#scroll through my art blog you should be able to find references for these guys

[woodsorrelpainting]

information post

In this post, I'll include an "about me" section and what this blog is for/about (including my plans for it)

quick links to save from scrolling all the way down (each website I list will be a link that you can click directly on):

kofi | youtube | etsy

Before that though, two disclaimers:

Do not use anything shown here as a definitive identification guide for plants or animals. I am learning all of this as I post and I am bound to make mistakes.

Additionally, I will not include ANY information about whether a plant is edible/safe-to-eat. I may indicate toxicity but the important part of this is that this blog should not be used to identify plants, especially for foraging.

Thank you

There's more under the "Keep reading" below

About Me

Hello, I am Marten (this is not my real name). This blog (woodSorrelPainting) is my blog for documenting my currently slow-going journey towards learning about the plants that grow where I live, in Central Texas. I post silly little text posts (#marten's talkin) and here I post images that I've taken of the plants I'm interested in and/or of paintings and drawings I've done of the aforementioned plants.

As part of my learning journey, I plan to paint pictures of these plants and write small blurbs about what I've learned from identifying and reading about these plants. I will say outright though that I am not good at writing this kind of information and less good at writing anything like an essay (it's been years !!). Undoubtedly, I'll be able to practice that skill okay too but for now... it'll probably be lackluster.

I endeavor to mostly use pictures that I myself have taken of these plants as reference, but I have posted images of paintings I did that used images I found on Pinterest as reference (click here for a link to my Pinterest board with the images I've used-- though it's been a while since I've done this).

I will cite my sources as best I can. Please let me know how I can improve in this department!! I welcome any help with this project of mine.

About My Shop

As sort of a tangent to my learning journey (and because I need money... I have no other income 👍), I also will sell prints of my works which will come with small blurbs about these plants, consisting both of my own personal observations AND information I find online on Etsy. I'd honestly rather not rely on a site like Etsy but I don't have the funds to do anything fancier (that I know of... this "selling-art-prints" stuff is A Lot of information to sift through) at the moment. My shop there will also be called woodSorrelPainting.

I offer 5"x 7" prints as well as some 2"x 5" bookmarks. I hope to have other sizes and products available in the future- I've been wanting to toy around with pressed flowers lately but I am currently unsure of the logistics haha

Alongside the 5"x7" prints (NOT the bookmarks for now) I've included a paragraph about the plant depicted. Some of its qualities and features and perhaps even a fun fact or two. As stated previously, I will not include information of any plants' edibility unless it is notably poisonous (in which case it becomes a Neat Fact about the plant). Do not use these works as identification guides. That is NOT their purpose.

I include sources in the paragraph, but I want to say here that I am not an academic and I am largely ignorant to the proper way to cite sources, especially in a written work. As much as I welcome any suggestions for making things more correct and proper, please understand that these paragraphs are not necessarily meant to be official works and are not exactly meant to be cited themselves. I'm literally just a guy who wants to learn more about the nature around me and who had an idea to share my learning with others. Some of this information may be wrong and some of it may be incorrectly cited. I will work to correct any false information but I have no experience researching things the way I have been outside of this project specifically.

Each written paragraph should come with QR codes that will redirect you to a post on this blog with cited sources (I think in APA format??) and links you can click on.

F.A.Q.

Click here for a link to my FAQs!

Links

Currently, I am running a youTube Channel. I plan to upload videos twice a month. (woodSorrelPainting) (click here for a link)

I, of course, have this tumblr blog (you are here!)

I have a Ko-Fi that I am (admittedly) doing a poor job of keeping updated with regard to posts and updates at the moment (woodSorrelPainting) (click here for a link)

Perhaps most importantly, I have my Etsy shop (woodSorrelPaintings) (click here for a link)

[star-gamerxox]

Ok imma try and imitate you right now!¡

"Hrrrhjqkhhgqwrry why are you guys so nice Im about to start crying wruybekhjds jlhssp"

"Recently school has been beating me up in terms of motivation but talking to you guys makes me feel so much better I-"

"Hey guys!

I have a new character from this roleplay and I'm really excited to show you guys the drawing I made with my new [insert art supplies] and a writing that I should be able to finish it by tomorrow"

You tend to not put a period at the end of your last sentence, start your announcements with "Hey guys", occasionally don't put a ' in words, have a really unique way of doing keysmashes, say "pfffffffft" a lot, and tend to talk about being thankful for having online friends. You also like talking about all the characters you have and often refer to roleplays with seertale

In ask games you give out slightly short answers and react to kindness or gifts with a key smash. You also tend to tag very little and use " - " a lot.

Thats only what I noticed from the 10 min I took writing this and scrolling through a bit of your blog, but I could probably figure out a bit more if you give me the time.

How are you so good at this!?

Also yes. I use - as if I'm cutting myself off. Basically I cut myself off like I would in real life but put it in my writing

Also about the characters, yea.

Pfft is my way of laughing. I also forget apostrophes a lot because I heavily rely on auto correct cause I type with the speed of my thoughts. That equals really fast.

