soc_puppet | Fuzzies and Fundraiser

First things first! In acknowledgement of April as sexual assault awareness month, author Jim C. Hines is running his annual Fundraiser for Rape Crisis Centers. There are reportedly more authors offering books for prizes than he knows what to do with, with new prizes made available to win at every $250 USD mark up through $3000, and prizes currently listed through $4000. So far, over $2000 has been raised, and nine prizes have been unlocked to nine potential winners. The contest is drawing-style, and you don't actually have to donate anything to be eligible, since there's raffle laws and such that are a pain to deal with, but it's a very worthy cause with some great prizes available. I'm probably going to be too strapped for cash to donate myself, but I encourage everyone who has the means to consider donating.

In fuzzier news, have some pictures of my pet rats sniffing some daffodils:

This is Dangerous Beans, Beans for short. He's a little shy and very food-oriented.

I did not let either of the rats actually eat the daffodils, since I didn't have my hand on the forbidden foods list at the time and figured better safe than sorry, but Beans made a very sincere effort.

This is the Amazing Maurice, Maurice for short. He's very outgoing and would like nothing more than to explore ALL THE THINGS and to go ALL THE PLACES. No, seriously. I have to keep a close eye on him when he's out of the cage for play time, lest he get somewhere I don't want him to be and start chewing through wires ~~again~~.

There's actually fewer pictures of him here because he's the more outgoing of this pair; I don't usually get as many pictures of Beans, so I shot more of him while I had the opportunity and couldn't decide which one I wanted to share most, so you get all three! Aren't you glad?

And that's all for now. I imagine I'll actually be doing an amigurumi pic dump soon-ish, to include Pony!Sephiroth and a seal-point griffin, so look forward to that.