#nbqs

[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.

[elegantfelinity]

i've rarely seen helen anker discussed on here , but here's some photos of her as greycat / nbq . i was just gonna upload these to her cats wiki , though i don't know exactly how to and they're all watermarked .

[mrzblog]

ZELO | Sunday Hit

[lightingelectratwo]

Grey cat/Hysperia, Wisteria, and NBQ

[intriga-hounds]

ponzu did the full oval course today. she ran thru an open box wearing all her gear and she did great! i was both releasing and catching, so the video is awful and only about half of the run, but i’m very happy. today’s course was my test for whether she was ready to do singles at lure coursing again and i think she is! we’ve practiced straights at 3-4 separate meets and ovals once since her last go at coursing. she had qualifying scores her second day of singles, but was struggling with turns. i really hope she’ll do better this time! coursing is in two weeks. :)

[vamosgk]

⚡️Power Line

#verdeLaser

✨Bamos

#nbqspraypaint

☀️⛱️

🫠🪭

#hanem #vamos

#bamos #gipsykings

#chill #graffiti

#satisfying

#slowlife

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[clovenhoofedjester]

jellicle lineups; part 3/4

LETS GO PEOPLE!! LETS GO !! sorry for taking so long to get around to this one !

demeter | 🔒 🍰 🌇

DEETER

ive seen a lot of complaints about demeters design being toned down over the years so i decided to bring some of the bolder design choices back for mine. mullet demeter is REAL now ! honestly i couldve done more w/ their makeup but shhh its ok....

i tried to push the gold in their design by making the eyeshadow really obvious and giving them gold lips. enjoy their lacy dress too... i tried to design something which they could dance comfortably in

demeters newer 3 words (nervous, sensual, secretive) mean everything to me. love them so much. i think theyd be 29 in human years

bombalurina | 🌹 🍓 🛼

so i totally based her hair on that concept art for drag queen bomba. the bob is too cute ! i had a blast doing her design for the most part. i struggled w that makeup and the color of her dress but its ok.

i also tried to give her something she could dance in—just like. imagine the length of the dress a little shorter. im not going back and fixing it

i based her color palette/patterns directly on her concept art because tbh, i dont love blond/ginger bomba ! so black/white/red hair bomba it is

i think she would be 27 in human years

hysperia | 🪴 ⌚ 🍡

this is my version of exotica, renamed hysperia, because i do not love her og name. its not fun. the name hysperia is taken from an ensemble kitten character from the og london production

i also based her design on a multitude of things, asides from her 2 costumes in 98—like some nbq/greycat designs since i feel like that design not becoming a common ensemble character was a waste. A WASTE I TELL YOU! ive also based her fur length on warsaw victoria because oh my godddd that design is so good. peak

her neck bow is a nod to the 2019 movie... the macavity girls w/ those bow collars. they were onto something there

she would have a much more prominent role than the few times she cameo'd in 98, still retaining the elegant/shy personality she shows in the film. shed be 29 in human years

cassandra | 🪐 ♠️ 🥯

i originally made her makeup a lot closer to her replica designs but decided to go for something a little different based on a makeup look i saw on pinterest LOL. so like. enjoy her slight earthy gothic vibes. i also didnt struggled too much on her outfit since i came into this knowing that i wanted her to be wearing something formfitting and bejeweled. a little circus-y too

more people have got to play up her disdainfulness. she'd be 26 in human years

alonzo | 🎹 🍢 🎳

once again, another design pretty similar to his standard replica one. i just tried to make the black patch on his face a little greyer and with some white detailing. because tbh every alonzo with white mascara makes me go crazy its so cute

i also tried to make his head fur/bangs a little distinctive—inspired by a random pic from a production i dont know the name of

enjoy his little cute fit too. pinklonzo. pastelonzo

that one gif of him pantomiming eating a playing card IS canon to me. he'd be 28 in human years

munkustrap | 📼 🥧🎙

verrrry similar to standard replica munks makeup-wise ! however, fur wise.... say hi to mulletstrap. to manestrap. 2 me he is tuggers brother so he gets that. i have no justification for the mullet other than idk, looks good, is funny, and the oslo 1985 production was right to give him one. also he and demeter can match now

