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Typography Tuesday
We return to our facsimile of a 16th-cnetury calligraphic manuscript, Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta, or Model Book of Calligraphy, written in 1561/62 by Georg Bocskay, the Croatian-born court secretary to the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I, and illuminated 30 years later by Flemish painter Joris Hoefnagel for the grandson of Ferdinand I, Emperor Rudolph II. The manuscript was produced by Bocskay in Vienna to demonstrate his technical mastery of the immense range of writing styles known to him. To complement and augment Bocskay's calligraphy, Hoefnagel added fruit, flowers, and insects to nearly every page, composing them so as to enhance the unity and balance of the page’s design. Although the two never met, the manuscript has an uncanny quality of collaboration about it.
Our facsimile was the first facsimile produced from the collection at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. It was printed in Lausanne, Switzerland by Imprimeries Reunies and published by Christopher Hudson in 1992.
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#Typography Tuesday#typetuesday#Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta#or Model Book of Calligraphy#Georg Bocskay#Joris Hoefnagel#illuminated manuscripts#manuscripts#manuscript facsimiles#facsimiles#calligraphy#letter forms#letters#J. Paul Getty Museum#Imprimeries Reunies#Christopher Hudson#Ferdinand I#Rudolph II
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Harbor portable pier detail © minkstudios 2023
#abstract photography#abstract#original photography#paint and rust#in the details#minkstudios#letter forms
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Most english orthographic reforms fail because they're trying to make the language better when they should be making it worse. In pursuit of that idea, starting in fall 2024 we're adding six new letters to make reading harder.
1. Reverse P
Completing the b-d-p rotational cycle and causing confusing with g and q (the hook on the q is now mandatory).
2. Lower i
Uppercase is a lowercase i and lowercase is an even lower i.
3. Left bracket
For it's hard work over the years, [ is being promoted to the alphabet proper. Lower case is a reverse h. Fuck right bracket.
4. Long M
Just like a regular M but two of the legs keep going. Long M is a vowel in all cases that Y isn't.
5. Reverse X
Like X but in reverse. To tell the difference we're adding these little curls to X, so regular X now looks like this
6. Reverse F
Uppercase is a reverse F, lowercase is an upside down v. Fuck you is why.
#language#orthographic reform#radical ideas#for a new century#letters#bad letters#language in all it's forms is my enemy#I made this
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Forward -> Forward -> simplified forms in a direction flow with a delicious palette
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fluid lowercase, 2023
#elizabeth arzani#elizabeth arzani drawings#pen and ink#artist on tumblr#lowercase#letter forms#fluid#research
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There's this way of doing female-ness in Christianity that I call "pastel flower journal Christianity." I've got nothing against pastel flower journals per se, but for some reason people believe it's the end all and be all of female spirituality, and I think it's a real disservice towards young Christian women.
One of these days I'd like to start a prayer-and-reading group or something for young women, but there would be no floral themes or over-focus on how "God thinks you're beautiful even if the world doesn't" (a true statement, but it's wayyyyy too often the focus in women's spiritual reading). Instead we would be reading:
Seneca's Letters from a Stoic
Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning
Sheed's A Map of Life
Portions of Pieper's book on leisure
Kreeft's Three Philosophies of Life
Guardini's The Lord (or something similar)
Therese's Story of a Soul
and some select portions of the Nicomachean Ethics.
(Also they're all getting the porn talk. I don't know why we give the porn talk to young men but not young women. There's this idea that women don't use porn and they only need the talk about "guarding their heart." Bullshit. There's porn on the YA shelves of Barnes and Nobles and before that there were bodice rippers. Young women need the porn talk too.)
Every young woman needs to be getting a basic grounding in virtue ethics, logic, natural law, scholastic philosophy and Biblical hermeneutics if they're going to get by in today's spiritual landscape. Enough faffery and emotionalism in young women's spiritual education! Give them real food to chew on, not pasty sentimentalism!
#Christian femininity#Christian women#Christian#Christianity#Catholicism#Catholic women#Catholic femininity#Catholic feminism#Catholic#I'm sure there should be something by Stein on this list but I haven't read her stuff yet#Anyway if I could shove one book into the hands of every young woman on this site#it would be either Letters from a Stoic or Man's Search for Meaning.#I think a lot of women on this site could benefit from those two books alone.#Much of the way we treat women's sense of spirituality and ethics is trusting them to just blindly feel their way to the right answer#While we give young men clear-cut instructions and reasoning.#It's bullshit. And it's actively harmful. I would never say feelings are useless#but without a well-formed intellect and conscience they're just not going to carry you as far as you need to go on their own.#I had the value of a good moral and philosophical education because of where I went to school—same as the boys in my class.#And it's spared me so much grief. People put the tools in my hands to make smart decisions and empowered me to seek the good.#All young women deserve the same.
