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ggarbagee · 2 months

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knockabout clowns and quick change comedians

#my art #cats the musical #cats 1998 #cats musical #mungojerrie and rumpleteazer #mungojerrie #rumpleteazer

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misaki-toko · 11 months

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We're a notorious couple of cats

As knockabout clowns

#my art #rumpleteazer #mungojerrie #shiki cats #cats musical #cats japan #劇団四季 #マンゴジェリー #ランペルティーザ #parody #barbie meme

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crabsnpersimmons · 3 months

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Me: [poking my writing muse] hey, hey, wanna write something? Writing muse: [squints at me with disdain at my negligence then huffs and pushes out a scrap of paper. The paper says: Angst for the raincoat chibi DCAs] Me: …why? why would you do this? Writing muse: Their cheery disposition and childlike innocence was an affront to my nature. Art muse's work uplifts while I gaze into the abyss. Writing muse: [starts tossing more scraps of paper] ...and here, some cute scenarios for those hairdressers for you to daydream about. Me: wait this is too much, i have to study-- Writing muse: Not my problem. Art muse: [smashes through the wall] DID I HEAR HAIRDRESSERS? LET'S DRAW ECLIPSE, HE'S HOT. Writing muse: Let's make 'em kiss. I already have the date chapter planned out. me: guys wait wait, i have an exam in three days, can't all these ideas wait? Writing muse: Art muse: Art: Ooh! And y'know what? Sun and Moon are sooooo Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer coded! Writing muse: [sings the lyrics] "knockabout clowns, quick-change comedians, tight-rope walkers and acrobats" Yeah that checks out. Draw it.

#crab chatter #in case you were curious how my day has been #studies? what studies?#I have a tragic backstory for two innocent raincoat-wearing blorbos and a whole date plan for the hairdressers #and I've been figuring out Eclipse's hairdresser au design and #he is haunting my brain #with his stupid hat and pants why do I do this to myself?#and then I listened to mungojerrie and rumpelteazer today #and I wanna draw sun and moon doing the daaaaance #they'd be perfect for it!#might be a little quiet on here as I near my exam #but I'll be back #but for now I sleep #and hopefully dream of Eclipse #I can't wait to show you all

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eccentric-curious-cats · 2 months

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You know, it’s pretty obvious that I love Rum Tum Tugger and Mr. Mistoffelees… they’re my favorite characters and have some of my favorite numbers about them…

My favorite number, though? Mungojerrie & Rumpleteazer.

Something about the music combined with the choreography just sparks so much joy. Like YES, you are knockabout clowns and quick change comedians!!! Cartwheels and jumps!! The double cartwheel!!!!!!!!!

And of course, I love Jerrie and Teazer… they’re such fun lil troublemakers

#text #Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer #mungojerrie #rumpleteazer

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pumpkinpie59 · 2 years

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What musicals the 2012 cast would love most

This was in part inspired by @fabuloustrash05 ‘s post about her Renet headcanons, where she mentioned that Renet likes historical musicals. You can find it here.

Anyway, since I am a theatre performer myself, I decided to associate some musicals with the rest of the TMNT cast. Enjoy ^^

Leonardo

“When I drive

When I drive

I'm in love, I'm alive

And I forget about everything I hate

When I drive

I can read 65

I won't pay the long, long line

They'll always be behind

And man that just feels great”

If you were to ask him, he’d claim his favorite is Singin’ in the Rain (which I’ve been in btw). It’s funny and a total blast to watch (though ... the movie is better than the stage show). But in reality, his favorite is Bonnie and Clyde. You cannot convince me otherwise.

Raphael

“Always you, every thought I'll ever know

Everywhere I go, you'll be

All the world is only

You and me!”

Like Leo, he also doesn’t tell the truth about his favorite musical. He claims his favorite is Phantom of the Opera. An easy choice, and everyone believes him because it’s just as dramatic as he is lmao. But his favorite is West Side Story. I mean, c’mon, it has gangs, violence, and at its core has a mushy love story. He will not admit he likes it as much as he does.

Donatello

“If only you could know

The things I long to say

If only I could tell you

What I wish I could convey

It's in my every glance

My heart's an open book

You'd see it all at once

If only you would look”

He seems like a Disney fan. You’d think I would’ve chosen Beauty and the Beast, but nah. The Little Mermaid fits him better (I’ve also been in this show). He’s so insecure about not being human, and he’s also from a big family with an overprotective father, so I think he’d relate to Ariel a lot. Plus she’s a redhead so there’s that lol. Maybe a bit on the nose, but I don’t care.

Michelangelo

“We're a notorious couple of cats

As knockabout clowns, quick-change comedians

Tight-rope walkers and acrobats”

Yeah, he’s a Cats fan. I think he’d love how artistic and chaotic it is. His brothers probably hate it, which only makes him like it more lmao. He hated the movie.

