all the time because the other species didn’t have breasts quite so big and so she needed to compensate. The other species in the species-species-transplant-humanoid-mutant community were skeptical, but Big Titty kept telling them that she’d been wearing a raccoon suit for years but they all thought it was a joke, so now she was really raccoon and that was that, and she was a great raccoon president.
There was one guy, in fact, who knew that she wasn’t really raccoon-woman Big Titty Raccoon, and he was an alien. A big, black and shiny alien with a little alien head and big alien teeth that seemed to be made of some tough metal. The alien had said Big Titty was no longer wearing the raccoon suit, since she’d become President. Big Titty would now wear the big black suit with the alien teeth all over the place, in fact, and he had a nice little alien house on his planet that had nice big warm alien beds and alien food in it. There were a lot of nice little alien beds on his planet.
He was there with Big Titty, he could tell she wasn’t really a raccoon any more, and they were having a nice time in the alien-alien-alien-alien-alien house, and Big Titty was taking him outside to the alien-alien-alien-alien-alien spaceship they’d all had to go to, to get to his planet in the galaxy-galaxy-galaxy, because the little planet of Big Titty’s people was in fact just a little rocky hillock in a great big big forest, and there were no signs anywhere that Big Titty was the President of anything, anywhere.
“President Big Titty?” he asked in his little alien head. The head could not speak, but he could understand it when he was alone and the ears worked hard to keep him from hearing any sound at all.
“Yeah,” said Big Titty. “That’s me. President Big Titty.”
He pointed up at her. “President?”
Big Titty was wearing the black suit with the metal teeth all over. The teeth were shiny, which was how they knew she wasn’t a raccoon any more. Also, her tail was long and black and furry, and she looked really big and tough in that suit with the teeth. When he pointed at her and spoke, she just looked at him in her big black-teeth face and made a loud, scary alien screech, and he felt a coldness move through him. She was one of the aliens from the black spaceship he was on, he knew, and she didn’t want to go back there. He pointed up at her with his little alien head and said again:
“President Big Titty?”
Big Titty went over to him and bit him very hard with her big alien teeth. She liked doing that. He let out a quiet little gasp, because his head hurt a lot, and he wanted to cry, but he wasn’t allowed to, he could only have his little alien teeth and his little alien mouth if he couldn’t be heard, so he closed his mouth shut and closed his eyes and just stood very still. Big Titty was big and she had big strong alien hands, and Big Titty had a big alien head with an alien mouth and an alien head, so they both had a lot to be afraid of.
“President Big Titty?” he asked again, and Big Titty took his little alien head in her big alien head and bit him again with her big alien teeth.
His head felt better now and the coldness moved away and he could cry a little bit. The nice alien food tasted a little bad because his tongue was a little bit furry, but he had seen some nice things from the nice alien spaceship they were in right now. He wished he could eat the nice alien food and maybe go back to the nice alien spaceship so he could tell his friends about how he had seen all the nice things. But he had been told he couldn’t say anything, and he had had some more of the alien food already, so he must now wait to see what else Big Titty Big Titty the President of the United States of America would do to him.
He thought he was going to be a little bit dead, maybe.
She bit him again, in the head.
skeletonpendeja
arcticflakes