And you do too well with acting like I do traditional art. I'm naturally better at traditional artwork but a lot of the time my body is so sore (we think I have fibromyalgia) that I've grown more accustomed to just drawing digitally.

And yea. My roleplay with @seertale created a lot of ocs but I love them all and they will all find lives in stories outside the roleplay or the books we are making based off our roleplay.

And if it isnt obvious, I treasure my online friends just as much and my irl friends and I dont take compliments and a lot of kindness well.

That spurs from past trauma and being basically brainwashed to think the world is cold and I have to grow up fast. I cant expect people to always be nice.

But I'm healing and with everyone constantly proving what I was told (my someone hardly in my life anymore) wrong, I know I'll be able to take kindness soon

[franeridart]

hey fran, i really love you & your art!! i fell in love w your bokuroteru tattoo au after reading it through, and then i found your bakushimas and i love them so much! you're actually the reason i found the motivation to start bnha lol and i'm really glad i did, so thx!

Thank you!!!!!! So much!!!!!!!!!! For liking my stuff!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *O* and you’re most welcome, I’m super happy you’re liking it!!!!!

Anon said:I love dragons and I love kiri and I love your art so that post is like all three of my favourite things rolled into one, B L E S S.

I’M GLAD YOU LIKED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anon said:your traditional sketches are so cool!!! i feel like it kinda adds like depth to it or something but like those are so neat what if you lined some

Thanks!! And I’ve actually thought about that, but I’m not much a fan of going back on stuff I already posted... it’s more probably I’ll just go back to the concept and draw more instead of lining those haha

Anon said:FRAN UR TRADITIONAL ART IS SO CUTE OMG ITS SO GOOD (also DRAGONSSSS)

GAH I’M SO DAMN HAPPY YOU GUYS ACTUALLY LIKED THOSE OH MY G O D S

Anon said:voltron third season is cOMING SOON AS IN TWO DAYS AAAAAA ARE U EXCITED?

Anon... my pal... my dear friend... I don��t know how to break this to you but... I haven’t even properly watched s2 yet...

Anon said:i started reading bnha bc i wanted to understand your art better, and I gotta say it's a really great series. thanks for inspiring me to read it. finished the manga today and my favs are definitely kirishima, tamaki, toshinori and fatgum. actually I knew kiri would be my fave anyway bc 75% of why i got interested in your bnha drawings was bc of him...he's just?? so good?? that aside your art is incredible and your characterizations of the bakusquad are perfect. you're super cool, keep doing you!

I’m!!!!!!!!!!!! aaahhh!!!!!!!!!!!!! thank you so much oh my god ;A; I’m happy you decided to try it, I’m super happy you ended up liking it, and I’m indecently happy you actually do like Kirishima!!!!! BOI!!!!!!!!!!!! He needs all the love he can get, the pure son ;A;

Anon said:your art is so good wth!! everytime i get the notif that you posted i get so excited!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!

Anon said:The fuck is shitty ab these traditional art pics. They're good, everything u do is good, don't play blind u perfect shit

Tough love! Sometimes this comes around my inbox too haha it’s fine anon, the reason why I rarely draw traditionally is that I never feel like I’m done with a drawing when I do, feel incomplete for however much details I put in because tbh there’s always more I can do on them, so with shitty I mostly meant “incomplete” lol going okay this is finished is something I don’t know how to do with traditional doodles hah

Anon said:yo what happened to your hand bro?

Therapy with my dermatologist that ends up giving me blisters on one of my fingers! It’s nothing serious, but makes arting sorta hard haha

Anon said:You should draw more kiribaku kids it had me really interested and brought out my happy

Should I 👀👀👀 an ugly word, let’s try with could next time shall we - that said, seems like yall really did like something that for me was a one time thing! I might get back on them in the near future, just because that post seems to have blown up way more than I had anticipated haha

Anon said:ahhhhhhh i absolutely love your art. i've been feeling very irritated lately and your kiribaku / kiribakushima art really helps calm me down.

This makes me super happy to know!!!! Oh my gods!!!!!! I hope life has stopped getting on your nerves in the couple days it took me to answer, anon!!!

Anon said:Headcanon: kirishima plays dream daddy

To be honest I don’t know anything about that game aside from “it’s a dating sim” and “it’s gay”, but either way to me it sounds more like something Kaminari would play hahaha

Anon said:Hey Fran! I recently caught up with the BNHA anime thanks to you (still have to get around to the manga) and I loveeee itt so much (pretty much adopted like 20 kids😂) have a lil question tho, in your AU/bnha comic thingy are Bakugo and Midoriya finally like... "okay" friends? Or is Bakugo still acting like he hates the poor boy? Thanks in advance and also absolutely love your art~😍

WEEEEHHHHYYYYYY I’m glad you decided to check it out, anon!!!!! But, I’m sorry I’m gonna need you to be more specific here since I don’t have any “ongoing” AU for that fandom atm - exactly which comic are you referring to?