April

“You can build me up, you can tear me down

You can try but I'm unbreakable

You can do your best, but I'll stand the test

You'll find that I'm unshakeable”

I kinda see April as the kinda girl to like the most popular musicals rather than obscure musicals, and I also wanted to choose one that was about strong women. I considered Wicked and Legally Blonde, but Six seemed most appropriate. Also, she’s my queen, so why not choose the one about queens pfft

Casey

“Flashpots are shootin' bright as the sun

I'm one highfalutin' sonuva gun!

Don't ask me how

Fortune found me, fate just crowned me

Now I'm King of New York!”

Casey’s favorite is Newsies. It just seems so freaking obvious. Plus, the love interest is a journalist, so do with that what you will.

Karai

“Home, Love, Family.

There was once a time

I must have had them, too.

Home, Love, Family,

I will never be complete

Until I find you...”

Like Leo and Raph, she also lies about her fav musical. She says it’s Little Shop of Horrors, and she does like it. The Dentist song cracks her up. But her favorite is Anastasia because it hits close to home. See lyrics above. She also lost her real family at a young age, and didn’t know the truth until she was 16. (Also, Anya is my dream role. I got to see the show on tour!)

Shinigami

“Gotta haunt till it hurts

Through the night

And give those guys the fright of their lives”

Shinigami gives me Beetlejuice vibes. I don’t know what else to say about it.

Mona Lisa

“Tranquil as a forest

But on fire within

Once you find your center

You are sure to win”

It’s my headcanon that Mona loves movies once Raph introduces her to them, so I think she’d like movie musicals more than stage musicals. Her favorite is Mulan. As a soldier herself, she respects how the film takes war seriously while still having uplifting and even funny moments throughout.

BONUS:

Lotus Blossom (my 2012 version)

“A new dream

I have one i know that very few dream

I would like to see that over-due dream

Even though it never may come true”

Jekyll and Hyde is a musical about murder, the duality of man, and tragic romance, all things that appeal to Lotus Blossom, an assassin with difficult experiences in romance. (Jekyll and Hyde was my favorite musical back when I first got into TMNT, too! Still is a favorite.)

#tmnt #tmnt 2012 #tmnt leonardo #tmnt raphael #tmnt donatello #tmnt michelangelo #april o'neil #casey jones #oroku karai #tmnt shinigami #tmnt mona lisa #tmnt lotus blossom #pumpkin stuff

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berrymeter · 4 months

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(trying to ignore everything my family-related) (deep bags under my eyes) mungojerrie and rumpleteazer we're a notorious couple of cats as knockabout clowns quick change comedians tight rope walkers and acrobats we have an extensive reputation we make our home in victoria groove this is merely our center of operations for we are i

#perth.txt #(i'm trying to drown out people talking sounds with cats the musical)

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jelliclekay · 2 years

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as knockabout clowns, quick change comedians

From Allison Lian's Instagram

Allison Lian as Rumpleteazer

Brian Nelson as Mungojerrie

#i love these photos #cats the musical #cats us tour 2021 #cats us tour 6 #cats musical #rumpleteazer #mungojerrie

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likeniobe · 1 year

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The history of the Gilles is as inscrutable as the expression on the clown's face. The picture is undated, no drawings exist, and it was never engraved. Compared with Watteau's habitual scale it is gigantic, and the handling is broad and matt. All these factors reinforce something suggested by the subject matter––namely, that it was probably a theater billboard, painted for one of those small French companies which set up in emulation of the Italians. Although they followed the main outline of the Commedia dell'Arte repertory, the French players created variations of their own, including a character named Gilles, a modification of the original Pierrot, whose existence is first noted in 1695. The character, whose final incarnation was as Pagliacci, was the natural unfortunate of the troupe, the butt of its most brutal comic sallies, but protected by an armour of innocence which was eventually seen to triumph. To the keen appetites of the eighteenth-century audience the whole point of Gilles was his thick-headedness, his ability to resist instruction. In a popular performance attempt would be made to knock some sense into him; he would be giving a dancing master, a fencing master, a drawing master––all to no avail. At this point of the action a donkey would be led across the stage to underline his ineffable stupidity. This is the moment painted by Watteau. But as well as recording a moment of theatrical history, Watteau has again given the situation a colouring of his own. For his Gilles belongs in a more contemplative setting than that of the knockabout farce. The impassivity of the face suggests that the ability to survive continuous if light-hearted cruelty is not only potentially tragic but at all times heroic. This is a concept worthy of Watteau, who has given rise to comments, from Voltaire among others, that he never painted anything serious. The Gilles is not only one of the most serious pictures to be painted in the eighteenth century, it is perhaps the most truly personal of all Watteau's works.

anita brookner, watteau, 1967

#anita brookner #watteau #texts #18 #surviving continuous if light-hearted cruelty as not only tragic but at all times heroic = anita brookner's 1983 novel look at meeee

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thornfield13713 · 4 months

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2, 3, 4, 13, 18 for Ned

What would their blood taste like to vampires?

This is actually something Ned has had to deal with in detail, since they're the first of my Tavs to go for the 'Astarion regularly feeding from them instead of just eating anyone they happen to get into a fight with' option.

