Probably Not A Squirrel

Salutations! Your local cryptid collective, sleep-deprived and ready to jive! This blog is a safe space for everyone except Jonah Maggot, you look like the rat from Chuck E. Cheese and if you get near me I will flip your liver inside out To everyone else, welcome to our strange corner of the interwebs! !! ANTI POISON SCONES DNI !! Art blog is @genderharvester

[orangeswithsquirrelfaces]

★The Eclectic Collective★

[pt: The Eclectic Collective]

Salutations, hi, hello! Nice to see you stopping by, why don’t’cha grab a cup of tea and ignore the glitter sticking to every surface of this blog? Nobody knows where it came from. It’s probably maybe not radioactive or a biohazard. -Squirrelly

We have finally made that new and accurate intro post 💛 -Lumen

Come talk to us! We’re all pretty friendly, and we can’t bite ya through the computer (Yet) -?

Some important snippets about the system as a whole because this is an intro, after all! -Linen

[pt: Some important snippets about the system as a whole because this is an intro, after all!]

When referring to us collectively, use they/them and refer to us as a group unless otherwise specified (I.e. post tagged with a specific name, you know who is in front, etc)

We’re all creatives, though our various passions range from art to writing to composition, and past that a few more esoteric things

We support all trans people, including any nonbinary folks, agender folks, and people who use neopronouns :)

If you’re a friend of ours, and we ever upset you, please tell us! We’re always working on ourselves and our friendships, and we would like to have constructive discussions :] We’ll let you know if it’s a bad time, and return when we’re able

We support the agendas of crows, ravens, magpies, and other miscellaneous corvidae

We’re currently under a LOT of external stress and thus are splitting a lot & often blurry. Be patient!

We have a hard time staying in touch sometimes due to anxiety and an often busy life. It doesn’t mean we don’t care, and we’re always happy to see folks reach out

Individual intros coming soon! Our lovely directory will soon at some point be all full of links! -?

Tagging System (In regards to who wrote what)

[pt: Tagging System (In regards to who wrote what)] (Tagging system? I thought we were The Eclectic Collective! -Lumen)

When we’re not too unidentified or blurry, we’ll have a signoff with our name (I.e. -Forest/Verdance for me. The / denotes multiple names for one person, whereas an & would denote a cofront (I.e. -Verdance & Nutmeg & Juniper, generally placed in order of influence though not always)

If we’re very blurry, or someone is unidentified, unnamed, they’ll generally sign off with a variant of “-Blurry” or “-?”

Some of us have a few aliases, but I think that’s a them thing and I’d rather not interfere given I haven’t met the ones that do yet. -Verdance

Tagging System (In regards to organization)

[pt: Tagging System (In regards to organization)]

#Eclectics’ ramblings - Any of our original posts (As of now halfway organized)

#Eclectics’ art - Partially organized, will be tagging now & onward

#Eclectics’ writing - Anything related to our writing (will be organized soon)

#ciphertag - For our ciphers! Think you can crack them?

Our hobbies & interests! They include:

[PT: Our hobbies & interests! They include:]

★ Hobbies (Slightly redundant, but good to have a list)*:

Writing (original & fanfic!), visual art, composition, exploring nature, collecting things, ciphering, playing TTRPGS, worldbuilding, listening to music, making & blueprinting crafts, playing video games, sewing, miscellaneous kinds of jewelry making, singing, etcetera

★ Fascinations*:

Strange dreams, liminal & vast spaces, anatomy & the body, steampunk, categorization & organization, the paranormal, folklore, sci-fi & fantasy, horror of many kinds, non-euclidean geometry, fractals, niche psychological phenomena, poetry, etcetera

*Not all of us will share these! This is a blanket list of what I can remember people in our system liking -?

