Peter Solarz
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@mr-geargrinder
Portfolio Day makes for a good reason to update some pinned posts.
I am Gear! I primarily work with various goops for 3d printing and resin casting to make various trinkets and art toys and unusual dice from the 3d models I've made myself! I sell stuff online, at cons, and do the occasional commission!
The thing is, even if you were lucky and your parents taught you how to clean, they probably didn't teach you how to clean the stuff you clean stuff with, like brushes, mops, sponges, rags, and so on. Or how to clean your cleaning appliances, like a dish washer, clothes washing machine, and clothes dryer and its ducts (if you have a ducted dryer), or a carpet cleaner, vacuum, Or how to clean up clean messes, like spilled bleach or detergent.
My parents threw away all of these things (even the vacuum cleaners and the dryer) when they got too dirty to function, because no one even told them THAT they could be cleaned. Cost them thousands of dollars over the years.
All I'm saying is that cleaning is not intuitive, and not knowing how to clean is not a moral failing, but it is something you can learn.
I'm going to reblog this post with resources for learning how to clean things and how to clean cleaning things (I'm not at my desk at the moment). If you have any favorites, please feel free to add them in too!
I like this video because it does a great job of introducing the basic foundations of house cleaning (and because he doesn't use bleach, which is a common allergy in addition to being awful to inhale). He also talks a little about how to clean a vacuum. And why you shouldn't put grease from your pots and pans down the sink drain. I also love that he mentions that different houses and different people have different needs and different versions of what clean and cleaning looks like.
He doesn't mention though that the toilet seat comes off. I take my toilet seat off to clean under the hinges and clean the seat more thoroughly once a quarter.
This is another video from the same guy about cleaning and depression. This advice, especially at the beginning, can feel really really difficult and oppressive to hear. However, I find that it's generally pretty solid. But I'm autistic and so is he, so that gets a massive Your Mileage May Vary stamp on it.
I have a favorite part of this video. It's from 10:52 to 12:36. I think we could all use to hear that. There's a HEFTY pause after that one. I promise the narration does come back.
I'm also going to recommend KC Davis' book "How To Keep House While Drowning"
This is a pair of videos about how to correctly load and use a dish washer.
The first one is a quick 1 minute 30 second overview on loading. I can't find the exact video I'm looking for, so consider this a substitute for that. If I can find the one I'm looking for, I'll swap it in.
The second is a half hour deep dive on dishwashers and detergents. The short form of that is you shouldn't need to pre-rinse anything, detergent pods are overpriced and can cause problems, some dishwashers have a filter in the bottom that needs to be cleaned (but most don't), run your sink until the water is HOT before starting your dish washer, and put a little detergent in the pre-rinse dispenser when you're washing extra dirty dishes (or on the inside of the door if your dishwasher doesn't have a pre-rinse dispenser).
Favorite Scrub Brushes + How to Clean Them. The right tools for cleaning tasks make all the difference! Scrub brushes are great tools and it
Here's a blog post about scrubbing brushes and how to clean them.
And a video for all cleaning tools, including scrub brushes. This video does use bleach. I'll try to find some alternatives to that.
How to clean a front load washer (with bleach). This should be done monthly or every time you wash really soiled clothes.
With expert tips and tricks for all types of washers.
How to clean a top loader (without the removable agitator thing). This should be done every 1-3 months depending on you unit, or every time you wash really soiled clothes.
Regular cleaning of a top-load washing machine will prolong the life of the appliance and leave your laundry cleaner and brighter.
How to clean a top loader (with the removable agitator thing). This should be done every month, or every time you wash really soiled clothes.
This video is for pet owners.
These carpet brushes are a LIFE SAVER if you have dogs. This thing allows me to go from vacuuming about 4 square feet before my vacuum is full to vacuuming half the living room (I don't vacuum often enough. You should vacuum weekly, and I just can't.). I have to unclog the vacuum less often. It fluffs up some of the flat spots in the carpet. And I also use the brush to shampoo my rugs in the spring.
A spot cleaner (or a carpet cleaner with a spot cleaner attachment) is another life saver, ESPECIALLY if you can afford to splurge on a heated one. I see them at Goodwill or at yard sales occasionally, and they're worth picking up. The shark one in the video is great too.
This channel is gold. There's tutorials for cleaning EVERYTHING on there. Just go subscribe!
Gonna throw another potential resource at the end of this very long list, which may be potentially helpful for others like me who loathe videos. It's... the weirdest thing that has genuinely been helpful to me in housekeeping. Absolutely full of useful advice, and bizarrely still relevant in large part. (Though, caveat, research ANYTHING to do with chemicals or cleaning products more complicated than vinegar + lemon + water for modern information.)
