Victorine and ponies

20 × she/her × dressage - show jumping

[smellslikebarn]

[updated] Info about me:

20-year-old she/her

I ride in the regular English way/dressage and show jumping but I also love going bareback and/or bitless every chance I get

I have been around horses for most of my life but only for the last ten-ish years have I taken lessons regularly

I attend a Finnish riding school that is also a boarding stable; alongside my weekly lesson I get to ride a couple of private horses every now and then (I also take extra lessons sometimes)

The horse in my avatar and banner picture is my former number one horse Collezione. Unfortunately she was sold in September 2022

Although I don't ride many times a week, I do spend most of my time at the stable working and chilling with the ponies

I post videos and pictures on my Instagram at funkkelssonbest , the captions are only in Finnish though

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when she says she doesn’t send nudes

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when guys objectify women and expect them to send nudes

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when someone asks you about your nuclear plans for russia

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When Russia sends you nudes

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#what the fuck happened here

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This is my favorite post in all of tumblr

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reminder that this post is now illegal in Russia

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reblog it, because Russia can´t

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Thanks Obama 

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Wtf

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When Russia makes this post illegal

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I HAVE ONLY SEEN THIS IN SCREENSHOTS

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I will reblog this every goddamn time I find it on my dash

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omg

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World heratige post

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ah yes, the original version

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certified iconic post

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The satisfaction knowing that I can reblog this but Russia can’t

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The satisfaction

knowing that I can reblog

this but Russia can’t

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

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holy cow 3.5m notes and not all of them are deactivated

[smellslikebarn]

Hey I got myself a new lease horse! He's called Jesta, and I will be riding him twice a week until I leave for England in March.

So Jesta, he's 15 years old this year, a Finnish warmblood and a good boy. Well, he tries his best, he can be a bit jumpy at times and some days, if the weather is not to his liking, he might be in a bit of a mood. He does mostly dressage but, according to his owner, can also jump. I might put that to a test soon. I tried going bareback with him for the first time today and his back is really very comfy, although quite slippery.

And England, well, I am starting to get excited about that. There's this small family-owned stable of about 10 horses and ponies, all of which belong to the children of the family. They compete in dressage and show jumping, and I'll go over there to look after the stable for this competition season, from March until September. This other girl, that worked there a few years ago and that I got to contact with, said that she also got to exercise the horses but we'll see if I'm that lucky. The family seems really nice and I think I am going to have a good time there!

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I was going to make a joke about how people tell their hairdressers so many personal details that I wouldnt be surprised if someone confessed to murder while I was styling their hair but then I remembered that was an actual thing that happened when I was in cosmetology school

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SO when I was in cosmetology school i was in the breakroom and I was telling everyone back there about how my client had just told me about how her dead husband’s head was found at the airport along with 63 other human heads (that’s a story for another day) and everyone started swapping stories about weird things that their client had told them

and then this one girl pipes up and is like “Yeah my client told me about how she killed her husband once.” and we were like EXCUSE ME??? WHAT? and she was like “yeah apparently her husband was coming at her with a knife and she managed to get it away from him and stabbed him like three times” 

according to the teachers she had A. told that story to at least three other students in the time she had been coming there and B. It was ruled as self defense so it’s not like she was a criminal who was on the run 

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Okay but tell us the human heads story

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op can we PLEASE have the human heads story

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OKAY so this one I actually have a lot more context for because it was a firsthand experience buckle the fuck in

So I get this client, she’s an older lady so it was a color retouch and a trim and I was like okay I do this all the time this is gonna be just a super routine and mundane day. So I’m chatting with her just like usual small talk stuff like asking how her day is going and stuff and at some point she says: “I’m actually going to be in the newspaper tomorrow so I needed to get this done so I look good when they take my picture.”

So I’m like “Oh that’s nice! I hope you have fun!” and she goes “It’s not going to be fun, it’s because of a court case. I’m seeking legal action against a funeral home because they stole my husband’s body.” She’s saying this is the most casual tone ever and let me tell you, when someone you don’t know drops information like that on you, it’s the weirdest situation ever

I have NO idea how I’m supposed to react properly to that so I’m just saying “Oh no that’s so terrible!” and she keeps on going 

“Yeah his head was found at an airport with 63 other human heads. they removed some of his body parts before they cremated him and sold them illegally. They were using his head at a dental convention in some other country.” 

That was the strangest thing a client had ever decided to share with me and i’ve been continuously googling that shit trying desperately to find what she was interviewed for but there’s nothing and I can’t figure out if it’s weirder that she may have lied to me about this crazy story or if it actually happened and she decided to tell a student hairdresser she never met the entire story without being prompted

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y’all it fucking happened

[smellslikebarn]

So, the riding school got a new horse yesterday and I'd love to get to try her out but at the moment I feel like I absolutely should not get to mount a single horse ever again and that, instead, I should quit horses altogether. How's your Wednesday?

