#it is astounding

[ragingsandrantings]

Fuck Taylor Ozone Destroying Swift and I am not even joking. She can eat my corn riddled shit.

Getting on Facebook to be inundated with posts from 1) someone who identifies as an AFAB always femme presenting nonbinary person who exclusively uses she/her pronouns and is a lesbian leaning bisexual who refuses to date women or trans people and will only date cishet men because it is Problematique to sexualize women or trans people at all and a staunch feminist 2) an older (at least 65?) author who throws massive tantrums and threatens anybody who does not read her work and leave fully positive praise because even a hint of advice that could improve them is misogynistic because she was a feminist back in the 70s before it was societally accepted and lost her everloving mind when someone wrote a sexist character but defends Dave Chapelle's "jokes" about trans women despite being pro trans because Free Speech and 3) a self proclaimed "socialist feminazi who wants to guillotine and eat billionaires" about how Taylor Swift is a GODDESS and anyone who does not worship her, memorize her lyrics, and suckle upon her freckled wrinkly butthole is actually a dangerous sexist who is unsafe, abusive, and misogynistic is motherfucking wild.

Like these are three people I would have bet money on would hate that two faced, jet fuel guzzling, ICE inviting, slut shaming, body shaming, "my brown hair is actually Millionaire Blonde" billionaire bitch but no. Back to back copy pasted essays declaring Taylor Swift Critics as misogynistic, racist MAGAt loving shits. This cult leading cuntwaffle has convinced soooo many women that her mediocre, juvenile Gotta Catch Em All style released albums with lyrics on par with lovesick middle schoolers poetry written on the back of their over stuffed binders that anyone who doesn't drop thousands to see one concert from the nosebleed section and pretend her nepo-baby, suburb raised sparkly white ass is The Enemy™ because they're in a goddamn cult.

She shut down Madison Square Garden for days and invited a high-up ICE agent and concentration camp promoter to her fucking wedding, y'all. She rides massive private jets for fifteen minutes. The fuck you mean those who don't like the "I wrote the Friendzoned Female Ballad" untalented hack are the cause of all the political issues in the US right now. How the fuck can you be gender queer, 70's era, and socialistic anti-billionaire feminists and think that godawful shit? Are you fucking psyops? Dear Christ

[nixotinix]

You're art is amazing! If you're still doing requests I'd love to see Arkham Shadow Scarecrow in your style 🧡

everybody's favorite petty, vindictive, problematic old man has arrived!! i may have taken some... liberties with his coffee mug.

thank you for the request i had a lot of fun with ol' Jonny! DC character requests are still open, and speaking of which, right below the cut...

i made a spreadsheet :D so now if you have a request open with me, you can head on over to this lil spreadsheet to see where it falls on the list and how far along i am!

request spreadsheet because im too deep into this

overkill? yes. completely unnecessary? yes. but i love a good spreadsheet, sue me. i may be an amateur artist but i'm an organized amateur artist. plus you guys get to see who i'm drawing next :) it's a win-win!

[laundryandtaxes]

When the whole thing is said and done, I hope that what comes out of the medical scandal of pediatric transition is an understanding not just of the fact that it's important not to let ideology guide practice such that real physicians tell outright lies, ideological abstractions, and/or functionally religious beliefs (that one may have been born in the wrong body, or that one may have the wrong variety of brain in their body, or that one could possibly be "harmed" by going through one's natural puberty in and of itself, etc) to patients who are literally too young to distinguish between lies and truth, but also an understanding that what happened here on the whole with the medical approach to gender dysphoria was a total abdication of duty to provide least invasive practices first, total refusal to provide justification for the practice of selling extreme body modification to people who are at least often obsessively convinced that something is wrong with their body when medicine doesn't do this regularly for any other patients with body distress, total failure of safeguarding practices in a patient group very likely to contain vulnerable and otherwise emotionally distressed patients, and most of all a refusal to even try to address the mental health concerns of a group of people that these physicians just decided on no basis (there are no large studies comparing overall outcomes with transition treated as an actual variable, wherein some people are given one treatment, others none, others another treatment, underlying this practice) were too ill to respond to all of the practices we have already accepted as approaches to psychological distress.

This is at the heart of why ROGD has so many people freaked out- sure, those people who show signs of extreme gender nonconformity in childhood, who grow more distressed than normal at the onset of puberty because it means a loss of the androgyny that protects so much of child gender nonconformity, who are likely to grow into crossdressing homosexual or bisexual adults, who are more likely than other people to struggle with obsessive and compulsive tendencies, who are more likely to struggle to connect with other people socially, I'm sure they require surgical and hormonal body modification in order to live happy and healthy lives, but I am quite sure that no such treatment is right for my sweet, outgoing, heterosexual daughter who until 6 months ago was never very gender nonconforming. People like her deserve extra safeguarding so that the only treatment medicine ever even attempted at scale for this psychological problem is reserved for the people who truly cannot be integrated into society any other way. It is really quite deeply offensive that, because very gender nonconforming people are less valued, we got none of the normal safeguarding or study or approach to treatment that people who approach doctors with broken bones or other physical problems receive. Of course there is always some very real chance that we just happened upon the "right" treatment, but for one thing we don't know that because we simply never tried anything less invasive the way one normally does in medicine (let alone actual comparative studies different potential treatment options) and for another it's currently being sold to people using ideological abstractions or functionally religious concepts that have no basis in reality like the concept of being born in the wrong body. Those are both problems no matter how long medicine is allowed to continue ignoring them, which by the way will not be forever. If medicine cannot reign itself in, if it cannot police itself, then the only actors left to reign it in are all much more susceptible to their own forms of ideological capture than medicine was, such as state legislatures, which is bad for everyone in the same way that state intervention in doctor/patient decisions is almost always bad for everyone.

