#I made this on my mobile app then it just disappeared

[juniper-clan]

Lavenderstar Lore Dump

Lavenderstar won by an overwhelming margin compared to Joy, so let's hear about Heron's mama!

If you have any questions about her please leave them in the replies and I'll be sure to answer them.

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Lavenderstar (formerly Lavenderflood) was the leader of JuniperClan on the HMS Juniper. She was the former deputy under the prior leader, Wispstar.

110 moons when she passed (born ~1692), she’s had three litters in the past with Tommy, a shipyard cat who would occasionally join the HMS Juniper on short trips. All of her living kits have gone onto other ships or became shipyard cats.

She was noted for her great speaking and fighting skills, though she rarely needed to use the latter.

Lavenderstar was likely a Norwegian Forest Cat / Maine Coon mix. She was descended from hundreds of warrior ancestors as far back as cats traveled alongside Two Legs.

She was confident in the validity of her half-clan kits and did not hide them from JuniperClan, nor shame any other half-clan cats or kitty pets.

Family Status

Tommy: Alive in North London (Mate)

Litter 1

Shiningpelt: Alive in North London (Daughter)

Ambereyes: Deceased (Son)

Litter 2

Foggykit: Deceased (Son)

Frostypaw: Deceased (Daughter)

Stormspeckle: Alive in North London (Daughter)

Windseeker: Alive in Glasgow (Daughter)

Litter 3

Heronstar: Alive in South Carolina (Daughter)

[circusgoth-dotcom]

Did... did Tumblr eat my post as I was queuing it???

[abbysimsfun]

Sims In Bloom: Generation 2 Pt. 25 (Unexpected Death Cull but then a Baby, Finally!)

The town of Henford was rocked by a seniors’ river cruise disaster which killed Spencer’s grandparents Dennis and Vivian Lewis-Kim, as well as Ian and Derek Moody-McMillan, who were old friends of the Nesbitts and grandfathers to Nicola, Hazel’s bestie-turned-girlfriend.

The disaster brought Everett and Spencer home to visit her family. The Nesbitts sent condolences, grateful to have been spared greater grief as the town’s fledgling riverboat tourism industry took a nosedive. Spencer met her new niece and infant Greyson got to know his aunts on the Pancakes and Kim-Lewis sides of his family.

The visit made them miss home, and they began to talk about coming home to Henford for good. For now, however, life called them back to Oasis Springs after the funerals.

Daisy was still a PlantSim, which was concerning as the effects of the forbidden fruit had worn off much slower than she expected, and River’s wedding was just around the corner. Despite this, Daisy stayed close to Heather until delivery.

One evening, Heather tried to show her mother how to use accounting software for her floral business, but it wasn't going well and Heather was starting to get bored. She nonchalantly checked her phone. "You wrote a whole cookbook, Mom. You taught me how to do online research, but you can't figure out a few numbers?"

Daisy frowned. "I always let the telescope do my number-crunching for me. I really just loved gardening." She clicked something, and the program disappeared. "Oh, what now?"

"Let me." Heather leaned over her mother's shoulder. "You deleted it? How did you do that?"

Daisy shrugged in frustration. "I really don't know."

Heather opened her Recycle Bin to retrieve the deleted file when she noticed a strange folder. "VetConnect? Is this a clone? What?"

"What does that mean?"

"I...I think someone might have cloned my app files and given them to Petcare Inc."

"Who would do such a thing?"

"Other than you, no one's used my computer since...since Malcolm! I used to let him log in to send work emails. Oh my god! I could kill him!"

Daisy frowned. "Don't say that. Can you sue?"

"Against the Landgraabs? I don't even know if I could prove it was him," she said. "But I think I can fight fire with fire. My vet tech had the idea, and it took years to make the first one, but I'm going to have to work on a new app."

After a family dinner in Henford, Heather finally went into labour. Daisy went with her to the hospital, where her doctor was the on-call intern, Jamar Scott, her childhood neighbour.

(And the eldest son of Henford townies Simon and Sara Scott.)

"How's life in Brindleton Bay?"

"It's really great! I love being by the sea and I really feel like the clinic was my calling."

"I know what you mean. What you do for animals is what I love to do for sims."

"And how's Malia's freelance career?"

