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[beentobeetle]

MULTI-COURIER-SHENANIGANS!!! Cue confetti or something like that

COURIER HAVERS FROM LEFT TO RIGHT !

Eli - @lelelego

My,, Courier - Me :)

Leigh - @malwaredykes

Lupe - @chimaerakid

[dizzybizz]

sleepy gill and gill with the bubbled evil cat

[l1zardl1ps]

Soooo first thing’s first - this idea was entirely inspired by misa1’s long-running NBC a fanfic, 100 Women. All credit for the idea of L, S & B drawing wieners on stuff goes to them (it was absolutely their idea originally). Seriously though, their Nightmare Before Christmas fics are fantastic - I’ve been reading their stuff for *years.* To say that I recommend their work is an understatement!

After reading the Paint chapter of 100 Women, I started wondering what it would look like if L, S & B took their wiener vandalism beyond the walls of their fort and maybe targeted Town Hall (or in this case, the Mayor’s hearse). From there, the idea for this super short scribble comic was born and I had to get it out. One of these days I’ll do something a little more polished and in color

[buttercup-barf]

Headspace Kel would definitely bite Pizzahead's face off.

Agree?

"LET BASIL GO, YOU JERK!"

"My, my, aren't'cha a rowdy one!"

"Kel, be careful!"

[ryuki-draws]

Aaand some more (size inaccurate) trains from TFN

[parasolyaa]

I like to think that kaz was always slightly fucked up. like he was a type of a child who would stare uncomfortably right into your soul or fall from a tree and not realise his shoulder is dislocated until an adult starts panicking. or like he would see a cat kill a mouse and next time jordie sees him he sets up a trap for the cat to get revenge. I am a believer that he had an alarmingly strong sense of justice

[officialrailscales]

Terra Bronze/TerraCore Tuesday

Karve-P | FDE

QTR Stop | Terra Bronze

TerraCore 3-Slot G10 RailScales | Honeycomb Texture

TerraCore 2-Slot G10 RailScales | Honeycomb Texture

QDX Sling Mount | Terra Bronze

- RS

[spider-stark]

working on a short kaz brekker piece if anyone needs me 🫡

[ask-lock-shock-and-barrel]

[itsallrandomcontent]

He’s just so Dirtyhands 🥰

[eightiesfan]

Barrel Pong (~1973)

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smoking barrel declared not canon 31 injured 4 killed

[dashiellqvverty]

we NEED to get weirder (hornier) about royjamie

[servantleverslutdrop]

Sidenote, if we're talking about drip: Where is the Barrel Flash? I want Jesper Fahey in neon green only from now on.

Real, the Barrel is supposed to be a vibrant nightmare wonderland and the gangsters are supposed to be gaudy and over the top! Kaz is supposed to stand out because of his attire! Everyone is in black and muddy brown. Jesper has no drip. Fucking nobody has any drip.

[the-lord-of-the-things]

gets a new toy, immediately plays dressup with him yeehaw buckaroo

[insipid-drivel]

Hi, I just saw your big post about horse behavior myths and how to write horses properly and I’m curious if you know more about carriage horses? My story doesn’t really feature horses in any super prominent way but carriages are the main mode of transportation for my characters and I want to make sure that when I do mention the horses, I’m being accurate in my descriptions.

I took riding lessons for a short time when I was younger so I know a little bit about horses (one of the ones I learned on would do the “take a deep breath so you can’t tighten the cinch properly” thing lol), but I don’t really know much about the kind that do heavy pulling jobs aside from the fact that they’re gorgeous and I love them. I’d love to know more :3

Thank you!

I actually really, really wish I had more hands-on carriage horse experience! My favorite breed of horse of all time are called Vanner Horses (they used to have a different name, but it's the racial slur for the Roma people, so I just use the term "Vanner").

Carriage horses are a really interesting subject, because they're actually pretty meta? While specific breeds of horses meant for pulling carriages are very new to the horse world (most formal Western horse breeds are only about as old as the Victorian Era when it comes to formal breeding and genealogical standards), horses have been pulling us from place to place for thousands of years!

Before we ever rode horses, they pulled us on carts and chariots, because that's actually the easier and gentler way for horses to travel with humans. Horses really don't have a lot of muscle and fat around their spinal columns, and so sitting and riding them is comparatively much trickier than when you've got a carriage or chariot that the horse can pull instead. Horses can only handle carrying riders/weights flat on their spines if the passenger or cargo is less than 30% of the horse's body weight. Any more than that, and the weight of carrying a rider or payload on their backs can cause serious spinal injuries that result in a horse's death or early retirement. Pulling allows them to disperse much more weight across much stronger muscle groups that were already built for moving at high speeds on steep or bumpy terrain.

