#incredibly based

[graphicnovelist]

I admire Doom as a series for saying “yeah demons might have been an issue for people at the beginning of time but are they really a match for the military industrial complex?”

[oysters-aint-for-me]

my coworkers kid came out as nonbinary … CALLED IT

also zie did it as a CHRISTMAS PRESENT bc zie knew zir parents would love it bc my coworker is such a good mom 😭

[yume-fanfare]

ur post abt irl enstarries is so real i got yoinked for having pins on my bag by a subarup. didnt even know enstarries existed in the wild like that. and that it would be a trickstar fan..^^

HSKFHSKFHDKFJS there are really more enstarries out there than you'd expect, right???

[downthegenderriver]

War thunder fans have done the think again

[denjispinalcordsword]

Why is all the Halloween stuff at Michael’s this year Lesbian Themed

[hadalhalfmoon]

shooting star!!!!

and extra doodles but they’re a lot older

[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.

[saulmariaxxiii]

I had no idea the lead singer was a woman omg I thought it was a dude with a sometimes androgynous voice 😭

[redshoes-blues]

Thinking about when Marx said: “Even an entire society, a nation, or all simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not owners of the earth. They are simply its possessors, its beneficiaries, and have to bequeath it in an improved state to succeeding generations.”

[floralete]

LOOK OUTSIDE 👁️

[nobodysomeday]

Robbie Williams on music piracy 2003 press conference

[mer-se]

Isabella stewart gardner museum

(yesterday was a perfect day. 🖤)

[delphientropy]

really? you promise?? 🥺🥺

its been about 6 months

[just-spacetrash]

the drawtectives have an incredible niche poly dynamic where they only crush on other people as a trio

[valravn-nova]

thinking about how Tim imagined Cass as the future batman...

[tarvek-sturmvoraus]

bats: tim are you going to tell us anything you did while searching for bruce tim: not unless everyone gets real cool about a bunch of stuff really quickly