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real question to all of my fellow book reading people. how do you guys mark your place? do you use a bookmark, dog ear, memorize the page #, or a secret other thing???? 📚

[smellslikebarn]

Wow I rode so badly on today's lesson that I literally can't do anything but lay in my bed thinking about how unfair I was to poor Roosa the pony. I have my book next to me but I can't get myself to pick it up and I also know that I will not be able to fall asleep in this state of mind.

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spotify users!!! tell me the fourth song in your second daily mix playlist... mine is bbyong by saturday hehehe

[smellslikebarn]

mare Liinakon Helmi, born 2016

[smellslikebarn]

I am leaving for Germany tomorrow and I am already on my way to Helsinki. I have been both very nervous and very excited during this three-hour trip and right now I am again very nervous.

[smellslikebarn]

My trip starts overmorrow and I am slowly starting to lose my mind. Am I really doing this. Going out of country all by myself at 18. What even

[smellslikebarn]

I wanted to share this comparison between mine and Siiri's first (on a lesson) and last (bareback and in the halter) ride. The ride in the video did not end up being the very last as I did visit and ride her at the selling agency once. This one I thought to be the last though and I rode her that way.

I thought I'd get to still see her at least once more but she got sold so very quickly and I regret not getting to say a proper goodbye to her.

[smellslikebarn]

I have been too lazy to write about my rides at all but I got to ride the loveliest Finnhorse mare Helmi (eng. pearl) from the very end of July to yesterday. Her owner had broken her collarbone as she fell with another horse and could ride for a while. They hired multiple riders for Helmi but in the end she was only ridden three times by someone other than me XD only because no one else ever had the time, I guess.

Helmi's a six year old, quite the big girl standing at (at least) 165 cm. Very forward and very sensitive when riding but oh so pleasant! Her gaits are the easiest to sit and even though she's a Finnhorse, she has a very good canter also! It is quite easy for her to collect in all gaits, although her being so young, the canter needs quite a bit of work. She's very good at jumping too! I only got to jump with her twice as most of the times I rode by myself but we even did a little course on the second time where she had to change leads on top of a jump and she was such a star!

Helmi's an absolute saint when grooming and tacking, she stands there like a statue the whole time and loves being scratched from anywhere, really! She's not much to look at, just a regular chestnut with a relatively thin mane, mediocre tail, a little stripe across her face and very round, bean-like body. I love her, she's definitely one of my favourite FInnhorses!

Her owner got the permission to start riding again today so I won't be really needed anymore but I was told I could still come ride her if I really wanted or if her owner's unable to herself!

[smellslikebarn]

I am leaving for Germany next Thursday. There should be a nice show jumping stable there where I could be working for the next year. I am not nervous just yet but I will probably be a wreck when the time comes. I'll only be there for five days at first but if the place is reasonable, then we'll see what happens.

[smellslikebarn]

So the Austria thing did not work out as they were looking for a different kind of employee. They were lovely enough to recommend this German place for me though so I truly hope it'll be good!

[smellslikebarn]

I am leaving for Germany next Thursday. There should be a nice show jumping stable there where I could be working for the next year. I am not nervous just yet but I will probably be a wreck when the time comes. I'll only be there for five days at first but if the place is reasonable, then we'll see what happens.

[smellslikebarn]

Okay, so, heh

Long time no see

Some things have happened since the last time I wrote:

Siiri can be ridden again! The problem was with vow she was shod so that was sorted and everything is fine again. I have ridden her bitless these past couple days and she has been excellent!

Siiri will be sold. And not to me nor the riding school I attend. She will be sent to a selling agency (if that's a word) next week and it might be that I won't ever see her again. So that's fun.

My lack of riding motivation didn't occur with all riding as I formerly thought. Only times I don't want to ride are during riding lessons, both dressage and show jumping and I hate to feel this way but I also can't help it. Almost every lesson I find myself hoping we would finish soon.

As a result of the two things I mentioned (and also because I want adventure and new experiences) I might be going to Austria! I contacted this private stable of 35 horses and it seems really nice, if things work out as hoped I may be going there for a few days in the beginning of September to see the place for real. If it turns out fitting me and them, I will go work there as a stablehand for some time!

As excited as I am about this Austria thing I am of course also very sad at the thought of losing Siiri and possibly leaving the riding school that is the place where I have shaped into who I currently am. It has been (and truly still is) my favourite place in the world for so long and I find it difficult to imagine not going there every week, lately every day, to see the horses and the people and the cats and knowing exactly where everything is and how everything works. I have mentioned this in a post before but I honestly always imagined myself going there as long as the stable owners would keep the barn running.

Growing up is scary.

[smellslikebarn]

Good news! Siiri will most likely be rideable again!

She was taken to the clinic on Thursday for examination and although nothing could be found in the pictures that were taken, the vet concluded that Siiri has some sort of injury in the soft tissue of her left front hoof. According to the vet the injury might be because there's too much weight on the heel of the hoof and so Siiri may have to get some kind of wedge added the next time she's shod. The hoof joint was injected and Siiri gets full vacation for two more weeks after which she can be walked and slowly worked in lunge line.