Let's see that handwriting, /lit/. >I type Let's

>>7627768
Barely understand anything

>babby's first microeconomics

>>7627791
Not OP, but I was a junior in high school taking AP Micro/Macro when I did this shit kek

Are you in ninth grade?

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>>7627814
OP here, I'm in community college

/SOC/-TIER SHITE

They never taught me how to write in school. I can only print. It's my own fault too for not learning at some point.

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>>7627768
Fresh from the notebook.

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don't judge

it's probably going to invert because i'm posting from my phone

>solution to surplus is price increase
>solution to shortage is price decrease

Wat.

>>7627768
A fine hand meant for art yet wasted on the superfluous.

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Spirits to enforce, art to enchant...

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I've always envied people with pretty handwriting.

>>7629584
Interesting notes.

What book are you reading?

>>7629462
So you've gotta be female right?

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idk instead of doodling this happens

>>7629619
You'd make a good fuccboi wouldn't you?

>>7629628
What do you mean I would? I am

In defense, it's not like I believe or like what I write, it's just sentences

>>7629632
It's not what you write that reveals it but the style of your writing; what you wrote only reveals that you are not a female. Do not misunderstand though, I do not mean to insult you; on the contrary, I long for one like you.

>>7629635
o-oh okay

>>7629584
Diodorus Siculus' histories. Currently reading about the shitshow scramble for power that followed the death of Alexander the Great.

I want to improve my handwriting. What are some good places to learn online?

>>7629657
Literally just sit down, design the way you want to write each letter, and then write some Lorem Ipsum shit using those new looks until you don't have to concentrate anymore

How do you guys get good at this? Just practice?

>>7629684
see >>7629666

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>>7629684
Just practice and the right fountain pen.

Sheaffer makes some cheap ones. The ink flow could be a lot better though!

>>7627768
What pen do you use?

DIE

IN

A

FIRE

>>7628413
>>7629841
>I did it twice!

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Sorry for the bad photo

>>7629645
Nice - might have to give that a read.

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>tfw calligraphy classes when I was a kid didn't pay off

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This is it. Any idea how I can improve?

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>>7630175
Also, this is how I hold the pen. Got used to it when I was a kid, cant write any other way

>>7630179
Yikes, compadre

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My n, m, h, and k's just dip below the baseline randomly. People think I'm gay because of it.

I've always felt like my handwriting is the autistic crossbreed to actually neat girl handwriting, and the pretentious slant artsy handwriting like OP

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>>7630206
>reposting for size

Oh gee, another show off thread that has nothing to do with literature!

>>7630212
Unstable megalomaniac.

>>7629987
It looks attractive.

>>7629961
You should watch that play at least

>>7630212
looks kinda like mine, mine actually looks more childish, quite sad.

>>7629527
cringed

>>7629812
cringed again

Are you a child?

>>7630175
there's no benefit to writing any better than you currently do

>>7629987

Best ITT.

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the pen was shite, it's a shitty 5-minute turkish to english translation that i did a couple of months ago.

>>7631038
I may; it's not until June/July I think and I'm not entirely sure of the cost, although it should probably be quite cheap. It is still quite strange that I was invited.

Also hm, it turns out that all three of my tutors think that I write very "eloquently and "elegantly", and one of them even complimented me on my rhetoric. Feels nice...

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Rate? Mobile

>>7631216
You understand that Spengler is not making a racial argument here, he's comparing the Sudanese to the pre-Cultural Germans. The ant-communities he's referring to could be levelled at the entire West today.

>>7627768
I can't understand shit

looks nice though

>>7631367
Circles above the i's? Are you a 13 year old girl?

>>7631712
+1 kektus

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>>7631712
>>7631716
last time ı checked i has a circle on top of it.
i don't always do it though, it happens when i'm thinking.

So /lit/, I cannot write cursive. Public schools in California never put too much emphasis on the matter and I know that I am also at fault for never learning, but I've tried & I just write God-awful. I'm not a neat writer so my cursive just looks like scrambling. How hard is it to learn to write neatly in cursive?

>>7631723
I don't like your t's, ts or however it should be written like

>tfw dyslexic
>tfw can't read my own handwriting sometimes
>tfw no matter how hard I try it'll be shit
>tfw mix print with cursive int he same word without realizing
Please end my suffering.

>>7631752
You're not alone anon, I have disgraphia.