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deranged picnic
#obsessed with how this game manages to maintain a consistent utterly unhinged vibe for its entire runtime.#this scene is immediately followed by him receiving a letter from his girlfriend saying she's breaking up with him.#he gets the letter from an eldritch abomination in the form of his mentor's face on the body of dead dog as it turns into magic dust.#also his gf broke up with him because he wasn't returning any of her messages while he was being tortured in a dungeon for four years.#which is actually how he finds out it's been four years. he's been under the impression that it's been like. 2 weeks lol#the guy on the left is perfectly alive and monologuing the whole time.#and he happens to be the same guy that made clones of himself and went on a crusade to eat chunks of the protagonist's hair.#sighh..... crisis core my beloved........#(derogatory)#my art <3#ffvii#crisis core#oh god i forgot his scar. nobody look. don't look. you don't see shit.
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here is your reminder that all trauma is valid.
trauma is to do with how our brains process (or don't process) memories and experiences and that if something is traumatic for you then that is trauma.
it doesn't matter if you or someone else thinks it should be significant or not or if someone else went through the same thing and wasn't impacted by it. what matters is if it's significant to you and how it impacted you.
a huge part of recovering from trauma is allowing yourself to accept that you had it in the first place.
#I've been seeing a trauma informed therapist and its very enlightening#i spent so long denying that i had any form of trauma despite having all the symptoms because I've never experienced anything *that bad*#but it doesn't have to be one thing even. it can be a lot of little things that build up.#it doesn't matter if someone else went through the same thing and wasn't impacted by it. you where.#adhd#trauma#recovery#love letters to you
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true love is when you give, but when it doesn't empty you. when your lover makes even your silence meaningful. when you are being held and holding your loved one in a liberating way.
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Simulacrums of Luck Day 6: Relevation
@sillysiluriforme
Creation’s chosen
Ascends beyond her own fate
That poor mortal girl
#I have been soooo excited to share this one!!#mlb simulacrums of luck#i have been really enjoying feralnette au and was inspired to try a true form tikki#are all my posts gonna secretly be love letters to my favourite creators? maybe.#my art
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Typography Tuesday
Sometimes, things in our collection still surprise me, even after 29 years. From our fairly sizable manuscript facsimile collection, I was surprised I had never encountered this little (5 X 7 in.) reproduction of a 16th-cnetury calligraphic manuscript, Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta, the first facsimile produced from the collection at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, printed in Lausanne, Switzerland by Imprimeries Reunies and published by Christopher Hudson in 1992.
As the relatively new invention of printing came to dominate the production of books by the 1500s, the calligraphic inventiveness of scribes became prized for their aesthetic qualities rather than their production value.
From 1561 to 1562, Georg Bocskay, the Croatian-born court secretary to the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I, created this Model Book of Calligraphy in Vienna to demonstrate his technical mastery of the immense range of writing styles known to him. About thirty years later, Emperor Rudolph II, Ferdinand's grandson, commissioned the [Flemish painter] Joris Hoefnagel to illuminate Bocskay's model book. Hoefnagel added fruit, flowers, and insects to nearly every page, composing them so as to enhance the unity and balance of the page's design. -- Getty Museum Collection webpage.
Although the two never met, the manuscript has an uncanny quality of collaboration about it.
Today we only show 11 pages from the facsimile, but we hope to present more from this highly-inventive manuscript of calligraphic virtuosity in the future.
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-- MAX, Head, Special Collections
#Typography Tuesday#typetuesday#Typography Tuesday#Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta#Georg Bocskay#Joris Hoefnagel#calligraphy#letter forms#letters#J. Paul Getty Museum#Imprimeries Reunies#Christopher Hudson#illuminated manuscripts#facsimiles#manuscript facsimiles#Ferdinand I#Rudolph II
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Flipnote comm for JustBamie on twitter!! 💌
#yes i'm taking commissions in flipnote form#dm if interested!!#justbamie#love letter#flipnote#commission#furry#anthro#gif#fan art#my art#robdogdraws
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Anyway here's the initial sketch of Farmer MalleYuu that inspired me to start developing a farming game. 🥔🥕🐮🐥 They just make me so happy tbh
It's my last semester in uni I'm trying to hold onto my remaining sanity
#I'm a full time employee who studies for uni during the evenings#I'm in my last semester of school#I do the dishes I do the laundry I do the cooking#God knows I'm TIRED#but I'm damn proud of myself for finding time to enjoy my little life#god damn it I'm tired#but twst makes me so happy#so I make a million love letters for it in the form of different media#i will write fanfics for malleus#i will make comics for malleus#i will illustrate for malleus#i will make games for malleus#he is my muse#twisted wonderland#malleus draconia#malleus x reader
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fabian seacaster who with his fine hands for calligraphy gets into tattooing later in life.
