#also i'm not too into jack and victoria's wedding

[clovenhoofedjester]

jellicle lineups; part 1/4

hi catsblur ! today i am presenting to you the fruits of my labor. my own little versions of the jellicle cats; obviously based on the replica designs With Fun Little Twists ! such as, they are not naked. ramble below the cut, both on designs and some personal thoughts on the characters

these designs are very much first-draft, subject to change, blah blah. you will very likely be seeing me drawing them differently if i post more of them. i just. urrbhhh. i had 2 draw them....

and the clothes ! even though they're very feline i draw them a bit too human-y for the nakedness to not look consistently weird. i will be drawing them closer to the stage designs in some instances but for rn. clothes. it was a fun exercise in character design too

the kittens are all young adults, think 18-20 ! as much as i love headcanons like demeter being sillabubs mother, it shrimply will not work out timeline-wise. so headcanons like that will be delegated to like... siblings and stuff

victoria | 🍧 💌 🩰

i started out with victoria's design not only because of her being the Main Kitten, but because she has such a concise and clear aesthetic to me. she actually started out with a simple pastel brown dance practice fit before i decided that i wanted to make the outfits ornate(ish) and ended up with a proper ballerina getup

i also quite like when victoria is not just solid white with some grey (love ones that are more yellow or brown) so i colored her fur with some blue and pink-ish tones not only to add more depth but to resemble the trans flag LOL

and i wanted to try something different with making her a bit more lavender than baby pink. i also based her overall look on obc victoria, portrayed by cynthia onrubia :^]

to move on to character interpretation, i think victoria is partially deaf and mute. she primarily communicates through dance. as one of the oldest kittens she'd be 19 in human years

plato | 💐 🕯 🍬

plato's design doesnt stray too far from his standard replica design but i tried to add my own flair . i tried to keep the creepy porcelain doll aesthetic going w their face added some more depth like some other designs with different colors and bold face stripes

i also really like the outfit i chose for them. the flower in their hair and on their shirt is a peony which is a popular wedding flower :") because im a sucker for platoria and very much subscribe to the idea that the ball we see is their funny cat wedding in a way

the outfit is based on standard ballerino costumes but i tried to stray from it with the silky half-skirt thing and pointe shoes. lets go queer cats lets go

i think plato is also very quiet and that's why he and victoria were so drawn to each other. i also quite like the idea that he was a bit of a troubled stray before he found the jellicles. they would be 20 in human years

electra |⚡🥭 🔔

boy i STRUGGLED with electra's clothes i struggled so hard. i think i'm happy with what i ended up with though—i originally gave her the babydoll dress that sillabub has (inspired by artsed electra) but figured that i wanted at least one of the girls to be more tomboyish/butchy. thank you to that one production which apparently had electra be one of the raffish crew and get in on some of the boys' choreography

im very happy with what i did with her fur colors as well. silly little tortoiseshell :] its based on a nonrep but i have no idea which one. enjoy her freckles too

i think electra deserves to be a little spunky. [whispers] i also think shes bombalurinas little sister. she'd be 18 in human years

etcetera | 🎠 🍯 🏅

i needed at least one cat with a circus aesthetic. say hello to my magnum opus: jacked tumbler acrobat etcetera. it was only a matter of time until someone said fuck it and let one of the girls perform lifts and stuff. this is mostly because ive always really liked how shes usually the cat to do the flying trapeze bit and wanted to push it further

i also struggled SO EXTREMELY HARD with making her colors look nice and makeup distinctive but i figured it out in the end—thank you obc cettie for the mismatched eyeshadow and such. i also wanted to give a cat a short bob type of head fur/hairstyle and she fit the bill

nothing much about specific character notes other than like... i want to make her related to some of the cats but cannot for the life of me figure out who 2 assign. also she'd be around 19 in human years, a couple months younger than vic

sillabub | 🌻 🧋 🎼

i think of all of these little fellas sillabub is my favorite. several elements are balanced in her design—the standard jemima with a darker/reddish palette, the more softer and lighter sillabub design, the red eye patch from il sistina jemima, and the overall aesthetic of obc jemima with the big hair and wide, deepset eyes

i've seen her typical design critiqued by some people and wanted to incorporate those critiques by making her look less similar to demeter/bombalurina, adding more red to her body fur, and making her makeup more distinct and less... wooo girl give us nothing. and i included the squiggly on her collarbone

i also really REALLY love her overall aesthetic of sweet kindhearted girl NAMED AFTER A DEMON WITH SHADOW THE HEDGEHOG COLORING AND GIGANTIC SPIKED COLLAR !!!! so i decided to push it by making the collar definitely too big for her, giving her a slightly "edgy" outfit and making her hair resemble devil horns

as for character stuff, i think she has magical powers though i haven't developed exactly What they are yet. beyond her sweet exterior they trouble her. [whispers] i also think shes demeters little sister. she would be 18 in human years, a few months younger than electra and tumblebrutus

pouncival | 🌱 🩹 🍵

i struggled with pouncival's clothing design like i did electra's because i didn't go into drawing him with a particular gimmick in mind. but i think i'm happy with the casual formal look. it makes him look like such a kind young man even if he's a little shit

i did have a lot of fun trying to make his makeup distinctive from tumblebrutus'—so many fellas with brown eyepatches ! so his colors are more dark and striking. i also tried to make him look less like Typical Cis Man by giving him a bit of black lipstick

enjoy his freckles too

but like. i think hes literally such a little cis guy. nothing else for me to add for my specific interpretation of him it's all laid out. this guy fucking loves rocket league, fishing and chess. he'd be 19 in human years

tumblebrutus | 🎡 🥊 🍦

SWEET TUMBLEBRUTUS. i think drawing him here gave me a soft spot for him. with his outfit mirroring cettie's i didn't much struggle with that. his colors are also based on obc tumblebrutus

when i was first conceptualizing my own versions of the cats i wanted at least one of them asides from grizabella to have wavy fur. and idk what it is, maybe it's the lack of content for him, but i was really drawn to the idea of curly tumblebrutus!

i wanted their design to be distinctive from pouncival's so i made their colors softer, kinda watercolor-y. OH AND THEIR FUR IS ALSO MEANT TO BE A LITTLE TRANS FLAG COLORED

as for character, i think he is also a bit troubled, as a son of grizabella's. you heard me, people. i'm probably the first person ever to headcanon that. he'd be 18 in human years

AND THAT'S ABOUT IT ! thank you for reading this far, have a great day and stay tuned for more designs in the days to come !

[paulinawoodpecker]

The Triple Team Vs The Impossible Three part 1,2,3,4 and final

@jakkiisthatboy2

Part 1:

Tad: max!

Max: toad!

Ramirez: this ends now!

Jack: *laughs* you thought you were going to get us out of this.

Ramirez: you see? I told you! I told you that he became the bravest hero!!

Victoria: actually we are.

Part 2:

Tad: it’s you and me max!

Tad: you have captured my best friend, you food poisoned me!

Pickles: ugh. None of this would’ve happened if I could’ve arrested you in the first place!

Ramirez: 🙄

Tad: okay. That’s enough mean men…

Part 3:

Max: oh we are mean men alright!

Pickles: except one of us is purple instead of red

Tad: pride sword flame! Ha!

Max: defeat portal!

Max opens the portal and punches tad

Part 4:

Ramirez: thoughtful portal!

Ramirez: ha!

Ramirez: *uses the power of king Midas*

Jack: wait! You have the collar of king Midas! How did you get it back?

Ramirez: 😅uh…unexpected surprise?

Jack: ugh! Why you!

Ramirez: FREEZE TIMER!!!

Ramirez: *attacks Jack when he froze*

Victoria: vision possession.

Pickles: *dodges the attack*

Victoria: what?

Pickles: that’s it! You’re getting the death touch!!!

Victoria: what?!

Max: *opens the portal and punches tad*

Tad: *dodges the punch*

Tad: I’m too powerful to attack you max.

Max: if you could’ve stole Sara from me, we could’ve been married together! You were first a construction worker! And now you want to be an archeologist?

Max: that’s not possible!

Tad: 😨

Tad: *forms a fist

Tad: you’re wrong…

Tad: I did it for me! Just for what my heart desires!

Tad: and there is no way you’ll hurt her!

Tad: 😠

Tad: I know you didn’t told us you were also wearing a wedding ring that has joya’s name on it!

Max: how did you know that?!

Tad: I can see it!

Max: *looks at his ring*

Max: you really did read my mind…

Max: *gets scared and afraid*

Max: toad…you’re right…I finally realized that…

Max: joya is still alive!

Max: you’re such a liar!

Tad: But not anymore, I afraid so max.

Max: you are so going to pay stones!

Tad: no…

Tad: you are the one who’ll pay mordon!

Tad: you idiot!!!

Tad: *punches max in the face*

Max: ow!

Tad: first, I will no longer be a construction worker! second, i want to be an archeologist! and third, You lied to Sara, You don't deserve to marry Sara anymore!

Tad: as your king, I'm order you to stop now! you pathetic mordon!!

Victoria: *notices pickles almost used the death touch on her instead of tad*

Victoria: why you!

Final:

Victoria: guys! I’m coming!

Tad: 😳

Ramirez: tad?

Victoria: *notices pickles almost used the death touch on her*

Pickles: bingo?

Victoria: *winks at them and stands up*

Pickles: what? How?!

Victoria: I faked it!

Pickles: what?!

Ramirez: she used the power of the emerald tablet

Victoria: i know. It makes me stronger. I will never give up on you guys!

Tad: I’m glad you’re not feeling weak and unconscious.

Pickles: what kind of ‘unconscious’ did you not understand?! *punches tad in the stomach*

Tad: *winces*

Jack: ha.

Tad: ugh!

Tad: ow! *red stars showing his stomach aches after being punched*

Max: You know what! At this Time You Would Be Dead Tad Stones!

Max: by the antidote in your stomach…*snaps*

Tad: ow!

Tad: I don’t care that I’m about to die!

Max: then we’ll see on how painful the antidote in your gut can kill you toad… *was about to snap*

Tad: *wangles him*

Max: will you let go of me?

Tad: that’s what you get when you make fun of me!

Max: *gets traumatized by him to making fun of him*

Pickles: you freak!

Victoria: just please!

Victoria: please let Lukas do what he wants to do.

Victoria: you’re just betraying him and forbidding him! Maybe you should apologize to him! I’m sure he’ll forgive you.

Lukas: *off screen* I’m not going to forgive you for this!!!

Pickles: I don’t care if he’s my son!

Pickles: but what i care is my duty!

Ramirez: Pickle! You kept betrayed your son and you used me to trick me!

Ramirez: and max! Max is a pathological liar.

Ramirez: Jack! We had a deal about getting the power of the king Midas but you lied! You lied to all of us!

Ramirez: *to max* you’re not a famous archaeologist! Instead you’re a fraud!

Ramirez: and you cheated on his girlfriend which she doesn’t love you anymore!

Max: 😨

Tad: I have a right to act like a king and a leader

Tad: that’s right max. I have the right to hurt your feelings, you monster!

Max: 😭😭😭😭

Jack and Pickles: 😠😠

Victoria: give me your ring…

Pickles: this! No!

Victoria: *snatches the ring off pickles*

Victoria: I’m sorry pickle…but you did betrayed your own son.

Victoria: Make the ring into the emerald tablet ring!

The emerald tablet becomes a ring

The collar of king Midas becomes a ring

Tad summons a ring of the bravest hero

Pickles: what? How!

Pickles: You know what, just take it it's your now!

Victoria: I’m sorry Sam…rules are rules…

Pickles: *chuckles*

Victoria: wait. Where is the emerald tablet?

Pickles: looking for this? *holds the emerald tablet*

Victoria: *gasps*

Pickles: I have this new power energy: The Emerald Tablet.

Pickles: you see Victoria… I want to be stronger than ever as the enemy and want The Emerald Tablet so I will strong enough!

