from up on poppy hill become my favorite ghibli movie on the day I watched it, I really like this movie, and I think it’s extremely underated, idk why it’s not on anyone’s top.. it’s really beautiful, also the soundtracks are so relaxing and cute, my favorite one is sayonara no natsu..
Have any of you read Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones? I was going through a bit of a reading slump for a few weeks, but this book helped to pull me out. It’s a hilarious story that manages to be a fairy tale while breaking all the traditions of fairy tales. I love the protagonist, Sophie, who is the eldest of three sisters and is resigned to working at a hat shop because, as the first page says, “it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of three. Everyone knows you are the one who will fail first, and worst, if the three of you set out to seek your fortunes.” As the book goes on, she is challenged to go find her own adventure and becomes confident in herself as those fairy tale ‘rules’ are proven to be breakable. There are two other books in this series (though they can be read alone), Castle in the Air and House of Many Ways, that y’all should check out if you have read this book.
(I’m now realizing that my book analyses and recommendations all sound like English papers…..I wish I could make them sound more exciting, but it’s a hard habit to break )
I was trying to explain Howl’s Moving Castle to my dad and what I ended up saying was “it’s about a wizard who makes his house walk around to avoid the draft” and that’s simultaneously not what it’s about at all and exactly what it’s about
im sure they actually came up with really clever spells but it would be hilarious if howl and suliman just outsourced first aid kits from our world. like all the orders they got from the king to equip their soldiers with healing spells they were just like ‘cool give us a few days’ and went and bought bulk orders of stuff from a pharmacy in wales
honestly this is what I always assumed they did. if I remember correctly the descriptions sound like DWJ trying to describe mundane things from our world in a new context, and honestly Howl at least is a lazy bastard who would DEFINITELY go to a pharmacy in wales and claim it’s Dramatic New Magic
it’s even better to imagine that he did not consult wizard suliman on this, so ben ends up just standing there long-suffering trying to hold back a laugh while howl unveils the marvel that is the Not-A-First-Aid-Kit, such genius, much vision
