@Rooktastic

Technical writing, technical editing, calligraphy

 SF Bay Area
Joined June 2011
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Reminder: Michelle Pfeiffer whipped the heads off those four mannequins IN ONE TAKE to thunderous applause from the Batman Returns crew!
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vanitas@Art_Vanitas15 Jan 2022
"The Storm" by Pierre-Auguste Cot (1880), at @metmuseum
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A thoughtful & accessibility-minded follower on Tumblr has started making my calligraphy videos more accessible to people with disabilities by captioning them for screen readers. Here’s an example: [ID: a video of handwriting in calligraphy the phrase, "Be Kind, Fucker." /End ID]
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Over the last 12 months we've digitised over 250 ancient, medieval and early modern manuscripts, bringing our total to over 4800! 🤩 Check out the full list in today's blogpost: blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscr…
Medieval illustration of Chaucer from a manuscript of the Canterbury Tales

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Happy anniversary to The Little Mermaid (Released today on November 17th, 1989).
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📢 The Confab Equity Scholarship is now open! Apply through December 16—and be sure to spread the word to folks who would benefit. confabevents.com/confab-equi…
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Dragons, Heroes, Myths & Magic presents 50 of the very first adventure stories, developed around historical figures from Charlemagne, King Arthur and Alexander the Great, to smaller, vibrant tales of local characters on the periphery. 1/4
Chantry Westwell's Dragons, Heroes, Myths & Magic book cover.

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Introduction page of Chantry Westwell's Dragons, Heroes, Myths & Magic book, with manuscript image on the left page.

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Insert of Chantry Westwell's Dragons, Heroes, Myths & Magic book: Chapter 1: Heroes & Heroines

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Seb Lester
@SebLester21 Oct 2021
Examples of the letter ‘a’ through history. Roman Capital, 2nd Century. Uncial Script, 6th Century. Textura, 15th Century. Chancery Italic, 16th Century. #calligraphy
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Purchase Writing Is Designing by @mjmetts and @awelfle directly from Rosenfeld Media and receive a free ebook version with your paperback: rfld.me/337wC00?utm_campaign…
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Letterforms & Textures & Strokes, OH MY! We are so happy to announce our classes today. Head over to writeontheedge.org/classes to see all the glorious courses on offer next summer. 🖌Work left to right, top to bottom: Ewan Clayton, Claudio Gil, Gemma Black, Hiroko Shimizu
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Do you work in technical documentation? Fill out the #writethedocs Salary Survey for 2021 and help our community determine fair and appropriate pay scales. salary-survey.writethedocs.o…

Write the Docs Documentation Salary Survey 2026 - now open!

This annual survey, run by the Write the Docs community, gathers data about salaries for people working in documentation and related fields around the world. We hope it helps our community determine…

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Do you work in documentation? Fill out the #writethedocs Salary Survey for 2021 and help our community determine fair and appropriate pay scales 👀 salary-survey.writethedocs.o…
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I just backed Gravemire on @Kickstarter kickstarter.com/projects/cla…
Now online - a textbook like no other! This copy of Gratian's Decretum was made in Paris in the 14th century. It's filled with beautiful illustrations, marginal figures, and lots of puppies chasing rabbits around the text! (Royal MS 10 D VIII): bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDispla…
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Notifications are blowing up. *checks news* Ah. There's an eclipse
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We hope you enjoyed the 21st day of the month, in this 21st week of the 21st year of the 21st century.
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I feel personally attacked by my own brain
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An illustration with two panels, the first titled, "When I do something well," and a woman looking mildly pleased while saying, "That was good." and the second titled, "When I make a mistake," with the same woman lying on the floor under a cloud of many negative defeatist thoughts.

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#MayThe4thBeWithYou Time it is for some Medieval Star Wars blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscr…
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