Reasons Why Howl Moved To Ingary:

Reasons Why Howl Moved to Ingary:

1)      The magic! The fashion! The wizardly aesthetic!

2)      Tax avoidance

No one:

Me: FINE I guess I have to write a Howl’s Moving Castle live-action, book-accurate mini-series script ALL BY MYSELF

Anyone who says this isn’t canon is a liar

I just love the book so much, man

forgot to say that, without Howl chasing girls and Sophie resenting him for it, the film completely erases part of the point of Sophie being old.  Wynne Jones is using an idea that Beauvoir talked about - that being an old woman is both tragic (as we lose male attention/attractiveness) and freeing (as we are freed from the male gaze).  the idea is that with being old comes liberation, and the true meaning of what it is to be a woman, as society no longer forces gender norms on us.

Sophie is free from Howl’s attentions and therefore safe from harm (a big part of the book is the fact that Sophie believes he eats women’s hearts, and him chasing girls proves this to her).  she takes solace in the fact that she’s old, and finds it freeing.  when she learns more about Howl (notably: that he doesn’t eat hearts and that he’s not evil), she starts to curse her age and resent him chasing girls.  BUT she remains old OF HER OWN VOLITION - Howl notes that she’s perpetuating the spell by wishing to remain “in disguise”.  there are SO many layers to this, and lots to do with gender politics - if she’s still old Sophie can’t get hurt, she likes the freedom, etc.  but of course on a personal level being old is her denying her feelings for Howl, and also a representation of her low self esteem - being old is a defence mechanism and protection, both on a gender level and a personal one.

and the film kinda… loses this?  the only thing that remains is being old = low self esteem.  which really sucks.  because there’s SO MUCH MORE to Sophie being old in the book (perspective I already mentioned), and a HUGE amount of this is gender politics.  that the film just erases.

Ianthe 110% has sung “Girlfriend” by Avril Lavinge to Harrow within earshot of Gideon

You can’t change my mind.

One of my favourite items ever left behind at my work has to be this fancy-looking cane. It didn’t seem like anything special (a bit of pretty detail work, sure), but then my co-worker picked it up one time and it rattled. So, he tried unscrewing it, and you know what that cane was?

A DAGGER CANE.

Like this:

Seriously, the top part of this cane is a dagger!?!?!? Totally unexpected, probably pretty dangerous, but now all I can imagine is Kaz Brekker wielding one of these bad boys and duping everyone into thinking he’s unarmed.