#man vs horses

[sarahwatchesthings]

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

Two questions; is your current fixation still Shingeki no Kyojin?

Secondly, if you have time, I want to hear your thoughts about a recurring thought I have. Would you agree that men don't tend to take media made for women seriously? Doesn't matter if it's made by a woman, but media or things in general made for girls. The two main things I think about is the Barbie movie and anything by Jane Austen. A lot of conservative bros I see have a legitimate hate for both of those things and ...Why? I think they're both really important for different reasons and I don't understand the perception of "silliness" around them. I mean, Barbie obviously is silly in a lot of ways but.... It's a Girls Girls movie, like how Braveheart is a Mans Mans movie and also is a bit silly in the way that men are (but it's still one of my, a girls, favourite movies).

Maybe it could be said that girls don't generally understand media made for men either, since a lot of girls hate reading Charles Dickens or Mark Twain. But neither of those author's really made them "for men," it's just that men seem to gravitate towards them -- and at the same time, you don't hear women saying they want to take Mark Twain's jawbone and beat him over the head with it (quote from Ben Shapiro about Jane Austen. He was joking but it still rubbed me the wrong way).

Yes, in the sense that I'm not fixated on anything else, but no, in the sense that I'm avoiding SNK content until I can reread/rewatch before (finally) viewing the finale.

Next, I think men do have a hard time taking women's media seriously, but part of the reason is that media geared toward solely men or solely women isn't generally setting out to be the most serious thing in the first place. I don't know anyone, male or female, who takes chick flicks and action movies seriously, and if we get the sense that a new film leans toward one or the other (even if it doesn't strictly fall into that genre), we reach a conclusion about it in that moment because there's only so much time in the day and money in the pocket we can devote to entertainment.

But then, not taking something seriously is very different from legitimately hating it. I can understand why a man would hate the Barbie movie, especially if he hasn't seen it. Like all feminist media, it's going to be about how all men are oppressors and all women are their victims, right? And that's obviously a despicable message worthy of hatred. And if he's already decided that's what it's going to be about, he's probably not going to change his mind when he watches it, because as I've previously explained, Greta Gerwig failed to send a consistent message, as she has failed to do in all her blockbuster movies. I've described her to my mother as "a conservative trapped in a liberal's body." She just can't reconcile the two belief systems that drive her. (Conservative men aren't the only people who hated it either, I know plenty of conservative women who hated it. And I know conservatives of both sexes who enjoyed it immensely.)

Very rarely do I see a man's film morally disparage women the way that so many women's films do to men, and this probably contributes to more men hating women's films than vice versa.

I think it's true that neither men nor women can fully understand the appeal of media made for the other, but because we are complementary, I do think we owe each other at least an attempt to understand. Which, by the way, is never going to work for you if you've accepted the premise that we are fundamentally the same in spirit and our differences are merely social constructs.

Finally, as concerns Ben Shapiro and Jane Austen, he actually was quoting Mark Twain in that segment, and this is a delightful background of Mark Twain's self-proclaimed--but spurious--hatred of Jane Austen. But for any guys out there who do think Austen is "chick lit," just about every homeschooled boy or homeschooling father I knew loved Jane Austen's work and considered Pride & Prejudice an invaluable tool for the raising of honorable men. Here's an article about why.

[whumpacabra]

What would wolf do if I gave him a big fuzzy blanket ?

From you, a stranger he doesn’t know? He would be suspicious - a comfort like that doesn’t come without a price. He would politely express his gratitude and awkwardly hold it until he knew what you wanted from him (and by extension what you want him to do with the blanket). But if you gave it to Harrison to pass along? Wolf would be wrapped up like a burrito’d kitten, walking around with it over his shoulders, etc. Maximum cozy.

[andy-clutterbuck]

Rick Grimes vs. Andy Lincoln

[stanleyoffseventh-oldblog]

one of two possible things is going to happen when brods comes back from ltir:

1 they're gonna shuffle the lines and put faber with spurge as the top d pair

2 i will become deeply unwell, emotionally

[fortunechaos]

SPOILERS FOR THE NEWEST WOE.BEGONE DON'T READ THIS IF YOU'RE NOT CAUGHT UP OKAY

Okay.

I'm very normal about the fact that Texas Michael has a cowboy Ty with him? The concept of the two of them actually being able to reach some sort of legitimate friendship without the horrifying power imbalances of Ty's role with the Flinchites looming directly over them? How did cowboy Ty even get out? Is it the same Ty that freed Michael in the first place? Did he runaway to come and find him? Did he iterate himself to do it or just up and leave the Flinchites? Is he a different rogue Ty that Michael just like, found?

I hope they watch cowboy movies together and that Michael is teaching him to play an instrument and that Ty whoops everybody's ass at poker.

[chipped-chimera]

Currently got the brainrot (dreaming about writing a Cowgirl/Rancher Karlach AU fic)

[soldier-poet-king]

Not TWO grown ass men leaning out of their car windows to yell and/or flip me off this afternoon, only reinforcing the anxiety fueled belief that I'm a horrible driver and dangerous to everyone and shouldn't be on the road

[boneles-ss]

Hhhhhhhhuuuummmmm Donnie Boy Critical Role and Princess Clara Neverafter.

You agree.

