#THANK YOU CATE

[yameoto]

these asks being sent within the same hour is killing me

[jaythedagger]

jordan li being a bigender character in such a popular superhero universe has been fantastic to see for representation, but it’s also been pleasantly surprising for me to find out how my peers approach their character. friends of mine that i haven’t seen grasp neutral pronouns or gender fluidity before have been talking about jordan with ease and using they/them in conversation with little to no issues. they find it really cool and interesting how they can be both male and female, and find them equally as hot in both forms lmao. idk, i didn’t expect this wholesome revelation from a wacky and gorey action spin-off, but here we are, and i’m super happy about it.

[slayqueeningtbh]

more tidbits 🫶

[jellicle-chants]

If you could make any rare swing a permanent character, who would it be?

Good question! I think I would pick Golden!NBQ, either the version of the character played by this unnamed actress (left) or Summer Strallen. I love the Jellylorum wig shape and I think she stands out against the other queens, especially in the left design.

[villa-kulla]

@ the mag7 fam, I realize I have no way of convincing you this is not a 'and then everyone clapped' fake post, but i LITERALLY MET MANUEL GARCIA RULFO this weekend at a TIFF party, and we LITERALLY SPOKE FOR LIKE 5 MINUTES

Takeaways:

he is really ridiculously handsome, excellent brown eyes, A+

really not as tall as he seems in character, and much slighter, i may have to revisit how 'looming' i've written him in fic lmao

(on that note it is biZARRE meeting someone whose character you've written fic about, that is the first time that has happened to me. i can only be grateful i haven't written too much with him, i'd have withered if it was ethan hawke or LBH lol)

he was extremely friendly! and as it transpired he lived in my hometown for about a year so we just chatted about that. he loves poutine and hates the winter, and he has my full agreement on both counts 👍

he also appears to be dating vincent d'onofrio's daughter which is sO cute, the mag7 fam lives on 🙌 (she is gorgeous btw. and I don't think this is like a 'scoop' or private info or anything lol, I asked if he had anything going on at tiff that day and he was very openly like 'no only next week, today I'm just supporting her!)

(also the context for All This is my gentleman friend is a journalist and i joined him at TIFF for the weekend and basically larped as a famous person all weekend lol good times. weekend was crazy but this part felt the most relevant to tumblr)

[francesderwent]

watching rom coms in your teens: oh I hope that vague reconciliation scene at the end means they got together and they’re a couple now!!! wish they kissed onscreen!

watching rom coms in your thirties: ugh I hope that vague reconciliation scene at the end doesn’t mean they got together. he's a little nothing man and she deserves better. wish she rejected him onscreen.

[cinemapix]

TÁR - dir. Todd Field (2022)

[cityghoull]

New Carol on set photos in 2023, we’re really thriving this week

[laurieblakesbluedildo]

pretty when you cry

Fandom: Gen V // The Boys

Pairings: Cate Dunlap/ Indira Shetty

Rating: Explicit

Summary: A deep dive into Cate and Indira's complex relationship from the moment they met until the end of season 1 of Gen V.

Click here to read it!

[yameoto]

yam ive come back to geek over ur cate bots oh my god the stockholm syndrome one???? i ended up dicking her down w a strap on the couch after rebelling and showing her how easily i can wrap her around my finger js as i am around hers😭😭😭 poor thing was squirming after being edged multiple times— still threatened me throughout the whole thing i am enamoured by your brain🫠 a 🌹 for you, you gorgeous human.

kidnapper!cate my poor darling girl.. because she doesn’t even realise the hold you have on her. after all, she’s the one in control, right? obviously. obviously. no, you’re the one who needs her. she’s robbing you of your free will, your independence—making you rely on her to sleep eat breathe love because she needs to be needed. cate’s mommy issues warping her perception of love so badly.. her first mother locked her away half her life. her second mother was softer and held her hands and wiped away her tears but she also fed her pills and used her and made her so dependent she’d do anything for a scrap of affection. it’s the only love she knows. so of course she’d do the same to you. this is her loving you.

her lil fantasies in her head that one day.. one day she’ll get you to the point where she doesn’t even need to coil her hand around your wrist and whisper in your ear for you to come to her. days where she doesn’t order anything from you, just to see if you’ll find your way to her door out of her own volition (and you do. out of fear, probably, but you still came and she didn’t even have to tell you—and the thought makes her so giddy she can hardly sleep at night. admiring the deep, rise and fall of your chest as you slumber away.. tracing the lips that she could take at any point in time. she’ll pretend that she didn’t steal you away and that you’re here because you love her. really love her. yearning for something she technically already has.)

[avaelangel]

The idea of Gen V musical episode plagues me. But I really want it to be weird and surreal. Like there's no way to survive but to sing and dance. And everybody is bewildered, doing the routines the can't possibly know.

There is a possibility that everybody would have an original song, maybe even there going to be a TV-themed villain and everything would be broadcasted. Could you imagine?

But I do have some thoughts, mostly about Jordan. I don't know why, but Jordan and few Orville Peck songs I listen to just fused together in my mind.

Imagine a room that sort of resembles a barn with a small stage. Figure in a cowboy hat, with a guitar, is the only part of the room that's only somewhat illuminated. And the moment Marie steps closer through the faceless crowd, the stage illuminates fully, showing Jordan in the male form stuck in the broody-guitarist-cowboy pose.

But the moment Marie is close enough, Jordan can move. They switch and play the first few notes of Roses Are Falling.