Our favorite media! This includes:

[pt: Our favorite media! This includes:]

★ Movies

Project Hail Mary, Backrooms, Iron Lung, Howl’s Moving Castle, Spirited Away

★ Shows:

The Good Place, Gravity Falls, Knights of Guinevere, Ramshackle, Welcome To Hell, The Owl House, The Amazing Digital Circus, and a lot more honestly

★ Video Games:

Portal, Inscription, Subnautica, Minecraft, Hades, Dialtown, In Stars and Time, The Stanley Parable, MCSM, etcetera etcetera

★ Podcasts:

Malevolent, Welcome to Night Vale, The Magnus Archives, The Magnus Protocol, Ethics Town, Camp Here & There

★ Musicals:

Heathers, SIX the Musical, 36 Questions, EPIC the Musical, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along-Blog, the Hatchetfield trilogy, etcetera etcetera

★ Books & Series’:

The Locked Tomb series, The Skyward Trilogy (and counting? By Brandon Sanderson), The Toby Daye Series (Seanan McGuire), The Sabriel series (Garth Nix), The Manual Of The Planes (D&D book), and probably some I'm forgetting

★ Music:

Will Wood, They Might Be Giants, Flavor Foley, Paris Paloma, Rabbitology, Guchiry, The Oh Hellos, Jhariah, The Crane Wives, Lemon Demon, Glass Animals, IDKHOW, Tally Hall, Ghost and Pals, AURORA, AZALI, etcetc

A playlist we made with recs!

★ Misc Media:

Searching For a World That Doesn’t Exist (ARG), Muted (Webcomic), Hi, Strangeness (Webcomic), VSMP, Life Series

And now! It has come time for you to witness our coveted web graphic hoard! -?

Directory —-v

We have an art sideblog! Check it out if you’re curious -> @genderharvester

We also! Have a web graphics sideblog, full of things we’ve made! :) None of the graphics on our current intro post are by us, but these ones are! -> @eclectics-web-graphic-emporium

Do you want to see “Do you love the color of the sky?” On your dash EVERY SINGLE DAY? -> @enjoyskyblue-daily

Do you like spiders? Do you celebrate a fake, 55-day long holiday known as Spiderpocalypse? -> @spiderpocalypse

We may have individual intros and sideblogs (Soon!) (As folks make intros, they’ll be putting them here, but until then well. Uhh. You know us by name! (Sometimes!) -Lumen & Others )

Original intro: Time capsule <- Does not entirely reflect us today, be warned! We are no longer trying to act as one person, and that will be very noticeable in the discrepancies

[pixeljade]

i am a SUCKER for characters who start out as copies of other characters but eventually become their own people, their own identities, completely different from who they once reflected

[pixeljade]

i am a SUCKER for characters who start out as copies of other characters but eventually become their own people, their own identities, completely different from who they once reflected

[dark-magician-girl-meets-world]

I got hired to do a stand-up comedy set at the trope villain convention. It was a great gig. Really appreciative crowd. They were absolutely cackling the whole time. It was a little weird at the end though when all of them stood up and started clapping very slowly, before saying, in unison, "Well done, my friend. Well done."

[dark-magician-girl-meets-world]

One of them said he really liked how relatable my comedy was. Apparently it made him feel like we're not so different, he and I.

[i-am-a-fish]

There are three hundred rats

there's more

[rat-in-the-grain]

Like me :)

But I’m sneaky cuz I’m in the grain so they don’t count me >:)

[i-am-a-fish]

oh my goodness, rat in the grain, hello I love your work it's great to see you

[rat-in-the-grain]

Likewise I Am A Fish, you’ve been an inspiration :)

I enjoy watching your posts while scuttling in the Grain

[thecolorofthegame]

I know this trophy is supposed to represent a triathlon, but it looks like a cyclist award for attacking pedestrians

[katlovesshrimps]

Disability Pride Month is generally in July, but it's worth sharing all year

[creatingblackcharacters]

#Make Racists Scared Again 2026

[creatingblackcharacters]

Share if you want people to know they should be scared to be racist around you 👊🏾

[creatingblackcharacters]

"making them afraid will make them more racist" that's wild to me, because we live in a whole culture of social consequences for antiracism anyway. It is literally safer to be a racist than it is to speak up against it, socially.

