What a time to be alive

Sam • 25 • he/him • gardening enthusiast

[edgebug]

happy 20 year anniversary of Neil banging out the tunes!

though every rat is special, it's a wonderful and unusual thing for their accomplishments to be remembered and cherished by so many people so many years later. we're all so fortunate to know about the rat who banged out the tunes!

thank you to all the people who sent me reference photos of their beloved rats for this piece!!! credits under the cut!

@joe-spookyy Ben and Socrates

@gooseontheinternet Chamomile and Beefy

@runawayy-rat Bartholomäus and Emo

@theunholystromboli Macrogryphosaurus, Xenoceratops, and Graciliraptor

@techlecticwtch Solas and Dorian

@merlyn-bane Roslyn and Rizzoli

@logictoinsanity Luna and Buttercup

@hagsthehag Orphie, Psyche, Calypso, Ariadne, and Eury

my sweet ladies Bonnie, Mira, An, and Tula

and of course, the irreplaceable

Neil,

who banged out the tunes

[centaurself]

in celebration of april 13, i present all four known photos of neil, who banged out the tunes 19 years ago today

source: theagilerat.com (click right to see all four photos!)

[starberry-cupcake]

[chongoblog]

ITS APRIL 13 YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS

FETCH ME NEIL

[chongoblog]

[chongoblog]

HAPPY BIG TWENTY NEIL

[rottingfacade]

i love those blinking red lights they put on top of radio towers and windmills and skyscrapers etc, theyre like electronic flowers or something to me

[rottingfacade]

[shutyourmoustache]

[hostilemakeover]

[g00seg1raffe]

Holy fuck you illegally downloaded a cardigan

[roguebombshell]

Dang. The skill needed to know how to use all of those machines, the vision, the planning. Wowzers.

[virgoboy]

that post thats like “you’re not unlovable you’ve just been spending a lot of time alone in your room” is true for everyone but me. i’m unlovable i’ve just coincidentally been spending a lot of time alone in my room

[sennamaticart]

Dress Code

[sodasink]

everything is sunshine and rainbows!

[foxpopvli]

Generational differences!

[rowanclair]

Aurora borealis on a winter night ✨

[sanminzhuyi]

Murals in Shanghai during Cultural Revolution, 1973.

Photos by Bruno Barbey.

[viewfindercomics]

the rainbow connection or whatever 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩

[blindalleycomic]

Blind Alley No. 396

[twixnmix]

Martin Luther King Jr. playing with his children Dexter King, Yolanda King and Bernice King in their backyard in Atlanta on November 8, 1964.

Photos by Flip Schulke

[bhramarii]

no mondays in the cambrian era

[makrustic]

Feelings come in waves; they always hit you, whether you expect it or not Prints | Ko-fi | Patreon

[sentimentalbeing2001]

Old IKEA ad (1984)