Problem Glyphs

Problem Glyphs is a project by Eliza Gauger in which sigils are drawn in response to problems you send in.

[problemglyphs]

th...the whole thing?

[bonequest]

[3liza]

i talk a big game about free access to creative work and hooray piracy and boo copyright etc like i have uploaded my book to the internet archive already and i have not. sorry. i keep forgetting

[problemglyphs]

[I AM THE SCARIEST THING IN THE DARK]

20/02/2017 18:15:42 I am the scariest thing in the dark.

[problemglyphs]

[WITH THE SEA]

09/02/2016 11:09:09 I am a volunteer for an animal rights group that fights against the hunting of dolphins, and every time I hear about a hunt happening, it absolutely shatters my heart.

[problemglyphs]

[COLD COMFORT]

06/12/2017 18:46:11

All year long I yearn for the plush white of snow in winter. This winter is predicted to be warm and snowless. I didn't see snow last winter and it feels like a piece of myself has been missing. I just want the world to feel cold and quiet again.

[problemglyphs]

[GRANDMOTHER HYPOTHESIS]

04/03/2015 17:00:06

I want to be respected by my peers and idols, and looked up to by a mass of novices. I want to be the kinda person people try to impress, like, and be liked by. I want to be popular.

[problemglyphs]

[YOU HAVE TIME FOR MANY LIVES]

11/12/2014 11:46:26 I decided what I was going to be when I grew up at the age of thirteen and never questioned it again. Not until I graduated with my art degree in hand, praised by my peers, friends and family for pursuing my hearts' goal.

All my friends are in the same profession and I no longer want it, but now I feel like I don't have any information on this ""new me"" to share socially. I am a perfectly blank page.

[problemglyphs]

14/08/2015 19:01:36

I have a personality and psychological disorder. I dont know why but I have a phobia of "eye" and an interest of "eye" itself. May i request a glyph to seal this?

[problemglyphs]

31/10/2019 16:07:48

i wish every day was halloween

[metmuseum]

Kneeling bull holding a spouted vessel. ca. 3100–2900 BCE. Credit line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1966 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/329074

[problemglyphs]

[SOFT COLOSSUS]

04/01/2021 06:54:21

People are afraid of me because of my size. I feel like I can never get angry or frustrated because I'm always seen as a threat.

Patreon.com/problemglyphs

buy me a tea

[problemglyphs]

[BLESSING OF THE LICH]

 Anonymous said:

November 6th 2013, 12:40:00 am

I shut down my emotions five years ago because I had been the victim of perpetual emotional abuse for three years at that point. I can't turn them back on. I can't feel anything but anger and fear. The fear I keep to myself. I'm afraid. I want to be better, but I don't know how. Sometimes I just sit in the dark and cry because I can't face myself. It is my cloak and my shield. I pretend I'm okay. I'm not okay. I'm not okay at all.

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[thesorceresstemple]

Yunnan, 150 BCE

[problemglyphs]

Glyph: [WODU]

Problem:

Anonymous said:

November 25th 2013, 12:00:00 am

all i want to do is tell stories but fear keeps me silent. if i fail at my dream what is left?

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[problemglyphs]

[FLOODPLAIN]

Anonymous said:

November 5th 2013, 9:36:00 am

Everything makes me break out in eczema and it hurts

[problemglyphs]

[SLEEP ALONE]

10/01/2016 00:06:31

Single for the first time in a long time, and having trouble sleeping alone. Let my own body warm me, and let my light heat up my own bedclothes without addition. Any help would be great, thank you muchly.