The rat man

Damian/Ashton [20] | intp | demi-pan trans guy Im a punk gremlin who loves clothing customization and body mods. I post stuffs related to that, as well as my pets :] Rats are my special interest ~changing your vision of human~

[ratten-man]

Link to my other socials and art page

Raccoylen

My alt for my weeb art [18] I use paint tool sai 2 and an older than me drawing tablet studying to become a tattoo apprentice

linktr.ee/raccoyle for most of the links to my other socials for any curious people

Music recs - https://www.tumblr.com/ratten-man/748021213082877952/list-of-spotify-playlists-i-enjoy?source=share

[ratten-man]

DIY handsewn Ninja hood

Older video that I didnt end up posting here. I felt inspired by a post i saw on pinterest of a crochet(?) bunny ninja hood and decided to sew on for myself. Unsure of the original author of the idea 🙏

Other than the inspiration I made the pattern myself and handsewed it using fabric from an old hoodie i didnt wear anymore

Not entirely finished, I still need to sew on clasps so the hood stays in place when I wear something on top. Unsure of the bunny ear idea anymore, but I still like the hood a lot when its cold. I dont like wearing scarves so this is a good alternative for me when its too cold to go without.

[ratten-man]

First ever tattoos done by me!

Ive been afk for w little while and one of the reasons was that I finished a tattooing basics course :D

One of the tattoos is on fake skin, and two on actual people. They were done while supervised by an experienced tattoo artist, and I learned so much. In spring, I will be going back to the studio I studied in to be trained further bc the artist liked my passion for tattooing and art in general (I have to finish my portfolio this month tho💀)

There are obviously things to improve, believe me, Ive been nitpicking the pictures constantly, but for my first ever tattoos, Im quite happy. At some point, I'll do touchups on the tattoos. For now I'll keep studying and training by doing other designs

Im truly becoming a competent adult man 🙏

[sentient-mawce]

RAT MUG!!!!

[indagonightmare]

I'm making new pants right now and I desperately need everyone in the world to see my new pocket

[ratten-man]

your pfp is very very gender

Thank you! ☺️

[ratten-man]

Hello my friends,lam lara it is still early winter, but the cold is very severe inside the tent 😔 No winter clothes, no warm bedding, no heavy blankets, no nutritious food, and nothing sweet that gives us energy and warmth. This is how our life has become in the war and after displacement. My family and I remember at night how we used to live before the war in our house. Perhaps these memories make us feel a little warm, but unfortunately the cold has penetrated our bodies and we cannot do anything. Perhaps someone with a merciful heart will see this story of a family that lost everything and left the house without anything and decide to donate to them and contribute to their happiness and warmth. Help us and be a support to us in this terrifying nightmare that we are living, even if it is with something simple 💔😔🥹Your donation will save us and make us happy 🌺

✅️Vetted by @gazavetters, my number verified on the list is ( #241 )✅️

Every donation, no matter how small, will make a big difference in helping us rebuild our lives and provide necessities for my family.

Please donate and share my campaign to help me and my family from this damned war 🥺⚘️🙏👇

https://chuffed.org/project/115246-helping-my-displaced-family-in-the-gaza-war

vetted fundraiser for a family in Gaza. Help if possible

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

it does still make me insane specifically how many queer people lovingly embrace astrology. I went to a poetry workshop yesterday that was genuinely quite good but also included an option to disclose astrology designations during introductions and so many people broke out some variation of "I'm a [x] sum but I have a [y] placement and it SHOWS" girl no it doesn't. that's meaningless correlation you completely invented the causation

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

I'd say that rejecting biological determinism in favor of space gas determinism isn't the slay the astrology queers think it is but if I'm being completely honest I fear that many members of our community haven't even really rejected biological determinism so much as sprinkled a layer of glitter on it

[ali-gaza]

An Emotional Plea from Lana in Gaza ,sos

Please donate or share my story 💔🍉

Hello everyone, I am Lana, a university student from gaza. I was in my second year of studying software engineering when the war came and took everything. It took my beautiful new home, which we had just built after losing our previous one in the 2014 war. It also took away many of my friends and family members...

We emerged from the rubble of our home at the start of the war, after losing many of our family members. My father was severely injured, left battling pain and the brink of death.

We were forced to leave our area and head to southern Gaza, engulfed in fear and panic, passing by tanks and the sounds of shelling all around us. We found ourselves compelled to seek refuge in a tent, far away from our homeland and dreams.

