#Performance of race

[mild-goth-sauce]

An informational comic I drew last year for my Comics 2 class, reposting it to my new account (had to jump ship from the old one unfortunately) with some minor grammar changes and learned my lesson in adding watermarks! Happy early pride :)

[justdavina]

HOT!

[elodieunderglass]

And one amang, an Iyrysch man,

Uppone his hoby swyftly ran…

WAIT HANG ON - slamming the brakes on drawing this stupid picture - do you nerds even KNOW the etymology of the word “hobby”? The thing you do for pleasure? The thing you have too many of? The thing you spend too much money on and share with your friends? The thing tumblr probably is to you? Those hobbies?

It comes from a now-kind-of-extinct breed of Irish pony-horse. It was called the Irish Hobby. Supposedly the hobby got its name from the Gaelic word obann, or swift. They definitely were. They’d obann your pants clean off.

Fast tough little bastards, built for rough terrain and renowned for their speed and stamina, hobby horses belonged to the Celts, and their highly annoying style of mounted warfare. but their conquerors liked hobby horses a lot, kept them, used them for themselves, and found them useful enough, despite the fact that they also had famously useful things like mounted knights or horse archers. A lightweight Irish warrior, mounted on a hobby horse, was called a hobelar.

Reportedly and in depictions, hobelars rode without stirrups. Or saddles. Or bridles. Or - well - this is all sounding very improbable, because the hobelars COULDNT have just been charging around basically bare-assed on naked ponies, screaming, and somehow in the process undoing the composure of actual mounted armoured knights. Knights who, I remind you, had stirrups. Stirrups are useful! It’s quite likely the hobelars had some gear. And clothes. and weapons. And the ponies probably had some tack - I am picturing a bellyband that you could at least hang a saddlebag on, and a neck rope for catching the bloody thing, even if not a saddle. But the overall impression, somehow created by people on darling little ponies, was apparently quite striking and fearful.

I mean. God Forbid People Have Hobbies.

Anyway after a while, whatever people became the British had eventually conquered all of the rough terrain that hobbies were best at, and horse archers just got sexier, and mounted knights became aristos, and all the bog and forest people had been subdued, so it was time to sunset the hobelars. but WAIT! Hobby horses are still tremendously fun and appealing! They’re so fast! and you can ride them without a saddle! Sure, they’re not up to the weight of a mounted knight, or indeed a lot of guys… but surely we can still find a use for a hobby or two? In the back garden? Somewhere?

At which point an English king decided to keep hobby horses just for fun. No military application. No further development of the technology. Not for fun. Just as expensive, pleasurable, pets. Just for the joy of the thing.

And that is how hobby (activity done purely for pleasure) comes from hobby horse (small horse) possibly from obann (swift.) they’re very interesting and you should look all this up for yourself! because it sure sounds like Elodie doing a bit, doesn’t it?

Today, Irish Hobbies are functionally nonexistent. References for drawing include the Kerry Bog Pony, the Connemara, and (I personally think) Dartmoors and Exmoors. They’re said to have lent their speed to the Irish Hunter/Sport Horse and from there to the Thoroughbred, but every damn horse in the world claims relation to the Thoroughbred, and they can’t be THAT thoroughly bred.

At any rate - you can never have enough hobbies. Just be glad that yours aren’t expensive beasts with minds of their own, eating their heads off in the pasture! …Unless they are. In which case, you’re part of a proud tradition.

[allphatauri]

say christian

[ef-1]

Yeah being nonchalant is cool but then I remember Daniel, feverish and delirious, crying on the podium in China '18

And Nico breaking down in China '16, cradled by the hands of his team

...yeah

[flatsixfever]

Flat Six Fever

[chrissy-kaos]

That’s a wrap of the “special stage” at STPR! I love stage rally so much! I can’t wait to watch the rest of the rally!

[transport-methodology-101]

50 years of Mustang evolution 🏆

[faunandfloraas]

it's more of a general question that was prompted after seeing a skz gif- Do people find it attractive, neutral, or a turn off when guy's grab their crotches (during performances and such) and is their answer impacted by if they are attracted to men (ex. i find it attractive and i'm attracted to men. i am neutral and am not attracted to men. i am turned off by it and am attracted to men. etc). Personally i find it unattractive/a turn off and am attracted to men so it made me wonder what other people think since it's such a common thing from male performers

Alright, let's do it

[redfacedpalindrome]

okay it was an amazing race but i do have one thing to say which is that the f1tv commentators decided to piss me off a little - because right after the race was over, the narrative was that max was understandably angry because anything less than first was a loss for him (i mean also contextually cos he was on pole) but that charles "must be very gratified with P3 given his season so far". it's like they're not even paying attention. he and max are cut from the exact same cloth �� charles is just house trained. he's gonna put on the smile and the gracious set to his shoulders because he has the hopes of a religion on his shoulders – but the hunger that claws his ribs inwards is the very same as max's, the same down to their chromosomes. neither he nor max will be satisfied with anything less than P1 – in quali, in the race, in the championship, in everything.

[justdavina]

Remember to support your local Drag Queens!

[blairdii]

god if i ever have to witness lando norris, who's been in mclaren for 6/7 years, has turned down fucking ferrari and red bull for this team, stood on business and made sure mclaren secured that wcc last season when it went down to the very bone, become 2nd driver, donate my body to science expeditiously.

[butchhamlet]

"The problem epilepsy poses for the early modern cultural imagination—and perhaps for our modern sensibilities as well— resides in this illegibility. Epileptic seizures are transitory episodes that only temporarily register disability on the body and then seem to disappear. In this way, epilepsy forces a particularly rigorous exercise in discernment that might fail at any moment. The epileptic Caesar, in his ability to appear able-bodied, is unidentifiable as "Other" and thus eludes categorization as disabled. Julius Caesar acknowledges this dilemma, performing Caesar's ability to go unrecognized amongst the able-bodied—to "pass" as "normal." For nearly all his time in the play, in fact, Caesar enacts just such a strategy. He resists his non-normative status in what Simi Linton elsewhere has described as either "a deliberate effort to avoid discrimination or ostracism, or . . . an almost unconscious, Herculean effort to deny to oneself the reality of one's racial history, sexual feelings, or bodily state" (19). Caesar, in his efforts to pass, creates for himself a "minifiction" in which his disability has no place.

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Just as these scenes affirm Caesar's ability to "pass" so too does the entire play in its refusal to formally stage Caesar's condition. In other words, although various characters comment on Caesar's disability, it never shows itself in the actions of the drama. In fact, word of Caesar's "falling sickness," the suggestion that he "fell down in the market-place, and foamed at mouth, / and was speechless" (1.2.250-51), appears to be nothing more than rumor. In noting his unconfirmed disability (the lack of actual performance of fit, swoon, or seizure in the drama), I am not denying Caesar's epilepsy but instead further confirming its illegibility. Put another way, this absence of "proof" throughout the play renders epilepsy an unrecognizable condition that, even as it is named disability, resists categorization as such."

—Allison P. Hobgood, "Caesar Hath the Falling Sickness: The Legibility of Early Modern Disability in Shakespearean Drama" (emphasis mine)

[flatsixfever]

Flat Six Fever

[slutforpringles]

well well motherfucking well.........

via: GP Fans | Daniel Ricciardo offers Red Bull solution to Liam Lawson issue

[elodieunderglass]

Killie, Derek, Charlie and partners + the nibling gang have a meetup when they realise theres a jackdaw in the chimney that needs saving. What happens next?

Man of the house (gender neutral): adult you can shove to the front when you don't wanna / person who hasn’t emptied dishwasher in a while