I'm Not Okay.

28 years old. Pansexual. Elder Emo. Schizoaffective. ISFJT. Vegan. They call me the dragon, baby. 🔥NSFW

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Why is this so fucking relatable flsjdfkjsldjfa

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Reefer Madness, 1936

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I’m such a sucker for vintage cigarette cases

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i swear i am normal about them

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water lilies by Claude Monet

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Whimsical Gardens Grow From Silk Teacups and Mossy Patches in Rosa Andreeva’s Embroideries

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Sultan the Pit Pony is a 200-meter-long, raised-earth sculpture made of 60,000 tonnes of coal shale in Caerphilly, South Wales. Designed by Welsh artist Mick Petts, the colossal work of art is known as the largest figurative earth sculpture in the United Kingdom.

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@becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys

Amazing.

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

More accurately, the real life Sultan the pit pony was the last pit pony to be brought up out of the Penallta Colliery when it closed. The earthwork uses spoil specifically from Penallta, and it was designed and named in Sultan’s honour as a tribute to all the equine workers of the South Wales coal belt

The real Sultan was a bit of a local celebrity, by all accounts, and in his retirement was taken around local horse shows as part of parades or opening ceremonies or what have you. So, when the art was designed, the locals and the artist both named it after him.

It’s very cool being there; it’s actually so big you can’t tell what it is from the ground. There are picnic benches in his nostril

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In a mixed mind about this! So it is an amazing piece of art, and it’s good that people are honouring the pit ponies and an important piece of local history, and I know they were well looked after (all things considered) and that they saved human children from doing the job instead, and were integral to the economy… But I can’t help thinking of the lives of those poor ponies, kept underground most of the time. Even the miners got to go outside back to their families every night, but the ponies were stabled down there, they only got occasional holidays where they could see the sun, eat fresh grass and feel the wind in their manes ;_; Heart breaking, really. Just thought I’d mention it!

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

Well, yes, hence the sculpture. It was built to honour the ponies BECAUSE they lived horrible lives, especially before the laws that were brought in to protect them. That’s the point of it

By the end of the collieries, the ponies came up to surface once a week. It’s worth noting, though, that for most of mining history, they were better treated than the human workers on multiple metrics; better fed, but also not sent into dangerous shafts in case of collapse. Mine owners were very open about it - ponies were expensive, but people were replaceable

The ponies aren’t what stopped children going down, though, that was the advent of child labour laws. Kids very much worked in the mines alongside the ponies, as either runners, door keepers, or explorers of smaller seams. The ponies’ job was to haul the heavy carts, which kids couldn’t do

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Pokket sized 😘