#usef

[griffinequestrian]

Here's Mikey from Tuesday, schooling at home. We are officially entered in our first rated USEF/USDF show back in ... many years. There's a lot I can of course nitpick, but for a horse who has only been back in light-to-moderate work since October, I'm happy with what I think we can accomplish this week. Here's hoping for logging Bronze Medal scores, but No. 1 just having a fun and easy going outing. It's been so long since I've worn a show jacket... it's been fun to pull out my stuff and get organized if I'm being honest! Also hooray to the Pivo capturing all of this lol.

[thegreenhorseman]

Looking Forward into One Year Ahead

[dailykafka]

One of the weirdest things that happened to Kafka here is how he was assimilated into femcel bubble.

Repeat after me: Kafka is not #female rage #coquette #female hysteria #whatever it is that tries to define genuine human experiences of an individual as a solely female experiences (and by doing so completely erasing him in the process), thus alienating actual human beings of various backgrounds from each other and preventing true human connection and understanding between them. Kafka is not "for the girlies" he is for whoever feels the heavy burden of life (and isn't that everybody?)

This insistence that deep introspection of the self, feelings of helplessness and despair is somehow universally 'female' not only excludes women who do not relate to these experiences but also those who are not women and do experience them, yet are excluded on the basis of "aestheticized" suffering where one of the main components is that you have to be a woman.

Girls, stop trying to fit Kafka into your voyeuristic 'tortured female' aethetics. Because if the experience of being a woman is what makes it especially unique for you, there are other writers (women writers) who would be a better fit for you (and for your aethetics). But also, know that you aren't the only ones (as women) who feel the despair of this world, do not make this life lonelier than it already is.

[obsceneverse]

gonna start volunteering at the cat shelter by my house again <33

[an-au-blog]

I remembered Shanks and Furniture!Buggy and I got thinking. While Shanks is in the future, he's too high on the fact that F!Buggy not only wants to hear his every thought, but also wants to do things with him, have drinks, pull pranks and cause mischief. He doesn't even notice how every time there's a remotely dangerous situation, he chokes on his breath a little or asks to go do something less risky. If it's F!Buggy taking the risk, it's fine. But if it's Shanks, suddenly it's not funny anymore. Shanks gets angry at that because, why would future!Buggy baby him like that? He was almost in his fourty's, he was far from a child. And Buggy just said that he's seen the most important person in his life die twice. He couldn't bear it if it happened again.

Shanks figured the first one was Roger, the second - Buggy's spouse. And he knew he had no right and that he shouldn't, but he felt jealous of whoever managed to capture his heart like that. Without thinking, Shanks asked if he could kiss him. He had no idea what to make of the reaction that f!Buggy responded with, because he just started crying again, though it looked like he was trying to smile to reassure him.

[itwasmagic]

This is in no way complete (and probably never will be as I'm constantly reading new fics and finding previously loved ones) but I recently made a list of as many of my fav swan queen fics as I could find because I'm terrible for remembering them when anyone asks! (Or, let's be real, when I want to re-read one but I can only remember one specific line).

I set it so anyone with the link can view but since viewers can't edit the filters I've set up some 'filter views' (screenshot under the cut of where to find them) for rating, trope and word count. The ones that live rent free in my brain are in purple (just trust me and read them).

[campbyler]

hi! i just read your post about struggling with the manual car (which is completely reasonable lol)

i happen to be a person who can indeed drive a manual! (my dad is still teaching me so i am no expert but i have driven our car many times and watched my dad drive it since i was wayyy younger)

and you can completely ignore this ask but here's what i have learnt in my time driving!

a manual has three pedals: clutch, break, accelerate, in that order from left to right (where i am from, atleast)

there are six gears, 1 through 5 and reverse.

clutch breaks the engine from the wheelers so you can shift gears and stop the car without damaging the system and the other two are obviously, to stop the car and accelerate the car

to start, you need to turn the key while PRESSING CLUTCH and NEUTRAL GEAR so the car doesn't run off lmao

then you shift the gear to 1 and VERY SLOWLY release the clutch. if you do it too fast, the engine will turn off and you gotta start over (i struggled with this a lot lol)

the car will start out at a very slow speed and you can try driving and stopping the car

to stop, start pressing the clutch and SLOWLY pressing on the breaks. make sure that by the time the car has stopped, the clutch is floored. you can also floor the clutch then slowly apply breaks

when you have the hang of it, you can try gearing up and down

to gear up, maintain a speed of (gear number + 1) times 10 kmh. so to gear up from first to second you need a speed of 20 kmh

to shift gear, floor the clutch and use the stick to change gear and IMMEDIATELY release clutch, no need to release slowly here like you had to while starting up. same to gear down

and voíla! you now know how to, in theory, drive a manual! tada!

also, for the fic, just keep in mind that the speed of the car when someone else is driving and when you are driving is COMPLETELY different

my dad could easily drive in 4th gear where he takes me to train and i would feel nothing, but for me, 2nd gear is still pretty fast when i'm driving!

these are the basics of driving but the driving STYLE can vary vastly.

hope this helps ily!!

anon this was genuinely so helpful i am kissing you on the mouth

[isthehorsevideocute]

Is anyone taking about the fact that a US team horse was likely essentially poisoned by the USEF and they are trying to cover it up or........

[havenesc]

sometimes i think about how i could be a horse trainer rn instead of (insert my current job, which i genuinely do love regardless) if i didn’t spend so much money on college and i REALLY DO get so mad i could spit

[thegreenhorseman]

Compassion

Horse sports are always under the scrutiny of animal welfare groups and the non-horse public. With today’s world we are more connected than ever before and that means cameras are everywhere. When we work with horses we must always be putting the horse first. We must always consider their welfare first and foremost. Obviously, we love horses so why would anyone ever do otherwise? I know I’m…

[potentiallyahuman]

been to cern today but also just got down 2 bottles of wine so I'll talk about it tomorrow maybe

[gilderoylockhart]

?? I’m gonna kms

[aceyanaheim]

@imagitory @entamewitchlulu @bonpuns @kintatsujo

Update. She has decides She's aa lapdog

[d3athbyst3re0]

the pain of trying to complete a character ref sheet that i started last year for artfight except my style’s changed and i have no clue what brushes i used last year but i need to finish it and there’s no way i’m restarting when it’s already almost finished

[usefandwords]

(Sylvia Plath, Mad Girl's Love Song / BoJack Horseman / Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory / Blegh, His Hands / E.M. Forster, Maurice / Maurice (1987) / Alice Oseman, Solitaire )

[its-usef]

ياخي الوورك فروم اوتيل ده طلع العن من الوورك فروم سايت

الله يسامحه مديري اللي كان بيقولي انا عاوزك تشتغل تحت ضغط ١٠٠ بار