i do like when theyre seen as something of a prince... so say hi to the gothenburg and opera populaire-esque epaulettes. theyre cayoot. they also get warsaw munks Big Pant Vibes

give this man a break. hed be 30 in human years

macavity | 🔥 🥂 🎯

he was actually one of the first cats i made design notes for when i started hyperfixating on this musical like.... two months ago. i really tried to mix elements from a bunch of different designs 4 him.... and sorry yall hes a deut brother too. im predictable

the manginess, mane, more ginger-y head fur, tugger-ness and the mouth markings from the 2016 revival... the big big hair, white fur and general makeup from his replica design... and the stylings of il sistina mac with the fitted coat. he also gets unique eyelashes like tugger—this time white instead of gold. he also gets that ominous magic cat eye shading

i think he would act a lot like 2019 mac... suave. but also not as dorky and desperate as he is in that movie LOL. he'd be 33 in human years

ONLY ONE MORE LEFT..... THE OLDIES........ MAYBE... I MIGHT MAKE DESIGNS FOR SOME OF THE SWINGS TOO LOL

[wyrddogs]

Insert Standard Sports Person Bitching About People Controlling Their Damn Dogs While Doing Sport Here.

So anyway at the field trial we had two separate standard wirehairs (25+ pounds) interfere with two separate minis (13 pounds and under).

On Saturday, a mini smooth was braced with a standard wirehair. When they returned to the gallery after their run, the smooth's owner told me that the wirehair immediately jumped on her dog, crushing him, and the smooth ended up quitting work to flee back to her and hide. The judges reran them and the smooth completely refused to work at all, instead remaining with his owner. She was understandably very upset.

Also the wirehair was NBQ. Instead of, you know, being pulled for the day for interfering with his bracemate. So that was cool. Super fair.

On Sunday a different standard wire interfered with his bracemate and was pulled. Kermit was the bye-dog and needed a bracemate, and the judges in their infinite wisdom decided to give the dog that interfered with another dog a second chance.

The instant they were let off leash, the wire shoved his entire nose up Kermit's ass and refused to back off, even when Kermit quit working to growl at him. Thankfully the judges told the owner to get his dog before I DQ'd myself by dropkicking a dog. Also thankfully Kermit is tough and immediately resumed working instead of being badly shaken like that poor smooth.

So anyway it pisses me off when dogs are given multiple chances to interfere with their bracemates, and also when a dog that interferes with his bracemate is rewarded with NBQ instead of being pulled, and also when my dog is half the size of the dog that is interfering with him but the judges still felt that dog needed a second chance. I also don't want to be all conspiracy theorist but I do have to note that the dogs that were allowed multiple chances to interfere (and also get NBQ) were standard wires, who tend to be the darlings at field trials...

[real-reulbbr-band]

1, 2, 6, 17 ?

Yippie!!! Ty!!!

1. Favorite swing(s)?

I’m a little basic but I’m very Found of Greycat / NBQ and Olivia.

I don’t know if this counts but this specific design for swing jemima I’m in love with and I call her “Buttercream” and she’s related to caramel.

2. Favorite song cat?

Oh, I have two answers because it depends on the version of the show I’m watching. Regularly it’s Demeter, but whenever Sillabub is there (and doesn’t just have the jemima design- like actual sillabub as a separate character) then she’s my favorite :3

6. Favorite platonic headcanon?

Tugger and Grizabella being close friends before she left <3 I’m not really a Deut Brother’s person so when I heard of this from Chris Stevens I was really invested.

Especially with Tugger being envious of Grizabella because at the end of the day; she’s always been more free than him she got around while Tugger essentially stayed the same, even if it didn’t work out for her.

I think it makes the context of Tuggers bitterness towards her very interesting.

17. Have you made any OCs?

Yes! Just Chiffon, which you can read about here!

