#to queue up some stuff

[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.

[squinkoblinko]

Heavy commission I finally finished up!

[ophernelia]

@imogencrnza: hair done? yes. bills paid? uh oh..

🎱 recent episode | 📍 riddim nightclub by themintsimmer

[jumpingpuddles]

Farscape: Aeryn Sun in every episode — A Bug's Life

[nonexistentbees]

it took another accidentally three full months but we are so back. THIS SCENE MAKES ME SO MUSHY I LOVE YOU SEASON ONE OF DUCKTALES

[kuradex]

day 260 Swampert

buy stickers, commission a pokemon, or support me on kofi!

[cinimuffin]

[royalarchivist]

Pac: I'm not going to say anything to you guys [Chat], I'm not going to say anything to you. I'm not saying absolutely anything, I'm not going to comment. Man, you broke me here, you broke me in 3 parts! I'm not going to- no no no no no, I won't fall for your game, I won't fall for your game.*

Pac's chat allows viewers to make music requests, which led to this very well-timed moment today where Careless Whisper started playing as soon as Pac met back up with Fit.

* [Approximate translation. I'm not a native Portuguese speaker, so as always, please feel free to let me know if there's a better way to translate things!]

[licorishh]

so uhhh happy valentine's day i suppose !!

shoves this in your face and runs away

so. uh. yyyyyeah. when i said i liked all interpretations of their dynamic equally i uh. i lied. and to be totally and completely and 100% honest with you it speaks volumes to the state of the internet that i have been legitimately afraid to say that like i've genuinely been debating and turning it over in my head and arguing with myself about it for days because i don't want people frickin' YELLING at me and telling me to off myself because i like a dadgum fictional ship but it's valentine's and my friend has been hyping up the crap outta me so i'm past the point of having a reasonable excuse to chicken out (and i know myself and if i don't do it today then i likely won't do it at all)

anyway words actually cannot express how obsessed i am with post-o66 aus in which they stay together (largely because i so completely refuse to believe they'd be willing to split up after THAT, ESPECIALLY that soon) so yeah shoutout to the softest fluffiest gut-punch-iest pair in the galaxy to whom everything bad has happened but who stay silly despite the horrors

[itadooori]

well. i started thinking about the dynamic between s2 gi-hun and sang-woo (last seen in this post). then i blacked out and all this got drawn

[l3viat8an]

MC: Asmo, how did you convince Mephisto to help us?…….did you bribe him?

Asmo: Bribe?! Sweetheart, you know I would never lower myself to bribery!! I blackmailed him~

[wishfulsketching]

I am finally graduating BUT don't let that fool you, this is my second degree. Maybe I'll actually get to use this one this time!

It's a whole new kind of torture to have to study 10th grade math for three weeks straight when you're over 30. I decided I never needed that shit well over 10 years ago oof

[elderwisp]

Hai! Thank you to everyone who reached out during my little break! I’m slowly getting caught up on things as well as queuing up gp posts I had on pause. I do have a medical update but I’ll slap that under the cut! I hope everyone is doing well and taking care of themselves <3

Oke so. Lore drop. Over the last year or so, I’ve lost about 30 pounds without having to try. I’ve had issues with digestion in the past so I assumed this was just a flare up but then it started getting to the point where I’m in a lot of pain coupled with a bunch of other symptoms. As of right now, I’m being tested for different autoimmune diseases and I have a few procedures I’m a bit nervous for but yea! Hopefully I’m able to find some answers because dealing with this has truly halted my life in ways I couldn’t have imagined. Again thank you if you have read this far, here is a picture:

[intotheelliwoods]

Reasons to join the 2AL Yacht <-

You get the full version of this shit

[intramoon]

This bitch is *crack of the whip*

[whumpacabra]

Not beating the furry allegations but I am thinking about a nonhuman character who’s been hurt and scared for so long, one day purring for the first time in forever when they finally feel safe and supported.

Does her chest ache when she realizes how happy she is, how much she wants this safety to last, knowing it won’t?

When a friend realizes how much the character trusts zir, enough to purr when around zir, does ze feel unworthy of that trust?

Are their new friends scared or worried by the sound, not understanding their biology/natural behavior, and think they might be sick or upset?

Does it frighten him, because he used to be hurt for his ‘annoying’ self soothing, or is he embarrassed to show such comfort?