"She loves the flexibility, and I can't say I blame her. We're talking about starting a family of our own once my residency's done and I can work better hours."

Just before four in the morning, an exhausted Heather gave birth to a healthy baby boy she named Ash Neal Nesbitt. She debated the last name for months, but Malcolm hadn’t checked on her except when he needed a paternity test. And he stole her mobile app's code!

Since then he’d been no better than a ghost. If he wanted to miss out on his son's life, Heather was fine with it. ->

<- Previous Chapter | Gen 2 Start | Gen 1 Summary | Gen 1 Start

NOTE: To prevent them from randomly marrying other sims I made Dennis Kim and Vivian Lewis fall in love and marry years after their kids, Eric and Alice, married and started a family (they had three girls - Olivia, Spencer, and Lydia Kim-Lewis).

NOTE 2: I made OG grocer Kim Goldbloom the adopted daughter of Ian Moody and Derek McMillan because I wanted to make all the Henford NPCs playable at the start of the game. (I also paired up Michael Bell and Cecilia Kang despite their canon bad first date, married off Agnes and Agatha and moved them in with the Pancakes after making Agatha the mother of Bob, and put Lavina and Rahul in a home in the Bramblewood. She married Paolo Rocca and had two more kids, Rahul married Rashidah Watson after graduation and they moved to Brindleton Bay to start a family.

[briskalishous]

You guys, my brain took like from April (I think) to finish this piece. I don't remember the inspiration making this, but it's part of the redesign I'm doing for a fanfic and just in general fun fluffyness becuz this fandom gets too sad sometimes. This was supposed to be done some time ago, but mental health got in the way and also the fact I didn't like the initial final sketch, so I started over, took me some time. And bruh if that wasnt enough, the app I'm using also kept corrupting or losing sketches so I don't have everything together to show the process. But anything is better than nothing. Also, please don't mind the shading, I'm still figuring out light placement and layering, especially on mobile.

Anyways, here's the final product!

I saw some funny sketches of Alastor being carried all the time so I made a funny headcannon that he likes to be picked up or is indifferent to it, just as long the hand and body placement is appropriate with certain people (others that are close have more leniency). I don't really have a story here but I like to say that this trio hug happened becuz it's one of those once in a blue moon family get together where Husk and Alastor aren't in a powerplay and are actually enjoying each other company with Niffty being a small adorable grandma making sure her boys are okay and slightly disturbed/amused by her antics and stories.

With Husk, I kept him somewhat true to his character design, just changed outfits and details on his persona like his symbols, marks, and colors. These symbols will be emphasized in another fanart I'm cooking up. I also placed "brands" that symbolize his deal and ownership status with Alastor. These brands, instead of being actually branded on his person, are branded on any piece of clothing he wears as long as they are visible (shirt, pants, hats, etc). One is on his collar shirt, which equals to Alastor and another on his wraps on his feet of his own Overlord status. In my rewrite, I have it that in order for Husk to maintain his deal of keeping his power is to keep running his business of gambling but with restriction. I have a lot more to write about this, but I'm saving it for his redesign posts in my redesign series. Also, a funny lil hat on the side becuz it's part of his getup that got knocked over in the hug session.

With Niffty, I was going to keep her the same, just some extra bug detail to her person, but I scrapped it off. Instead, I have her as a hybrid of a poodle dog and bug. She and Alastor have a bumpy first introduction becuz of her dog hybrid side, but eventually, they worked it out in a weird, chaotic coworker/roommate relationship. More on that on her redesign post soon. She also has a brand of Alastor’s ownership over her on her apron. She doesn't have much on her appearance but her personality and chaotic mindset makes up for it :3 She's the same crazy lil lady, but with some common sense and sort of old lady behavior from her.

With Alastor, I changed his hair from my redesign, but I think I'm still going to change it with every drawing I do, so it's not permanent. He also has a brand, just not visible, unlike Husk and Niffty. This isn't from his choice of wanting to hide that he's owned but from his owner that nothing should be given away from his disappearance to not ruin his mission. However, there's still that hidden joke that every time Alastor walks, he will feel that brand on his hoof so that no matter where he goes, he is reminded of where he stands. He doesn't look gray here like in his redesign due to the lighting, but I like to say that it will probably change to another headcannon. For instance, depending on how 'human' he feels at the moment, his features and skin color will change. When he's not all powered up and feels at peace, he's more soft and human looking despite his reputation and animal characteristics. But when's he's powered up or is threatened, then his 'humanity' is zapped away, turning his look more demonic/inhuman/alien. I'm still playing with this headcannon, so I may scrap or add on to this.

