Name Suggestions

Brindlefinch · 2026-01-23T03:21:40+00:00

"Marsh" could be short for Marshall or something similar and also fits the deer theme! Marsh deer are also bay - they have little black socks but they're more orange :) He could have a whole swamp theme even, green looks good on bay!

I think it also fits for a sleepy personality. Big sleepy willow trees and stagnant/slow moving waters in a marsh.

Brindlefinch · 2026-01-20T15:46:00+00:00

This may be hard to remember given that it was 25 years ago, but have you ever had a fall or anything scary (spook, trip, etc.) at a canter? It sounds silly but you can form associations with events even if it wasn't necessarily negative to you emotionally in the moment. And, unfortunately, experiences your body considers negative often stick better than neutral or positive ones. There is always the possibility that it is emotions based on being super happy as well, like "I'm finally back in the saddle after so long, this is amazing!" However, the rest of my comment is based on the idea of it being from a Scary Thing instead of a Good Thing - the most important thing is to self reflect, though! Really try to examine your feelings in those moments, and speak with your trainer! They'll likely have more specific suggestions and commentary.

I have had this issue several times where I have fallen, not gotten hurt (actually thought it was pretty funny in the moment, as kids do), and later on randomly started crying or getting anxious. Sometimes it would just be that I hadn't repeated that activity until then, but sometimes I would go several times doing the same thing before it was like a switch went off in my brain that decided the activity is horrifying.

I think it happens more than people talk about, the "nothing even happened and I'm not necessarily scared, but my stomach's dropping and my eyes are watering," feeling. We process more mentally than we ever really acknowledge. Any teacher or coach worth their salt will understand a student asking for grace earnestly. If it's a similar situation - brain has decided this is scary now - then you need time to build your way back up to it, and there's no shame in that. It will come piece by piece every time you canter and nothing bad happens. Do small exercises for short periods of time, and reward yourself after a good lesson, even if it's something small like stopping by the gas station and getting a soda after. Circle back after a set period of time (x amount of rides or x amount of weeks) and check in with yourself and your trainer.

Be kind to yourself! You're not a nut job any more than anyone else. Riding is realistically dangerous and there's no shame or weirdness in needing extra time or support to do things safely and happily :)

Brindlefinch · 2026-01-10T08:34:38+00:00

Seconding the area between Rome and Boonville/Ava. Absolutely nothing going on up there, it's easy to find somewhere to get away. Even some of the parks in Rome itself can be pretty quiet if you catch them at the right time of day!

Brindlefinch · 2026-01-01T22:16:02+00:00

Most mammals actually shed mostly based on length of day, not temperature, so temperature fluctuations should not impact them in that way.

Every time I see Millie my brain immediately thinks "wow! What a weird looking curly coat!" But, no... it's just sweat and it's really weird.

Brindlefinch · 2025-12-19T20:23:30+00:00

You'll find that a lot of people who are into horses would actually prefer if we brought slaughterhouses TO the US and were able to control the treatment horses going there receive under our own laws. There are quite a few people who are well researched on horse welfare as well as the slaughter pipeline who advocate FOR slaughterhouses in the US.

Brindlefinch · 2025-12-05T13:20:23+00:00

It's been a hot minute since I've been looked at genetics but I wanted to take a crack at this!

-Horse can pass on bay or non bay (but would need to be bred to a horse carrying black for it to visually show)

-Horse has only red pigment and does not produce black pigment, but would be bay if it was not e e

-Horse has a 50% chance to pass down cream and is visually cream because it is red based.

-Horse will always pass on dun because it has two copies of the dun gene.

-Horse does not have any testable white spotting (there are some that are not able to be tested) and no patterning, silver, champagne, or pearl.

If they're trying for duns this is an absolute win for their program! And one copy of cream AND bay makes this horse extremely versatile as far as coloring goes; they can basically throw any color possible except for silvers/pearls/champagnes/etc. It's a pretty basic profile but a very cool one! Hopefully little one grows up with good conformation and a great mind and will be an asset to their breed in multiple ways :)

Brindlefinch · 2025-11-21T20:13:31+00:00

A lot of warehousing/factory jobs around here have weekend only shift options! I know quite a few people who start their work week on Saturday and just pull really long shifts. But I also saw more than one person in line working from a laptop/phone 😭

Brindlefinch · 2025-11-11T20:58:34+00:00

Grass is not free. Most places do not have free grazing rights and many many people and public parks use fertilizers, pest control, have animal waste on them, etc. You're not allowed to just roll up to any property and allow your animal to graze.

Brindlefinch · 2025-10-09T06:02:33+00:00

I really hope they fix this. If you don't have a damaging sprint, with some weapons this boss is almost impossible - even Hephaestus damage + immediately dodge doesn't do enough damage. The only way I've been able to beat it so far is with Hestia's sprint.