Carriage horses, like Friesians and Vanners, are generally bred for their pulling ability and gentle, steady natures. Vanner Horses, Shire Horses, and Percherons are especially renowned for their trustworthiness around small children, with Vanner Horses actually specifically bred for that behavioral trait.

A quick digression just to gush about Vanner horses: Vanner horses were originally bred by the Roma peoples to pull brightly-colored, elaborately-decorated wagons that commonly served as small houses for Roma families that couldn't settle permanently due to racist and xenophobic cultural policies for the past hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years.

Because these horses were the primary way of moving the wagons, they had to be rock-solid when it came to trusting them and their huge, heavy hooves around little kids and pets. The Roma people bred the Vanner Horse in order to have sturdy, reliable horses that were trustworthy not just with their families, but with their homes themselves. Nowadays, you'll likely see Vanner Horses as carriage horses thanks to their iconic feathery hooves, big bodies and colorful coats (they often have heterochromia and very bright, husky-blue eyes). They're a very popular choice for wedding parties and carriages, since there's lots of hustle and bustle and noise associated with weddings, and Vanner horses tend to handle that kind of activity well when raised to tolerate it. A well-socialized Vanner horse isn't as likely to spook and bite/step on a small child playing around its legs the way an Arabian might in the same situation, for example.

Carriage horses in general, as a subclass of breeds, are also in large part a product of the firefighting industry and one of the reasons we have such a wide variety of breeds today! Like Dalmatians, carriage horses were an essential part of the burgeoning firefighting industry during the housing boom brought about by the Industrial Era. Large cities like Chicago and London especially needed advanced firefighting technology due to their rapid growth and overpopulation.

With firefighters, they had 3 classes of carriage horses based upon the size of the fire and the tools they believed they'd need to get it under control:

Lightweights, which were 1,000lbs or less, and used for transporting firehoses on what were called "hose wagons".

Middleweights, which were at least 1,400lbs, and used to pull steamers. Steamers, in firefighting, were portable steam engines that used steam power to propel water out of a firehose, especially if the fire was high above the ground (such as an upper floor in an apartment building or hotel).

And finally, there's Large. Large-class firehorses were the firetrucks of their time. To qualify as a Large, the horse had to weigh a minimum of 1,700lbs. Large firehorses were needed for towing heavily-loaded carriages full of essential firefighting equipment for the time like fire hooks. Fire hooks were extremely long, heavy, metal hooks that firefighters used to literally pull houses and buildings down in the event of a huge fire like the Great London Fire of 1666 or the Chicago Fire. Tearing down structures to deprive a wildfire of fuel is known as forming a "firebreak", and was essential to saving London itself in 1666 when the Great Fire threatened to swallow the Tower of London. At the time, The Tower was London's primary storage center for gunpowder, and if the fire had reached the Tower and ignited the gunpowder stores inside it, the explosion that would've resulted would've been on the scale with a small-grade nuclear warhead.

Sometimes, Large horses would also be carrying loads of explosives, themselves. As with the Great Fire of London, when a wildfire in a populated city would break out, the only way to both form a firebreak and eliminate enough fuel to stop the fire was with explosives if fire hooks left behind too much debris to do any good in slowing the path of an inferno. A high-impact explosion with something like gunpowder or TNT would produce concussive explosions that don't produce large amounts of flame, but rather concussive shockwaves that obliterate rather than incinerate.

When it comes to controlling carriage horses in general, I've heard from owners I've encountered in the past that a big part of how they can precisely command their horses is through naming practices as well as deportment with reins and crops. As with oxen, if you have a team of two or more horses, having each lead horse's name be distinctly different-sounding can help a lot with turning and controlling the carriage as well as the horses. I've seen oxen and horses instructed to turn by calling the name of the animal assigned to their specific side. So, say you had 2 carriage horses, and named the left horse Jim, and the right horse Ben, when you'd want them to turn left or right, you might call "JimJimJim!" while giving the rein command to go left to help confirm to the horses "Yes, we need to turn Left, which is Jim's side," and "BenBenBen!" to go right.

I don't know if it's an industry standard for paired carriage horses to be trained to respond to specific commands specific to the direction either one is yoked to (yoke: the U shaped neck ring that goes around an ox or horse's neck and shoulders to give them a solid surface to push against as they pull a wagon or carriage), but it's something I've seen specific owners do before.