Not LotR this time...but still a drabble

[rabidsamfan]

This one's from Howl's Moving Castle bookverse, although I love the movie too. Apologies to Diana Wynne Jones, whose universe this properly is, and thanks too! Thanks as well to Hayao Miyazaki, for filling my head with asthmatic dogs and a jackdaw's nest of wizardly delights as well as Sophie, Calcifer, and Howl.

(And it's for fictualities who I think might be enough of my own generation to remember the song!)

Sung By Heart

Calcifer hated the song, of course, but it kept coming back to Howl at odd moments, and he'd find himself humming it, or singing the words. He didn't even remember where he'd learned it first, although he knew it wasn't Ingary. The flickering light he associated with the tune had come from a television set and not a fireplace, from a time before he knew that magic was real.

"Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket,
Save it for a rainy day
Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket
Never let it get away."

Comments

[elendiari22.livejournal.com]

I know that song! Funny, I never thought of Howl singing it, but it fits. This is my little sister's favorite book; she about went through the roof for joy when I read this to her. Thanks!

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

You should take her to see the movie, but warn her that they changed the plot quite a bit. It's still really neat, though. One of the rare instances when I can love both versions.

[claudia603.livejournal.com]

omg, that SONG!! Straight out of childhood. *heart squeezes* It was on this tape of songs that my grandmother made me so that I could sing along to it...

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

I deliberately didn't google it before I wrote the drabble, but I did afterwards and it's Perry Como! (And there I was thinking Doris Day for some reason...) We used the sing the chorus as a round in Girl Scouts.

[lame-pegasus.livejournal.com]

I don't know the book, but of course I know the song. Seems as if I, too, am old enough. *small snort*

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Oh, yay. I didn't think I'd heard it in years, but illyria_novia reminded me that they used it in "Love Actually" so I guess I had.

[illyria-novia.livejournal.com]

Um, um, um....I have no idea what fandom this is written for, but ... well, I heard the song in the nativity play portrayed in Love Actually, a Richard Curtis movie I've seen a dozen times. :)

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love that movie, but I've only seen it twice back when it was in theaters. I'd forgot they used the song. The fandom is "Howl's Moving Castle" which is both a book by Diana Wynne Jones and a movie by Hayao Miyazaki. The two are different in a lot of ways, but the main characters are very much right.

[danachan.livejournal.com]

Hey, even I know that song.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Hooray!

[fictualities.livejournal.com]

Aw, this is so cool! Of course I remember the song, and it's PERFECT for Howl, absolutely perfect. (And I'll bet Calcifer didn't really hate it, not really, though I can understand why he'd think he might.)

Love this!

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

I didn't look it up before I wrote (deliberately -- I didn't think Howl would have had a chance to hear it in years) and I got the words slightly wrong. Calcifer would probably like the original a bit better. Except for the rainy day part! He hates rain!

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

And now I've seen it.

It made me want to dance. So do your drabbles.

May I make a request? May I ask you to write about Turnip?