Anon said:I've been restraining myself from going on Tumblr to once a month max for like a year or so now because it was exams and then I had a new year (MY LAST YEAR) of high school to worry about, and I know me. When I go on Tumblr, I stay on Tumblr for literally an entire day. Or more. And then I accidentally stumbled upon your stuff today and wasted (thoroughly enjoyed) a day of scrolling through your art and asks. I never knew I shipped bakushima so hard until today. Thank you for your beautiful art.

AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I’m so happy you decided to use your one day for my blog omfg !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you so so much for this ask, it made me really super happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anon said:do you know the song that is playing when endeavor is fight the winged nomu? ive tried looking for it but I can't seem to find it. thanks if you know it. its fine if you don't. btw you're amazing

Eeep sorry anon this ask is so old omfg I hope you found your answer somewhere else - also because I’m actually the worst person in the world to ask about soundtracks orz so, like, double sorry o

Anon said:A cute kirikamibaku thought to hopefully help cheer you as you wait for your hand to heal again: the three of them going out to a restaurant and Denki trying to subtly convince the other two to order something he wants to try when he can't decide what he wants to eat. Whenever he succeeds, he ends up eating just as much off their plates as his own.

This has actually been cheering me up for days now so thank you !!!!!!! Also because I’ve been thinking about Bakugou giving in but making it super spicy out of spite and honestly that’s the funniest thing hahahaha

Anon said:MATSUHANA🌸🌸🌸🌸

IT’S INDEED A SHIP THAT EXISTS! A GREAT ONE TOO!!

Anon said:I can't stop thinking abt that one anon that sent you "Batsuki Katsuki" and I'm losing my fuckin mind over it oh my god but anyway hello I love ur art I hope you have a good day ( ˘ ³˘)♥

THANK YOU!!!! I hope you’ll have a great month, anon!!!! *O* and also tbh same I randomly remember it and laugh by myself thank you anon for that gem I’m never getting over it haha

Anon said:I live for your bakukirikami art. I never had an ot3 until these boys, and they're just so so good. Do you think any of them ever gets insecure/jealous about the other two's bond in the relationship? I feel like if anyone would it might be Denki? But I dunno, because the way you portray them I like to think that they all actually just love watching each other be cute and bond and stuff.

Yeah that’s how I see them!  You know how, like... when you’re friends with two people and they’re friends with each other and you look at them being silly together and you’re like boy I’m so glad I have both of you in my life and that I can have you both at the same time and that you can be silly and adorable and happy together too - that’s exactly how I portray the bkk, only it’s romantic instead of platonic haha

Anon said:Your art has inspired me to write some BakuKiri / KiriBaku bless!!!! I'm also writing KiriBakuKami as well, thank you so much for the gorgeous art!

THIS IS THE BEST SORT OF ASK!!! THE BEST!!!!!

Anon said:Hello! It's the anon that asked about posting your art online for the first time. Thank you so much for answering my questions! That means a lot to me. I'll definitely take your advice. You made me feel a lot better about posting my stuff online. I'm gonna go ahead and draw the things that make me happy and,, hopefully I'll find people that like it like me!

AAAAHHHHHH I’m happy I could help!!! And I’m sure you will, anon!!!!! I hope you’ll be able to have a great time in whatever community you decide to be part of *O*

Anon said:I was feeling slightly uck but then I was like "you know what would make you feel better" and I just started scrolling through your blog and HONESTLY you are a blessing I feel a lot better and lighter and looking at your blog is literal self care for me now I love you and I hope you have a fantastic day

Sob thank you so much for this ask ;A; aaahhhhhhhh!!!! I’m so happy I can help you like that and this made me feel great back when I first read it (and also now that I’m rereading it, honestly!!!) so thank you for making my days better too, anon!!!!

[theclocks]

My Year of Living Horologically

This blog is written by Tumblr mandates and so actually “begins” at the bottom or first entry, and “ends” here, at the top or last entry. This is not so good in my opinion but there it is. 

So I am writing two introductions, one here at the last entry, as well as the introduction I wrote when I added the first entry. I am doing these two introductions because I don’t think anyone will be able to do what tumblr wants them to do, which is to scroll down, at fairly slow page re-loading speeds, for over 350 entries to the “real” beginning of this blog. 

It’s a shame that If you start reading here and continue to scroll down, all the entries will be backwards, but I am guessing that’s the way you will do it. Even I can’t do otherwise unless I am on my desktop, as my ipad can’t handle it (needs to reload pages from the very beginning, loses the place, etc.). And even at my desktop the blog takes a bit to load each new batch of pages correctly.

Whichever way you do it, when you do scroll, I have set up “endless” scrolling rather than separate pages, so you can seamlessly go deeper and deeper into the past.

My primary interest in antique clocks is that I just think they are cool, but these machines that “tell time” do raise the fascinating subject of time itself. Physicists can’t completely figure out why time has to go from past to future at all. They think what we call “past” and “future” events should be viewable at one time, “like a mountain range is all in sight at one time” is how I have heard it described. Or that it should be able to be experienced in both directions, forward and back, equally well. 

