Lucky

pride rainicorns!

i may make these into stickers eventually!

Okay no I need to talk about the book version of Howl's Moving Castle. I love the movie but the book has such a different vibe and you, yes you, should read it.

Movie Howl is a soulful and quiet. Book Howl is a drama queen and Causing Problems and has a long string of jilted exes and couldn't shut up if you paid him.

Sophie and Howl drive each other up the wall at the beginning and it's really funny. Sophie and Howl are (despite themselves) very much in love by the end and they still drive each other up the wall and it's even funnier.

In the movie, Howl has been ordered by the king to participate in The War, and Howl is avoiding it because he is a brave conscientious objector. In the book, Howl has been ordered by the king to rescue his lost brother from the Witch of the Wastes, and Howl is avoiding it by any means necessary because he is a cowardly weasel who wants to stay as far from the Witch as possible.

In the movie, the Witch cursed Sophie because she was jealous about Howl speaking to Sophie for five minutes. In the book, the Witch cursed Sophie because Sophie had been doing surprisingly powerful magic for years without knowing it and it was actually starting to cut into the Witch's plans. (Sophie does not discover any of this until nearly the end of the book, but the reader can start to pick it up much earlier and the way Sophie's magic works is pretty darn cool.)

In the movie, there's a rumor that Howl eats the hearts of maidens, but this is implied to be nothing but nasty fearmongering. In the book, there's a rumor that Howl eats the hearts of maidens because Howl started the rumor so people would stop asking him to do wizard junk all the time.

The book lightly parodies a couple of tropes from Western fairy tales. In particular Sophie has internalized that, as the eldest of three sisters, her "destiny" is to fail so that her younger sisters will look cooler when they succeed, which is why she's so resigned to the hat shop at the beginning. (Sidebar: Sophie's sisters come up much more in the book and they're great.) There's also a really funny bit where Sophie attempts to operate a pair of seven-league boots.

In the movie, the fourth and final location that the magic door connects to is some sort of black void / mindscape / time portal dealy. In the book the fourth location is Wales, in the UK, on Earth, so that Howl can visit his family, because from Howl's perspective this is an isekai story.

I SCREAMEE WHEN I SAW THIS

Man, I gotta learn to stop caring about unimportant bullshit. Why can't I be free and full of whismy? I need to focus on my friends and loved ones.

Arinos Rambles

I hate how obsessed am I with this motherfucker. Like, there is way too much going on with his design and yet it somehow works. He's one of the most "OC" looking characters I've seen. It's just fun! I luv it!

As other people commented, I feel like this may have also been an attempt to make another "Flawless Sparklemoon" in terms of a popular oc. Unfortunately, it seems that Arinos didn't hit mark. But, it could be that Tamers just made a character, liked it, and put it in his videos.

Despite that, I think it's interesting how these two characters contrast each other. Flawless viewed herself as a peferct amalgamation while Arinos views himself as a mess. Both ponies lack their own identities but are very different in how they view and deal with this issue.

Basically. I really like this abomination. If he ever appears in the series, I hope he is drawn in that funny shitpost style like the other characters.

Anime subreddits are unreadable these days. Bum this, goat that, him glazers cooking ahh etc etc etc. Like where did it even come from? Powerscalers?? Guess that's what I get for leaving my Tumblr cave in search of more content.

Bouncy castle

Upon looking up Cowboy Bebop on Tumblr, I was caught off guard by the lack of fanart. Cowboy Bebop is so iconic, it's weird. What surprised me even more was the lack of yaoi. Do I want Cowboy Bebop yaoi? No, but it's still odd to me.