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itswhatyougive · 8 months

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I don't know how to describe it, but something about Edward Gorey and Junji Ito both going slightly off-brand and illustrating a whimsical book about cats is so special to me

#horror artist #junji ito #edward gorey #cat lovers #illustration #american illustrators #japanese illustrator #manga #gothic art #horror art #t.s. eliot #old possum's book of practical cats #junji ito's cat diary: yon & mu

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inbarfink · 8 months

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Cats Fandom Survey!!!

#cats #cats the musical #cats musical #cats movie #cats 2019 #cats the movie #cats 1998 #Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats #jellicle cats #fandom polls

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per-the-jellicle-magician · 5 months

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Little kitty cats illustrations from the first Polish edition of "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats", made by Janusz Grabiański

The top 3 are all Mr Mistoffelees, bottom left is of course Skimble and bottom right is Tugger messing with yarn. I do not know who is the bottom middle as I do not own this book yet, if it is even one of the named characters

#i may get myself this edition as a Christmas gift #cats the musical #old possum's book of practical cats #wiersze o kotach #skimbleshanks #mr mistoffelees #rum tum tugger #jellicle cats #warsaw guy talks

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moldygreenblue · 3 months

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i think one of the funniest thing about cats musical lore is one piece of lore from old possum's book of practical cats (which makes more sense when the og book of poems was about dogs and cats, before it got change to just about cats), mention only in the preface:

the man in white spats.

in t.s. eliot's poem 'pollicle dogs and jellicle cats' (which alw did a demo for and said tune of the demo became the basis for jellicle songs for jellicle cats) the first stanza has an unknown man talking about someone he met at the princess louise one day during lunch, the fore mention man in white spats.

the man in white spats knows of pollicle dogs and jellicle cats. and the man in white spats' siblings (a sister and brother) know of their existence as well. and they're like...fans of them. big time fans.

and the unknown man very much like the man over there, doesn't know what is a pollicle dog and jellicle cat. and the man in white spats is shook and thinks the unknown man is lucky to have run into him and the man in white spats starts explaining things.

(and the man in white spats starts to go explaining of pollicle dogs. this has me wondering if t.s. elliot poem's 'the marching song of the pollice dogs' which 'the awefull battle of the pekes and the pollicles' take verses from, was the poem after 'pollicle dogs and jellicle cats' in the og planned book of dogs and cats. does that mean pollicle dogs and jellicle cats was the og first poem of the planned book?)

anyway. i'm just thinking how funny it is that if you take the poem lore as a supplementary for the musical, the jellicle cats (and pollicle dogs) are fine with the man in white spats + his siblings knowing.

which means that they're quite fine with the man over there be watching the ball that night. if anything, they're glad that there's another human in the know. but that doesn't mean they not going to fuck around with him if given the chance.

#cats musical #cats the musical #old possum's book of practical cats #idk why i'm in a cats musical binge making post but it's sure fun

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badlydrawndrawnings · 1 month

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More Gus sketches. From upper left clockwise (and comments)

1998!Gus (A old and fragile cat I would trust and give gin too to hear his stories)

Gus as an actual cat (I can't draw actual cats)

Firefrorefiddle design attempt (Despite appearing for a minute or so, I LOVE Firefrorefiddle's costume! It sucks there is no true 'reference' except that one wig photo and I just...went from there)

Old Possum!Gus (I have no idea why I gave him extra lines underneath his eyes. I still like it)

#cats 1998 #cats musical #cats the musical #old possum's book of practical cats #gus the theatre cat #gus the theater cat #firefrorefiddle the fiend of the fell #firefrorefiddle #badlydrawndrawning art #traditional art #pencil drawing #rough sketch #i will likely try to draw firefrorefiddle again in the future

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matiiiih · 2 years

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Jellicle cats are black and white!

At first I wanted to make them more similar looking to one another since I personally headcanon them to be siblings, but I just couldn’t resist making Tori real fluffy and Misto ofc has always in my mind been a very sleek cat!

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Deme and Bomba

Mungo and Teazer

Munk and Tugger

#cats #cats musical #cats the musical #musical #musicals #andrew lloyd webber #Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats #mr mistoffelees #cats mistoffelees #mistoffelees #mistoffelees cats #quaxo #victoria the white cat #victoria cats #cats victoria #quaxo cats #cats quaxo

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gaylittlewizardcat · 1 year

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The results are in, and the winner is…

Mistoffelees! (he is an uncountable noun)

But why are there so many of him?

Thank you everyone who voted :] I had a lot of fun

(PS. The “secret other thing” is that Mistoffelees is the plural version, and the singular version would be “one Mistoffel”)

#cats the musical #mistoffelees #my art #cats fanart #jellicle polls #adjacent anyway #from left to right #cats paris #human au #old possum's book of practical cats #cats 1998 #tbh creature #my version that’s an amalgamation of scoffelees and whatever I’m feeling in the moment #cats international tour 2022

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vivalaplxto · 2 years

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God cursed me by giving the artistic abilities to my sister so I must create art with a pixelated pony game

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lisamarie-vee · 7 months

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#t.s. eliot #old possum's book of practical cats #book cover #1930s #hello kitty

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marbleluvrofliberty · 2 months

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"evangelical" sounds like a t.s. eliot character

#evanjellicle #old possum's book of practical cats #cats the musical

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fuckyourtriangles · 11 months

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So I was listening to Call Me Little Sunshine for like the millionth time the other day and as I was singing along I got to the “call me Mephistopheles” part and thought that it was funny how close the name sounds to Mistoffeles.

Then I found out last night that TS Elliot actually derived Misto’s name from the demon lol

#the band ghost #call me little sunshine #ts elliot #old possum's book of practical cats #cats the musical #mr. mistoffelees #mephistopheles

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arinewman7 · 2 years

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