Its-mistakeboi - Sounds! Colors!

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

Listen.

EVERYBODY knows (or should) that you DO. NOT. STOP. in Vidor, Texas. 

It’s best to just run out of gas elsewhere. Whatever you do, black folks, DO NOT STOP IN VIDOR, TEXAS. 

There’s a good chance you’ll get lynched or just come up missing - and I’m not joking.

also do NOT stop in Harrison, Arkansas!!!! (relatively close to OK and MI) a nazi town with a BIG KKK organization.

Reblog To Save Life

✨ms paint story telling✨ lets watch the aurora!

mutuals

as a person who started going bald many years ago, that is actually an incredibly popular opinion, mostly from people who aren't losing their hair who see me walking down the street. it's usually the first thing they say, as they crawl out from under a dense foliage of brunette or platinum blonde.

"did you know-" they pipe up enthusiastically and without prompt, "-you sure would look great if you shaved your head!"

but i know the truth. i mean, a working set of kidneys on the average American diet is rare enough as it is, but a full head of hair? these freaks want me to shave my head so they can sneak into my bathroom and ransack my leftover hair. assimilating my hair onto their head must not be easy and i suspect necromancy is involved. BUT I KNOW YOUR GAME AND I SHANT BE PLAYING.

i will instead be following in the footsteps of my short, neurotic forefathers.

a lot of people don't seem to want to look like this anymore. but someone needs to be brave enough to keep this rich tradition alive. balding men are an endangered species, threatened by an all-encompasing compulsion of modern men who want to look like Mr. Clean.

listen, i get it. Mr. Clean is hot. but this trend is disastrous for the Men's Hairstyle ecosystem.

be the bald you want to see in the world.

might be an unpopular opinion but i feel like if you're balding enough you should just shave that shit and be completely bald. stop hanging onto whatever you have left it never looks good. own your baldness

Animal of the Day!

Asiatic Brush-tailed Porcupine (Atherurus macrourus)

(Photo in public domain)

Conservation Status- Least Concern

Habitat- Southern Asia

Size (Weight/Length)- 80 cm

Diet- Leaves; Bark; Fruits; Flowers; Roots; Nuts; Seeds

Cool Facts- The Asiatic brush-tailed porcupine loves the tropics, sticking to bamboo and palm forests. They find themselves at home in thick underbrush where burrows keep them safe. Multiple Asiatic brush-tailed porcupines can end up living in the same burrow system, working together to defend their home from predators. They are generally nocturnal and spend only a few hours each night outside of their burrow. When encountering a predator, these porcupines can run as fast backwards as they can forwards. This results in a leopard or human being embedded with hundreds of quills.

Rating- 12/10 (The rarest porcupines of South Asia.)

Animal of the Day!

Malagasy Giant Jumping Rat (Hypogeomys antimena)

(Photo by Andrey Giljov)

Conservation Status- Critically Endangered

Habitat- Central-western Madagascar

Size (Weight/Length)- 1 kg; 30 cm; 25 cm tail

Diet- Fruits; Seeds; Bark

Cool Facts- The malagasy giant jumping rat might be the most rabbit-looking rodent. Despite their relatively small size, these rats can leap 90 centimeters directly into the air to avoid predators. Spending their days inside burrows, their homes are large complexes with many different entrances to allow for quick escapes. Malagasy giant jumping rats are not monogamous but pairs will stick together to raise their offspring after the breeding season. Sadly, due to habitat destruction and large populations of feral cats, these rats are confined to only 200 square kilometers of protected forest. Multiple off site captive breeding programs in zoos and sanctuaries hope to preserve this absolutely adorable rat.

Rating- 13/10 (Hippity hoppity, get off my property.)

speculative biology/fantasy/fictionalized large predators that kill indiscriminately and don't eat what they kill drive me up the fucking wall. it is so, so dangerous and exhausting to be a large predator. you don't want to get into a fight, you don't want to exert too much energy, because if you fuck up you can die. and once you manage to kill something, you eat it. you don't go and kill the rest of the herd, you scare off the rest of the herd and eat the thing you killed until something scares you off.

did you know tigers only have a 10% success rate as hunters? TIGERS.

Magawa, a rat trained to detect landmines, retired in 2021 after five years of service. During his career, he helped clear more than 20 football fields’ worth of land in Cambodia, significantly contributing to the safety of local communities.

His work earned him several accolades, including a prestigious award from the UK veterinary charity PDSA.