Words, Words, Words

Novice calligrapher. Accepting requests!

[eagle-writes]

Greetings to all!

I'm Eagle, and I am currently going through a calligraphy hyper-fixation stage, primarily in a celtic-ish hand. You can see my work under the "calligraphy practice" tag.

What this means for you is that if you've ever wanted your favorite phrase or sentence to appear in celtic-ish calligraphy, you've come to the right place!

The askbox is open for calligraphy requests. Previous asks are under the "you ask and Eagle writes" tag. Please only one request per ask, you may submit multiple asks.

NEW! If you would like to hold one of these cards in your hands, that is now an option! You can purchase previously completed cards or commission a custom card and get it shipped to you at https://ko-fi.com/eaglewrites/commissions

If you'd like to just leave me a tip, that would also be awesome! https://ko-fi.com/eaglewrites

Will write: profanity, other items that may be unsuitable for immature audiences

Will not write: derogatory terms, anything discriminatory (except discriminating against Nazis), or anything else that makes me wonder if you are, in fact, someone I'd be better off punching than befriending.

[carpe-aurore]

help ye olde local scribe

Hello! Raven the scribe here with some updates! Mom has been able to file for her green card renewal, although she still hasn't been able to secure a new job. That unfortunately means all rent and bills must be covered by me, and I fear a florist's wages aren't enough for everything. My younger brother has been able to settle down and stabilize with his medication since coming out of the hospital, although his condition makes it difficult to get anyone to hire him, and his current job doesn't give him many hours. All the major events and problems we've had recently means that we still owe over $1,000 in rent for February, and more still will be needed for upcoming bills. At this point, any and all help is truly appreciated! Thank you all!

Donate to Support Raven's Family in Tough Times, organized by Nayeli Leal

Hello! Raven the scribe here is having a bit of a tough time. Between mom having he… Nayeli Leal needs your support for Support Raven's Fam

[carpe-aurore]

Unfortunately, I got rough news still. We owe $816.46 for April rent still, and my mother's car insurance is due in a few days, which is about $250 that she definitely doesn't have right now. Losing the car insurance would mean losing our only mode of transportation. Any and all help is really appreciated right now.

[fox-teeth]

Today's my birthday and I'd like to share a new comic with you, it's called Marginalia. It's a love letter to all the weirdness of medieval manuscripts, and you can read it by unfolding a single sheet of paper!

Risograph print editions are also available in my shop.

[fox-teeth]

Thank you for all the love on Marginalia!

My online store has gotten a big influx of orders in the past week because of it. Please be patient with extended processing times while I fulfill all of them--rest assured that all your weird little medieval freaks are making their way to you!

[fox-teeth]

Went ahead and started printing 400 more copies today…I know which way the wind blows

[carpe-aurore]

Depression can't hit a moving target so I'm opening ask box for short card requests

send me silly nonsense to write

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

my requests are still closed, but my pal's opened up yallll

go send her requests!

[upennmanuscripts]

How to make learning math fun? Try framing your arithmetical tables with ornamental borders! In this 16th c. handbook of commercial arithmetic, written in Lombardy, the charts include addition, subtraction, and four different methods of multiplication. The charts are followed by statements of problems and their solutions. (UPenn Ms. Codex Ms. Codex 468)

🔗:

Access '[Handbook of commercial arithmetic].' through the Penn Libraries catalog.

[eagle-writes]

[carpe-aurore]

help ye olde local scribe

Hello! Raven the scribe here with some updates! Mom has been able to file for her green card renewal, although she still hasn't been able to secure a new job. That unfortunately means all rent and bills must be covered by me, and I fear a florist's wages aren't enough for everything. My younger brother has been able to settle down and stabilize with his medication since coming out of the hospital, although his condition makes it difficult to get anyone to hire him, and his current job doesn't give him many hours. All the major events and problems we've had recently means that we still owe over $1,000 in rent for February, and more still will be needed for upcoming bills. At this point, any and all help is truly appreciated! Thank you all!

Donate to Support Raven's Family in Tough Times, organized by Nayeli Leal

Hello! Raven the scribe here is having a bit of a tough time. Between mom having he… Nayeli Leal needs your support for Support Raven's Fam

[carpe-aurore]

Situation is dire now guys. Literally only need like $700 to pay off the late rent.

[byjove]

this is a highly controversial opinion, I have no doubt King Arthur was bisexual but I think he was one of the few people in Camelot not interested in fucking Lancelot. he wanted to retain him as an employee but it did not cross his mind that Lancelot was fucking his wife because Lancelot is such a weird little twerp that he did not perceive him as a sexual being. my interpretation.

[byjove]

So true. The Galehaut/Lancelot relationship was like a dynastic marriage to resolve the conflict between two imperial powers. I like to imagine Galehaut was like “I have decided to abandon my plans of capturing [what is now] all of southern England and surrender to you despite my military advantage, all for the love of my achingly beautiful and spectacular new male wife, Lancelot du Lac.” and Arthur was like “Okay. Weird. Not homophobic or anything but Lancelot? You’re in love with Lancelot?”