But when we experience our lives there seems to us to be a direction to this experience, “from the past towards the future”, or that one thing “came before” another, and people have suggested that maybe this sensation arises from us being part of a universe or reality that is (unrelatedly) evolving from a more ordered state to a less ordered state. 

It does seem reasonable that the otherwise inexplicable nature of our experience might be linked to entropy, that this “arrow of time” which people commonly describe might refer to the occurrence and “direction” of entropy. (As any physicists reading this will be quick to tell you, I am not a physicist.)

Entropy: PHYSICS:

1. A thermodynamic quantity representing the unavailability of a system's thermal energy for conversion into mechanical work, often interpreted as the degree of disorder or randomness in the system.

2. lack of order or predictability; gradual decline into disorder. Qualifying time might be in the domain of language only, (and to some extent so is quantifying it, especially if mathematics is only a human construct, as some people believe: A human “art” or “language” with no absolutely no existence outside of humanity). 

But if our poets using language to qualify time were inaccurate or imperfect, we had yet more trouble quantifying time well, because we could not find a way to reliably measure equal-length individual packets of it, so that we could then count the packets. But we did have a persistent desire to describe “experience” or “reality” sequentially, (which arguably requires some kind of quantification), and collectively had been trying to do that since prehistory.

And this is where timekeepers enter the picture. In antiquity there were sundials which measured movement of the sun across marks on a disk, then water clocks which divided time up into individual drops of water, or periods it took to empty a vessel. We had sand timepieces like hourglasses. There were attempts to count the hours using oil lamps and candles with marks on them. There were clocks with weighted strings whipping back and forth (foliots), arms or wheels swinging back and forth (balance wheels). And they were all unreliable.

Later on, there was no technology to make “mainsprings” yet, but weights were used to pull gears (which we understood and could make), which could link a clock’s working “movement” to an indicator like a bell or a hand. But there was no good way to regulate the speed of these gears. These inaccurate methods lasted until Galileo and later Huygens developed and expanded their ideas about the pendulum.  

“..The first mechanical clocks, employing the verge escapement mechanism with a foliot or balance wheel timekeeper, were invented in Europe at around the start of the 14th century, and became the standard timekeeping device until the pendulum clock was invented in 1656.”

The story goes that Galileo was sitting in church watch a lamp swing back and forth on its chain, and later it became clear to him and Huygens that the weight of the lamp (or pendulum bob) didn’t affect the rate of the swing. And the distance the weight had to travel only speeded up the rate of the swing. 

These findings were counterintuitive and amazing. They found that the materials didn’t matter either, that other variables didn’t matter much, that in fact all that mattered to the period of the swing was the length of the chain or rope or rod. And that back-and-forth period remained exactly the same as long as the chain or rope or rod didn't change length. A reliable, predictable, countable, manageable set of oscillations.

This was pure dynamite. Because we already had gears to alter various ratios as we needed to, soon it was the same all over Europe: A human somehow does the work of raising a weight. The weight is allowed to drop which turns gears, which move indicators like clock hands or a bell’s hammer arm, but the gears are timed by the swing of a pendulum, as the work that the human did winding the weights up high is parceled out in equal amounts as the weights drop lower.

Almost all the clocks shown here in this blog work on that principle. The pendulum in these clocks is a rod or a thread, with a weight on the end. There’s a flexion point or pivot or a place where a thread or rod is attached at the top of the clock “works”. On the weight-driven clocks shown here, a weight is wound up to the top of the case and allowed to fall. Or a spring is wound up with a key and allowed to unwind. 

And the pendulum swinging back and forth rocks a C-shaped assembly with two edges. It takes one little edge, a “verge”, off one side of a gear on its swing in one direction, and moves another edge of the same assembly off another part of the same gear when the pendulum swings the other way. Tick. Tock.

This gear that is in contact with the edges of the C-shaped assembly is powered by the weights or spring that we wind up, and is called the escapement gear or wheel. It wants to spin around (escape) going very fast, dropping the weights in a matter of seconds. But it’s not allowed to do that, it is allowed to escape only in equally divided increments, by the equal side to side movement of the pendulum. Spin tick spin tock spin tick spin tock.

These pendulum clocks that worked like this were still produced right up to around 1930, when electricity became ubiquitous. Most of the clocks I own are older than that though, from almost two hundred years old to one hundred years old. They have been repaired before, and have been run when they should have been oiled, and have had various (sometimes impressively bad) things and conditions damage them. And yet they run. 

Once I asked my wonderful 82 year old German clockmaker and “clock mentor” how long a clock like these could continue to run. He explained to me that when a clock like these has a worn out hole, you tap a bushing into the hole and the hole becomes like new. And when a pivot (a gear’s axle) wears out, you make one or put one in, and it’s just like a new one. And so, he said, especially with the new synthetic clock oils and ultrasound cleaning, there’s no reason why clocks like these couldn’t run for five hundred years.

It reminds me of the funny story of the guy in an antique shop, looking at an old hatchet. And the shop owner comes over and says “You know, that was George Washington’s very own hatchet, the exact one he used to chop down the cherry tree.” And the guy says “Wow, really?” and the seller says “Yep. Of course, it has had three new handles and two new heads since then.”

