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How tall is Shirecorn?

It occurs to me that I never specified how tall my fursona is. Horses are typically measured in Hands, which is about the width of an adult's hand, measured from thumb to pinky and stacked like so:

The hands reach up to the withers (shoulder) of a horse, rather than measuring up to their head.

The top of the withers is actually determined by the long bones that protrude off the back of the spine, rather than the upper edge of the horse's shoulder blade. It's a bit of a misnomer to call them bones, as they are part of the vertebra, not joints connected to it.

You have spines too, but yours are not as pronounced as those of ungulates (hoofed mammals) nor as epic as spinosaurus.

in horses, the muscle that lays on top of these bones determines the height of the withers.

A "Hand," understood as a standardized unit, is equal to 4 inches, 10.16 centimeters. Modern competitions and the professional horse world measure exact to the withers height in centimeters, but your average cowboy still talks in hands.

The first horse is 14 hands, so 56 inches/142.24 centimeters at the shoulder. That's on the smaller end of average for a horse! For those whose perception of height is compared to their own, that's 4'8, so the shoulder is below the top of most peoples' heads.

The tallest horse breed in the world is the shire horse.

These massive horses can reach 19 hands tall! To make it even, let's have both our guy and our shire be 17.5 hands tall. That's 5'10, 178 CM at the shoulder and top of withers.

Where does Shirecorn fit into this?

I represent myself as a shire unicorn with fluffy feet and a blueish coat. Until today, everyone has had to guess my height whenever drawing or picturing me. I haven't really gotten into it because I knew I needed to explains hands, withers, and average horse heights. But with all that out of the way, I have created a height chart to show Bo vs a typical shire, vs a human.

Don't get distracted by the typical shire silhouette. I just threw that in there to show how I measure up.

This is me:

That's right, I am 1 hand tall. That's 4 inches, or about 10 cm, measured at the withers! If you use the top of my horn, you'll get the wrong height.

But now that you know how to measure a horse, you can picture me in all my Shirecorn glory.

Go ahead, put in pocket. Take on adventure. Set me free. Stack shirecorns up to measure horses and humans alike. The power is in your hands.

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I need to see him get his ass kicked so bad

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worst college experience actually was people seeingme use tumblr and say 'haha oh i used to use tumblr we could follow eachother' and i open their blog and its like 700 artic monkeys band gif grunge images pastel moodboards and im sitting here hands folded like you are about to learn our uses of this site are wildly different and i just posted a photo of a buff man in a g string

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Holding this zombie apocalypse au in my hands, heres a Bart reference I'm going to work on the rest of Young Justice soon.

And heres a link to the fic

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How to make a piccrew. I’ve been making one for the past while and been talking abt it on discord and somebody said they wanted to make one but didnt know how. So here you go. This is the worst possible tutorial and is more of a crash course but just. Do these things, and when you learn how to make parts and add colours etc just do that for everything. 

hope this helps y’all!! 

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I just love crazy little guys so much!!! Hes kind of just silly to me idk

Character is from @year2000electronics

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This was supposed to be a quick sketch but I cant have nice things I guess.

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Thinking about my boy

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Sleepy boys and Tubbo!

(mainly highlighter)

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"This is the moment you realize something inside you is broken, and it can never be fixed."

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Doodling

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Just doodling because I have no good ideas guys

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Wake up babe, new smp just dropped

I was gonna touch this up but I got too frustrated with the water to continue :/

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I'm so fucking tired guys, but I cannot sleep

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The reminder that mspaint exists plagues me and gives me so much inspiration at the same time.

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I didnt really feel like making a background