Lionel

@digiacom.ratwaysanctuary.org

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Rat dad at ratwaysanctuary.org in Portland, OR. Environmentalist & lifelong volunteer. Journeyman programmer & bit whisperer. A8c HE. Reality-based tarot reader. T1 Diabetic. Born 1983. Opinions my own! cara.app/lionel lionelweb.com aiisboring.blog

A kneeling anthropomorphic rat adventurer with top-ears, gray fur and a green cloak on a deep, dark cavern, kneeling with their hands resting on their hilt and looking up at a glowing blue orb held by four claws. Three beetles surround the adventure, two on the ground near their knees and one behind displaying its wings which glow the same blue as the orb.
Sketch/low detail Illustration of a disproportionately lanky figure standing straight, body facing left, face looking away from camera, left arm semi resting with fingers curled and thumb touching forefinger with right arm raised shoulder height, partially outstretched away from camera. Light blue figure in m against light boys wash background.
A happy purple cartoon rat fist pumping into the air with one foot on the ground.
A scrungly brown cartoon rat with a long snout, top ears, and a mess of whiskers sitting down and looking cute.
A raised fist of solidarity holding a torn wire up in the air like a torch.
A cartoon head with eyes closed showing pink line entering from the left, tracing a brain shape, and exiting as an arrow to the right. Yellow lines shine out above the head.
An image of three names repeated: Keith Porter, Renée Good, Alex Pretti with white text over the front: "say their names", punctuated by three white crosses. These people were shot and killed by ICE.
A blue rat hugging Carabara the capybara
Cartoon rat shouting "FUCK ICE!"
Dumbo rat holding a bubbly and a sparkler wearing 2026 glasses.
A large rat sitting at a table with a cell phone and a tired/put out expression with the caption "Your call is very important to us".
An illustrated rat in a Santa hat with Merry Christmas! written over it's head and some snow falling.
A 2x3" linocut stamp and three test prints depicting a stylized top ear rat cartoon design. The rat is happy and relaxed with an upturned nose. The design includes two hearts and a swooping tail and whiskers.
A version of Banksy's flower thrower but it's a humanoid rat throwing a sandwich
Screenshot of the 'False or misleading statements by Donald Trump' Wikipedia article. At the top of the article are two notices: That it has been proposed to be split into three articles (2016 term, Between terms, and 2024 term), and a warning that the "article may be too long to read and navigate comfortably".
Photoshopped image of reverend David Black being maced by ICE in Chicago in September 2025. His face has been swapped with our sanctuary rat Sprite's. It is captioned: 'Rats against fascism / abolish ICE'
Lionel Richie's "Hello" album cover photoshopped with a cut pet rat face swap and the name changed to "Lionel Ratchie"
3 loaded hotdogs, with the central one covered in relish and onions and replaced with a photoshopped head of a blushing naked rat. The bottom half of the "rat dog" is comically pixelated out. A clamshell is also photoshopped into the image. The joke is that this rat was named Geoduck, and he is depicted like a gooey duck with his Shell taken off.
Edited version of a moody Netflix Sandman series poster image where Morpheus stands in the center wearing a black cloak and holding his iconic gas mask style helm. This version has Morpheus' head replaced with the head of our pet rat Howl, the helm has rat ears added, and the text reads "A Ratway Series, the Sandrat".
A. Hand-drawn meme styled after the rat subreddit saying "guys is my rat okay? He's acting weird Is he in pain?" with a photograph of our pet rat Howl being held up with exaggerated pleasing eyes and exaggerated cartoon balls, with an arrow pointing to him and the words "literally the happiest creature on God's green earth."
A vertical sketch and watercolor piece arranged to resemble the Palestinian flag with black, burned buildings and smoke on the left, blood-red earth in a triangular hill at the bottom, and green olive trees on the right. A young girl is flying a yellow kite from the top of the hill, while a second figure climbs up to meet her, looking up. The piece has pencil, ink, and watercolor and is about 2"x3" in dimension (vertical).