Pickles: I really want The Emerald Tablet. now that I want to be possessed and controlled by the Emerald Tablet, I want to become the worst and the deadliest enemy to be unstoppable

Victoria: but you can’t! It can possess you!

Pickles: too late Vic…*eyes turn green* it already has…

Pickles: *defeats Victoria*

Pickles: I really want all of it for myself…

Victoria: *feels weak*

Pickles: so that way, I’ll be strong enough to defeat you…

Jack: now my turn…

Ramirez: where did the collar go?

Jack: it’s mine now…

Ramirez: what?

Jack: I have my new power energy: The collar of king Midas

Jack: I really want to defeat you myself…

Jack: as your true enemy, I want to be stronger than ever as an enemy. And finally, I got The collar of King Midas so I will strong enough to defeat you…

Ramirez: but you can’t!

Jack: well it’s too late agent…

Jack: *defeats Ramirez*

Jack: wow. I make myself unstoppable!

Ramirez: *feels weak*

Jack: I guess I did really want all of it for myself…

Max: oh tad…

Tad: 😰

Max: I really want to defeat you myself as your true enemy.

Max: so I get to be stronger than ever as a enemy.

Max: that’s why I want eternal life! so I will strong enough to defeat you!

Tad: what?!

Tad: so you’re just going to kill me?

Max: in the antidote inside you…yes…

Tad: no…

Tad: no!

Tad: NOOOOOOO!

Tad: I will not let you do that!!!

Max: too late tad!

Victoria: oh no!

Ramirez: TAD! Watch out!

Max: NOW DIE!

Tad: 😰

Tad: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!

The eternal life, the collar of king Midas and the Emerald Tablet and the rainbow crystal appear

Ramírez: the eternal life, the collar of king Midas, the emerald tablet, and the rainbow crystal… what are they doing here?

Victoria: Ramirez. That’s it! The four discoveries! They’re working together! So he can be unstoppable!!

Tad: *gasps*

Tad: *thinking* the four discoveries….

Tad: *thinking* they’re helping me?

Tad: *thinking* they’re taking me back time, to the memories of how I found them. They returned to me.

Tad: *thinking* I feel like my energy is coming back. It was given to me…all by myself…

Tad: *thinking* The eternal life, the collar of king Midas, the Emerald Tablet and The Rainbow Crystal will now belong to me forever and to have this unlimited, unstoppable and powerful power that Max, Jack and Pickles can't defeat me…

Tad: even though you three still have the power of eternal life, the collar of king midas and the emerald tablet to your knight outfit, I’ll be able to defeat you all for good!

Tad: I’m sorry max. But I have to do this. I’m going to finish for what you started!

Tad: *able to defeated Max*

Max: *groans in pain*

Tad: don’t worry ladies…I’ll be able to defeat these two myself for you…

Tad: *defeats Jack and Pickles*

Pickles: ow!

Jack: I blame you for this…

Tad: heal power!

Tad: *hair glows to turquoise and aquamarine crystal color*

Ramirez and Victoria: *gets healed by tad*

Ramirez: thanks tad.

Victoria: we really needed your help.

[jackredfieldwasmyjacob]

"Suggest how you might resolve the staging difficulties inherent in a production of Ibsen’s Peer Gynt." if you get the reference I'd love you forever, but it's not the question for this week. Here it is: If you could change the way any movie/play/book was made, which one would you change? how?

i don't understand the reference sorry 😔😔😔

at first i was gonna talk about glee or skam españa but i don't want to open that can of worms so i'll talk about memorias de idhún instead hehe

i re-read the whole thing again after being obsessed with it as a preteen last year i think? and i realized the most annoying thing about it was the love triangle, ESPECIALLY in the third book. basically, by the end of the series the love triangle is resolved with a very weird polyamorous relationship, and that's exactly how book 2 ends; book 3 just rehashes the same issues the characters had in that love plot once again and it becomes really tiring. so, i would keep everything the same until book 3, and instead of rehashing everything, i would spend more time developing jack and kirtash's relationship with one another. i just want them to not be mortal enemies basically, i think that would help lol. i actually really enjoy the main plot in that book so i would only change the love triangle stuff. oh and i would explicitely state that they're in a polyamorous relationship, i would really focus on that as well :)

[freddielocks]

Here's part 2: now we turn our attention to the rarest albums in my collection! The values are higher, of course, but twelve tracks will generally be worth more than two!

An honourable mention goes to the Who, with their album My Generation on Brunswick. Despite this technically being the most expensive on the list at a colossal £600 book and £825 maximum sale value, there is a serious gulf between unplayed pristine copies and copies of any lower calibre - it isn't a true rarity. At any rate my copy has no cover.

10) Kevin Ayers - Joy Of A Toy

Label: Harvest, cat. SHVL 763

Year: 1969, 10 tracks

Highest Discogs sale: £240

Book value: £150

Paid: £40 in Plastic Wax Records

Notes: couple of scratches but overall a nice playing copy. Cover good. 1st pressing with no EMI box on the label.

Kevin Ayers was a charismatic singer with a demure voice, involved in the Canterbury Scene and the genesis of progressive rock, being a founder member of the Soft Machine. Joy Of A Toy, his first solo record, is a wonderfully anachronistic blast of poppy psychedelia, with not many standout songs but designed to be listened to all the way through. Nevertheless, swinging opener 'Song For Insane Times' and the unsettling 'children's' song 'Lady Rachel' are my highlights.

9) John And Yoko - The Wedding Album

Label: Apple, cat. SAPCOR 11

Year: 1969, 2 tracks

Highest Discogs sale: £259

Book price: £600 (bear in mind a complete set has never sold)

Paid: £15, from a 'friend' needing money for a night out!

John Lennon and Yoko Ono's marriage in Gibraltar, for various reasons I can't remember, and their 'Bed Peace' protest were documented in this lavish package. Musically, the album is truly bizarre. The first side is 22 minutes of the pair's heartbeats as they shout each other's names in various ways (yeah) and the flip is a sound collage of a bunch of recordings and interviews made in Amsterdam during Bed Peace. I wanted a copy during my phase of intrigue into the Beatles' experimental solo works, and somehow I got one!

Out of the full package that originally came with the LP, I own the gatefold sleeve that held the record, the large wedding photos, the cartoon poster and the booklet of press clippings. The cardboard in there may be original too, and there's a random photo of John Lennon I was given free at a record fair once. The box is not, it was lovingly replicated from a Reader's Digest box set of show songs. Original boxes had a facsimile wedding certificate glued to the inside. I am sadly missing the 'Bagism' plastic bag, the pop up cutout of the wedding cake and the small strip of passport photos. What a package - it must have cost a lot at the time!

8) Blonde On Blonde - Contrasts

Label: Pye, cat. NSPL.18288

Year: 1969, 12 tracks

Highest Discogs sale: £290

Book price: £175

Paid: £12 in Plastic Wax

Notes: I only have half the cover! Clearly someone wanted to have the pretty girl on their wall... The LP is in playable condition. It took some cleaning though.

This Welsh outfit came at the beginning of progressive rock, and the LP is surprisingly assured and complex straight from the bold opener 'Ride With Captain Max'. Hard rock, baroque stately ballads and in between are all present, with other highlights being the sitar-drenched 'Spinning Wheel' (a cover of Blood Sweat and Tears), the sneeringly humorous 'Conversationally Making The Grade' (I love the line 'America's gonna buy us, turn us into a national park') and the wistful closer 'Jeanette Isabella'.

7) Second Hand - Reality

Label: Polydor, cat. 583 045

Year: 1968, 10 tracks

Highest Discogs sale: £295

Book value: £200

Paid: £50 on eBay

Notes: second press, with labels crediting Second Hand instead of their first name, The Moving Finger (also the name of the band who released the gorgeous 'Pain of My Misfortune' single which I'm still looking for). The cover is deliberately 'worn' as a pun on the band name, and the vinyl is not perfect but really nice.

