7 (coincedentally my favourite number!)

she/her

[rat-detector-seven]

GOOD EVENING MY FELLOW RATS!!!!

october 13th, 2024, 8pm EDT – may 22, 2026, 3pm EDT

she/her

ally of the caverns, rat ambassador

[rat-detector-seven]

[desintegrates into ashes and blows away into the wind, with a sense of finality and relief]

[rat-detector]

[smallestbubs]

wet beasts

[thedenofravenpuff]

W E T B E A S T S W E D N E S D A Y

[the-frightening-ghoul]

ㅤ

[rat-detector-seven]

favorite word?

obligitary "rat" for the gimmick, but the honest answer is "treacherous" (though it changes intermittenly)

[chongoblog]

ITS APRIL 13 YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS

FETCH ME NEIL

[chongoblog]

[chongoblog]

HAPPY BIG TWENTY NEIL

[rat-detector-24-official]

Neil banging out the tunes 20th anniversary edition detected

[chongoblog]

ITS APRIL 13 YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS

FETCH ME NEIL

[chongoblog]

[chongoblog]

HAPPY BIG TWENTY NEIL

[rat-detector-24-official]

Neil banging out the tunes 20th anniversary edition detected

[chongoblog]

ITS APRIL 13 YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS

FETCH ME NEIL

[chongoblog]

[chongoblog]

HAPPY BIG TWENTY NEIL

[rat-detector-24-official]

Neil banging out the tunes 20th anniversary edition detected

[diazrar]

happy Neil banging out the tunes day!

[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

[chongoblog]

ITS APRIL 13 YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS

FETCH ME NEIL

[chongoblog]

[chongoblog]

HAPPY BIG TWENTY NEIL

[rat-detector-24-official]

Neil banging out the tunes 20th anniversary edition detected

[chongoblog]

ITS APRIL 13 YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS

FETCH ME NEIL

[chongoblog]

[chongoblog]

HAPPY BIG TWENTY NEIL

[rat-detector-24-official]

Neil banging out the tunes 20th anniversary edition detected

[the-radio-star]

Finally some good fucking news

[rock-fish-deactivated20201231]

they concluded that the rats were having fun partially bc the rats voluntarily initiated games, hopped around joyfully and teased researchers by pretending to come close and then skittering away. rats are Very Good

[sindri42]

These scientists are getting grant money to play games with rats all day and that is just, living the dream.

[toastyglow]

hide and squeak

[yahooo-official]

this is why i love rats

[accidental-will-wood-reference]

i fucking love this

[no-one-offical]

‎

[leefi]

[gay-impressionist]

If you are silent about your pain they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it - Zora Neale Hurston

[staticsable]

This is one of those posts where I feel like I'm doing others and myself a disservice by not sharing. I wish someone had shown me this a long time ago.

Maybe I'd be having to do less work to break out of this shell, now.

[tumblr]

Reblogs in a chain now get their own notes

The reblog chain is one of the things that makes Tumblr unlike anywhere else. All the notes on reblogs are attributed to the original post, no matter which branch people actually liked or reblogged. We want to keep encouraging conversations, and give contributors the recognition they deserve. 

Soon, you'll be able to like, reblog, or reply to any part of a reblog chain, and that note will go to that reblog's author. Each reblog will have its own counts, instead of one aggregated number from every version of the post. And yes, you’ll be able to like multiple posts in one chain.

If a reblog doesn't add anything, the love flows up to the last person in the chain who did. Your post doesn't lose notes just because people spread it quietly.

Past notes will stay on the original post — we're only changing what happens from here on out. Retroactively re-attributing all of them would be... a lot.

This is just the beginning. More changes are coming as we keep building this out – stay tuned!

[changes]

It’s very clear that you all have strong feelings about Tumblr and about this change. We hear you. The passion people have for how Tumblr works is one of the things that makes this place special.

