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Previously a mish mash- now will be horse focused and aesthetique™️

[skycowboys]

Which Pegasus breed/bird combo has the worst temperament, which one is throwing you into low earth orbit

Hi!

Anything with appaloosa. I'm honestly not super familiar with the general temperaments of birds but I do have experience with crabby appaloosas. The only ones I haven't had trouble with were from a breeder who'd cross an appy with a friesian to get a surprisingly really good cross.

My theory is that appaloosas are actually wicked smart and are cranky to have to deal with people who don't understand what they need. They have lots of behavioral signals comparable to mustangs which are extremely smart horses, but deal with impatience and frustration in a slightly milder ways that dip more into stubbornness rather than bucking explosions.

So, I suppose any smart pegasus would be a candidate lol

~ Larn

[kedreeva]

Mix it with a double yellow headed Amazon parrot.

Like the one my mom's friend has that my mom's friend ended up with because the bird hated her original owner's mom, but enticed the mom over by sweetly asking for kisses before taking a chunk out of her face. The bird who, when asked "can birds talk?" responds "birds can't talk, that's preposterous!" and who responds to people getting hurt with "that's gonna need a bandaid!” and who entertains herself by copying the human voices to ask the dogs if they wanna go outside? so she can watch them run around like fools. The one who will call for who she wants to see, but failing their appearance, will call (in descending order of who she likes) other humans until one arrives and then she will ask them "where's [favored person]?" And to my knowledge from getting other keepers talk about their DYH amazons, they're just Like That.

That's the kind of bird that would go Sure hop on! You don't have wings right? Just checking for science, don't worry about it. Let's go!

[familiar-stims]

Voguepuff

The most stylish fren.

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Shellback Slink

An emotional, but insightful companion that carries seashells upon its back. (Wavecrest Saturnalia 2023 holiday item.)

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Flowing Taurus

The stars align, showing signs of curiosity. (Wavecrest Saturnalia 2021 Holiday Item)

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[mango-pup]

🥰

[mango-pup]

Jumping saddle works then 🥰

[angelnumber25]

There was one horse I wanted to see the most out of all the international shippers, and that was Auguste Rodin. A colt from the last crop of Japanese super sire Deep Impact, he is out of Coolmore star Rhododendron. He's this year's Epsom and Irish Derby winner, and now the winner of the Breeders' Cup Turf.

If you've ever seen the Ballydoyle horses at a Breeders' Cup, they line up and go out as a group, usually trotting the wrong way before turning around and galloping. "Aidan's Army," is what most call it. Well, if it's later in the week, they're open galloping at a good clip and it's hard to grab good photos of every horse in the line. Sometimes it just takes one good frame, and I'm really happy I have this capture of such a special horse.

[suspiciousmammal]

I still sometimes look at halter bred qhs as entertainment because I'm a sad horseless english rider but ever since I stumbled across those horses Terry Bradshaw was producing I feel slightly desensitized. Yeah sure these are post-legged bulldogs but have you seen those broodmares? Have you ever laid eyes on a horse and hoped that it was some ai-generated misunderstanding of anatomy?

[fuglyhorses]

It's like the garden of earthly delights in here

[fictionforager]

Look into those eyes

*she knows*

[fidgetspringer-art]

This year's christmas present for @clickerpunk <3

[monopeptide]

this is a poem to me

[reality-detective]

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[photozoi]

I... I think I might die of cuteness overload.....

[soundtrack-for-lovers]

Sometimes you just gotta have faith that they'll turn into a horse you're not embarrassed to look at once they've finished cooking 🥴

July '21 (2 1/2 years old) vs December '23 (5 years old)

[hapalopus]

"dog is man's best friend"

WRONG.

HORSE.

[random-brushstrokes]

George Ford Morris - Battling Pegases (1925)

[gsmess]

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[geiser]

no lie i genuinely believe brands are so behind the pleather movement bc they can just buy cheap plastic sell it as expensive 'vegan leather' and be ready for you to return in a couple years to buy another 'vegan peeta approved™ leather jacket' bc they last like 5 minutes compared to the way leather lasts decades all the while you can pat yourself and coorporate's back for being sutainable all the while pvc (what some fake leather products are made of) has been labeled the single most environmentally damaging type of plastic and while there are non pvc fake leathers such as pu leather... its not like thats much better producing plastic pollutes and the second your pleather clothes start to breakdown (which happens much faster than you think) theyll wound up on landfills for at least a 100 years...

