Carrie-Edmund Laben

@carrielaben.com

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SMOKE SEASON: https://wordhorde.com/product/ss-bundle/ A HAWK IN THE WOODS English: http://tinyurl.com/y7epmxhf Spanish: http://tinyurl.com/4k5647nu They/them PFP: A great auk. Header image: Calvino the rat as a baby.

The view from my balcony. A heavy rain is going kinda sideways. Not pictured: There is also a tornado watch/severe thunderstorm warning.
Aleister Crowley Rat-Laben is on my shoulder. There is a pixelated city in flames behind us and he is wearing the "deal with it" sunglasses.
Miguel de Cervantes Rat-Laben, the silver hooded marten rat, sitting on my lap next to a pillow with a moth-pattern fabric case.
Cyril Connoly Rat-Laben, a black and white hooded rat ,, <- she wrote those commas with her tail
Flakes of black snow. The smoke not only a smell but a taste, not only a taste but a feeling in the back of this throat. Could he feel the heat now, too? Or was it merely that it was still summer, still just past noon, in a station wagon with four other living humans and a dead one, the AC blowing warm if at all? The latter, Justin told himself. They weren't that close, not yet.
Crowley the red-eyed devil rat in profile, sitting on my lap.
Crispin Glover in Willard (2003) staring intensely at the camera. There is a white rat on his shoulder and a whole gang of agouti rats sitting in front of him. He's wearing black latex gloves.
Miguel de Cervantes Rat-Laben, a light gray, pink-eyed hooded rat, points his nose directly at the camera against a striking half-red, half dark blue background.
The late Dublin P. Derg, my black and tan chow mix, stepping delicately through drifted snow.
A group of hooded rats in a timothy grass tunnel. One has been flipped on her back by another in a display of play-dominance.
The cover of Dark Horse's Alien vs. Predator comic book with the two named movie monsters locked in combat. The text along the bottom reads "Whoever wins... we lose."
The Spiffing Brit (stick figure style) looking at a map of the US and describing it as "A perfectly balanced nation-state with no exploits."
A light brown slug on dirty white siding.
[handle redacted] sez: "People like that who sit there and go "WELL AKSCHULLY YOU'RE JUST SUPPROTING IMPERIALISM" about shit like the world cup while ON THE INTERNET, enjoying POWER, RUNNING WATER, and wearing clothes that were MADE IN SWEATSHOPS are truly the most insufferable people on the planet, tbh." I legit can't tell if it's satire on the "I am very smart" guy or not.
The lower half of the cover of Smoke Season, featuring my thumb, nail painted the same shade of pale greeny-blue as the mou tains and smoke on said cover.
Wilkie "Peanut" Collins Rat-Laben the hairless rat, sitting between two throw pillows and cleaning her little nose.
A fair-haired youth in a blue cloak looks over his shoulder at the artist. His hat is black and looks like someone crossed a beret with a loaf of ciabatta bread.
A portrait of a young man with shoulder length hair, a red cloak, a halo, and an expression that plaintively asks why is his mimosa taking so long? He's holding an arrow very delicately.
It says "For Andra of the foxy smile"
A Hark! A Vagrant comic by Kate Beaton. Panel one shows a mermaid on a rock with a lyre/harp type deal. In the second panel a bearded pirate says "I don't like the thing you are doing can you do a different thing that I like." Panel three is a close-up of the mermaid replying "I will fucking increase the fucking thing."
Two hooded rats, Neal Cassady Rat-Laben (black) and Aleister Crowley Rat-Laben (red-eyed marten) posing with a wooden toy a bit like a sawhorse that has been chewed a lot.
Miguel de Cervantes Rat-Laben sniffs an author copy of SMOKE SEASON.
Neal Cassady Rat-Laben contemplates an actual physical author copy of SMOKE SEASON which has arrived at my house.
An approximately eight week old skunk that was found wandering alone along the side of a busy road and is being rescued. He(?) is being held up by a gloved hand. A cat carrier is in the background.
Juan "Blancolirio" Browne, noted YouTube air crash analyst, points sternly at some terrain that you'd prefer not to crash an aircraft into. He's wearing a good peaked hat and an open work jacket, possibly because the weather is misty.
