#raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens 🎶

[greypetrel]

🙤 Enjoyable Things 🙧Rules: List five things you enjoy and pass it along!

Tagged by @shivunin and @demandthedoodles, thank you very much!! (I am an indecisive ass so limiting myself to five is... a struggle) (also am I the only one that started singing Favourite Things from Sound of Music...?)

Food. I know it will sound stereotypical as an Italian, but eating something I like gives me so much joy. I love eating and quite like cooking, even if I'm lazy. I am a vegetarian with a lactose intolerance, so I end up eating vegan most often, and I'm currently having lots of fun in trying indian recipes which are naturally vegan (or easily so substituting ghee/butter with oil)! This Baingan Bharta recipe by cooking with Manali is something that always gives me so much joy, paired with some jeera pulao!

The sea/going swimming. I don't live close to the sea unfortunately, but I spent quite a lot of time in my youth. I can dive (used to reach 10m with no oxygen back then, now I'm terribly out of shape) and I LOVE snorkeling and seeing the fishes, and when I'll be rich I'll go diving in a cage to see some sharks from up close. All marine life gives me so much joy (the jellyfishes are so pretty! From a distance).

Medieval and Contemporary History. In case you were wondering, I love history and knowing more about it, but I'm very selective when it comes to remember it. The Middle Ages and the first half of the XX century (up until the Moon landing) are my favourite periods. Oh and also Ancient Greece. LOVE Ancient Greece (with all its flaws). I love love LOVE museums. And strolling around Medieval buildings is just!!! AAAAH! The older the better, I LOVE gothic cathedrals, and those old castles! And Oooooh I'm not the biggest graveyard fan but Irish graveyards? I'd be there sketching every day, I visited some when I was there and they were so peaceful. I love trying to read the inscriptions, and they lack the baroque kitsch that I never like. (Ireland is another thing that gives me joy, I wasn't there for enough but every time it was just... Bring me back please)

Sketchbooks. I am a art supplies hoarder, but sketchbooks are the one thing I like the most. I don't go outside without one in my purse, the fact that you have a book to be filled with what you want is just HHHHHHHHHHH so nice, it gives me so much joy. I tend to be a perfectionist, but I'm slowly trying to get rid of it and just... Do it for sketches, who cares if they're ugly.

I love to glimpse of personality in art. For both books and paintings, sculptures, movies, comics... I just love when you look at some form of art and realise the little quirks, what the author didn't like to do, or what they just love. Tolkien going on for two pages to list plants in the Ithilien because he just loved greeneries. Pushkin being overly enthusiastic about feet (Pushkin was the biggest feet fetishist... And you can't hate it for it because the way he uses words...! AAAW.). Michelangelo that was perfect but couldn't bother to paint or sculpt women because he never saw a pair of boobs in his life. It's not highlighting mistakes, it's just... I think it makes authors human, and that much closer to us. What I don't miss about the academic field is this aura of sacrality about classic authors that's... Boring. I just love to spot these little things and remind myself that big ass authors/painter/artists were just humans like you and me, with all their flaws and all the things they didn't really know how to do... but did anyway. You don't need to be perfect if MICHELANGELO can allow mistakes, no?

One more: anything Tolkien. There's just something so soothing about his writing and the way he shapes stories. I know the Silmarillion is heavy but... Consider reading his shorter books. Tree and Leaf is something that always moves me to tears, and please please do yourself a favour and read his children literature. "Roverandom" is a tale he invented for his son Christopher, to soothe him when he lost his favourite toy at the beach. He invented the story of that toy, a dog, to explain to the child that oh no don't worry your toy dog, Rover, was actually a real dog turned into a toy by a wizard, he didn't get lost, he just got home! He loved you very much but he had to return a real dog you see! You helped him find his way back!

... sorry I had to include another, hope you don't mind. :P

And HELLO new followers I'm Arja and when they distributed synthetical abilities I was trying to pet a doggo.

(also doggos gives me so much joy. If the day is grey and a doggo by the street sniffs my hand and lick me or let me pet them, the day is instantly saved.)

Tagging: @salsedine @coloricioso @heniareth @melisusthewee @rowanisawriter @zenstrike @eowyn7023 (hi!) @rosella-writes @scribbledquillz @herearedragons @idolsgf

And YOU!

[fangirltothefullest]

Roman: 🎶Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens~!🎶

Remus: 🎶STICKING MY DICK IN ROTISSERIE CHICKENS!🎶

[not-a-bot-1234]

🎶raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, pickle rick stickers on vans that steal children🎶

[allhailhu4l]

*Randi singing as she's making dinner*

Randi: 🎶Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens... 🎶

Jordon, drunk in the other room: STICKING MY DICK IN ROTISSIERE CHICKENS!!!

[ratsoh-writes]

Honey: *absentmindedly singing* raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens 🎶🎵

Star: *unholy screeching* STICKING MY DICK IN ROTISSERIE CHICKEN-

[popchoc]

Maybe it's just me not getting it, but what was that counting game about?

I'm not really sure either! 😂 As it seemed quite random to me I just assumed it's their rendition of 🎶 Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens.... 🎶 You know, "these are a few of my favorite things (about you/us?)".

I don't think it really mattered though. I wouldn't call it out of place or "just a filler" but to me that bed scene mainly felt like some bonus scene (you know, one without much context). A "we hear you so here they are being (supposedly) naked so you can stop complaining now." And I'm choosing to just say thank you to that. 😊

[thenightjillcamehome]

work radio playing christmas music: 🎶 raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens~🎶

the shitty little voice inside my head that collects vine/tiktok quotes:

STICKING MY DICK IN ROTISSERIE CHICKENS

[starkravingcat]

Raindrops on roses and WHISKERS ON KITTENS! 🎶🎄❣️🎄🎶 😺 It's time to sing this song, right? This year brought us kittens! 🎉🥳🎈Speaking of favorite things... Giant Scatterballs were an instant hit with the kittens, and they still are 😺 The kittens will soon be 8 months old, and I can't stop looking at their baby photos -- the first one was what sold me on adopting Medley, and later her sister Lollipop (posted online by her foster mom @the_itty_bitty_kitty_committee .) ❣️ The last photo is Baby Tamale 💖 Happy holidays with a smol dose of Stark Raving Kittens! 🎄😺🎶😺❣️ 💚💛❤️💜💙🧡 Scatterballs: original, Giants, Stars Rainbow Scatterballs - and new Bonbon Boxes... ours exclusively! #scatterballbonbon #giantscatterballs #scatterballstars #scatterballsstars #scatterballs #scatterballssrc #rainbowscatterballs 💚💛❤️💜💙🧡 #Scatterballs bounce, wobble and scoot across the floor. Hmong stars handmade by families in Thailand. 💖😺⭐️😺❤️ #starkravingcat #starkravingranchito #austincats #medleycat #lollipopkitty #starkravingkittens StarkRavingCat makes hip, handmade toys and gifts for cats and #catlovers. Founded by the amazing #tamaleceo #angeltamale - See profile for webshop and Etsy links https://www.instagram.com/p/CW15NmpD3El/?utm_medium=tumblr

[eternallyrisen]

🎶Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens🎶

"🎶 Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens! 🎶"