My friends and I finished watching a movie and somehow exited from a Japanese boutique shop. We then took a short walk to an arc that transported us to a Mongolian landscape. We proceeded to adventure further on horseback.
Happy Whumpmas (੭*ˊᵕˋ)੭*🎅⛄❄️!!! You have just been snowballed by a secret whumper. Help to keep the snowball fight going by anonymously sending this to five other whumpers with a whump-related question of your choice: what's your favorite whump that is unique to old westerns?
Oooh. There are several western whump tropes that I love (shot and left for dead, bushwhacked and rescued, injured and forced to survive in the wilderness), but I think a great one that's unique to westerns is the "exhausted bobbing on the back of a horse". See examples:
There are more examples to add later, but here are a few.
not sure if dragon slayer is a good title when my knight here only has a flag, but horseback archery references are hard to translate into sgraffito at that size.
the smoke was done with a watered down underglaze, hopefully the streaks will add the right texture but who knows!
View of a business card for the Palmer Park Riding Academy, depicting a woman on horseback. Printed on front: "Palmer Park Riding Academy. Woodward at Seven Mile Road, Detroit, Michigan. H.H. Renshaw, proprietor and mgr. Phone Hemlock 7559. Professional instructors." Map with location printed on back.
Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library