#Ride A Rock Horse

[weepingguitar1968]

[whogal]

[lustnhim]

save a horse ride a cowboy 𐙚˙⋆.˚ ᡣ𐭩

𐙚˙⋆.˚ ᡣ𐭩

[sesamenom]

quick 15min doodle, bc I'm working on (currently only hypothetically tho :c) Something based on that post about "would mae survive castle dracula"

inspired by this snippet of a conversation w @nelyoslegalteam

[shiftythrifting]

Some gems from Hemswell today!

1 and 2 - very cool vintage children's rides, the sort of thing I'd buy in a heartbeat if I was rich. My mum said they're older than her (she was born in 1969)

3 and 4 - strange animal foot stools (?)

5 - a definitely cursed glass clown

6 - obligatory uncomfortable dolls

7 - a corner of taxidermy featuring an actual lion. There were also some taxidermy moles made to look like axe murderers in one of the cabinets (not pictured)

8 - HER

9 - a gorgeous lithograph I would kill for. Unfortunately it was £75 and neither me nor my mum could afford it 😔

10 - potentially one of the best, and weirdest things I've ever seen: a rocking horse tricycle. Definitely adult sized too. Another thing I'd buy in a heartbeat if I was a millionaire

All at Hemswell antique centres, UK

[my-my-my-michelle]

grabbing my goddamn saddle

[l00k4tm4m45c415]

Amy Fadhli

[myimaginaryradio]

Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses - U2

[lock-my-feelings-in-a-jar]

[werebutch]

haiii i love your wolf posts it reminds me of when i was little and would pretend 2 be wolves with my friends during recess

This is awesome it’s the energy I want to give off..YAY.. it’s actually weird cause I didn’t really play pretend like that very often I did a lot of roleplaying as a horse or lizard or veterinarian lol..never wolf for some reason!! My friends didn’t match my energy BWAHAHAH 💔 :3

[lucy-the-demon]

My mother told me to never fall in love with an alcoholic, but I did anyway

And I don't regret a second of it

[fatchance]

One of the things we do very well here in my part of Arizona is wide open spaces. Cochise County is as big as Connecticut and Rhode Island combined, with a population of fewer than 130,000 people, so we all have plenty of elbow room. Isolation and vast distance is kind of our thing. Even so, it’s difficult to express how extremely out of the way you have to go to reach this roadside pony ride. It is on a road in the southeast corner of the county that hugs the border with Mexico – the sort of road you can drive on for miles without passing another car, or habitable structure, or even a power line. If you want to check it out for yourself the coordinates are 31° 21′ 54″ N, 109° 23′ 33″ W. It may not be the at the end of the world, but you can definitely see it from there.

Still, at five minutes for just 25¢, it just might be worth the drive. 

[mariatesstruther]

OCTOBER IS ADHD AWARENESS MONTH

I AM VEHEMENTLY AWARE THAT ELLIE WILLIAMS-MILLER HAS COMBINED TYPE ADHD AND SARAH AND TOMMY MILLER HAVE INATTENTIVE TYPE ADHD

[plaudiusplants]

Okay I know this was a couple days ago, but you are logged a lot of horse things. Are they your favorite animal? (feel free to go on a long rant if you so please)

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am vibrating!! Yes, horses are my best friends and favourite animals of all the ever and I love them so so much!! They're just like me fr!!! Tall kitty

Horses are the best and I've found that they're actually a lot like really tall cats!! They like to snuggle until the moment they don't, they like to cause problems on purpose, and they really like to feel like they have some control over their own situation. They are being ever so gracious in allowing you to do things that they have decided ahead of time are okay for you to do with slash to them. And, like, don't tell any horse I know that I said this, but they're kind of right. I'm (approximately) 120 lbs; any horse I ride is about ten times heavier than me, give or take. I'm not winning that tug-of-war unless the horse allows it. That physics will not track

I'm gonna start talking about anxiety here and it doesn't get really heavy anywhere but I'll put a read more button in anyway just in case 💕💕 (pictures and gushing about the horse I'm currently riding are also at the end though!)

Okay but so basically though, the way to succeed in an interaction with a horse is to assume they are scared and to let them know over and over again that you won't let scary things happen to them. Scary things include horrifying horse-eating squirrels, terrifying horse-gobbling pigeons, petrifying horse-devouring shadows, Large Noises that could have come from any of the aforementioned things, etc. I figure it's probably good strategy for prey animals to assume that basically anything can and will hurt them, but it also means that horses tend to be very spookable. I shit you not that I have ridden a gelding (boy with no balls) who spooked away from a jump because he saw his shadow right in front of the jump and thought it was dangerous

That said, obviously some breeds are going to spook more easily than others, and depending on training and background there are many many horses in the world who are very good at ignoring such terrifying things as "small children who make noise" and "leaf, blowing in the wind", and even "being the first in a line"

And as someone with a whole metric shit-ton of anxiety (now medicated, thankfully), the idea that I have to be the brave one who looks at things rationally and says "no, actually, nothing here eats horses" has always helped me a lot. If I can say that well yeah public speaking is kind of terrifying, but nothing here will eat me except socially, and I can recover from the social horrors. Probably.

Anyway the horse I'm riding now is named Gracie, just like my cat!! And for a very long time she was a brood mare, meaning she lived in the field and had babies and that was most of what she did for her life. She was trained when she was very young, but for some reason her owners decided not to put any more effort into training her, but now she belongs to my coach, so she gets to play with me! We think that whoever trained her taught her that being good meant going fast and that if she is being good that means she should be going fast? Anyway, in the last few months, she has relaxed admirably!! She enjoys the work, and she thinks that I am a Good People, and she usually stands still for me to groom her 💖💕💖🌻💕💖

She gets incredibly sweaty every time we ride together, even though I tell her often that we don't need to run so fast. It's less and less motivated by her own anxiety though, so I'm happy that she's happy 😊

Also, fun fact! Horses cannot vomit! Vomiting is my least favourite bodily function, whether I am doing it or someone else is, so I am extremely happy about that! Yeah yeah being unable to vomit means other health issues I don't care!

Anyway look at my (not mine) beautiful lovely horse who I love with all my heart!!!!

[joegramoe]

Somewhere on a desert highway

[laudnasratking]

canonically i know that imogen only has like 8 strenght. i know this. but my heart sings for ranch hand horsegirl imogen having a bit of muscle. being a bit buff. as a treat