That's all I have to say for this piece other than I'm proud of the coloring and how soft this looks :D

Here's the process that I could find:

This is from the old sketch. I also had it colored it out and in process of shading but it got eaten by the app so yeah :')

Here is the final process! I changed the positions, the wings and tail, and redid Niffty's design.

[dontforgetyourmedstoday]

So you just steal artwork and don't care? Got it. Either that or my ask asking about sources from your posts on April 8th disappeared. Or I guess you could be off tumblr and not have been here for two weeks.

Hi Anon,

I'm assuming this is you:

If it is, yes, I did see your last ask - but life has been a bit shit lately and frankly, I didn't have the emotional bandwidth to deal with an accusatory email that gave me absolutely no details about what you were upset about so I could investigate. So today, despite it being an incredibly long and shit one that isn't over I'm going to reply.

*Takes a deep breath* From this point forward I'm going to assume that, like me, you are just a real-live human with feelings that get hurt and not someone who just likes to yell at people on the internet. So let me apologise that I have used your artwork without attribution, it was in no way my intention. Please take this apology as someone who was just trying to amuse themselves and perhaps help some other people out by reminding them to take their meds too. I absolutely suck at art-type things so in my mind, no one would think I did them or was claiming the actual 'art' part of them as mine. I realise now this is the internet, you guys don't know me, and so I should have been clearer that nearly all of these are edits. (There are a few waaaaay back I actually drew myself). Looking at the 7th, 8th & 9th of April (allowing for time zones and assuming that's when you saw your artwork). All of them except one have a link at the bottom of the image that links back to where I sourced the original image - I don't know if this is visible on mobile so I'll show it below (the bit circled in red)

So I'm assuming this one is yours:

It seems that one doesn't have the link. I don't know why. I haven't made any new reminders for this blog in ages (again - life) - it seems like most of the ones from early April this year were originally posted back in 2021. I got briefly excited about this blog again a few months ago and loaded up a bunch of old ones so this blog was still functional for the people that find it helpful. Going back I have noticed that others seem to not have credit either. It is possible I made a mistake and forgot to add them. It's also possible that Tumblr has a had a glitch/error/weirdness which means it's disappeared. I also used a bunch of images from the editing app I was using to add the reminder message and I wish I could remember what the site was called because I cannot for the life of me remember. Honestly, who knows. I have deleted the post(s) with that image - if it's not the right one please let me know.

I have always gone out of my way to ensure that anything I use is either free use, or non-commercial under Creative Commons. As an aside, I'm an academic and a person who has artist friends and my partner runs a business where our customers are largely designers and artists, so I do actually do my best to give credit. Am I perfect - no I'm not. Part of the reason I stopped making new posts was because of difficulty giving credit even on images that were non-attribution and finding images where I knew what the attribution requirements were (along with trying to remember everything everyone asked me to tag, and doing the image descriptions etc.) If anyone else finds something of theirs in one of my posts and there isn't credit attached please either dm me or send an ask and let me know which post and how you would like to be credited and I'll add it in. If you want it removed, I'm happy to do that too.

Sorry for the long post, hope it helps to clear things up. Finally, let me take this opportunity to say

"Don't forget your meds today my friends"

[emma-is-swaggy-and-epic]

Back when i was like, 9, i was obsessed with mobile tycoon games and i had this one friend on every single game i downloaded who i didn't really know all that well but we talked a little and they seemed like a nice enough person (all i remember is that their messages looked like how boomers think millenials and gen Z text each other and they had a really confusing username)

Anyways, my older brother caught wind of the fact that i use the internet and wanted to protect me but didn't really know how to give GOOD advice on internet safety bc he was like, 13 and just said something like "don't talk to anyone on the internet ever" to which i was like "NUH UH!! I'VE MET SOME TRUSTWORTHY PEOPLE ON THE INTERNET!! CONFUSINGNAME IS TRUSTWORTHY!!!" And my brother was all like "CONFUSINGNAME COULD BE A SERIAL KILLER!!!"

