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🐀 ⚕ RatPappi ⚕ 🐀

@ratpappi.bsky.social

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24 | 🏳️‍⚧️ He/It/They | Demi/Bi | WA | 🐀🩸⨺⃝🩸🐀
Digital artist, Disabled, Phlebotomist, Body mod enthusiast. Lover of all things silly and macabre!
Married: @lexinss.bsky.social 💖💍
OCs, Fanart, Comms, lots of reskeets! 🔞

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🐀 ⚕ RatPappi ⚕ 🐀 @ratpappi.bsky.social · Oct 18

Howdy! I’m Rat / Erik - whichever works. I’m an artist, healthcare worker, and leftist. A rat trapped in little guy skin. I’m a lover of body mods and all things macabre. Former southerner.

He/It/They
Transmasc
Demi/Bi
24
Engaged

Fandoms: POTO, Warriors, BG3, Musicals, most horror.

18+

Image of me! Erik! Taking a mirror selfie in blue scrubs with black under them, a medical mask on, and black curly hair with a light red-ish streak in the front. Rose-gold rimless circle glasses with a chain dangling from them and beaded bracelets + an Apple Watch on one wrist. The other hand holding my phone with a hyena agenda sticker in the clear (bisexual) case.

A black rat fursuit with pink hand paws, ears, and nose and glowing white LED eyes. There is a card in his mouth and he’s wearing white pants with a black hoodie and there’s glow sticks through his nose and gauged ears. He’s holding a tiny beachball at Megaplex 2019, playing catch with some silent suiters in the main hall.

A rough dark blue line only sketch of my rat fursona Yorick. He’s facing the left side of the screen at an angle and smirking at the viewer, mouth slightly open.

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Chupakaibra @ MFF Dealers

@chupakaibra.bsky.social

Still thinking about The Phantom Of The Opera... Back on my bullshit

doodle of a brown cat with a heart above her head, laying on her belly with her hands on her chin and kicking her feet in the air behind her

August 4, 2025 at 2:12 AM

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Chise

@sailorrooscout.bsky.social

This method of vaccine delivery is effective because the areas of gum between the teeth are highly permeable, allowing them to absorb vaccine molecules easily.

The study has been published in Nature Biomedical Engineering. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED.
• www.nature.com/articles/s41...

ABSTRACT
The oral cavity is an accessible site for vaccination, but its sublingual and buccal sites have limited vaccine uptake. Here we show that flat tape dental floss can deliver vaccines through the junctional epithelium of the gingival sulcus, exploiting its naturally leaky properties.
Floss-based vaccination delivered protein, inactivated virus, peptide-presenting immunogenic nanoparticles and messenger RNA. In mice, gold nanoparticles functionalized with a peptide derived from the ectodomain of the transmembrane matrix 2 protein of human influenza virus stimulated local lymph nodes, increased CD4+T cells in lymph nodes, lungs and spleen, and boosted antibody-secreting cells in the bone marrow.
Floss-based immunization induced strong and sustained immune activation across multiple organs, robust systemic and mucosal antibody responses, and durable protection against lethal influenza infection, independent of age, food and liquid consumption. Floss-based vaccination was superior to sublingual and comparable with intranasal vaccination.
In human participants, fluorescent dye delivered via floss picks effectively reached gingival sulcus, supporting clinical feasibility.
These findings establish floss-based vaccination as a simple, needle-free strategy that enhances vaccine delivery and immune activation compared with existing mucosal immunization methods.

We acknowledge the support provided by the National Institutes of Health. H.S.G. discloses support for the research described in this study from the National Institutes of Health (grant no. R01AI137846), the National Institutes of Health (grant no. R01DE033759) and the Whitacre Endowed Chair in Science and Engineering. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. We also thank C. Roseburd Magezi Ndamira, a graduate student of Gill lab at TTU, for her help in capturing Supplementary Movie 1.

July 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM

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Chise

@sailorrooscout.bsky.social

HOW COOL IS THIS? Researchers have developed a DENTAL FLOSS that can DELIVER vaccines THROUGH the gums, a method that could one day offer a NEEDLE-FREE alternative for vaccination. This approach effectively stimulated immunity AND provided FULL protection against a lethal strain of influenza. 🧪🧵⬇️

July 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM

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Suzanne ✨🌑

@tendermiasma.com

"no sex scenes unless it serves the plot" the plot is I want to see them fuck nasty and that's actually legal

July 25, 2025 at 6:13 AM

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Yenna OPEN COMMS

@spikhyenna.bsky.social

You belong where you’re valued ⭐️

#Art #Furry

July 14, 2025 at 5:17 PM

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🌙Evil Sonny Ross🌞

@sonnyross.bsky.social

I remember working part time in a pub and illustrating for maybe one client a month when I started out and I lived like a fucking king. Now I have to work a hundred projects at once to afford like…food. Anyway I think we should ki

Emma Reynolds @emmaillustrate.bsky.social · Jul 22

Thought I was just really 💩 at my job and life but I looked it up and the cost of living has increased by 38.4% since 2015 - nearly 40% in 10 years.

No illustrators I know have had a pay rise - in fact some fees are going down. No wonder it feels so bloody hard atm.

Send cute gifs or money lol.

July 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM