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The Curse of The Black Hours |
Photo and Contribution
by Tatiana Nikolaevna Tumanova
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The Curse of The Black Hours |
Photo and Contribution
by Tatiana Nikolaevna Tumanova
The Curse of The Black Hours
Ah, the relief of having finished the sheer drudgery of calligraphy! Now that it's finished,
I can admire it. I read through the text and -- oh. Oh, no. Oh, NO!!!!! The blazon -- no,
not a mistake in the blazon! "Argent, a horse passant." It's supposed to be "Argent, a horse
passant sable between three roses azure" you IDIOT! You left out an entire line of the blazon!
Not just a word, but over half of it! (Flash-back to Johann's Laurel scroll, where the emblazon
suffered -- and you call yourself a Herald? For shame!) The layout of the text had a line-break
just at that spot -- obviously I had looked away from the text and then started off on the wrong
line when I resumed, dropping an entire line out of the text on the finished piece.
O-kay. If life hands you lemons, find somebody whose life handed them vodka, and have a party. Collegium Occidentalis (a series of short classes taught by SCA volunteers over the course of two days) was coming up and the Chancellor of the College of Scribes was soliciting folks to teach scribal-related things. I offered to do a class on "Scribal Screw-Ups" complete with handouts and a beautiful example, to talk about how to salvage disasters like this one. If there's one thing I've become an expert on over time, it's fixing messed-up calligraphy. Because I never freakin' learn, do I?
Shoot me, shoot me now... -- Tatiana Nikolaevna Tumanova
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