Next time i went on the game, i told ol' confusingname what my brother had told me except i didn't say it was specifically MY BROTHER so i just said "some people think you are a killer" and they never messaged me again.

And then like, 5 months later all the tycoon games i used to play suddenly disappeared from the app store because they were all made by the same development team and they had an issue with straight up reuploading the same 3 games multiple times under different titles and pretending it's a completely different game to get more downloads

[embarressment-erradicated]

if you have "top bar with useful info" which disappears while scrolling down, and immediately comes back into existence the second you scroll up. I hate you so much

so fucking much it's never coded right, you can't disable it, if your on computer it shouldn't even be a fucking thing by default, cause guess what, there is stuff on the side. tumblr you have so much room wasted on this website.

use it instead of implementing this god awful idea

also for mobile apps, I get it, understand it even, but fucking fuck please just have an option to lock it in a position, or even move it to the bottom or just something that'd be better than this

I don't want to have to wrestle with this piece of shit every time I wish to attempt to take a screen shot of a long post.

it'd be so much better to just have it locked so I'm not even trying in the first place, plus you have the problem of it suddenly blocking information that wasn't blocked before.

it's a lazy design that takes way more effort to implement than the alternatives, and actually fucking stupid.

I don't need to suddenly see "whatever ai bullshit we're peddling that actively ruins our platform in an insidious way, top, newest" or "hey you want to go to the home page of this blog, you know the one which if you wanted to go to, you could just scroll up to after reading this article?" or "a page no one in their right mind uses, the actual stuff your here for, and of course the 'wait this actually exists' tab" you shitty companies making slightly bad user interfaces for me to get irrationally mad out.

a good tip for whether or not you've made a good website is thusly "is someone's basic boilerplate forum from the early 2000's better to navigate through than our website?"

and if the answer is yes. try to fix it.

on top of that.

if something can be done better and feel better with basic html, use basic html or design something better, no "oh yeah here is my 2000 lines of javascript, it displays a comment system that when you click the buttons in the wrong order explodes, and will sometimes just not load"

also shout out to ao3 and this

like seriously, it works completely fine without it. javascript just adds a bit of feel to it, and makes things easier. but it won't break the website at all.

meanwhile tumblr?

doesn't work at all whatsoever.

now are ao3 and tumblr completely different beasts? yes, but like, one of these I can use on phone like it's nothing, like it was built for it, and the other feels like it's a shell of it's superior desktop version, and it isn't fucking archive of our own.

ao3's website is amazing on mobile and tumblr doesn't even let you be on mobile without downloading an app that's kinda sorta ok because honestly?

they don't care about you, they care about what they can get from you.

but sure I guess, the new web is better or something, now explain to me why a website from the 90's works better and runs better than you supposedly new and amazing website...

[motorclit]

As much as I love Mastodon, the one thing that makes me wish weren't a thing about it is that an instance (server) can go down or straight-up disappear with no warning.

I have an account on witches.live, and it's been down for a couple of weeks now. I say "down" and not "gone" because if I try to access it on Chrome, I get the custom-made by-the-admin page that says it's down and that she is working on it. That custom error page has to come from SOMEWHERE. If the server was "gone" then I wouldn't get the custom error page.

Unfortunately, I don't get it on Firefox (not on my desktop nor on my mobile app) and the Mastodon app simply just doesn't reload/load at all. So I'm HOPING she is doing a heavy-duty update.

I'm gonna guess there could be some life stuff happening too, because this server, as far as I know, is ran by ONE PERSON and that's why I haven't given up hope.

However, I'm still looking up alternative instances as a backup.

I wanna steer clear of popular activist/leftist ones because some (like kolektiva) have been targets for doxxing and shit from what I've heard. I know pagan.plus is a thing, but it's also quite popular and with the religious right wanting to go after everyone not them, I'd rather hang back on a smaller or lesser known instance.

I really wanna join the solarpunk server sunbeam.city but registration is closed. I dunno no if it's lack of server space or to avoid a wave of bots or what. The one candidate I have where registration isn't closed is a gardening one. I have it bookmarked on my desktop.