Cliché as it is, I suspect that Ned tastes a bit like drow green wine. Just because it's made and fermented with Underdark mushrooms and vegetation, and that is what Ned has mostly been living off for over a century. Not the fizzy variety, I don't think, but possibly an older, subtler vintage, the sort of thing that gets brewed by drow commoners who can't get the fancy stuff but are quite capable of gathering mushrooms and fermenting them.

How would they kiss their LI?

This one changes over the course of the game. In the beginning, Ned is very cautious about it, because they're not...really used to intimacy. The nearest thing they've had to an adult relationship was almost entirely chaste, and very cautious on account of...well. Quaggoth. Or elven prince in the body of same. Before that, it was safer not to indulge, as every potential lover in Menzoberranzan would inevitably want something, and often that something was to remove Ned as competition.

As such, in the beginning, they kiss as though trying to learn a difficult page of notes by heart - carefully, thoroughly, and with a great deal of attention to detail. They get less careful, over time, but the slow, thorough, as-if-trying-to-memorise-their-partner quality never quite goes away.

How do they sleep with their LI (what position, does one steal the blankets, is one too hot/cold, etc)?

Astarion is too cold, on account of being undead, and compounds the fact by warming his cold extremities on Ned's. His cold toes in particular are a constant torment, once he gets comfortable enough in their relationship not to fear getting kicked out of bed over it. Both Ned and Astarion, however, are a lot cuddlier than they are willing to admit, or even really expect. This is partly due to years of touch-starvation for both of them, and now they have someone they can touch relatively freely, both of them are greedy for it - though, sometimes they go a bit too far and can't stand to be near each other because it's just too much. Astarion in particular, given how unrelentingly negative his associations with touch are. There's a reason they maintain separate beds/bedrolls even if they do like to sleep cuddled up, after all. Generally speaking, they're facing each other. Astarion is generally on top, but doesn't like positions that make him feel trapped or restrained, so they've had to do a lot of trial-and-error with their cuddling positions to find the right combination of security and freedom of movement.

What makes them laugh? What does their laugh sound like?

Ned doesn't laugh much. Not because they don't have a sense of humour, just because they aren't particularly expressive about it, a side-effect of having grown up in first Ched Nasad and then Menzoberranzan as an aristocrat, and being expected to control emotional responses to avoid giving themself away to their enemies. It was a more serious concern in Menzoberranzan, when they were no longer the child of a house Matron, but of a distant cousin taken in after their branch family were, so far as anyone knew, wiped out in the fall of their city.

That said, there are some things that can do it: puns, weirdly, work embarrassingly well, which Astarion will never stop teasing them about. Particularly bad puns. Ned can't really explain it, but awful puns and even worse knockabout humour have a tendency to get to them even when they admit that they don't know why they're laughing and, objectively, these things are every bit as terrible as the rest of the party (except for Wyll, who admits a fondness for clowns, and Jaheira, who also laughs at the clown performance) say they are.

Their laugh itself is...awful. Horrible. It sounds like a rusty iron hinge being jiggled by a child swinging on a door, or someone putting a spoon through a meat-grinder. It creaks, and rasps, and has been known to make small children cry just hearing it. Indeed, nobody was quite sure the doppelgangers at the circus didn't attack them just because it was preferable to hearing more of that laugh. It only really comes out when they're in absolute, uncontrollable mirth - most of the time, they express amusement through a sort of soundless huff of air.

What modern day tv show would they binge over a weekend? do they get their LI to watch with them?

Hm. Haven't really thought about their taste in television, but I...I could actually see them being a big fan of Hello From the Hallowoods, if I'm allowed to broaden the category to podcasts. Not just as a nod to their voice inspiration, but because the setting of this creepy, dangerous, wonderful forest at the end of the world, the cast of well-developed, flawed but very loveable characters, everything about Nikignik, the messages about religious trauma and love and identity...all of it would just get them right in the heart. I think their favourite character would end up being Polly, though, for some reason. They are probably rather private about their tastes, right up until they have to go on some sort of long journey and get control of the radio/AV cord to put Hallowoods on. Astarion is hooked within a few episodes, and has Strong Opinions about how much the Instrumentalist needs to die screaming.

In terms of actual television...I could see Ned developing a weird, vicious rivalry with a TV gardener. Not sure which one, but the image of them hate-binging gardening shows and scoffing at the answers will not leave me alone. They would drag Astarion into it, if only because he is much better at being scathing than they are. Astarion does not get it, but gamely insults his enbyfriend's gardening nemesis with them regardless, and is delighted at discovering such hitherto-unexplored depths of bitchiness behind Ned's mild-mannered exterior.

#baldur's gate 3 #ned

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pronounsmegamix · 2 years

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Hey, could you pleaze do clown related pronounz? It would make me rlly happy :)

Thank yoooooou, have a good day!!

Hello! Of course!! :)

giggle / giggles / giggleself

co / com / comedy / comedys / comedyself

app / applause / applauds / applauseself

the fool / the fool’s / themself

folly / follys / follyself