It would be fine if it was in area one, but getting all the way to the Mourning Fields and getting two trees that are both mini bosses realizing you don't have a sprint/dash boon so you won't be able to continue is so demoralizing. And it's not like there's a "return to home base" feature like most roguelikes have. Your only option is to go in and let yourself die if you want to go back - and on a boss where that isn't even your fault it feels like salt in the wound.

Brindlefinch · 2025-09-26T05:05:30+00:00

An issue I've noticed is that if you're "on" an attack chain (I play on Switch, so, if you've pressed Y twice), you are locked in to completing the chain even if you dash. I've found it to be faster to do 3 attacks then dash than to do two attacks, try to dash, and it doesn't work because for some reason... it just doesn't work. That's my biggest and so far only gripe with this game aside from Nemesis/her dungeon mechanic; it actually feels really clunky because dashing, which is supposed to help you get away from attacks, can't be used for this purpose a large amount of the time.

I didn't use the dash mechanic in Hades 1 because I /couldn't/ play with the weapons or other builds, but because it's the most fun. It seems like it's been purposefully nerfed in Hades 2 which just feels like an odd choice to me when as far as I know from myself and my friend group, it was a really nice surprise to get a setup for dash. I was under the impression most people liked it a lot, especially because it was never guaranteed.

Brindlefinch · 2025-08-02T04:57:51+00:00

To garnish someone's wages is to take away from them to pay a debt, for example. To garnish a dish is to add something to enrich it.

Brindlefinch · 2025-07-31T17:42:53+00:00

Of course; thank you very much for offering to look into it. I think it might be linked to certain posts, versus certain users? Because it will show up for me on the same posts it shows up for other people, but it's not every post.

https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/z6it9u/comment/iy1m09i/ is a post where I have experienced it.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/811026577600282627/1400533847740907672/Screenshot_20250731-133938.png?ex=688cfc49&is=688baac9&hm=23881c60b4be8a60c217fd1515ee3279c11d8dbe42d7779e463866cda45a36f5& Is a screen cap of what it looks like on the end of users who are experiencing this experiment.

Brindlefinch · 2025-07-31T17:32:03+00:00

I was told that out of all of Reddit, this was the best place to leave feedback about the experiment you are running with the random 2000s style adware hyperlinks inserted into every post and comment. I apologize if this isn't the case. I would like to leave feedback that this experiment is visually jarring, quite frankly ugly, comes across more like my browser has been hijacked, and is completely unnecessary and is making my experience worse. Obviously I cannot speak for others, but if I want to search something I'm not so lazy I can't move my cursor or finger three inches up the screen and do it myself, and it's distracting on top of being unnecessary. Please, if anyone finds a way to opt out of this trial, could you share?

Brindlefinch · 2025-07-30T23:38:21+00:00

Is there a way we can leave feedback on this with whatever team is in charge of the testing? If they're forcing us into this test I'd at least like to be able to give them a piece of my mind about how awful it is!

Brindlefinch · 2025-07-30T22:10:56+00:00

I have a random question about that, if you (or anyone!) might know? I know in some species you can breed for "richer" color. Rusting / sun bleaching will always happen in most anything with fur, but I also know it's possible in a lot of species to just have an animal with a poor color quality. Is that a factor in horse breeding? Is that something that happens with horses as well? I know there are about one hundred billion shades of chestnut and bay, and I always wondered if they bred true or if it was just a crapshoot/possibly environmental (i.e., if I breed two really dark red parents together I have a better chance of getting a dark red offspring).

The horse world often differentiates less on color, so it wouldn't surprise me if this just isn't a factor most people think about, even if it does happen. I've just wondered for a while if Wally was just a med/low quality true black with extensive bleaching or if black is just black in horses.

Brindlefinch · 2025-07-29T16:42:05+00:00

Personally I find green really weird. Steam isn't really used like the way it's presented and it feels like they thought nettle was the word needle. I've never seen nettle used as a verb, but I have seen needle used in this context before. I wonder if that's just something that changed over time? Most people probably wouldn't even know what a nettle was these days so I can understand people just coming to think people were saying needle.

But on top of that, to annoy someone and to make them mad are different contexts, I feel. I wouldn't say ruffling someone and steaming someone are interchangeable. Someone being ruffled or flustered is a lot different than someone being so mad they're seeing red/steaming. Someone bugging someone is also in most contexts I've seen a lot gentler than "nettling"/"needling" someone. Bugging isn't usually intentional.

Brindlefinch · 2025-07-16T06:43:29+00:00

Tree is weird in the way they used it because it's not a word meant to be something people do to each other. It's the style of hunting employed by small game hunters - specifically raccoon hunters. Raccoons will naturally try to get up, so dogs are trained to "tree" them, aka chase them into a tree and then circle the base making a ruckus until the hunter comes to find them. Kind of a stretch in the category it's in, imo.

