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When you buy the cheap seed

#gardenbirds #comic #littlebrownjob
Comic panel showing a small brown bird at a bird feeder, saying “hmm” Comic panel showing the small brown bird flinging seeds off every which way, saying “fuck this this this this this” Comic parcel showing the small brown bird finally holding a seed in its beak saying “oh yummy thanks”
November 26, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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There are times when it feels like this particular possum has seized control of my brain. Like when I’m up at 1am reading a 1994 long form article about John Wayne Gacy
#possum #brainbad #poorlifechoices
Drawing of an extremely round possum standing on two legs. Their eyes are exhausted and staring. They point to themselves and say, with their very toothy mouth, “Oh me? I’m a living nightmare, mate.”
November 24, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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What are things that help keep you going? www.zooniverse.org/projects/ali... - I like to help map roads in Sudan. I feel less passive.
A comic drawing of a possum mother with five little baby possums clinging to her back. She’s standing on four legs, nose lifted, peering doubtfully into the distance. The caption reads, “How do I keep believing in a bearable tomorrow?”
November 20, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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It’s ten o’clock. Do you know where your Moo Deng is?
#moodeng #pygmyhippo #cuteart
A comic drawing of baby Moo Deng, world-famous pygmy hippo and sassy queen. She is running at top speed, mouth agape. So fast she’s leaving a blur behind her! So fast that her front and back feet are all gathered together in the middle of her as she speeds through the air. She’s also, obviously, very moist and shiny. From her mouth comes the heartfelt cry, “Heck!” A comic drawing of baby Moo Deng, world-famous pygmy hippo and sassy queen. She’s peeping out from behind a rock or something, ears wiggling and cheeks blushing with delight. Above her head, surrounded by hearts, is the word “whomst?” It’s you, Moo Deng, it was always you who is whomst! A colourful spread of products printed with comics by Jolly Lady Shark. There is a mug with an existentialist possum, a hat embroidered with an angry possum, a shirt with a possum holding a flaming sword. The text reads Goodies! Little treats! There is a link to the shop Jollyladyshark-shop.fourthwall.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Darn varifocals…!
#cuterats #illustration
November 17, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Just go ahead and screenshot this one- it’s gonna be pretty widely applicable for some time to come 😑
#antifascist #transrights #queerart
A deliberately sketchy comic drawing of an angry possum sitting like people. The possum is snarling with their teeth bared and squinting angrily. Their whiskers are all crumpled, and their little arms dangle like t-rex arms. Their feet are like spiky pink stars. The caption reads “Local Queer is getting pretty sick of this shit.”
November 15, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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I don’t see any flaws in this system and I shall not be modifying my behaviour in any way 😌
#traumarecovery #traumaresponse #avoidantbehaviour
November 13, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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I couldn’t decide on a caption for this talented young marsupial #possum #wholesomeart #woodyguthrie
A drawing of an extremely fluffy possum sitting on a branch clutching a banjo. The caption reads “let me take you to funky town” A drawing of an extremely fluffy possum sitting on a branch clutching a banjo. The caption reads “Anyway, here’s Wonderwall.” A drawing of an extremely fluffy possum sitting on a branch clutching a banjo. The caption reads, “This machine kills fascists,” which is something Woody Guthrie painted on his guitar. The slogan has since been used and referenced by many others, including Tom Morello from Rage Against the Machine. A drawing of an extremely fluffy possum sitting on a branch clutching a banjo. There is a label with an arrow pointing to the possum. The label reads “Only plays Nickelback”
November 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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To celebrate the end of Rattober, here are a few sketches from the month.

#rattober #fancyrats #sketchbook #sketchbookdrawings
November 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Rattober Day 31: Pondering My Orb Rat
Please tell me y’all remember this meme? I feel like I’m citing the ancient lore here #rattober #ponderingmyorb
Drawing of a rat dressed in wizard robes sitting in a darkened chamber, staring and an orb glowing with mystical blue light. The rat’s big pointy face is oriented towards the orb in fascination, faintly lit by its glow. The blue light shines on his robes and the wall behind him, casting deep purple shadows. It is based on the meme showing Saruman the White staring at an orb, an illustration from an old Lord of the Rings roleplaying game, which had been captioned “Pondering my orb.” This version is captioned “Who else up pondering their orb?”
November 5, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Rattober Day 30: Yarn Rat
My boys were obsessed with my knitting and crochet to the point it was basically impossible to do any if they were around. Really, I should’ve just gotten them some teeny needles and hooks and set them up to make their own scarves. #rattober #petrats #cuteillustration
November 4, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Rattober Day 29: Puzzle Rat
That moment when a bereaved older rat gets to meet the young rats who are going to be their new family—it’s like watching the missing piece slot into place.
