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I love the Mechanicus because it feels like they're supposed to be disconnected from humanity and entirely emotionless and yet in every book I read, they are the biggest, snarkiest dumbasses in the room
I wish they were less in touch with their emotions
The more parts they swap out, the more concentrated the humanity becomes.
雨上がり、空と海に雲と船と光と波が美しい模様を作っていました。 [map]
Fascinating how what's considered feminine and what's considered masculine can change over time. The rebranding of being a horse girl into being a stereotypical feminine girly trait needs to be studied.
Look at classic children's novels. As recently as the 50s and early 60s, being obsessed with horses as a girl was depicted as strange and tomboyish, and the very concept of being obsessed with horses from early childhood and loving toy horses and desperately wanting your own horse being a "little girl thing" and not a "little boy thing" would send someone from the 1800s and earlier into a coma.
There's maybe a point to be made here somewhere about how when keeping and riding horses stopped being necessary to the functioning of society and became a more "frivolous" thing, it was rapidly rebranded as silly and girly and for women, but what do I know.
Not only did horses and their care stop being 'necessary for society' in certain areas of the world, horses also became militarily unnecessary.
Because automatic weapons, barbed wire, landmines, chemical weapons, and more accurate artillery were invented. Precursors already existed, but the advances made into military technology before and during WWI outmoded the use of cavalry for pretty much everything.
Limited military use cases for horses still remain, but in the past horses pretty much held the roles we give to tanks, APCs, trucks and light vehicles today. Or, the versions of those roles that existed without access to other technologies that enable modern logistics like refrigeration, real-time communication, timekeeping if you go back far enough.
Horses didn't go away overnight, and had been in decline for a while by the late 1800s. When firearms became portable and accurate enough to be wielded as the primary military weapon, a firing line could potentially shred cavalry. Then automatic weaponry allowed only a few operators to do that. By the 1910s it was pretty much over.
The reason I am saying all of this is that today, all of the tack, clothing, equipment, and practices attributed to the most widespread (read: post-colonial) equestrian styles are former military technology. I do not just mean 'english style' riding, 'western style' riding also is: just with more steps in between, from the cavalry use during the Spanish Reconquista (they kept the moorish influences, though!) that informed later use of horses by Conquistadors in Mexico, who brought cattle to Mexico, which necessitated cattle workers also learning equestrian skills, etc. Today, western-style riding has also been adopted by certain modern militaries as well, for the use cases that still call for horses. So there is no dodging the militarism there.
This is why horses used to be a 'boy thing' in many parts of the world. Today, horses being a 'girl thing' means that a lot of the equipment those girls & women are stereotyped using are deadass just formerly military equipment. When the use of short-range munitions becomes outmoded I suspect it will become a 'girl thing' to go to your bunker and lovingly fondle your collection of lockheed hellfire missiles.
This is exactly the question I raised in this post.
I grew up as a horse girl reading (some of) The Black Stallion series by Walter Farley, written for middle-grade readers. Most of the novels follow the relationship between Alec Ramsey and the titular horse. The first novel in the series was published in 1941.
In 1971, Farley's novel The Black Stallion and the Girl was published, and the hook of the story was how astonishing it was that a girl was good at around horses, partly (at least implied by the book's synopsis) because taking care of horses involves a lot of physical labor.
The cultural gender shift probably started a good bit earlier than that, but it just took a while for Walter Farley to notice.
I can totally see how it started with boys losing interest when horses were no longer a military necessity. But the other half of that is girls gaining interest. My personal hunch is that, as boys (generally) left the equestrian sphere, making friends with a horse became a common power fantasy for tween girls (at least as a daydream, even if they never get to meet a horse in real life).
In my experience, the fascination with horses really kicks in around 8 - 10 years old, when girls start becoming aware of how they're the focus of the heteronormative male gaze. So having a best friend who weighs half a ton, and literally allows even a small girl to look down on adult men, is very appealing.
Maybe someday, a bunker full of hellfire missiles will provide the same comfort.
Eugenio Montale, Piccolo testamento / Little Testament (from 'La bufera e altro', 1956), in Collected Poems, 1920-1954, Translated and annotated by Jonathan Galassi, Designed by Cynthia Krupat, Ferrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, NY, 1998, p. 407
“Where Astartes of lesser chapters wear the Emperor’s aquila… we do not wear His symbol.
We ARE His symbol.”
- Reclusiarch Grimaldus of the Black Templars — The Hero of Helsreach.
I think people should be able to exist in public without worrying about being recorded and posted online, even if they're being "weird", and I also think that if you see someone recording you without your consent then you should be able to legally spray paint their camera lens.
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random question:
what was your first exposure to prev and what made you decide to follow them?
Hic sunt dracones! is a saying which could be applied to the Hell as a whole. But in case of Messenger territories, its real meaning takes shape. Its notorious little noisy critters which carry messages to all parts of Hell are the closest to the fearsome creatures you often hear about in legends and heroic stories. (...) And nesting on one of the towers, the head of the department, the one who gets a glimpse at each letter sent in Hell - the Administrator.
Long time no new Hell Employee boss encounter. And finally another illustrations featuring the Messengers too,... i love my anxious red shrimps.
sometimes artists worry if their art is actually capable of making the world a better place, or if its all just wasted effort. what you need to remember is: all art is evil, and the sole aspiration of the artist should be to maim as many onlookers as possible.
Hello, I work for a large moderately evil corporation and for at least five years now I have to sign a yearly thing to say I will never ever have one of these devices in the same room as me while I work.
My large moderately evil employer takes it for granted that these things are spying on me at all times, and you should too.
Donald Trump gets attacked by an eagle.
This eagle truly represents America. What a majestic symbol.
It’s only fitting that this gets reblogged today
Unknown, England, 19th century Cloud Studies WORK TYPE 1800s watercolor The Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland, Ohio, USA Collection: DR - British Department: Drawings Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Prasse Collection ACCESSION NUMBER 1980.111
Excellent, no mercy
Kenojuak Ashevak (Inuit, Nunavut Territory, Canada, 1927-2013) - Hare Spirits (1960)
I know I'm late to the ten years anniversary but whatevs: from the sludgy bottom of my rotten eurotrash heart, fuck Brexit, fuck every bastard political actor who pushed it and fuck Leave voters.
