#unique horse

[ofhoovesandheart]

japanese racehorse blinders 🍀

[pidgydraws]

🐎 the trail that leads me to you 🐎

vis dev for Cardine's western AU (it's like~ Oregon Trail but make it jayvik!) that i was so kindly commissioned to do artwork for. <3 i am very, VERY excited to have a good excuse to draw horses! <3 <3 <3

i've already read the first 40 chapters and have so many parts i want to draw that it'll be hard to pick which to do first! hahaha! if you like cowboy shit, angst, and AUs that make use of the majority of the cast i'd definitely recommend it!!!

(bonus: more cowboy!jayvik art >here< now! and also >here< <3)

[factual-fantasy]

Another old drawing suggestion that inspired me! Thank you! And thank you for the compliment!! :}}

‼️Note: This is an old ask, drawing suggestions are currently closed!‼️

[horse-breed-a-day]

Horse breed of the day: Friesian

Height: 15-17 hh

Common coat colors: Predominantly black in varying shades

Place of origin: Netherlands

[reunitedinterlude]

countdown to phil’s 38th bday - a year in review [15/30]

phil x danandphilbeats

[bixels]

This Twitter MLP human redesign drama is a mess, leave me the fuck out of it.

[fatehbaz]

hi i love your blog and the stuff you've shared has been really invaluable for me writing my dissertation right now! i was wondering if you've ever read anything interesting about police horses, or perhaps horses working for the state more generally? apologies if you've already made a post about this and i've missed it.

Nice. Don't know if your dissertation is specifically about horse histories; if so, then I'd imagine you already know much more than I do. So I don't know how much help I can be.

I've posted about the history of police horses in Australia before, which is just excerpts from Stephen Gapps and Mina Murray, in their "From colonial cavalry to mounted police: a short history of the Australian police horse" (The Conversation, 28 July 2021; "Horse Patrol" aka "Mounted Police" formally established 1825 after Wiradjuri war, used to round-up escaped laborers and attack Aboriginal communities as crucial force in colonial admin in 1830s culminating in Waterloo Creek Massacre.)

I've made some references to US participation in British campaigns of Boer War. (Apparently there was a micro-industry of the New Orleans port shipping 110,000 horses and 81,000 mules on 166 voyages via 65 British steamships for a cost of like hundreds of thousands USD per month for three years to help Britain.)

Similarly, Steve Hewitt and others write about Canadian mounted police and their role in national power in the Great Plains; twentieth-century counter-subversion; monitoring labor strikes and Indigenous/student dissent, etc.

"The Masculine Mountie: The Royal Canadian Mounted Police as a Male Institution, 1914-1939" (Hewitt, Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, 1996)

Riding to the Rescue: The Transformation of the RCMP in Alberta and Saskatchewan, 1914-1939 (Hewitt, 2006)

"Fashioning farmers: ideology, agricultural knowledge and the Manitoba farm movement, 1890-1925" (Hewitt, Journal of Canadian Studies, 1997)

"Canadianizing the West: The North-West Mounted Police as Agents of the National Policy, 1873-1905" (Mcleod, The Prairie West: Historical Readings, edited by Francis and Palmer, 1992)

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Guessing you've already considered this, but a relevant thing I've read might be Breeds of Empire: The 'Invention' of the Horse in Southeast Asia and Southern Africa 1500-1950 (Greg Bankoff and Sandra Swart, 2007), about "the 'invention' of specific breeds of horse in the context of imperial design and colonial trade routes" and "the historiographical and methodological problems with writing a more species or horse-centric history." There was an earlier influential paper about imperial use of horses by Swart, ""The World the Horses Made": A South African Case Study of Writing Animals into Social History" (International Review of Social History 55:2, 2010).

Last year I read Bellweather Histories: Animals, Humans, and US Environments in Crisis (edited by Susan Nance and Jennifer Marks, 2023), and there was an interesting chapter on horses by Marks: "Chicago's 1872 Equine Influenza Epizootic and the Evolution of Urban Transit Technology."

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Have you seen Jagjeet Lally's "Empires and Equines: The Horse in Art and Exchange in South Asia, ca. 1600-1850" (Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 35:1, 2015)? It covers Mughal state power and aristocratic prestige as tied to horses, but also refers to the later utility of horseback mobility in East India Company and British power consolidation.

I used to be in a Central Asia-specific program-type thing and there was a long list of academic writing, most if it not in English, about horses as essential for statecraft in Mongol, Persian, Mughal, Chinese, and Ottoman contexts. So I know that there's a huge amount of writing on the subject, but I did not retain much of it. Jagjeet Lally's bibliography here is helpful. This also brings to mind Alan Mikhail's work The Animal in Ottoman Egypt (2013) and Under Osman's Tree: The Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and Environmental History (2017). Though horses aren't the main focus, they're essentially about "animal labor/capital."

