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escuerzoresucitado

#which is like #way better for him

snnttgbsn

Origins

#primordial chonks

everythingfox

So angy

#so mad and for what?

drew that one photo

original

Here is a diagram of my guinea pigs before and after turning on the radiator.

localwasteofair

more heat in the room = more pancaked ginnies

yuumei-art

Be not afraid!

So a week ago, I sprained my ankle and couldn't walk for 3 days. I'm used to hiking at least an hour a day with my huskies so not being able to walk at all was driving me crazy. And in my jittery sedimentary state, I kept getting visions of this blursed being: a biblically accurate axolotl. There was nothing I could do but draw it. I'm all better now and able to walk again, now back to making less cursed art (maybe)

#biblically accurate axolotl

spicynoodlearts

A small dragon in a potion bottle

skycowboys

Hi!!!!

First I want to say, your work is incredible, the worldbuilding, the beautiful art.. Im obsessed. You are amazing.

To the questions, do you plan on writing a book?? I would buy, I mean, immediately. This is incredible stuff. There is so much to this stuff that could be explored.

Next one, which is not a question. But anyway. Im from this little country of Slovakia, and I had the idea to combine the most spread birdie and most famous breed form my country. So if you ever feel like it, the most regular or beloved birdies here are great tits (hehe), sparrows, black thrush(es??), storks, kingfisher (we have the common type but you seen crested kingfisher yet? omg what a little guy woahh, that would make a neat pegasus), golden eagle, goshawks, tawny owls..

And our breeds are slovak warmblood, slovak sport pony (sšp), and then we have beloved hucul ponies and the working absolute units that are Norikers from Muráň (norik muránsky)

But again, if you are reading this thats already like too good to process, thank you for the service i absolutely adore your pegasi art and lore, good luck with everything you do!

Hi there!

Thank you :) Yes to the book! Currently working on a graphic novel - I've got it all written and am working on the pages now. Here's a peek of the cover for chapter 1:

I also plan to do pegasus art books soon. Those will be smaller, such as a mini art book for broadwings, one for shortwings, one for longwings, etc.

And OH MY GOSH I had no idea what Hucul ponies were before now but I love them. I had to draw one.

Hucul/great tit shortwing -

~ Larn

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localwasteofair

AAAAAAAAAAAAA

#i have been blessed #not sso

equikage

Comparison gifpost.

First row shows shut down dogs, trained to heel using aversive methods. Tucked tails, hunched posture, low energy, low heads, think you can see some lip licking in that 2nd one.

Second row show a dog trained by Jenny Gould with positive reinforcement. Very energetic, pricked ears, wagging tail, head up and focused on the handler.

Third row is Clinton Anderson (who trains exclusively using aversive methods) working with his horse Mindy. You can see pinned ears, lip licking, clamped tail. There is irritable, anxious and passive body language depending on the point in the video.

Fourth row is Mint, trained by Shawna Karrasch with positive reinforcement. Note the presence of real positive body language. Pricked ears, head toss, relaxed tail.

Obviously I have an agenda re: encouraging the use of positive reinforcement, and discouraging the use of negative reinforcement and punishment, but mostly this gifset is intended to make it obvious that what we think of as ‘relaxed’ or ‘submissive’ body language can actually be a sign of a shut down animal that has learned not to react, or react only when made to. A horse is not relaxed just because they aren’t reacting. A horse is not happy just because they aren’t actively fighting. Horses can be taught to shut down just as easily as dogs, and typically, they are. The next time you watch a training video, watch for the quiet signs of stress (tight mouth, whale eye, clamped or thrashing tail, pinned ears, lip licking). You’ll be surprised how many ‘calm’ or ‘relaxed’ horses are exactly the opposite.

smellyoldblanket

I don’t know much about horses but holy shit those dogs in the first gifset look terrified and miserable

wolverinequeen

The GSDs in the first gifset belong to that horrible trainer/breeder Augusto DeOliveira - news sites like Buzzfeed and whatnot made him an internet sensation a couple years back - he keeps his dogs in stacked up kennels without water as punishment and breeds out parvo + and genetically defected puppies for thousands of dollars (also paper hangs constantly). He’s got a lot of publicity as one of the best trainers out there because he trains dogs for a living, but if you watch his videos his dogs are super stressed out and there used to be a whole facebook community of puppy people who bought pups from him that ended up dying or needing immense vet care from his horrible husbandry. He continuously tries to lay the blame on everyone but himself.

Here’s a whole page about him

And the Facebook Page that archives his every move/has owner testimonies, etc

#all aboard the clinton anderson hate train

jesse-pinko

As someone who works w animals “animals are not mindless automatons, they actually do have feelings and individuality and are capable of feeling acute physical and emotional pain and of forming deep attachments with other animals and people” and “animals are not human infants and have a limited capacity to communicate with humans so you have to familiarize yourself with their boundaries bc if they feel threatened or overstimulated they will fall back on their basic instincts and if you fuck around you are going to find out” are statements that can and should coexist

suspiciousmammal

Some more auction horses with, uh, names.

localwasteofair

No, you know what? This is fine, This is great. These are somehow ok. But sometime this week I unfortunately stumbled upon that aussie terror trainer (fukin Clinton) and his filly - Dropthatkittydownlow, barn name Prada

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.... here are some more that I stole from a page that threatened to make me pay 100 for every photo of badly ridden and wierdly named western pony

lastly the girl, the star, the legend

#not sso #i hope we all hate clinton anderson in this community :)!

everwindfields

Here yall go. Sorry some of these pages are a bit of a mess to look at lol

cicadaking

Exploration of colors on the Hipposcampi. I don’t intend on giving them any official markings, but I figured I ought to give them some color either way.

Their hind legs are normally tucked under their tails, hidden unless they are walking on land, hence why they’re depicted without them at all.