feral scribe hours

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Missed posting this on St Stephen's Day proper (though it's not quite midnight yet), but it was mainly just an ink test anyway. Loving how old school this dark brown looks.

Thanks! I'm still practising – only recently returned to calligraphy after over a decade, and the insular minuscule is new. But I just got new inks for Christmas so I'm no longer struggling with very dried-up old ones, and hopefully that's gonna make for lots more scrivenary fun! Up until now I was seriously relating to all the marginalia that says things like "the ink is very bad..." 😅

So here's an eclectic selection of quotes and phrases I wrote circa 1.30am tonight, when my brain was being unfriendly.

-- The Raven Boys, Maggie Stiefvater

[image description: "loeg mac riungabra" written twice in insular minuscule, in different sizes pen, on a small yellow square of paper. a calligraphy pen lies on the desk next to it.]

-- The Dream Thieves, Maggie Stiefvater

-- The Dream Thieves, Maggie Stiefvater

-- from The Dream Thieves, by Maggie Stiefvater.

[quote source: celtic tearooms]

— Bertilak, probably

(Disclaimer that I don't write in insular minuscule as a matter of course, it's a deliberate script that I'm imitating here, so this isn't my everyday handwriting.)

— the Stowe scribe of TBC (Táin Bó Cúailnge), probably

thank you.