[byjove]

Co-signed. That’s some real shit you said. Also, unlike Arthur, he was willing to yield and share his lover for everyone’s benefit. And then he died for love. A real freak. One of the best freaks in 13th century French literature.

[byjove]

he’s the most interesting gay wifeguy in literary gay knight history

[elodieunderglass]

I started a mental sentence with, “well, when we diagram the Arthurian polycule-“

And then realised that would be such a good title for a paper. “Diagramming the Arthurian Polycule: Mapping the Dynamics of the Round Kitchen Table”

[lettering-is-my-music]

things said at work tbh

[todays-xkcd]

It comes with a certificate of authenticity, which comes with a certificate of authenticity, which comes with a...

Document Forgery [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

[A panel depicts a diploma that has decorations on the corners and sides, but the corners have more. There is a lot of illegible text above, amid, and below the big text.]

[Two lines of illegible text] East State University

[Two lines of illegible text, a box with illegible text, and another line of illegible text] Doctor of Philosophy in Document Forgery

[A line of illegible text, with a logo/official seal below it in the center. To the upper left, upper right, lower left, and lower right of the seal are what appear to be signatures, with a line of bold illegible text and a line of small illegible text beneath each signature line.]

[Caption beneath the panel:] If you put one of these up in your office, and no one notices, you've earned it.

[eagle-writes]

Calligraphy challenge?

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

Calligraphy Patching

one question i occasionally get but i'm reluctant to add it to the pinned FAQ (its SO long already) is how do i deal with smudging the ink when I'm really far into a piece, and there are one of two ways to go (third if you count a water rinsing spill in which case the whole thing has to be remade over but in my whole career its only happened like 3 times)

leave it completely alone. Sometimes the smudges are quite small, and many of folks who seek me out to commission value the human made-ness of a piece, especially a physical piece of art. They see it as like, fingerprints on a hand-thrown pot and would be disappointed if I chose to get rid of them. This is always why I ask patrons of custom art if they want me to do something about it, which leads to option 2 -

invisible underpatch! this is a thing that I learned back when I was a teenager and obsessed with drawing my own manga and learning manga making techniques, although it comes in clutch all the time now

First, get a cutting mat out and slide a blank page of the paper you were working on underneath the art you've made a mistake on.

Then using a sharp craft/xacto knife, cut out the mistake so that you cut both the error and the bottom blank paper in the same size

Flip the art around, take the blank chip of paper and fit it into the hole. Then you're gonna roll on some whiteout along the edges to help close up any gaps. Secure the patch and whiteout with some clear tape

Flip it back around and you're good to go!

You can still see the edges of where the patch was cut in if you're looking for it, but a 2cm patch on an 8.5x11 piece viewed from a wall? No way you could tell

[sca-nerd]

[eagle-writes]

…shush, you.

[knightsf]

[drowning-moonlight]

vader: who tore the warning sign off of this wampa cage?? storm trooper: security footage shows it was removed by a golden protocol droid vader: LOL

[drowning-moonlight]

Vader in RotJ: wait the Alderaan princess is my daughter?? don’t know how to feel about that.

Luke: she strangled Jabba the Hutt to death with a chain.

Vader: OH HELL YEAH

[steampunk-sorcerer]

why would you hide this in the tags that’s hilarious

[eagle-writes]

Text: Anakin's true legacy is creating problems for everyone by proxy.

Ink: Diamine Chilly Nights

[bvckbiter]

“is this character good or bad” “is this ship unproblematic or not” “is this arc deserving of redemption or not” girl…

[electricpentacle]

If I wanted to hear from the ghost of John Calvin, I'd necromance him myself.

[eagle-writes]

Text: I don't have time for this Christian nonsense

Ink: Diamine Chilly Nights

Text: If I wanted to hear from the ghost of John Calvin, I'd necromance him myself. @electricpentacle

Ink: Diamine Chilly Nights

(Two-for-one special on this post!)

[libraryfag]

Is that a valid argument in your pants or is it just a phallacy?

[eagle-writes]

Text: Is that a valid argument in your pants or is it just a phallacy? @libraryfag

Ink: Diamine Chilly Nights

[gay-mormon-wizard]

today I used the phrase "breasting boobily" in casual real life conversation and everyone was shocked asking how I came up with that and I had to explain it. ive been at the devil's sacrament so long that I forgot he wasn't god

[lets-burn-down-the-post-office]

“I’ve been at the devil’s sacrament so long I forgot he wasn’t god” is getting added to the tumblr line book

[vocabulary-altering-posts]

it sure fuckin is buddy

PHRASE ADDED TO INVENTORY!

[eagle-writes]

Text: I've been at the devil's sacrament so long that I forgot he wasn't god. @gay-mormon-wizard

Ink: Diamine Chilly Nights

[mysticalcoffeequeen]

When you thought it would be easy peasy lemon squeezy but it turns out to be difficult difficult lemon difficult.

[switchnx]

Wait that’s actually really good, gonna pop this out of the tags

[eagle-writes]

Text: Easy peasy lemon squeezy. Hard lime difficult time.

Ink: Diamine Wishing Tree