#equitability

[chronicsymptomsyndrome]

“alt text for more info” “turn on cations for more info” no actually this is not where more info goes. These have a very distinct purpose. There are plenty of other places for more info. If you’re going to make your post inaccessible, the least you could do is not use accessibility tools at your own leisure for whatever purpose you see fit.

[thepeopleinpower]

Stone me to death if I’m wrong I guess but I really feel like any privilege comes with the responsibility to distribute that privilege downward any way you can and not hoard it exclusively for your own benefit. but idk who am I to say

[static-mcgee]

Gonna use this as an opportunity to tell y’all to go easy on yourselves.

You don’t have to find the perfect, most equitable product in the supermarket when you just want to buy some fricken Jif peanut butter or something. You are only one person, and when there’s not some recognized and followed boycott going on, you can buy yourself what you want.

In the grand scheme of things, it won’t make a difference. You buying or refusing to buy one by your lonesome won’t make or break the world. You can rest assured on that knowledge. And if someone makes a fuss about it? I’m sure there’s something they could focus more on with their moral grandstanding.

If we start boycotting the thing? Yeah, maybe avoid purchasing it for a while. It’ll help.

But while it’s not?

Be kind to yourselves. Buy the effing Jif peanut butter

Please stop seeing politics as an identity and start seeing it as a collective means for change

[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.

[whywishesarehorses]

This is Gilberto Filipe, who dominated the World Association for Working Equitation Qualifier in Segovia, Spain, in March 2024. I think this is his Lusitano stallion Iranio.

Video from magda_konno on Instagram! Link in the comments.

[blightbright]

i'm sure i'm late to seeing this but CAN WE TALK ABOUT Matt Rhodes' concept art of THIS DREAD WOLF CARVING

this carving representing GIFTS TO SOLAS FROM FREED SLAVES

[thepeopleinpower]

I’m so glad this is being said because it’s vitally important for so many many reasons. People thinking its okay to be neutral and cover things up and not talk about them is how a lot of atrocities have been permitted to occur in the first place.

Its absolutely imperative we break that cycle and make generational changes.

It’s absolutely imperative that sweeping things under the rug becomes socially frowned upon.

It’s absolutely imperative that we stop lying to kids all the time

Its absolutely imperative that we stop teaching kids by example that its okay to cover things up and lie all the time.

Because a lie of omission is a lie and teaching kids otherwise is so damaging not only to society, as we have seen for centuries, but also to the kids themselves. Because if you teach a kid “we don’t talk about unpleasant things” they will follow that into adulthood where it will absolutely destroy them.

In conclusion we all have a responsibility as a global citizens to do what’s right, and as educated adults and parents to do what’s best for our children, and these responsibilities go hand in hand.

[uzumaki-rebellion]

Judging by the way the press tour is going, it looks like you’re right. They’re being intentional about who they put at the forefront of the promo.

The moment they started putting so many different promo posters out let me know they were about to start centering Hailee in varying markets. The thinking is probably to appeal to a large white audience based on her connection to the Spiderverse franchise and just white people being centered anyway.

The promo appearance placement in my opinion should always have Michael in the middle and both Wunmi and Hailee flanking him since they each play a twin's love interest. As they travel to other countries I expect to see more of this white woman centering occurring. Wunmi Mosaku will be shuffled to the side away from Michael, and Hailee pushed front and center. They already did a Hot Ones segment with Michael and Hailee only, so the writing is on the wall.

Hailee is mainly centered in group photos, panel seating arrangements, and on pop culture media segments with Michael. Meanwhile, Wunmi is looking like the help shuttled to the side with barely any public photos of her with Michael standing or seated next to her. He's always right next to Hailee. You mean to tell me a fictional white vampire is more important than a Black Hoodoo practitioner based on real Black American culture (that Ryan had a consultant for to make sure of the accuracy) in getting equal face time with the Black male star? Tuh! No ma'am.

When shit like that is very obvious, it doesn't bode well with me. The thin white woman should not be over-hyped and overshadowing the thick sista with the acting chops.

[box953]

It doesn’t matter what you have to give up, who you have to hurt, how far you have to go. (Wolf 359 ep38: Happy Endings.)