it starts with stick and pokes, trying his hand at it after his experience with his horrific neck tattoo, wary of machines but comfortable under his own steady hands. small, dotted art of waves, of ships and eddies start to appear on his upper thighs, his ankles, fading as he gets a grasp on depth and technique slowly but surely.
and he dances, beautiful art created in the shapes he forms and that’s what he’s known for, but his friends are littered with small tattoos as he began practicing on other people. a growing garden forming around gorgug’s singular rose, bits and pieces of his sketchbook that fig requested as she filled out her sleeve, calligraphy filling in the spaces left between riz’s myriad of tattoos, nearly all of the bad kids have something of fabian’s on them.
he takes a season off, a slip on stage making him need to take a rest as his ankle heals, and apprentices at a shop in leviathan near the gold gardens, wanting to learn, to be closer to fig, to try something totally his own for once, not his fathers or mothers or inherently tied to his culture, just his. just fabian’s.
he learns propper technique, unlearning some of his quirks he had picked up in being self taught, and learning how to use them for his advantage where he can. he learns the difference between tiefling and devil skin and why they have to use different sized needles for each, learns that swelling and irritation looks different on different skin tones and what inks will react well with certain magic users and which won’t. he learns to trust in the process and to bask in the look people get when they watch him create.
just. fabian as a tattoo artist
#sometimes an idea comes to you and it’s fully formed and you just gotta put it out there#this is also just a love letter to tattooing low key#d20#fhjy#dimension 20#fantasy high#fabian seacaster#fantasy high hc’s
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Reuniting with a distorted past.
Extra:(New personality tested gone wrong)
wanted to play with rin living in the aftermath aus aswell and had these drawings laying around to share so yay
Panel 1: Was buried alive.
Comic 1: Who are you supposed to be?
new friends
Comic 2: Misguided protection.
obito still sensing the warning signs of rin losing her temper. anyways they proceeded to be dragged into the ocean by rin like some sea monster
Comic 3: Finding out (Now what will you do?)
obito is harshly brought back from his delusions because now its not just kushina but rin too who he needs to ripped out the tail beast from
#naruto#naruto fanart#kakashi hatake#rin nohara#obito uchiha#naruto sukea#fanart#art#my art#sketch#drawing#digital art#hope i can add something new and if not may i shall add fuel to the fire for rin!! :)#So Rin loses ALL of her memories forever (kinda)#the only thing that remains for sure is the feeling of missing something that she'll never reach it again#she's alone and is left to roam directionless until she meets an elderly civilian that is also alone#she stays with her for a year+ but she passes away. But Rin with her new identity decides to walk forward (with love comes pain#but to love at all was the greatest thing to her.) She cherishes her new memories and won't let it stop her from moving on#inbetween this time frame she meets isobu in her mind after he gains enough form within her (who is also without memories)#Now WAY LATER she meets Sukea who looks like he's about to panic and she tries to help (which uh doesnt work too well)#but then Sukea joins her on her travels (sending minato an letter through his summons of rin being alive and forgetting the mission)#they both wander around (he doesnt know how to bring up their past) but then obito appears (always at the wrong times)#At first glance he's pissed but then realizes that this isnt fake AND its both the worse thing yet best thing to ever happen#Now Rin thinks she made two new friends who give her feelings of warmth but they both also reminded her of something old she thinks#PS Minato and Kushina are freaking out back in the village but can't do anything about it (Obito hasn't acted on his plans yet so yes)
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“wait a minute. wait a minute, Doc. ah... are you telling me that you built a time machine...out of a DeLorean?”
#wow! this took forever!#im so sorry lol#and i missed all the opportunities to post this on one of the important bttf dates :’)#i mean…november 13th is the day that young Doc reads the letter that he wrote to marty from 70 years in the past….so theres that lol#anyway heres another scene form my bttf x goofy au :D#introducing….#*drumroll*#Ludwig von Drake as Doc Brown!#really happy with how this one turned out!#especially the background…probably the most effort ive ever put into one jdhfghjdg#tumblr quality is kinda meh but hopefully you can still enjoy it ^^#if anyone has any other scenes they want me to draw… 👀#a goofy movie#back to the future#back to a very goofy future au#ludwig von drake#max goof#marty mcfly#doc brown#bttf#bttf au#digital drawing#bttf art#disney art
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