#petrats #fancyrats #cuterats #cutecomic #rattober
November 3, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Rattober Day 27: Stretchy Rat
How do rat babies DO it? (Rattober is not dictated by the calendar. Rattober is a state of mind. Rattober is over when I say it’s over) #rattober #ratart #cuterats
A comic showing four stages of movement, one below the other. At the top, a grey and white hooded baby rat is curled up asleep, but a scent reaches her and she begins to sniff. Below, we see her lift her head and one hand, whiskers twitching and eye half-opened. Next, she’s fully awake and alert, rising up on her hind legs, leaning slightly forwards, eyes wide. “Oooh nice” she says. Finally, she’s stretched alllll the way up, standing on her tiptoes, ears and nose pointed excitedly forwards. “Now, yes, gimme gimme please” she says.
November 2, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Happy Halloween!
I don’t have any exciting plans, but we always get loads of trick or treaters, which is impressive for the UK! #halloween #cuteart #cutecomics
A comic showing a small black and white cat wearing a pumpkin costume. His arms and legs are so short that only his paws poke out of the arm and leg holes. The markings on his face are like a little black mask, extending down the nose and his chin is also black, so he seems to smile. He has shiny green eyes and a hopeful demeanour. The text reads, “Gerald Monkton hopes you’re not too spooked by his costume.” A comic showing a red-eyed white rat wearing a black cape. The rat has lil fangs. The caption says “Nosfer-rat-u” A comic showing your basic Jack-o-Lantern. A plump white and grey hooded rat lolls out of the pumpkin’s mouth dramatically, waving his arms and shouting, “O horror! O holp! The gourd is upon me!” The caption beneath him reads “Is tricks” A comic showing a Jack-O-Lantern, but two big possum heads are sticking out of the eye holes, grinning toothily. Their eyes glow red, probably from camera flash hitting the reflective tapeta lucida membrane in their eyes. Below them, the caption reads in flowing italic script, “Spoopy Season”
October 31, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Rattober Day 27: Frog rat
Comrade rat has joined the protest! She’s sorry it took her so long to get here, but you have no idea how hard it is to find an inflatable frog suit in her size #abolishice #rattober
A comic-style illustration showing a rat protesting against ICE. She is wearing a tiny version of the inflatable frog costume that has become iconic from the Portland protests. She’s holding a sign that reads “Abolish ICE!” in letters that she’s carefully drawn and shaded with blue and red markers. On either side of her are very large green feet and legs belonging to her fellow (human) frog protestors.
October 30, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Rattober day 26: rats against AI
Yes that’s a diagram from a paper published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal.
An illustration showing a rat burying its head in its hands in disgust at a stupid AI illustration. This particular awful AI illustration appeared as a figure in a scientific article Here the edges are nibbled. It shows a rat standing on its hind legs with an anatomical cross-section of its internal organs. These consist of a number of increasingly enormous, globular balls, sprouting a penis which towers so high it can’t actually fit into the frame. To the side are a series of figures which superficially resemble cells in a petri dish, except there’s also a serving spoon. The rat is helpfully labeled ‘Rat’. Its shoulder is labelled ‘stem cells.’ The stem cells are labelled ‘stermm cells.’ The nightmarish balls are labelled ‘testtoemcels’ and the penis is labeled ‘dck’. The illustrated rat, drawn by an actual human, says “Good grief, our balls aren’t THAT big!” In the corner, text reads “In Feb 2024, this alarmingly-endowed rat—and other AI nonsense—appeared in a (badly) peer-reviewed journal. But the stupidity isn’t the real problem with AI. It’s that asshole corporations are stealing our art, thought and work, then puking it out as vaguely-plausible slop. Then trying to tempt, trick or force us into eating this vomit as our future.”
October 29, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Rattober Day 25: gourd rat
A tribute to Over the Garden Wall today, because no one has ever worn a gourd better than the fine folks of Pottsfield. #otgw #rattober #overthegardenwall
Rat-themed fan art of Over the Garden Wall. An illustration shows a scene from ‘Hard Times at the Huskin Bee’ in which a man with a pumpkin body and jack o’ lantern head pauses while carving another jack o’ lantern. The man’s pumpkin face seems to look shiftily over to the side as his knife freezes in the newly carved mouth. In this version, a big Siamese-coloured rat (tan with brown nose, ears and back half) sits perched on the pumpkin being carved. The rat also seems to have frozen, looking over towards the unseen intruders. The text, in a scratchy calligraphic hand, reads “You folks better don your vegetables.”
October 28, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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We interrupt this Rattober to bring you - possum in a costume!!

