Queen of Half-Trained Horses

Ana Winterhawk and Teagan Emberfield in-game, hopping willy nilly around NA servers. Mostly posting badly edited screenshots and reblogging delightful nonsense. I follow from frostfolke.

[teabooksandsweets]

Asking SSO players in particular, especially if you've played the old games, because I am really curious about this.

Were you a member of any of the Stabenfeldt Penny/Pony/Pollux clubs?

Yes

No

Voting ended onMay 24, 2023

[sso-highhaven]

Anyway, while you all are playing “Star Stable Online”, I’m out here playing a REAL horse game…

[sso-highhaven]

Barbiecore? is that anything?

[hazelnorthpeak]

I don't know if it's me being older but Sabine speaks a lot of truth man

[ssoworm]

I think the problem with the whole Sabine thing is that, in the past she has done LOTS of bad stuff but I for one never played the old games and I played the quests with her in SSO so long ago I kinda sit here like "I know she is supposed to be very bad" but I don't remeber it and the points she makes now are reasonable and the "sabotage" is so chill I for one can't see her as a villain. right now.

[dorianwolfforest]

I’m losing my mind and am having multiple strokes. What AI was forced to write this.

[lady-birchwood]

…oh

[juni-ravenhall]

i was gathering up these official poster images so i can print them later for my apartment, so i figured might as well repost them too in case anyone hasnt seen all of them 

[courtsnort-sso]

10 years have come and gone, and much has changed, but you have always remained by my side.

Another sappy 10 year anniversary post? Yep! I recreated the few pictures I had on an old thumbdrive. They were all taken in 2013, but that’s just about how SSO looked before all the fancy updates! 

[everwindfields]

Wow its like I'm really there

[starbridges]

“sweet life continues in the breeze, in the golden fields.”

― jack kerouac, book of sketches

[goldenhillvalley]

alex & i collectively bought new horses, and decided to go on a training date. the finns next to the fresian remind me of the “tall girl, short guy” meme.

[juni-ravenhall]

[athena-of-jorvik]

that’s the first thing i thought when i saw this

[sso-kingbear]

Accidentally sent my boss a screenshot about SSO and now she’s asking what SSO is

Just gonna quit and find a new job at this point, it’s easier than explaining.

[twracehorse]

I couldn’t reblog unless the tags came with the rest of the post

[butterfly-headquarters]

Current mood

[jadesjunk]

I thought I uploaded this but I guess I forgot. (Probs cuz I was going to do something else with it but oh well.)

Have an experimental Erinys! (Based off my boy Obsidian.)

[xgoldenlatiasx]

Star Stable Online expectations:

-Cheesy horse adventures about sparkles and rainbows and friendship

Star Stable Online reality:

-Rich lady locked a teenager in her castle because the kid found out she was married to an evil capitalist who is trying to summon squid satan

-Seemingly normal mean girl is actually squid satan’s general and manipulates you into getting the stable boy kidnapped

-There is a talking squirrel as old as god who has four birthdays

-Town gets attacked by shadow monsters from pink hell

-Girl is trapped inside hell and a depressed tree helps you save her

-you finally rescue the stable boy after several failed attempts and your horse flies also stable boy is emo now

-TALKING SQUIRREL ARRESTS STABLE BOY

-TALKING SQUIRREL LITERALLY YEETS YOU INTO HELL AND GOES INTO A COMA AFTER SAVING YOU FROM SQUID SATAN

-funny old man on the verge of death helps you save the other girl trapped in hell

-you and ur friend break stable boy out of druid jail to perform tree ritual

-dead horse gets reincarnated and kidnapped by alien magician

-ALIEN MAGICIAN TURNS YOU INTO A HORSE

-BELOVED CHARACTER EXPLODES ON SCREEN

[feliciasapphiresong]

[gloria-skyheart]

I love the new wildwoods but it feels Weird and Bad that the mystics have dreamcatchers on them

[sirigreenhaven]

I noticed that and I’m tempted to say something to sso. They changed the Irish Cob’s name, so who knows? If they don’t edit it out, then at the very least, making them aware of the issue may keep them from putting any more where they don’t belong.

[gloria-skyheart]

yeah I feel like it would be good to mention it. it's not like they would be able to say no to a person who is a part of the culture they're stealing from haha

[sirigreenhaven]

I went ahead and sent in a (polite and informative) message about it. If anyone else wants to send their own in, that may help.

And just to be clear, I’m white. (there’s supposedly some Comanche on my mom’s side, but I wasn’t raised with the culture, so I don’t claim it).

The reason I mention that is to remind anyone else seeing this post that you can speak up for marginalized people on certain issues even if you aren’t part of that people, as long as you make sure that you’re repeating what they’ve said (and signal-boosting their own words when possible) and not misrepresenting them. White voices have power. That’s not a good thing, but it’s a fact, and it can be used to give other voices power.

And for those unaware that using a dreamcatcher pattern this way is a problem, Star Stable is misrepresenting the meaning of a cultural object and making money off it without giving back to the people who created it.