Pillar of Ink

hi my name is abadidea and i like fountain pens and old fashioned architecture twitter • my novels • she/her

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mine the warp and weft of words

the sheen of ink, the song of birds

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I have not played Elden Ring

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Yea verily do I see a badass yonder

as requested by Talen Lee

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we can’t all be neurotypical, Karen

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I got a phone call to interview me about my Omicron Experience

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finally got my inks and paper back after three months of living out of a backpack

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this is how fonts work

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Sing, o muse, of the rage of Zagreus son of Hades, who yeeted himself out of the House of the Dead

— opening line of the Zodyssey

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Currently Inked Pens 🤗

The orange is actually way more orange than it appears in the photo

and yes, I misspelled twsbi, but I wasn’t starting over at that point

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a successful gradient

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today’s calligraphy

text from Dutch edition of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_the_City_of_Ladies

The Book of the City of Ladies - Wikipedia

The Book of the City of Ladies - Wikipedia

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I attempted a continuous back-and-forth gradient; it didn’t come out as evenly as I’d like because one of the inks flows much more readily than the other

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This page turned out well, except for the part where I wrote kunst (art) for komst (coming), so this is an apocryphal edition now

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Another gradient I’m pretty satisfied with

“Long ago, the kingdom of the Amazons was established through the will and endeavoring spirit of many brave women who despised subservience,...” — medieval feminist Christine de Pisan

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Successful green-purple gradient :) between Iroshizuku inks Ku-Jaku and Ajisai

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Please welcome mint twsbi to our happy twsbi family

ink is diamine soft mint and washi tape is from keenaprints