[sunlight-shunlight]

also this is not meant as a slight to anyone who enjoyed the vg solavellan content, but. ouuugh. to me it was. not enjoyable lmao.

like ok. lavellan never gets even an option to be openly pissed off? bitter? or even just... a bit stoic, and not willing to yap about a really painful, personal issue to a near-stranger? she HAS to be sweet and mild and "uwu but i still love himmm 🥺" about it? not even a crumb of being able to express negative feelings?

and then just the concept of "yay! lavellan is now fully fluent in elvhen, speaks in the same cadence as solas, and is totally fine with ditching thedas and her entire life, to go eternally sit with him in the fade jail!! :)" is just. so dull. it deprotagonizes her imo, and if lavellan is a playable, customizable character, it's really grating for her to have to be funneled into such a specific characterization. and frankly speaking, combined with how flat and useless every other female character in the game is... i do just hate it haha. it is very Sexy Lamp to me.

personally this is just my bias towards heist missions, but can you imagine how fun and emotionally affecting it would be for EITHER a romanced or friendly pc if it's like:

solas can be peacefully convinced of a [better plan than what he initially had to violently drop the veil] after the pc puts effort into learning about the blight/fade/elves/titans, and formulates something less damaging.

and then solas says something like "thank you so much for stopping me. i'm glad to be wrong about this. however, i was not kidding about the dinan'shiral thing. i DO still have to lock myself into the black city to seal it, and inside i will get blighted and die. please don't be sad about this, it's truly been an honour, dareth shiral, etc" in a very nice and sweet speech, and then goes in there resigned to sacrifice himself and die alone.

but then, if you fulfilled some other prior requirements, the pc has the option to go "hey, fuck this actually? this is my bestie/lover and i don't agree with this?" and do a last-minute, extremely convoluted fade jailbreak to Rescue Solas from his self-imposed martyrdom mission.

which is actually!! extremely sweet!! like it goes full circle - solas started off on his whole arc bc he wanted to break people out of captivity. his flaw is that he's prideful and doesn't trust others, underestimates the competence of mortals, and unilaterally makes these huge decisions on their behalf. one of the very first flirt lines is offering to protect him. and throughout the entirety of dai, on high approval or romance, the main theme is that he remarks on being surprised by the inquisitor.

and perhaps the most surprising possible thing they could do, is disagree with his Unilaterally Decided Plan, then successfully go extremely out of their way and take on huge dangers to rescue him, purely out of affection rather than any strategic benefit. opposite of mythal, one might say! rather than locking him into something he didn't want to do bc they needed his expertise, they remove him from a fate he's miserably resigned to, just bc they like having him around as a person.

[chronicsymptomsyndrome]

Some people will get soooo offended if you say they are privileged ???what’s the deal with that

privileged=undeserving? it’s morally ambiguous?? privilege=malice??? evil intent?? no!

[horse-breed-a-day]

Horse breed of the day: Petiso Argentino

Height: 10-13 hh

Common coat colors: Chesnut, bay, gray and buckskin

Place of origin: Argentina

[blueiight]

“what can the damned really say to the damned?” is what this episode asks. and well… “nothing.” is what the show answers us with.

we are introduced to louis and claudia as ultimate outcasts to the mortals around them and vampiredom: louis attempts to maintain the illusions of humanity in similar structures once more, casting grace as his lost wife and claudia as his daughter, as claudia seeks to find other vampires. armand, clearly pissed about the interview as is, decides to draw upon 150 years of prior work experience as a playwright toward the end of this episode, which is quite frankly, a bit much considering how daniel’s already scared shitless. and theres a terrible romantic specter in europe following louis thats named lestat. its a lot going on here, and im bound to not cover everything. i do want to cover dreamstat, and me and you(5x) but i will wait for the season to progress to do that^_^

‘He asked me if we could go home. Home? Can there be a more offensive question? Run back to New Orleans. Pry up his bones, why don’t you? Louis de Pointe du Lac, dead weight.’

