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tag list

here’s a list of things you can find on this blog, for your navigation convenience!

CRAFTS

trying my hand at various things! this will be updated as I post more crafts.

bookbinding

whittling

stamp carving

papermaking

film photography

ARTS

tags that might be of interest:

OCs

3D art

animation

effort tag (things that I put extra effort into, the Big Cool Pieces. some stuff in there is Old, but I was still very proud of it at the time.)

FAN ART

is tagged with the name of the piece of media. I’m not listing every one of them here, but they’re all easy to find.

#tag list

hey remember a few years ago when I made a pair of custom amiibo as a wedding gift for my friends

it always bothered me that I didn't have the time to make them as nice as I wanted to (I couldn't even properly clean up the prints, let alone paint them). so I finally remade them, as a birthday present this time.

did have to repair some parts of the prints with air dry clay, and learned that a tiny paintbrush takes a surgeon's precision to wield, but! I think they turned out cute

alternate angles under the cut:

#3d art #figurines #custom amiibo #3d printing #well. my brother's girlfriend did the printing I just modeled and cleaned up and painted them #effort #(since it's been a few years: the effort tag is for my Big Projects. it's not because I think people on tumblr search for that term lmao)#bit of a long post but I want to show them off properly. they were SO fiddly to paint #these ones don't have nfc chips in them so only the originals have actual amiibo functionality (and the wedding date inscribed in the base)#partly because I wanted those to still be worth keeping even now that they have updated versions #and because my brother's gf's printer had trouble with a non-level base layer. so I flattened it

panda that I whittled for a friend :] it's been fun making a little guy again

I followed this tutorial, but scaled up by 1.6

#whittling #panda #he's stained with pen ink because I didn't want to fully paint him. I like being able to see the wood grain and color #I'd say it turned out uh. Rustic and Freeform. with Character if you will #and it's 1.6 because this is a more advanced little guy than I've been doing to far #so working at a larger scale was a bit easier #and I thought I had a piece of wood twice the given measurements. but it was 1.6 so I had to Calculate Things #I'm pretty happy with how he turned out! and my friend likes him so that's what counts

hey look it's spring. I don't know whose van that is, it was just parked outside

(Kodak Gold 200 on Yashica FR I)

bonus garden friend:

#the bouquet colors aren't a coincidence btw my sister in law brought me those to celebrate my top surgery <3 #photography #we return to kodak gold my good reliable friend #and the realization that my camera isn't any worse off light leaks-wise than when I started #it just got darker out so I switched to iso 400 film and that was. more sensitive to light leaks. what a revelation #the gold was struggling when I used it in december but now it's back in its element #this roll of film was full of bangers but most of them are my nieces #so you're getting random aesthetic b-roll #and! a bonus garden friend #bird photography #pigeons #shrug. it counts. it's in there

blackbird time again!

(AgfaPhoto Color 400 on Yashica FR I)

#photography #film photography #bird photography #blackbirds #very very glad that the light leak didn't ruin this one #it's there but not catastrophically so

some residents of my local wildlife park being very good portrait models

(AgfaPhoto Color 400 on Yashica FR I)

#photography #film photography #bird photography #goats #(famously also a type of bird)#guinea fowl #also me!#I was gonna say I don't know if I've ever posted a photo of myself on this blog but there was that mirror selfie #with this one you can clearly see that I have a color palette though lmao #if you think the hat looks stupid like that: I agree. it just doesn't stay on when the hem is rolled #so. I have to wear it Like That if I want warm ears

what's better than a round little robin

TWO round little robins

(AgfaPhoto Color 400 on Yashica FR I)

#photography #film photography #bird photography #robins #I love these little guys they're so cute and loud

my next batch of photos will have a very unintentional common thread in which I realized the camera really isn't lightproof anymore

anyway geese on frozen river

(AgfaPhoto Color 400 on Yashica FR I)

#photography #film photography #bird photography #geese #these photos were taken on a film stock I've never used; in a leaky camera; with a zoom lens I find difficult to focus #on a day so cold that I had to try to operate the whole thing with gloves on #so I really wasn't doing myself any favors here #but! I took this walk with one of my best friends and we had a good time #and that's what counts #actually just after I took the pictures of these geese (there were a few more that didn't turn out quite as well)#we were talking about the importance of trying to enjoy the process more than caring about the results #and. considering that I feel like my results aren't really improving (lol)#it's a good thing I'm having fun

he, too, is a birdwatcher

(Kodak Gold 200 on Yashica FR I)

#photography #film photography #cats #the cat is my brother's (he was visiting for the holidays). his name is loki (the cat. my brother's name is not loki)#the drapey cloth in these pictures is actually a poncho on a mannequin #she's been part of my parents' living room for decades. her name is bella #there's a hyperrealistic life-sized toddler doll standing next to her too #so if you ever visit my parents. now you're prepared for that

to think I almost didn't take this picture and only did so to humor my brother when he pointed out this view. everyone say thank you to my brother

(Kodak Gold 200 on Yashica FR I)

#photography #film photography #aaand we're back to kodak and something a bit more colorful #I learned that I shouldn't shoot iso 200 in winter. almost none of my pictures from this roll are sharp #but it's what I had on hand so I used it #and even with the slight blur I still think this is a banger #also this is my first roll from the drug store mass processing lab that actually came back intact and with photos......#I think the quality is decent. I only had very minor color correction to do on the scans because they *over*corrected a bit on their end #(bit too contrasty and saturated)#but I usually spend hours editing the scans from my local lab that I get raw right out of the scanner so I'm fine with that

📯 Veste Oberhaus, Passau, late November 2025

(KONO! Color 400 on Yashica FR I)

#photography #film photography #I don't know what else to put in the caption here I was just very charmed by this letterbox #like. you have to understand we did a hike up to this place that was not insignificant in this weather #this is directly adjacent to (or even within?) the city but still pretty out of the way up on a steep hill. as fortresses tend to be #so I wasn't expecting a mail carrier to make their way out here to regularly empty a mailbox

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Passau, late November 2025

(KONO! Color 400 on Yashica FR I)

#photography #film photography #I'm not even catholic I just wanted to take a picture of the guy #and then saw that his stars look like the stars on my friend's balcony #so now they're a set #I tried very very hard to color match them. like I spent an embarrassing amount of time trying to dial in the exact shade of white #they're still not the exact same but it's good enough now