All the news outlets are talking about how much of a nightmare it was for Annika Schleu that her horse wouldn’t jump, but nothing about how she was filmed repeatedly and violently whipping the horse, or her coach was filmed punching the horse and telling her to whip it harder.
Horses aren’t just fuzzy bikes, they’re living, breathing animals, and they don’t deserve to be abused just because you didn’t get a pretty piece of metal. This needs to be brought to light and it needs to be stopped.
I just want to clarify that I’m not advocating for banning equestrian sports, necessarily - I believe that it’s possible to regulate and/or restructure most of these sports so that they’re safer for both horses and humans.
I think that behaviour like Schleu’s is unacceptable, and it’s shocking to me that nobody seems to be talking about it. Such flagrant abuse of an animal cannot be tolerated, especially not at such a high level with such a wide audience. Schleu and her coach both need to be prosecuted. We cannot allow this to be normalized further.
I love the difference between tuning in to mumbo and grian with the base building this season
Grian: I cannot stop building my base. I told myself I would make it a long project and if I don’t do something it’ll be done in a week. I turned off my computer and some how still ended up working on it. Please someone stop me from making progress
Mumbo: everytime I think about working on my base I become violently ill please why did I do this to myself I haven’t logged on in years because im avoiding terraforming. someone help me please. No I will not think about the back.
There should be more “coming of age” movies set not in teenage years
coming of age stories that feature characters who are primarily 15-19 really fucked with my perception of adulthood and growing up. Yea there’s a lot of stuff that happens in that phase of your life that shape you as a person but rarely does an event change you to the point where you come out of it all Mature and Grown Up. Feeling like I need to be ready to face the world by the time I’m 20 has given me too much anxiety than it’s worth.
When I ask older people when they finally felt like a “real adult” the answer has constantly been when they were 26-30. Their personal “coming of age” story happens about a decade after they do on the movies.
You don’t need feel Grown Up right away. Enjoy the bubbling uncertainty of your 20s