#spookyseason #cutepossum
Illustration of a happy possum wearing a skeleton costume. Text says “stay spooky” with a little spider dangling from the final y
October 27, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Rattober Day 23: Stamp rat
I felt lazy for using images of real stamps but don’t worry: it was pretty time consuming to erase and then draw round all the lil scalloped edges. I bet there’s a quicker way but I am unskilled. I like that my red-eyed rat has glasses #petrats #rattober #cuteart
Drawing of rats at an art gallery where all of the paintings are stamps. Is the scale right? It is not. Rats aren’t that small; stamps aren’t that big. But drawing it to scale wouldn’t be as cute. The rats are bipedal and interested. One rat scratches their chin. A parent rat holds their child’s hand and looks where the kid is pointing. An elderly white rat with red eyes and glasses squints at a leaflet. In the foreground, two rats sit cuddled on a bench, their bags on the ground beside them. The stamps are vintage USPS designs: postcard-style images from Hawaii and Nevada, a cherub with LOVE across it, a diagram of the arnica flower, a racing stagecoach (this is what the kid rat is looking at), an old-timey baseball plater, Marianne from France and a Spanish stamp with a painted harbour scene.
October 25, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Rattober day 21: loaf rat. As you can see in the sketch, my original idea was to show the loaf being sliced. When it came to it, though, I just couldn’t do that to my golden baked boy 😫 #fancyrats #rattober #cuterats
Drawing of a rat-shaped loaf of bread—or is it a bread-shaped loaf of rat? Either way, it is toasty golden, gently steaming and rests on a wooden board ever so tranquil and nice. Rough pencil sketch of a rat-shaped loaf of bread but a serrated knife is slicing off the head-um, I mean, the end of the loaf. But it definitely has a cute sleepy rat face. Next to the drawing are the words “uh oh”
October 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Rattober day 22: the rat next door
I had no idea how to draw a rat sitting cross-legged puttin on shoes so I was really focused on drawing from the photo of Mr Rogers. Which produced the uncanny Maus reject in the second image! Simple pictures can be lots of work! #fancyrats #wholesomememes
Comic showing a rat cosplaying as Mr Rogers. He has a white face with grey on the top and is looking down to show off his pointy rat snout and his beady eyes. He’s sitting cross-legged while he changes into his sneakers. He’s already got one on- it’s really long, like you’d expect with rat feet. He’s wearing a red zip cardigan over a shirt and tie and his body is very round. Words in a the folksy retro Mr Rogers font frame him and ask, “Won’t you be my neighbour?” A line drawing of Mr Rogers with a rat’s head, and it’s as creepy as that sounds. Mr Rogers is sat cross-legged putting on his shoes, while staring at you with big rat eyes. The whole thing is a little odd
October 23, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Rattober Day 20: Abstract Rat. Ok so how do you do abstract rat while still clearly communicating that it is a rat? By doing a tribute to an obscure piece by everyone’s favourite abstract artist, Kandinsky, that’s how! This was huge fun to do #rattober #inktober
Painterly comic of a rat balancing by their nose on an orange ball. Brushstrokes are visible and the shapes simplified, as if in the style of an abstract painting. The background is blue, and the rat is basically a white triangle with a purple tip and simplified pink ears, nose, hands and feet. The tail is a pink squiggle. The rat might also seem to be falling through the sky, because of some white streaks behind and above them, which look a bit like motion lines. The truth is in the eye of the beholder. The composition of the image is a loose tribute to Kandinsky’s 1924 painting “Contact.” Kandinsky’s 1924 painting, “Contact.” The background is golden-orange, and a large black or very dark blue scalene triangle is balancing atop a very dark blue circle, which is half in the frame at the bottom of the image. A bright pink circle hovers like a bubble at the topmost corner of the triangle, while a number of straight lines run across it. A bold red squiggle cuts through the middle. At the bottom left, a number of smaller triangles also balance on their tips on a blue shape, while a darker orange rectangle that looks like a brick wall hovers above them
October 21, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Rattober day 18: ratsistent, which I’m interpreting as resistant and persistent. Sending love and solidarity to everyone who has been getting out and standing up. We keep us safe, and we carry a new world in our hearts ❤️‍🔥 #nokings #inktober
Comic showing three rats, two standing and holding ’No Kings’ protest signs. The other is on all fours in the foreground, looking spirited and defiant. The two standing rats are ginger with a white tum and brown, while the foreground rat is white with a black hood. The caption says “We are many, they are few. And we will always be here.”
October 21, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Rattober day 13: curly rat
My happy blue roan Marius was such a little gym rat, constantly running on his wheel. He helps his tail curved up over his head and the vet said it’s actually called wheel tail! #fancyrats #rattober #inktober
A comic showing three panels in one image. The first two show a roan rat (white with grey on his head and back) running in a red wheel, first one way then the other. The bottom image shows this rat looking very proud, out of the wheel, tail held curved above his head. The caption says “wheel-tail unlocked”
October 15, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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#rattober day 15: canoe rat… first ever experiment with animation and it makes me smile
#cuterats #petrats #inktober
October 15, 2025 at 3:48 PM