louis and claudia’s tension in this particular episode revolve around the killing — or the betrayal that prevented the killing — of lestat. et tu, louis? stowaways on ships, trains, and wagons and a totally alien environment where even the blood is hostile to them, is it any wonder louis dreams of lestat? is it any wonder, having access to louis’s mind, in pursuit of some understanding of vampires beyond the facismile of the nuclear structure, that claudia continues to feel betrayed? i always think to myself, if claudia had qualities that made the average fan more sympathetic to her, would they understand how she was betrayed by louis specifically that night? would they be able to sympathize with claudia’s incredible perserverance despite, and because of, everything thats happened to her? and how that betrayal is the underlying tragedy and romance alike of the narrative that made 1940 mardi gras’s aftermath so haunting that louis in dubai did not remember it or was made not to until the other night?

following that in the flashbacks is when dreamstat first appears, clearly an extension of louis’s own mind at this own point, and he asks louis:

Four years of grim wayfaring, and still no sight of the benevolent vampire. So how does denial manifest itself tonight? … Was she worth it?

its so telling that lestat is the image louis calls upon to embody his most bitter feelings toward claudia in this sequence. dreamstat deserves his own breakdown, especially in relation to louis& claudia’s conversation when she first finds the revenant, as well as the wider events in dubai…

speaking of revenants, morgan in the show is a proto-daniel of sorts an abandoned journalist whos interest in photography exposes the illusion of grace the wife and claudia the impossible daughter, and tries to understand louis through the perspective of the mortal hes been given — did he go AWOL, or is he a black bolshevik? louis when questioned absconds, and closes up what little of himself he’s sold to morgan. its a smart way to include him in the narrative, as morgan is witness to emilia’s beheading after she was attacked by said revenant… and louis turns his head, truly embodying the detachment of the vampire in this moment. human affairs, their problem. this is a really good example of whats meant by ‘human affairs’ in the show, by the way. this episode features claudia & louis facing racism from military to children, and thats not framed as a ‘human affair’, but as one of many haunting aspects of their immortal existences.

claudia, in the pursuit for vampires, continues the metaphor of adoption in how she tries to find some sort of companionship and her current understanding of romania as this ancestral home to the vampire. whats also noticeable here is how claudia trying to make sense of centuries of legends is a striking parallel to how louis in the present day attempts to make sense of whats ‘true’ and ‘untrue’ from her diaries. claudia’s private accounts in the present that she never intended to be so deeply analyzed as anything other than her internal narrative in the moments she wrote them has become, to louis, a similar sort of legend thats necessary to decode for his own sense of self.

She writes here, ‘I do not dream.’ I can confirm that. At least, that’s what she said to me once when I was talking about one of my dreams which were erratic and often in those years. Of course, she might’ve just said that to shut me up, but yet… she writes it here so… let’s believe it. She continues. ‘We traveled light in our ancestral home. We slept in the earth, took circuitous routes around the mad army goose-stepping its way toward mother Russia…’

I woke that night to the sound of chaos erupting nearby. Claudia was, uh.. . she was dreaming. Her head twitching like you would. […] No, I can feel her. I can feel her next to me. She’s having a nightmare. What’s worse than a nightmare? If your soul’s projecting out its fears, at least it’s up and running. But the absence of anything? The void, the nothing, pieces… coming back. Hours, nights, objects surfacing in water… It was just something she’d wrote. But it wasn’t true. She could dream.

dubai louis’s recollection of claudia and the existential dread of eternally being damned, the terror of lacking a soul, a rather catholic fear but still having a sequence of memories that cycle back into an immortal brain, replay in this inversed sleep cycle, can be malleable, forgotten, poke a hole in louis’s attempt to utilize claudia’s diaries as but an extension of his own narrative, and offers a glimpse at what is truly at stake in this second interview.

[maximuslucy]

i don’t have like.. anything else to say about yjs now that the season is over with renewal pending other than enjoying the evil women show doesn’t mean that we can’t express empathy/sympathy for the characters who are negatively impacted by the narrative. that’s not synonymous with condemning the narrative itself. can’t believe it has to be said that media can be consumed and interpreted in more than one way in 2025 but ok.

[moonshynecybin]

i will miss gresini constantly calling marc the goat. i have afeeling that won't be the case with corse

calling him the goat while having a factory deal with vr46 would be objectively funny but yeah no they’re gonna be like this is marc. he’s an eight time world champion we found in the woods somewhere. we pay him in sticks

[whywishesarehorses]

Kenzi Dysli at the Bergisch Classics