Scannel Pencil sketches / doodles. Center: A 3/4 view of a dumbo rat peeking up, sporting a cowl or hood on his shoulders. Top right: Tiny sketch of a dancer, a very rough scketch of a hooded animal sitting on a rock with a fishing line into a pond. Lower right: thumbnail of the same anthropomorphic small animal fishing scene. Lower left: A slight detail of the animal, starting to look like a badger with a hood up, sitting with a fishing pole in the water.
Rough sketch of a married woman sitting backwards on a folding chair at 3/4 facing away. 30 minute figure drawing pose in charcoal
4 pencil sketches in a sketchbook. Top: anterior human skull study, shaded. Right: feminine gesture sketch, suggesting a sort of crouched pirouette facing left. Bottom: Shaded sketch of masculine, lean muscled figure looking up with left arm extended down and right arm bent, elbow up (waist up). 3/4 angle facing rightward. Left: little rat doodle 💚🐀🎨
A roughly 2.5 by 3 inch linocut stamp of a rat sitting on it's haunches with a heart over it's head next to a test print. The stamp has lots of horizontal chatter.
Video of a black pet rat and sanctuary resident named Moss pushing bedding out of her cage and into a jury rigged gutter underneath it so the humans have to sweep slightly less often.
An audio widget to play a vocal version of an online article labelled "Listen to the human-read audio version".
Jimmy the gray Dumbo earred rat posing with three silver and red paintings he made with his brother Rory. Jimmy is into the arts and strong social safety nets, and rejects neoliberalism on the grounds it is anti-social and endangers non-profit work like the sanctuary that took him in!
Frieda the rat (agouti female) eating coconut whipped cream and blueberries surrounded by blueberries wearing a blueberry hat
Frieda the rat
Elon sucks
Jimmy, a Russian blue dumbo pet rat, posing with 3 paintings by him and Rory (not pictured).
Example legal PDF screenshot showing "retrieved from democracydocket.com" in diagonal gray behind the document text.
An 8 frame idle cycle of a top down pixel art rat for a game. The cycle shows the rats tail wiggling back and forth.
Our booth at the market packed with stickers, cage toys for pet rats or other animals, rat themed crafts, and sponsorship sets!
Handsome Howl, a naked rat with a striking mask looking suspiciously out from his hide. #skyrats #petrats
Statler and Waldorf in a carrier 💚 #skyrats #petrats
Waldorf the black and white capped rat snuggling on top of Statler (pink eyes white) in my partner's arms on the couch. #skyrats #petrats
Our poor rat Enoki giving her best Freddy Mercury impression
Cantrip, a roughly one month old rescued feeder rat perched on a green food bowl in a blue and white carrier with white paper bedding. She is pictured wet from spilled water in her train ride to meet us, we warmed her up ❤️‍🩹
Sketch of a sleeping rat curled up with its tail between its ears.
Two rats, Pico and Selkie, curled up like a yin yang in the corner of a Prevue cage next to a small pumpkin.
2 4x6" sticker sheets with a 19 pride rat stickers representing numerous pride identity flags 💚🌈🐀
Enoki eating cake in our photo box shortly after we got her. Photo bomb courtesy of Seren (or Rhiann? They looked so identical...)
Stickers, paintings by rats, and plenty of donated crafts - all profits went to our vet care fund!
Darby's spoon
We began treatment for a pituitary tumor, but we aren't sure what happened. RIP Darby 💚
A nudibranch!
Sanctuary rats Alice and Finch paint with their collaborative painting
Pecan, a weird lil guy
Alice, a dumbo marten rat with Enoki, a top eared pink-eyed-white photographed on a blue background with some added bokeh effect. Both female over 3 years old and in good health all things considered!
Alice, a 3+ year old female marten rat curled up sleeping on bedding in their cage next to Finch (mostly off camera), another of our sanctuary resident rats. She is side-sleeping with her feet are all curled up by her nose and her tail is resting in front of her.
Oregon Coast. It was more green in person!
Crouching next to a projector screen with a picture of the Utah desert and the words "Is there a connection between Aesthetic Experiences and Social Justice Education? If so, what are they?" (sic) Looks like some kind of workshop or presentation? I think this was in Prescott, AZ
Mini linocut print depicting a rat with its eyes closed and a heart above it's head. The print is in light blue and light red ink on vellum. The print is in a transparent sleeve and resting on a silver surface with rat stickers on it.
Alpine by one of our houseplants, which is smarter than he is and never screams at anybody
Sweet, eager Lilac!
Alice (l) and Finch (r) posting with a piece of rat-made art! They collaborated on this painting, made with safe, non-toxic paints meant for kids.