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oldschoolfrp · 2 months

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Orbs, candles, snakes, miscellaneous body parts -- I should tidy my desk more often (Nicholas Bibby, White Dwarf 38, February 1983)

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illustratus · 1 month

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King John reluctantly signing the Magna Carta by Arthur C. Michael

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danskjavlarna · 2 months

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All sorts of fun imagery in my pens and inks collection.

#quill pen #vintage yearbook #vintage illustration #yearbook #illustration

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allcatsconstitutethesamefamily · 21 days

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They've had many lives and many ages: cats I've met in my time travels.

#cat #quill pen #vintage yearbook #1900s #pen and ink #vintage illustration #yearbook #illustration

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sodapop--stims · 1 month

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Light Academia

for @tower-of-sorcerers (candles, owls, books)

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ltwilliammowett · 11 months

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Nelson’s quill pen with a statement written and initialled by Major R. Wright, 2 November 1805

The contemporary statement by Major R. Wright recording his acquisition of the quill reads: ‘This pen was taken by Major Wright out of Lord Nelsons writing Desk on the 2nd of Novr 1805 in the presence of capt Hardy of the Victory who desired him to keep it as being the pen with which his Lordship had written for the last time in the morn[ing] of the action. It was lying beside an unfinished le[tter to] Lady Hamilton’.

#naval artifacts #lord nelson #quill pen #naval souvenir #battle of trafalgar #1805 #age of sail

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fairiedance · 3 months

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Sorry I have neglected the fundraiser so much this week, my research has been kicking my ass. I have no idea how the friend I am fundraising for is managing grad school on top of his activism and supporting his family in the face of genocide, I'm struggling to keep up just helping him out. He's like an actual genius scientist though, he's amazing. I do have a couple new designs up now, here's one of them:

It can be found in my shop here on a bunch of different products. Some examples:

You can find my full shop here. Thank you to everyone who has contributed so far! Some examples of some of my other stuff, shown here on stickers:

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watering76 · 1 year

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這款復古機械羽毛筆，好看歸好看，還是要叮嚀初學者們，這款筆並不適合真的拿來練字唷！

因為它的筆上面加了很多裝飾，筆身很重，寫字時會歪一邊。偶爾拿來玩體驗一下儀式感可以，拿來練字是不行的。

#calligraphy #花體字 #dip pen #gothic #tools #quill pen

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secretstudyclub · 1 month

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Now this is my most special pen of all. Maybe it's futile, but as a child who dreamed of studying at Hogwarts, my heart is warm. Thanks Mom.

#academia #chaotic academia #dark academia #study motivation #my writing #quill pen #butterflies #the secret history #harry potter #hogwarts houses

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askstellarandfriends · 2 months

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ASK BOX OPEN!!!

Commissions Are Open!!!

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#fanpony #mlp fim #mlp oc #musicals #quill pen #earth pony #stallion #casterverse

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birds-and-manuscripts · 8 months

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Detail of inkwell and quill with manuscript book (please notice the bookbinding tail band and the red straps with golden buckles that would have held the book closed).

Botticelli, S. (1483 c.). Madonna del Magnificat [tempera on wood]. Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze. Picture by me.

#codicology #manuscript #inkwell #quill pen #medieval codex #italian renaissance #renaissance art #visual sources #history #firenze #history chirp

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catofadifferentcolor · 10 months

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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 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.

#harry potter #hp #wizarding society #wizarding world #hogwarts #parchment #quill pen #ink #writing #rant #thoughts #writing implements #pen #handwriting #economics of the Wizarding world

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danskjavlarna · 2 months

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Separated at Birth?

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