Posted This Everywhere Else So I’ll Post It Here Too: Game Changer Episode Where Everyone’s A Puppet

Currently crying about Yoso-Tama-No-Kakehashi, a Japanese guidebook from the 1700s about raising rats. It's the first known rat guidebook in the world :)

They were raised as pets and for show animals, and it's mentioned in the guidebook that "one can call out and rats will come to hand". They were referred to as "nezumi" and it was considered important that they have large cages to live in. There was also a variety of rat that had a fox-like coat!

Rats were domesticated in Japan from the 1600s to the 1800s - it's unknown if any of those domesticated strains are ancestral to the current domestic rats today. They were domesticated again in Europe in the 1800s (initially for much crueler reasons than just for being pets) and I think it's just so sweet that we as humans fell in love with rats so much that we had to domesticate them at least TWICE...

You can download an article about the guidebook here. https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/expanim/60/1/60_1_1/_pdf&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwioidaLs5z6AhUojIkEHRI1BvEQFnoECAkQAg&usg=AOvVaw3aarTW0iy1HybCcrxtp4ww

it’s Tuesday. time for rat milk circle

u know the function is satisfactory and these guys are there

A Party of Mice has arrived!

whoever is making these is a genius. i HAVE to learn more

i know i should be ignoring these but i can’t

"Why didn't they just communicate?? They're so stupid!" Have you considered that communicating with someone you love and value and don't want to hurt is scary and that vulnerability takes practice and that perfect characters with perfect words make the most boring stories of all

~ day 2 of 30 of my TAZ Music Challenge ~ i rolled a 6 which was Carey and Killian on my list! while i was writing, it was important that they are wholesome AND want to get into a fight >:) art credits to rebecca chan!! https://linktr.ee/rebchan/

this would be assassins creed in a universe where knives are rats.

Cozy boys

notes

dead serious WHAT did they put into claire de lune to make it do all that

i goofed around in ableton and blender and now there's a thing!! ✨️

rodentia vol. 1 is a small selection of tracks i've accumulated while worldbuilding for a larger narrative project about rodents. it is cozy and wistful and the beginning of more to come. enjoy if you like rats and all of their important cousins.

~ keith