[starcrossed-sky]

also they love love LOVE to try and sell you "plant-based leather" that you then look at the details and it's "45% cactus" or whatever and there's no mention of what the rest of it is

it's plastic.

it's always plastic.

[sea-salted-wolverine]

Let me tell you a story.

50 years ago or so a cow died. It died in a slaughterhouse after a life on a cattle ranch. It was butchered in a meat packing plant, and it's body was sent off to a grocery store where it then became an overdone steak or a dry hamburger or maybe dog food. It was the 70s and people had only recently realized that you could put food in things that were not jello. Cut them some slack.

But its skin went to a tannery. And that skin was processed in the hide and then leather. That leather was bought by a clothing company who made jackets out of it, long leather dusters for working men and ranchhands. Cowboy shit.

The dead cow that is now a leather jacket is not technically waterproof because if you stand out in the rain for 6 hours water will eventually work its way through the seams at the shoulders. But its pretty damn waterproof. It keeps off the rain and the snow and the dust and the mud and the brambles and it doesn't melt if it catches a spark. So 50 years ago a man bought one and he wore it pretty much until he died and his wife shoved it in a closet. Decades of use, from the deserts in the southwest to the arctic, because it turns out that cowboys are wildly adaptable.

Anyway, I pulled grandad's jacket out of the closet a while back and there is nothing wrong with that coat. It does have some distinctly non-modern vibes, but more importantly it is cool as hell and looks almost new. I have seen faux distressed leather that looks worse.

The cow is still dead. There will be another cow that dies tomorrow for the same reason. But there's no market for leather these days. Its skin won't be a garment that lasts 50 years. Its gonna rot in a pile with all the others. Someone will sell a "vintage" cowboycore Americana aesthetic dark academia plastic peice of shit that will be garbage in a year. And then they'll sell another one.

[rhysintherain]

That cow, that became a leather coat?

It's probably also a saddle that another cowboy is still riding.

And several belts. Probably some wallets, several gloves, some riding tack.

Nobody who doesn't work with leather understands how much material you get from one cow. I have sides (like 1/4 of a cow) that I've been making things out of for years and there's still lots left in my materials stash.

Once that coat is too worn out to wear, there will still be lots of the leather that's still good. Someone who can't afford to buy hides will probably make smaller things from those pieces (that's how I started working with leather).

Even when every piece of that hide is completely unusable, it will decompose like it was originally going to, and shed no microplastic particles. A synthetic alternative lasts a fraction as long and sheds microplastics for its entire life.

You also can't use that synthetic leather for many of the things you'd use real leather for. It's not fire resistant, so welders can't use it to protect them from sparks. it doesn't have the tensile strength of real leather, so you can make equestrian tack out of it. It doesn't provide any abrasion resistance, so you can't make motorcycle leathers from it. It can't be used for protective equipment in sports like archery, because it would disintegrate under normal use.

Synthetic leather can only be used in place of real leather in fashion and upholstery applications, and it's not very good at either. It requires hundreds of times more material for the same applications due to its short lifespan, and it produces plastic pollution constantly.

There's literally no good argument for replacing real leather with synthetic alternatives. Even if you want to go the animal rights route, how many marine and aquatic ecosystems are you willing to sacrifice for the life of a few cows? Are you even saving cows, when we use them for so many other industries? Does a domesticated animal have more right to life than the wild species impacted by synthetic leather production?

In the long run, it's just not worth it.

[neighvember]

Missing the boy 💔💔💔 I wish you could have been mine.

The program I was working for shut down and all of the horses had to be placed into new homes. They all went to wonderful places, including my favorite love above. He’s with an adult amateur who needed a safe mount to do various things with, including low level dressage. Her trainer was enamored with him, her best friend who came out to see him with her felt the same, and she quickly couldn’t help but also love him to pieces. He’s doing well and she’s continuing to enjoy her new mount that’s perfect for what she needed.

My heart aches though. 💔 He was perfect for me too. So thankful he went to the exact right home for him.

Going on hiatus now as I’m in a graduate program and super busy and Tumblr is really the antithesis to my focus.

So proud that we got 1st in our first and only show together before he was to be sold. He was foot perfect and I couldn’t have asked for him to be better, especially since the footing was SOAKED and sloppy and he is not a fan of puddles. Stomped so confidently into the arena and did the test with me without a care for the water splashing everywhere. 💖💖💖