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A silly idea for a Christmas gift to @ultramarinaa

We both love the headcanon that Martin is at least half Polish, and they told me about a tradition where Polish people keep a carp fresh for Christmas, usually in their bathtub. So I couldn’t resist drawing Cat!Martin making a new friend.

(Don’t worry, this carp didn’t get eaten for dinner. Martin got attached and they gave it a good, fishy home.)

Merry Christmas, Ultra! Thank you for being my friend ❤️

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Can we see Martin polishing Jon's tail? 😏 Possibly in more ways than one~

Their tail is sensitive 💚

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I recently got the 1995 book Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing and Horror Cinema by Mark A. Miller and decided to put together some of my favorite quotes. I bought the first edition because it was cheaper, but the second edition had some revisions and expansions, what exactly was different I don't know (I'm sure it addressed Lee's big explosion in popularity in the early 2000's among other things), but there's still lots and lots of interesting material in here; plus, to my surprise the copy I got was signed by the author himself back in 1995, so that's pretty cool.

Anyway, here's some quotes for ya:

These first two quotes are Vincent Price talking about Lee and Cushing which I thought were absolutely darling. Here's the one about Lee:

Everybody told me that he was rather stiff and unbending and not very funny. Well, we screamed with laughter from the minute we shook hands until now. We get along just like mad... write each other rude notes and funny letters and telegrams and postcards and, you know, anything we can find that we know will tickle one another. He's one of the few actors in my life that I have stayed in touch with, strangely enough. If you get him on a subject that he likes, he's very warm and vibrant. I think he's got a wonderful sense of humor, but I don't think everybody knows how to get at it. For some reason or other we strike each other as funny, and it's wonderful fun to be with him.

Here's him about Cushing:

He's nothing like Christopher Lee because Peter's a very wiry, little fellow. But Peter is one of the strongest men I ever knew in my life. I had to do several fight scenes with him [in Madhouse]. My God! He can throw you! He doesn't fake it at all. Nobody warned me about this, and I was sort of battered and bruised. He's a very realistic and very serious-minded actor. I like Peter very much, and I hear from him always at Christmas. On our birthdays we send each other the funniest cards we can find too. He's a very gentle, sweet man. I am very, very fond of him.

Cushing was, in fact, not a little man, but of course Price would have seen him as one from his perspective lol... The part about Cushing apparently being incredibly strong is pretty wild considering Price was referring to him during the making of Madhouse, when he had spent the last 2-ish years losing a lot of weight, smoked like a chimney (the book mentions at one point that he could smoke up to 50-60 cigarettes a day before he quit), was a vegetarian, and was in his early 60's. If he was strong enough to toss Price's tall ass around like a rag doll then (which is a very funny mental image), how strong was he during his prime???

Here's a description of the Lee family cheering up Cushing for the holidays during the making of Horror Express:

He faced his first Christmas without Helen and in a country that was not even his own. Luckily he found solace on Christmas Day in the warm family gathering of the Lees in their Madrid hotel. Gitte and Christina had flown over for the holiday, and they invited Peter to spend the day with them. This was the fourteenth film in which they had both acted since The Curse of Frankenstein fifteen years before, and one that offered them many great scenes together. But their best scene together was the one in that Madrid hotel on Christmas in which Peter Cushing received the emotional support he needed so desperately. The next morning Cushing was back at the studio, cheerfully ready for work.

So sweet... For anyone wondering, this book did not mention anything about Lee supposedly comforting Cushing with his presence in case the latter ever had any night terrors while making Horror Express. I'm starting to think that story might be made up! Maybe it was mentioned in the second edition, or maybe it was mentioned in one of the interviews or whatever that Miller used for researching this book. My search for a primary or secondary source continues.

Here's actress Lorna Heilbron about Cushing and Lee during the making of The Creeping Flesh:

Peter Cushing is a brilliant actor I think. I was, of course, playing his daughter, and Peter had quite recently lost his wife Helen and was grieving for her and was very open about this. He related to me as a father and was tremendously caring and supportive, especially as he felt that I resembled Helen, so we had a rather intense relationship where I felt he really "lived" his part in the film. He came the first day on the set with his script covered, literally covered, with notes he had written about what he felt his character would do or be feeling at any particular time. He also knew down to the last detail what props he would require and had obviously chosen his costumes with immense care. Within all this careful forethought he was very flexible so that if an actor gave him something unexpected, he would respond to this and was willing to go with what was happening "now". He was charming, courteous, and clever and was dearly liked and admired by everyone. At that time he was, as I said, feeling very sad and so was clearly very vulnerable. He would take himself on his own to have a bit of a wander and, I suspect, a jolly good cry. I adored him. I didn't get to know Christopher Lee so well, mostly because I didn't actually have many scenes with him and partly because he kept "himself to himself" as we say over here. I remember he had a most wonderful singing voice, of which he was justly proud, and which would go ringing round the corridors of Shepperton. The crew called him "Rabbity Lee" because he loved to talk, which he did very amusingly and at some length. I have often felt he was a much better actor than some of his material. He and Peter seemed close and distant at the same time. They probably didn't have that much in common apart from a very strong symbiotic working relationship.

Rabbity Lee… 🥲

Next is Price, Lee, and Cushing's opinions on House of the Long Shadows, which I feel each perfectly encapsulate their personalities.

