#cats in media

[batwynn]

I’ve played a ‘thinking of a thing’ 20 questions type game with my mother since as long as I can remember. We’ve done a lot of different themed versions of it varying from fictional characters, McGuffin objects in media, actors, books, random items, etc. The average guessing time has a pretty wide range, too. Sometimes it takes forever to guess Tom Hiddleston. Sometimes it takes a minute to guess Gangs of New York.

Until yesterday.

Yesterday we did cats in media.

Folks. It took us less time to guess what cat it was than anything we’ve ever imagined in all the time we’ve been playing. Seconds. Every cat, accurate and immediate recall. Even the most out-of-left-field two seconds on screen cats. Literally Patrick, the cat in a framed picture in one episode of The Mighty Boosh.

I don’t know what this says about us as humans that we can’t think of Neil Patrick Harris for 30 minutes, or Catcher in the Rye, but could name a cat who’s tail was in the shot accidentally in a low budget comedy from 40 years ago in a minute… but I think it’s probably fine.

[ohnoitsthebat]

Top 5 cats in media

I LOVE this question! It was difficult, but I just picked the first five cats that came to mind.

Luna, Sailor Moon

Salem Saberhagen, Sabrina the Teenage Witch

Jiji, Kiki's Delivery Service

Garfield

Sassy, Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey

[felinefractious]

“Jonesy”

🐱 Domestic Shorthair

🎥 Aliens (1986)

🎨 Red

ALIENS (1986) dir. James Cameron

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[jagalart]

Yellow archangel Pet portrait for the very kind Romney 💚 thank you again!

I fell in love with these flowers last year when I started gathering mushrooms - the forests around me are filled with these and I just love the patterns on their leaves!

[luke-and-leia-the-cats-not-jedi]

So this Leia standing up which is adorable and I would have posted on Reddit to /r/catsstandingup but I haven’t really figured out Tumblr yet so is there a #catsstandingup is that what I do someone help I’m an old man

[prokopetz]

Historically, the American animation industry has recognised only two types of cartoons aimed at adult audiences:

The animated sitcom

Martial arts action with tits and gore

I'm watching the Fionna and Cake miniseries right now, and I genuinely think we're witnessing the emergence of a third broadly accepted option: whimsical fantasy adventure in the mode of popular children's programming, except everyone is clinically depressed.

[diangelodork]

as someone who is a huge fan of other queer content (like heartstopper and red, white and royal blue), dead boy detectives feels so incredibly different.

despite how much i love those two, they don’t feel like they’re made for queer people.

in a lot of ways, they feel like media made for cishet people about queer and trans people which is fine and doesn’t make it unenjoyable, but dbda has a totally different feel to it.

it feels like queer media made FOR queer people.

they have so much nuance to their characters and don’t shy away from it. charles openly flirts with both edwin and crystal despite the fact that he never says anything about his sexuality and edwin’s backstory doesn’t try to hide the horrifying way that queer people were treated historically and i think that’s really important.

though he is very clearly repressed, he is still unapologetically queer. he showcases his jealousy loudly and there is no doubt in the viewer’s mind that he is queer even for a moment.

same with monty and the cat king. they’re so vibrantly and boldly queer. monty begins flirting with edwin nearly the moment we see him and as does tck. what i really appreciate about tck is his gender nonconformity. i think that’s so important and i honestly really appreciate that they don’t even mention it.

with tck in particular, his actions can be considered rather predatory, but we never really feel like that’s due to his queerness which is FASCINATING because that is a really harmful stereotype of queer people, but it never feels like that’s what they’re going for or like they’re using it to demonize queerness.

with jenny, she says so casually that she’s attracted to women and it’s not even something that they have to discuss again. it’s such an unimportant aspect of her character, but it’s still so unabashedly there. i love that niko doesn’t even say anything about it when she learns, she just accepts her, no questions asked.

even with simon, he very clearly discusses his sexuality in E7 when he tells edwin that he liked him, but he never has to say the words. we just KNOW contextually because he talks around it. he i would argue that he is the only instance of a character discussing shame in their identity and it immediately results in one of the loveliest quotes in the show.

“if you punish yourself, everywhere becomes hell.”

he has spent over a century repressing himself and when he finally tells edwin, the boy he liked and treated terribly because of it, he is immediately told that it is not torture to be queer. he is immediately told that there is nothing wrong with his sexuality.

the confession scene btwn edwin and charles in E7 and the scene in E6 where edwin is TRYING to confess are so fucking important to me. nearly immediately, charles tells edwin that it doesn’t make any difference that he’s queer and that he accepts him. when he does confess, he doesn’t make him feel bad for it. he tells him that he loves him too, but that he can’t say he does in that way right now, but that he’s the most important person in his life and that that will never change.

the scene in E7 where they’re on the roof and edwin tries to apologize for potentially having made things awkward, charles shuts it down immediately. he says “it doesn’t.” and that’s the end of it.

this show exemplifies queerness through a queer light and it’s very clear who the intended audience is for dbda not to sound like i’m hating on the first two pieces of media (rwrb is literally one of my special interests, trust me, i adore them both), but maybe that’s why hs was given a third season and dbda was cancelled within five months of airing. i feel that these two pander to straight people in a lot of ways, but dbda doesn’t. it’s something that is incredibly important to me and i’m really happy about it.

[ydotcom777]

i am no longer available for things that make me feel like shit

[sol-em-gemeos]

i need recommendations with books, graphic novels, manga and etc where cats are the main characters!!

please!! give me some recs!! (preferably for adults)

[vanessagillings]

Spring colors~ 🌸

[isbergillustration]

[k-wame]

best summary of this film ive ever read

[mtomauw]

🌿Bramble season 🌿

[xgoth-mothx]

- Goth Cat -

[jagalart]

sneezewort yarrow and silver ragwort

A second pet portrait for the great Romney! Thank you so much again for letting me draw your wonderful kitties <3 This time feat. a really neat flower I discovered this year, sneezewort (I can't get over how hilarious it's name is in both English and Polish, in which it's called krwawnik kichawiec) and one I've had in my garden for years now and have huge fondness for <3