I have been asked “Why antique clocks of all things?” and I guess it’s because I just like these busy little wood or brass machines which reside in small containers of very nice furniture. And I like photoshopping pictures of them, too. I like to buy the clocks that need fixing, and to me they seem grateful and look impressive when I fix them up. So I fix up the cases, clean the movements and oil them, and do some simple repairs on the movements. If I can’t get the things running right, I drive the works over to Gerd’s clock repair shop. 

This has been a good system for about two years, and though I do have a few more clocks to rehabilitate, I have run through my stock and most of them are now fixed, which is why I wrote up this blog. I also wrote this blog with all the pictures as someday it might help my son piece together what all went on with these old things, so he can work with them himself if he wants to.

I don’t know how many clocks I own, though I could easily count them; it is in the neighborhood of forty five. I have stopped buying “new” old ones (pretty much), as my storage situation has become critical. I don’t have them all out running at once, but have a few out for a couple of weeks at a time, so I can focus on them and enjoy them more. And sometimes I discover something that still needs to be done on them. At some point I'll sell the ones I no longer want on ebay, or give them away, but I am in no rush to do that. 

SO here on tumblr, for everyone’s delectation, is a reasonable representation of many of the clocks I have bought and fixed up. In addition, at the very beginning of the blog there are some pictures of clocks I can’t afford but are beautiful. In this blog I am putting the ebay auction photos first, right above the narrative for them, and then my own photos above that. 

And SO this post is actually the “last” post but to get to the first post and read the blog in the correct sequence, you must scroll down ~350 posts to the beginning of the blog, then start reading and looking “up” at the pictures, and come that way all the way back up to here, the end. Or you can read everything backwards. But either way, If you’d like to read about the fixing up of old clocks, you’ll have some fun here or get some napping done. And all is well.

Here’s a list of the clocks which are on this blog, but they are only approximately in this order, even if you were to read the blog “correctly” from the first post at the bottom up to the last post here. I posted the clocks in a slightly different order than this table of contents. In these actual blog entries I ended up (immediately below) with the Rosalind, and before that did the Sessions entries. So this table of contents is in the order I bought the clocks, but here on this blog it is just to show what there is to see. 

Wm. Gilbert, “Royal”

E. Ingraham, “Polka---“, which I call the “Oriental”

New Haven, which I call the “Mystery Clock”

Seth Thomas, “Adamantine”

E. Ingraham, which the seller called “Majestic”

Wm. Gilbert, “Hobart”, which I call the “Black Sabbath”

E. Ingraham, “Amazon”

Ansonia, “Clayton”

Seth Thomas, “Tombstone I”

“Swiss Snowflake” balance wheel barley twist table clock, Fabrique d'Horlogerie de Fontainemelon (Fontainemelon, Switzerland), from England

F. Kroeber, shelf clock, which I call the “Witch Hazel”

Waterbury, steeple clock, which I call the “American Gothic”

Green Onyx French clock (from England) which I call the “Hagia Sophia” 

Seth Thomas, cast metal shelf clock, which I call “the Empire”

Seth Thomas, “kitchen” or “parlor” shelf clocks: Green (mahogany, now stripped), Dark brown (oak, now wrecked), and Tan (walnut “Eclipse” movement now in the old green painted mahogany case)

Clarke - Gilbert, Ogee

Waterbury, small “cottage” shelf clock which I call the “Train Clock”

Forestville, brass fancy hourglass shaped eight day movement (now in Jerome case)

W. Gilbert, “1807” 

Ansonia, “Pompeii”

Brewster - Ingraham, steeple clock

Jerome, double door ogee case now housing Forestville fancy movement

Seth Thomas, which I call the “Hex” half column shelf clock

Hamburg - Amerika, German shelf clock

Ansonia case/Ingraham movement, “Decorated Gothic I”

Ansonia, “Rosalind”

Cuckoo I

Seth Thomas, “Tombstone II”

Cuckoo II

Gustav Becker, “free swinger” wall clock, German

Cuckoo III

Ansonia, “Decorated Gothic II”

Sessions, which I call the “Andalusia” “Al-Andalus”

E & GW Bartholomew I, wood movement and case

E & GW Bartholomew II, case, wood movement 

Sessions, No. 639 black mantel case

Pink marble/gold leaf French boudoir case with Red marble dial and movement  

Morbier Comtoise I, movement, bell, hands, weights, pendulum and bob from France

E. Farcot, black and gold fixed pendulum Brocot escapement wall clock, from France

Morbier Comtoise II, with dial, surround, hands, bell, and doors, from France

Ansonia, “St. Clair” 

Black calcite French Empire “Brocot” escapement mantel clock, which I call the “Egyptian” (French, from England)

E. N. Welch, “Flotow” black mantel with columns

Seth Thomas, four column weight driven brass movement shelf clock

Elam, black calcite French clock, from England

Ansonia, Gold-Tone mantel clock

Waterbury, “Black Walnut Extra Gothic Pillar” shelf clock

 Here is some important information for family:

At the real beginning of this blog is information about how my “Clock Histories” document, with all the facts and dates of all the clocks, not just what is here on this blog, is stored and how it’s used, and here is that information once again:

“There is a complete photographic record of these clocks and their fascinating respective evolutions on my main computer in the Pictures file under “Clocks”, in which file each clock has its own folder. 