We were forced to relocate around eight times from tent to tent, intensifying our suffering. Each tent carries with it memories of pain and lost hope, lacking safety and privacy, flooded by cold rain, and devoid of food and medicine. Each time we try to start anew, we find ourselves facing the struggle for survival in harsh conditions, surrounded by anxiety and turmoil.

Life in Gaza is like living on the edge of survival every single day. The air feels heavy with uncertainty, as if every breath could be the last. There’s an overwhelming sense of loss in every corner—homes reduced to rubble, dreams shattered, and families torn apart. Every day is a battle, not just against the physical destruction, but against the hunger, the fear, and the feeling of being forgotten by the world. It’s a life where hope flickers like a candle in the wind, constantly threatened by the darkness around.

I need your help to get through this ordeal. Any small support can make a difference. Please remember that we are living in hell and we need hope to survive..💔🙏

Vetted by 👈

@gaza-evacuation-funds

@nabulsi @el-shab-hussein

And @ibtisams #list 13

Now everything changed 😭

[ratten-man]

Anyone whose able, please donate. People dont deserve to suffer like this. This is a vetted fundraiser.

[ratten-man]

Photo update of my patchshorts

Im trying to go for a heavily red theme, should add some more red stuff and also get red fabric for the non painted patches.

[ratten-man]

Patchshorts update

Update on my patchshorts. I started them in 2023 but most of my progress is from june 2024.

Summary of what Ive accomplished: extended the width of the legs with sweatpant fabric, lined half of the patcshorts, added many patches.

What I still need to do: add patches to the seam of the sweatpants to prevent the pants from tearing, add patches to all jean fabric spots, finish lining.

[iamsumitshubham]

Need Help

Hi everyone I’m a college student struggling with rent and bills. I have 2 months rent due and I also need some money for groceries. My situation is getting really bad. I’m in urgent need of some help right now. Please help in any way possible. Any amount would be very helpful. Please consider helping.

0/700

Go to paypal.me/iamsumitshubham and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

[ratten-man]

if anyones able to, help this person out with some coin

[depsidase]

another option:

turning it into a windows 95 logo is also acceptable.

[depsidase]

[glutenfree-rootbeer]

Say youre a renter without saying it.

In theory this post is nice but it neglects simple economics in favor of ‘being kind and cool’… (#1) you should be proud of where you live because (#2) you just paid your life savings (presumably) to buy this home. Now imagine you spent hard earned income youve saved for years on your perfect dream house and you move in and your neighbors next door pull their trailer up onto the lawn. And they have a car theyve been repairing in pieces. In most situations this will effect YOUR house value. (Yes it all comes down to money- but also when you pay for something- you should take pride in it and wanting it to be better not worse)

Its nice to think ‘why would i care what my neighbors doing’ but the reality is, you should care. Its called a community. Your neighbors property value directly impacts yours. You wont feel so chill and cool when you realize that you just spent $$$$ on something and one persons actions made it worth $$$ in your first year living there. Single handedly bringing down the value of everyones home on the block.

Its like saying ‘why do i care if other people have car insurance’ i mean sure on surface level why do you care? But youll care as soon as you (a person with insurance) gets hit by someone without it. And then suddenly you wont be so cool, chill and understanding about that person not having insurance.

(In case youre also not familiar with insurance- just because you have it doesnt mean you automatically get paid out- its a push and pull agreement between two companies. Not guaranteed)

[johnbierce]

Property values can suck it.

No, seriously. Property values have done some SERIOUSLY fucked up shit to society. Tying them to retirement, making them the primary capital vehicle for much of the working class, has resulted in some seriously fucked up incentives for our society, and has resulted in far greater occurrence of NIMBYism. It makes folks into busybodies. It sets working-class folks against one another in a deliberate effort of class warfare. (Middle class is working class, I should point out. Anyone who works for a living, instead of owning things for a living, is working class. Middle class doesn't have an actually useful definition. But side rant.)

Marx referred to something called the reserve army of labor- workers kept perennially indigent or partially employed, to be called up as scabs and to threaten workers psychologically with- "you don't want to become one of THEM, do you?" These days, that concept is part and parcel with the idea of capitalist precarity- keeping safety nets deliberately weak, so that workers are only a short distance from failing. It's a deliberate- and intelligent- move by capital. Linking property values to your ability to retire? Oh, DAMN does that increase precarity, and oh does it set folks at each others' throats and reduce class solidarity. Damn does it encourage Home Owners to shit on Renters, as though they don't share more in common than Home Owners do with the actual wealthy.

