Kind Of Random: This Cool, Analytical Article On The Papyrus Font!

Kind of random: this cool, analytical article on the Papyrus font!

So, I had no idea that Papyrus is apparently a hated font? I thought it was pretty cool-looking when I was a kid. Trying to use it now, though, yeah, there's something just not quite right about it. Thought this article was fascinating because of its in-depth analysis of the font. Knowing nothing beforehand about font construction, it was really neat to see all the considerations that can go into font design.

In an nutshell: Papyrus, unlike Comic Sans, is actually a pretty well-structured/balanced font. The flaw is that it's too perfect: intended to look "handmade," yet every letter is identical the other letters of its kind, and so it comes off looking fake.

In Defense of Papyrus: Avatar Uses the World's Second-Most-Hated Font to Signal the Downfall of Civilization
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The same reason you hate Papyrus is the reason it's the perfect font for the movie Avatar.

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11 months ago

🎁 Gift Reveal! 🎁

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Thank you @artmelody for being a wonderful match. Check out the final artwork below and let me know your thoughts!

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1 year ago
332nd Team Building Exercises On Scariff, Playing Some Space!football. (Fives Succeeds, Palpatine Dies,

332nd team building exercises on Scariff, playing some space!football. (Fives succeeds, palpatine dies, everyone else lives AU)

Another top gun x Star Wars piece. :) (see top gun maverick)

this took me many many hours and felt like it would never end, so please see the details

332nd Team Building Exercises On Scariff, Playing Some Space!football. (Fives Succeeds, Palpatine Dies,
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2 years ago

Now playing: III-IV: Masters and Apprentices

Now Playing: III-IV: Masters And Apprentices

In which the Alliance comes to the aid of the besieged Partisans, and masters and apprentices meet again.


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9 months ago

Present, Past, and Future

For @mina-jamsin-derulo, based on "Eyes on the future." Thank you for the lovely prompt art!

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A little vignette with Anakin and Ahsoka watching the twins spar on Naboo.


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8 months ago

Just checking in and seeing how Fortunes Rule is going ❤️🙏🏽❤️🙏🏽🥹😅

It's going. Slowly, but surely! 😅 Nobody is having a good time in this chapter (except the twins, of course), and it's proving rather challenging to write for some reason.

Thanks for checking in! 💛

And here's a little snippet from the chapter :)

The second morning, Beru’s call came while Padmé was pacing her room and rehearsing the finer details of her cover story in preparation for the day’s meetings. “Have you found them?” Padmé blurted, the moment she answered her comm. “No.”  Beru’s voice was subdued.  “There’s still no sign.  No one’s even seen the speeder.  Of course, if they left it somewhere, it’s probably been picked up by Jawas, or some lowlife looking for a ride.” Unless, of course, speeder and twins been collectively taken possession of first.  Frankly, that seemed just as likely.  Padmé continued to pace. “Owen checked the slave markets in Espa,” Beru added.  “He didn’t see them there.” “That’s…” Padmé started, but she couldn’t finish the sentence. That’s good.  It was good, wasn’t it?  Owen hadn’t seen the twins in the Mos Espa slave markets.  That was good.  Unless it just meant they had already been— A wave of blank terror threatened to overwhelm her at the thought of her children being sold as slaves.  They couldn’t have been.  They just couldn’t.  But if they had… I might never see them again.  They might grow up as slaves.  Unless someone discovers what they are, and Palpatine finds out, and—


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11 months ago

Not sure if this has been asked or not, but how would canon Luke and Leia react to meeting your au versions of them?

omg I'VE BEEN WANTING TO MAKE AN INTO THE LUKE-AND-LEIA-VERSE FOR AGES thank you for kicking me into doing it

Canon Luke, distressed: Am I seriously the only one who lost an arm??
Sith Luke: It seems so.
Fix-it Luke: Yeah?
Skywalkers Apart Luke: Yes, sorry...
Canon Leia: Wait so, you all consider Darth Vader your actual dad?
Sith Leia: Indeed.
Fix-it Leia: Who's Darth Vader?
Skywalkers Apart Leia: My dad's called Anakin...

(donation doodles! // tip jar)


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1 year ago
Watto: You can have the boy or his mother not both 
Qui Gon: Hm -- Watto, friend, why don't we go discuss this in this dark alleyway
[later] 
Qui Gon: I spoke to Watto and he says you're both completely free now--
Padme running in: Have you heard? Watto was just found dead in an alleyway!
Qui Gon:
Shmi: 
Anakin: 
Qui Gon: Wow what a weird coincidence! anyway

gigachad qui gon would never leave shmi in slavery. source: i said so

(commission info // kofi support!)


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1 year ago

Now playing: III-X. All Tangled Up in This Mortal Coil, pt 1

Now Playing: III-X. All Tangled Up In This Mortal Coil, Pt 1

In which Ahsoka meets the fam, and Obi-Wan and Ventress do a bit of reconnaissance.

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2 years ago

The Prosaic, Now-Perennial Paper

This started out as a vocabulary assignment way back in middle school, with the article "Venerable Citizen Exonerated: A Follow-Up to 'Mr. P.G. Tips in Hot Water.'" Then I ended up continuing it into a whole mini-newspaper personifying various teas in the kitchen, and their society and escapades. It's been an off-and-on project over... egads, the last ten years, I think. (Sheesh!) Anyway, thought I'd post the more recent issues of the paper (those from the past 3 years). The earlier ones are a bit sillier, the ads aren't as well-done, and the quality of the writing is lower.

The Prosaic, Now-Perennial Paper

The Prosaic, Now-Perennial Paper

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A hodgepodge of things relating to Fortune's Rule, my Star Wars fix-it fic: behind-the-scenes-type writing stuff, maybe some sneak-peekish bits, art that may or may not make it into the story, and thoughts and questions about the SW universe.  Plus, probably, some memes and other random stuff as well!

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