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shadowsong
@shadowsinger.bsky.social
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Aspiring intersectional feminist, optimist misanthrope, lapsed historical fencer and costumer, avid SFF bibliophile, amateur calligrapher, cat person, PNW migrant.
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shadowsong @shadowsinger.bsky.social · Nov 17
All of this has happened before. All of this will happen again. All of this is bullshit.
Midori MD graph pad with pointed pen calligraphy reading "All of this has happened before. All of this will happen again. All of this is bullshit". Below the text is a FPR Jaipur 2 Ultraflex fountain pen, and a paper towel with blots of Vinta Kislap ink.
shadowsinger.bsky.social
I didn't really get what the Batman vs Bateman ads were about, because I only heard the tagine but didn't really look at what was on screen. I assumed it was a Christian Bale thing and was thinking "Patrick Bateman would probably still get the job done, if distastefully."
May 17, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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There's a rabbit hopping around in the backyard and agitating the cats. I didn't put out any food on purpose, so I'll have to check later to see which of my new plants it decided was food.
May 15, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Can anyone else feel the breeze on your eyeballs immediately after taking out your contacts, or is it just me?
May 8, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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I feel sick to my shoulders, somehow? Not really sure how that works.
April 27, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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A meme labeled 'Libertarians be Like:' and a woman looking askance at 'tyranny.gov' but with curious pleasure at 'tyranny.com'.
February 23, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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the biggest problem with the two party system is that one of them is nazi germany and the other is vichy france
February 10, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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I'm a perfectionist about the things that I don't do. The things I actually accomplish are things I have convinced myself it's okay to do imperfectly. "Half assed is better than no ass" is something I tell myself but don't always believe.
February 10, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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I figured out I was dreaming around the time when @tkingfisher.com organized a Chanticleer concert in my house. But it was a good concert, so I decided to stay asleep.
February 8, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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Calligraphy practice for today.
Rhodia dotpad with calligraphy practice. At the top is the word "Solstice", written in Batarde script with a 6mm Pilot Parallel nib in an Opus 88 Demo body and teal FWP Edwards Gardens ink. Below is a quote from Susan Cooper's poem "The Shortest Day", as follows: "And so the shortest day came and the year died, and everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world came people singing, dancing, to drive the dark away." It is written in Insular mishmash script using a 2.4mm Pilot Parallel pen with teal Octopus Fluids Dragon ink.
December 21, 2024 at 7:20 PM
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Calligraphy practice. Apparently two cartridge fills of Golden Beryl without rinsing the feed involves enough dried shimmer to clog a Pilot Parallel. I wasn't sure it was possible to clog one of those but now I know.
Rhodia dotpad with calligraphy. At the top, the word "Procrastination" is written in Batarde script using a 4.5mm Pilot Parallel pen with gold Pelikan Edelstein Golden Beryl ink. Below is a quote by Robert Breault. It reads, "Eventually, time takes care of everything. The trouble with procrastination is that people give up on it too soon." The quote is written in Insular mishmash script using a 3mm Pilot Parallel pen with purple Wearingeul Persephone ink.
December 11, 2024 at 6:38 PM
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Calligraphy practice. "Existentialism" was too long a word to fit on one line with the 6mm nib, so I had to size down to a 4.5mm pen with the sadly discontinued Pelikan Edelstein Golden Beryl ink.
Rhodia dotpad with calligraphy writing. The top line has a nib ladder followed by the word "Existentialism" written in Batarde script, using a 4.5mm Pilot Parallel pen and gold Pelikan Edelstein Golden Beryl ink. Below is a quote from Jean Paul Sartre reading, "Life has no meaning a priori. It is up to you to give it meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose." it is written in Insular mishmash script using a 3mm Pilot Parallel pen and teal Wearingeul Persephone ink.
December 8, 2024 at 9:06 PM
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Calligraphy practice. Took me a while to get a satisfactory N, and the Batarde s is just weird. Annnd I conflated the c and e in significance, dammit.
Rhodia dotpad with calligraphy. At the top is written "Nihilism" in Batarde script, using a 6mm Pilot Parallel nib in an Opus 88 Demo with teal FWP Edwards Gardens ink. Below is a quote describing nihilism: "Strut, fret, and delude ourselves as we may, our lives are of no significane [sic] , and it is futile to seek or affirm meaning where none can be found." It is written in Insular mishmash script using a 3mm Pilot Parallel pen and purple Wearingeul Persephone ink.
December 7, 2024 at 11:08 PM
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Calligraphy practice. I improvised on the long esses because I couldn't find an exemplar, and I ran out of room for the rest of the definition.
Rhodia dotpad with calligraphy writing. At the top is "Depression", written in Batarde with 6mm Pilot Parallel nib in an Opus 88 Demo body and teal FWP Edwards Gardens ink. It has long esses for the double s. Below is the beginning of the definition, written in Insular mishmash with a 3mm Pilot Parallel and purple Wearingeul Persephone ink. It reads "a mood disorder marked by varying degrees of sadness, despair, and loneliness and that is typically accompanied by inactivity, guilt, loss of..."
