Some Loser: Humans Are Innately Selfish Creatures

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.

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)

geto has a fox smile :)

Okay, you need to make sure you play this game at some point. Maybe not today or anything, because you’ll need about thirty minutes and a serious willingness to understand how it works, but - it’s so worth it. It’s basically an answer to our occasional frustration - why do assholes always come out on top? - and the beautiful thing about it is that not only does it explain how that happens, but also how we can change it.

“In the short run, the game defines the players. But in the long run, it’s us players who define the game.”

my trick for getting through grad school is learning to navigate the quadrants with all their nuances

BREAKING NEWS: kenjaku drops out of presidential race, endorses star plasma vessel fetus for nominee

gojo wants to be in your womb but not in the sexy way. he wants to be your fetus.

satoru is so touch starved that once you start giving him physical affection it will never be enough. he will not be satisfied until he has sunk into your bones and become one with you. he did not get skin on skin contact as a baby and you have to suffer the consequences.

tdlr gojo probably has a vore fetish bc he wasn’t held as a child and he can’t be normal ever

(dropping this in your ask box like a cat drops a dead mouse on its owners doorstep)

when you're trying to have a good day but your mutual reminds you that gojo has a vore fetish:

no but seriously though,,, i know i've been really harping on about mommy kink gojo lately but,,, GOD it's not my fault that mommy kinks keeping being relevant to specifically gojo. he just seems so much like one of those characters who's always one forehead kiss away from declaring he wants to hollow out your chest and curl up next to your heart with a smile so wide and so stupid, you'd think he just asked you out on a perfectly innocent date. i can't even imagine him trying to be that stealthy about it,,, you could be, like, a week into getting to know each other and suddenly he's suggesting that you two drink each other's spit (literally) (platonically). there are simply no boundaries he wouldn't cross because he simply does not believe that he could ever live completely apart from you and therefore, no boundaries are needed <3 i'd say he needs to get neutered but he'd probably be into that.

it's always "you gnawed off your own leg to escape like an animal caught in a trap" and never "why didn't anyone try to help you out of the trap" or "why weren't you provided with any other resources to escape the trap with except for your own teeth"