there’s a delicate balance between “seeing something on my dash so often i end up caring about it unexpectedly” and “seeing something on my dash so often that it gets added to the blocked list with extreme prejudice”
Knowing that Howl went “Fuck finishing this PhD, I’m ditching this universe to go chase girls, consort with demons, and live my wizard ladykiller dreams, while owning my own home at age 27” makes him much more understandable as a character