I’m currently in a little redesign limbo for her so I’m trying to settle on Plato and Victoria designs before I proceed jasjjddjf

[postsofbabel]

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[theimpossiblescheme]

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Rosaline is the middle child between Ulysses and Prufrock, and she's based on this version of NBQ/Greycat from the Broadway production:

She got separated from her brothers after the three of them left the butcher shop, unable to make it across the road to join them and getting lost in the city. She did her best to survive, eating out of the rubbish and steering clear of humans and territorial strangers, but it wasn't easy--especially after a fling with a passing tom produced her daughter, Caprizant. After that, Capri became her first priority, and Rosie would often go without to make sure she was well-fed and safe. When Capri was about six weeks old, Rosie barely escaped being taken to a kitten mill, and while the two of them were in hiding, they heard about Macavity's plans to raid the mills... and the Jellicles' counter-initiative to save as many kittens as they could. Hoping against hope this would mean she'd see her brothers again, Rosie decided to help them, sneaking in to unlock cages and try to organize escapes (making sure Capri was out of harm's way first, of course). And sure enough, Ulysses and Munkustrap ended up right alongside her, and there were definitely tears when brother and sister finally united. The three of them and Capri made it safely back to the Junkyard, where Rosie reunited with Prufrock as well and decided to make it her permanent home. There, she wouldn't have to constantly worry about surviving, and the new friends she'd made--among them Demeter, Bombalurina, and Socrates--made it that much easier to enjoy herself.

(Bonus point: my voiceclaim for her is Susan Egan.)

[ilghila]

Humanae Vitae: capire le posizioni per scegliere il "bello".

Gli strascichi della pubblicazione della Pontificia Accademia della Vita di quasi un anno fa (qui un articolo della NBQ al riguardo) continuano, nella migliore (peggior) tradizione cattolica. Fra i botta e risposta che in questi mesi le fazioni stanno mettendo in campo, non è facile trovare chiarezza per chi vuole approfondire. Difficile trovarla non dico negli intenti, ma fin’anche nelle…

[blauespikmin]

I'd like to get into larger street art (so like painted graffiti not just quick pen tags and stickers). How do I do this without being caught? And what sort of paint dyou use?

There are legal walls all around the world! (But especially in Europe) Take a look here: https://www.legal-walls.net. Be aware that your graffiti can be covered up by anyone like within a week but its actually great for practicing.

As for the colors I always use the colors from my artsy friends, they've got me into spraying aswell!! She uses NBQ spray paint and for the background, to cover up older graffiti we buy wall paint, any is fine really! Let is dry some minutes before spraying on top.

If it is possible find yourself some sprayer friends than you can share your colors and they may know some good spots in your area.

As for if there is really no legal wall anywhere close to you, look out for places that rarely people go by, better if no streets are around as well. Pedestrians may see you but in my experience they never bother you and when they do they likely compliment your art!

Hope that help you and be safe!!

[josiebelladonna]

okay, so i haven’t seen this anywhere on tumblr (which on its own astounds and terrifies me), but here are some units of measurement for radioactivity:

the Becquerel

Becquerel measure the decays per reciprocal second of a substance. 1 Bq = 1 s^-1 a reciprocal second is the multiplicative inverse of a second. this is done to avoid fatal errors when in comparison to 1 hertz, which is very similar but not the same. 1 ms−1 would mean 10^6 disintegrations per second: 1·(10−6 s)−1 = 10^6 s−1, whereas 1 microbecquerel would mean 1 disintegration per 1 million seconds. every million seconds, or 11 and a half days, you have a single disintegration of the material and further release of ionizing radiation (it sounds confusing, but it’s not).

in relation to the Curie, which is the measurement of decays on the basis of radium, given madame curie and her husband discovered it, the Becquerel is as follows:

1 Ci = 3.7×10^10 Bq or 37 GBq (gigabecquerels)

and 1 Bq ≅ 2.703×10^−11 Ci ≅ 27 pCi (picocuries)

the prefixes, by the way, because i know those can be confusing, especially when you go beyond 1 trillion: kilobecquerel (kBq, 1000 becquerels), megabecquerel (MBq, 1 million), gigabecquerel (GBq, 1 billion), terabecquerel (TBq, 1 trillion), and petabecquerel (PBq, 1 quadrillion). 

