Riding - Blog Posts
Just finished a book in which some characters spent a lot of time on horses, and whenever they dismounted after riding all day, they were described as sinking to the floor because their legs can’t carry them anymore, or hobbling towards the nearest chair and collapsing onto it with their whole body aching. It was so ridiculous it took me out of the story every time. These are characters who live with horses and ride nearly every day. They should be fine. They’re good riders, there’s no reason for their legs to be painfully cramped after a day on the saddle. I feel like the author was trying to add realism but only went riding a few times and felt horribly stiff and sore afterwards and assumed that’s just how you feel after a day’s ride no matter what. I promise it’s not!! Your characters should be the kind of good-tired you feel after any other type of satisfying workout your muscles are used to. Drawing on your own experience to write characters that live very different lives is such a bad bet. Maybe someone did tell her it would no longer be so painful if she just kept practising and she dismissed it as obvious horse propaganda
Let the Rain Pour Down
author:
Shiro_Kabocha
summary:
Modern AU, no petrification, aged-up characters.
Gen has a crush on a stranger at a bar he visits weekly, but keeps his feelings to himself. Until one rainy night throws them together unexpectedly.
OR
LocalCelebrity!Gen picks up CollegeStudent!Senku at a bar.
these feelings keep running the red
author: caramelize
summary:
It wasn't out of the goodness of his heart that Ace agreed to be glorified training wheels for his dorm head. It had nothing to do with his heart whatsoever.
There were, after all, rules for this sort of thing.