Idk about you, but "I'm afraid no one will want to be my friend if I'm a white supremacist" seems like a pretty logical thought process to have, and I wish THAT were the normal and not "I'm afraid my friends will hate me if I tell them they made racist jokes".

[garlicbreadcake-reblogs]

Ignoring the relatability in the last sentence i do want to add just how shocked i am that racism exists in such a large scale in 2026, like i know that all movements like these take time but at least in bigger countries it should be a minuscule insignificant minority that is racist, why can i walk down the street and hear something racist if i start listening, that should not be how it is but it is

[creatingblackcharacters]

"because we live in a whole culture of social consequences for antiracism anyway. It is literally safer to be a racist than it is to speak up against it, socially"

Y'all gotta stop being shocked and start DOING something about it 👍🏾

[stjohnstarling]

In light of recent events, I have begun submitting bug reports when I see mature content labels applied inappropriately to posts, especially if an appeal has been rejected.

[a-kind-of-merry-war]

Extremely good idea - how are you doing it? Through the contact us option?

[stjohnstarling]

Yeah it’s one of the options on the Contact Support form:

[sharas-bae]

for what it's worth: after a few months of submitting help tickets as 'feedback' when i saw a post inappropriately flagged as mature, i tried following this suggestion instead. today i got my first-ever response from tumblr support on this issue, letting me know that a post i'd submitted a ticket before has had its mature content flag removed.

[stjohnstarling]

Hey it worked! Maybe if enough of us make a stink they’ll fix the fucking system.

[edupunkbitch]

This is legitimately brilliant. Bug burndown reports (the rate at which your software team can close bugs) is a major metric for most software houses.

It takes an extra step in our part, but this is part of what makes it effective. It's not one click, one reblog activism and it hits them where they care: their damn KPIs.

[pansy-butch]

I AM SOMETBING PRETENDING TO BE HUMAN i have always been something pretending to be human i have always pretended to be human i have always been more thing than person i am something pretending to be human

[stupidestasshole]

every time you revlog this post, a new baby spider is born #miracleoflife

[nightowlfowl]

baby's first Kayne Malevolent art!?¿

[girlnephew]

like the idea of unnaturally aged cheese. making my gouda old using dread magics forbidden by the college of sorcery

[abalidoth]

this cheese was aged by sending it to the beach that makes you old

[crabussy]

when you eat a Normal Sandwich (bread meat greens cheese relish) and your body goes ooohhh fuck! oh fuck! what have you done! heartbeat GO! sweating GO! temperature GO! like sorry man I'm just trying to keep you WORKING!!!!!!!! ASS HOLE!

[crabussy]

it’s normal for sandwich to make you feel like you’re dying. this is a normal sandwich experience

[hexabeast]

[wuggen]

Everyone say thank you sanitation workers we owe you our lives sanitation workers

[bebsi-cola]

july is disability pride month. it is also summer in the northern hemisphere, and this summer we have seen record breaking hot temperatures across the globe. it might be apt to remember that disabled people are a population vulnerable to extreme weather, and significantly more at risk of death or health issues during a heatwave. "the global mortality rate of people with disabilities in natural disasters is up to four times higher than people without disabilities." (source). disability may increase the relative risk of a heatwave more than old age, socioeconomic status, and being outdoors (source). even in the places most affected by the rising heat, disabled people are barely included in action plans for public safety, if at all (source). global warming is a an issue that affects a wide range of people, but let's not forget it is also a disability rights issue

[brucebocchi]

sorry to post facebook videos on main but the sound of jello going through an industrial shredder is both mesmerizing and horrible

[amurderofkittens]

This is the one thing in your life you really want and need to hear. It’s so fascinating.