At last, she stirs (and possibly purrs)

[redscharlach]

Earlier this week I finished reading The Easter Parade by Richard Yates. It's a relentlessly miserable novel and I wouldn't particularly recommend it*, but it did have one line that I particularly liked: at one point, the female lead meets a man with "a voice that made her want to curl up and ride in his pocket like a kittenOkay, maybe it's not

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[pontisbright]

The Killing is so my drug of choice at the minute, oh yes: I still have most of the 2nd ep from this weekend left, as I find I have to eke it out or I go a bit funny. Lund's Jumper is becoming as desirable as Cumberbum's coat.

Well, ish.

I would kittenride him too, obvs.

[redscharlach]

I'm only up to the 6th episode of The Killing, so I can still relax in the knowledge that there's a backlog to see me through the winter nights.

Kittenriding is a fabulous verb. I want to use it all the time, except perhaps when the police are trying to drag me away from the Cumberbatch residence and are thus not in the mood for entirely innocent etymological explanations.

[batcatrules]

I totally agree with this. I, also, was trying to find a way to describe his voice.

[brewsternorth]

I quite liked Caitlin Moran's somewhat surreal description "like a jaguar inside a cello", but the above quotation does also fit the bill for Cumberbatch.

Paul McGann's voice is very nice but not quite so much of a kittenride as a kitten-onna-hearthrug sort of voice.

[redscharlach]

Yes, "a voice like a jaguar hiding in a cello" was also a great description - really captures the resonant and rumbly purr quality!

How does a kitten-on-a-hearth-rug voice work, then? Is McGann the rug or the fireplace?

[jandjsalmon]

Matthew Mcfadyen or Richard Armitage.

I'd definitely ride around in their pockets.

[redscharlach]

If they're wearing those tight period trousers at the time, it might be a bit of a squash in there. But perhaps that's a selling point!

[moryssa]

First and foremost, the musician Shawn Mullins. His voice gives me chills. Especially his speaking voice, but his singing voice is up there, too. :)

I can never quite explain what the voices of John Malkovich and Alan Rickman do for me. Wanting to ride around in their pocket and purr for a while works for me. :D

[redscharlach]

John Malkovich? Didn't they make a movie about that - Being John Malkovich's Pocket-Kitten?

[perfectchichi]

Paul Mcgann reading of the book Vert by Jeff noon makes me want to curl up. he plays a sexually frustrated teenager and makes alkward!sex noises.

And Ron Perlman has a very gruff but lovely voice that I've always adored

[redscharlach]

Awkward!sex noises? I fear that might startle the kitten too much....