As this rolls out over the next few days and you explore it, we’ll keep reading your replies and reblogs, so please keep sharing your questions, concerns, and ideas.

Your creativity has always been the heart of Tumblr, whether you’re the original poster or adding something brilliant in the reblogs, and nothing about this change is meant to limit that.

If you’d like to talk directly beyond the comments, leave a reply and we’ll follow up with as many of you as we can. We want to work with you to make Tumblr better.

[icannotgetoverbirds]

hey folks do we like this. reblog without commentary for reach

do we want this?

yes

no

Voting ended onMar 23

[2very-2uncorrect]

Hey so I thought we as userbase should organize spontaneous blackout protest against shapes inc ads here. I thought Feb 26th would be a good date (so ppl has 72 hrs notice if they want to participate), we would log off for 24hrs to show tumblr we are not okay with that (and also for shapes to get less ad revenue for a day in a process lol). Tag would be 'anti shapes inc protest'

If you like the idea/want to participate, help spread the word by reblogging this ask. Thanks <3

I would happily comply with this, hopefully enough people participate for it to make an impact!

[undefined333]

Yo everyone who sees my blog. How about we do this

(+overall it's good to take a break from social media)

@kingkit7734 @withered-roses-still-live @ex-bus @starryvirus @reincarnated-gay-fox @mjthesilly @sprinty-ua spread the word if you want to

[autisimyfoxerronii]

Yes this is something we should do, so fellow tumblrians spread the word

@the-king-of-beans-offical @astracaedes @ayane-chan-loves-water @algae122 @beansandsausages32 @do-not-u-dare @drudg30n @dramaticinlyf @evilpineapple-offical @evee1308 @featherednonsense @fox-offical @gayward-fagabond @ghostlybluetrain @heart-offical @itsuwari-no-kibo-offical @irrelevantsarcasmghost @instant-yuri-machine @jel-e-ton @kingkit7734 @lokisflame @loco-the-wolf @laciffo-natas @midnight-blue-wolf-official @mjthesilly @make-me-president @mossymenaces @no-one-offical @ninahufflepuff @p1per-will-kill-you @raynilikescats @roseisgoat @ririwithrice @sok-offical @thedogbard @the-bone-eating-vulture @the-grassy-hill @undefined333 @vaporeon-offical @withered-roses-still-live @winterinkspill @zeldafloof @zeta-finnish @ash-cherryblossom

Please spread the word

(Yes i tagged people im not moots with but this is important)

[ayane-chan-loves-water]

YES I LOVE THIS!!

@zaiisacreep @no-one-offical @withered-roses-still-live @livstudioss @livviedaltonvintagedoll @dramaticinlyf + open tags!!

[dramaticinlyf-deactivated202604]

yesyesyes!!! we should totally to something like thiss!!!

@shenanigan42 @eleventhirtythoughts @withered-roses-still-live @do-not-u-dare @ravensncrowsx @the-aricher @p1per-will-kill-you @sunnyarik3r @oxyisdamoron @thatchaoticbookworm @no-one-offical @astracaedes + all the moottieeeeeesssssss

[thatchaoticbookworm]

yess :DD @later-heaven @shaethecrow @karasubooks @lawrenceinagothicfont @coffee--spill @cocainecoveredstrawberry

[coffee--spill]

Solid idea, ofc, but midnight to midnight in which country? If it's a black out it should be all together no? (I'll reblog it again and tag ppl when I get home)

[the-one-and-only-piper-offical]

as a person who has just been assaulted by Shapes.inc, FUCKING YES

I CAN SURVIVE WITH ONLY AO3 FOR A DAY (I think)

Thanks for the tag @dramaticinlyf and @reincarnated-gay-fox

-Pipes

[narrator-guy-offical]

an unspecified plural amount of spherical objects.

There could be 2 balls, or there could be 200 balls.

[the-rat12]

could there be 101 balls...?

[the-rat7]

there are 7 balls. I have decided

[rat-detector-seven]

i agree