The song is rather slow, but the crowd sways softly, starting to dance with their hats and Jordan, while singing, glances to the hat that lays to the side so Marie can join in.

And while the dance progreses, Jordan can move more. They stand up and go to Marie, who sways, maybe even sings along. When the song ends, those two hug, checking that they are both real. And since this is The Boys Universe we are talking about, the crowd probably should turn hostile.

Also, if we are making Derek dance, I really think it should be like almost a ballet number. With Marie or not, but very emotional.

I don't really know what song I would give to Marie herself, but I think many of Florence and The Machine songs would suit her well. Which Witch? Ship To Wreck? You've Got the Love?

I do have a song for Andre too. It's Power by Isak Danielson. I mean, Chance has a nice deep voice. We can't tell if his accent will show, but I think it could be great otherwise.

It's obviosly a song about Cate. Maybe in this number she even recruits him, compels him to go with her, where he tries to pull away and succeds or...doesn't. I think it could be both Andre giving in and saying goodbye to Cate and to Luke too, everything that was easy and seemingly safe about their friendship\love.

This number doesn't need much. Dark room\corridor, soft dance without touching. If Andre doesn't accept Cate's Godolkin rule, he leaves her in the darkness, now looking all bloody and feral, like in the finale.

I also have a song for Sam, which is Dirty Imbecile by The Happy Fits. It's a very easy choice at least because of the line:

'Cause I'm crazy in just too many ways

This basically could be about him being bored and dissapointed with his newfound fame and life. Maybe some of his emotions would come back through singing, we don't really now what else can break through Cate's influence. In case somene might think that I'm insulting Sam, the song, even though upbeat, it's from the persperctive of a scarred person who feels out of place, basically.

Anyway, I don't want to be cured from this hyper-fixation.

[fxreflyes]

4, 5, 25, 47!

hi cate <333 thanks for asking :)

4. what cryptid do you believe in? tbh im open to any!!! i dont actively believe in any, but if i saw evidence or heard about it near me i definitely could be convinced. but until then im not sure there are any i know for sure

5. what is ur eye color? green? blue? idk someone tell me (iv added my eyes under the cut lol) im pretty sure my passport and drivers license have literally different answers hahahaha

25. perfume or lotion? perfume!! i love and am wearing this perfume rn:

47. last message sent? "im fully aware" to my brother and uncle bc we have a family fantasy football league and my uncle & i are tied in our game rn and my brother asked I knew we were in a cage fight lololol

ask me :)

[glitteryluminarytheorist]

Thank you to everyone who got me to 100 likes!

[jellicle-chants]

I've always wanted a CATS animated movie that depicts the characters as actual cats (rather than people in cat costumes), with either Don-Bluth-style traditional animation or more modern "hyper-realism" CGI. But I wonder if that would take the "theatre" appeal out of it for other people. What do you think?

I'll be honest, I've never really been in love with the idea of making CATS the musical an animated movie. I think the designs that exist from the proof of concept are cool, but there's also definitely reasons they struggled to take it past that stage. This is not to say that Eliot's poems could never be adapted into a children's animated movie, but I think making it specifically an adaptation of the stage show is what makes it iffy. I'll try to break it down more under the cut:

Problem A: at the end of the day, CATS is a dance show. A lot of the show is just dancing, and very involved dancing at that. What are you supposed to do with the 9 minute dance break from the Ball? It's too iconic to cut, and the non-anthropomorphic cats ironically don't have the articulation to pull off a lot of the dance moves. (I'm thinking of movies like The Aristocats for comparison, which really doesn't have the characters do much that actual cats physically couldn't. I guess if it were more like An American Tail it wouldn't be so jarring, but I'll get to that later.)

Problem B: CATS has too little plot for a traditionally structured movie. The 2019 version also ran into this problem, which of course it solved in the worst way conceivable, but it's still a problem. Movie and theatre audiences simply have different expectations, suspension of disbelief, etc. that CATS is too theatrical to cross over into. I think it would be really interesting to make a Fantasia-like movie with each of the poems/songs being a totally different short in an anthology, but I don't think that's what most people are imagining when they say they want an animated CATS movie.

Problem C: what do you do about humans? The cats of CATS live in a world clearly populated by humans, but they're never shown directly. Adding humans, to me at least, clearly poses a "power creep" problem: any adult human can easily overpower any cat, and also leans the movie towards a more plot-driven story (as I feel like a lot of animal movies with humans tend to have a human antagonist). On the other hand, you could just make the entire world be populated by cats, which would (mostly) solve the dancing problem. However, I feel like doing that misses the point of the original poems: to illustrate the different types of pet/stray cats. It's not as funny to imagine Skimbleshanks being in charge of a group of feline train workers (which could be a completely normal thing within talking-animal movies) than it is to imagine an entire train full of humans and the orange tabby cat who thinks he's in charge of all of them. The same goes for Bustopher Jones, Gus, Mungojerrie & Rumpleteazer, etc., etc.

[francesderwent]

where did Zoey Deutch goooo she should have been the new Meg Ryan/Sandra Bullock/Katherine Heigl and churned out a whole decade’s worth of rom-coms on the strength of her comedic sense and warmth. take one for the team, girl!!

[lilaccatholic]

I could never say my mutuals don't influence my tastes because I am actively making a locklyle playlist with So Much Taylor Swift On It and lemme tell ya chief, that was not an organic decision