And in the Documents file on my main computer there’s also a “Clocks” folder which includes a reasonably updated version of this document. Also in the Documents file on my main computer is a “Table of Contents” folder of the clocks I have bought in the order that I bought them.  (And now, there are two separate backups of all these files on my two external hard drives, as well as in “Time Machine” files on those same hard drives.)

When you are looking up information about a particular clock in the “Clock History” document, you might find it easiest to first look in the (separate) Table of Contents document, which is arranged in the order of purchase, to know approximately where it stands among all the clock purchases, like “at the beginning” or “about in the middle” and see what other clocks it’s near to. Then you’d come to the main Clock History document and scroll down until you find it identified there under its heading. You do have to somehow know the names of each clock. 

It’s not a perfect organizational system, but when you have found a clock in the main history document, all that clock’s history is right there in that one place, with the dates progressing in time as I did more on that particular clock. When that clock’s development ceases, the entry ceases, and then comes the next clock I bought and all of the information on that clock also arranged chronologically.

And so, the order of the Table of Contents document and the order of the headings in the main Clock Histories document should be the same.

So for any clock, you’d go to see approximately where it falls in the narrative by looking at the Table of Contents doc. Then you’d come to the main narrative to read about it. And for pictures of the clock, you’d go the the Pictures file on my main computer or back up drives, open the “Clocks” folder, and then look up the clock you are interested in by name (they are currently arranged not by chronology but by name). 

It might be diverting to be reading the narrative about the clocks on one screen or device while viewing the pictures on the other.”  

[kazzouli-blog]

I have a genuine question here, and any feedback is welcome:

Why do we have to be so... at war with each other about the fandoms we're in, even over things like differences in shipping or whatever? It seems too tiring for us to be concerned with. I don't care for or support Loudcest/Lewd House, for example, but I don't see a reason for me to go out of my way to hunt down/insult the people who do. I happen to know a fair amount of people who are into that stuff, or people in general who ship things I don't, and they're perfectly fine human beings. Some of which who have even changed my perspective on these matters, and for that I’m very grateful. They like something I don't, and that's just how life is. You can't control how people feel or prevent them from enjoying what they do. There're always going to be people who see things differently from you, and the sooner you accept that, the more at peace you'll feel. I'll have some things I don't care to see pop up on my dash, but I just keep scrolling because I enjoy the rest of the content I see there and don't want to cut ties with someone because of a couple of things I disagree with. (As a disclaimer, I understand there are people with sensitivities that really prevent them from being able to continue to follow people who show something that make them upset, and I totally get that. I just think it's a bit unfair to antagonize blogs for what they like, within reason.)

Moreover, I also know that there's the issue of younger people being subjected to more adult material on the internet. Say some kid who likes a cartoon wants to look up their favorite character as reference to draw them or something, and in the search results pops up NSFW stuff. It's certainly bad that they have to see something adult-oriented they weren't even looking for in the first place, and that can really mess up how they feel about it, but I can't say that's at the fault of the artists/supporters of the art. It's the filters on the websites that they're using that is failing to differentiate SFW content from NSFW. You can contact the staff of these sites to try to help better the environment in that sense when you come across lewd art with the safe search filter on. It's definitely impossible to have a perfect system that will block out everything, but there are still plenty of improvements to be made.

I would strongly recommend that we bear in mind that we're on the internet. It's a fantastic platform that lets us connect with people across the globe and see wonderful content we love that we otherwise wouldn't get to find, but it's still a really, really dangerous place to be in. You have to be careful when you're on here, as well as start to desensitize yourself from more explicit content and harsher realities for the sake of your own mental health and tolerance. There are tons of websites also that provide exclusively SFW content that you can limit yourself to. In the scenario I made about the child wanting to find a reference picture, there are fan-made wikias that only include screenshots and official artworks of the characters and settings. Maybe make it so that they can rely on those sites specifically for that purpose, and avoid generic search sites such as Google, DeviantArt and tumblr.

Basically what I'm trying to say here is that so much of the drama that we all involve ourselves in is entirely unnecessary. The less you go picking fights or jumping into active ones, the much better you'll feel - and I'm saying this out of personal experience. I used to have a tumblr where I got heavily involved in those crowds where all we did was fight with each other. My stress levels went through the roof and my depression couldn't have been any worse. I hit such a horrible low in my life that I deleted my tumblr and decided to never go back. While I eventually did come back, I swore to myself that I would turn over a new leaf and not associate myself with the discourse and arguments that I used to hop onto; and boy, I am so much happier as a result. I ignore the things I don't like and just share the stuff that I do, simple as that. I think it'd be better for all of us to just accept our differences and treat each other with the respect we all deserve. So long as we're not hurting anyone, why should we feel shame on the things we enjoy? Just live your life and have fun; our time on this Earth is too darn short to get so worked up over the more minor problems of things we love.