I'm gonna give witches.live until maybe June before I create a backup account on that gardening server. (I'll still continuously check back with witches.live though.)

I think this is honestly the ONE FLAW I don't like about Mastodon, though. And I'd rather have several backup accounts than join a bigger server that's likely to be a target.

Also there's a server called anarchism.space or something that I have bookmarked on my desktop and I SWEAR I may have had an account there and forgot that I joined. If thats true, I don't know what email I used. Their registration is closed, too.

Anyway, if anyone knows what's going on with witches.live, lemme know!

[raincitygirl76]

Re: the panicked post i made this morning (link below), my queue still exists and is still posting queued posts. I just can’t SEE the queue, or control it in any way. Can’t see the Saved Drafts either. Plus, Tumblr seems to think every post is my first post. And it won’t let me edit my panicked post from this morning.

Do you think uninstalling and then reinstalling the mobile app might help? Although before I do that, I should check the desktop version of Tumblr when I get home from work tonight. Maybe the queue and drafts have only disappeared from mobile….?

Anyway, if none of the above works, I’ll ask Tumblr tech support for help. And edit to share the instructions I got, if it works.

Thanks to those who signal boosted. Much appreciated!

Edited to add: when I got home I checked, and my queue and drafts were all still there in the desktop version of Tumblr. So I uninstalled and reinstalled the mobile app, and now everything’s working normally again. Yay!!!

[pan-magi]

Heads up that I won't have much to post for a while. I'm moving! Back home for a bit while I'm figuring stuff out (like not being broke). Before, when I mentioned my slow activity I left for a few years. Don't worry, I'm not planning on doing that. I have a backlog of... shitpost ideas, which I will post when I have time. If I have the sudden urge and energy to get some of my longer text posts done then I'll try to do them. Any edits and gifs though will be on the back burner for a while.

(That's the gist of it. If you want a mental health discussion and my general thought process on tumblr, read more if curious. It's more of the vein of "tumblr is an addictive website for me" than "this site is destructive and damning." jsyk)

I know I have it in my blog description that the blog is semi-archived. I have been doing my best though to at least post somewhat regularly. The rate for posting may not be fast per number of posts but for me working on them it is very time and energy consuming (yay executive dysfunction and undiagnosed ADHD woo). It doesn't help either not using Photoshop anymore making gifs is lot less streamlined (get all my necessary screenshots frame by frame and organize them -> edit each individually -> put them together with final edits to make a gif. All in 3 separate programs). My wallet appreciates the decision at least.

The thing is I put that in the description not for the lack of time I have to do stuff but the opposite. I have a lot of empty time to fill. Tumblr is one of the few social media sites I actually use and even with the ability to curate your dash (maybe in part because of it), it is easy for tumblr to be addictive without noticing it. That's with me not bothering with the app. I do check a lot with the mobile browser though. I knew with my attention span and how I tend to do or not get things done that being consistently active would not be the best for me personally. Not bad, per say, but not great.

I love you all. It's been great to see a few of my older followers still interact with my posts from time to time. It's nice to see new ones and the Magi fandom in general getting new people coming in, maybe just for the tumblr side or maybe new altogether, when the series has been complete for years. When I say tumblr is not good for me, I don't mean you. Lots of love for everyone /platonically, my aroace ass wants to clarify and add on a giant thank you for no aphobic hate by anyone here either. I would not have trusted to come out on tumblr even if I had my identity figured out when I was active before.

I do want to keep people satisfied. Analytics shouldn't matter on this hellsite, and they don't, not really. I don't care about what the number is but seeing any notes on my posts is a quick dopamine rush. "Yay, I made someone smile." If I have a free moment, I'm like "I should check tumblr," or "I should work on post for blog." I enjoy what I make and enjoy doing it. However, it's become more attempting to be active and getting something out there despite saying I will manage juggling all sorts of different stuff better. I'm not doing other recreational stuff I want to do. I'm behind on games, movies, books, creative shit outside of tumblr, watching Magi for at least the fifth time... If I have a free moment I'm "work on tumblr post."

It's dumb. I should be able to manage shit better. Again, ADHD. Or maybe it's something else. IDFK.

All this to say that I'm taking the excuse of moving to force myself out of the tumblr sphere. I won't have the time or energy to get larger time-consuming posts done. I might as well focus on something else when I have the opportunity.

