#can’t wait to visit!!!

[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.

[breesperez139]

Dc x Dp Prompt #6

“I’m a twin”, Damian said one night. He could feel the narrowed eyes of his family drilling holes on his back in disbelief. Not that he could blame them. Damian had never so much as implied being raised with a companion, much less a sibling.

“I had a brother”. Damian paused to recollect himself. He had not said his brother’s name out loud in over 8 years.

“His name was… Danyal”. Damian hated the way his voice wavered, but he could not help it. Danyal was everything to him, his other half. Their heart beat as one and when one heart stopped beating, the other one died with it. At least until his family put his heart on metaphorical life support without ever realizing.

“Where is he now?” His father asked, voice filled with knowing grief and a hint of betrayal. It had in fact been 6 years since Damian first showed up on his doorstep.

“Up there”. All eyes shifted towards the specific star he was pointing to. “Right before he died, he promised me he’d guide me from the stars. Unfortunately, the stars are not visible in Gotham, so my brother is unable to be of much help unless I leave the city.”

“Your brother is Polaris, the North Star?” Tim questioned warily, most likely in attempts to not offend him. Damian was aware of how stupid it sounded, but Danyal had promised, and his brother never broke his promises.

“Yes. Danyal is with the stars now, just as he always wanted”

[bloodytiara]

one of my favorite pics i took this year ♡

[spoolesofthread]

the heartstrings girls from @bevsi have arrived and they’re perfect

isi for me and ro for my partner ((:

[sunfilledfish]

Beach day!!!!

[abigail]

went to a book swap at a cafe and this note was left in one of the books i picked up ♡ cute

[inbetweencoffees]

I wanna go out and buy new books, sit down in a cafe, walk through parks and just enjoy life but I have things to do

[ladywaterfall]

I for one support my danish neighbours buying California

[banditblvd]

william billiam wisp :) (I have now reached ep 17)

(as of writing this I was just sleeper activated by the use of chicory music in the podcast, 10/10 game, only one i’ve ever 100%ed)

anyways I am Back, and still insane! I drew an entire William reference while listening to PD and then I got to the part where Tide told them they are getting new hero outfits! This artpiece will be a Sisyphian task!

I have been spelling wisp with an h and ash with an e. My brain simply could not cope with word names it had to make them Wacky.

Dakota coming in clutch with the shapeshifting sword??!??!? (i am still a little salty because the sword earring was Such a cool character design thing…)

dodgeboy is such a freak i love him. he is a million years old and het he maintains his youthful vigor. (frankly i think he deserves a good retirement at this point, he had to watch like three different people get cut in half)

I continue to go feral about William. He’s just a regular guy! Just a normal dude! So normal! (lying!)!

Design-wise I think he’d be the tallest of the group, for Maximum Ragdoll Potential (and maximum “oh damn he used to be just a little guy and now he’s so far separated from his past self Wuh Woh”). I gave him the bag for a practical place to store his notes, on top of a little bit more character expression (hoodie and sweatpants are indicative of his character. but. sometimes I feel I am legally obligated to include more than one color in a design). It’d probably be a holdover from when he was younger, a bit singed from lack of control over the wisps, but still durable enough to haul through battle. The pins are a later addition; I think Dakota probably saw the ghost, got excited, and gifted it to William without realizing it was the ghostbusters logo. After that, either William added the other two for cohesion, or Vincent accrued more debt buying pins for the bag.

MY FAVORITE PART OF THE DAY!! COW’S PD THOUGHTS!

THE MUSIC IN PD GOES UNEQUIVOCALLY HARD DUDE

THE BACKGROUND MUSIC THEY PLAY AND THE FREAKING MUSICAL INTROS

Nah bro the sword earring would’ve gone hard, but the 8th wonder of the world is also wicked so I’m not too pressed over it

Bro I need to watch the oneshot I’ve heard wonderful things about dodgeboy, he looks like a fucked up amalgamation of caillou and Clifford the big red dog

Welcome to the club of average normal typical William enjoyers

looks at skittlebug

Honestly thinking about frighteningly lanky wiwi kinda makes sense

Like vertically stretched png type shit

I love his bag so dearly I need to either have it or be it

Picturing him swinging around his bag in a battle like link

Also I’ve decided it’s now canon that Dakota and Vyncent just find/buy shit to put on his bag, that’s adorable

[pokemon1oadvanced]

Me: *Sitting down, having a cup of tea, minding my own business*

My Mind: ‘What if Baby Shark is trending when Speckles hatches?

Me: 😟

My Mind: *Imagining Kenji carry a baby ankylosaurus around while singing Baby Shark 24/7* ‘You’re welcome.’

Me: *Frantically checks what year Baby Shark was popular and what year Chaos Theory Season 3 is set in*

[purplebehittindifferent]

Battle won! You got 66g and crushing guilt!

That’s the end of chapter 2! Who’s ready for chapter 3? ME! ME! But wait- what’s THIS?

Masterpost

Prev (ch:2::8)/ End of chapter 2!

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[duchessofostergotlands]

I'm very much an out of sight, out of mind kind of person so I haven't been that bothered about Kate being gone. It's not personal, I'm just fine not seeing people if I know they're ok. But I am genuinely sad that she isn't there next to Masako. I have wanted them to interact for such a long time.

[alcyneus]

if i ever lose my memory just put on code geass, ouran high school host club, and fullmetal alchemsit: brotherhood. trust i’ll be back to normal soon

[unspuncreature]

finally got myself together and decorated my bedroom walls a bit

obikin print credit to @passerine343 @mandhos @skynobi @bereweillschmidt and ruzovy_art (on twt)

[subtlybrilliant]

I miss my dad.

I miss my aunt.

Today has been so hard.

This weekend has been so hard.

[half-shadowgalra]

Guess who, for some reason, is deciding to do cross country this year!

me!!!!

T^T

I might die but we ball

also my goal is to be able to run to Rumi’s house in under 45 minutes

(they live about 5.6 kilometers away from my house T^T)