Any of you who might feel I’ve targeted you personally with my post, please don’t! I don’t mean any harm with this; I’m just throwing in my own two cents (and this is probably the only time I’ll ever talk about this on here. I’ll only share SFW content for you guys and I don’t intend on changing that). I totally get it if any of you don't want to support me or my blog anymore for what I've said here, because you're perfectly entitled to your own feelings. But please consider some of the things I said here for your own sake. Kindness and tolerance really go a long way for everyone around you. :) Have a wonderful day guys!

[airoasis]

10 great websites with Free Stock Photos and Images

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10 great websites with Free Stock Photos and Images

K, so I wanna exhibit you in these days about 10 rather first-class web sites where that you may get free inventory pix. And after I imply free, it can be free stock graphics under the ingenious commons cc0 license, because of this that the photographs on these websites are in the public area, which let’s you utilize these pix with out a restrictions, even in your industrial work. Actually, you don’t even have to furnish attribution, although I think it will be quality in case you try this, because these persons give you these inventory photographs at no cost.So the primary one who I want to assist you to see is pixabay. Pixabay is a very exciting website and if I do a search here for, shall we embrace, trade and i click on Search, then I get right here all forms of photographs, including Shutterstock, so that you just, you understand, like do not go into that. But for illustration right here we have a jetplane after which right here you see all varieties of other images around that subject. Once more, Pixabay additionally suggests some stuff from Shutterstock, making an attempt of course to assist you to purchase some stuff, however as one can find there’s a vast sort of airplanes and jet fighters and engines.Here’s an awfully exceptional picture. And that you may simply register and down load these images, yeah? Then Unsplash. I like Unsplash quite a bit. It’s entirely exclusive type of pix. It can be from all types of photographers. And this is for instance through a guy referred to as Gerard Moonen. And you simply uh… I imply this is, that is like fairly stunning. This is from Aurlien Bellanger and also you just scoll by means of and in Unsplash they just keep including snap shots from unique photographers and as you’ll discover, the exceptional of those pix are particularly fine.So, you can find the hyperlink to Unsplash additionally below the video. By the way, all of the links to all the sites that i am displaying are under the video. Then right here you have Jeshoot. Very interesting title. Jeshoot.Com. Sorry, Jeshoots.Com. And right here that you could simply choose some subjects. So, let’s consider making ready food for the kitchen or in the kitchen. You can justs, you know, scroll by means of the pics. This is… These portraits, I suppose, are all from Jan Vasek. He’s customarily Czech or… Let’s examine. Information by writer, bla bla bla. Yeah, he’s the founder of Jeshoots. 24 12 months old dream Jan Vasek. Jeshoots! Very, very, very nice website. Then right here, that is, snapographic.Com. Also here you have some interesting portraits. Like for instance this, you would, like, you could use it for a heritage or some thing you wish to have.And that you may additionally scroll categories. Like, let’s take Textures. And here you will discover all types of textures if you need to your video some pleasant, you understand, historical past, you could all in finding that right here. One other pleasant website is travelcoffeebook.Com. This can be a bit a weird photograph, however right here, that is like several kinds of travel photographs and that i mean here, you’ll find all types of stuff, from Asian snap shots to, you understand, here Nepal and here Taiwan and they get brought very normally. Like that is from last week I suppose, the 5th of January 2015 and i believe they are brought once every week. And as you’ll discover, there is all kinds of pictures. And especially if you need images for backgrounds this is also a excellent internet site.However you could additionally, you already know, like, just exhibit pictures off in your internet site if you have a website about mountains. Right here you go. Then a further nice website is pexels.Com. Right here you even have… Like, right here this is a very great black and white, for illustration. And as you will discover here, it says CC0 license, free for personal and commercial use, no attribution required. All very first-rate images additionally and these are by and large additionally nature. Then I do not know how you can precisely pronounce this effectively but it is something like gratisography.Com. Anyway, the link is down beneath. And here also like a large type of all kinds of pix. As you can find here, there is also some, like, kind of art type of photographs that one can find here to boost your blog posts or something, you recognize, like, which you can simply scroll by way of. And this is from Bells Design. Then there may be stokpic.Com. They have additionally, like, a vast, huge form of all forms of pictures in a sort of a grid variety of mode. And here you, once more, for example you will see that the trendy one hundred pix that are uploaded. And again, simply scroll by way of.For those who promote footwear or you’ve gotten a blog about sneakers, that you would be able to, you know, like, take this photo or if you’re in wellbeing food then for instance which you could get this picture. And again, you know, they are all free. Then there may be publicdomainarchive.Com. All these graphics, again, are also for free and right here you could have for illustration old images as good. Here. Like every forms of quite funny photos: old books, all forms of stuff.And which you could also get a top class account and you then bulk download all the snap shots from the general public area archive. So that might be exciting. I believe it’s, let me see, this… 50, 50 greenbacks a yr if you happen to sign up now. Good, everyone knows what signal up now method. It means sign up now and eternally. We all know the trick. Often it’s 120 dollars a year. I’m not definite that should you buy a full year now in case you ought to pay the subsequent year one hundred twenty. But again, this internet site also has a large amount of public domain stock pics without spending a dime. And the last one I need to show you, is picography via Hidden Depth. And likewise here there’s some rather, really satisfactory, exceptional fine snap shots from all kinds…Observe… Yeah, also here there may be different photographers from which that you would be able to… I mean, look at this, Dubrovnik. This can be a beautiful snapshot. And it offers you also the data of how the %was taken. So, this used to be my list of some quite nice web sites the place which you could get free inventory photos. Simply assess it out and determine out the links under the video where you can get extra know-how on these web sites. I simply wanted to show you this. Among the persons that watch my videos are builders, builders of websites and it can be at all times just right to know, you already know, like that there is a fairly good quantity of pics that you can use, even for customers, which are for free. So i’m hoping you revel in these web sites and simply examine out if you should use something from them, yeah? Ok, that is it. .

