TTFeb: C A T S

halfcactus prompted: CATS (your fav colorings/encounters/behaviors/whatever AND fav cat-related media, whether the cat is the central character or not). Would also like to know about how you got into Cats (musical) 👀 Who was your fav cat, what was your fav song

I am into Cats (musical) because my mom always had the cast recording in the car! Her ringtone is still Memory. STIFF COMPETITION for favorite cat or song!!! I cannot decide...

1. When I was little, after I woke up, I'd sit at the top of the stairs. (Hilariously, my little brother did that too, despite being enough younger than me that he couldn't have learned the behavior from me.) So my grandpa would call me a gumbie cat, after the line in The Old Gumbie Cat, "She sits and sits and sits and sits." I was surprised to learn as an adult that gumbie cat is not, in fact, well known slang hahahaha.

2. Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer have such a good song and they're so fun haha. I think they were my favorite as a kid because their song is bouncier?

3. Mr. Mistoffelees when the song is sung by Rum Tum Tugger is, of course, classic and amazingly shippy. Yes, do sing about how magical Mr. Mistoffelees is some more, after he describes you as a terrible bore. Excellent.

I am still sad my mom didn't bring me with her to see the Broadway revival, but I /did/ see it during a China tour and it was great. I love that the costuming goes all in on the makeup. I love the dance and acrobatic elements! It's probably still my favorite musical.

In non-musical cats, after reading Diane Duane's Feline Wizards trilogy, I was seized with the strongest desire to be able to lick my own nose. The cats in her books just kept licking their noses! What would that be like... The first book is the strongest, IIRC, but generally not her best works. The alienness of being from the PoV of a cat and the cat behaviors were well done though!

In ficly cats, I think it's very funny that lazulisong keeps turning characters into cats-- full series of all of them here.

(halfcactus, now that I'm thinking about it, Chi's Sweet Home reminds me a bit of Legend of Luo Xiaohei-- it's also a bunch of very short episodes about a cat being adopted into a family.)

In real cats, solid gray cats have usurped calico cats as my favorite. They're so dignified looking! Also, there's a friendly tiny gray cat in my neighborhood that'll come when you call! But I think it doesn't spend as much time twining around your legs after you don't feed it enough times ^^;

I like when cats try to sit in drawn boxes and when they put their paws over their faces! And fluffy cat bellies, of course.

Cats! So good!

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