Rat's Saucy Nest

ratofponi:

ratofponi:
Hi everyone! The Print Set I’ve been teasing a few weeks ago is finished and available to order! I chose five pictures I did in the recent past that I really like how they turned out! I hope you guys approve of my choice.
The prints are 8.5x11 inches on high quality, heavy glossy paper. The cellphone photo really doesn’t do them justice on how vibrant they look in person. The whole set costs $25, shipping inside the US included! If you want it shipped outside the US, the whole set is $30 with shipping! They will be sent in sturdy and neutral cardboard mailers as soon as you order.
You can order the US version here
And the international one here!
If you like my art, I’d really appreciate it if you’d consider buying this set to support me in what I’m doing! It helps a lot and enables me to do more art without worrying about life circumstances as much! Thank you so much for your time!
Reblog for the new week in case you haven’t seen it yet! The print set will only be available until the 14th next week! So if you’re interested in purchasing it, please consider getting an order in before then! Thank you!

I forgot to take down the link and there were some stragglers who bought the set yesterday and today, so today is officially the last day this is available! Last chance, this time for real, haha.

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Hey everyone. Just a small update about my personal life. If you follow me on Twitter or are on my patreon Discord server you might have already heard.

My dad passed away earlier this week. It wasn’t completely out of the blue. I’ll be okay. But I was the last real family he had, so I’ll be busy taking care of some things and it might take longer than usual to get a reply from me for the next week or two. I’d appreciate the patience. If you need to get into contact, my email is RatofDrawn [at] gmail[dot] com and I’ll probably see emails sooner than tumblr messages.

Thank you.

I’ll still try to get a nice picture done for Christmas, I’ve found that drawing is a nice distraction right now, there’s just not too much time available.

Pokemon Sun is so much fun. I love the game. So many new cute and awesome Pokemon and the quality of life improvements are great! <3 Salandit! Took me like an hour to find a female one. Can’t wait to encounter a Alolan Vulpix.

I might draw some smut in the near future, haha.

If you’re playing as well, drop me a message with your friendcode if you want to add me as a friend and I’ll send mine back!

asksolarflair Asks:

Aww. I think we have pretty good cheese. Not all of it of course. But, you know, there's bad brands and such everywhere. 'American' Cheese, the slice stuff calling itself that, is legitimately pretty bad though. For some reason it works on sandwiches- but that's it. Still, I think we've got decent cheddar, swiss, colby-jack, provolone, mozzarella, and parmesan available in most places. Maybe try various brands or a nice deli?

ratofponi Said:

Oh yeh, I know! There’s some pretty good cheese over here, but it will never come close to stuff from back home for me personally. I prefer italian Parmesan and Mozzarella, but the American brands are pretty good as well! Same for Brie, nothing beats the real deal, but some American brands are very good. I do like American Provolone a lot, though! And Colby-Jack is nice. Sadly not a big fan of Cheddar, and that stuff is everywhere. :( “Cheese flavor” seems to be synonymous with Cheddar, haha. I don’t think I’ve ever tried a high quality brand of Cheddar tho, so my perception is probably warped in that regard.

Fun fact, what you guys call “Swiss cheese” is actually only one (and in my eyes not even the best, by far) of several hugely popular varieties of cheeses from Switzerland. If you ever get the chance, try Gruyere! It’s my absolute favorite cheese from Switzerland. Safeway/Vons stocks real imported Gruyere, sadly it’s criminally expensive.

Also secret cheese pro tip lifehack: Try combining cheese with jam. It’s super tasty!

Anyways, time for sleep! Night guys, it was fun talking about random stuff with you. I hope I didn’t annoy anyone.

necro-om-nom-nomicon Asks:

Have you ever had American chocolate? Like Hershey's milk chocolate?

ratofponi Said:

I don’t remember if I ever specifically had Hershey’s. I’m not supposed to eat sugar, so I try to stay away. I do remember having some Reese’s and other american chocolate products, tho!

They didn’t quite taste like what we had back home. But I see some imported Swiss and German (theirs is good too!) chocolate brands in grocery stores here in the US all the time! Lindt is pretty nice. Or Milka. In my opinion as someone who doesn’t really eat sweets!

