I want to #tulipgraphy this weekend. Any votes for fic titles, lines, lyrics, OC names? Suggestions? 🪶

Italic calligraphy class starts today! I’m glad past me booked it and paid in advance or I would 100% not go, life is BUSY
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I hope you are so lucky as to have a @postboxrose.bsky.social in your life to encourage you to consider painting on purpose on a page you spill on. So free!!!!!!!
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Photo: a white wideways sheet of paper with several ink names written in uncial letters. The inks are beautifully shimmery but UNFORTUNATELY there is a GIANT GREEN SPILL vaguely the shape of a snake near the left hand side of the page

chat I’m gonna kermit 😭😭😭😭😭😭
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Photo: on a dark desk, a white gel pen rests next to a small golden tin. On the tin are two dark metal dip pen nibs, the one on the left itty bitty compared to the other.

…what is this, a nib for ANTS???
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(it’s supposed to be great, but I had no idea it would be so tiny!!!)

Photo: on a black pencil board marked with white slants (to guide calligraphy) are several boxes and bottles of ink.

Lots to swatch tomorrow!
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Tomorrow I’m going to my first SCA scriptorium meet up! Nervous, excited. Not sure what to take with me to work on, but I want to take something small to thank the host, and a bunch of shimmer inks and supplies for samples in case anyone would like to take some.
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You’re welcome!!! The gold shimmer hits real nice across each word in movement 😍
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Here’s all of them! Thanks, everybody. ♥️ I’m going to keep working at Copperplate this month, the delicacy of it is attractive to me.
Will open requests for some other kind of #tulipgraphy on a February weekend!

Photo: on a white page, a beginner’s attempt at copperplate script. The ink is red with bright yellow gold shimmer. It reads (all lowercase): flame & wolf

And for @www.kidlightnings.net , “flame & wolf”! ❤️‍🔥
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Photo: on a white page, a beginner attempt at copperplate script in green ink reads: Encyclopedia of Fodlan’s Insects

“Encyclopedia of Fodlan’s Insects” for @dpsisquared.bsky.social 🪲🦋💕
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Photo: on white paper, beginner Copperplate calligraphy in pale gray ink that shimmers in places reads (all lowercase): blessed be the lost at sea (the word “lost” has a thin line swoosh coming out of the s and waving through and beyond the word)

Photo: on white paper, beginner Copperplate calligraphy in pale gray ink that shimmers in places reads (all lowercase): blessed be the

Photo: on white paper, beginner Copperplate calligraphy in pale gray ink that shimmers in places reads: bless

Photo: on white paper, beginner Copperplate calligraphy in pale gray ink that shimmers in places reads (all lowercase): lost (the word has a thin line swoosh coming out of the lower left point of the letter s that loops through and goes beyond the word)

for my utmost darlingest @postboxrose.bsky.social , description-defying Witch by Moonlight ink decorating gray, for her “blessed be the lost at sea”. She is the best and so is her writing!!!! 💕🌙✨🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Get friends that make you feel safe trying scary things like big unplanned swooshes!
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Photo: on white paper, beginner copperplate in pink and gray inks, centered on the page The Revolution of Hearts (there is a single tiny gray heart in the closed letters o and a)

Riot is one of my favorite people on the internet and on the planet, so here’s @riothag.bsky.social ‘s “The Revolution of Hearts”! 💕 bc she spins mine right ’round, like a record, baby…
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Photo: on white paper, deep pink beginner copperplate calligraphy reads A Cascade of Kindness (The leading “A” gleams with bright yellow gold shimmer)

Photo: on white paper, a beginner copperplate “A”, written in a deep purple-pink ink that gleams all over with bright yellow gold shimmer

Photo: on white paper, the letters “ness” (of “Kindness”) in beginner Copperplate with deep purple-pink ink. The letters s curl into themselves and both have been given tails that swoop down from the curl

Photo: at a slant, white paper, with deep pink beginner copperplate calligraphy that reads A Cascade of Kindness (The leading “A” and the “K” of Kindness both gleam with bright yellow gold shimmer)

“A Cascade of Kindness” for @dayntee.bsky.social , who gave me total choice of ink and therefore got some of my best! (de Atrementis Pearlescent Red Gold 😍)
(also gave me the chance to come up with a lowercase f I liked more than the script in the book I’m working from 💕)
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Photo: on white paper, purple ink beginner copperplate reads “Thine Heart’s Desire”. The word “Heart’s” gleams with silver-gold shimmer.

Photo: on white paper, purple ink beginner copperplate reads “Thine Heart’s Desire”. The word “Heart’s” gleams with silver-gold shimmer.

Photo: on white paper, purple ink beginner copperplate reads “Heart’s”. The word gleams with silver-gold shimmer.

“Thine Heart’s Desire”, for @north0fnowhere.bsky.social 💜💜
Did I choose this ink because purple, + the shimmer reminds me of Neri’s hair?
(YES)
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Photo: on white paper, beginner Copperplate in red inks reads “She’s a Harlot & a Libertine”

Photo: on white paper, beginner Copperplate in red inks reads “She’s a Harlot & a Libertine”. Two cube bottles of ink rest on the paper.

Photo: on white paper, beginner Copperplate letter H, in red ink with gold-green shimmer

“She’s a Harlot & a Libertine”, for @superconfused.bsky.social ! ♥️ (including some angle shots because the deep red is hard to get right with my phone’s camera, sorry!)
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Photo: brown beginner Copperplate on a white page. “How To Be A Good Girl (And Still Get Spanked)”. The words “Good Girl” are done in a bright aqua.

A fic I am so so so so so so so excited to read, forthcoming masochist Annette Fire Emblem (plenty of information to rev all my neurons at once) from @justfe3hthings.bsky.social: “How To Be A Good Girl (And Still Get Spanked)”
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Photo: orange calligraphy in a beginner’s copperplate reads “Future perfect”

Here’s “Future perfect” (by @lsmoke.bsky.social),
requested by @homebasered.bsky.social !
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ONE NOTE MORE:
Mutuals I’ve done this for in another script, feel very free to put in the same title if you’d like! Or another one. But there’s no limit on doing the same letters different ways. ♥️♥️
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NOTE:
If we don’t know each other, you really are 100% welcome but this is a request you are making of a stranger. Talk to me accordingly.

These will be early attempts at Copperplate, which is a delicate script. I’ll do my best, but I am not able to offer anyone perfection.
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Photo: on a white page in very beginner Copperplate (green ink), “Your Fic [TITLE] Here”

Tomorrow I’m going to dip (🥁) into Copperplate, and I’d love to practice with some fanfic titles! You’re welcome to comment with the title and author of one of your fics or favorite fics.

This is open to mutuals and non-mutuals. You can request colors and I’ll try to use at least one.
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Photo: on a white page, several words in English style cursive (a beginner’s imperfect effort). Each of the three visible colors gleams with shimmer in the ink

wanna eat these
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Photo: a white A5 sheet of paper taped into a ruled notebook, with English style cursive calligraphy (amateur!) displaying several ink colors, all with some degree of shimmer.

Photo: close up on the end of the word “moonlight”, purple-gray ink on a white page. The h and g shoe pale golden shimmer.

Photo: close up of the start of the word “Industry” on white paper in seafoam ink with sparse shimmer

New inks! All shimmers, baby 😎
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Reached out to what I hope is a valid number for the local SCA scriptorium guild leader! It would be nice to have social practice and really nice to learn. 🤞🤞

And yesterday I registered for a spring class on beginning Italic calligraphy. In 2026 I’m going to formally study!
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Show me what you can do with just a pen!
#art (!!!) #tulipgraphy

Photo: twenty five A5 sized sheets of white paper, taped to a white interior wall in five rows of five. Each day features calligraphy, a swatch, a a drawing or painting done in one color of ink from the 2025 Diamine Inkvent calendar. It is mostly dark colors in the photo, but there are some pops of cheerful color.

Photo: calligraphy on a white page, English style cursive in a rich orange-brown ink with pearly silver shimmer. It reads Merry Crisis Holly Jolly Nervous Breakdown

And #inkvent 2025 is complete! With a special extra for @ludozerca.bsky.social 🧡💕

Cheers ’til next year!
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Photo: on a dark desktop are several boxed bottles of ink, a packaged calligraphy pen nib set, three muted gold tins, and a green pen case

Photo: in a an open green case with white interior, a shiny metal pen. It is blue at the tops and vivid pink at the center. Maker’s mark inside the case reads “MONTEVERDE USA”

Photo: a black metal pen nib, vertical letters reading “OMNIFLEX”

Photo: an unfolded card with five pen nibs slipped into loops in the paper. One is golden, the rest are silvertone

#tulipgraphy presents! 😍

Jacques Herbin Cornaline d’Égypte
Diamine Spearmint Diva
Colorverse Witch by Moonlight
Speedball C set (C-0 and C-5 new for me!)
Monteverde omniflex (!)
Wearingeul nib set (!)
The tins are for nib storage

Lyrics are from Ingrid Michaelson’s “Merry Christmas, Happy New Year” with Zooey Deschanel.

youtu.be/s9AU0gUGumE
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Photo: white page laid vertically on a dark desk, with pens at the left and a long rectangular ink bottle at the right. Teal calligraphy, a swatch, and a painting take up the page. In places the ink sheens pink. It reads “Merry Christmas, happy New Year! Here’s a toast: to me and you, dear! December 25 (there is a painting of three stockings hanging from a fireplace) Myrrh the Merrier”

Photo: calligraphy on a white page, the word “December” (partially cut off by the angle of the photo. The ink appears to be a shiny, vivid pink-purple, with some blue shimmer

Photo: calligraphy on a white page, the word “you”. The ink is a deep teal, with shiny, vivid pink-purple sheen in all areas where ink pooled (mostly low on the letters)

#Inkvent Day 25: Myrrh the Merrier

A very myrrhy inkvent to the pink sheen lover behind the levers at Diamine. 😂 This has blue shimmer, too, very pretty. Gotta lay it down quite thick to see a lot of both.

Date: Speedball C-1 nib
Stockings: brush
Name: Esterbrook 788 Oval Point nib

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