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I think I've seen that you've interacted with my old posts about Sujit Sivasundaram, Rohan Deb Roy, and Jonathan Saha on "interspecies empire"? Saha's most recent stuff includes writing in:

Biocultural Empire: New Histories of Imperial Lifeworlds (2024); Colonial Dimensions of the Global Wildlife Trade (2024); "A Historiography of Great Animal Massacres" (2024); "whiteness, masculinity, and ambivalent British Justice"; imperial use of elephants and "animal agency, undead capital, and imperial science" (2017); Subverting Empire: Deviance and Disorder in the British Colonial World (2015); imperial use of cattle and other livestock in "animals and the politics of colonial sensitibilites" (2015). Sivasundaram covers a lot of that (animality, criminality, imperial imaginaries) but also oceanic thinking.

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Also thinking of:

The Horse in the City: Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century (Clay McShane and Joel A. Tarr, 2011)

And The Herds Shot Round the World: Native Breeds and the British Empire, 1800-1900 (Rebecca JH Woods, 2017). Though its not really about horses (mostly about sheep and cattle for dairy/meat).

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But I know there are little niches:

(1) British frontier policing in Australia ("mounted patrols" in campaigns against Aboriginal peoples and keeping them on rangeland labor sites). (2) British metropolitan and urban settings (police horses in industrializing London, patrolling rural periphery during enclosure law era). (3) The settlement of the Great Plains of the US (especially origins of Rangers, the Fence Wars, and policing West Texas). (4) The Spanish colonization of Mexico and especially the Rio Grande Valley (horses in maintaining state power on the northern/desert frontiers; Spanish/Mexican states and Comanche/Apache mobility in southern Great Plains). (5) Argentina's state-building in the Chaco. (6) And then all of that material about Mughal, Mongol, Ottoman horses.

(Also, most recently, I did that annoying silly satirical retelling of horse-drawn sleighs as progenitor of vehicle and pedestrian laws in industrializing Amsterdam, and it alludes to how horse-drawn carriages were important affordances to wealthy aristocrats which shaped industrial urban space in Europe; I don't know much about it, but I know there's a fair amount of lit about both horses-as-vehicles and mounted police in early nineteenth-century Europe.)

Though I'm not really familiar with most of that. In trying to formulate thoughts about "carceral archipelagoes" and "frontiers," I've previously seen titles about the utility of telegraphs, railyards, and police for US power consolidation. But when horses/cattle get involved, I've been scared/disturbed by just how much of that literature seems to be directly produced by "police department museums," "police science" journals, or former police-superintendents-turned-pseudo-historians in their retirement years who study their own noble profession as a novel curiosity.

But I imagine you know better than me if this is true. So please put me back in my place if I've got the wrong impression!

It's my impression that, more recently, the advent of critical animal studies, multispecies ethnography, and critical geography has meant there's a lot of new stuff to check out.

[downfalldestiny]

In a world full of white horses, dare to be the bold one 🐎 !.

[serpentface]

This family dinner is gonna fucking suck

[ofhoovesandheart]

they are all so beautiful and elegant <3

[sleepyorchidmonster]

If Chen'ya makes an appearance to help Silver and is like "Oh hey there, haven't seen you since Riddle's dream shattered!!" :)

I'll go insane.

[kwillow]

You mentioned Ambroys was born out of an mlp era, now Im wondering is there an mlp version of Ambroys?

Ah, perhaps unclear wording on my part, but Ambroys wasn't born out of an MLP era. I never actually watched MLP.

If you go through his tag in reverse, you can see him develop -- he started life as a comedic one-off D&D PC who I got overly attached to and he then wormed his way into being a favorite character through sheer force of stupidity. (There are still relics of his era as a simple joke, like the fact that his last name is a groan-worthy pun, even now.)

So, like all my characters, his "real" design is that of a human(oid). I only made a furry version of him to play in Chocodile's setting, Amaranthine, which has anthro characters as a rule. I made him a unicorn for ~symbolic reasons~ and not out of any particular affinity for ponies, little or otherwise. I just thought an equine would be the best translation of his themes and humanoid appearance (like his long face and buck teeth). My other ideas for his fursona were a phoenix/peacock, a lion, a heraldic panther or a sighthound, by the way.

...I could make an MLP version of him, though. That might be a fun thing to doodle while I'm sick.

[dykedvonte]

Reading MW takes on Twitter is like reading a summary of the Bible from someone who only watched like a Family Guy family special about it

[tallwife]

david lynch signing the polanski petition will always be a black mark on his legacy, the same way its coloured my views of scorsese, or xavier dolan or alfonso cuarón, and so on and on and on. it feels endless and it speaks to a deep stupidity and a deeper misogyny present in hollywood. if you believe people like natalie portman (who also signed it) the petition was being passed around and people felt obligated or casual about signing what their peers were asking them to. its up to you as an individual to decide if you agree with this version of events. i think its a version of the story that omits some responsibility from the signees and i dont totally agree with it.

an anon coming into my inbox to act morally superior and tell me about the polanski petition, only now when im making posts about how sad it is that david lynch died from a very painful disease, but not sending anything any of the times ive posted about twin peaks or the elephant man or blue velvet, doesnt feel like its coming from a place of good faith. you wait until hes dead to send me an anonymous message about it?

[eachuisge-cc]

I almost regret making a Bruma patch at all because all it does is give everyone and their dog an opening to ask me if I'll put the generic barb/warmblood looking model in skyrim which is the exact opposite of why I even made the mod