Tumblr thinks this is pornographic
Dec. 18th, 2018 01:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Fucking fuckity fuck fuck.
Tumblr's infinite wisdom has decreed that one of my posts contains ADULT CONTENT and is inappropriately porn-y for the world to see.
Was it the series of nearly-naked pictures (but not female presenting nipples) of a very tastefully photographed man who has about 8% bodyfat and a definite enthusiasm for working out? No. No, it was not.
I mean, yeah, they got that one, too, but this was not that one. This one was a post about starting horses under saddle.
It has a few gifsets of people getting on horses. (Everyone is fully dressed in all the gifsets. There is no nudity. It is an entirely unsexual post of entirely nonsexy content. Nobody is doing anything related to sex in any of the gifsets.) The post also has two still pictures of me and a horse. Neither one is sexual in any way.
There is also some text. Get ready to clutch your pearls!
Reblogged from another:
There are better ways to start a horse than to just throw on the saddle/rider and let them freak out until they exhaust themselves.
All of these gifs [above, not shown in this repost] are from videos of a horse’s first time being ridden, or first time with a saddle on. See a difference between the two columns?
The concept of being ridden is an extremely foreign one to young/un-”broken” horses. Since horses are prey animals, they tend to respond to unfamiliarity with a flight response, which can be seen by the horses on the right side who have been introduced to being ridden with commonly used “breaking” styles. Just toss the saddle on and let them buck until they submit to the restrictive saddle on their back. Just get on and hold tight while the horse panics until he is too tired to fight, or until he goes into some form of learned helplessness and submits to your will.
If you want your horse to have good experiences and associations with being ridden, then you need to ensure that he is confident and understanding of everything you ask of him. Do months of groundwork beforehand. Introduce the concept of tack slowly until your horse is comfortable. Teach him that being above him is not a scary concept. Introduce him to having weight on his back before getting on. Start riding in small, bite-sized increments. Incorporate positive-reinforcement based methods into your training.
Take things slow, it’s our duty to train our horses without causing them unnecessary stress or fear.
Shit, it’s not even LIKE IT’S HARD. I do this, in my broke-ass life here in Greater Rednecklandia. Wanna see Tin’s SUPER EXCITING FIRST RIDE? Here ya go.
First weight on his back:

That there is a backyard ayrab in front of a doublewide trailer. Mmm-hmmm. And I’m in a fucking tank top and a cheap-ass Troxel. You do not need money to do it right. This can be done by anyone. You don’t need a round pen. You don’t need a ring. (I was using the stump/log as a mounting block, he’s ambled a few steps here but you can still see it between his legs.)
Here’s our first actual ride, about three minutes later, after a couple of more “flop across his back like a corpse” efforts to where he’d stopped trying to walk off during them…

We’re working on “first ride” skills which are “walk on” and “halt” and “turn left” and “turn right” and “back up”. Seriously, that’s all you do. It takes five minutes and you can do it in the wide spot of your driveway, with rusty horse trailers parked in the background. He did not buck or rear or bolt or do anything wrong. It was entirely low stress and took all of five minutes. Good boy, Tinnie!
Seriously, there are people that just slam the saddle on there and wait until the horse is done freaking out? Do they LIKE rope burns? Maybe they have a ring. I don’t. If I tried that crap, horse would probably flail into some piece of dead machinery and kill itself expensively. It’s a lot better to teach them to just stand the hell still.
******
So that's the SUPER DANGEROUS PORNO CONTENT that I am guilty of posting on tumblr. Right there is my porn of DANGER DANGER so dangerous that it must be censored.
Seriously, tumblr, we can't be friends when you pull shit like this on absolutely innocuous content.
Tumblr's infinite wisdom has decreed that one of my posts contains ADULT CONTENT and is inappropriately porn-y for the world to see.
Was it the series of nearly-naked pictures (but not female presenting nipples) of a very tastefully photographed man who has about 8% bodyfat and a definite enthusiasm for working out? No. No, it was not.
I mean, yeah, they got that one, too, but this was not that one. This one was a post about starting horses under saddle.
It has a few gifsets of people getting on horses. (Everyone is fully dressed in all the gifsets. There is no nudity. It is an entirely unsexual post of entirely nonsexy content. Nobody is doing anything related to sex in any of the gifsets.) The post also has two still pictures of me and a horse. Neither one is sexual in any way.
There is also some text. Get ready to clutch your pearls!
Reblogged from another:
There are better ways to start a horse than to just throw on the saddle/rider and let them freak out until they exhaust themselves.
All of these gifs [above, not shown in this repost] are from videos of a horse’s first time being ridden, or first time with a saddle on. See a difference between the two columns?
The concept of being ridden is an extremely foreign one to young/un-”broken” horses. Since horses are prey animals, they tend to respond to unfamiliarity with a flight response, which can be seen by the horses on the right side who have been introduced to being ridden with commonly used “breaking” styles. Just toss the saddle on and let them buck until they submit to the restrictive saddle on their back. Just get on and hold tight while the horse panics until he is too tired to fight, or until he goes into some form of learned helplessness and submits to your will.
If you want your horse to have good experiences and associations with being ridden, then you need to ensure that he is confident and understanding of everything you ask of him. Do months of groundwork beforehand. Introduce the concept of tack slowly until your horse is comfortable. Teach him that being above him is not a scary concept. Introduce him to having weight on his back before getting on. Start riding in small, bite-sized increments. Incorporate positive-reinforcement based methods into your training.
Take things slow, it’s our duty to train our horses without causing them unnecessary stress or fear.
Shit, it’s not even LIKE IT’S HARD. I do this, in my broke-ass life here in Greater Rednecklandia. Wanna see Tin’s SUPER EXCITING FIRST RIDE? Here ya go.
First weight on his back:

That there is a backyard ayrab in front of a doublewide trailer. Mmm-hmmm. And I’m in a fucking tank top and a cheap-ass Troxel. You do not need money to do it right. This can be done by anyone. You don’t need a round pen. You don’t need a ring. (I was using the stump/log as a mounting block, he’s ambled a few steps here but you can still see it between his legs.)
Here’s our first actual ride, about three minutes later, after a couple of more “flop across his back like a corpse” efforts to where he’d stopped trying to walk off during them…

We’re working on “first ride” skills which are “walk on” and “halt” and “turn left” and “turn right” and “back up”. Seriously, that’s all you do. It takes five minutes and you can do it in the wide spot of your driveway, with rusty horse trailers parked in the background. He did not buck or rear or bolt or do anything wrong. It was entirely low stress and took all of five minutes. Good boy, Tinnie!
Seriously, there are people that just slam the saddle on there and wait until the horse is done freaking out? Do they LIKE rope burns? Maybe they have a ring. I don’t. If I tried that crap, horse would probably flail into some piece of dead machinery and kill itself expensively. It’s a lot better to teach them to just stand the hell still.
******
So that's the SUPER DANGEROUS PORNO CONTENT that I am guilty of posting on tumblr. Right there is my porn of DANGER DANGER so dangerous that it must be censored.
Seriously, tumblr, we can't be friends when you pull shit like this on absolutely innocuous content.
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Date: 2018-12-18 07:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-12-19 08:34 pm (UTC).
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Date: 2018-12-19 11:09 pm (UTC)They were probably worried I lived in Eunumclaw. I don't.
In fairness, pre-tumblr, I did google the video of Extremely Inadvisable Activity With A Horse, which my heavens, do NOT google that unless you're really, really sure you want to see some poor bastard getting killed (colon rupture, so damage is internal and not immediately apparent which is why they dropped him off at the ER without a pulse and apparently drove off tires squealing) by being fucked by a full-size bay thoroughbred stallion) and I have also discussed it (See here)-- but for me horses are not so much an object of sexual interest for me as a way to dispose of my disposable income.
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Date: 2018-12-20 11:21 pm (UTC)I'm not into *that*, either--I just expected something more provocative, given them raising a fuss about content.
I've been a horse-crazy kid all my life, but I've never actually had one. Heck, the last time I was on a horse (that I recall) was 1974. My knowledge of the species is basically from books and movies--so I may write accurately as far as terminology goes, but it isn't necessarily that realistic.
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