Vincent Price spoke bitterly about the film in 1991: "A disaster - because the man, whoever - I can't even remember his name; psychosomatically I've forgotten it - the guy who directed it and the [editor] who cut it... they just cut all the comedy out of it... I hated it. Desi Arnaz, who was very good in it - they just turned it all over to him so that you never had the four people you wanted to see ever doing anything at all. That was that stupid director." When asked in 1992 if he agreed with Price that the film constituted a missed opportunity for the all-star team-up, Christopher Lee quickly responded: "I do, without a doubt. He was absolutely right. It's the old, old story: get it on film, finish it in time and on budget, and if it's in focus, we can sell it." Asked also of his memories of Pete Walker directing him, Lee replied simply, "He didn't." Peter Cushing's only complaint is that he suffered from bronchitis while making the film in a cold, damp, seventeenth-century manor house in Hampshire that had no heat. Because he found working with Lee, Price, and Carradine to be "a joy," Cushing summed up the film as "lovely to do."

Speaking of House of the Long Shadows, I wanted to bring up one particular criticism Mark A. Miller had of the movie to be very ironic if you've been in the fandom for this era of horror whatsoever on Tumblr. Miller absolutely hated the iconic "bitch" line from Price, saying of it:

Instead of the good-natured, funny lines that work so well in horror send-ups like The Raven, A Comedy of Terrors, and Young Frankenstein, in this film we only hear Price's character call Lee's a "bitch" - the embarrassing epitome of the script's nasty, witless spirit. After Price's line, the film seems more like a cruel practical joke on the venerable cast than an amusing parody of their images.

I agree with many of Miller's takes throughout the book, but definitely not all of them, and this is a case of that. That line's the best part of the movie! It's Vincent Price saying "bitch" in cursive, it's so delicious! Did Miller hate fun? I can't ask him because he's dead. What if the line was an ad-lib from Price, huh? If Miller knew how popular that moment is on this website, he'd probably be baffled, lol.

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JONATHAN ARCHIVIST IS NOT STUPID SQUAD I WILL ALWAYS BE WITH YOU

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Merry Christmas Charlie Brown!

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Good Lord, Martin - Jon probably

Hello sailor~ saw @cabinette 's 49 years old Martin design with tattoos and I- I had to- just- look at this man (also her other art as well- they are so good)

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jonathan sims is a very talented voice actor but unfortunately I primarily associate him with when he was playing seward on re: dracula, and he had to begin like half his episodes with "warning: this episode contains medical ableism." my dad and I quote that around the house to this day. I'm sorry jonathan sims. I'm sure you're a great person. but you have become the medical ableism guy to me

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TMA!Cats meows!

The boys speak!!

Cat!jon and cat!martin belong to @ultramarinaa

I’ve wanted to do this for a while but DAMN if it didn’t take ages started this on nov 26 and finished dec 7

If I ever try and animate again, kill me (I will animate again) (I was gonna do another clip with these but I got impatient) (prob gonna do that one later)

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More jmart headcanons because I finally have an obsession with a pair of British boys and can be very specific.

I think Martin plays rugby. He joins a weekend LGBT+ team with Tim after a lot of wheedling and convincing, promising it’s just for fun. And he finds out he actually loves it, he’s found a sport where he doesn’t feel out of place for his size and he’s actually making friends and being part of something.

Which means John feels a boyfriend obligation to be standing on the edges of a freezing cold field on a Saturday afternoon, shivering even in a scarf, hat and coat with Sasha laughing at him and welcoming him to the WAGs. John mumbles that he doesn’t even know the rules, he’s only here to support Martin. Sasha rolls her eyes, stop being so grumpy and she’ll share her flask of tea with you. She bets you’ll love it.

And John actually does. At first he’s worried, seeing Martin smash so forcefully into other guys, panicking and asking Sasha how the referee is allowing this, is he even going to get any pieces of his boyfriend back at the end? But slowly he sees the joy on Martins face when he celebrates with his teammates, he finds himself yelling and clapping when Martin passes the ball to Tim for a try and, okay yes, he’s getting a little hot under the collar seeing him like this but shut up, Sasha, it’s just all the wool he’s wearing.

When the game finishes, John runs over and gives Martin a huge hug and kiss before fussing over his bloody nose, leaving his boyfriend blushing and grinning.

After that, John’s there for every match with a scarf in the team colours.

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Sorry if you already explained this somewhere. But. Why is the man always wearing a goddamn bathrobe. Give him some dignity. And pants!!

So there is actually a reason, and it’s mostly due to comfort and flexibility.

Jon can shift between full human disguise, to a partial shift, and into a full dragon form (which I have yet to draw, but it’s on my list). In this AU, some dragons have tentative agreements with kingdoms to be left alone or even work with them, but rogue hunters are still a problem, so a full disguise in public is often necessary.

So their clothes need to be flexible and allow for easy shifting as well as be comfortable, because they are picky af about how fabric feels on skin and scales. Pants are getting torn to bits of they need to shift into full dragon, but they have some that they like well enough and can accommodate their tail.

Their robes are made of soft material but are more like kimonos and yukatas so they can just slide off and not get ruined, and just feels better overall.

Unfortunately for Martin, Jon is just not aware at all that their choice of clothes is giving the poor guy heart attacks.

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what if instead of bumping into his bully, little jon bumped into lil martin

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the lads have a very awkward family dinner! 18+ sketchpages now available on patreon

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Could you maybe reblog this post if you think respecting trans peoples' names and identities is a basic right and not a political opinion?

No pressure. Just seeking some validation of my sentiment. Due to some. people

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Corvid Christmas tree. Simple, but beautiful.