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Just Be Friends. Sung by Revlis.
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Ordinary People. Sung by Ducky.
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This!
It's been a very long time...
As the title says, it has been a VERY long time since I last did anything with M-Products! I'm sure that it's about time to continue SPoRM and work on other things!
The reason I've been away for so long is because I've been playing games and singing on Raidcall! It's really fun, and I totally recommend those of you who really have nothing better to do to come sing with us!! Download Radicall and sign up for an account. When you've signed up, search for To Eat and Sing (Room # 6933109). They're a great bunch of people who share the common want of entertainment and fun!
I won't be making promises, as I tend to forget about things so easily, but I will say that, from tomorrow onwards, I'll try to commit to writing more SPoRM! Vale really needs to go visit his sister, and they need to save the world!!
Other than that, I really hope everyone has had a great little holiday from their usual day-by-day. Christmas and New Years is always so much fun!! I had to work through it, but someone has to!
Keep smiling, guys!! Look out for the next chapter of SPoRM!!

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Hey guys! It's Marty here! Time for a small announcement! As you can see from the image above, it has something to do with the fantasy world! Wait.. What doesn't have something to do with the fantasy world, when it comes to M-Products?! Haha!!
So, after having the suggestion pop up from a friend of mine, I've decided that I'm going to make an M-Products Dungeons and Dragons game! Part of M-Products is to do with coming up with amazingly awesome things and sharing them with the world! Well, I'm going to come up with an amazingly awesome WORLD and allow that said world to be sculpted by myself and the players that walk the paths I pave for them.
Are you wondering how any of this has any relevance to M-Products? Well, I'll be recording the adventures to come and uploading them onto Tumblr for everyone to see. I will be making a new page dedicated to D&D information so that it can serve as a HUB for the players to recall where they had been recently, as well as to allow others to follow the story as a spectator.
What role will you have in all of this, Marty? Take a guess! I'll be playing the role of the Dungeon Master (DM). Stringing words together, to create a different world, is something I find easier to do than others. I'm nearly always consistent, and I'm generally very fair to the people around me. I've actually only ever played ONE game of D&D, and that was a long time ago, and I've since forgotten the finer details. Hah! Looks like I have reading to do!
Anyway! Let it be known that M-Products will play host to a game of D&D between friends. You are more than welcome to browse through all the updates and such, and, if you want to, you're totally welcome to take the story(ies) I weave to be your own.
I hope this all works out well! Keep smiling!
--Marty ---M-Products
Stop wasting money, Marty! But I'm so good at it!!
Banter between friends
Hey guys! Marty jumping in here! Time for a quick message for you!
Tonight, after I had recorded and uploaded M-Products' first podcast [M-PodCast] I went onto FaceBook and I gave each and every one of my friends on my chat list (at the time) a compliment! I simply said to each of them: "__(Name here)__!! You're looking great!! =)" Above are just a few of the replies I got.
I got things like: "Thanks, Marty." "You're so sweet!" "You've really made my night." "Let me grab my tissue box!" I didn't just compliment the girls, either! I complimented EVERY one on my chat list haha! The guys gave the casual "Huh?" or "What's this about?" hahaha!! Very funny!
I just wanted to show you guys that it's really easy to make someone's day/night a little bit better than it may already be. Whether you see them every day, or haven't spoken/chat with them for years, it doesn't take all too much time just to say to someone "Hey. You're looking great!" Put a smile on your friends' faces rather than a frown!
Also! YOU keep smiling, too!! This was Marty from M-Products! Hope you're all having a great day/night!!
--Marty ---M-Products
Looking to the Future!
Hey guys! Guess who it is?! You got it! Andrew!
Ok. So it's not Andrew... I just wanted to spice things up hah.. hah.. Well, you guessed it the first time! It's your favourite host with the most: Marty!! Welcome back to M-Products' Tumblr page. An exciting update for you guys (who actually follow me -.-) because there are plenty of things to tell you! Firstly, I'd like to say that the new microphone, which is a CAD GXL2200, is just amazing. I've been playing around with it, testing poppy sounds and how high of a pitch I can go before it dies. It's just the most amazing piece of equipment I've ever bought for recording things. Well... I haven't really ever bought any recording equipment before.. but still! It's amazing! I highly recommend it if you can get your hands on it for around NZD$200.00 because the sound quality is superb.
