It’s nice to have an entirely non-critical little dev project to play with again. This was a bit of fun to potter about with on a sunny Saturday in the garden–pulling my image posts from Mastodon into a single small gallery and badging them according to how they were tagged. No JS required, all static.
I assume every other GenX-era ‘introvert’ is also now looking at the free-exchange of autistic life experience on These Modern Internets and having a very Awkward Look Monkey Puppet meme moment?
I’ve seen a few different people recently re-start personal blogs and it made me want to tinker with static site tools again… I’ve also been wondering how many little painting projects I’ve started and just left half-done here on Mastodon (11. The answer is currently 11).
So… still very much a WIP (another, add it to the count), but technically this works, syncing up Mastodon toots and stats as purely static content:
It will be incredibly interesting, when all episodes are available, to rewatch and recontextualise Andor → Rogue One → OT as ‘The Mon Mothma Saga’.
Frantically googling ‘the song from that bit in andor you know the one’.
“[…] your appointed festivals I hate with all my being. They have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them. When you spread out your hands in prayer, I hide my eyes from you; […] Your hands are full of blood! […] Take your evil deeds out of my sight; stop doing wrong.
Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.”
Abbreviated for the sake of space. A subtoot for the modern age.
A little bit of a clean-up on the blade, and a first attempt at the dreaded eye lenses. At the most, absolute maximum, only 80% cross-eyed?
It has been weeks since I did any actual painting. I’m really not sure this effect on the pointy bit’s working, or even in keeping with the rest of the model, but it is ultimately more acrylic-on-plastic so I’m calling it a win!
I’ve binged so much of Adam from North of the Border’s YouTube over the last week that I somehow find myself in the possession of both a pack of Super Sculpey and a spool of armature wire.
Twice today I’ve seen the cover poster for a film called Holland and wondered why they gave Nicole Kidman such a crazy fake beard.
Finally thoroughly cleaning and reorganising my hobby desk. It’s unclear to me how I’ve come to own quite so many paintbrushes. At least 1.5 per month back in the hobby. Do they slowly accrete from airbrush overspray?
The notion that the age of Kings was over was a little bit silly in hindsight.
Didn’t progress past round one in the NYC Midnight short story competition, but the judges’ feedback is so good that I’m considering redrafting it and actually submitting somewhere. It’s been a long while since I had enough enthusiasm for a story to try a second take.
Starting to add some secondary colours now that Tyrion-paralysis has ended.
I always intended to go back to this one and do a finishing pass or two before submitting to the competition on MMF, but the thought of doing so put me off any hobbying at all for several days 😅. So I’m calling this guy done. This will be the hero shot. Also the first mini photo I’ve ever removed the ‘WIP’ tag from.
I need to find a way to use these colours in something.
Sketching in the light placement for Fancy Lad’s eventual Fancy Backside. Very rough sketch. (Please only squint while viewing 😅)
Head, shoulder, knee and toes (knee and toes). It may be a royal pain trying to colour-match freehand mistakes on a stippled shoulder gradient, but here we are. It’s all just a mix of the same two paints. How bad could it get 😬
And he’ll need those mittens, it’s cold in space.
Fancy Trousers time.