Again, Second Hand were at the forefront of progressive rock, miles ahead of many more popular acts. Band leader Ken Elliott was a keyboard wizard as well as lead vocalist, and the rest of the band were also brilliant musicians, augmented by the cello and flute of Chris Williams on certain tracks. The album has a loose concept about a clown, Denis James, whose life hits difficulties and culminates in his eventual suicide in the bath. The first side contains many brilliant vignettes, with tough rockers alongside orchestrated psychedelia, culminating in the woozy and fatigued 'The World Will End Yesterday'. However, be ready to turn it over. There are four tracks on the second side, the first being a cheery entree to the Denis James character. What follows is a devastating emotional journey that grabs you by the neck, with heavy murk contrasting the swooning cello arrangements and jazzy flute. This culminates in the Bath Song, and the death of D.J. Brutal, and has to be heard to be experienced. I thought it was even more chilling as I was told Bob Gibbons, the lead guitarist, killed himself nine years later. However that's a stupid myth for hype, unfortunately it was an accidental electrocution.

6) The Graham Bond Organization - Sound Of '65

Label: Columbia, cat. 33SX 1711

Year: 1965 (obviously!), 12 tracks

Highest Discogs sale: £300

Book value: £400

Paid: around £40 in Plastic Wax

Notes: looks much rougher than it plays. First press with '33SX' in the catalogue number.

Graham Bond, a former radiator salesman, was an amazing saxophone player and keyboardist (and decent singer) who cut his teeth alongside the now legendary Don Rendell. Also in the Organization, the band he formed after leaving Rendell's Quintet, was the other great saxophonist Dick Heckstall-Smith, and two future members of supergroup Cream, bassist and singer Jack Bruce and drummer Ginger Baker. The album is classy jazzy R&B, covering many well known standards with a few originals in there. 'Baby Be Good To Me' is my standout pick, a scurrying shuffle with darting saxophone and cool organ fills driving it along.

5) The Wailers - Catch A Fire

Label: Island, cat. ILPS 9241

Year: 1973, 9 tracks

Highest Discogs sale: £350

Book price: £150

Paid: £12 in Plastic Wax

Notes: the upper part of the cover, which swung off as if a 'Zippo' lighter, is missing. The LP is very scratched, but is the original pink rim 1st pressing.

Bob Marley and The Wailers made this iconic album debut in 1973, starting the ball rolling on their incredible popularity. A classic of the new reggae sound straight from the darkly grooving opener 'Concrete Jungle'. Nuff said really! Check it out, you'll enjoy it.

4) The Graham Bond Organization - There's a Bond Between Us

Label: Columbia, cat. 33SX 1750

Year: 1965, 12 tracks

Highest Discogs sale: £395

Book price: £400

Paid: £35 from Plastic Wax

Notes: slightly shabbier than the other GBO LP (they were bought together). Still a solid player.

This second album sees the GBO expand their sound, and is arguably the stronger of the two. Not only does Jack Bruce's suave and strong voice get more of an outing, but the three instrumentals make it impossible to sit down listening to the album! Have a dance to the punchy opener 'Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?' and listen to the Eastern-flavoured Baker-led 'Camels and Elephants'.

3) The Kinks - Arthur or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire

Label: Pye, cat. NPL.18317

Year: 1969, 12 tracks

Highest on Discogs: £421

Book price: £150

Paid: £20 in Plastic Wax

Notes: much rarer mono issue. Comes with original Queen Victoria lyric insert, but cover and record are very battered. 'Victoria' will not play as there is something up with the grooves. Maybe an industrial clean is in order.

This album, the last in the series of roughly conceptual Kinks LPs, is a delightfully quirky musical take on end-of-empire Britain, taking various melodic cues from music of the time and combining them with distinctly British themes and some serious danceability. One could argue that 'Victoria' invented pub rock. 'Brainwashed' is a cool mod dancer and 'Shangrila', the second single from the album, is a complex ode to humble home life and a shrewd observation on class. The hits and commercial success was gone by now, but is now the most acclaimed part of the Kinks' oeuvre.

2) Trees - On The Shore

Label: CBS, cat. S 64168

Year: 1970, 10 tracks

Highest Discogs sale: £483

Book price: £400

Paid: £12 in Plastic Wax

Notes: two large grievous scratches on the A-side - but they barely even sound, it's a great player!

Acid folk was practically invented by Trees, who had already laid down the wonderful Garden of Jane Delawney LP. The characteristic soaring vocals of Celia Humphris delightfully interplayed with fuzzy rock to create a new exciting edge on traditional folk songs and some startling original material. The short opener 'Soldiers Three' signals their intent clearly. Their arrangement of the infamous folk ballad 'Streets of Derry' lends it an excellent charging energy, but arguably the standouts are the ominous and cryptic 'Fool' and the soaring and energetic 'Murdoch', showing staggering songcraft. As if the album didn't have more than enough going for it, 'Geordie' was sampled by Gnarls Barkley on their track 'St. Elsewhere', leading to a renaissance of the band's work. Despite appearing on numerous samplers put out by the record label, Trees never became a commercial success, a fact which boggles the mind.

1) The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland

Label: Track, cat. 613008/9

Year: 1968, 16 tracks

Highest Discogs sale: £645

Book price: £300

Paid: I will never know!

Notes: second press with white text on the sleeve instead of turquoise. Yes, stupid things like that make a difference. One record contains Sides 1 and 4, the other sides 2 and 3, which isn't standard.

Arguably Hendrix's masterpiece, this album needs little introduction, mixing psychedelia, jazz, R&B and even more into a great cosmic double album. Just listen to '1983 (A Merman I Should Turn To Be') and you'll understand the sheer power and weight of this record. Glorious from start to finish.

Thanks again!

[jackredfieldwasmyjacob]

ne, were you in the rol forum of memorias de idhun? because if so maybe we met over there xD also would really love to read your opinion on the books; i'm afraid of doing a reread myself because i absolutely loved the first two (the third was difficult for me. the pregnancies weirded me out. but yeah) and i think the fourth book, or the 2nd part of book 2 was the best part of the story too. like. i think it influenced heavily what kind of tragedies i liked to read after. also team jack for life!

Noo I wasn’t :( I started using the internet when I was about 13 or so and I only used it to do MDI quizzes and watch pokémon AMV on youtube lol. 

Okay, about the books, I’m not done yet, I’m in the third one (when Alsan is about to be crowned king, I think that’s when Irial appears right??? or was that in Jack and Victoria’s wedding??? I can’t remember lol) and yeah the third one is definately the weakest tbh, it’s getting too long for me and yes, i didn’t realized it when I read them when I was little but they are way too young to be having babies. And like, in general, yeah there is some stuff that hasn’t aged well, especially how toxic Kirtash (and Jack, but mostly Kirtash) is holy shit. Like, Jack also has their bad moments and especially in book 3 it seems like Laura wanted to villanize him to put him at the same level as Kirtash but like, the other one is a fucking cold-blooded assassain for fuck’s sake. But, besides that and the writing being not as good as I remembered (but I want to become a writer so it makes sense I would take notice of that lol) I’m pleasantly surprised! I always read / watch / play fantasy media for the setting, the world and the lore more than the plot, and it amazes me how much detail Laura puts into Idhún, it’s amazing! And the first book, even if it doesn’t take part in Idhún, is also really charming :) I only don’t like the romance part of the books as much, I didn’t realized how much of that there is, but it largely makes sense as it being one of the main themes of the plot, it’s just that sometimes it is too much and a bit whiny and brooding for my liking (guess I grew out of it!) Also there is really cool and progressive stuff in there, given that these books were written in 2005-2006, like the legend of Uno and how Domivat explains to Jack that there were men and women that happpened to be born in the opposite sex’s bodies; or a part I just read where they were explaining how weddings take place in Idhún and said that they are all valid, being different races, social classes or from the same gender :)

And yes, I’m with you, that whole part after Jack’s “death”, with Victoria’s inner turmoil and how she copes with all of that, and all of Umadhum and how Jack learns about the sheks... that’s the best part of the series, it’s genuinely good writting and good storytelling, and the character of Sheziss, for me, is the best in all of MDI, for sure.

Yayyy team Jack!!! The best team!!