[purified-zone]

1. Always post the rules. 2. Answer the questions given by the person who tagged you. 3. Write 11 questions of your own. 4. Tag 11 people. 

Okay. I’ve been tagged by @some-triangles​. Here’s the post they tagged me in.

Scrolling down, I first saw the questions @some-triangles​ answered thinking I would be able to answer them. Because of that, I’m going to answer at least one.

0. If you could beat up literally anyone, right now, with zero repercussions, who would it be?

i would beat up, in part for indirectly making me break my several-days-now angst-charade of blogging silence that i’m pretty sure absolutely nobody even noticed

and also for this clear dueling proposition,

guess who i’m referring to,

guess,

it’s @some-triangles​

i am going to beat up @some-triangles​ with zero repercussions

you have only yourself to blame!!!! you tagged me!!!!!!!!!!!!

1. Which facet of online discourse makes you the least comfortable?

and fridge-horrors adjacent to that

2. How quickly can you figure a tip?

um, i do like 20% or something usually

3. Are you proud of your heritage? If so, should you be?

I’m half white and half Japanese.

you tell me pal

4. What’s your fursona?

Ant-Man was a good movie.

5. What’s the best sandwich you’ve ever had?

Probably something that doesn’t even qualify as a sandwich. That or some kind of BLT with fried eggs in it. Oh, I do like fish filet burgers. Those are nice.

6. If you had the opportunity to leave your body and become an incorporeal being that preys on the living, would you?

Depends on what you mean by “preys on”. If it could be made into something objectively funny then yeah

7. What’s the last notable interaction you had with a stranger?

I met a guy at TooManyGames who I played ARMS with against while waiting for the Vinesauce Q&A line to go in. He seemed vaguely annoyed by some of my shit but he’s in my Switch friends library, so.

8. Have you ever made a shrine?  If so, to what?

What?

Probably, but only digitally. I once built a giant metal birthday cake in Terraria for my friend Jane. I’m sure I’ve probably done something stupidly shrine-like in Blockland for something but I can’t think of anything. Probably not, actually.

9. Favorite wrestling move?

the SLAM DUNK

10. Do you have a type?  If so, what is the least convenient thing about it?

Man, Ice may have some good offensive moves, but good god does it have a lot of weaknesses. Every single one of its defensive weaknesses is an extremely common offensive elemental type, and it has so many. I wouldn’t have it any other way, though.

11. If you could switch lives with one rap artist, living or dead, who would it be?

Um, Mike Shinoda? He’s both the same ethnic mix as me AND is The Linkin Park Guy so...

as for 11 questions, uh

1. How do you emotionally prepare for realizing you SUDDENLY no longer genuinely care about a character (deeply caring aesthetically/personally/attractedly/philosophically/idfkally) that you’ve spent the last few years kind of worshipping

2. Do you want to answer these questions? Really?

3. What motions does your mind go through to avoid being something “cringeworthy” in the eyes of a past or future self, and at what point do you just say “fuck it” and give up even trying?

4. What’s a good meemay?

5. Describe a low point in your life, and what made/makes it a low point

6. What did you do to leave that nadir? If it’s ongoing, what do you think you’ll have to mainly do

7. Would Wonder Woman have been better off with a different ending as opposed to Ares turning out to be Professor Lupin the whole time except with Dragonball Z final battle powers?

8. Is unacknowledged racism in Japan worthy of being forcibly brought out into the open? Is it racism even though it’s not really (directly, at least) about white supremacy? should we call it something else when discussing it? is language a big issue here

9. Fursona

10. Why should the next Elder Scrolls game absolutely take place in Elsweyr???

11. Is any artist actually capable of finding their own art attractive (other than Erika Moen she doesn’t count she’s an extraterrestrial with her own agenda)

I don’t really want to subject anyone to answer any of these hellish questions, so instead I’m going to tag YOU! the reader! for actually managing to get through this giant wall of helltext. Your reward is now having to answer these godawful questions. Congratules

12. Can you figure out why I went 10 billion years without posting anything?