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zestyzigzagoon · 5 days ago

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So, a lot of the research being put into this fic doesn't actually end up in the final product- it's just background stuff that's good for me to know, like the history of westward expansion and the cultures that modern cowboy pastiche is profiting off of. I like knowing the sociohistorical context of what I'm riffing off of. But in some of the more practical parts of my research, I have found a need to specify 'western riding' or 'horse' or 'cowboy' at the end of my searches. The reason being, if you look up enough things like chaps and whips and crops and rope *without* specifying, the google algorithm starts to get a really specific idea about who you are and what it is that you're using these things for 😭

#my targeted ads are about to get so fascinating.#the crop and whip ones are more out of curiosity than anything. Nobody's going to be using them on horses in the fic #(i mean. or on any other multipurpose uses given the rating)#but I was just wondering if they're actually as cruel to use on a horse as it seems like it would be.#there's varying schools of thought and it seems to boil down to a more intense version of spur discourse-#which is 'there's limited times in which it may be necessary but modern riding culture is moving away from it on the whole'.#but it's also important to take into consideration how things are used in real ranch work and cattle roping #versus dressage and show horsemanship and racing.#and ultimately none of this holds much relevance to the fic itself since I'm not keen to explore the ethical situational intricacies of-#-whips but it is fascinating to read about.#even though i do kind of have s&m by rihanna stuck in my head now.

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