Howl's moving castle, illustrated in polymer clay part one

this is the funniest thing I’ve seen in any review ever

I love the sort of casual body horror in HMC like there are soooo many interesting implications and no one seems to talk about it. I wonder if before Howl got his heart back, would he have had a pulse? I think the implications of that are super unsettling but also hilarious because I can imagine Sophie checking on him when he’s passed out drunk or ill and checking his pulse and being horrified and thinking he’s dead until he wakes up to her freaking out and he just brushes it off and says she couldn’t find it or something. Anyway you are doing gods work having an hmc book blog I need more book discussion and appreciation!

By some metrics, Sophie is a more fucked up wizard - Howl would never mess something up by accident! But here’s the thing, they complement each-other. Sophie is practically-oriented, but she’s not always competent to do what she intends, nor does she know what she’s doing. Howl always knows what he’s doing and why, and it’s usually useless bullshit for terrible reasons. Howl knows what he is intimately. He knows his strengths and his weaknesses and he knows that he’s got a spine like wet, single ply tissue paper. Sophie complements this by doing whatever it is she sets her mind to, but having exactly zero capacity for self-reflection (or if she does it’s through a funhouse mirror)

[ID: Image one is a tag that reads: “#you must become a BETTER fucked up wizard than your wet peacock of a fucked up wizard boyfriend.” The word in caps is “better”. 

My case for longer haired Howl: