#parchment and ink

[ultravioletbrit]

“ink” - Jegulus microfic - @into-the-jeggyverse - 251 words

 

James sees Regulus sitting in the library at a table filled with books and several pieces of parchment. He walks over and sits down beside him, but he startles him and Regulus’ elbow knocks into his ink, spilling it all over the parchment in front of him.

Regulus slowly turns to face James with a murderous glare as the ink seeps into the parchment.  

“I have been working on that essay for two hours.” Regulus seethes through gritted teeth.

“Oops, sorry.” James shrugs nonchalantly and Regulus’ face turns several shades of red and James can practically see steam coming out of his ears. But James discreetly pulls out his wand and vanishes the spilt ink, leaving what Regulus was working on completely unharmed.

He nods his head towards the parchment and Regulus tears his eyes away from James to look back at the table.

“What… how did you… what did…?” Regulus tries to asks.

“I don’t know if you forgot… but you’re a wizard, Regulus.” James leans in to whisper in Regulus’ ear.

“But…”

“So, I thought I could proof your transfiguration essay and you proof my potions?” James says simply, ignoring Regulus’ stunned expression that still holds a bit of his previous anger.

“Fine.” Regulus grits out after a moment, narrowing his eyes at James. “But you also teach me how you vanished the spilt ink without vanishing anything else.” Regulus grumbles as he shoves his transfiguration essay over to James.

James smirks as he passes Regulus his potions essay.

[oh-what-the-heck-its-xanthar]

Still she searched, and dreamed, and waited, for a way to change the Dread Wolf's heart.

I'm a hopeless Solas lover and so I decided to embroider the final epilogue slide between solas and a romanced inquisitor~ I'm really happy with how it came out!!!

[zhalfirin]

Call Me Menace & Villains Never Retire - wingedcat13 Four alterations of the same book that I had the joy to hand over in person as a surprise gift to @desmothene, @pleasantboat, @finalfrontierpublishing and @fantailpress on a meet-up this January.

Many thanks to @wingedcat13 for the permission to share her work.

Read the Call Me Menace here and Villains Never Retire starting here.

Materials used book case boards - museum board (white) counter pull layer on boards- museum paper (white) spine stiffener - photo cardboard (white) vellum (calf parchment) coloured with alcohol based stain - cover material

inner book textblock paper - Schleipen fly 05 115gsm endpapers - marbled paper by Renato Crepaldi endbands - buttonhole silk coloured top edge - chameleon acrylic ink

[writeblrfantasy]

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[takahikohayashi]

p-20.Oct.2024 ink on parchment (shikahishi) 105 x 87 cm Takahiko HAYASHI 林孝彦 2024

[frogs-mystery-sideblog]

Ever since I figured out how to make fake Journal 3 pages I keep being tempted to open gravity falls-based commissions

[igniferous]

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[thestoryteller8]

Paper boats

I am a paper boat,

Floating in a lonesome river,

I used to be true devout,

Now, I am an eternal sinner,

Who will house me,

With my ragged attire,

And my box of lies,

So now my life's a satire,

Written by a comic unwise,

Where I became the boat,

that once used to float.

She is a paper boat,

Floating in a desolate river,

She once wrote a note,

To her birth giver,

Now she roams the streets,

With her philosophical thoughts,

And all her reckless feats,

have brought in her a drought,

that she struggles to fulfill,

To pass her time,

Her spirits she kills,

She is an ironical poem, with no rhyme,

Floating in the abyss,

Of her youthful bliss.

He is a paper boat,

Floating in a dreary river,

He once wore a blue coat,

And his light could make you shiver,

Now he sits in a cell, like cubical,

Waiting for days to end,

His tasks have made him so cynical,

and his smile he fails to mend,

He is an antithesis,

Of his younger eternal optimistic self,

And all that's left of his times are pieces,

He foolishly hopes to regain himself,

He struggles to remain afloat; drowning,

In his shadow from eighteen.

I am a paper boat,

She is a paper boat,

He is a paper boat,

We are three paper boats,

Floating in the never-ending hope,

Provided by time,

It's not gaining us a single dime,

Yet tightly we hold on to the rope,

Of the river's flow,

All we have do is row,

With the million paper boats,

All floating, let's see where we go.

[mistninja]

While I'm on the topic, I need to share that last night I couldn't sleep because I was thinking of a rote adaptation and I even had an idea for the intro. I'm unwell

[catofadifferentcolor]

Random Harry Potter Thoughts (1/?): Writing Implements

I'm a huge fan of documentaries, which is why I found myself wondering while watching a series on Medieval Life why Hogwarts uses quills and parchment.

There's obvious aesthetic reasons, especially if you want to write about a magical culture that is separate culturally and politically from the modern muggle world, and which seems to have had no meaningful changes since the introduction of the Hogwarts Express.

And yet parchment is incredibly difficult to make. You have to prepare the untanned skins of sheep, goats, and cows in a laborious process that takes muggles days, if not weeks, for a single hide. Undoubtably magic can make that process faster, but it still leaves the question of where the magical world is getting enough animal hide to meet their daily needs. It could take a herd of up to 300 cows to produce enough parchment for a Bible - how many would be needed to produce the many books published by the Wizarding World each year, not to mention provide for the educational needs of all of the students enrolled in Hogwarts? And if these books aren't printed on parchment, why insist on its use for letters, homework, and notes? (And I would point out, The Daily Prophet appears to be printed on muggle newsprint.)

Then there are the quills. Even assuming magic makes it so each quill lasts longer than a muggle version would and doesn't require the same amount of sharpening, they're still not very good writing implements. Again, even assuming magic can reduce the need to stop and refill ink, it's a rather slower going than even a dip pen and requires specialized education to use - which naturally puts muggle-born and muggle-raised students at a disadvantage. Add on to this that most birds can only provide 10-12 good-quality quills a season and a student can be expected to lose that many in a single year... and now you're talking about massive flocks of birds as well which must be maintained to ensure the Wizarding World can write on all its parchment.

Perhaps the Malfoy family built their wealth supplying this market, and all those peacocks are just the prettiest part of the many flocks which must be needed for the day to day needs of the population.

Granted, much of this could be offloaded to the muggle sector, but who in the muggle world makes parchment on a commercial scale these days? And even if Wizards are just buying the untanned skins, there's still a massive magical industry that has to back it up - how many Hogwarts graduates are needed to fuel it? - to say nothing about the brows this will surly raise among muggle animal rights groups.

And this doesn't even touch on ink-making to supply all those quills - and all the potioneers or enchanters that must be needed to give them their magical properties.

So I think in the course of this rant I found my answer: economics. Enough Wizards must be involved in the sale, production, and maintenance of the parchment, quill, and ink industries that to change to muggle methods would disrupt a number of - potentially economically and politically powerful - livelihoods. You can couch it in tradition, dress it up in politics, and spend your days simply saying this is what we've always done, but in the end money talks.

[einarbaldvin]

XXIII. Ink on paper.

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[medievaldiscoball]

Help!

Ye olde boykisser is trying to sway me into kissing the monks... and the knights... and perhaps even the lords.

[ofthemanyprettythings]

shielded

i turn myself into a metaphor because i am dull. i turn you into a metaphor because your light is blinding.

[takahikohayashi]

P-28.Aug.2023 (added touches on P-22.Oct.2021) pigment acrylic ink on vellum 79.5x64.0cm 林孝彦 Takahiko Hayashi 2023