It's America's Housekeeping Book (1941). Available for free download on the Internet Archive. (Large PDF file at the link here).
The LISTS y'all. The step by step lists. The emphasis on efficiency and arranging spaces for the least resistance possible. The basic concept of "take a tray or basket into a room when you are tidying up so you can put things that belong elsewhere on it and take them out LATER in ONE GO".
My ADHD-having ass could cry.
pour one out for a real one ill miss you garaks padded bra
Sometimes i can still hear his voice
this website is a massive nightmare. give me my friend back. they deleted him out of nowhere.
So I meant to make a post a couple days ago about how I'm running my own original RPG system (Magic Assholes in Space) at GenCon again and then I went and checked my events only to discover that they were already completely sold out yesterday, which is extremely flattering!
I don't think I'll be trying to add another event to meet demand. I already had people talk me out that when I was planning on submitting twice as many events.
However, if people don't show up, I'll gladly welcome walk-ins (and generic tickets) and maybe take on another player.
Either way, I'm going to attempt to post about MAIS a lot over the next few months and beyond.
Very excited to finally share some pictures of my Dread Pirate Frogerts build! I've been thinking about making this outfit for my Kermit for a while now, but the proper motivation to actually get this done was hearing that Cary Elwes was announced as a guest for my local comic convention! So with any luck Dread Pirate Frogerts will be getting to meet the real Westley very soon.
A shocking amount of work went into making this little outfit... I completely underestimated the amount of time I would need to put all this together. Though a good chunk of that was me getting way too wrapped up in perfectionism... ask me how many times I re-did the smocking on the sleeves (On second thought, don't, it's embarrassing). Here I thought I had been con-crunching with Piggy last year... technically, I only just finished Kermit today, and the convention starts Thursday. Lots of internal (and external) screaming was had with this build. I did film the majority of it, with plans to turn it into a full video and reel in the future... maybe once I've had a chance to recoup from aforementioned con-crunch.
mii space nine
In an effort to overwhelm myself with too many projects, I started up a monthly RPG club at my library. We had our first session a few weeks ago with Monster of the Week.
It was a little messy because I had TEN people, but I've since had several of them reach out and say how much they enjoyed it.
Everyone voted for Fabula Ultima to be next month's game, so I've been hurriedly reading through that to prepare a one-shot for that.
The thing that struck me all at once with this system is that it's everything 5e players pretend 5e is and what they badly want 5e to be.
You want an easy to learn system that newbies to RPGs can quickly grasp?
You want a system where everyone gets to make a mashup of only the coolest abilities that fit their character?
You want a highly adaptable ruleset that easily conforms to a wide variety of settings and genres?
You want an easy to manage, intuitive inventory system?
You want a game where you are supposed to make a rag-tag squad of weirdos saving the world?
You want ALL OF THAT AND MORE in an affordable single book with great layout and amazing art? Fabula Ultima Has It For You™
you just don't get shit like this with 8-episode streaming seasons
Printed and assembled a slightly too tiny Beetle Boi. I've already printed a larger one to make assembly and detail appreciation even easier, but I'm pretty proud of how well he came together for my first modeled from scratch mini Design credit to @kabewski and Flak Arcana
Last printing of Basilisk…? 💔
Summer '25 my print studio retired the metallic gold ink riso drum, so I printed as many copies of my beloved medieval manuscript inspired comic Basilisk as I could. Today I finally finished printing the rest of the inks on these copies! I don't know what the farther future holds for this comic (retirement? try to print it elsewhere?) but I do know that now I have a lot of copies to assemble. And you can buy one here!
my tribute drawings for Sam Kieth [THE MAXX]
The Evolution of Dice ! I’ve been wanting to do this one for a long time. Is it pretty understandable? Crits welcome!
Tumblr has deleted a lot of my older posts so please follow this other stuff to see more. INSTAGRAM / FACEBOOK / ETSY
This is the content I’m here for. A+
A cute presentation of gaming prehistory. If not for the quirks of ungulate anatomy, we might not have developed games around such a deep foundational reliance on dice.
Printed and assembled a slightly too tiny Beetle Boi. I've already printed a larger one to make assembly and detail appreciation even easier, but I'm pretty proud of how well he came together for my first modeled from scratch mini Design credit to @kabewski and Flak Arcana
Printed and assembled a slightly too tiny Beetle Boi. I've already printed a larger one to make assembly and detail appreciation even easier, but I'm pretty proud of how well he came together for my first modeled from scratch mini Design credit to @kabewski and Flak Arcana
some mini-boss cats from Mewgenics
the energy these have is like nothing I have ever seen
