I Love This Parallel Between Geto And Gojo In The Manga.

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.

Hot fandom discourse take but framing dark content as only being acceptable if its a vehicle for exploring personal trauma is just giving ground to the puritan segments of fandom.

Simply liking dark content for its own sake is perfectly fine.

"my kids whooped your ass, huh??" 🤣🤣

Not what I expected coming from John Green

If I had a nickel for every time I shipped:

a white themed blindfolded man trying to save the world in his own small way, with incredibly powerful abilities that involve sensing evil spirits without actually seeing them with his own biological eyes, who has a strong sense of morality but is also a little fucked up in his own way

and

a black themed mass murderer man doing his own twisted version of "justice" after tragic events in his childhood broke him, with incredibly powerful abilities that involve controlling evil spirits to do his bidding, who could change, maybe even wants to, maybe even would have, but is held back by an unbelievable amount of cognitive dissonance

I'd have 2 nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

hey is it just me or should we be making a huge fucking deal over tumblr staff deleting a video that debunks IOF propaganda

(and while I'm at it here is the YouTube link to the video also. ive been trying to save/access it in the wayback machine to link that instead for archiving purposes but I'm having difficulties so I'll try and add it later but if anyone else is able to add it sooner it's appreciated)

Cowboy Stsg 🤠⭐️ there was short trend of it on twt and that I may or may not be late

sunshine x grumpy is a good trope but it's at it's best when these characters have unexpected mutual understanding. when the sunshine is actually unexpectedly pessimistic while still maintaining a good attitude and cheerful way of acting and the grumpy character has a naivety and innocence to them because they move through life without any expectations even though they tend to be antisocial and easily bothered.... sunshine characters who are sincerely fun while also using their own personality as a shield and guarding their more unsavory feelings and grumpy characters who are honest with other people to the point it's always been off-putting but feels very refreshing to their sunshine in particular...... you know.....