[trappedham]

kjsfdhkjsdfsd going through your blog and seeing your ??? at the loki mpreg post and then GETTING to the actual post was a laugh and a half thank you

💀

[boogiewoogieweeb]

I'm not saying The Terror in general and Joplittle specifically have definitively given me permanent brain rot but I am finding it funny that I'm picking up parallels and similarities with both in a series as far removed from it as Netflix's Blue Eye Samurai

[graphicpolicy]

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[telling-slants]

straight girl im in love w/ just told texted me "Miss seeing you girly." i can't handle this like a normal person and that was a very targeted "girly" ahsjdkala

[druckkugelschreiber]

Okay so with the whole "Man vs horse" thing happening recently, I quickly wanted to weigh in my two cents as an equestrian and fantasy author.

I think it was Brandon Sanderson who said at one point in his classes that in cross country, like a trained cross country runner is faster than a horse going cross country hence horses aren't the fastest way to travel in a medieval fantasy setting.

Based on speed that statement would be correct (if horse wellfare to modern standards is upheld, I'm entirely unsure if based on breakneck speed crosscountry but it would be hard to test that without hurting the horse), based on everything else that is incorrect.

Cross country runners don't carry weight, horses do. So, if you want to have your hero run across the landscape practically buck ass naked and be very fast, you can have that in your story, but as we all recall, our heroes need food and water and probably a bedroll to sleep on and maybe a weapon or two and just general stuff you don't want to run with. Like obviously you can but you won't be very fast.

A much better comparison for fantasy settings in terms of speed would be a soldier with his backpack gear vs a horse. Or you know a backpacker and backpackers don't run anywhere.

I've been the soldier, I've been on pretty long hacks, so I've seen both sides of the equation and if you have heavy backpack gear or heavy combat gear getting carried by a horse will be faster (and quite frankly far more efficient and practical cause you'll still be able to swing your sword at the end).

Just thought I'd mention that because the statement has been irking me for years and "Man vs horse" has just brought it back to my mind.

TL;DR: A cross country runner is faster than an endurance horse, but wouldn't make it in the fantasy world as he doesn't have any gear so that comparison is entirely useless for fantasy writers, thanks Brandon and the people who did that study. Soldiers vs endurance horses makes more sense

(This entirely put out of the equation the whole training your horse to that level and a lot more equestrian detail I won't go into this post)

[ry3breadl0rd]

some titles uncle rick deprived us of

”I Fall To My Death (Again)” for the fall into tartarus

“I Get Mugged by Monsters” that one chapter where leo’s tool belt gets stolen

“Jason Meets his Brother” hercules chapter

“I Obtain A Death Ray” the sphere thing

“Leo Makes a Great First Impression” when he blows up new rome

“I Scare Some Pirates With An Unofficial Sponsorship” that chapter where percy scares off the pirates with diet coke

“A Spider Hates My Mom” annabeth at any point with arachne ngl

“Scrawny Is The New Sizzling Hot” leo+hazel with narcissus

“We Get Slapped to New York” zeus smacking the argo ll to new york

“Nyx Gives Us A Tour” when they convince nyx to not murder them immediately by pretending they’re tourists

“My Evil Great-Grand Mother Wakes Up” self explanatory i hope

“Hazel Orders A Horse From Amazon” hazel meets arion

“I Get Blasted Out Of This World” leo goes to ogygia

“Fleecy Does Us A Solid” when they meet iris

“I Tame A Dragon” leo with argo

“I Vaporize Some Old Ladies” first chapter of son

“I Give My Dad Some Decor Tips” nico and hades conversation

“Piper Talks Her Boyfriend To Life” when piper charm speaks jason back to life

“I Play Roulette With A Blind Man” when percy drinks the gorgons blood

“Piper Sees Dead People (In Her Knife)” i might be remembering wrong but it’s that one where they try to trick piper by showing her how her friends were doing in her knife, like trying to convince her they were all dead

“We Use Adidas To Summon A Goddess” nike chapter

“Mudman, Hazel, and Frank Get Brunch” when they get to alaska

“I Learn The Power Of Positivity” percy and misery

“We Meet A Cool Girl (Literally)” khione chapter

“I’m Leo. You Killed My Mother. It’s My Turn” based on the funny comment:) it’s for when leo blows up gaea

“My Nosebleed Wakes Up My Great-Grandma” when gaea wakes up

“Mr. D Hates Ballet” when he helps percy and jason against the twin giants

“Frank Gets A Blast To The Past” when hazel shares her past with him

“Frank Sets Himself On Fire” with the firewood and freeing thatanos

“I Got A Girlfriend?” jason first chapter

”Why Did It Have To Be Poison?” that chapter with polybotes

“Jason Becomes The Oldest Demigod!” old man jason

“Game Night Goes Too Far” war games in son

“The World Hates Us, Literally” hoh when they’re low key attacked by like everything

“We Traumatize Frank” when percabeth gets caught together

“Lions, and Tigers, and Frank, Oh My!” when frank unlocks his shapeshifting stuff

“I Aquire a Misfortune Cookie” i might be delulu but didn’t nemesis omfg i knew that why did i put nike give leo a fortune cookie to open if he needed help?? but price would not be fun

“The Law is On My Side For Once” percy and terminus vs polybotes

“Being A Dumb Blonde Has Its Perks” annabeth when she drops the knife that one chapter