in the opposite direction: decibecquerel (dBq, 1 tenth), centibecquerel (cBq, 1 hundredth), millibecquerel (mBq, 1 thousandth), microbecquerel (μBq, 1 millionth), nanobecquerel (nBq, 1 billionth), and picobecquerel (pBq, 1 trillionth).

i’ll spare you the mathematical calculations to determine the level of radioactivity because i’ll just put everyone to sleep, but for some examples: our bodies contain potassium-40 and carbon-14 (in very small amounts, but they’re there nonetheless). the former decays at 4,430 decays per second. sounds like a lot, but since it’s per aperiodic event per second (i.e., it’s a ratio), and it’s trace amount of potassium (0.0169 g to be exact) with a half-life of 1.277 x 10^9 years, we can calculate it at <30 becquerels. it’s not nothing, for sure, but it’s nothing compared to like... say, the hiroshima bomb which was 8 yottabecquerel (8 septillion becquerel) with a yield of 16 kilotons. for drinking water, because radioactive elements simply exist in nature, the level should be at least 0.185 Bq/liter (5.0 pCi/L). surface water in say, a lake, should be anywhere from 0.0037 - 0.0185 Bq/liter (0.1 - 0.5 pCi/L)

the higher the becquerel (or picocuries for that matter), the more radioactive.

the Becquerel was introduced in the 70s to more accurately represent the magnitude of decays (prior to then, we had the rutherford, which was 1 megabecquerel).

the Coulomb per kilogram

i learned about the coulomb when i was initially studying mechanics in high school: it measures the quantity of electrical charge in 1 second through 1 ampere, or amp. all i’m going to say about amperage is that it’s the thing about electrical charge that can prove to be fatal if it’s high enough (you can get hit with 1000 volts and, while it might hurt a little, it won’t kill you. however, 1000 volts backed up with 200 amps... yeah, you will end up in the hospital with a third-degree burn, no doubt about it).

this one is more for the level of exposure: 1 roentgen is equal to 2.58 x 10^-4 Coulomb per reciprocated kilogram of air. not solids, air. 1 roentgen is equal to 2.58 Coulombs of electrical charge per 10000 kilos of air. (*jamie hyneman voice* well, now there’s your problem!)

the Gray

simply put, dosage. it’s absorption of 1 joule (or 1 kilogram per square meter every reciprocated second) of radiation per kilogram of whatever matter there is.

for perspective, the radiation you get from a ct scan is 6 mGy (6 milligrays, 6 thousandths of gray) or 14 mGy. whereas, the dose applied from chemo-radiation varies wildly: to cure the cancer, it can go from 20 Gy all the way up to 80. in preventive cases, it can be <2 Gy.

it’s a vital role in dosimetry and the only equation i’ll give is the conversion because it’s going to get a little sideways from here:

1 Gy = 1 joule/kilogram which in turn equals to 1 meter squared/1 second squared

in the horrific, grotesque, phantasmagoric, utterly nightmarish realm of radiation poisoning, the gray will show the severity of the disease, granted they are certain to happen when exposed to high amounts of radiation (compared to the probability on the lower tier). 5 gray is, for the most part, the l.d. 50: the little girl in the goiania accident of 1987 was exposed to 6 gray, whereas her father was exposed to 7 and yet he survived it - he eventually died in 1994 from drinking, but he survived something that would otherwise kill a 75-kilogram/165-pound person. some of the men who went into chernobyl unprotected were exposed to 5 gray in like a couple of seconds (some of the dosimeters didn’t even work properly, either!) ebenezer byers, a golfer who fucked up his arm, was prescribed radithor (radium water) by william bailey and drank 1400 bottles of it - i’m gonna tell you this right now, that story + the story of the “radium girls” are very graphic, so don’t read them if you’re easily triggered. bailey also died about 10 years after byers in the 40s: both men had to buried in lead-lined coffins. both were exhumed and both were described as having been “ravaged by radiation.” 20th century quackery at its absolute dumbest.

the Rad

that’s rad! the rad is basically to gray as the curie is to the becquerel. it’s 0.010 gray.

