#being a horse

[canisalbus]

These started out as MLP versions of the dog lads but quickly got away from me and became just their own thing. Machete is a medieval unicorn and Vasco was inspired by Renaissance tack and carousel horses.

#own art #own characters #CanisAlbus #Machete #Vasco #once again being reminded how weird and difficult horses are #and troubled by the fact that if I want to depict Vasco doing equestrian things I sort of have to eventually figure out how to draw horses

[theotherhappyplace]

unicorn concept, horns are their own separate species, highly magical, nonsentient, driven by instinct, need to be inside of a living creature to get nutrients, stab into a horse head, make the HORSE sentient and magical by altering its brain.

and the symbiote horn gets nutrients from the horses body.

horse is not in pain.

though becoming suddenly sapient is very upsetting for a lot of them.

#unicorn #monster concept #animal harm mention #sort of? i think the horse is mostly fine other than like being upset about suddenly being sapient #BEFORE ALL I WANTED WAS GRASS AND RUN #NOW I KNOW I EXIST AND WILL SOMEDAY DIE AND I MUST THINK ON THIS #horse farmer pissed as hell

[guinevereslancelot]

all the best badass male fantasy heroes aren't cool bc they have a magic sword and an cool backstory btw. aragorn and geralt of rivia would be nothing if they weren't also, fundamentally, horse girls

#im right #all the best fantasy men are horse girls #aragorn and geralt of rivia are unrivaled for this #lotr #this witcher #this has been a shitpost #humor #@ the person who tagged hiccup from hotd you are so right he is literally a horse girl as well #honorable mention to arthur morgan based on the amount of ppl tagging him despite being in a dif genre. horse girl man transcends fantasy

[trashworldblog]

good to know shane and ryan also eat popcorn like a horse sometimes

#i do this all the time especially when my hands are full in a theater #or just for fun #insert eating something from the palm of my hand so i feel like im feeding a horse and i the horse being fed post here #shane madej #ryan bergara #watcher #food files

[keefechambers]

OJ treating Angel like a horse.

#oj haywood #angel torres #nope #nope 2022 #daniel kaluuya #brandon perea #a bonus em also being treated like a horse in the last gif but it's funny because angel Does Not Know This Man #especially with the clicking thing he's just like 'oh i guess this is how we talk now' and just goes along with it #angel x oj #nope spoilers

[hoofpeet]

Modern Unicorn (left) next to extinct megafauna ancestor (right).. Based partially off of the extinct Kyptoceras + cave painting horses*

#hoof draws #* realistically horses actually became bigger over the course of their evolution so cave ponies would be smaller #but i wanted the pony ancestor to be mega fuckers #idk. the concept of mlp horses being descended from a megafauna caveman species is fun #++also since unicorns are usually depicted with cloven hooves it would make sense for them to be descended from a bovine/cervine species #of which kyptoceras are neither I think? iirc the entire family is extinct

[rainbowpopeworld]

Almost 7 months and the brainlichen are still in control 😈😇

#image description in alt text #have you heard the good omens word? #let me proselytize to you about our queer man-shaped beings #brainlichen #i made this #meme #good omens #good omens 2 #trojan horse #good omens memes #good omemes #ineffable motherfuckers #ineffable husbands #ineffable* #aziracrow #crowley #aziraphale #gomens* #neil gaiman #david tennant #michael sheen #oh no it’s queue

[fishing-lesbian-catgirl]

When someone really cool that I’ve followed for a while follows me back I feel like I have to be more normal with my posting habits for a bit because I don’t want to scare them away, as if they were a nervous horse who might run away if I move too suddenly. But eventually I realize that it’s impossible for me to be normal forever so I just go back to being weird regular annoying me and cross my fingers that they stay

#sometimes it works #idk why I said horse. deer would’ve been a better thing probably. idk I’ve never actually seen a nervous horse up close #deers do that all the time though #at least I can stop myself from DMing them and being weird like ‘hiiii I love your art thank you for following me can we be friends?’

[crimson-rain-smoked-flower]

I’m not trying to attack you, but do you know that proshipper means someone who supports and romanticizes pedophilia, incest, and abuse? Your reblog on that post seems to read that you think antis just hate on people for having ships they don’t like. But it’s completely different than that. Just looking on the proshipper side of Tumblr and the internet and you can see people happily shipping children and adults and making nsfw content of such things.

i appreciate that you're not being outright hostile, but i have to say, that on its own put you above basically every anti i've interacted with.

i understand where antis are coming from, i really do. there are a lot of things on the internet that make me deeply uncomfortable, including the minor/adult ships that you mention. i don't want to anything to do with those kinds of ships and i would be happiest if i never saw them again. which is why i'm proship.

