Come on, everybody, one more time again

[sovay]

Due to glancing childhood exposure to 1960's TV Batman and of course her name, I always took it for granted that Eartha Kitt was a were-cat, but this 1952 photo by Carl Van Vechten makes a really good case for mermaid:



Other things I learned about today from Tumblr include the Sword of Stalingrad (pictured with its silversmith Leslie Durbin, then of the RAF) and Jason deCaires Taylor's The Lost Correspondent (2006). I was also very struck by this shipwreck turning into an island. It appears to be the SS City of Adelaide.

Comments

[gwynnega]

If anyone could pull off being both a were-cat and a mermaid, it'd be Eartha Kitt.

[sovay]

If anyone could pull off being both a were-cat and a mermaid, it'd be Eartha Kitt.

I believe it.

[sporky_rat]

Both. Def both. Eartha Kitt can be whatever she needs to be at the time.

[sovay]

Eartha Kitt can be whatever she needs to be at the time.

This feels extremely true.

[thisbluespirit]

I don't know, I think I still see a were-cat, just one with an understandable thing for mermaids and one currently in her sights. (Like the Cat in Red Dwarf, but she's into fish-tails not heads. :-D)

[sovay]

I think I still see a were-cat, just one with an understandable thing for mermaids and one currently in her sights.

I like that!

[thisbluespirit]

I mean, both options are good, though. Were-cat AU and Mermaid AU, all good. <3

[wpadmirer]

Eartha Kitt was an amazing woman, and I loved her singing.

[sovay]

Eartha Kitt was an amazing woman, and I loved her singing.

She sang wonderfully. (I just see no reason she could not have been a were-cat and had a singing career.)

[wpadmirer]

That totally makes sense.

[rinue]

An icon. She's the only person I can think of who, if somebody told me "no, legitimately, she had superpowers, and could fly and bend steel and see through walls," I'd say "oh wow, cool, I didn't know that anybody could do that but it makes sense."

[sovay]

She's the only person I can think of who, if somebody told me "no, legitimately, she had superpowers, and could fly and bend steel and see through walls," I'd say "oh wow, cool, I didn't know that anybody could do that but it makes sense."

You know, agreed. I would be pleased to find out but not shocked.