[trying-to-get-somewhere-real]

Ava kind of likes the ugly parts. She likes knowing that Deborah could gut her like a fish if she wanted to but she won't. Ava's already done the worst thing she'll ever do (that fucking e-mail) and Deborah forgave her anyway because she thinks maybe Deborah likes her ugly parts too. They match.

— from that ain’t half the gold treasure in your soul, by @mykashg

[parischangedher]

“So tell us, Jane Bond, how do we track you down?”

“You don’t, Tony.”

[toreadoranon]

Me: you should write about the plans your character is putting in motion that way everyone can see exactly how shady they are. Also me: nah that's way too crowded. Me again: well now people think they're good when most of their good actions were entirely done out of hoping to manipulate the situation even if that's not what they thought they were doing.

[ceo-of-sloppy-women]

I will forever be convinced EA siphoned the soul out of Veilguard. Why? Matt Rhodes' work. You can tell from each piece people had passion and heart for the game, that there were so many good ideas. People wanted to make the best game, we just unfortunately wound up with the product smudged by a rocky development and EA's grubby hands.

[impeccablebackside]

What ethnicity would you think the Queens are?

That is truly quite a thought provoking question anon, but I do not think I have a realistically definitive answer. Do let me know what you have in mind though.

Perhaps most importantly with this question, my perspective and opinion is formed from exposure to the 98 film, 2019 movie, recent US Tour, and / or preferred boots of past productions (I happen to have a big hard-on for the 2016 Broadway Revival even though many people dislike it). The point is that a lot of how I imagine any of the queens stems from the specific actors portraying them in more immediately accessible visual media. Nothing inherently wrong with that, as all of the female actors from any of those places are hot as all hell.

The most pressing issue with this is that those actors are almost all predominantly white American or British women, so I tend to gravitate towards those ethnicities (or lack thereof) when picturing the queens. It is an unfortunately narrow-minded way of thinking due to the media I have been mostly exposed to and the fact that I am just some white dude.

That being said anon, I would prefer not to necessarily label any queen as being a specific ethnicity. There have been so many absolutely beautiful women casted throughout the world in different roles during the 40 or so years the musical has been around for. It is simply impossible and foolish to define any queen as being one ethnicity / 'type' because it diminishes or pushes out those who have represented the character just as well but do not fit that specific mould or definition. My opinion is that any ethnicity works for any queen, with maybe the only caveat that Rumple still has to have the Cockney accent. I promise that is not meant to pander or anything, I legitimately think everyone casted in show is beautiful and worthy of praise no matter what they look like.

Anyway, one of my personal favourite things are Asian women casted (outside of the Shiki productions) as Victoria because I think they portray the gentle grace of the white queen quite well. Does that mean they should only be Vic? Absolutely not. There have been a number of really cute Tantos or Jemimas / Sillabubs over the years that have been Asian too. I have a huge thing for the Japanese queens, and Asian actors in general as well. I think 'everyday' Asian beauty, particularly amongst Japanese women, is just so so beautiful. I have a hard time phrasing it in a way that would not come across as my appreciation being built from fetishized or sexualized preferences. It is not a fetish thing, I promise.

Otherwise, it is similar with black actresses anon. One (that immediately comes to mind - there have been more) of the hottest Casses ever in my humble opinion was black. Same with some of the more beautiful Demeters casted in the show.

As the musical progresses, there have been more and more ethnicities represented as well, and I think that is an absolutely amazing thing. For example, more recent (past 2-5 years or so) productions have had more South Asian actors casted and represented. I hope the push for increased diversity in theatre leads to more ethnic performers being given the chance to be in Cats and make their own mark.

All of this is not to exclude every single Shiki cast in the past 40ish years that have been literally nothing but stunning Japanese women casted as the queens, or the multiple Chinese language productions, or the French productions, or the Dutch productions, or the South Korean language productions, or the Spanish production, or the Russian production, or the various South American productions, or the substantial amount of German productions. Plus, that is not even to mention the (more than just a) handful of notable non-replica productions worldwide either with some very hot actors.

For example, if you told me I had to watch of production where Yuka N*tsuka was (simply the cutest) Vic, Rina Punw*ni was Rumple, Mari*h Reeves was Cass, K*rin Sang was Tanto, Gloria T*ba was Bomba, Emmanuelle N'Z*zi was Deme, Gloria A*ra was Jenny, Leah delos Santos was Sillabub, Li-T*ng Hsu as Griz, and Y*meko Aki was Jelly, I would think it would be a proverbial all-star cast. (Sorry for the *s - trying to keep this post out of the search for those names). You could easily switch out every single one of the actors with several others who are non-white, and it would still be an all-star cast.

That is the literal beauty of Cats. Anyone can be one of the queens and they would be a perfect fit.