Niente de Nada

Here’s a very messy and very unfinished comic based on that the fact that during one stream Spidey mentioned that she could see DaD!Spidey with short hair more like she has irl, and an evil idea hit me like a truck

(There might be slight spoilers for those who haven’t seen session 4 yet)

All this in the context of Schpood deciding to hit on the person who beat him in the dating show . . . And then the next day, there was his fail attempt to sacrifice LubedCalf in a volcano to replace her with Meagon, then Alltierra helping Meagon catch him in the act, and Schpood failing to throw himself into a volcano to avoid an awkward conversation about what he'd been doing.

Therapy

TW: rape, sexual assault, child abuse

Archived version here, in case you hit the pay wall:

It's an ungodly early hour, the sun has yet to so much as consider looking your way, this is very much so still the domain of the moon and her stars. Very little could move you from the deathly sleep you're in, and to your utter, exhausted dismay, one of those few things comes for you.

A tiny little hand at your elbow, hot breath on your cheek as a part of your awareness still tries to dance in obliviousness as a small voice reacts to your waking. "I threw up," the little voice says.

You (as all those in this situation are wont to do) sigh and do your best to drag yourself out of bed. Limbs protest, but up you get anyway. You turn on the light, knowing the little one needs you to help clean up.

Except, it's not your fucking kid, it's just this guy:

April 25, 2024 - Vvardenfell/Morag Tong questline attire.

This is Drathal Malos. My Nerevarine doesn't do the Morag Tong questline, so this lad here does it instead.

May 6, 2024 - Morag Tong Grandmaster/Tribunal DLC attire.

After letting Eno Hlaalu retire and fulfilling some grandmaster writs, the Nerevarine hires Malos to help her track down the Dark Brotherhood after they keep interrupting her sleep.

1. Why has the author chosen to contrast these two ideas in one sentence? What is the effect this contrast has to the reader?

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.

It’s unclear whether he finished his PhD or is still a grad student in the process of slithering out of his actual viva.

Here is Calcifer’s “silly saucepan song” that he sings to himself, which Howl sings when drunk (and Sophie doesn’t understand.) It’s a Welsh rugby song.

Here’s where Sophie and Michael perceive Howl speaking Welsh, and Sophie rather perceptively recognises that it’s the same language as he and Calcifer drunkenly sing in: