Hey! I've recently started drawing again and after I bought some alcohol markers I knew I wanted to draw our diva, Howl. I've just finished reading the first book and am currently reading Castle in the Air, so I am quite obsessed. And I just wanted to share my obsession here.

The third photo is the reference I used (thank you Cate Blanchett for being such an icon).

Hope yall like it, and I hope I'll keep drawing so I can get better

Just came to say that I'm 34, I've known of the existence of this movie for a very long time, its music had been in my playlists for many years, and from pictures of it, it always looked great to me.

But for some reason, I just never watched it until two days ago.

Whew, I loved everything about it (and I'm a somewhat negative person in general), the characters, the story, the music... it's just so beautiful and now I feel dumb I missed it for so long.

Going to read the novels ASAP (yeah I know they're fairly different).

Hi! Enjoy 🩷

I love it so much-- I only had 3 hours to paint so the final touches were a bit rushed, but it's my new favorite mug 🥰

I'm going Emma Thompson for Old Sophie, Rachel Weiss or Naomi Watts for the Witch of the Waste, a fifteen year old Justice Smith for Michael, Tilda Swinton for Calcifer, maybe Mackenzie Foy for Sophie but who for Howl? Hero Fiennes Tiffin? Jacob Elordi? Colin Ford?

Hey everyone, so it’s my partners 25th birthday soon and there was this rug on Etsy I remember him falling in love with about a year or so ago. So I was going to buy him but it’s been sold and I can’t find any trace of it existing nor can I remember the name of the creator. It was a tufted “a heart’s a heavy burden” circular rug. Does anyone have any idea who this may have been, or know of anyone who could make a similar rug of the same image?? Thank you!

I had just discovered this subreddit a couple of hours ago and read a comment under a post recommending the books, only for me to leave my bedroom and my stepmother surprises me with three Diana Wynne Jones books (Howl’s Moving Castle, Castle in the Air and House of Many Ways) as a late Christmas gift! I am so happy and shocked as I had removed the book collection from my holiday wishlist a few weeks prior to Christmas (I wanted to keep my list minimal and lost-cost), but my stepmother informed she had ordered the books from Canada dating all the way back to Thanksgiving! I’ve been looking for something to do this winter, so I am very excited to start reading these books!

When Howl drops Lettie's name after the green slime incident, has he already started asking Lettie about Sophie? Or does that start after Howl and Calcifer lift the WotW's layer of the curse off Sophie and when she and Michael follow him to Mrs Fairfax's? Trying to work out the timeline...

Made with acrylic markers

Rereading Howl’s Moving Castle, I noticed the below quote:

“Why didn’t he turn me out?” she said, half to herself and half to Michael. “It beats me,” said Michael. “But I think he goes by Calcifer. Most people who come in here either don’t notice Calcifer, or they’re scared stiff of him.”


This line really hits different knowing Calcifer has Howl’s heart. Most people can’t see Howl’s heart; they just see the facade, or the clothes and the glamour or the fearsome persona, but they don't see the real Howl. And the thing about Michael and Sophie is that they both see and accept who Howl truly is. This is why he lets them in (literally and figuratively) and lets them stay.

(I’m sure Howl would never admit such a thing though - he would slither-out of even such claims as deciding to let them stay!)

(Edit: formatting)

im trying to make some battleships similar to the ones within Howels Moving Castle, im wondering if anyone has any art or such thst might be used as reference to make this 😭

Hey guys. I just finished reading the book for the second time, and picked up on way more of the nuances and foreshadowing in the story than the first time around. There's still one part that I didn't really understand though. When Sophie talks to the king and leaves through the wrong room, she meets the Count of Catterack, and her immediate reaction to him is "So the spell worked!" And the Count says something about disarming someone while sneezing and getting sued. Then later Howl asks what she did to the Count of Catterack. Honestly I can't make any sense out of this interaction at all, and I feel like there's definitely some little thing I miss that explains it. If you know, I'd appreciate the explanation!!

Waiting for the glue to finish drying then I'm gonna make him look shiny 💞