#stable owner

[timaeuslover001]

Regina "Once Upon A Time" Headcanon (AU)

(what end SHOULD have been)

Regina when all was said and done , her happy ending, she became a stable owner because of her love for horses somewhere near the edge of the kingdom of King Charming Queen Snow and Prince Neal and Princess Emma.

She married Robin and they have a son and daughter together. ❤️

and wears stuff like this:

(the ouat ending made NO sense, can even conceptualize Regina WANTNG to be royalty even after her mother death. she was always happiest with her horses despite being groomed for royalty. Not to mention snow and charming are wonderful leaders and never wanted a "simple life" regina is the one that would want that. and I wish they gave her more color from her evil queen persona, Lana is the more dark colors and rock and roll type, not regina. if the writing went where it was supposed to go , we would hav e seen her in clothe much more softer and with nature/earthy colors. but they jacked up the writing after s3....so only in my dreams I guess. ugh. disney is lame lame.lame.lame. LAME!)

[blueskittlesart]

Wait wait, what the Loz sibling manga?

oh god i want to say it was one of the early NES promo mangas. iirc it was by mishouzaki?? it was legitimately batshit insane. they obviously hadnt figured out like. ANY lore whatsoever at that point and im not entirely sure that mishouzaki ever actually. played the game. or even read the manual. so the triforce functioned as like. a typical 80s manga space-weapon almost and zelda wore like a mech suit at one point and link experienced actual in-universe racism multiple times and at the end of the manga it's revealed that link and zelda are half-siblings because zelda's mother CHEATED ON HER HUSBAND

[not-poignant]

Assumption: You have never ridden a horse.

Oooo, this is a fun one, salkfjas

I have! I've ridden more than one horse, more than once.

(Actual storytime) (This is from the Assumptions meme!)

In late highschool and in the few years after I had a close friend who owned a horse (Billy) and agisted him, and was responsible for him. She basically was allowed to get him when she got her driver's license.

I was the kind of friend (and still kind of am, energy willing) that you could drag around to all your chores and I'd just be there. So I'd be there when she went shopping. I would be there when she went to get horse food. I would be there when she did homework. I would be there when she went to visit her horse and brush him down and feed him etc.

I helped with basic chores and watched from the sidelines and mostly hung out with her dog, Huskee, who was not a husky, but a borderline collie x corgi who barked nonstop at that horse, who she alas, could not herd.

Through this friend I actually learned about Natural Horsemanship, to the point where I actually went to a couple of Pat Parelli seminars (run by Pat) in like 2000/2001. It was the thing that really sparked my interest in animal training, especially humane, fear free animal training (and clicker training specifically, since Pat was teaching marker training at the time, and said friend started using it on their dog, Huskee).

I never rode, for a long time, because I was happy on the sidelines, and also I went there so my friend could ride her horse, not so I could like, steal her horse out from under her lol. I don't think her horse liked me very much anyway (later I'd find out that was pretty much true, it was a zero respect relationship, maybe he knew I was a doormat lmao).

Anyway, said friend had another friend who was extremely horse intense, and she got her own horse (Coda) , that she then never really took the time to ride. Coda was kind of nuts. Billy was the kind of horse who walked so slow you felt like you were going backwards, Coda had one speed: gallop. Coda and Billy got on great.

But Coda was pretty neglected, and so I often spent time with him while my friend did her chores with Billy. I was used to bringing out food, or changing water etc. so I did that for Coda sometimes. And after a while, friend was like 'it would be cool if we could trail ride together, how about you learn on Billy first since he's so slow and sedate.' And friend was like 'I'll ride Coda because I have more experience.' This made sense! She wanted me to stay safe!! But...

Billy was slow, sedate, and did not give a shit about me. This is a horse that stepped on my feet (on purpose), who deliberately angled towards low-hanging branches to scrape me off the saddle (hilarious, but also not really), and made it clear how much he wasn't interested in anyone else riding him in the most passive aggressive way a horse possibly can.

Coda, on the other hand, had a reputation for being wild and unstable. He'd tossed multiple riders more than once, hadn't been trained with Natural Horsemanship (like...kind of? But not really) and was not halter-broke by the time friend-of-friend got him, so just getting him to accept a halter and a saddle at all was huge, and anything beyond that was like 'welp, good luck.'

