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idk what the cats fandom is putting into the water but id just like you guys to know how ridiculously encouraging creating for yall has been so far. i'll post a little drawing and like 50% of the notes are reblogs and half of those have little comments or tags and it just WARMS my COLD HEART !!! i've never gotten this sort of genuine interaction with my art or memes or whatever!!! the MEMES get little comments!!! WHAT!!!! i haven't felt this happy to make content in my life!!! innsane ! astounding! incredible! i am drawing more fanart as we speak!!!
#cats 1998#cats the musical#jellicle cats#cilly.txt#ive spoken to like 2 of you and yet i appreciate you all so much!!!#i thought i might tag this even though it's not content. sorry !!#ive also finished 3 fics. so you know.#i dont think those get as much interaction but thats ok :) im currently posting h-n-o-c which gets like. a comment every once in a blue moon
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i have this post in my drafts dated 2019 apologizing for not posting much bc i was certified Goin Thru It :tm: at the time. and while i look at it sometimes and wish i could tell my baby self life's actually gonna be good and great and sexy and won't suck all the time, i have found i have somethin to say.
basically, if i'm not mistaken i started this blog in 2018. i remember drama between blogs i don't even recall the handles of. i'm pretty sure the slurs my friends call me today would obliterate me and like half of you back in the day. all the genders and literary takes i've heard of in and out of linguistics and social studies could blind a man. and that is deeply hilarious to me. i don't think i ever was in any drama in spite of my puritan baby mindset back then, but i'm not boutta start now.
matter of fact, i'm gonna outlast all of you. and this is a threat. i'll keep posting ra bullshit for 10 years. and then 20 years. and then however many more it takes for the gods to smite me for my hubris. staff themselves won't peel me off this site. i may post like once a month or whatever but baby i'll be POSTIN.
i invite you to come post ra with me. we will meet at the end of time and lock blades in a manner distinctly homoerotic. we will die with the heat death of the universe, hand in unlovable hand, with a mediocre children's book series strapped to our chests like a time bomb set to bring us back to the beginning and do it all over again.
bazinga
#obviously this is a joke and lighthearted and in minecraft#but man LMAO#ive been here a few years#love this stupid book#cilly.txt
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yknow i wrote a minipaper on our conscript army in lithuania last year and the consensus was "useful in some cases, redundant in others" as it happens with most things but switzerland's song this year inspired me to change my opinion to "i love mandatory military service" because boy what the fuck lmao
#cilly.txt#oh no..... some months of physical activity if youre fit for it......... oh No.....#yeah yeah now the country that hasnt warred for 200 years is gonna preach to us in the ukrainian eurovision#no one's asking you to be a soldier why don't you go donate 5 euros to blue and yellow#sorry im really salty about this song#doesnt help that its a FUCKING BALLAD too
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munkuposting (metastrap?) for the jellinclined (i am so sorry)
you tell me i'm insane but i know my truth and my truth is that munkustrap wants to help her. he wants to reach out and help her up like he just helped jennyanydots during her song. he leans down and it's not just so he can look at her better. it's not just cause there's no point to his defensive stance here except for her to see, for him to communicate she's unwanted, and he knows it. shit dude the guy can't look her in the eyes for longer than 5 seconds.
like come on. munkustrap's running after old deuteronomy and the rest of the older/less agile cats so much in this goddamn film he might as well be Munkustrap the Mobility Aid Cat. man knows what he wants in life and that's going on as many walks with senior citizens hanging off his arm as physically possible and neither god nor the heaviside layer will stand in his way.
his responsibility's a whole different thing, though. look at the lad puffing up when grizabella shows up. that's a guard he uses against perceived threats like macavity and it's well and warranted then, but what in the name of ye olde cat gods is the old lady gonna do? garbage stink them all to death? it's performative as hell on purpose. both of them know she's not gonna jump him and he doesn't need to protect himself or his fellow cats from her physically.
in the macavity scares, odd as it might look on a person, The MunkuStance™ is a genuine threat. he's up above everyone else or he's one of the few cats on the stage, he's spreading himself out to look bigger, he HISSES lmao.
look at the lad. hissssss lmao i love him.
not only is he saying i won't hesitate bitch he's also establishing himself as The Guy You Fight. if you're an outsider looking in, you're probably not gonna notice Mr Mistoffelees Scampering Through The Pipes Again, but you sure as hell are gonna see the Snarling Tabby Fresh From Hell hopping around in the middle of the stage with his legs 16 kilometers apart at all times. and okay, doing that for the entire musical sure is a Choice, but it's a Character Choice, and mr michael gruber the man you are. the star that you are. i want to send him flowers and chocolate and a card. i would greatly like to do that.
with grizabella though? jesus christ she's about as threatening as a patchy sock. it's not even his first instinct to go Tall Big Puffy when he's trailing after her because there's genuinely nothing to defend against there.
he just sort of slowly stands into it as though he's forgotten he was supposed to be Protecting for a second. the stance, the threat, all that's only there to set a dynamic. it's there to say you're not one of us, we don't like you, please go away, but he's half-assing it so much it loses all its i won't hesitate bitch and turns into i have never hesitated so hard in my entire life. he still establishes himself as The Guy You Fight, but it's obvious grizabella isn't about to fight anyone, so now he's just The Guy She's Staring In Incredulous Longing At, and he can't even hold her gaze for long enough to pretend it's not getting to him because at his core he's not a bad person and he knows that all this is kind of a Dick Move.
this is what makes munkustrap so dummy god tier as a character to me. he may wish he could help grizabella. hell he may even want her back, if not as openly as old deuteronomy does. when all the cats scuttle away and turn their backs to grizabella before memory reprise, munkustrap never even fucking bothers ?? like he's straight up just watching her, and then later watching old deuteronomy watch her like with the most somber wee eyebrows up so can we finally do something about this expression i've ever seen on a performer lmao.
but that means nothing without the approval of the entire tribe! absolutely nothing! because munkustrap, in that regard, is exactly like old deuteronomy: what he wants comes second to what the jellicles want. it's harder to see in him because old deuteronomy is mostly up on the tire being cat jesus and munkustrap mingles with the rest of the ensemble way more, but it's really obvious when you look. they defer to his leadership, but he defers to their collective decisions.
he moves mistoffelees away from grizabella (just like the rest of the older cats) because mistoffelees doesn't know any better and grizabella is untouchable, but then he stalls and waits when demeter reaches out to her. like, i'm pretty sure he would've just let her touch grizabella right then and there. had demeter been a little less aware of the fact that this was the first 30 minutes of the musical, i'm pretty sure she would've just taken grizabella back in right then and there and memory wouldn't have even been necessary. munkustrap sure wasn't about to do shit about it.
he's actively leaning back to give her space!! (i know logistically that it's mr michael giving an opening for ms aeva to execute her Conflicted Scuttle Away but munkustrap is still leaning back however you put it so i'm right automatically. haw yee)
i'm fascinated by it specifically because this way it's almost as though munkustrap is an extension of the jellicle collective, if that makes sense. obviously he's the narrator so we can't give him a complex emotional storyline if we want to keep the aryas in single digits, but in turn this means that now he's a character who chooses to forgo his own feelings in favour of those of his community, and that's just, man, that's just. man. ca(s)t of all time for real. a guardian and a weapon and a storyteller and a teacher and not one of those for his own sake. Man.
tl;dr, old deuteronomy can be hella proud of his kid, and i can eventually stop crying. also here are the gifs of him finally getting to comfort grizabella a little. experience emotions with me.
unfortunately i have similar (if slightly less rambling) thoughts on tugger and why he's constantly being such a massive cunt to grizabella lmao. if you guys are unfortunate enough i may subject myself to the giffing and writing of that post too. toodlepip ✌️
#jellicle cats#cats 1998#cats the musical#munkustrap#grizabella#cilly.txt#because lets be honest this isnt much in terms of art or writing lmao#woe. long post be upon ye#but tumblr usually shortens these one these days anyway
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"ODIN TAKE ME WHEN I DIE"
"SEEK VALHALLA SEEK A BRAVE DEATH ABOVE ALL"
"I WILL JOIN THE ONE-EYED WARLORD'S MEAD-HALL AND TOAST TO VICTORY OF MY KIN"
ok cool but what if it's freyja? what if you feel the touch of the valkyries making their death-choice upon your flesh and once you fall (gloriously, in battle, etc) you are among the half given not to odin but to freyja? what if you come to wander the endless plains of folkvangr and join the mistress of love and war in her dining? what if you come to be by her side for eternity where you may sit and sail and make merry in sessrumnir? what if you are given the chance to wipe the gold off her face and gaze upon her tearful eyes when she weeps over what is lost and hear her airy laughter for the joy for what is gained??? would that not be glorious????? would that not be all and everything????????
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INCREDIBLY mad about the injustice done to blobfish. stop lifting them out of the ocean and being like wow ugly!!! like damn if cthulu rose up from the depths of the earth and triple yeeted you into the cosmos in nothing but your pjs you'd probably look a bit shite too!!! goddamn!!!
#cilly.txt#blobfish#sooo so mad#LEAVE THEM ALONE THEY ARE JUST LITTLE GUYS!!!!!!#THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL!!! THEY ARE WONDERFUL!!! THEY ARE SWEET!!!!!#THEY SWIM HAPPILY ABOUT IN THE ABYSS!!!! STOP THE HATE STOP THE BULLYING !!!!!
