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[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.

[nataliabraginskaya]

The biggest confidence boost is knowing that even my shittiest fanfic will be 10,000% better than any AI generated bullshit

[fallout-fallen-knight]

I'm sure I missed some

[doing-something-unholy]

Pinning a virgin priest up against the wall and rubbing his cock through his pants until he cums then and there embarrassingly quickly 🥰

[spidey-official]

someone put subway surfers on the projector screen next debrief meeting. PLEASE. i cannot listen to cap ramble about statistics anymore

[xoxochb]

thinking about percy jackson who kisses all of your stretch marks after you’ve given birth. and percy jackson who insists you sleep through the night while he stays up with the baby. and percy jackson who loves more than anything to his wife and daughter together, cuddled up in bed when he comes home from work. and percy jackson who insists your infant’s first piece of real food must be blue. and percy jackson who buys copious amounts of sea life plushies for your baby !!! and pink jellyfish sheets !!!! and shark hair clips !!!! he has an obsession maybe… (˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶) but it’s ever so endearing nonetheless to see how much he loves his little girl <33

[themoon-andtosaturn]

madrid n2

[thedeafprophet]

so many ship ask games just don't work for my complex toxic ships. there was no first date or cuddling positions, ask me instead about how often stalking occurs or if they'd watch the other sleep

[baba-is-blog]

MOD IS THEATRE KID ?

(If not thats totally okay, I was just wondering)

MOD CYAN IS ARTKID

[lislemons]

naruto characters and posts that reminded me of them part 15

[pan6ual]

[janevolturi]

inspired by me and my bestie's fav post

[isabelleadjani]

TEMPTRESS MOON (風月) dir. Chen Kaige, 1996

[katebeckets]

uncommon moments [32/?] ⤷ 3.07 — “Son of a Coma Guy”

[spidey-official]

okay but what if I say I’m gay. Is that ok

no it's not okay i hate gay people

[jfkisonthemoon]

the circular nature of orv really is crazy though because from the very beginning the only reason kim dokja survived his suicide attempt was because the characters he loved loved him back even though they didnt exist yet. do you hear me. hsy only got sent to the past because the story existed and the story loved kim dokja so much they decided to make the epilogue an attempt to save him. and kim dokja only lived and read the story because the story didnt want another reader. it wanted kim dokja to survive. and kim dokja wanted to survive for the story. its all a circle. orv is a circle its a time loop but its all love. its all sacrificial love do you people hear me is this thing on kim dokja loves the story enough to kill himself for the narrative and the narrative loves him enough to start all over again if it means theres a chance of saving him. this story is all for that one reader = this story loves that one reader. please its so dark in here