nine times out of ten, if i see that kind of ship brought up on my dash, it's because i was following an anti without realizing it, and they brought it up unprompted and untagged, to talk about how bad it is that they exist. they are the ones putting that kind of content in front of my face and making it harder to avoid.

the thing about people who ship those ships is that they're generally very aware that not everyone wants to see that kind of content, and so they tag it. they make sideblogs to talk about it. they don't go out of their way to shove it in people's faces. that means i, and everyone else who doesn't like it, can avoid it.

what antis want is for it to not exist at all. they want the tags to be purged and blocked, and for anyone who uses those tags to have their accounts deleted. and sure, that might get rid of some of it, but do you know what would happen to the rest? it would stop being tagged. people who don't want to see it wouldn't have the tools to avoid it. this isn't just a hypothetical, that's what's happened any time a fan space has tried to do that.

that's not even getting into the rabbit hole of what should be banned and what shouldn't. obviously any content that depicts real children or real life abuse shouldn't exist and shouldn't be allowed to be posted, but basically any platform that people use already enforces those policies, and there's not much of a slippery slope to go down there. if it involves real living breathing people being abused, it's bad. end of discussion.

but the same can't be said for fiction. ask ten antis for a specific list of all the content that should be banned, and you'll get ten different answers. what about kink? what about roleplay? what about horror and murder and anything that involves fictional characters being graphically tortured? what about people using art to process terrible things that have happened to them? what about art that uses dark themes as a horror element? if you just want to ban anything questionable to anyone, that's the line of thinking that gets any mention of lgbt existence banned. and again, this isn't just a hypothetical, this has happened before, and that's generally where it leads.

i know, from personal experience, that antis do, in fact, send harassment to people just for shipping things they don't like. i've gotten accused of absolutely vile shit for shipping two fictional characters who were both consenting adults. i've seen ship wars turn into moral battlegrounds, over ships that an average person wouldn't bat an eye at.

the thing about "romanticization" is a whole other can of worms. the anti logic goes like this: if someone sees something (even if it's very obviously fictional) in a positive light enough times, they will start thinking it's okay in real life, and go on to hurt real people. the problem with that is that it's just. blatantly untrue.

if it were true every horror movie fan would be a serial killer, every person that studies dark media would be an unhinged psychopath, and everyone who is into ddlg would be a pedophile. but they're not. they just aren't. people have directed movies just as fucked up as the darkest shit on ao3, and are still capable of being normal human beings who know right from wrong in real life.

even if someone is that impressionable, scrubbing away the existence of every piece of questionable content isn't going to solve their problem, because they're still going to be vulnerable to con men, scams, and cultists. the only thing that would actually materially help someone like that is developing their own morals and critical thinking.

children are also more impressionable, and there's a lot of content that's not suitable for them, but that doesn't mean that content shouldn't exist. it just means that they should stick to spaces designed for them (which most social media sites, tumblr included, are not) or, if they're old enough to be responsible for their experience online, they, or a trusted adult in their lives, should block and filter out things that they aren't comfortable with.

which is what everyone on the internet should be doing. it's what i do, and it's made the internet a much more pleasant place to be. and it's why i sometimes worry for antis mental health, especially teenagers, because they're being told it's right and moral to seek out content that makes them uncomfortable and to engage with the people making it. and that's just. really bad. it's not good for the creators that they're harassing obviously, but it's also really bad for them! it's not healthy to seek out things that make you feel bad, and it's a terrible internet safety lesson to teach minors that it's okay for them to seek out and engage with people making adult content.

individual harassment and crusading is never going to succeed at removing dark content from the internet. it just isn't. at best you might get a small percentage of people who create that content to stop sharing it, at worst you're just going to make people stop tagging it, and either way, you're exposing yourself to things that make you feel bad, when you don't have to.

if you want to materially change the type of content you see, you can. the block button is your friend, use it liberally. same with content filtering and tag blocking.

#oops this got really long #cd.ask #proship #disk horse #tw pedophila mention #uhhh what to tag #tw shipping discourse #this doesn't even get into the antis that i've seen proudly professing that they care more about fictional characters than real people #because i don't know how to explain to someone that real humans matter more than cartoon characters #or how to avoid content on platforms other than tumblr bc frankly thats a lot of the reason i don't use them #i don't trust an algorithm #also im turning anon off after posting this so if you want to send me hate you cant be a coward about it #also be prepared to get blocked and ignored #the only reason i answered this person is bc they weren't being hostile

[charcoaldustonmyfingers]

Da Vinky

Knowledge comes from many places! Some of them… more respectable than others.