Look, I've got compassion for people with annoying neighbors. I've had more than enough annoying neighbors, and I've been the annoying neighbor before back in the day. (Young, throwing parties, it happens. I try to have compassion for my neighbors being loud these days, I reckon I have a little noisy neighbor karma coming to me, hah.) Annoyed at your neighbor for having a dirty yard? Fair. But someone actually taking ACTION against them for that, instead of having compassion and helping out if they can, as good neighbors should? They try to get their home taken away through HOA processes? The annoying neighbor isn't the one in the wrong anymore.

And don't even get me started on HOA's. Lord, are they fucked up. "Your neighbors should get to dictate how you live your life and what you do with your house" is a fucked up concept. HOAs are goddamn busybody machines.

Also, lawns suck ass. Plant some native vegetation, maybe have a garden. Or a rock garden, even, rock gardens are neat. But not a lawn, for crying out loud. They're boring, terrible for the environment, water-hungry, and just plain unfashionable.

[dognonsense]

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Cool concept this bottle cap jean chain! Love new diy concepts though this one definitely seems like a challenging one with all the drill holes and jump ring connections but still possible :3

[coveredinredpaint]

made bottle cap chain similar to these ones ages ago! theyre very easy to make but do take a bit of time. never thought about using two caps pressed against eachother, should try that.

how to make em is very simple, drill holes on opposite sides of the endge of the cap, connect with chain links, attach a clip in the beginning and end of the chain, and youre done.

[mentalmaggot]

Decided to give this jacket's stitching some love to make it more bold. Not sure how much more I'll do because it tears through my fingers doing this, but I'll at least go over the patches again.

[ratten-man]

My personal complex feelings about staying in Latvia

Me and my partner got an amazing housing offer here, which means we wouldnt move away to a different country like planned which has left me with many complicated feelings :/ mostly about how disgustingly nationalistic and xenophobic this place is so a lotta complaining down below:

Some of the things i hate about this place:

Eastern europeans stop being xenophobic challenge has a 100% fail rate 🫶 xenophobia is just built into the culture in the baltics, its so maddening. People born in latvia who grew up latvian but just have russian parents are considered to be foreigners and treated as such. The amount of friends I have from russian families or that (god-forbid) have an accent of any kind who get the most vile shit said to them is insane. Dont even get me started on when the xenophobia turns racist...

My boyfriends dad is american so he keeps getting treated like a foreigner even though he literally has close to 0 memories of america cuz last he was there he was 5!!

The xenophobia is so ingrained into the culture here that i genuinely dont think itll ever leave :/ itll improve in small numbers but the small number of ppl that realize this, wanna leave lol cuz its EVERYWHERE

And yes its so ingrained here, even left leaning people will often have xenophobia they havent worked through🤧

Latvian nationalism is so intense, ive been treated and keep getting treated as an outcast/foreigner because I have a speech impediment and so i dont speak latvian eloquently ♥️

Then theres the recently gone through mandatory military conscription because boomers have a hate boner for russia and normal boner for military power, so latvian amab people will be forced to do (depending on whether you volunteer or not) year/s of military training and then their location tracked for years and years just in case 😃 this could even affect me cuz i wanna have my documents changed to reflect that im a man. Id rather eat screws than ever serve a nation funded cult. I mean just every class would be hours of nationalistic conservative propaganda garbage. We already have plenty!! Ever interacted with latvian media? lol

Ofc every other type of bigotry is just as present here bc ofc... transphobia and homophobia is still very present, out and about its less due to gen z getting older but the medical system and legal system still have a lot of issues with it. A whole lotta racism, latvia has a lotta problems with nazis and skinheads, which has lead to poc being attacked in many different ways.

i dont feel at home here, i feel at home with my friends and fellow leftists, but the country as a whole? Never welcomed me and I dont even want it to :/ rrly going through the emotions rn, cuz the offer is just too good, the housing markets in shambles worldwide, wed never get an offer like that again. So now i have to face a future where i stay in this shithole :/

I am apart of small political orgs so its not even like im not doing anything, but i dont think id see much change here before im around retirement age :[ which sucks when youre doing your best to enact change