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prokopetz:

dendropsyche:

vampireapologist:

waffliesinyoface:

vampireapologist:

thebibliosphere:

vampireapologist:

I know it’s 2017 and this is all far beyond said and done but

Cats is a really bizarre fucking musical

You’re not wrong.

OKAY WHAT GETS ME more than the plot or anything else is that there are absolutely no solid rules for the way cats exist in relation to humans in this story world.

Mungojerrie and Rumpleteaser are able to go into a family’s home and essentially torment them by means of petty thievery, and the family just brushes it off with “it’s that horrible cat!” And then they move on!! So you think, alright, so in life the cats look like regular cats, and humans don’t give them much head.

But you would be WRONG because MACAVITY is out here breaking “every human law,” and his exploits are being investigated by SCOTLAND YARD. Macavity has apparently literally killed a man. Maybe more. Almost definitely more. And also, he steals the milk from people’s houses.

And when the police show up to a crime scene “Macavity’s not there.”

Why does he need to flee? Would the police actually suspect a cat when they show up to a murder scene? Is Macavity the true scourge of Scotland Yard? Or are all of the cats just exaggerating??

I NEED ANSWERS, ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER!!!!

All the other cats are regular cats but macavity is actually just a furry

I HATE THIS!!!!!!

I’ve never seen cats and always wanted to but now I can’t because this is going to absolutely ruin it for me THANKS

“Macavity is a furry” is indeed a compelling theory, but consider the implications of the alternative: that somewhere in the same fictive space as Cats, there exists a straight-laced police procedural drama where the recurring mastermind is an ordinary housecat, and nobody questions this.

The person y’all really need to be asking this of is T.S. Eliot, who wrote the original poems this musical is based on. (Unfortunately he’s been dead since 1965.)