I too am cursed with a wide array of random facts because of one to many a research hole for very silly reasons. Wikipedia is the IKEA of the internet, I can’t help but get completely lost! Alas, history is not included in those facts, so grain of salt here lol

Because my handwriting is chicken scratch, dialogue under the cut:

Donnie: (unintelligible) -Leonardo- (unintelligible)

Mikey: (unintelligible)

Leo: ?

Mikey: What about his anatomical drawings?

Donnie: His technical genius was far from the only thing he was famous for! Da Vinci’s contributions to both art and science through observation are his most lasting achievements.

Donnie: You still have trouble drawing horses right? Well, Leonardo did many studies of their anatomical structure to create a statue to rival even the great equine monuments of Donatello at the time.

Leo: Yeah, he never actually made the statue. The bronze all got melted into cannons in 1494. Michelangelo made fun of him for it.

Donnie: Wh- When have you ever cared about our namesakes?

Leo: …

Leo: ‘Cause- uh… “Da Vinky?”

Donnie: You defile all knowledge!

Mikey: Donnie wait! Don’t kill him yet!

Leo: gak.

#when you have to kill your sibling for being too stupid #horses are indeed hard to draw #rottmnt #rise of the tmnt #rottmnt comic #rise leo #rise donnie #rise mikey #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #tcest I will shoot on sight

[leafspiritz]

🌾

#very fond of imogen temult #in case you couldn’t tell #perk of being a former horse girl is that it turns out you don’t forget how to draw a horse #imogen temult #cr imogen #critical role #cr #c3 #bells hells #laura bailey #critical role art #critical role fanart #imogen temult fanart #dungeons and dragons #d&d #dnd #dnd art #fanart #my art #digital art #procreate

[fence-time]

More cowboy au drawins :3

#fence posts #impulsesv #skizzleman #zedaph #hermitcraft #hermitblr #welcome back to another episode of fence doesn’t know how to draw horses but is being stubborn about it and refuses to look up references

[bullagit]

due to personal reasons i am now firmly on team “i hope aziraphale does change heaven for the better actually (going on the assumption that his return is as straightforward as it seemed etc” 

like if the alternative is just this ohhh he’s so NAIVE and SOFT and so WRONG and he’ll have to LEARN A TOUGH LESSON etc etc nonsense then yeah 1000% go for it babe knock it out of the park

i hope choosing hope and kindness pays dividends. i hope the soft traits that made other characters continually disparage and underestimate him and his intelligence turn out to be his greatest assets bc i kinda don’t give a shit about a “toughen up it’s the only way everyone else knows better” life lesson for this character

(which like honestly a lot of the rhetoric is dismissive of the fact that persistent goodness in the face of an existence of disparagement takes great strength and that at the end of the day aziraphale has always been able to stand up in his own way)

#good omens #good omens 2 #good omens spoilers #aziraphale #aziraphale IS in fact a dark horse #he is consistently dismissed and underestimated and overlooked bc of how he presents himself! #even crowley does this with him (not in any sort of malicious way its a sense of protectiveness) #(i am not here to get into how aziraphale n crowley treat each other in ways that are unintentionally hurtful id be here forever lmao) #the point is that aziraphale is smart and tbh he knows more about how shitty heavens treatment has been the past few thousand year?? #since he's. he's been the one getting treated badly. that whole time. #anyway theyre both right theyre both wrong and end of the day i just. #i hate the concept of a s3 that equates softness and kindness with being wrong and naive and dumb etc #it does not feel very good omens to me idk man #so i hope that's not where it goes

[formulaonedirection]

A man made to be bullied by little creatures

Lando & Uno Norris play at Christmas via Olivernorris1 | Lando barking at Uno via Olivernorris1 | Lando stumbles upon a cat at golf via Max's twitch | Lando and Cookie the hideous dog via Luisa | Lando feuds with a puppy in Porto via @chillipoodle | Lando gets a boop from Zara via Max's twitch | Lando drunkenly befriends @roger.m.c.fisher in Brazil

#lando norris #it's 4/4 so we have to lando post and someone in my tags said we need an animal roundup post so #here is my contribution on landoday #i think it's VERY cute how he has absolutely no fear for animals like he's being attacked by so many of them...... #but he just wants to be friends.... #it's the horse boy in him #parking under: #critical lando theory #nadia's things

[zaana]

Nobody asked for it, but here is ModernAU Cowboy Hunter <3

#the bad batch #star wars #fanart #tbb hunter #modern au #cowboy hunter #being gentle with his horse #this isn't entirely finished but i'm too tired to fix it

[sanctus-ingenium]

Bowman (art from 2021)

#inver #i pivoted hard back into writing being my main form of creativity rn so here is some stuff from my archive of older drawings #he looks very young here lmao #this is the ranger from said the black horse [book]. he is also my funny dog man #character design