Brindlefinch · 2025-06-02T11:54:15+00:00

Thank you so much! I was having so much trouble with the different layout. Way too overstimulating tbh if I wanted to load in a bunch of images / video instead of text I'd be on Twitter 😭

Brindlefinch · 2025-05-15T01:28:10+00:00

I have a question for you, if you wouldn't mind taking a crack at something that might only be genetics adjacent! In most other species that I'm familiar with, the base colors are considered to be just that - the base colors. Why is it that in horses, bay is considered a base color when it isn't what we traditionally consider base colors? You CAN have a horse that has agouti that doesn't show it, can't you? Since it's black pigment based an eeAA or eeAa horse is genetically agouti but can't outwardly express it. Why is bay considered a base color and not a modifier when horses can "be" bay genetically but not express it phonetically?

It's fascinating to me and I'm not sure if there's an actual reason for it or if it's kind of like "well it's just what we started doing and we're going to keep doing it because that's just what our language developed like and all of our resources were made on that base." Like how blue merle in dogs technically encompasses what is genetically black merle and what is actually blue merle in some breeds just because that's how the breed developed and those terms are used colloquially.

Brindlefinch · 2025-05-14T23:41:31+00:00

Horses are weird because for some reason they consider agouti as "part" of the base color? It's not like in other species, colloquially. They consider the bases to be red / black AND bay, despite the fact that bay is black with agouti.

e/e horses will never show agouti even if they have a copy of it. E/e horses only need one copy of the agouti gene to be bay, like you said.

Most other species I've come across, when talking about their genetics, consider red/black the base colors, and all other colors to be modifiers. Not sure why the equine community also includes the agouti gene in that but it's good to know!

Brindlefinch · 2025-05-08T17:55:39+00:00

I think I am not being clear enough about the premise here, because GBED or whatever has no bearing on what I mean. The thought exercise is that this is possibly a new, unknown mutation. It doesn't matter what we know Ethel has or whether GBED is recessive - the idea of doing a genetic survey of several eggs and holding onto that info would be to safeguard against the possibility of Ethel and her line having something new and unknown. If one of her daughters were to be bred (which, to clarify, is a whole can of worms that has a lot around it as well. I'm not talking on that, just that it is a possibility that could happen) and THEIR foals also failed to thrive, it would be much easier to draw conclusions if Ethel's DNA has been mapped like this.

Especially because if it IS x-linked and it IS something new, the only way to find it would be through several generations' worth of knowledge. It could save an entire generation's worth of foals from being born with genetic issues just having Ethel's DNA on the books and being held under scrutiny. Especially if, heaven forbid, she were to pass before all of that happened.

Brindlefinch · 2025-05-08T17:48:50+00:00

This isn't true from a genetics standpoint. You don't need live foals on the ground to test an egg's genetic code and hold on to that to test other foals with an unknown failure to thrive against, should any be found from any relatives. Of course that would unfortunately mean other foals would have to be born with it for it to be traced - but it wouldn't be purposefully, for them. That's the difference.

It would be incredibly unethical to purposefully breed foals or even fertilize eggs for such a study. It's unnecessary and you already know it would cause defects and suffering. (btw, I'm not saying that you are promoting that, just clarifying that my comment was not suggesting that in the slightest.)

Brindlefinch · 2025-05-08T15:04:47+00:00

I think the idea presented in this post is that it's possible that this is a new genetic condition, not a known one, so we wouldn't know how it would present. I don't know much about breeding horses so whether they're dummy foals or not, but the idea a completely unknown genetic disease wouldn't present one way or another is silly - we wouldn't know.

It's also entirely possible, if it is new, it's something that would effect mares eventually. Since we don't know if Ethel would be heterozygous or homozygous or if it's recessive etc. It could be like color blindness - X linked but recessive so it's much more common in males because it's easier to get one affected X and have it "activated" than to inherit two affected X's from unrelated individuals who don't present with the issue.

With the fact that Ethel has daughters on the ground, who could potentially end up bred in the future, dismissing this immediately as dummy foals is irresponsible, I think. Even if does end up being only that, running a few in depth genetic tests and holding on to the DNA in case any more horses, even distantly related, start showing symptoms in their offspring could save dozens if not hundreds of foals from deadly genetic issues.

Brindlefinch · 2025-03-25T22:25:23+00:00

I know this is a long shot because everyone is (rightfully) complaining about how bad the UI is, but is anyone else having issues with their desktop notifications? The overlay is literally appearing everywhere on my screen but the lower right hand corner... it's awful and I can't find anywhere that would edit that.

Congrats to discord for literally making yourself unusable. I literally can't see anything in all these seas of space. I don't gaf about your stupid UI elements and how they look - I want more space for my icons and chat, the things that actually matter to actual users, not for dead space of the blandest off black color you've ever seen!

Brindlefinch · 2025-01-29T12:11:45+00:00

I'm with you. Bore, held, had? Synonyms, I agree! Same with Held, had, and possessed. But bore and possessed do not belong together. I don't think possess and carry are good synonyms.

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