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the paint was a little too watery and bled outside the lines which is fine but also 🥲

Everyone's all "ohhh 2026 bring back physical media" until I start talking illuminated manuscripts and then suddenly we're not on the same page anymore

somewhere-south-of-neutral

Actually we are on the same page. We've been on the same page for a week because these things take forever to make

trying out a bingo sheet this year rather than making resolutions. (you can download a blank version here)

#bullet journal #planner #notebook #new year resolutions #new year bingo #stationery #journal spread

2025 bullet journal pages

#bullet journal #journaling #stationery #notebook #planner

new notebook 127g. finished notebook 164g.

#bullet journal #journaling #planner #notebook #stationery #yes i weighed them

unexpected side effect of doing mini morning pages in my bullet journal each day is i have a record of (almost) every time i was tired or anxious

#morning pages #journalling #bullet journal #the artist's way

i have an empty-ish staology notebook and always forget that i don't use it because my favourite fountain pen ink (TMKR in mango) bleeds like crazy

#fountain pens #notebook

batmanisagatewaydrug

I am begging begging begging begging begging y'all to find books somewhere other than the booktok display at narnes and noble

gigifluidcat-deactivated2026042

"Pre-BookTok"

What does that even mean? Didn't people 10 years ago say that 50 Shades "ruined literature"?

derinthescarletpescatarian

Something new is always ruining literature, something new is always destroying the minds of young people and making people stupid and incapable of critical thinking, something new is always killing the creative spirit, and it's whatever thing is annoying the article writer the most at this particular moment.

tosety

Literature never recovered from the printing press

derinthescarletpescatarian

It used to be that every book was a work of art, scribing it and remaking it as it broke down meant that you knew it had to be worth the trouble. But since that ruffian Gutenberg, people can just publish any old thing, and all writing is junk now. Also they're teaching the peasants to read and write and of course they have no taste so it's all just trash. Back in the day you could find unique works without having to trawl through a shelf of books of the same 'genre' following the same 'tropes' because you only had access to five books total to the chance for crossover was small; these days there are so many books out there written by peasants for peasants that finding something special requires actually looking for it or asking about it or knowing what sort of 'genres' you like instead of grabbing the first thing you see on a display shelf. Utterly destroyed literature, the printing press did.

safije

15th century Timurid Qur'an copied on Chinese paper from the Ming Dynasty.

Meanest dog you’ll ever meet - It ain’t the hound dog in the street He bares some teeth and tears some skin But brother, that’s the worst of him The dog you really got to dread Is the one that howls inside your head It's him whose howling drives men mad And a mind to its undoing

- Hadestown

#calligraphy #lettering #hadestown musical #hadestown

I've been feeling not great about my calligraphy recently so I've been pushing myself to try new layouts. I think its too early to say if its helping but I was happy how this turned out.

#calligraphy #lettering #work in progress