#tulipgraphy

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Some fic lines in Fraktur! This was last weekend’s practice and I like them all so much they’re still washied up on a wall. I saw today is Fanfic Writer Appreciation Day (!) so let us APPRECIATE fic writers, every day and more than ever before. ♥️

@postboxrose

fereldenstew on bsky

@armoredinmoonlight

@supernova2395

line is from this fic, recommended for practice by @pirdmystery

@gang0shadow

@crittadownunder

♥️🪶😚😚

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Inkvent

I’m the worst at keeping this thing up (flipside: BEST at tumblrweeds), but I’m wrapping up my 2025 Inkvent over on bluesky. A page a day of practicing calligraphy and trying art in a new ink. I tape my finished pages up on the wall beside the desk where I do all this, and looking at them makes me feel happy and grounded. I thought I would fail in a bunch of ways (especially the art); I didn’t! I think I was able to make some beautiful things and some beautiful letters, and when things weren’t going splendidly they were good reminders that I’m learning. I like learning. I love the places where I’m beginning to feel steady enough to try to do things my way. I love feeling like there could be a my way!

Next year I want to take some classes and try to connect with the local SCA. And I want to make more beauty, or at least try at it. Those attempts felt so worthy.

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New nib width goofin’. 💜

I was so eager to try the “color touch” thing that can be done with these pens (Pilot Parallel) that I didn’t plan this well, but it was just for fun, and it was! If you look across “Solavellan” and “Flavors” you might be able to see the purple emerging from the black ink that was touched to the nib. I have other colors to try, excited to do some more contrasty stuff soon. 🥰

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Some calligraphy practice from bluesky (#tulipgraphy). I try to take names or other things to write if I have time on Sundays and love doing DA HoFs, Hawkes, Inquisitors, and Rooks. This account is very new and I don't want to repost what I've done on bsky for others here without permission, so these are general practices and my characters. Shifting gears from "drawn" calligraphy to actual "written with a nib" has been fun. I like both.