I'm going to start recording my updates after I've written them, so that, people who love me so much want to watch/listen to me doing the updates, they can. You can also listen to the audio version of this update here on M-Products' YouTube Channel. Now, you may be thinking: "Why would you need to record an audio version if there's already a text version?" or vice versa. Well, not everyone will want to come to the Tumblr page to get the latest news from M-Products, so they'll patiently wait for the YouTube Channel to have it so that they can just listen/watch instead of reading a huge wall of text. I won't judge. It's up to your self as to what media you'd like your information coming from. Some people prefer being told, some people prefer reading it, and some people prefer not finding out all together!
I've made another bid on TradeMe for a camera. This time it's a Panasonic HC-V10. Nice and cheap, going for around NZD$10.00. Second-hand, obviously - maybe even third or fourth-hand.. I don't really mind if there is damage to the exterior of the camera. The most important things to have perfect are the lens and the internal hardware. I don't plan to ever make videos more than 10 minutes long, so I'm not too worried about the battery life. If I don't win this time, I'll just keep looking until I can find a camera that's affordable and at least three times better than my phone's camera. It's all for you guys!
I don't want to make excuses, but work really has been tiring me out quite a bit, amongst other things. I've been neglecting to write SPoRM for some time, now, and I will be getting back into it when I have the chance to. I find it so hard to leave my story somewhere, even if I make bullet points as to what I'd like to happen next, and pick it up again. I really wish that I could live immortally. If I didn't need to sleep, or eat, or excrete, then I'd simply sit at my computer and type until I lost my muse or finished the story. If only. But, main point for SPoRM is that I'll be getting back into it!
On the subject of SPoRM, I was wondering if people would enjoy an audio recording of a reading of SPoRM chapter by chapter. I really want to show-off my new microphone, but that's not my only reason for wondering this. Even before coming up with M-Products, I had tried doing readings and uploading them to YouTube. I had read an entire chapter of a Jack Reacher novel (I don't remember which one), and it didn't seem to be too popular. I know it's uncommon for people to search for that sort of thing on YouTube, but, if you have the time, could you please send me some feedback on that? If you just used the "Ask Me Anything" on the right of the M-Products Tumblr page, you could give your response there. It may not seem like it's important, but I want to make it important, and so I humbly ask of you to take just a minute or two and let me know what you think about that. Please? ♥
To wrap things up, I'd like to say that it's nearly my best friend's birthday. She said that she'd be coming to New Zealand to visit (she lives in Australia) her family and friends here for a week or two. I've worked hard to make her a birthday present she'll definitely forget about and probably toss to the side and never look at until she cleans her room and finds it and becomes nostalgic. Where did I trail off to?... Ah, yeah! So I'm hoping that she'll still be coming to see us. It's unfortunate, but I'll be working through the time that she'll be here, so I can't spend as much time as I'd like with her to catch up on things and do friend-things like going out to eat lunch or going to the arcade to race each other or simply dancing on the street (my dreams get weird at times <.<) I'm really hoping that she'll come around for a bit. I really do miss the eff outta her!
Thanks for continuing to read my updates here on M-Products! To those of you who are just flipping through Tumblr pages, please do stay for a bit and take your time to enjoy my writings and randomness. To those of you who are new followers, I welcome you with an open page, and I hope that you'll enjoy all of the things to come to your Dashboard! This was Marty from M-Products. Keep smiling!
--Marty ---M-Products

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Hey guys! A long awaited (by nobody) update from your friendly host, Marty here at M-Products!
You may have been wondering where I've been all this time. Well, I've been looking to upgrade my equipment. I've been hunting and hunting and HUNTING for good equipment at low prices. Today, I've found a great deal right here in Wellington City! For NZD$370 I'm getting a CAD GXL2200 condenser microphone, a CAD Shield pop filter, a shock mount, an ART Mic Mixer (3-channel USB), and a microphone cable. You must be thinking: "Whatever! No way you'd be able to get all that for so cheap!" Well, there's a way! I managed it.
Other than looking for audio equipment, I've been looking at buying a video camera. After making my first video, I thought to myself: "No one wants to watch small video clips that look like they were made in the 80's." I decided, then and there, that I was going to get an actual video camera to do my recording. Gotta tell you, though... looking for a good camera for a low price is so hard to do in New Zealand... It makes me wish I were living in a bigger country - like the US or China.
I've been sifting through TradeMe in search of that right camera for me. There aren't many choices, and the choices that you do have aren't pretty. There have been a few gems, but I've been out-bid twice already. I hope that the saying "Third time's a charm" rings true for me haha
Anyway! This is just a quick update. Letting you guys know that you'll get to hear amazing quality audio from me very soon! Keep checking M-Products weekly! Keep telling your friends about us! Keep smiling!
--Marty ---M-Products
I'm so hungry!! Then make yourself some food! Nevermind. I'm not hungry anymore...
Everyone
Self-Reflection on SPoRM Chapter 3
Hey guys! It's your favourite host from the crew here at M-Products, Marty, again! Just want to share with you a few thoughts as well as how I felt about Chapter Three. So here goes!
I'm starting to fall in love with wearing button-up shirts, and slacks, all over again. I used to have to wear them when I was working for Mobil in Kapiti years ago. Since then, I haven't really been rockin' the look. Before that, I was wearing the formal uniform at high school. I've never really thought myself to look good in a shirt, before, but I'm starting to see myself in a new light. I have an InstaGram account that I use time to time. I took a couple of photos this morning, before leaving for work, and they turned out rather well (if I do say so myself :D) I may have to start wearing more shirts!
On other news, I'm slowly taking my overall interest away from gaming and moving it to entertaining. Starting the M-Products project was the first step to breaking my gaming addiction that I've had since high school and beyond. I simply don't find gaming as attractive as I used to, I suppose. I ran into an old friend of mine - once again, no names haha - and we got to talking about the games of today. He had asked me what I was doing these days. It's something that nearly always comes up in a conversation between people who haven't seen each other in quite some time. At least it does in New Zealand haha. I tell him that I'm just working a lot, as well as writing a story (SPoRM) and making videos (TTTMO). I also said that I was waiting for the next amazing game to come out. I said to him "I'm looking for a new game to play. Not 'new' new, like a recent debut, but a game I haven't played yet." He told me about how he was waiting for 'Watch Dogs', a game to come out on the PS4. Now, I've never been one for console gaming, I don't even have a PS3! He told me to check out the trailer for it when I got home, which I'll be doing after I write this, and see all its glory for myself.
I love how some people can make things sound so good. It's really a double-edged sword, though, as your expectations of the said thing will be raised by quite a bit compared to what it was before hearing about how 'amazing' or 'god-like' it is. I always try to see things in a positive light, and avoid making negative statements about things (like how people were talking about the gaming consoles of the newer generation - the XBox One and the PlayStation 4). I'm not saying that I don't get angry and swear someone's head off ever. Trust me. Nearly every night, as I drive home, and every morning, as I drive to work, I'll rage at 60% of the people on the road. Why? Let's just say that, if I could have a flying car, I'd lean my ass out the window and shit on each and every one of their windshields. There are some real bastards on the roads of New Zealand.
Recently my partner has been buying new clothes for me. First point I'd like to make: I'm a guy. I've tried to tell her so many times that I really don't need new clothes until my old ones are completely shredded to nothing or have holes big enough to show my nipples. She just doesn't seem to understand!! Second point I'd like to make: What the hell is up with the world's fashion sense these days? I had gone to pick her up after work, tonight, and had plenty of time before she actually finished working. I went into a few clothing outlets and what do I see? CRAP. CRAP, CRAP, and MORE CRAP! Ok ok. Maybe not everything is utter crap, but there is just SO much poop on the racks that I just couldn't stand to be in the shop much longer than a minute. Don't get me wrong. I haven't said anything about my being a fashion guru, or anything like it, but I at least know what I like to see. There was nearly nothing that I liked to see in those shops. It's no wonder there are so many male models, these days! The clothes just look much better and casual than the females' ... stuff.