Also the cheese here is mostly a sad excuse for fermented milk :( And real imported Swiss or Italian cheese costs an arm and a leg. But otherwise food is pretty amazing here in the US. Love the variety and all the different cuisines. So many options!

Edit: Love how fitting your username is!

darkisoterrabyte:

ratofponi:
darkisoterrabyte replied to your post:
So do you sound like Mercy or Torb? XD
Well they’re both Swedish and mercy primarily speaks german(from what people tell me). Did you happen to run into Riens VA? See who does a better impression xP
Mercy is Swiss. Switzerland and Sweden aren’t the same thing, even tho it seems to be a very common misconception for some reason!
Switzerland is small, located south of Germany, has a big white plus on a red square as a flag, is famous for their neutrality. For cheese, chocolate, clocks. Ricola and Toblerone. Also snow and the Alps and CERN. Also bank accounts. Swiss people speak either German, Italian, French or Retoromanic.
Sweden is big, north of Europe, has a yellow cross on a blue flag, famous for Ikea, ABBA, Volvo and socialist policies. Also hot blonde women. They speak Swedish.
The more you know!
Now I feel stupid =_=

Haha, don’t worry. Like I said, it’s a super common misconception sadly. The more people that are educated the better!

I would love to know where the misconception comes from, tho. I always wondered.

Back home from my very first SDCC! It was absolutely amazing and super exhausting!

I met the mane six cast (minus Tabitha) and talked a tiny bit with Ashleigh. She didn’t remember me of course, but she commented on my accent and aaah, she’s awesome. <3

Also randomly ran into Robert Picardo and shook his hand! Loved the EMH in Voyager and he was super nice. Got a bunch of great merch, lots of free stuff and bought some nice art as well. A super gorgeous D.Va print was one of them and also an adorable Applejack. I’ll take some pic of my office soon, once I finish hanging up all the new art! I also attended some panels, I’m super excited for a lot of new shows and games now! And I met some of my favorite webcomic artists.

I don’t think I’ve ever walked that much (my phone says 50 miles) while simultaneously somehow spending most of my time in a line for something!

Anyways, I just wanted to give a quick update! If you follow me on Twitter, you saw all my fangasming over the con already. I’m back drawing again now, I’ll try to stream tomorrow at around noon as well as on Friday to catch up on missed time! As usual, I’m almost done with a bunch of art and can hopefully post some stuff very soon.

Also I didn’t log in to tumblr once during those past 7 days, if I missed something awesome, please let me know!

Oh D.Va, I love you. Knocking people down ledges is my new favorite past time. Also she’s a cutie!

If you guys wanna play with me, I’d love to if I find some free time between drawing! I play on NA and my battletag is RatofDeath#1480

Feel free to add me!

Some of the swag I got during the con! I got lucky and was able to commission one of my favorite artists to draw a feral rat for me, I just love how it turned out. It’s kinda become a tradition of mine to get a feral rat commissioned at every furry con I’m at, here’s hoping I can keep it going!

The print with the dogs on it says “Branch Manager” for the left one, and the right one wears a collar that says “Assistant Branch Manager”. I love puns too much, so I had to get it. The matted picture on the top with the foxes was a piece from the art show that I was able to get the winning bid on!

But yeh, it was such a fun con, I saw a couple of great Undertale cosplayers, hugged a nice Asgore fursuit, took a silly picture with an amazing Sans and there was a very fun Papyrus running around the con, just being cool and flexing for everyone. I was kinda surprised nobody was carrying around a potted plant. I really want to replay Undertale now.

The room parties were amazing, the Klingons were super fun and full of yelling as usual (I hope they’ll return for Babscon this year) and there was a great Fallout themed room party, old music playing, old nuclear instruction videos running on the TV, all kind of Fallout related posters and decorations and the bartender was dressed like he jumped straight out of the 50s. It was amazing. I got the nuclear bomb shaped shot glass from there.

I also went to a couple of really interesting panels (I saw a real Fennec!), did a lot of drawing and met a lot of really cool people, which was amazing. Thanks so much to everyone who hung out with me or said hi and talked to me, I can’t express enough times how much I appreciate it.