(we use it here in the states but chapter 5.2 of the guide to the SI discourages it.)

but like the gray, it’s used in dosimetry: when i was reading about the nevada test site the other night, i came across a map that shows the amount of absorption in the wake of the fallout from the blasts. here on the west coast, we were away from the fallout just by the nature of the wind. downwind from the test site in st. george and southern utah, where they bore the brunt of it, sustained continuous absorption of more than 100 rad. less than 100 is survivable. blood might be kind of wonky, but you should be okay. 100 to 200, still survivable but you might barf and feel like you just got kicked in the crotch. 200 to 1000, prognosis negative. (l.d. 50 is 400) 1000, goodbye friend. (weird when i say that chemo-radiation is 4000 rad like bruh)

the Sievert

this is where it gets a little convoluted and i had to read this one twice to get it. where gray is simply absorption, the sievert is the dose quantity or effective dose.  “aren’t they the same?” you might ask. nope. not even.

effective dose adjusts the absorption for radiation type and relative to biology, i.e., it tells us about the future and if any complications will arise from it. it’s the biological effect of 1 gray - hence why i believe if you read about any of this stuff, you cannot. c a n n o t. can. not. EVER. let hysteria and fear get the best of you. you have got to approach it levelheaded and really look at the numbers and the measurements when held next to biology.

context is important, and it’s especially important in nuclear science.

so with this in mind, radiation is naturally occurring. just by nature of planet earth and where we are in space, it makes sense that we do in fact receive very incremental, very harmless doses of radiation. because of this, the sievert is more often than not measured in incremental doses.

quick side-note: electronics do emit radiation, but it’s not ionizing, though. your laptop, phone, tv, microwave, anything that has electronics in it, radio towers, light switches, all of it, will set off a geiger counter simply because of their nature, not because they’re emitting alpha particles: so they’re completely harmless. for simplicity's sake, we’re looking at ionizing radiation, the kind that can do damage as it knocks electrons off molecules and atoms (hence the name).

your typical banana, healthy, delicious, packed with potassium and vitamins that you need for your muscles and bones, contains 98 nSv (nanosieverts). also, fun fact: there’s actually an illustrative unit that uses the banana as a means of measurement. it’s called the banana equivalent dose! who says nuclear scientists don’t have a sense of humor?

on average per year, the general public is exposed to 1 mSv (1 millisievert). conspiracy theorists, start your engines!

your average ct scan will expose you to 10 to 30 mSv, while someone who lived near fukushima in march 2011 was exposed to 68 mSv.

someone who chronically smokes will expose their lungs to 160 mSv - apparently cigarettes contain polonium-210 and lead-210. as if you need any more reasons not to smoke.

1 Sv is reserved for astronauts. the hiroshima bomb released 5 Sv. the people at goiania received 4.5 to 6 Sv. doctor louis slotin of the manhattan project received 21 Sv (talk about graphic, holy hell). cecil kelley received 36 Sv (AJKDSLSJKLDSJSDKL). i forget what chernobyl was but it was up there.

and then you have dose rate per year and also per hour.

we’re often exposed to 2.4 millisievert per year or 270 nanosievert per hour on average. the trinity test released 190 mSv/h (measured 20 miles away 3 hours after the fact).

and before you ask, i sleep very soundly at night. i’m not a certified nuclear scientist (my grandpa was, but i’m not): i’m just someone who has geeked out over this stuff most of her life, and i wrote this in the wake of that tiny capsule of cesium-137 going lost in australia because i just had a feeling that once that news hit tumblr, it was going to go every which way because it’s a very misunderstood and heavily sensationalized science.

sources: the epa’s official website, bipm’s website - every link on the wiki pages is legit, too - my own experience in learning about radioactivity from my paternal grandfather who had his doctorate in nuclear science and my old chemistry textbook.

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Cats the musical family tree based on my headcanons!This time it's mostly swing's from non replicas and macavity's Hench cats.

Kock Le Mialu and Banana(oc) had Hathor (oc) and Ishtar. Hathor had NBQ and Rap Tap Tapper with Rum Tum Tugger, she is now with Davey (oc). Kock Le Mialu has two sisters Willow and Rocketta. Willow had Aries, Zyleta and Ulysses. They left to join Macavity , their his Hench cats that kidnapped old Deuteronomy. Rocketta had Eris.

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Nbq dog