#still right

[sea-salted-wolverine]

The real reason to be interested in historical costuming and clothing is so you can write historically accurate clothed sex porn. Also, fucking a man who is wearing nothing but a long billowy shirt is hot. I can say that because I'm not a coward. Have a better appreciation for the historical form and function of men's undergarments and quit making your ye olde fantasy romance men wander around shirtless.

[leporinelou]

someone on that post saying about the ‘mom steve’ thing being partly due to the way people feel the need to feminize one side of a mlm ship .. yeah, that

[dressageworkingstudent]

In the continuation of my series on watching the freestyles, here is an example of how different moments in the same gait, on the same horse, can look drastically different. This is Jessica Von Bredow-Werndl and Dalera for the freestyle.

You’ll note that the first photo shows the horse appearing disjointed, behind the vertical, and hollow. The second photo shows parallel angles, and clearly rounded back, and nearly on the vertical.

What I want to stress here and what everyone needs to understand is basic biomechanics. Allow to explain:

In the first photo, we have the moment where gravity does us all dirty, when the spine of the horse is absorbing impact, and the hip is dropping to engage the inside hind. In this moment, of course the horse appears hollow, because the trot in particular is a circular gait that has both a moment of suspension, and a moment without suspension. Again, thanks gravity.

In comparison, you have the second photo, four off the floor, super round over the back, lovely parallel pairs etc. The different is what point in the gait the horse is at, not the training of the horse. More often than not, we see photos of dressage horses critiqued for not having these parallel pairs and missing the suspension (images that make it look like the hind leg will land at a different time than the front etc) but in reality, we have to assess what point in the gait they are at. The second photo demonstrates the horse is truly round and in self carriage, even though if you only looked at the first, you’d get the the opposite interpretation.

So, why is the important? Because when we critique high level riders for specific, intentionally picked moments in the gait, gently distracted by orange coats, we are missing the whole picture. I would hazard to guess that Jessica doesn’t practice rolkur, although she did train with Isabel Werth for 10 years so who really knows. Certainly none of us.

[lilu-the-almighty]

Modern tumblr is only inhabited by old gods, three chill people, and the kids who had Pinterests in 2015 because they weren’t allowed to have tumblr

[sa-rae2015]

I hate this feeling,

This hopeless wandering.

Trudging through old

Familiar paths

Of pain and regret.

[melanins]

chicken nuggets have a special plate in my heart

[glabrezu]

I do however apologize for bettering people’s dashes with that stuff Ish