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>>7631750
It's a bit odd, and I don't know why we write it like that, that's just how I've been taught. I like it better than pick related, though.

>>7631227
For my personal satisfaction

>>7629981
Honestly I wouldn't recommend it, at least not all of it; it's really dry and largely covers either material otherwise better addressed by Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon, or goes way too far in depth into events which have pretty much no large-scale effects, such as the various rising and falling tyrannies of Syracuse.

Although if you like primary sources, it's not bad as a reference text for certain periods. It fills in gaps with earlier writers, addressing otherwise unaddressed periods like 479-431 (between Persian wars and the Peloponnesian war) or 362-336 (rise of Philip II of Macedon).

Besides that, it's a fucking chore to get through, and is only available either from Loeb in 12 volumes which will cost $300+, or Sophron (what I got), a discount printing with no shortage of editing errors.

It's taken me 3 weeks to read ~850/1100 pages and it's genuinely the least fun I've ever had reading a primary source.

>>7630179
Get a shitty fountain pen and practice writing with that. It'll force you to loosen your grip and relax the angle at which you hold a pen, since a fountain pen literally won't work if you hold your hand like that.

>>7631846
Yeah, tried working on that today. I will try some cursive or whatever, the letters to look better.

>>7629527
do you pencil your notes first and then go over it with ink? wtf

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>>7630179
I also hold my pen like that.

My ability to write by hand is functional, but not pretty.

>>7632182
We used to do that back in elementary school.

>>7632182
Only on rare occasions. I actually made some spelling errors in pen here, misspelling Cherusci.

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everyone writing in neat cursive :\

I learned cursive, used it for a year, then realized that it was pretty much unreadable. Now I use this odd hybrid handwriting.

>>7627768
Wow, thats really nice

Gotta post using my phone desu. One sec

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I write like a child and my letters are inconsistent. It gets the job done, though.

>>7631723
Train yourself to write Arabic with more flow, look at some calligraphy. Don't strain yourself with form.

>>7631729
dot not circle.

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>>7629819
Lamy Safari, EF
Ink is Noodler's HoD

>>7632792
Don't let this charlatan mislead you; loop-de-loop spaghetti scribbles are the cancer that killed Arabic calligraphy.

Your writing now has got a really regal weight to it - keep going.

>>7632621
I think cursive is dumb to learn. I write in print too, and when you write quickly you lift your pen less and you do get some form of cursive. I remember being a kid and wondering why they just used a weird loop for an 'e,' but when you start writing e's quickly, they just sorta naturally become that. So I mean it makes sense.

Idk. I have an awful signature and that's the only time script would really be handy

>>7632780
>writing capital O's by starting from the bottom of the line

You're autistic, arent you?

>>7629619
My God these sound like things DFW would write.

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Pencil is a Lamy something my girlfriend gave me for christmas

My handwriting is sort of bad because I'm left-handed. Thought about getting a fountain pen though.

>>7631712
Shut up, it's cute!

>>7632875
Thanks, anon :3
And if the bottom right in your pic is yours, that looks really nice. Computer-made almost.

>>7632875
Why is the page diagonal what is happening

>>7633357
its a pretty sick meme, reposting OP's to make it readable

cmon guy

>>7631794
You found the lost page of the Voynich manuscript?
Please do share it.

>>7632885
If that's what today's definition of autism is, then yes. I have noticed that I write my Os strangely, but it doesn't really hinder me as far as I can tell.

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>>7627768
Print...

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>>7633903
...cursive...

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>>7633903
>those s's

>>7634064
excellent picture choice

Hello lit. I've never tried to write, well, anything really, that I didn't have to. But yesterday something happened in class and I came home and wrote and wrote and wrote. (It was about a new girl in my class)

If I chop out a few lines that incriminate/identify me- and post the first little bit, could you tell me if this might be an interesting start to a story? (please)

..........

It was a total sensory overload, it was like I didn't even know what I was looking at, but I couldn't look away. You know. Wild horses couldn't...

**********REDACTED*************ut I s'pose. I think the teacher was still talking to me, I think she was angry, I think she wanted me to at least look at her while she was saying stuff. I think... I don't know.
To look at anything else was just impossible, even to try was futile; as long as SHE was there. And there SHE was- writing, all boobs and braces. She pushed one side of her hair behind her ear and noticed me, she smiled a warm and genuine smile- the midday sun bouncing off those braces and hitting me between the eyes.

>>7634158
Wow... I fucked up there, didn't I.

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>>7634161

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>>7634161

>>7634185
>>7634226
Thr ya gu

>>7634226
>>7634233

Can you stop appropriating my username?

>>7634239
>>7634233
Yes please stop

>>7634239
>my username
Not anymore, pussy

>>7634239
>>7634249
>>7634259
But, it's my name. (so no)

>>7634259

Nice try

>>7632895
is that a bad thing anon? can't tell anymore on this board

>>7634263

We're your parents niggers trying to pronounce "math"?

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>>7634263
just deal with it alright faggot hop off it's mine now
>>7634264
scram

>>7634271
... My name is Matthew. Lots of people call me Maf- always have done.

Also, I am white, with blonde hair and blue eyes (no less) I've also got a pretty big, pretty pretty cock.

I don't like you.

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r8 my h&

>>7634282
Why the fuck would you use Tip-Ex on a shit shower like that!? I mean- my writing is just as bad, maybe worse than yours- but fuck. Are you proud of this!?

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>>7634290
My name is also Matthew
They call me Matt because my friends have all their teeth and can count to ten interrupted

>>7634298
>>7634298
No one asked you.

>>7634322
fag

>>7634298
Also- why use the name "maf"? Doesn't seem to make any sense, does it?? Do you secretly wish you and your friends were lacking in the teeth department? Unable to count?

What's the deal, Matt?

>>7634271
Yes. It's unfortunate but I deal with it.
BTW, beware of these imposters
>>7634322
>>7634298
>>7634290
They're not me (I'm not blonde!)

STOP USING MY NAME!!!

>>7634333
Seeing as I started posting in this thread, talking about a girl I fell in love with yesterday- pretty safe to assume that (as my name is Matthew) I am a male and- not gay.

>>7634347
STOP USING MY NAME!!!!

>>7634348
fag

>>7634348
This scoundrel lifted my paragraph from a critique thread and is using it to defame me.

This is the real one:
It was a total sensory overload, it was like I didn't even know what I was looking at, but I couldn't look away. You know. Wild horses couldn't...

**********REDACTED*************ut I s'pose. I think the teacher was still talking to me, I think he was angry, I think she wanted me to at least look at her while she was saying stuff. I think... I don't know.
To look at anything else was just impossible, even to try was futile; as long as HE was there. And there HE was- writing, all cock and braces. He pushed one side of his hair behind his ear and noticed me, he smiled a warm and genuine smile- the midday cum bouncing off those braces and hitting me between the eyes.

'Nother thing- you think you're the only person to use that name? Get over yourself, dick.

Use the fuck out of the name "Maf" it's a stupid fucking name, it just happens to be mine.

>>7634360
Oh! Stop! Stop at once you mad, mad genius.

I'm sorry for the way I'm acting in this thread. I've been under a lot of stress and I recognize that I'm being- a complete 'tard.
My only dream is the destruction of the capitalist state and the rise of neo communism

>>7634360
Right! It's nearly eight- I'm off out to hopefully pull "boobs and braces"

Have fun, maf.

(Poor cunt)

>>7634339
Which maf are you talking to?

>>7634297
Super proud.

Isn't it crazy that so many people named Maf showed up in this thread? I think that's crazy

>>7634380
Probably the one he replied to? Just guessing. I'm not a robot.

>>7627768
narcissist

>>7629458
dreamer/slacker

>>7629462
sweet dullard

>>7629527
hopelessly neat and neurotic

>>7629562
illiterate

>>7629584
lost

>>7629619
too tidy to be genuine

>>7629961
friendly neighbourhood autist

>>7629987
bold, slightly tactless

>>7630175
bright mind, lacks focus

>>7630212
clumsy but trying

>>7631367
casually insecure

>>7631723
unhinged

>>7631503
boring

>>7631781
on fleek. very nice.

>>7632263
balanced person

>>7632621
bland

>>7632758
too eager

>>7632780
meh

>>7632997
interesting.

>>7633903
uninteresting

>>7634458
>casually insecure
say that to my face and see what happens

>>7634479
you put cute little circles on your "i"s. i'll take my chances.

>>7634226
in the pub,(do do do)
talkin' to b+b.
goin' well, (ba ba ba)
fuck you other maf.
my writing's the best, (ya ya ya)
doop, doop doop, doop doop.

