The Rat Studio

This is my art blog!! I draw shit here!! Main (?) blog @the-rat-eatery Imagine the rat king from the nutcracker screaming

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Hi hello it’s not been 24 hours but Borderline by @elk-en (Wintersbane on Ao3) has a very strong grip on me please go read it

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‘A painfully bright realization pops into Shane’s head; That Ilya trusts him so fucking much that even his trembling stopped, that his involuntary reaction to fear and pain ceased almost immediately, that Ilya knows he’s safe while Shane’s cuddling him down to the fucking chemicals in his brain. If the circumstances were different, Shane would’ve gotten so high off that thought that he’d need to run laps.’

I have momentarily returned from the dead with fanart for a hollanov zombie (ha) au of all things. Anyway please read Borderline by @elk-en (Wintersbane on Ao3), it’s very very good and I’m enjoying it greatly.

Not very good doodles under cut. Also maybe turn up the brightness for this one.

Ignore the fact that the faces look nothing like the show, I can’t draw real people nor men so I was kinda fucked here. I made more of an attempt on the fully rendered thing but gave up with the doodles.

2026 has been stabbing me in the gut repeatedly, but these people have made it a little more tolerable. Senior year is a bitch, but what can you do.

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Death comes to me again, a girl in a cotton slip. Barefoot, giggling. It’s not so terrible she tells me, not like you think, all darkness and silence.

There are wind chimes and the smell of lemons. Some days it rains. But more often the air is dry and sweet. I sit beneath the staircase built from hair and bone and listen to the voices of the living.

I like it, she says, shaking the dust from her hair, especially when they fight, and when they sing.

Death Comes to Me Again, a Girl poem by Dorianne Laux

Please note that there are exactly 201 jellyfish throughout all the pages— the souls of the kids killed for Harrow plus the soul of Gideon

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especially when they fight, and when they sing.

Death Comes to Me Again, a Girl poem by Dorianne Laux

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Final! No color:

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I like it, she says, shaking the dust from her hair

Death Comes to Me Again, a Girl poem by Dorianne Laux

<- Pt 5 of 6 -> Pt 1

This is hands down my favorite page. I love how I posed Alecto. Also if it's unclear the woman in the bottom three panels is Anastasia. Because Alectostasia is real fight me.

No color:

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I sit beneath the staircase built from hair and bone and listen to the voices of the living.

Death Comes to Me Again, a Girl poem by Dorianne Laux

<- Pt 4 of 6 -> Pt 1

I fucking love this page-- I think the hair turned out so cool Color variations:

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Some days it rains. But more often the air is dry and sweet.

Death Comes to Me Again, a Girl poem by Dorianne Laux

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I might do a full drawing of gid and harrow on the couch because the pose turned out sweet No color:

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There are wind chimes and the smell of lemons.

Death Comes to Me Again, a Girl poem by Dorianne Laux

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Probably my least favorite page No color:

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Death comes to me again, a girl in a cotton slip Barefoot, giggling. It’s not so terrible she tells me, not like you think, all darkness and silence.

Death Comes to Me Again, a Girl poem by Dorianne Laux Pt 1 of 6 ->

New project! No color:

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Please, just this once, stay.

I fear I am obsessed again. Please recommend fics. I need more she ra.

Closeups for you lovely people:

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They’re judging you

(Please send me what you want me to draw I wanna be creative but I’m out of ideas)

Idk man I don’t like this one but I spent too long on it to not share it

Harrow looks more or less fine but Gideon looks too… pretty?

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Sckl is back! And so am I! Here are my favorite girls Harrow and Nona <3

As always we thanks @griddlebait for this amazing piece of writing. I encourage everyone who hasn’t checked A Semi-Charmed Kinda Life yet to do so immediately!

Closeups and life update/more thoughts under cut

This conversation is on of my favorites in the fic— it’s from chapter 24 and I love it it is so funny Nona is such an icon.

Guys I tried to do full color, I really, truly did— it simply did not want to work.

In other news— I’m back for the summer! School almost finished me off this year but I made it though with good grades in everything but math (I got a 60 on the final despite studying day and night for two weeks straight— it’s fine! I’m not bitter at all!!). I think I want to work on more of my own stuff this summer— that probably will mean less fanart but I’m posting my original stuff here as well if anyone is interested.

I truly enjoy how Harrow turned out in this one. I know a lot of people interpret her (especially in this fic) as more femme leaning, but I personally really associate with her just— not really thinking about gender and gender expression apart from the fact that she wants to look like a lesbian. Idk man I feel that so hard. So I tried to capture that a little bit. (I really like her boots and her chain in particular— I know I should have made the boots more fucked up but I forgot a little bit whoops).

Nona in this fic is, from the bottom of my heart, my favorite character ever. Fucking look at her. What a star. I gave her temporary tattoos because she would fuck with those. Also the lineart is tie dye because of her. I wanted to give her the weird ass hair dye but, like I said, color wasn’t working out. Also she does have nipple piercings I did remember that (I originally wanted to draw ‘tits, Nona!!’ from chapter 24 also I think? But I didn’t know how to do that without full on nudity which idk if tumblr would be cool about and I don’t think I could do that well anyway. If I do figure it out I’ll do it because that scene is so funny).

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School is out!!!! I don’t think anyone cares but I will be back with more sooooon!!!!

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I drew some stuff for a short story my friend wrote and I liked it so here you are

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A little Jinx for you

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I come back after two months with more semi-charmed kinda life :)

As always we thank @griddlebait for the masterpiece of this fic

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Yall I’ll get something out soon I swear