However, it was obvious trying to do anything with me and Billy was not going to work out. So...Coda it was.

And idk how to explain it, but Coda and I just got along. It was on the other hand terrifying, because his default movement was 'canter' and all he wanted to do, all he wanted to do, was gallop up and down granite hills as quickly as possible and spook at fucking everything. It wasn't his fault, he wasn't taken out much and he had that kind of personality. He once saw a kangaroo in the distance and spun a full 360 degrees, and I ended up half off him, hanging on for dear life, while friend just stared at me and said: 'how did you not fall off, that was insane. You might actually be good at this.'

Well. No, I wasn't, I just had a good grip, lmao.

So we went on extremely stressful trail rides together. Billy thankfully curbed some of Coda's GOTTA GO FAST instincts but only to a point, so I had to be pretty hypervigilant nonstop because that dude bunched his hindquarters what felt like every ten seconds, and I can't really blame him, it's what he loved to do most. He was just a terrible horse to learn to ride on, lmao, even if we did get along.

I haven't ridden since and honestly haven't felt much of an inclination to. I'd be too heavy now anyway. And I'm pretty certain I'd be bad at it. When your first experience is 'placid horse who generally accepts everyone but stares at you in a desultory manner and makes sure you know - while feeding him / brushing him / watering him etc. - that you do not matter in the grand scheme of things' followed by 'I like you! NOW I WILL FLING MYSELF DOWN THIS GRANITE HILL WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE WE ARE ALL SCREAMING IN EXCITEMENT AND NOT FEAR' you think 'actually I don't need to ride the murder ponies, it's fine.'

Anyway, yeah, I have ridden a horse.

[shipping-receiving]

Thinking about how Eunho’s few moments of real vulnerability and honesty with another person – when he allows himself to be anything other than entirely pleasant – have all come in Jiyun’s presence

[fatehbaz]

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[akiramona]

Rolled into Tailtop village to an unexpected encounter

... I also did a quick oc rendition to procrastinate 👉 👈 It's like the drive by meme y'know--- i won't search for it it makes me feel cringe about myself xD

I should give my MC a bit more style one day, sice right now he's in design HELL xD But let's say i shifted some stuff around already >:3

This tome i completly just--- didn't do the background as rendered as last time cause--- ehm... time is running out and I should start running too if I wanna catch up ^^

Have a wonderful day y'all!

[mabelsguidetolife]

anybody else think it’s a little weird how similar professional sports (particularly football, sometimes basketball) can be to indentured servitude or am i nuts?????

[loserelf]

just offering my 2 cents here but I think at the very least taking the dispensary job would be good experience? like even if it's a little lopsided I think it could be a good addition to a resume, regardless of how well the actual job turns out

hi!! im so sorry i didnt reply to this yesterday but thank you, I really appreciate you offering your thoughts and yeah honestly thats kimd of exactly what I was thinking too like...even if it doesnt turn out perfect, id be a) saving money on transport and b) getting some good experience which would help so much for other potential jobs in the same field. Like even if this dispensary doesnt work at least I can say I have experience working in one now which would help sooooo much for getting ither dispensaries to look at me :)

[beauty-grace-outer-space]

Does anyone have any success stories about leaving a stable job in your 30s and finding something better?

[fxckinemo]

ohhhh i want a cat so baddddd I've never gone this long without a cat in my living space. what happened to mrrow?? mrrrroow?

[juliaqueendragon]

Who would sell an 18-year-old a horse? Thomas, what were you thinking? I didn't even have a steady source of income when you sold me Goldy!

[lordkingsmith]

@augment-techs

[flaskuwu]

I have got to interact with people irl because damn I want to go to a convention this September....

[jorvikzelda]

GOD my heart aches every time I see the black Dartmoor

[jorvikgender]

pros of your dad working at a bookstore include an occasional free book when something happens to arrive broken

[littlequeenies]

Lee Starkey and Chrissie Hynde attend the after party following the UK film premiere of 'Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten', at Stable Way Latimer Road on May 9, 2007 in London, England.