The family
Also yeah, I gave Victoria her iconic orange eyebrows yw
An art project I started back in 2023 has finally grown into a small tribe of jellicle cats of my own! I do plan on making the entire junkyard, slowly but surely 😸
Two Grizabellas based on her more current and classic looks, Mistoffelees (or Quaxo, might make a more glamorous version down the line!), Rum Tum Tugger, Munkustrap, Alonzo, & Victoria (Rainbow & Monster high) so far! I have a few more in the works as well 😄
Bonus real life Jellicle boy wanted to be part of the fun ❤️ Safe to say Alonzo is his favorite!
Holy shit this is incredible
here's to many more for mr gruber himself!!!!! >:D
here’s a quick vid of the music box i mentioned in my last post!
Ommgggg I love this!!!
Do you happen to have a full recording of the song? 👀
José Miguel Callejas as Munkustrap for the Santiago prod!
Munkustrap and Tugger
"I've got you, brother."
I thought it was high time i drew these two together. <3
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makes him really really really small
A lifted leg to lift your spirits.
Gina Gagliano as Victoria, Cast 15 of the Oasis of the Seas.
Gruberstrap's little bounce when Misto does his bounce is everything
I love Jenny's "OMG" point at Misto, and Skimble's little bow/curtsey thing. Everyone is so hyped for Misto, I love it.
so i’m going to be a cats blog now, for a little bit.
the one random ass frame in the 1998 film that has rum tum tugger looking mad as hell from a low angle had NO RIGHT to be like that. like ??? sir arent you Bisexual the Bagpipe Cat why are you going this hard rn
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So a couple of friends of mine roped me into playing Dungeons and Dragons with them, and now I need to design a character. So I’ve narrowed it down to:
1. One of the Disney Fairies. Specifically: Scout fairy Chase. Being a fairy she can of course fly, as long as she has pixie dust. She’s a sharpshooter with her bow and arrow, and a great team player with a sassy attitude.
2. Munkustrap from Cats. A cat (or cat-human hybrid, whichever works for D&D), he has the ability to jump or fall from great heights and still land perfectly on his feet. The second in command of the Jellicle tribe, he is a natural leader and very protective of those in his group. He’s skilled at hand-to-hand combat, but is rarely the first to attack.
3. Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz and Wicked. As a witch, she possesses magical powers and is capable of making things (living and inanimate) fly, transfiguring humans, and temporarily freezing time (if that’s allowed in D&D; I can scrap that). Born different and forced down a path others mispercieved as evil, she’s not quick to trust and tends to deflect attention with sarcasm and feigned brashness.
Someone who knows anything about D&D: please tell me if any of these characters would work in a (likely pretty standard) campaign, or what I need to add to or subtract from them.
Update: the Dungeon Master, who offered to help me design a character, just approved of me playing as Munkustrap, as a (near)human Monk. Knowing what characters the other players have created, I’m already amused by what this campaign will become.
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Hello everybody meet my new crush
@auggusst: Welcome to cat hell youre never leaving
Well I wouldn’t exactly call it hell, really
January 11, 2021. It started here
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ok, let's talk about this one utterly Tugger mannerism: the mane-pop.
The Munkustance is a Munkustrap mannerism, and it's scripted and deliberate and passed on in staging tradition. The Tugger mane-pop is not, or not exactly: it originates not in 'ok, your character stands like this at these moments' but in a practical necessity of the costume.
Alex Snova, Vienna revival, March 2022.
Look at this great big heavy thing (which nevertheless moves so lightly and freely, thank you yak hair)! But when he spins around like that to talk to Jemima, it rides up and back a bit. When he hears Bomba's voice and turns around, he pops the mane to get it back into position and tugs at the bottom centre of the vest it's attached to, re-settling it into position.
But it's not just a practical 'oh, gotta fix a costume malfunction' (like an actor discreetly re-adjusting a legwarmer that's falling down). For Tugger it's a mannerism, it's part of his swagger—or he can use it for aggression if it's combined with a hiss. Here, it's "oh, you wanna go? ok, challenge accepted, let me get my sexy saunter on!"
It comes out of the practicalities of an awkward but highly iconic costume piece and evolves into a very Tugger-specific set of gestures and expressions which can be used to characterise him in a lot of different moments and moods, and I think that's wonderful. 😌
Ubiquitous.
Tugger insisted they wore those shirts
Imagine the world of CATS where out of nowhere, randomly, munk just does a spilt. He just does a split. And no one cares. They don’t even give it a second glance or question it.
That’s a world I wanna live in, munkustrap just randomly doing splits.
SAME NGL
LIKE HES HALF WAY THERE WITH HIS MUNKUSTANCE
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Yes please
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Skimbletuggerdots Skimbletuggerdots.
See him bother them. 😌
Zach Bravo as Tugger, Chris Salvaggio as Skimbleshanks, and Michelle Carter as Jennyanydots; 2021 US tour, 27 September.
Bonus:
(31 October 2021 X)