the intrinsic sexiness of bog creatures

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Re: ITT: NAME A THING YOU DON'T GET AND SOMEONE WILL EXPLAIN THE THING

[(Anonymous)]

Speaking as an ex-horse girl, you are spot on in a lot of that, and I'll give my own personal perspective on it all. I started riding, as many horse girls do, as a young child. I was probably around 5, so way before I even got into all the horse girl literature like The Saddle Club and The Black Stallion series. At that age, I was fascinated with all sorts of animals big and small. Being socially awkward, shy, and later on in life finding out I had some neurodivergency, I was much more comfortable around the company of any kind of animal than my own peers. Hearing there was this great big animal I could actually ride all on my own sounded amazing, especially after I rode a pony at one of my early birthday parties. I also (a little stupidly but that's kids for you) had no fear of even animals I should have like Rottweilers or horses that weighed thousands of pounds and could have crushed me in an instant.

My parents encouraged this because you do pick up a lot of good skills when you own or even just ride a horse. There is a LOT of upkeep involved with horses like the grooming, putting on the tack, and mucking out the stalls. The riding is just a small percentage of everything else, so responsibility is a skill picked up very fast. And you do indeed bond very fast with your steed and learn a great deal of empathy for what goes on in the mind of an animal. Horses, despite their size, are really like big babies once you get to know them. You really are in charge of everything to do with them, encouraging them to do things like move past their fears of a sheet flapping in the wind, their reluctance to step into a mud puddle, or just motivating them to move up from a trot to a canter.

And although it is an expensive hobby, you CAN find ways around that if you really want to do it. My dad impulsively bought me and his other two daughters a horse for the rock-bottom price $500 even though she was a full-blooded Arabian with papers and a lineage you could trace. She was old and the owners had enough after she threw them too many times. As it turns out, they only belatedly realized they were using the wrong kind of bit with her, and it was cutting up her mouth, which is why she was tossing them. Despite her age, she had a wonderfully good temperament, and it really was the classic girl-horse bonding scenario with us. The horse in the stall next to her had owners that literally showed up once a month just to check on him, so he was often bad-tempered and frustrated being stuck in a tiny box, so we offered to exercise him. They agreed and that's how we essentially ended up with a second horse for free.

Also once a horse girl, always a horse girl. My older sister had too many drinks at a wine tasting being held at a stable a year or two ago and went off to happily go make friends with the horses. My brother-in-law was absolutely terrified when he realized how big a horse is standing next to a human being and refused to come any closer despite all her encouraging, only then realizing just what kind of a horse girl his wife had previously been as she happily interacted with the big baby horses.

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[(Anonymous)]

funnily enough, while I was never a horse girl (I was scared of a lot of animals as a child), the pony that very nearly won me over did so by being less "big baby" and more "shitty little toddler". he delighted in trying to scrape me off against walls and stopping dead mid-canter to see if he could throw me over his head. it probably says a lot about me that i was like "ah, you're a little shit, I respect that. we should be friends."

(he didn't dislike me, to be clear. he came running when he saw me, and he never actually tried to hurt me, and according to the woman who ran the stable I was actually one of his favourites. he just liked messing with people. and it's weird in hindsight to think that the animal that kept trying to throw me into puddles was disproportionately responsible for me being less scared of animals - it reframed animals as things with minds and intentions rather than terrifying automata with big teeth, I think. moved me into my adult state of "i might still be a bit uneasy about animals or even dislike being around them, but that's a me problem and i respect that they're just doing their own thing".)

no1curr but man i haven't thought this much about my experiences with horses in A Minute. now i miss that pony. who's probably dead because it was over 20 years ago. :(