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it's so fun to talk to speakers of other languages and just realize how absolutely ridiculous some part of your language is that you haven't considered before. it's always such a delight.
for example i just realized that, since in lithuanian you can make both adjectives and nouns diminutive, so if you call something a "small problem" and really want to stress that it's a TEENY TINY SMALL LITTLE problem, you're just gonna add suffixes to both those words.
and suddenly you realize that, wait, suffixes STACK! that's right, baby, you can have like three diminutives on the word that's a diminutive in and of itself, so congratulations, your problem is now Teeny Tiny Slight Miniscule Infinitesimal Little Trivial Inconsequental and SMALL, and by the time you realize that you may actually have a problem that is neither Miniscule nor Trivial, you have already drowned in grammar charts. cheers.
#cilly.txt#i love my language#me being active on r/learninglithuanian is an act of apology to everyone committed to this absolute behemoth#nebeprisikiškiakopūsteliaudavome isnt actually the longest lithuanian word theres a diminutive noun somewhere out there waiting for its tur#lithuania#lithuanian
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and i'm right too
#cats the musical#cats 1998#cilly.txt#idk man. i dont think cats know what monogamy is#i think theyre just out friday night fuckin
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john partridge goes so hard at playing tugger he actually jumpscares me when he starts balleting around with the rest of the cats lol. i get so used to him just kinda Standing there. Loitering Sexily. that's what he is to me, he's just a Guy that's Chilling there. and then boom! man does a split. and i'm like. brother are you okay
#cats 1998#cats the musical#idk it's like... the rum tum tugger is NOT a character with the vibes of being able to do a split. to me#i think he could bend over and touch the ground with his legs together. but that's it#and then im like oh i forgot! partridge's a professional dancer! like yk the whole cast!!!! silly me!!!!!#i cannot explain this but it's been on my mind since like my 3rd viewing#cilly.txt
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i wish to BOOP all of you... how does one boop from a sideblog 😔😔😔
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boss on my nerves as hell rn, i call this man like "hey i got covid can't teach this week" and he's like "oh damn what symptoms" and i list off the classics yknow, cough, fever, running nose, can't taste or smell, lost my voice, etc and he says to me "ok get well. however you lost your voice because it's simply not used to speaking so much, you'll get used to it :)". and i just had to stare at a wall a bit after. this isn't even the first time he told me this when i was sick!!
my brother in paedagogia i may not be real good at it but i'm still screaming vocals in band practice every week. don't get me wrong, 6 hours of answering my own questions while 20 4-y/o's gaze upon me with their wondrous sunlit eyes can get silly, but i'm still pretty sure it's the covid.
#ok answering my own questions is a stretch. those kids love to chat!#however i am also on a schedule and have material to impart upon them. ill let them do storytime for as long as i'm able but i'll still#have to cut a few off! just the nature of the thing#last lesson on monday was terrible to be fair#kids were very loud and i had to talk very loudly to keep their attention#their homeroom teacher was a sweetheart though#cilly.txt#anyway. sick and withering away and such
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i love the jedi the jedi are cool as fuck and the jedi did nothing wrong ever actually
#star wars#the jedi order#i will delete every note i don't like if you decide to get funny#this came from a place of Mad tm and i am still rather touchy lmao#so. jsyk#cilly.txt
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if the only way i can bear to unpack for the 3rd time this month is while doing a sensual dance to 1998 cats' macavity the mystery cat then that is between me and god
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i love you broken speech i love you heavy accents i love you regional dialects i love you pidgins i love you sociolinguistics i love you beginner speakers i love you interjections i love you language
#learning language is genuinely such a magical thing#(ie absolute hell while you're doing it but god it feels so GOOD afterwards)#kinda like art. guess that's why i like it haha#cilly.txt#i'm just. man! thinking today#thinking about how my friends keep enduring me rambling on and on about lithuanian registers near daily because i find them so fascinating#thinking about how i sometimes say a phrase i translated in my head and get a weird look because it's not a thing in english#thinking about how nice it is to be taught by people who can tell just how GARBAGE you are right now but theyre genuinely thrilled#that youre trying and making an effort#thinking about how my teacher fr just told me to stick my tongue out so i could pronounce the danish 'dd' easier#thinking about how some kids had to spell out their names 3 times to me in lithuanian sign language because it was my first time there#but god were they thrilled when i finally got it#man#humans#learning#it's all so incredible isn't it#just#what an experience my god
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eurovision trying so hard to pretend the whole event isn't political gets funnier and funnier each year. guys it's almost like countries are political entities or something
#the lads were full throat hollering slava ukraini last year#-(heroyam slava)#like... ??#MOST of the time its about who can dress the fucking weirdest (affectionate) and the rest of the time it's Politix Supreme#eurovision#yeah yeah i know country isnt a strictly political thing its a broad definition yeah yeah#cilly.txt
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codywan nation is such a double edged sword like. on one hand ive found the most wonderful people here and i wouldnt trade them or the experiences ive had for the world, and on the other hand i think if i ever saw like half of you people it'd be a quicktime event as to whether you can dodge before i bite your typing fingers off
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