I am not planning on disappearing. I do like it here. Stayed too long at the spa though and need to get out and get cool, fresh air. I have short, borderline/actual shitposts I want to get done, as mentioned up top. One may be up in the next week. Who knows though? I don't. What I do know is that if I post something over the summer it will be because it is something I want to get done, when I want it to get done. No rushing myself pointlessly. It will be little things though. Bigger edits and gifs aren't hard yet tedious and draining when I'll be buried in boxes and working on home repairs for the immediate future.

Everyone take care of yourselves out there. If you read all this, thanks! Now, I've spent over an hour working on this when it was supposed to take me 15-20 minutes, and I need to sleep lol.

[eeveeprincessxd]

I was going through the notes to find who voted yes on using Live, and noticed your tags. The Tumblr live toggle should be under General > Dashboard preferences > all the way at the bottom. I’m on the iOS app, but it should be almost the same across platforms.

I appreciate your attempt to help, but I'm browsing on desktop using Firefox and my settings page doesn't even seem to have sections with the labels you described. The toggle USED to be on that page but it totally disappeared some weeks ago.

I'm not sure if this is Tumblr trying to roll out a way of making Live permanent in weird phases like how they made private messages and polls things you had to infect other people with, or if it's just something that got adjusted with how the code I was using to completely block Live from my dash works internally in terms of site content labels or something similar. What I do know is that my toggle snooze isn't where it used to be, and apparently browsing on desktop doesn't present the same format as browsing on mobile.

[remrse]

not sure if anyone faced this problem before but i was replying to a thread and tried to trim reblog but because it was a legacy post, there's a glitch where the text would show up twice. to work around that glitch, i just deleted my whole chunk of text so it would only show up once and usually that works for me in the past but earlier on, when i pressed 'save as draft', my whole drafts page glitched out and i can't access any of my drafts now? my number of drafts remained the same and i can still save new posts as drafts, the page is just blank so i can't see any of my drafts and when i refresh it, it brings me to an error page. (it's the same on incognito, safari and the mobile app, my drafts page is just completely blank.)

tldr: i was reblogging a post from someone who used the legacy editor and that made my whole drafts page disappear LOL

if anyone has any idea how to fix this, please let me know! i've contacted support too but i'm not sure how fast they'll get back to me (or if they even will because this seems like a combination of a xkit bug and tumblr bug??)

[radiantruffian]

I wanna talk about a stupid ad I saw today

So there I was, in the kitchen with flour on my shirt, experimenting with banana pancakes and frozen cherries and the question of whether it will taste good (for clarity, it tasted fine but the smashed banana made the batter cook into a very pasty-feeling cake, and frankly, the cherries only reinforced my hatred of fruit in cakes), when I made the unforgivable mistake of trying to watch a youtube video (an analysis about a terrible movie from Quinn Curio, a favorite youtuber of mine). Now, expecting an acceptable experience from youtube mobile is an incredibly naive thought, but I was too lazy to watch it on firefox with an adblock, so I tapped the video and was faced with an ad. My eyes rolled to back of my head, and I groaned with increasing pain and hatred for the very concept of advertisement. The ad began to load, and I shifted my gaze to the bottom right corner of the screen, waiting like a viper to strike at the skip button. But then... I heard something that made me freeze. There was a sound that caught my attention, something that moved my eyes to the screen proper, and I saw the orange box of the plastic demon temu, beside it an olive green jacket, and framing it all the voice that called to me.

If there were any one phrase to describe it, I would call it swamp noises. As if it was recorded with the microphone of a damaged nintendo dsi, a sound that echoed momentarily, following each beat without rhythm, the sound of splashing like from the bottom of a toilet bowl. One instance of it, and then a pause of many seconds, complete silence until the sound repeated. The ad reached its end, and the horrid app began to load its next shrine to capital, but not before I silenced it. The video box disappeared, but the confusion that entered my system remained. I was petrified, not from fear or hatred, but from utter and complete confusion. What the living fuck did I just witness?

