me six hours ago: ‘I’ll just finish up this painting real quick before running errands’ me now: ‘okay now time for the highlights on the jewels and embroidery, then another detail pass over all the gold areas…’
Get lead poisoning, botulism, scurvy, and a touch of tuberculosis only to die of boring hypothermia.
with my last forays into historical fiction being Susanna Clarke and Naomi Novik, reading historical fiction that ISN’T a convincing pastiche of period writing is really jarring, I gotta say
finally finished Three Men in a Boat (after taking a break to reread TGE for the fourth time, god help me), and now I’m on The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue and I’m already extremely charmed
some little doodles from last night as I contemplated ear emotions and giving elves horsier ears.
why have quarter horses been bred into such weird muscly horrors. I mean just LOOK at that horse on the left (with non-fucked-up horse on the right for comparison):
who does this BENEFIT? who WANTS their horse to look like a professional wrestler with a steroid habit? who asked for this???
I know this actually! It’s a genetic disorder called HYPP that affects the descendants of a particular stallion named Impressive. Here he is!
Here’s a more breed standard quarter horse:
The HYPP+ quarter horses are prone to lots of muscular weirdness and the AQHA now has lots of resources on how to avoid it or keep it from passing on to foals.
yeah but like…. People still SAW THAT THIS WAS HAPPENING in this stallion’s line then and spent years CONTINUING TO BREED these horses to each other. You don’t get an animal that looks like this in one generation:
I still want to know WHY they made this choice. Someone did that on PURPOSE. Repeatedly.
why have quarter horses been bred into such weird muscly horrors. I mean just LOOK at that horse on the left (with non-fucked-up horse on the right for comparison):
who does this BENEFIT? who WANTS their horse to look like a professional wrestler with a steroid habit? who asked for this???
why have quarter horses been bred into such weird muscly horrors. I mean just LOOK at that horse on the left (with non-fucked-up horse on the right for comparison):
who does this BENEFIT? who WANTS their horse to look like a professional wrestler with a steroid habit? who asked for this???
The Goblin Emperor: junior edition! Baby Maia and Chenelo first (I tried to make it clear that Maia gets his looks from his mother, so her design is essentially a thinner, slightly more feminine Maia), then Idra during the aborted abdication scene and Ino and Mireän being kids (i.e.: about to have a tantrum and about to bounce off the walls, respectively).
A Pretty Taste for Paradox 