#but just wow

[maudie-does-art]

Day 3 of Neighvember, the Marwari horse! I only knew about their ears, but reading about them they are a breed indigenous to India, known for the curved shape of their ears. But they used to be cavalry horses, known for their endurance and bravery! Ridden by nobility, and said to have keen hearing and amazing sense of direction so they were able to take back their injured/lost riders back to safety.

They almost went extinct due to british colonial rule. British settlers preferred thoroughbreds and polo ponies and ruined the reputation of the Marwari, mocking their ears as a "mark of a native horse", and their bloodlines eroded with poor breeding practices. Many were eventually sold off as pack animals or killed. Maharaja Umaid Singhji came to their rescue in the first half of the 20th century and saved the Marwari and his work was carried on by his grandson.

In 1995, a woman named Francesca Kelly founded a group called Marwari Bloodlines, and in 1999 she and Raghuvendra Singh Dundlod, a descendant of Indian nobility, founded the Indigenous Horse Society of India which works with the government, breeders, and the public to promote and conserve the breed.

[hitmeupaep]

his eyes are so blue wow

[paulodybaeeela]

JOAO FELIX LEAVING CHELSEA!!!

[tenjikyu]

i finished the entire tokyo revengers manga in a day (chapters 126 - the end) and all i can say is that i am a changed man

(this is gonna slow the process of the ragbros series IM SO SORRY IT SHOULD BE OUT SOMETIME NEXT WEEK)

[multifandom-rambler]

there is

thereq

There’s a skibeedee toilet

there’s a fandom??????

like with really talented artists and writers and i

[brassandblue]

Pretty sure I need someone to un-c-urse my apartment, judging by the way my day has started. I know winter is a time of reflection but I’m sick of looking in the mirror and I’m ready to do something about it.

The good news is I am doing something about it! I will persist, like always. ❤️ Nothing soothes “can’t clock in because the punchcard won’t let me log in so like hell am I logging into the phones” anxiety like a good shanty playlist.

Hello new followers! I’m American, Central Standard Time, I work from home for my day job. Feel free to message me, I’ll just be sporadic during my workday.

[lovehelpmewrite]

me quietly sitting behind my blog notifs reading every tag and checking every reblog even if it doesnt say anything bc it makes my heart swell

i sure hope my fic is received well :)

[supertaliart]

A continuation of my previous Skywalker Twins comic - feat Yoda part 3

[aphel1on]

i have such a love for characters who descend into madness or villainy out of deep, deep empathy. characters who fundamentally cannot cope with the cruel realities they find themselves in and blow up about it in spectacular fashion. fallen angel type characters with tears of outrage in their eyes. characters who break before they bend, and break so badly they splatter blood all over their noble ideals. every variation on it gets me so good

[nicktoonsunite]

2 DECADES

also alt version for no reason whatsoever

[theoldkyokodied]

Really quick doodles of a few scenes from the stream yesterday. Including combat flirting taunting, gale’s magnificently distracting shoes and.. whatever you wanna call gale agreeing to give 15 gold to astarion 😐😑😐😑😐 (that’s me blinking)

[roach-works]

pokemon theory i just thought of: new pokemon appear in the pokemon universe when they're designed in this one. they're created ex nilho but they have retroactive realness; they weren't here yesterday, but today they've always existed.

pokemon researchers have had to suss this out on their own over decades, and it's a really unpopular theory, made worse by the fact that no one can come up with a better one. from their perspective pokemon generate spontaneously but in both chronological directions, and the similarities of many pokemon seem to be detived from a conscious and creative understanding of the world--their world, though? what other world could there be?. there are ice cream pokemon and pokeball pokemon and sword pokemon and trash bag pokemon.

there are so many pokemon with both wings and a beak. is this like swords? is there an ur-flying type that this class evokes? there are so many canine pokemon. but what is a canine? is there such a thing? there's only one set of sword pokemon, right. one tea-set line. is *feline* a coherent category? would the ur-feline have two legs or four? why do so many pokemon have humanlike bodyplans-- but then again, why so few?

pichu has always been the prior form of pikachu. why didn't it get counted in order? why do we call it that instead of saying pikachu is the middle evolution of the pichu line? why can so many trainers remember finding this out well into their journeys? why didn't ash start with one?

this is why pokemon researchers do a lot of labwork, drink heavily, and use ten year olds for field research. you can't have an existential crisis if you don't even know what time is yet.

[akaisenhatake]

last drink.

[alex51324]

So, the NDA signed by producers of The Apprentice just expired, and one of them has published a tell-all article. Most of the article is about how they used standard reality-TV tricks to portray Trump as being wealthy and intelligent, when in reality he was, and is, a deeply indebted buffoon.

The money shot, however, comes when Trump and the producers are preparing for climax of the final episode, when the winner will be decided.

Per the FCC's rules for game shows, producers could not be involved in deciding who would be fired each week, or who would ultimately win: it had to be Trump's decision alone, like contestants and viewers were told it was. The producers could, and did, give him a presentation about the strengths and weaknesses of the contestants each time he had to make a decision. These were recorded, in case questions ever arose about whether the producers had crossed the line.

So, for the final episode, there were two contestants remaining. Both were men, one white, the other Black. They'd both done well in the final challenge of the competition. As the producers were summarizing the points for an against each candidate, this happened:

“Yeah,” he says to no one in particular, “but, I mean, would America buy a n— winning?” Kepcher’s pale skin goes bright red. I turn my gaze toward Trump. He continues to wince. He is serious, and he is adamant about not hiring Jackson.

In the finished program, Trump chose the white contestant as the winner.

(Four years later, Trump would propagate the baseless conspiracy theory that Barack Obama was not a native-born US citizen and therefore had not legitimately won the presidency.)

The article also describes how women working on the production faced discrimination based on whether or not Trump wanted to look at them while they did their jobs:

While leering at a female camera assistant or assessing the physical attributes of a female contestant for whoever is listening, he orders a female camera operator off an elevator on which she is about to film him. “She’s too heavy,” I hear him say. Another female camera operator, who happens to have blond hair and blue eyes, draws from Trump comparisons to his own Ivanka Trump. “There’s a beautiful woman behind that camera,” he says toward a line of 10 different operators set up in the foyer of Trump Tower one day. “That’s all I want to look at.”

And there's a third anecdote where he pressures a woman producer to break the FCC rules, while being casually misogynistic toward a contestant:

Trump corners a female producer and asks her whom he should fire. She demurs, saying something about how one of the contestants blamed another for their team losing. Trump then raises his hands, cupping them to his chest: “You mean the one with the …?” He doesn’t know the contestant’s name. Trump eventually fires her.

This information is pretty unlikely to persuade anyone who wasn't already persuaded by any of the other things Trump has done and said, which would for anyone else be a career-defining scandal. But it is a useful reminder of who we're dealing with.

(Link is to Slate, an x-number-of-free-articles-a-month site, but the incognito window trick works.)

[lowpolyanimals]

KITR from ULTRAKILL

[triaelf9]

I'm sure some people online could spend their time better