Vanillafluffy's Cheer-Up-Athon

If life is being a bitch/bastard, there are a few things you can do to make things more bearable:

• Eat sweets, ice cream, or cake


• Stroke a puppy or kitten, or fully grown version of same


• Huddle under the duvet with a Kindle full of fanfic


• Join in vanillafluffy's Cheer-Up-Athon!

I don't really know vanillafluffy so this post comes to you via mutual LJ friend karaokegal. While it may not guard against heavy rainclouds or depressing news stories or Twitter outages, it might help make the time a bit more bearable until these things resolve themselves naturally. So please join in! ♥

Tom & Jerry

Rather than completely spam vanillafluffy's LJ with YouTubery (see my previous post), I thought I'd share here so I can link back. I totally love Tom & Jerry, have done so consistently since I was small. When we had our first video recorder in 1983 and joined a video rental club, the first kids' video we rented was a Tom & Jerry video. Over the two or three years we were members of the club we rented the same video five or six times, and then we eventually managed to buy a copy, which I still watched lots even though I was in my early teens by this time. Now I have the Tom & Jerry collection on DVD, and they're just as much fun to watch as they ever were.

So, a few selected cartoons, beginning with The Cat Concerto, one of the best-known, and one of the Oscar winners:

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I hope you enjoyed those. Cheer-up-athon was created by vanillafluffy; this is spreading the word and the cheer.