December 5, 2024 at 7:00 PM
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More calligraphy practice.
Rhodia dotpad with a row of majuscule E at the top and "Ennui" in the middle, both written in Batarde script with a 6mm Pilot Parallel nib in an Opus 88 Demo body and teal FWP Edwards Gardens ink. Below that, the definition is written in Insular mishmash with a 3mm Pilot Parallel and purple Wearingeul Persephone ink: "a feeling of weariness and dissatisfaction"
December 4, 2024 at 3:58 AM
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Calligraphy practice. I'm... not doing well.
Rhodia dotpad with a row of majuscule A practice at the top, and the word "Anhedonia" in the middle, both in Batarde script written with a 6mm Pilot Parallel nib in an Opus 88 Demo body and teal FWP Edwards Gardens ink. At the bottom of the page is the definition, written in Insular mishmash script with a 3mm Parallel Pen and purple Wearingeul Persephone ink: "a psychological condition characterized by inability to experience pleasure in normally pleasurable acts"
December 4, 2024 at 1:01 AM
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Today's calligraphy practice is a blend of Italic and Cancellaresca Corsiva. I like the angle of the Cancellaresca, but apparently my hand prefers more upright forms. And that p is fun but doesn't really mesh with the rest of the letter forms.
Rhodia dotpad with two lower case calligraphy alphabets written in Italic with features of Cancellaresca Corsiva. Writing was done with a 3mm Parallel pen and Wearingeul Persephone ink.
December 1, 2024 at 3:56 AM
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Calligraphy practice today is in Italic script.
Rhodia dotpad with Italic calligraphy in Vinta Bisperas ink reading "And with strange aeons, even death may die." An uncapped Pilot Parallel pen obscures an earlier practice attempt at the phrase.
November 25, 2024 at 11:28 PM
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I made a starter pack, a list (the same as the feed plus one person who wasn't searchable) and a feed (the list plus any posts that mention TJHSST) for the TJ Alumni Underground group from Facebook.

Starter pack: go.bsky.app/RHodXBe
List: bsky.app/profile/did:...
Feed: bsky.app/profile/did:...
November 22, 2024 at 10:47 PM
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An Aztec pangram for today's practice.
A Rhodia dotpad with two pangrams written in Insular mishmash script. The first reads "His gaze is fixed along the wall / As Pangur Ban the cat hunts mice. / I with my books rejoice to live / Together with my quiet cat." It is written in Wearingeul Persephone ink and is partially obscured by an uncapped Pilot Parallel pen. The second reads "Aztec hunter Mixcoatl loves drinking pulque brewed from juicy sap." It is written in Vinta Bisperas ink.
November 22, 2024 at 6:14 PM
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Do users get notified when added to a Bluesky list or starter pack?
November 22, 2024 at 5:02 PM
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The pangram for today's calligraphy practice is my abridgement of Pangur Ban. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangur_...
A Rhodia dotpad with Insular mishmash calligraphy reading " His gaze is fixed along the wall As Pangur Ban the cat hunts mice I with my books rejoice to live Together with my quiet cat " Below the text is a 3mm Pilot Parallel Pen with Wearingeul Persephone ink.
November 19, 2024 at 4:26 AM
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Calligraphy practice from a few years back, of John M Ford's sonnet "Against Entropy".
Two pages of Insular Mishmash calligraphy that read as follows: " The worm drives helically through the wood And does not know the dust left in the bore Once made the table integral and good; And suddenly the crystal hits the floor. Electrons find their paths in subtle ways, A massless eddy in a trail of smoke; The names of lovers, light of other days Perhaps you will not miss them. That’s the joke. The universe winds down. That’s how it’s made. But memory is everything to lose; Although some of the colors have to fade, Do not believe you’ll get the chance to choose. Regret, by definition, comes too late; Say what you mean. Bear witness. Iterate. -Against Entropy by John M Ford " Text is written on Rhodia A3 dotpad with three sizes of Parallel Pens. Largest size is inked with FWP Edwards Gardens.
November 18, 2024 at 6:48 AM
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All of this has happened before. All of this will happen again. All of this is bullshit.
Midori MD graph pad with pointed pen calligraphy reading "All of this has happened before. All of this will happen again. All of this is bullshit". Below the text is a FPR Jaipur 2 Ultraflex fountain pen, and a paper towel with blots of Vinta Kislap ink.
November 17, 2024 at 11:32 PM
shadowsinger.bsky.social
In no particular order, I'm interested in: cats, sociology, SCA, fencing, calligraphy, historical costuming, cosplay, science fiction, fantasy, progressive politics, reading, PNW, intersectional feminism, and data analysis.
November 15, 2024 at 8:39 PM