#old possums book of practical cats

[inksplit]

#cat #cats #ts eliot #name #old possums book of practical cats #i used to have this whole poem memorized i did it for an audition once in high school

[cooltrash95]

anyone else remember that old Cats The Musical anime?

#my art #cats the musical #old possums book of practical cats #ts elliot #cats the musical broadway #cats the anime

[midnight-mail]

My sibling is so sweet, they bought me this cute bookmark from Target!! 🩵🧡🐾 It matches so well with the books colors

#jellicle cats #t.s. eliot #old possums book of practical cats #cats the musical #cats 1998 #andrew lloyd webber #antique books

[expeditionhorizons]

🌕 Jellicle Cats come one come all, Jellicles come to the Jellicle Ball 🌕

Made this for a book cover class assignment and I’m so happy with it!!

#I will take every opportunity to make classwork about Cats. #Jellicle cats #old possum’s book of practical cats #t.s. eliot #poetry #book cover #illustration #sophie’s art tag

[itswhatyougive]

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

[inbarfink]

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

[per-the-jellicle-magician]

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

[szappan]

university.. university leave me alone

#heres the situation: for my cognitive literary studies class (quite fun) we had to pick primary material and a cognitive angle to analyse it #from. and the deadline was coming up and i who have been thinking very intensely about robots for the last half a year picked #yeah you guessed it. fucking PIERS PLOWMAN. which is not fun for me but i panicked about the deadline #so now i have to do something about piers plowman and its cognitive literary properties #and im in hell this is hell i have been extremely stressed about piers plowman for a month. to the point where ive been in physical pain #AND I CANNOT. THINK OF ANYTHING. ABOUT PIERS PLOWMAN. #and the teacher for that class is so nice and chill and she was like you can pick anything at all. and i went with piers plowman #like it's interesting but from what COGNITIVE angle can i approach piers plowman. #ive been thinking about saying exactly this that piers plowman is more for historical linguists and theologists than narratologists but im #also positive plenty of scholars read piers plowman for the plot #so then i thought about the characters and whether you can Connect with them and whether they help you Immerse yourself in the story and #other terminology i learned in cognitive literary studies class. #theyre allegorical and very 1 dimensional and there could be something about whether we from 2024 understand them in the same way #people from the 14th century did. like this was what i put in my proposal when i made it #but now i actually have to make the slides and use cognitive literary papers for this and it's just not going at all. i cant do it. #i cant do anything i cant enjoy the daylight and the warmer weather i cant think about anything other than im not making progress on this #and it's bad for me!! it's bad for my health i feel bad. why did i go with piers plowman why did i not pick watership down #my post #i have plenty to say about watership downm cognitively. #also about old possums book of practical cats #maybe i could email her and tell her id like to change it.. no #ive also been reading the tombs of atuan which is incredible

[realreulbbrband]

Ngl I love Mistoffelees being the worst cat to own so much. Like yea yea ik “Tugger is overly picky and inconvenient”, “Macavity exists” and “Mungo and Rump will destroy your house” but naur Misto out here making his owner think they’re delusional asf

Can you imagine just?

“But his voice has been heard on the roof When he was curled up by the fire”

“You have seen it one moment, and then it is gone! But you find it next week lying out on the lawn.”

“And I've known the family to call, Him in from the garden for hours. When he was asleep in the hall”

#Old possums book for practical cats #cats the musical #mr. mistoffelees #just something me and my friend were talking about so don’t take it too seriously #This is probably cause I assume all the poems about the cats are from the owner’s or a humans pov

[moldygreenblue]

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

[badlydrawndrawnings]

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

[inksplit]

#cat #cats #name #ts eliot #old possums book of practical cats

[matiiiih]

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

[gaylittlewizardcat]

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

[farm-lesbian]

also every single cat is special like every single cat has some special little quirk that is just so adorable or stupid or comedic or endearing. if you say “oh, farm-lesbian, there are so many cats in this world, not every single one can be amazing and special and unique”, to that i would say you will never know or understand. cats who you think might not be special just have not shown their one-of-a-kind personality to you, but that does not mean it’s not there. maybe ask yourself why a cat has not revealed its personality to you. there are so many special things in this world that will always remain unknown to humans.

#every once in a while a depressed person re-invents old possums book of practical cats #a post of mine

[vivalaplxto]

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

#Cats has been a special interest of mine since I was able to comprehend language. for anyone just finding my blog #the power of autism #cats the musical #Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats #cats 1998 #cats 1981 #skimbleshanks #skimbleshanks the railway cat #cats skimbleshanks #mistofelees #mistoffelees #mister mistoffelees #mr mistoffelees #magical mr mistoffelees #mistoffelees the magic cat #cats mistoffelees #ponytown #pony town #pony.town #pony town skins #there are two cats inside you #one of them is gay. the other is ginger. you are a queer furry