As much as I hate advertisement and find its students to be worthless, I do understand the point of it. There is a product, you make the product seem attractive so that people will want to buy it. It's very simple, or at least, it's supposed to be. In the past, when this principle was embraced, you would have your product, someone would demonstrate the product, someone would declare that it's superior to others, and request that you buy it. Nothing too annoying, and in fact, sometimes they could be charming even. But then, advertisement became vogue. People began to take notice. "Oh there's money in advertising, there's prestige in advertising." And the industry was flooded by arrogant yuppies with no humanity nor common sense, ignorant morons with string-pulling fathers getting placed in positions of importance. All would be fine if they would feel confident in their cushy chairs, alas, imposter syndrome hunts even the least human among us. They want to feel like they earned their keep, their position. And so, they start putting their fingers in every pie they can reach. "Oh, give this a dutch tilt, make them wear cardigans, the light is too dim, the music is too bland, yada yada yada" and on it goes. Worst of all, their lackeys suck up to them, and their lackeys suck up to them, until a circle of unearned praise serpents around Manhattan. So many lips on so many asses that the delusion becomes more than a trick, it becomes a ghostly fog, just real enough to make our protagonists feel safe, though too weak to withstand the slightest breeze.

And finally it all circles back around to the thing that started it all; an ad selling a jacket to a backing track of toilet noises, inconceivable to the healthy mind. Now, maybe I'm too human to decipher these hieroglyphics, but I don't understand how that is supposed to sell anything. I am not interested in this jacket, I am not interested in downloading this stupid app so that I can browse for more products, I am not even interested in online shopping in general. In fact, lemme go on another rant; how do people shop for clothes online? With the amount of stupid measurements, there's no way you can know that something will fit you, you can't know if you will agree with the fabric, you can't know if the damn thing won't fall apart the moment you take it out of its box. What fucking confidence are we deluded by that we can buy any piece of clothing online? And especially where does that confidence come from when the ads are like this? Who makes these? What fucking manager green lit this nonsense? And why the hell does anybody use temu?

Anyway, to sum it up, I don't like banana pancakes, it makes the dough gummy. I'll just stick to the regular stuff. I saw an ad that had a noise like that from a toilet bowl, and I don't like shopping online. That's it.

[elvislyash]

This is part two of my write up on graves and tombstones of the old CNI cemetery adjacent to the Jyoti Garden, Shastri Bridge. Read this one carefully.

It was the morning of November 1 and I had planned a visit to the old CNI cemetery which is adjacent to the Shastri (Pandya) bridge and next to the Jyoti Gardens. This is a very old cemetery. I have never been there before, and I really wish I had visited this place at least 40 years back. I must acknowledge my friend Nilesh Purohit for taking me to this cemetery.

A Cemetery can evoke different feelings. I have always been fascinated by the old graves. I know they are not at all practical. They make me think. Some of them are planned in great detail with thought provoking statements on the grave stones, some are beautiful carved, some are adorned with statues of angels, figures etc. But there are some that really stand out. Some are works of art. I don't know why someone would go through such great lengths but humans have a tendency to leave their legacy behind, something to remember them by, if not anything, then at least their graves can remind the visitors of them.

There are some old beautiful graves in this cemetery, in various shapes, various sizes, some have beautiful statues, some are intricate artworks. There is one grave over 6 feet tall which is pyramid shaped. Unfortunately, over a period of time, cracks have developed in the structure and plants are growning in the cracks and widening the existing fissures and creating new ones. There are some really huge rectangular graves, really big. I wonder what was the purpose in making such big structures. They take up a lot of space. History tells us that through the ages, people have always built grand tombs either for themselves or their kin or their loved ones.

There is a SPECIAL grave at the old CNI cemetery.

The special grave is almost at the centre of the Cemetery. It is not a big one, not imposing like some of the really big ones. In fact, it would not be easily noticed if the cross on it was not INCLINED at an angle. That's right, the cross on this particular grave is inclined, NOT straight. It is the inclined cross which makes the grave so special!

I noticed the name inscribed on the grave. It was of the resident 'James Sutherland'. Immediately, I remembered having seen this name on the plaque at the St. James CNI Church (Also known as the White Church), behind Convent school, Fatehgunj. The Church is atleast 223 years old. It was dedicated to James Sutherland Esquire who was the Political commissioner of Gujarat. He was then the resident at the Court of the Gaekwads. I thought this person must be the same person who name is mentioned at the CNI church. I was right.

