They are so ridiculous bro is sweating trying not to reveal he's getting his powers from staring into Johnny's eyes LITERALLY WHAT THE FUCK WAS GOING ON WITH THEM IT AIN'T EVEN ALLEGATIONS
Y'know, this is pretty funny considering I wrote a fanfic where Gyro admits he's been using Johnny's eyes for the golden ratio... (Johnny's Golden Eyes on Ao3 btw chapter 3 coming soon I swear) One of my favorite motifs in SBR was the golden rectangle and those quick panels where the golden rectangle is layered on top of everything. It's very much a "There's beauty in everything" kind of message, and for some reason those few panels were such an incredibly significant part of SBR for me. It's to the point that when I go outside and look at the world I kind of do the same thing in my head. Golden Rectangles, everywhere.
These people are genuinely evil wtf!? 😭 I've seen far too many horror stories from ignorant or just downright malicious car drivers recently. This is what you call *car brain*. Now, I'm not one of those people who thinks all cars should be banned - I don't believe those people actually exist and are instead straw-manned into existence, but the amount of entitlement motorists have, at least in car dependent society is genuinely staggering.
since AI is scraping fanfics against writers’ wills we must retaliate by creating tropes that companies and art thieves are too cowardly to use. try to plaster my carefully crafted moaning kneeling finger-sucking subby bisexual croptop femboy latex bondage cat ear blorbos all over your advertisements you lazy wimps i’m waiting
"I often see the phrase 'horse and man as one' in racing magazines or in historical novels, and it supposedly means that the rider can synchronize his or her movements with their horse, so that they're almost one entity. When I draw Gyro and the others on their horses, I feel like I really understand what that phrase means... When I sometimes get a racing panel to look just right, it feels good, because the figures seem to fit well with one another. It just leads me to believe that humans and horses are biologically (?) suited for one another." - My king Hirohiko Araki
People are always talking about Johnny and Gyro, but no one ever talks about their horses smh... So I hope you don't mind me talking about their horses for a bit - though I should probably focus on the huge essay I have due literally right now...
First, we have Gyro's Australian stock horse, Valkyrie, with it's great stamina, and weird quirk where it sways to the left every 8 breaths, allowing Dio to overtake him... Though is it just me, or does that just like, not make sense at all? I think the horse makes sense for Gyro, as he doesn't necessarily have a racing background or anything, but he was a surgeon, so I imagine he didn't have much trouble buying an expensive horse like this. Stock horses are known for their athleticism and intelligence, and you would surely need to be quite athletic and smart to handle those balls like Gyro does...
We also have Johnny's old 11 year old appaloosa, Slow Dancer, with it's ample riding experience, as noted by Gyro. That thing was evidently quite hard to tame, but good job Johnny, for being pragmatic! Also kind of sad, I wonder what happened to his old racing horse from when he was a horse jockey. Now that I think of it, it's fairly likely that it could've passed away in the time between when Johnny got shot, and the Steel Ball Run race, which makes me kind of sad... Or maybe it's chilling on his father's plantation in Kentucky.
Diego's Anglo-Arabian, Silver Bullet, actually has a pretty little star shaped mark on it's forehead... Maybe this is me going crazy, but I see this as a subtle call back to the original jojo universe. OG Dio was residing in a body that wasn't his, taking the star along with it. Now I don't think Diego stole the horse or anything, but you can see it as being an extension of his body, as OG Dio's body was an extension of his actual head. Anglo Arabs dem lanky legs which makes them good for dressage, I mean, look at them... They are majestic... They are commonly used in cross-country, which... Sounds quite useful in a race across the country. Wait a second... Silver Bullet? Those are quite harmful to vampires, aren't they? Silver Bullet was last seen at the train tracks in Philadelphia... That's sad, isn't that, that's really sad. Poor Sovereign-less Soul... To go even further, alternate Diego's horse was last seen in the streets of New York...
Last but not least, we have ホットパンツの馬、ゲツアップ。Woops! This is bad! I can't let them know I'm a weeb! I slipped up a little there, what I meant to say was, Hot Pants's horse, Gets Up! It's a Mustang, and that's all we know... Mustangs are feral horses, that were brought to the Americas, and then just... Left, or something, so I wonder if Hot Pants tamed the horse herself. We don't really know much about Hot Pants's horse, and that's a shame, considering she's one of my favorite characters.
I never had that much interest in horses, until I read Steel Ball Run. I still actually don't know that much about them. I rode one once, because my aunt owned a few. That was nice, but I don't think I'll ever get the opportunity to ride one again. It's sad, but maybe it's just a phase. I ride my bike everywhere, and like to pretend she's a horse. I named her Pearl, and call her my humble steed. Who knows, maybe it's just a phase, like sand that you try and hold on to, only for it to slip through your fingers...
