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"Miss" means an unmarried woman. "Mrs." means a married woman. (both of these have origins in the word "mistress" as in "mistress of the house".)

I've had people (usually children) ask me at work if I'm a missus or a miss. I have replied that I am a miz, full stop. And when they pressed for which one I was REALLY, I have replied, "Why? Are you going to treat me differently depending on whether there's a ring somewhere?"

That's what Ms. is for. That is its linguistic function. It says, "This is an adult woman," and nothing else. Nothing else is necessary, and in my case, nothing else is desired.

I also use miz for other women unless and until they express a preference for something else because I don't magically know everyone else's marital status when I meet them. That's a courtesy—I'm declining to assume marital status and allowing them to decide whether they wish to declare it.

A horse uses binocular vision when it is trying to see something better - monocular vision gives a wider field of view but no depth perception and is not very clear.

When alert, the horse will look directly at something, facing it, using binocular vision to determine what it is and whether it is a threat.

A general rule of thumb with horses is that whatever their ears are pointed at is what they are looking at.

In the first image, the horse is looking at me. In the second, she is not.

In this set of images, she is investigating that blanket. You can clearly see her head pointed at the object and she examines with her binocular vision and nose.

Now, in this case, the horse is looking at me without his head facing me. You can tell he's looking at me with his monocular vision by how he has one ear facing me.

In most of the professionally done horse reference pics you see, the horses are going to have their ears pricked up and alert and be using their binocular vision. Why? Because it just looks better. How? Either the horse is investigating/curious about the camera or person holding the camera OR someone standing where they want the horse to look has just snapped their fingers or whistled or waved an umbrella or something to get the horses attention.

Besides horses, the only other large prey animals I know well are goats and deer. Both will normally look directly at you when you approach unless they already know you are not a threat. Goats are rude and informal, to say the least, as I've often had them acknowledge me by bleating with a full mouth with their head down because they are eating and would rather not look up. Deer will stare me down, but their ears will tell me if I actually interest them or if something nearby is more concerning.

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THE ORIGIN OF THIS IMAGE:

So in my etsy I sell a pin of some isopods having at a bag of doritos based on this photo. Today I was contacted by the person who took it.

I asked to share this info and he gave permission!

Process gif!

Wanted to share this one because there were a couple of big shifts that happened while working on it despite the fact that I did most rendering on very few layers so there's a lot of jumps from sketchy to fully rendered in here.