Jodie Benson's (the Original Voice Of Ariel) Cameo Where She Says "you'll Need This" And The Camera Pans

jodie benson's (the original voice of Ariel) cameo where she says "you'll need this" and the camera pans to reveal her handing halle a fork was so sweet :') she's literally passing the torch to the next ariel :''')

I always found it amazing how an adaptation so different from the source material can actually be equally if not more well received by people who read and loves the book. I watched the movie first and loved it so when i found out it had a book, I immediately brought it, and to my surprise, Sophie and Howl’s dynamic was so different than the movie. So yes, I love the movie for the vibe and soothing feelings it gives me, I love the animation and the movie was overall just so beautiful. But I love the book for the characters, I love they’re personality and the overall chaos of the book. You just can’t see half as much of Sophie’s bad assery and her fiery personality or Howl being an overdramatic petty guy whose into women completely dominating him. The banters, oh gawd.

The fact is both the book and movies are different from each other, but they got the same essence and soul, just done in a different way.

Don’t get me wrong, I love the dreamy fairytale-ness of the Ghibli movie version of Howl’s Moving Castle, but the book. The book. Sophie, first off, being so incredibly set on being the boring un-gifted un-adventuresome eldest daughter (as is right and fitting for an eldest daughter to be) that she doesn’t notice she’s working magic, like, constantly? And when a witch shows up like “hey girlie you are fully working SO much magic that I’m feeling threatened, so like I’m gonna put you in the old lady dimension ciao,” she’s like well. That was weird. Anyway I guess I better go find something to do as an old lady. And she reasons that this famously evil sorcerer who eats young girls’ hearts is probably safe for her now cause like. She’s old. What’s he gonna do to me. And proceeds to bully her way into becoming his cleaning lady. And Howl, known flaky whimsical fuckboy extraordinaire, is like sure okay I guess that works for me. And just as well because it turns out he’s also a fucking bottom who kinda digs this strong stubborn lady who’s steamrolled her way into his life, kinda weird that she’s disguised as an old woman but w/e he’s not gonna question her life choices and like it’s not actually a problem for him, and by the time Sophie’s figured out that oh crap oh shit she’s actually kinda into this flighty asshole, what am I gonna do, he’d never return my feelings in a hundred years, Howl’s basically accepted that they’re mostly married. And also how can you top “my extremely powerful and slightly fey wizard is just a Welsh grad student who wandered into a portal one day” for a character concept. You can’t. It’s the perfect book really

Peter pan is weird and problematic y’all

I kinda want a tumblr friend....

I love having tumblr mutuals cause one just gave you their home address one tells you every thought that goes through their mind another you only know their pronouns and address them by a letter and another you talk to once every 3 months because of a niche mutual interest

Free my woman she did all of it but I don’t care

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