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if you've ever looked at my work and wondered if I use AI for any of it, I assure you that all my run-on sentences, repetitive word use, wanton abuse of both commas and semicolons, and missed spelling/grammar errors are 100% organic

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Rudi has a new twin 😆❤️ Icelandic gelding that recently moved in.

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Every day I'm really grateful that I'm participating more and more in offline alterhuman and queer groups/events.

I can't change the whole wide Internet. No matter how hard I could try, it's literally not positive. But I can do my part here, where I live, to try and support positive alterhuman and queer spaces that are actively inclusive. And that's something small and important to me. In a world where everything is on fire and people can be cruel, that's at least one thing in my power to do.

It's not much, but it makes me feel better in the face of it all.

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Horse jar, 2024. I keep popcorn kernels in it :)

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“Sea Horse” by Kurt Arrigo

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Extinct Horse Relatives, by Mart Dillet for Zoobooks.

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Another sale post~

Most of the previous little guys are still available too

Anchiornis is $280

Sinosauropteryx is $210

Red Tianyulong is $230

Black and white Tianyulong is $250

Yi's are $200 each

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‪”Warm Straw” 19 x 24 inch ink and acrylic on paper.

Available here or on my website.

#painting #paintings #horses #equestrian #art #animals

https://www.equineartiststevemessenger.com

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Also agreed

I don't understand how anyone can say any real horse coat is ugly. Is it a horse? Yes? It is pretty!

Obviously breeders should be discouraged from breeding for things linked to awful genetic conditions but someone can still think a white tiger is pretty despite knowing they are a genetic wreck. Just don't breed for it? I know Leopard complex can cause night blindness but it still produces so many interesting coat patterns that look especially good on a drawing on a model horse.

What's your favorite and least favorite coloring? (You mentioned not usually liking flaxen liver chestnut)

Favourite answered here.

My most hated colours generally speaking are white, yellow, orange, and pastels, so in horses, chestnuts, dilutes, greys, and horses with lots of white are my least favourites. This doesn't mean I find them all necessarily ugly, I can see the appeal in some of them, but I'm mostly indifferent to them.

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Fun things to do instead of bending over for advertisers, streaming services, social media, and AI:

• You can pirate literally anything. do it.

• Read books, comic books, manga. I can't tell you how much joy and peace comic books have given me.

• Don't have money? Go to the library. The library also has video and audio media. Go to a bookstore and pick something out and just sit down and read it.

• Invest in physical media instead of digital media. Your dvds and cds can't be taken away with the click of a button. Look through locally owned thrift stores, Facebook marketplace, and yard sales for good deals. Sometimes you'll find free stuff.

• Burn your own playlists on cds. Give these as gifts.

• Create a physical photo album. You can get disposable cameras, polaroids, or just print any photos you want. You can print things from your phone at the library for cheap. You will cherish these forever.

• Try a new hobby until you get bored of it and then try another one. You can try something new every week and never run out of things to do. Try everything. It's a wonderful way to live.

• Go outside, get some birdseed, crumbs, fruit, etc. throw it on the ground and admire the creatures that come eat and benefit from your gift. Nature is beautiful and you are missing out on it. One day you will not be able to do this anymore.

• Read and write fanfiction. Draw fanart. Engage in fan spaces. Yes they are messy and wild and unhinged. They are also passionate and powerful and dedicated. That is what is so beautifully human about them.

• Write something. A journal entry, a poem, a joke, a random sentence, it doesn't matter if it's shit. That's one thing written that didn't come from a bot. You didn't have to take someone's job to do that, you didn't rob someone of their drinking water. You have the power to write at no cost. And its good for you.

• Research if any native plants near you are edible. Go foraging and see if you can make yourself a snack. Be smart and safe about it ofc.

• Go plant a flower or something in your yard or the closest land near you.

• Leave a penny heads up on the sidewalk.

• Splash around in a puddle.

• People watch in a park or public space.

• Bake something you really want to eat.

• Spent some quality time with your pets.

• Dance alone in your room.

• Sing terribly.

• Do something nice for someone for no reason.

• Tell people you love them.

• Cry, laugh, scream, make mistakes.

• Be a human being.

Do not let them try to make you into a machine. You are not a number. You are not a tool. You are a person, you are complicated and beautiful. Please do yourself a great favor and live more. Do not do what all these monstrous corporations want and rely on numbers and fast moving pictures to fulfill your desires. You have the power to fulfill yourself. So go do it.

Please share this with more fun things to do.

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Breyer; Stardust

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Undead Horse - Red Dead Redemption; Undead Nightmare

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Centaur Watching Fish by Arnold Böcklin (1878).

I love love love Böcklin’s mythical pieces, they have this sense of realism, and often even sensitivity.

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can we send up a quick thank you to pdf uploaders, torrent seeders, copy sharers, scanlators, fansubbers, digitizers, paywall dodgers, and various other internet archivers for making niche art and information more accessible in a media landscape where all but the most profitable mainstream are often tossed aside and left to rot

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Pseudo-melanistic zebra By: Jacana Press Agency From: Encyclopedia of the Animal World: Large Plant-Eaters 1988