I shudder to think of what the future holds in terms of fashion. The children of 90's and 00's kids are going to have such shit clothing *shakes head*
Well, let's get to business! No point in just typing everything that comes to my mind. We'd be reading for longer than you spend on 9GAG! (You know you do <.<)
So, what do you think about Chapter 3?
Chapter three... *sigh* Chapter three took me a much longer time than I thought it would take me. As I was finishing writing chapter two I had thought on where to take it. I thought I had definitely decided upon a single path on which to walk down. Nope. I ended up having to review my thought pattern and start it completely different to what I had in my head. Long story short? My brain melted writing chapter three haha!
Even if I say all that, I still like the way that I went about writing the chapter. I had already planned to give the characters introductions. Unfortunately, I'm still allowing the readers to see only silhouettes of my characters, as I haven't described them in any way other than subtle bits and pieces here and there. I'm really hoping that the readers aren't going to be disappointed when I finally reveal a full image of my characters. I know that it's happened to me, before, and I nearly stopped reading what it was I was reading.
To me, character development is what sets a good story apart from other texts. I always try to create feelings between my characters and the readers. I want to allow my characters to be loved by the readers, and not only be known as the main character, the support character, the villain, the extra. I don't ever want for the readers to just read my story. I'm not saying to stop reading if that's what's happening to you, right now, but that I really want to give the readers the chance to feel and relate to my characters. As in every story, there will be characters dropped off at certain points. It's completely fine to do so, as a writer, because you realise that the character has done their part in the story - whether it be an initiation, a support role, or one of many other things that characters not considered 'main' do - and it's time for them to leave the story either temporarily or permanently. I won't say that I'm afraid to do that to any of my characters. But, while they are still a part of the story, I will always give the reader a chance to relate to them and a chance to feel the same feelings that these characters feel.
It's really a big dream of mine to bring my characters to life in a reader's imagination. If I ever could make a character so easy to relate to, and feel for, that both the reader and myself would have the same image of the character in our heads, I think I'd be able to die a very happy man. That is truly a big dream of mine.
Back to chapter three, though. As I re-read the end of the chapter, I couldn't help but want to smile at the kind gesture that's so rare to see in the world, today. I think that, with this one gesture, I've given that much more depth to Vale's character, as well as the young boy, Jarelle, with his reaction to the action. I absolutely love interaction between characters. Every situation is always different, and, depending on who or where they are, things change and upset the flow of the story in ways that make the reader want to keep diving deeper and deeper into the plot. It just gets so exciting!
"From the space in front of his outstretched hands came a dim orange light. I watched the boy move his hands closer to the tinder that I just couldn't set alight. His faced seemed to be straining - the look of one trying to concentrate their vision on one single point - and I thought I could hear his breathing become irregular."
Sometimes I wonder to myself: Am I being too descriptive in my writing? I worry myself too much, wouldn't you say? Painting a picture with words is what every author wants to achieve, but, sometimes, I think that I'm using too many colours, or my paint brush is too thin. If I had more readers, perhaps I could get more opinions and criticisms. Until I do, however, I'll have to continue writing the way I do. I'll just have to hope that people who actually read the story will like it enough to keep reading it as more chapters come out. I guess it'll always be a worry of mine haha
Anyway! Thank you all for following me in writing my story. It's always a pleasure to bring these installments to you, and, if I weren't reliant on food and sleep and money, I'd keep writing and writing and writing! These self-reflections are also fun to do.
From the crew here at M-Products: We wish you an amazing rest of your day/night! Keep smiling and doing whatever YOU want to do!
--Marty ---M-Products
So, I was doing some scrolling endlessly down a website until I saw something I recognised. Yes. I go on 9GAG time to time. Deal with it! And I come across this gem. It really got to me, for some reason. I thought I'd share it with you guys, and maybe you could relate, too. It really made me think of my past, and the people that have been a part of my life up until now. There are people who have left me because of the way I am.
