#thealphabard

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I hope this okay 👀

Akos, being the kind of zora he is, often overestimates his ability in hand to hand combat and would 100% think he can take on the absolute UNIT that is fat fin

Especially from size alone, hes be lucky to even get his arms around fatfins legs, and would look like a little kid going against a sumo wrestler 😂

[thewolfprospers]

I'm a little late to the party but 👀🌻

Thank you for the flower, my friend! :3

I used to work with horses at a therapeutic riding center back in my old hometown. It started out as volunteer work for one summer but I loved it there I worked there yearly for a few years. The horses were great, and all the people who came for therapy were wonderful.

The horses and lessons helped folks with physical disabilities and mental illness. I remember a woman who had suffered a stroke came in for lessons to help regain her motor skills again. We used to get a lot of kids, and riding helped them gain confidence, ease their anxiety and help them learn to communicate. Horses are so cool that they can pick up on people's feelings and learning their body language requires you to be patient and mindful.

They can be absolute dorks XD but the way the horses we worked with bonded with each student melted my heart. And it's really something to have the love and trust of a beautiful animal like that. My job was as a handler and groom; I brought them in, brushed them, saddled them up, and led them around the arena while another instructor walked along side the student and talked them through the day's lesson. Afterwards, I'd clean them again (they get pretty sweaty during the summer!) muck everything out, clean and put away the equipment and set them back out the pasture. I wasn't riding, but all the stuff I did also felt therapeutic. Learning the personalities of each horse, their preferences, taking care of them (getting protective of them too haha)

We'd get a lot of high schoolers who would volunteer for the summer only to be disappointed they weren't the ones riding the horses. In their defense, cleaning horse poop in the summer heat is not summer vacation material 😂

Here are a few of the horses I worked with, they were some of my favorites. And I felt a bit proud because I used to be specifically called on to work with them because they would behave better with me :>

This was Doc, he was the baby of our "herd" being the youngest. An absolute dork, and used to be a ranch horse. His former owner donated him when they couldn't afford to keep him any more (but they visited the arena often) He was well trained, and great with little kids ;u;

This big boy was Bandit! A handsome draft mix who was also donated by a farmer. His head was the size of my entire torso. When we first got him, he tried to make a break for it through an open gate, and I made the most intelligent decision to stand in the doorway to keep him from getting out. Im so glad he decided to stop 😭 I used to reward him with a small handful of grain after each lesson for being such a good boy.

Because of his size the instructors used him for vaulting lessons for our more experienced riders. At the end of each season before we closed for the winter, we used to host a show where the kids got to show off what they learned. We had music, the kids got to dress up and perform their acrobatics as Bandit and I trotted around the arena. He had big strides so it was a workout for me too haha!

Since I was a kid I always wanted to raise horses but never had the privilege (money or space), so working here was a dream come true 🥹

[lozpositivityproject]

had @thealphabard been nominated yet for a positivity boost? If not, he's got a fantastic artistic style and really lovable characters.

@thealphabard !!

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Im extremely late but I hope you had an incredible time with your partner! 🥹

ITS HER

SHE

YOU DREW HER AHHHHHHHHHHH

THANK YOU 😭😭😭😭💖💖💖💖

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📂 for sardon, cironus and fatfin plz 👀👀

ON IT BOSS! 🫡(sorry for the wait, dinner called!)

🫧 Sardon is a nice guy when you get to know him but he's extremely opinionated about weird things like which monster bounces farther; bokoblins or lizalfos

🫧 Cironus got the notch in his fin because he and Sardon would play all sorts of dumb/dangerous games. Sardon would throw weapons at him and Cironus would try and catch them with his teeth.

🫧 Fat Fin actually has an agent who books his wrestling matches. He's a grizzled old mantis shrimp named WAVES GARRET