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i dont have the energy to do a whole dream cast but know that for macavity it's Zoltán Fekete 🔥
i love one (1) feral fire man
Just Macavity, not Plato? I suppose if we cast separatey for each cat's/track's different roles we can include more people!
We could even have a quaxo and a Mistoffelees... :P
since tecklenburg doesnt have plato do the pas de deux, id say yeah cuz then i can get Daniel in as plato being all soft and cute!
“Are you okay with having blood on your hands?” - Munkustrap to Mungojerrie
()Romantic ()Familal (x)Platonic
TW for blood, violence, and character death
I TAKE IT BACK. UNPROMPT. UNPROMPT!!!
@uppastthejelliclemoon HELP look what skimbly did!
alternative:
Munkustrap doesn’t like to admit how easy he is to rickroll. 😼
A new theory emerges: Mr. Mistoffelees is Macavity.
Or, rather, Macavity is Mr. Mistoffelees. He is older, after all. Now, to begin-
Is this a serious theory?
No, and please keep that in mind.
That said, let’s start with a comparison of their powers. What do we know Macavity can do? Well, he can control or freeze-in-place other cats, at least to some extent, it seems. Mr. Mistoffelees has, in turn, frozen a few cats “playfully”, and (here) is a link to him “power possessing” another cat. Most damning, what do they have most in common? If you go looking for either cat, they aren’t there!
(I would also argue that Misto’s control over light is mirrored in Macavity, making the stage red and inducing confusion, but of course who’s to say?)
Let’s look at Quaxo’s other name, now: quite similar to “Mephistopheles,” isn’t it? That’s a hint… or, is it? Is this tuxedo Jellicle actually Macavity in the flesh, doing the same thing he did to be Old Deuteronomy, or is he just some poor cat being possessed? Has Macavity broken the Three Name Rule? Truly his most hideous crime, if so.
Theoretically, let’s say it is Macavity. Why was he not caught out like he was pretending to be Old D? Well, perhaps he wanted to be caught.
What? You’ve lost the plot.
No, hear me out! Macavity knows that he will never be chosen to ascend and be reborn. Then, when he dies, how can he continue to wreak havoc? No, he needs to be chosen, but how? …A new, adorable cat, who has done a very great thing for the tribe will certainly be chosen, some day. In the mean time, he can’t help but call funny, talented cats “terrible bores”.
.... macavity is actually tiny under all that fluff, pass it on
We do talk a lot about how Mungojerrie has a Journey over the course of the Macavity fight - finding his courage and standing up. Pouncival has no journey. Pouncival is ready to throw down from the start!
(The second one is probably the hardest to make out, but he’s crouching in front of Tantomile and Jellylorum, snarling and ready to spring. In the second-last one he gets wiped out by a back-hand at the side of the shot, and in the final one, his distinctive butt is ready to chase Macavity right up onto that cat if he has to!)
he protecc he attacc but most important he arch his bacc
This was fun to make. I haven’t really been drawing lately due to some stuff going on with me mentally and physically, so getting a burst of inspiration, and then the motivation to make a drawing from said inspiration has made me a little excited to share it with everyone.
I hope you all enjoy it,
oh no, poor macavities. to be confronted with a macavity. :(
okay who wants some garbage cat content?
and be careful children, this cat is a criminal
A FIEND
Guadalupe Lancho and Paqui Sánchez Melchior as Demeter and Bombalurina (Madrid 2004).
“We just saw the cat Demeter, the character Demeter. Demeter has been stolen or kidnapped by Macavity. How will you know this? You don’t, but I’m telling you. This is the backstage pass right here! She’s been kidnapped by Macavity. She knows that tonight is the night the Jellicles meet and if she escapes from Macavity tonight she has a chance of going to this other tribe and asking them to protect her. So tonight is the night. So this is her!” - Jacob Brent
Macavity makes a surprise appearance near the end of his song - or does he? Because when you look again, Macavity’s not there.
Top row: Tugger (tiger stripes), Macavity, Mungojerrie (pinstripes and spats).
Bottom row: Alonzo (red pants), Coricopat (black and white stripes under black vest), Demeter (pink and black), Bombalurina (black), Tumblebrutus (grey with tabby face and backwards baseball cap), Munkustrap (grey with white face and floofy ears).
What was that I was saying the other day about Demeter and Bombalurina and their sexy sexy crushes on Mungojerrie and Griddlebone?
When you’re just having a fun game of Family Bouncy Time and realise that you forgot to invite That Cousin... and they just showed up anyway.
(mungojerrie and electra!! jelly’s little wiggles!! old deut’s little wiggles! tugger pretending he isn’t wiggling! SKIMBLEDAD! bombalurina and jelly squabbling and bomba patting munkustrap out of the way! rumpelteazer and jemima bopping together!! MUNGOJERRIE AND ELECTRA!!!!!!!!)
(Amsterdam 2007)
My day has been empty of Alonzo and for this I am sad
Can I offer you an upside-down French Alonzo in these trying times?
so are we all just sleeping on the fact the demeter has the hots for mungojerrie or
Elaborate 👀
Oh, I don’t know...
It must just be...
...something about the way she and Bombalurina...
... discuss their secret criminal celebrity crushes. Whether they be in London in 1998, in Amsterdamn in 2007, on Broadway in 2016, or even...
... in Moscow 2005, or...
... delightfully, Paris 1990. In fact we even have it endorsed by the longest-running and most valid Bombalurina ever:
Marlene Danielle. See also this video clip, which I didn’t gif because it cuts away just at that moment to a broad shot. The video is low quality anyway, but the audio is all you need.
You could, of course, say Demeter just admires him - it’s technically a valid reading of the text, but it’s reading against the grain, when lyrics, choreography, and acting invite us to read both crushes in the same terms.
(And nobody, of course, would dispute how hard Bombalurina would jump Griddlebone given half a chance.)
I am a:
⚪️ man
⚪️ woman
🔘 Scotland Yard
Looking for
⚪️ men
⚪️ women
🔘 where THE FUCK Macavity is
It’s nice that Macavity waited to cause chaos until Skimbleshanks was safely up on Alonzo and Munkustrap. Can you imagine if Skimble had still had any part of his weight on poor terrified Mungojerrie, the most frightened cat on that stage? He’d have gone down with a crash.
Meanwhile…
Macavity
So suave. So handsome.