I can't say that I regret or wish that I'd chosen to change back then. I'm who I am, and I always will be who I am. There's nothing that would change that so drastically that it would be noticeable. I'll always enjoy playing games (and raging at games). I'll always hate people with an unfair advantage over everyone else. I'll always neglect worldly problems, and only care about what is going on around my person. I don't see myself ever changing for anything. Would you say that I still haven't grown up?
I'm 24 years old next year. I'm likely to become a father in the next few years, and I'd be focusing more on making money than having fun (something that I've always wanted to avoid...). All this because there's an unsaid rule when it comes to growing up. That is To assume responsibility of the people most important to you in your life. I really don't want to, though. It's this attitude of mine that has, I guess, made people leave me. I've never blamed them, and I never will, but thinking about them still does make my emotions swirl a little.
At times I find myself thinking a lot. I'll be doing something (things like browsing random websites, YouTubing, playing games, etc.) and I'll just stop all of a sudden. I've noticed this, before, about me. I've been told, since I was young, that I daydreamed too often. Would it be a daydream, then? I'm still unsure as to what to call it. I don't even want to name it haha.
Anyway! Before I really get into this topic, I'm going to stop. I hope you enjoyed the comic strip above. I found it really relative to myself. I'm not sure if you do, but it really does apply to a lot of people.
Keep having a great night! Keep smiling!!
--Marty ---M-Products
Hey guys! It's Marty again! Yeah. I know. It's always gonna be Marty. Who else is there?! Right. Let's move on!
I want to let you guys know that I've decided to focus on becoming an online entertainer. You know? I'm talking about becoming like the YouTube stars that everyone's come to love. I'm going to be the Asian Nigahiga! .... Ok. So that doesn't work. But I'll be trying to make a name for myself on the internet - and hopefully transition from that to something else in the entertainment industry.
I'm having a lot of fun with writing SPoRM, and also with thinking up ideas for future videos (I'm going to be getting a video camera really soon!) for the M-Products YouTube Channel! Everything seems, to me, to be moving rather quickly. I'm trying to take things nice and slowly, so that I don't overwhelm myself, but it's so hard to keep the excitement from bursting out of me! I'm really hoping that, one day, people all over the world will read my writing as well as watch my videos and listen to my songs. I may just be a random amateur indie story-writer right now, but I have the drive and determination to take myself to the world of the YouTube stars, and the bigger Hollywood names. I can really see myself getting there.
In the meantime, I'll be here, on M-Products, giving you and your friends smiles every time you visit. I'll be keeping everyone up-to-date with most of my projects and I'll be listening to your feedback (if you ever seen me any) to try improve on the quality of entertainment.
Keep coming to visit the M-Products team here on Tumblr, and please do check out the videos to come! We hope that your day has gotten brighter since you stopped by!
--Marty ---M-Products

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So... I was writing Chapter 3 - yes, I finally managed to find the inspiration - and I was well into it. I think I was onto my fourth paragraph before I actually realised it. I get a text from my friend, who will not be named, and he tells me that his dad has "just passed away." I stopped immediately.
I texted him back, thinking that he must've been joking or something. He texts back saying that it wasn't a joke. I told him that I wanted to call him. He didn't respond. I suggested that I should go see him, instead. He didn't respond. So I try to call him. Just so you know, I haven't seen the guy in a very long time - probably two years - and we don't talk often. It's not that we fell out, or anything like that, it's just that we're both really out of each others' ways. He lives quite far away from me, and we don't do anything alike. There's never a good enough reason to go out of my way to visit him.
Just wanted to let you guys know that, for now, I'm going to stop writing and go to sleep. I, to be honest, don't want to be writing with my friend's father's death on my mind. I hope that you can forgive me.
I... hope he's gone to a better place. The world we live on is pretty shit.
--Marty ---M-Products
Aren't you scared? Of course I'm scared. That's why I fight. Because I don't want to die. I still have things to do.
Luke and Guy talking by a campfire.
Tales of the Abyss