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>>7634458
>on fleek

>>7634941
Why the fuck did I laugh so hard at that picture

>>7627768
Hi doctor!

>>7632263
>balanced person

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>>7635108

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>>7635126

>>7634226
B+B is asleep next to me. Leaning over her and typing. Nice.

>>7635162
>>7635108
Could you please write The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

>>7635108
>>7635162
teach me your ways, anon

>>7636504
no r in ceviche you gringo puta

>>7636523
sorry for typo bby

>>7629812
This handwriting is beautiful anon, everyone else looking at my screen is perplexed as to how one writes so neatly

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Art theory notes I did in uni last year, my writing usually changes depending on what pen I use though.

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what pens does /lit/ use? I have a jinhao x450 coming that I'll be sticking an EF nib on and I'm considering the twsbi eco. after that, I'm pretty much through getting new pens. I have to remind myself constantly that they're just tools to stop myself from buying the expensive pens when I already have a bunch that I like plenty.

anyone got recommendations for a good blue/blue-black ink?

>>7634226
Me and B+B got up about four this morning- ordered pizza, made cocktails had more sex, then sang karaoke until the guy next door (I guess) woke up and started banging on the wall.
She only went home a couple of hours ago.

I don't want to seem too eager, but- I AM! I'm pretty sure that she is too though...
Unless I've got it all completely wrong and she's just a slut... I don't think so though.

Heehee.

>>7632875
>the cancer that killed Arabic calligraphy.
I didn't know it was dead.

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What /lit/ think?

>>7632875
Hehehe, love it!

>>7637417
Forgot to say, once again- fuck you other Maf!

>>7637643
Very neat, tidy and uniform. I've no idea what your writing (or anyone elses for that matter) supposedly says about you as a person.-
http://www.handwritinginsights.com/terms.html

I couldn't write as neatly as you though, not a chance.

>>7634458
what do all these buzzwords mean in relation to handwriting?

>>7637713
>buzzwords
Hmmmm... Not really buzzwords though, are they? Ok, maybe "on fleek" is, but that's it. I mean, "meh" has to be as old as the internet is! The others are mostly all pretty normal adjectives. No?

How do you even improve your hand writing practice? Because mine is chicken scratch, arab doctor, garbage.

>>7638295
You can download special grid paper

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>>7638295

>>7638360
That's beautiful and I am definitely adding it to my wallpapers folder.

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>>7638360
How did you do it Anon? I've been trying all day and my hand writing still looks like shit. I printed out your photos and I've tried tracing and copying them but it won't bloody work

>>7635108
>>7638360
>>7635162

Honestly terrible.

Your lowercase r's and e's are merely undotted i's..but you don't dot your i's so for all I know you can't spell at all.

Your k's look more like an l and a c combined.

Your n's and m's and a's are terribly compressed

Literally unreadable garbage made fancy with lofty lettering. I can't believe you, or anyone for that matter considers these unreadable hieroglyphs aesthetic.

>>7638386
Then post your hand writing.

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>>7638386
holy shit hahaha

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>>7638386
OP here
post yours

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>>7636534
I believe it's just due to this 1.2MM fountain pen by Sheaffer. It's worked wonders for me so far.

If I was using a ballpoint pen it wouldn't look nearly as sharp!

>>7638395
>>7638415
Comparing my writing to his does not make his writing any better. But here are many people in this thread alone with much better handwriting. In fact, I would say most examples in this thread are much more legible and aesthetically pleasing than your gaudy cursive.

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>>7638443
>damage control
Your writings already in this thread and no one complimented it, right? It's okay buddy, no ones good at everything

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>>7638386
>>7638443

>>7638451
>being this upset I'm not praising his shit cursive like everyone else

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>>7638461

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>>7638422
If only it didn't feel like I'm scratching the paper with a toothpick

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>>7638461

>>7638480
>the kid's got potential!

Very nice. Getting ink to flow can be difficult, but if you use something above rag paper you'll avoid tearing the page. Find a notepad with a high GSM level.

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Sorry for the scratchouts, I need a new notebook.

I can write neater, but this is how it looks if I'm taking notes or jotting something down.

>>7638521
>blonde detected

>>7638515
>Find a notepad with a high GSM level.
>implying I'm not already running Rhodia

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>>7627768

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>>7627768