Anyways, enough blabbering on, I’m gonna go do some drawing now. I’ll be streaming tomorrow at noon PST!

Anonymous Asks:

What? Based on the preview images most of it is pony, not furry.

ratofponi Said:

ecmajor:

ratofponi:
It was a joke, because arguably porn of anthropomorphized colorful ponies is pretty furry!
oh jeeze. are people still trying to say ponies aren’t anthropomorphic cartoon animals

It’s funny, because I’ve seen both hardcore bronies and hardcore furries using the exact same argument, because they don’t like the other group, haha.

And I’m just like here fapping to fictional, colorful animal-like creatures with human characteristics, enjoying myself. Totally not furry, I swear.

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brodub-original Asks:

Well i think furry and pony is something very different Maybe that last anon means the anthro one wich is also not my favourite (its not really the original characters and well...less interesting as its like human and not clop) but AMAZING pack and work of you and the others anyway! :D

ratofponi Said:

I do think furry and pony are a subset of the same general idea and very much alike, even tho a lot of furries (and bronies alike) will have an aneurism when I say that, haha. But yes, people have argued in circles about this since the beginning of time.

Anyways, I also think Anon was talking about the Anthro comic! I’m not too much of a fan of Anthro myself, preferring feral/clop stuff. But I know there are a lot of people who like it, and really, only one out of seven comics is Anthro, if someone really doesn’t like it, it’s not too difficult to just not look at that one comic. I mean ignoring 80% of content that absolutely caters to someone’s taste because the other 20% doesn’t sounds like an overreaction.

But I do understand not wanting to support something that contains things you don’t agree with. After all, voting with our wallets is something very important that everyone can (and absolutely should!) do. But the message felt a bit self-entitled. Like, it’s okay to not support something, but why send a message about it, it’s not like the maker of the pack is going to censor the pack just to pander to one person. That would be silly. Anon just wanted to be a dick.

Thanks so much for liking the pack, it means a lot <3

Anonymous Asks:

What? Based on the preview images most of it is pony, not furry.

ratofponi Said:

It was a joke, because arguably porn of anthropomorphized colorful ponies is pretty furry!

Anonymous Asks:

Make a version without the furry crap and I'll buy it.

ratofponi Said:

You mean get rid of everything in the pack?

Cultural appropriation!!111one

I was tagged by @ask-wbm, I usually don’t like to clutter my blog too much, but since it’s tuesday and I haven’t done a TMI Tuesday in forever, so I thought this might be fun:

Nickname: Rat (duh)
Birthday: July 15th
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Height: 5′ 8″
Favorite Color: Orange
Time Right Now: 1.30pm
Average Hours of Sleep: 6-8 hours, 10 if I get my way
Lucky Number: 13
Last thing I Googled: eratosthenes
Favorite Fictional Character: Jaina Solo, female Commander Shepard and Applejack.
Favorite Famous Person: Penn Jillette
Favorite Book: Countless ones, I love reading, but the ones coming to mind right now are: The Thrawn Trilogy, the X-Wing Novels (actually, pretty much kinda everything in the old Star Wars EU), God No!, Every Day Is An Atheist Holiday! and The Cat Who Came in from the Cold
Favorite Band: I’m not big into music, but I like Die Toten Hosen and Cascada
Song Stuck in my Head: The Script - Hall of Fame
Last Movie I watched: The Force Awakens
Last TV Show I watched: The Good Wife Season 4
Dream Trip: Going back to Europe to visit my home, Switzerland, and show my wife around for a few weeks and hit up Italy, France, Germany and England. Also a road trip from San Francisco to New York. And visiting Japan, seeing the Fox Village, the Bunny Island, Cat Island, Deer Village, etc. I hope I’ll be able to do all 3 in the next 3-5 years.
Dream Job: I’d love to be part of a big entertainment production (tv show, movie, game) one day, concept art maybe or something!

Wow, that was super tame and not TMI at all, haha! If you wanna know TMI stuff, you can send me an ask and I’ll compile the questions later tonight and answer everything at once!

I hope that wasn’t super boring.