So this is the grave of James Sutherland. The grave, rather the cross on the grave structure is a Solar Clock! A SOLAR CLOCK!!!

The Cross on the grave acts as the Shadow-maker! The The horizontal arms of the cross are aligned East-West. You can stand at the grave and check for the East-West using a mobile compass app though it is very evident. It is quite remarkable and I am no expert in architecture but I think the cross itself is made up of Sandstone.

Just think if it were made of the usual materials used in the other tombs, then the markings on the cross for noting the time would have disappeared by now. But they are very clear as my pictures reveal and they are very clear to this day. On the internet, I found out that the R. Walles Esquire in the year 1865 installed the clock in the cymetery to honor the 20th anniversary of James Sutherland's death. R. Walles's name is inscribed there along with that of James Sutherland.

Now coming back to the clock, just like a Sun dial which most of you have seen, here the vertical arm of the cross casts a shadow on the horizontal arm of the cross. There are markings engraved on the horizontal arms. You can see the markings with greater spacing towards the edge of the arms and the spacings become narrower as you come close to the vertical arms just like in a sun dial. This must have been the work of some learned people, some good engineers, some smart people who were instrumental in building this cross-clock structure.

Notice the numbers of the various hours in a day written in Roman letters. Go through the pictures, you will find these numbers on the horiontal arm of the cross as well as the vertical arm of the cross. If you notice carefully you will find, that near to the vertical arms are the numbers 2,1,11,10 and further away on both sides of the horizontal arms are 3,4,5 and 9,8,7. You will find 6 on both the opposite ends of the horizontal arm. The number 12 is on the top of vertical arm of the cross. These numbers are 'hours'. For minutes, check the lines inscribed between the numbers.

Maybe in future, I will prepare a video in which I will explain the clock in detail. Notice the shadow of the vertical arm caused by the Sun on the horizontal arm. Try to figure out why the cross is tilted, inclined at an angle.

Sundials usually need a correction which is to be applied to the reading of the shadow in order to get the correct time at any time at a particular place during the year. I am not an expert in this field so I will have to work it out, maybe Prof. Brijmohan Thakore of SP University, Mukeshbhai of GNCS and Bhargav Joshi of AAAV can help me with this.

Go through the pictures, spend sometime looking at them carefully. Notice the inclined cross, the marking on the arms of the cross. The shadow cast by the vertical arm of the cross. The 'E' and 'W' in red give the direction of the horizontal arms. There is one picture of the pyramid grave!

The most important thing required in making a solid device like this is making accurate markings for intervals or time. Those solid lines, clear to this day, the spacings between them tell a story! The person/s who designed this were great, they did it for a grave of a certain James Sutherland! Isn't it remarkable?! Students should visit this cemetery and learn science and how the heavens wheel above you just by studying this old old solar clock cross on a grave. Before time and lack of care ravage the grave completely, see it for yourself!

In today's world of Iphone 16 and IOS 18, we need to marvel at such things. They look so simple, they work on simple principles but yet, hardly any student, teacher or layman can understand it. We are not using our minds to reason effectively. Understanding a simple device like this will help us understand so many things.

I request Rev. Nimrod Christian, Rev. Daniel Deepak, Prof. Brijmohan Thakore, Prof. Jayaram Poduval, Dr. Madhuben Shah, Shri Mukesh Pathak, Bhargav Joshi and anyone else who is reading this post to comment on the history, the significance and the scientific aspects related to this Solar clock if they are aware of it. Please do write to me or post your comments on Facebook. Anyone from CNI community who knows more than what I have mentioned here, please add your comments here so that we may know more about this Clock-Cross grave.

I would humbly request the custodians of this place to take care of this grave and cemetery in general. It is in a pathetic situation. Clean the area around the solar clock cross grave, clean the tomb and cross and put a banner nearby containing the history and science behind the Solar Clock Cross! Let people come and see! Or else, all this will bite the dust and will be lost forever!

To the reader, if this has been of any interest and liking, you may visit the cemetery in the daytime and see for yourself - this grave along with the others in the graveyard.

Let the light shine!

Ashish Jaituni, Applied Physics Department, Polytechnic, The M. S. University of Baroda

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