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i feel like i never post my animations on here lol so here are a bunch i’ve done in previous years!

i’m not very good at it yet, particularly with my horse ones because they are all done without references so i got a lot of things wrong, but i’m still proud of them nonetheless! i actually posted some of these on my old tumblr account (that no longer exists) years ago haha. XD

hope yall enjoy! 🌸

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The haunting ancient Celtic carnyx being played for an audience. This is the sound Roman soldiers would have heard their Celtic enemies make.

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Do not the horses

Never the horses

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how to triumph like a girl by Ada Limón

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Dr Glass: male loneliness epidemic - embarrassing, all the things they think women want are what MEN want. I bet those losers are all going to the GYM. If they actually wanted friendship, or fitness that appeals to girls, they’d be taking riding lessons -

Me: is this about the -

Dr Glass: five. Five women at that barn who would’ve had me! Who almost had me! I was fighting for my life! Women are not secretive, you know! They’re all quite clear about where they go and what they do. They want men who read, and have a bum in jodhpurs. And men - men are all going to the gym! To do WHAT! To lift weights by themselves with other single men with headphones on. What are you learning from them? How to be more single! Meanwhile the women are paying to go to bookshop wine nights and fancy dress balls by THEMSELVES. The men are just doing exactly what they want and pretending it’s for women. RIDE A HORSE



( I guess he just wanted to share that.)

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Chonk waterhorse hippo-like kelpie

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Kelpie.

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no one:

magazines at the boutique yarn store:

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The North Sea, by Patrick von Kalckreuth

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Return of the Wild Horses

Prints

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My old piece with quaggas.

watercolour on wallpaper back

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a while back i was poking around on facebook and found this absolutely gorgeous illustrated guide to mongolian horse tack

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Horse people are such a specific type of crazy (I know as I am one myself) because they’ve been staring at their horses for millennia with such meticulous fervor that they’ve developed a kind of weird equine phrenology where owners feel like they can predict a horse’s temperament and behavior just from the pattern of hair swirls (called whorls) on their face. Which results in absolutely unhinged diagrams like this

The craziest thing about this? It is almost certainly based in truth. There has been a decent amount of study into the connection between hair whorls and horse behavior. Many scientists theorize that because these hair patterns develop in the fetal horse at the same time as the nervous system, certain information about a horse’s behavior can be predicted by the whorls.

A 2021 article in Livestock Science explored the genetic heritability of these swirl patterns and found that a whorl on the forehead is highly influenced by genetic factors and could potentially be used to select more docile animals. Temple Grandin researched the phenomenon as well with several studies at Colorado state and made the same connection between the growth of hair whorls and the development of the horse’s brain, leading to certain manifestations of anxiety or docility. Obviously temperament in any animal is more complicated than just genetics or histology, and it would be silly to try and extrapolate a horse’s entire personality from its hair, but the connection is interesting and worth noting all the same.

There is an ancient history to these whorls. An Indian veterinarian mentioned them in a treatise on equine medicine from the third century, and the Bedouin people (who had an extremely developed lore around whorls) used the marks to determine the price of horses prior to sale. It’s pretty cool that our modern understanding of embryology and veterinary medicine is illuminating a phenomenon that ancient people first noted and passed down through folklore.