#call of the rats

[thetrueratking]

IT’S TIME TO ANNOUNCE THE RAT OF THE YEAR!

Everyone should know

@lichenypetrichor @razatronz @lichen--moss @theirbug @ech0foxtrot @rat-detector @lolli-popples @rat-council-official @rat-king-they-them @i-am-a-fish @virtualgirladv @sketchyartthings @vei-isabean

Happy New Year!

With a new year, we’ll have a single rat to commemorate this one. So who was the real hero of the kingdom? Which rat is the most rat rat of the rat ratdom?

It’s been a difficult decision, and a very good game! I’m very proud of all of the candidates, and the effort they put in. But at the end of the day, there’s only one person it really ever could have been.

The rat of the year is…

The Rat King

You idiots.

What kind of rat plays the game by the rules? Frankly, I’m disappointed in every last one of you. You didn’t lie, nor steal, nor cheat. Let me teach you how it’s done.

While I’ve had a lot of fun watching you lab rats run around in my little maze, but it is with a heavy heart that I inform you it meant absolutely nothing. I was going to choose a candidate at the end based on how much of a rat they were. It’s the “rat of the year.” Not the most popular, not the best rat, but the one among us who is the most pestilent, the most RAT rat.

It’s not that you didn’t do well. With a fire lit under your little bellies, you really put on a show! Scurrying to prove you’re the best rat there ever was. But you were blind, you thought too simple. Because the truth is, I’m the motherfucking Rat King. You will never be more of a vermin than I am.

Hail to the Caves.

[sketchyreblogs]

Fight to unite, for divided we fall!

[justsomeguy019]

I support the Rat Kingdom in this conflict RAAAAH!

[justsomeguy019]

I love cats and rats alike

[kublakola]

no one plays weird little guys with the same commitment and verve as Brian Kevin Murphy. kugrash doesn't just go to the park to find some pigeons, he raises his 'little rat arms' and summons them en masse to kingston's gorgeous, pristine apartment. riz doesn't just hide behind a car, he rolls into a ball, hides in fabian's backpack, promptly throws up out of excitement, gets lobbed across the parking lot, and then bites gorgug's shirt in half to make himself a toga, because gorgug's big and he's so small, and so covered in his own vomit. murph just gets it. shoutout krudbert. shoutout gerard prince of greenleigh.

[disgustinggf]

craving cheese is so humbling like ok rat

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Actually, the bars aren't so bad anymore.

Think you can fix him? Read about his care instructions over at Tiger Tiger)

[mrjeremyman]

RAT DAD GHOST!!! HE HAS MANY RATS THEY’RE HIS FAMILY!!!

Phillip: absolute trouble maker, will escape and will cause chaos. Has to be separated from the group sometimes because he will start fights.

Gregory: Polite and gentle young lad, loves his berries. Ghost tends to let first time rat handlers hold him first to get a feel as Gregory isn’t fussy.

Ivo: Most skittish but over all nice. Never bites, will go bald soon.

Toms: most energetic and curious rat, is usually the one scrapping with Phillip. Fussy eater, might bite of feeling moody. But on a good day, very happy to get pets and to be held. Might run away if too excited.

I love them. So much.

[sketchyreblogs]

How curious. It seems the Holy Rodent Empire has a church on each side of the war. We wish you great health, and in time, redemption, despite your dissent. May our turmoil resolve in a unity hallowed in kinship and brotherhood; praised be the king.

You fool. You have betrayed your god. The scriptures of the giant rat, that which makes all the rules, they refer to me.

I will remember Your dissension

you call us the fools yet you are the one acting as if you are our lord and savior.for you are nothing but a false king.you shant coax us into joining your legions with fear.

we await your downfall.

[how-now-a-rat]

They say we can't reclaim "tranny" as if they haven't called our voices "tranny voice" for years, as if they haven't called us "tranny dykes" forever, as if cis people actually care who they hit with that word. I have been called "tranny," I have been called it in multiple languages, in many ways, people in my high school used it to attack me like any other trans person, queer people did. People used it to mock, to hurt, aggrivate, to try to bond.

But they push us out of feminist spaces because suddenly we don't understand anymore, they push us out of sapphic spaces because they deem our bodies gross, our self-expression wrong, and now they push us out of trans spaces because we don't suffer enough. I wonder how much more pain I am supposed to shoulder before it will be enough for it to be deemed worth talking about, for it to be deemed worth discussing, reclaiming.

Because we have the bi experience, the ace, and inter experience: every side turns us away. We're too queer and too damaged, and then we're not queer enough, haven't suffered enough.

All this when you won't even let us talk about our pain in our own voices. How will you ever know it if you never listen; if you make us afraid to talk?

[thetrueratking]

Rat of the Year

Their blogs, in order

@lichenypetrichor

@ech0foxtrot

@razatronz

@theirbug

This is it! Whoever wins the rat of the year will be displayed on @ratkingreblogs for the entire year!

I call forth the Rats and our allies, to spread the word

@virtualgirladv @rat-detector @rat-king-they-them @rat-council-official

@lolli-popples

Some technicalities. Winning the popular vote is not the only step to winning rat of the year. The poll will finish on Christmas Day, Dec 25, but the Rat of the Year will be announced at New Years.

[sketchyreblogs]

Behold: The new imperial banner. Forever may our kingdom endure; praised be the king, chosen to lead us by divine rite of Remmäck.

[justsomeguy019]

Since the day I joined the Rat Kingdom my page is filled with 90% rat videos

I am not religious however I see this as a blessing

[disgracefulthings]

I've made posts about the CQM finding out/thinking Shen Qingqiu and Shang Qinghua are in a romantic relationship, but how would they react if they announced themselves as sworn brothers

Liu Qingge and Yue Qingyuan would be baffled, what did Shang Qinghua have that made him more capable than them? He's a coward that would faint at the slightest bit of hostility, how could Shen Qingqiu expect him to have his back in battle

Meanwhile Shen Qingqiu is like 'sure we can be brothers, you already fucking annoy me so we might as well make it official'

[another-goblin]

Cat cake and rat cake

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

My Cabinet of Tiger Ministers is in shambles.