La Félinosphère

after many years... I'm making a tumblr for my now-and-forever love for CATS >^.^<  Jes.  30+ JestaAriadne back in the day -- if we knew each back then, come say hi!   my old fic is now on ao3 (This is a sideblog!)

[htony]

Whenever I have a new hyperfixation, I go to Tumblr.

So, Munkustrap, a good guy, protector of the Jellicles, defeated Macavity in a brutal fight at the garbage dump. BUT I think we should all remember that Macavity is clinically insane + a nightmare + I personally would also be interested in driving my opponent crazy out of vengeance + he's a fiend in feline form, a monster of depravity.

[real-reulbbr-band]

Some new cats join the macavity dance

Tatum Coleman as Bombalurina, Brittane van Loggerenberg as Demeter, Dylan Janse van Rensburg as Rum Tum Tugger andChe-jean Jupp as Munkustrap. Filmed by Phoebe Charles.

Cats South Africa Tour; 2025

[ihavealotoffeelings]

Absolutely obsessed with this moment of Munkustrap greeting Gus during the lead-in to Moments of Happiness. I've watched the 98 movie all the way through twice now, and watched various bits of it innumerably more times, and I'm pretty sure this is the only time we see him behave like this with anyone? Like, with the other older cats he's varying degrees of affectionate, deferential, and sometimes a little cheeky (ex. playing with Jenny's tail), but it's always in a way that reads to me like "you are someone I've loved and respected since I was a kid, but now I'm a grownup and a leader in our community to boot, and I'm going to interact with you as such".

And with Old Deuteronomy, obviously there's SO much love and respect, but because of their positions it's usually very dignified and at times almost ceremonial? The only time the two of them show unbridled affection is that hug at the end of Misto's song, which, kill me.

Gus, though? Munkustrap kneels by Gus and rubs his head against his arm. He treats Gus the way the kittens treat him--no sense of ceremony or propriety, just pure affection.

And considering that Munk is a theater nerd/perfectionist even among the inherently theatrical Jellicles (see: the Awful Battle of "we're gonna put on a nice play and everyone's going to hit their marks and remember their lines and oh god what are you all doing WE PRACTICED")...it's really easy to imagine that Gus was ABSOLUTELY one of his primary mentors and teachers growing up. That he loves Gus as much as Old Deut and Jellylorum do, and that Gus is possibly the only older cat in the tribe who can bring out that sort of kittenish behavior from him.

[amilring]

Misto sketches from today!

[amilring]

Old art CATs fanart!

[queeraang]

more cats from my dream animated version

[verdicloud]

does anyone else love the slight banter between demeter and bombalurina during “macavity the mystery cat”? like after demeter’s part, bombalurina gets up and sings about how hot macavity is (rosemarie ford KILLS it i love her voice), but i have a different interpretation about this.

so we all know bomba is very honest and frank about what she thinks, even if she doesn’t say it, it’s written all over her face. she mocks grizabella and gives her the singular most dirtiest, judgiest look ever. she also questions and looks greatly concerned about jennyanydots’s interest in bustopher jones. gotta love her.

bomba obviously knows how much of a piece of crap macavity is, and she knows how much he hurt demeter, whom she’s very protective of. it doesn’t really make sense to me that bomba would outright tell demeter and everyone else that she thinks the man who’s literally broken every human law, who terrorises the jellicles, who traumatised the hell out of her beloved demeter, is hot, but it does make sense that demeter used to think so, and would obsess over him so much that she’d actually get with a guy like that.

i bet demeter used to swoon over macavity and give long rants about him to bomba, who’s just sitting there judging demeter’s taste in toms like “girl get a grip”. and now bomba’s getting back at her by singing one of those rants that she had to sit through so many times she’s memorised it. it’s her way of teasing her. i think the tone she uses is the same exaggerated, sarcastic tone that she uses to mock grizabella. it’s like saying to her, “see how ridiculous you sounded?”

but ultimately, she just wants demeter to not let history repeat itself. she points to her and stresses the fact that he’s a fiend in feline shape. she also says the words “like a snake” bitterly, because that’s exactly what she thinks of him.

and then of course demeter stands up and tries to defend herself like, “oh come on, you can’t blame me. he was outwardly respectable, anyone would’ve fallen for him.” and bomba’s quick to retort with “i know right, yeah, he totally is. cheating ‘at cards’ is definitely respectable. he used to do that to you, remember?”

bomba looks at her all smug and demeter shoots her a look like “okay now you’re pushing it”. and then they carry on with their duet.

i’ll admit, demeter’s not my favourite cat in the world, but her relationship with bombalurina makes me love her like the rest.

p.s. this is so incredibly random and i literally just thought of this after i posted but the term “rose gold” is literally them and i won’t elaborate

[makotia]

CATS the musical Video 1998💕

[jennyanypenny]

Her name is Jennyanydots 🐁🪳 :3

[cillyscribbles]

jellicle times for jellicle mimes :3c part 10!

p1, p2, p3, p4, p5, p6, p7, p8, p9 :3

[jellicle-human-hybrid-au]

(OOC) Ok these “Vocats” covers made by the Candlelight production of Cats reawakened my drive for this sideblog again

I mean, look at them

This feels AU coded to me

[la-felinosphere]

official CATS x snazaroo face paint makeup charts

I bought this in early 2000s, possibly at one of the last year of London shows or I have a feeling it may have been on tour? Anyway, found it today and scanned in. Pretty nice! I appreciate how they give you some actual jellicles rather than just generic Halloween cats. Munkustrap, Jemima, Electra, Skimbleshanks.

[gotham-native]

literally the Macavity fight

[statisticalcats2]

Vienna Revival (2020)

Munkustrap

[pinkieclown]

jellicle posts…. 2!!

part 1 :)

[sleeplessquixotic]

it seems like everyone i talk to hates Cats the Musical [NOT the movie, i am explicitly talking about the theatrical productions] and it makes me very sad and i’m trying to gauge the general feelings on tumblr

i LOVE Cats the Musical

i hate Cats the Musical

i’m neutral/ have never thought about Cats the Musical

Voting ended onMay 8, 2024

[charliesinfern0]

funny story about how I ended up watching cats, I knew that I could probably find the 1998 pro recording somewhere online, but one day my grandma was visiting and I mentioned to her how I’d love to watch it, and she said “oh yeah I have it on vhs! :)” and it was like “WHAT” and she was like “yeah I got it a long time ago but nobody wanted to watch it with me” and I was like “HELLO ILL WATCH IT WITH YOU!!!” and it was still in its shrink wrap and everything and it came with behind the scenes footage and character illustrations of macavity, rum tum tugger, and grizabella!

we watched it together and it was a lot of fun :)