before I even heard of Valdemar btw

[untonuggan]

MOM: did you ever want a pony growing up? was that just me? is that a British thing?
ME: I wanted to have a psychic connection to a horse. we would be BFFs and fight evil together, probably. also once people realized we were soul-bonded, it wouldn't matter if I "owned" the horse because capitalism and concepts of ownership and property would not be able to keep us apart.
MOM: ... ... ...
ME: does that mean yes?

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[redsixwing]

Aw, that's a bummer. I took riding lessons for a short time, and most of it was mechanics (foot goes here? horse gets poked in ribs; use with consideration) but there was plenty of How To Speak Horse in there as well.

They do have a unique smell, and it's comforting.

>> Just not the school of riding them that treats horses like machines?

Yyyyyeah. They aren't, and treating them as replaceable and unimportant is lousy and can be dangerous.

I'm glad you got your wish at least a little bit. :D

[untonuggan]

Definitely. Plus Lovely Woman from Baltimore has SUPER SHY cats (like, her bff has only seen some of them) and I have been totally sucking up to them and I am now at the stage of like, they line up for pets and skritches and one of them was like "omg, more than one human knows how to skritch?" and also we are working up to clipping claws but it not being scary. IT IS THE BESTEST.

maramcreates also gets to see the cats, LWfB thinks we are some kind of cat mages or something I think.

[redsixwing]

So. cute.

Speaking Cat does kind of make you a cat mage. *grin*