this is mesmerizing

✍ Introducing ✍ Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeography gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/ AKA What I Did Over Reading Week. #skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing. Love g 🗃️

They have an ENTIRE DEPARTMENT of White House calligraphers! They've had it for literal centuries! It's still there! It was confirmed their offices were moved when they demolished the East Wing, but it's there! FFS, I'm not even a pointed pen guy and *I* could have turned out better work than this!

'lowkey' and 'coded' are great for implying more or less whatever you want about something without committing too much. i'm going to start using them in my descriptions. 'this manuscript, possibly 13th-century but tbqh kinda 12th-coded, provenance germany but lowkey italian vibes, is srsly goated'

The beacons are lit! It's on! #CancelSpotify #PillarBusiness

Important Halloween discovery: if divination from animal innards is "haruspicy," then divination from pumpkin innards would be "pumpkin spicy."

"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness) As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)

This is ASTONISHING for an hour's work!

Again, Mark Zuckerberg's kids go to a screen-free school with 14 students total and multiple specialized tutors

30 September is the feast of St Jerome. Here is an initial 'Q' with St Jerome holding a book, and faced by a little lion with a poorly paw! #StJerome BL Arundel 91; Passionale (Lives of the Saints); England, S. E. (Canterbury); 12th century; f.31v

"Manuscript climbing gym" would be *such* a better immersive experience then "talk with an AI model of Van Gogh" or whatever it is they're trying to make happen now

Look at academia giving me a little hope

If you do not find Christ in the dinghy in the Channel, you will not find him in your chalice. (Soz Chrysostom, a day late for your feast day...) #cofepeeps 🕯️⚓

It's *that* stage of the writing process...

Digitizing the Medieval Ducal Tower of Siedlęcin www.medievalists.net/2025/09/digi... #medievalart #castles

An honour to talk to my creative friends about storytelling and 'behind the scenes' in Yde and Olive. You can read all about it here, see the next performance in Manchester on the 17th September, or catch one of the last venues on my tour: daisyblack.uk/events/

I have SO many feelings about MS Codex 1869. If I could choose, this is the fate I would want for my own calligraphy work. Worn down by generations of use, and then cut up and pasted into childrens' scrap books.

Dear Disney money people: EVERYONE would watch the hell out of this. (Especially me.)

1015 manuscripts, almost all digitized. An amazing percentage, puts certain other national libraries to shame. Speaking of which: Please back up your data! Don't be like the British library!

I rted this yesterday and it's exciting research but let's not forget there's plenty of 7th and 8thc evidence. Consider Abbot Hadrian. People go places and history is complicated, etc

'Brooks and boulders' - the third piece of my aerial embroidery series incorporating pine bark chip 'rocks'! The contrasts between the hard rocks and soft embroidery, dark and pale shades and terrain makes this landscape my favourite 😊 will be available Friday with all the others! 1/2

Another new video! On medieval minstrel history. This is sort of a "research by-product" tidbit, from a larger project still in process. www.youtube.com/shorts/KX3JB...

With links to videos! Made me tear up! :) www.broadwayworld.com/article/Vide...

For @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social

New calligraphy video is up! "His Eye is on the Sparrow," in gouache paint and calligraphy based on Turin L.ii.14: youtu.be/FtCUFgHlSxY?...

A bit of practice for a bigger piece... #calligraphy #postyourpractice

No court can erase the history of trans people existing. www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

"Humanize before they militarize" www.instagram.com/reel/DKsXBGd...

♥️💜💙💚💛🧡 Happy pride

@eleanormaybaker.bsky.social Thanks again for running a wonderful @guildmedmak.bsky.social co-working session today! And sorry for taking up so much time chattering about my gold leaf anxiety—if I'd realized time was so limited, I'd have stepped back so we could hear from more first-timers.

Sticking with textiles, here are four pages of Julia’s incredible embroidered book that collects quotes from a digital scrapbook she’s collected over the past 8 years—it’s meant to invoke "he soft cloth books made for very young children" while its content speaks to an adult reader

I don't need another hobby I don't need another hobby I don't need another

13 Adorable Literary-Inspired Amigurumi Crochet Patterns bookriot.com/literary-ins...

One of the things that really doesn't interest me about the current political moment is actually 'can we win?' I mean, I think we can, but I don't care. The weight of 250 years of suffering and striving propels us forward, it would do that even if the cause were hopeless.

Good to see this in the news: www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Strange men on golf courses distributing tariffs is no basis for a system of government. Bring back the women lying in ponds.

CALLING ALL MEDIEVALISTS AND THE MEDIEVAL-CURIOUS: the Guild of Medievalist Makers **lives**!!!!!!! This is a MUST-join for all creative academics, academic creators, and anyone wondering how to merge creative practice with curiosity about the Middle Ages. Please join, and please share widely!

From #handsoff Boston today. A wonderful crowd—a bit too wonderful for me to see or hear any of the speakers, but that's a wonder of its own!

There were more than 100,000 people at the rally in Boston! The crowd stretched from City Hall all the way to Boston common. Inspiring speakers plus the Dropkick Murphys! #HandsOff

Boston loves a Revolutionary War reference @ #HandsOff Boston

This elderly man showed up to support an anti-trans bill in my home state and then, because he had to wait hours to testify, he was stuck listening to queer folks rally against it By the time it was his turn to speak, he'd changed his mind Never doubt that speaking out can change hearts and minds

I don't know what Pauli would have to say right now, but I bet those would be good words. Pauli, pray for us. That the Holy Spirit may give us words worth saying and ears to listen. ⚓

Like many born into slavery, abolitionist Frederick Douglass never knew his birthday. His mother called him “little valentine” and so he chose to celebrate on Valentine’s Day. Happy birthday, Frederick Douglass 💜

"The conference will begin in Vienna and end in Istanbul... Most sessions will take place on moving trains, so we can only accept submissions from people willing to participate in the entire conference. Also... speakers will be sharing a compartment with other conference participants."

On top of everything else, I really appreciate the skill in making the descender and ascender space almost exactly equal, so that the "k" ascender just barely brushes the headline and the "g" the baseline.

I mean LOOK at that guys!! It's Middle English, but easily as highly graded a textura as CCC61, and I would've said (and have done) that was by far the highest grade I knew of in ME. It's STUNNING.

INCARNATIONAL IMMIGRANT JUSTICE! "The Son of God, in becoming man, also chose to live the drama of immigration."

I’m just so angry all the time ⚓️

*takes Psalms 49 and 50 and throws them at the White House* ⚓

Looking forward to performing the 13th c. Yde and Olive at Wolverhampton Literature Festival. Yde dresses herself as a knight and cuts her own paths to freedom. She meets her match in Olive: a woman whose spirit is as courageous as her own... wolvesliteraturefestival.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/....