#cyphering

- Terry Pratchett - The Fifth Elephant

Just realized that I have talked about ‘cyphering’ but never uploaded my first attempt at it My first real crack at it was when I was still a freshman in high-school, but the actual continuous use and development of the hobby didn’t really pick up for me until I had hit college; I had been getting these strong desires to write something “unfamiliar but understandable”  for years at this point, and I finally had something ‘worthwhile’ enough to channel the feeling into, stuff like ecology notes, moving away and meet-up plans with people I cared about Anyway, back on topic; the first attempt (shown above) was sort of all over the place shape and theme wise, I wanted something that “looked cool” and to meet that I just pulled influence from every other fake language I saw as well as random design elements that looked cool to me And while I think I definitely succeeded in making something that gives a “cool” vibe, its incredibly hard to write and read! Perhaps a better version of this can exist if I limited the shapes used and changed it to work more like cuniform or clawrite by making a special writing tool? Though I think in the end I don’t want to attempt a ‘perfect version’ it contains a good amount of personal history for me, and starting from scratch would be much more rewarding

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