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Noctua | she/ her | 18+ | Blog is mostly calligraphy with some scattered fandoms, and many shitposts.

[noctuamagna]

Denizens of hellsite, I'm an aspiring scribe! I'm looking for calligraphy prompts to practice on. Gimme things to write please!

Edit: how to navigate this blog: all calligraphy post are tagged as #calligraphy. Original work is double tagged as #calligraphy and #noctua’s calligraphy. Personal text posts are #noctua rambles and asks are tagged as #noctua answers. Other tags found on this blog include #tumblr heritage post, #tumblr culture, and #tumblr street theater. For the tumblr lore. The tag #more rodents for the blog is used for all small fuzzy creatures even if they're not rodents. You will also find plenty of #lotr and occasionally #silmarillion.

Check out my sideblog for shitposts, tumblr heritage posts, and the random crap that catches my attention over at @noctuaminima

Commissions: I will do calligraphy and illumination for money. Take a peek at my page on ko-fi or send me a dm!

[carpe-aurore]

"prayers to a deaf god"

"Oh Lord, hear my weeping

The road is long and I grow weary

The soles of my feet are cracked and bleeding

And I still must travel on

Oh Father, water for the road I beg you

The night is so very cold

I fear faith has long abandoned me

And the end draws ever so close

Oh Creator, this candle keeps dimming

This feeble light evades my grasp

St Peter points me away from the gate

Into a much lonelier, unknown path

Oh God, have mercy on your daughter

You know this journey is unkind

I look to the night sky in desperation

But the stars have already left my sight"

[spockandawe]

And one more bookbinding post! A shorter one. For my brother's wedding, he requested lotr. And I also have another cousin who is recently married and was supposed to he holding a wedding this year, but he and his wife were in a bad car accident that wasn't remotely their fault (rear-ended into incoming traffic), and recovery has been pretty long and gnarly, but I wanted to give them something nice as well. So! Double lotr, all the way across the sky.

I originally planned to mix it up more on the vibes between the two editions (partly so I myself could keep them straight and didn't gift the couples copies with the wrong names), but.... these marble print fabrics are just too powerful, I couldn't say no. I did enough differentiating with the titling and endpapers, it all worked out!

And, naturally, they both needed some edge illustration to take it to the next level!!

So, the green set. I found this gorgeous black and white paper a couple weeks ago at my local art store, and it was SO striking that I grabbed a couple sheets. I was worried at first that it was going to be too busy with the marbled fabric on the cover, but couldn't find anything else that sparked joy, and... i shouldn't have stressed so much, the combo is fantastic. I should trust the maximalist voices in my head! For this one I drew the scene from osgiliath, looking out at minas tirith

After THAT, i was looking to draw something that specifically wasn't More Buildings 😂 I had a pretty magenta paper I've been sitting on that harmonized surprisingly well with the minor colors in the blue fabric. I originally had my eye on a matching leather, but backed away to the same warm navy hide I used for the guestbook, which really gave the whole thing some nice dignity. And the opposite of drawing buildings is drawing CREATURES, so i went absolutely ham on balrog cross-hatching

Both these sets were a ton of fun and came out deliciously! And finished drying two whole days before the wedding! I got PLANY of time 🤣 But truly, I'm not very good at repeating myself, so it means a lot to me that I can be this many lords of the rings deep and still be finding new ways to delight myself. I had a lot of fun with these sets!!

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

req'd by @demiaseranmage

little fire

text: Brisingr!

[nat1quoteunquote]

[system-of-7]

Always lucky, that's me

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

req'd by @brieflie

honk snork mimimi

text: My bones are lead my brains are sleepy

[insomniac-arrest]

if my liege lord looks at another soldier vassal in fellowship I'm going to *remembers suicide is an affront against the almighty* take a common grain rat as a wife

[failurescripture]

[noctuamagna]

[carpe-aurore]

Got that pussy that tastes like McDonald's sprite

[carpe-aurore]

which one of you cowards just unfollowed me

[failurescripture]

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

req'd by @hiddenbyfaeries

small gods of the sewing room and all that

text: the blood is an offering to the embroidery gods

[darthasterisk]

"The Cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself." -Carl Sagan

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Loving this Colorverse Milky Way Glistening ink. I was looking for a nice purple ink with blue shimmer and got this one. The gold sheening was a nice surprise!

[prismatic-bell]

Okay, I have a question for calligraphy tumblr.

I'm working on a project for which I need to write in gold. Not illumination or illustration, but handwriting.

What would be your recommended ink for this?

[calligrificator]

Dr. Ph. Martin’s Iridescent Gold is fine but not life changing. I find it’s very hard to get the right amount of ink on the pen. Also my bottle completely dried up into paste before I could finish it. I recently got a bottle of Sanford gold ink at an estate sale and I love it, so if you can get your hands on that I’d recommend but I don’t know if that’s super possible.

[smallwhiterat]

Illuminated Internet (2024-2025)

[illustrated-page-art]

[nat1quoteunquote]

not pretty, not good, just... not. (C2E49)

[coffee-b]

i need to illuminate some manuscripts

currently working on an sca project that's going to require illumination, calligraphy, bookbinding, and embroidery, plus a whole lot of research into queer medievalisms hehehe

[Image ID: Three illuminated initials (the letters A, B, and C) in black and white.]