Stately, plump Aleister Crowley Rat-Laben poses in front of my copy of Ulysses.
Miguel de Cervantes Rat-Laben (a pale silver and white hooded rat) lounging on a blue towel and staring at the screen. #horrorwatch
The logo for Ralph's Famous Italian Ices and Ice Cream, featuring a lemon wearing a boater hat and a little bow tie.
A black and white photo of Edith Wharton, noted author, looking over her shoulder at the camera like "check out my bustle."
Miguel as a month old baby being like "unhand me".
A heap of pink, hairless rat babies on a fleece.
A pretty heavily pregnant hooded marten rat viewed through the bars of a cage.
Wilkie "Peanut" Collins Rat-Laben wearing a green and white crochet cap
Wilkie "Peanut" Collins Rat-Laben, an hairless rat, sits on the arm of my desk chair.
Myself with Miguel de Cervantes Rat-Laben on my shoulder
A pasture area covered in gray and black geese with white faces.
Queer joy in the form of yrs truly and @wordsandmusic, slightly tipsy and very cuddly.
Gene Wilder as the titular character in Young Frankenstein, screaming.
Mount Sentinel in Missoula MT
Protestors face off with military police outside the Pentagon, 1967
James M. Cain Rat-Laben (may her memory live), a red-eyed marten rat. Her coat is a pretty pearl color and she has a slightly darker nose like a Siamese cat.
A slightly blurry picture of Rachel Carson Rat-Laben looking into the camera, reminiscent of the Megamind 'No bitches?' meme, with the caption "I'm always fucking right"
Blurry dark photo of Neal photo bombing while I lean back. #horrorwatch
Three black hooded rats (Karel Čapek Rat-Laben, Cyril Connolly Rat-Laben, and Elias Canetti Rat-Laben) sleeping piled together in a pasta box from which one side has been chewed out. You can mostly see their butts, but Čapek has her little pink forefoot gripped in Connolly's fur.
An ovenbird standing on a shade-dappled lawn, giving the camera an over the shoulder side-eye.
A white clover blossom with an oblong woolcarder bee clinging to the right side, looking at the camera from behind a floret.
A red-eyed marten hooded rat sniffs a small, fanned-out stack of black and white zines with a cover image of Judith Beheading Whatshisface, a string of pearls, and long elaborately-manicured nails.
The same insect as above, but shot from the dorsal side. Unfortunately the lighting is bad. However this angle does make it clearer that l'il buddy has bicolored wings - black and translucent.
An insect that is wasp-like in shape (big wings, narrow waist) and overall coloration (black with orangish stripes) but has a fly face and fringed antenna. I believe it's Physocephala marginata, a species of broad-headed fly that parasitizes ground-nesting bees. This particular individual is sitting on a screen door and I've shot it from the underside so you can really see its gothy striped stockings.
Two Australian magpies on their backs on a lawn, clasping their feet together. Apparently they do this when they're chilling together sometimes.
Elias Canneti Rat-Laben the black hooded rat, in a hammock. Her eyes are slightly open, her mouthis slightly open, her head is cocked to one side, and her sister is sitting on her.
Closeup of an Eastern Hognose Snake, coiled and in profile. Photo by Shreybae from iNaturalist.
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Yer humble nb narrator, wearing a wide-brimmed hat and a large cardigan, birdwatching at Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge on Global Big Day. I had just gotten my life marsh wren shortly before this.
A mostly-white ferret. It is blurry, bent, and screaming straight at you.
An image from the web comic Oglaf. It is a rendering of an ouroborus with little feet, three cat ears, and a vacant expression. The caption reads "Stop. Look. Think. Are you eating yourself?"
Crowley has flipped Miguel de Cervantes Rat-Laben onto his back and pinned him.
Neal Cassady Rat-Laben, a black hooded rat, gazes into the camera. Crowley is behind him.
Aleister Crowley Rat-Laben, a marten hooded rat, standing on his hind legs with his front paws on a well-chewed wooden climbing toy.
A miner bee (species unknown) on a large white trillium at Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge.