Howl truly is the man of all time. He’s a playboy. He’s a malewife. He fell in love with a ninety year old woman. He’s a rugby player. He smells like hyacinths. He’s not a natural blond. When dying his hair went slightly wrong, he filled his home with slime. He has a PhD. He’s a wizard. He found a way to another universe and he told absolutely nobody about it. He makes video games about the magical universe for his nephews. He can’t play the guitar. He always takes a guitar with him when he’s trying to seduce a woman. He’s a self-proclaimed coward. He got drunk to trick himself into doing something dangerous. He overcharges for his services to rich people. He undercharges for his services to poor people. A woman invaded his home and declared herself his cleaning lady and he just let her stay. He loves spiders. He lies about his surname to everyone, including royalty. The true spelling of his first name is Howell, but we don’t find out until halfway through the book because the POV character thinks it’s spelled Howl. He’s even Welsh.
Night Watch always makes me cry.
It's about reliving trauma.
It's about longing for a home that may already be lost.
It's about being the light in the dark and a sanctuary in the chaos.
It's about a cigar case as a symbol for hope.
It's about the inevitability of tragedy.
It's about a hardboiled egg on a gravestone.
It's about lilacs.
its about this
literally the plot of the watchmaker of filigree street
Thaniel defending Mori from literally every person in Pepperharrow
I enjoy themes and narratives and nuance and men fucking each other
GIRLS BEFORE AND AFTER MEETING THANIEL STEEPLETON:
woman who only thinks about Thaniel Steepleton, upon reading about other characters : wow this is just like Thaniel Steepleton
AITA : I (M 25) left my wife (F 20ish) on our wedding night to go kiss my sugar daddy (M 39) and divorced her when she almost had him dead . AITA?
a family can be a telegraphist who dreams of playing the piano, a clairvoyant watchmaker, a mechanical clockwork octopus, and an orphan factory girl named after a number
Grace and literally everyone who knows Mori being baffled by him living with Thaniel because he is so ordinary and mundane for a genius like Mori whereas Thaniel being one of the only people who can surprise Mori and the one he finds fascinating
Grace observing that "He (thaniel) belonged with the trees" and Mori's name translating to forests... pulley is sick
do you ever think about how Mori plotted the events of tlfop for decades and the only thing he got wrong in the entirety of his grand scheme was failing to consider that Thaniel would be worried for him ?
sometimes a family is a middle-aged amnesiac father ,his ruthless sea captain husband and their two children
every time I think about how Thaniel calls Six 'petal' I hold my breath and try to die. their relationship makes me sob , these two people oh my god
incorrect pulleyverse:
art credit - spitting-watches


