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🔥✍️ ⚠ @invalidhangul.reductive.group · 12/10/2026

Roughly, you should let syllables vary in the dimension of writing and reduce variation in the transverse dimension. You may have to stretch or compress individual letters to make the whole syllable more consistent

Rii.dəkt.iv gruup, written vertically
The consonants vary greatly in horizontal spacing. The r, d, and p are written fairly wide because they don’t share horizontal space with other letters. The v shares space with the descender of the i and the kt and gr are in cluster pairs, so these consonants are all compressed. Negative space around the ə is reduced. And the missing onset of the third syllable, iv, is not given any negative space at all

Riidəktiv gruup
The syllable components all line up perfectly, vertically. This results in extra negative space around the ə and especially above the i. There is some compression of the consonants kt and gr in clusters, but it’s less than in vertical writing. The v is not compressed at all, so its syllable is fairly wide. The narrowest syllable is ri, because the r is not stretched to make it take up additional space

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🔥✍️ ⚠ @invalidhangul.reductive.group · 10/10/2026

Keep them close. Let them know they’re loved

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🔥✍️ ⚠ @invalidhangul.reductive.group · 09/10/2026

This doesn’t really have good balance but I kind of like some of the contour. Still struggling mightily on the end of the horizontal stroke

丁 from my copybook. Notice how there is proper weight on the right half and how the right end of the horizontal stroke just looks completely different from anything I’ve ever written

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🔥✍️ ⚠ @invalidhangul.reductive.group · 09/10/2026

This is exactly the kind of positive male role model we need

Let me give instances. The Sung dynasty (A.D. 960-1276) is very far removed from the present day, and yet from examples of the Emperor Hui-Tsung's writing, executed in the style peculiar to him and termed Slender Gold (Fig. 47), we can infer that he was a person of handsome appearance,

and slim, meticulous as to detail, with a somewhat effeminate temperament; we can even affirm that he was slow and measured of speech.

異品殊葩共翠抲嫰红拂拂
醉金荷春羅畿疉敷丹陛雲
续重縈浴绎河玉鑑和嗚驚
對舞寶技連理锦成窠東
君造化勝前歲呤繞清香故
琢磨
(Apologies for any mistakes here I don’t speak the language)

FIG. 47.—A POEM

By the Emperor Hui Tsung (徽宗), of Sung (宋), a gifted scholar, painter and calligrapher. He distinguished himself in calligraphy by a special style to which he gave the name of Slender Gold. The above is an example. His writing shows the emperor to have been a well-built, handsome figure.
(Palace Museum, Peip‘ing)

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🔥✍️ ⚠ @invalidhangul.reductive.group · 23/09/2026

Interesting session today. I feel like I’m back to learning a lot very quickly

一x72
It’s far from perfect but in some of them I managed to get the downward-pointing wedge on the left; in some I managed to get the more difficult upward-pointing wedge on the right with continuous edges; and in some I managed to get a very slight frown curve, very slightly tilted upward to the right

乙 mostly
I didn’t come close to getting the corner right on this one but the scoop/hook looks good on a few of them

二x30, 十x36, 约约化化群群 (or really 羣羣)
I just felt like I was learning a lot in the process of practicing 十. Mostly about balancing stroke width and character position. And some of the stroke entries/exits look okay

A page from 田英章毛笔楷书2500字 showing 群 (written in the style of 欧阳询, i.e. like 羣)

Unlike the Adobe Kaiti characters I’ve been copying before, these images are facsimiles of brushstrokes and I’m finding it much easier to learn from them

Also I loaded up my brush with a ton of ink and I think it helped! It’s more of a pain to clean, and it probably won’t last as long because I don’t know how to get all the ink out of the bases of the fibers, but it’s worth it

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🔥✍️ ⚠ @invalidhangul.reductive.group · 18/09/2026

Starting to get a little frustrated. But I’m breathing through it

日 written in digital kaishu style with dotted guide lines. Note the wedge at the start of the first vertical stroke; how that stroke thickens at the bottom; the way the corner at the top right flares out on the outside, with a wedge on top and to the right, but rounded on the inside; the way the following vertical stroke thickens uniformly as it goes down from there; the way the two horizontal strokes tilt up slightly; and the way the lower horizontal stroke is slightly thicker on the right end; but how all strokes have even curves around all the ends, no points anywhere (except the small hook at the bottom right). Basically I failed to capture all these details, 72 times in a row

月
Very similar details. The big differences here are the left falling vertical stroke, gracefully bending from vertical near the top to ~45º near the bottom; and the big hook at the bottom right, bent slightly upward, even on the inside, but with nearly straight edges on both sides. I also failed to capture these details

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🔥✍️ ⚠ @invalidhangul.reductive.group · 17/09/2026

You know we’re ready for what’s coming when we’re explaining our value to policymakers

Paragraph near the end of his blog post. Emphasis, mine, in asterisks

Thus, the primary risk, as I see it, is that a lot of people who would have done a PhD in mathematics and gone on to become custodians of the mathematical tradition *will no longer wish to do so*. Those of us who have PhD students, including me, need to try as hard as we can to come up with imaginative ways for them to use their time productively (in consultation with the students themselves, obviously). Whether or not we do a good job with that could make a huge difference to the future of mathematics. A related risk is that the perception among policy-makers will be that mathematicians are no longer needed and that funding will become much harder to come by: *we urgently need to come up with good ways of explaining the value of having a large pool of human mathematical experts*, even if it is no longer part of their role to find new proofs of theorems.

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🔥✍️ ⚠ @invalidhangul.reductive.group · 10/09/2026

Of course! And thank you for writing in rook script :)

Ənd.ər.stud; wiil haid in dhii meil.baaks
A couple of notes
1. The long vertical strokes at the left aren’t part of every syllable, only the ones with i, ii, e, ei, ai, or oi
2. Consonant clusters are typically written left to right, rather than stacked vertically (see ks in meilbaaks)
3. Similarly, I try to line up my syllables horizontally even if it means blank space at the start of a word
4. It looks like you left out a word or two. I filled in one you might have meant to include, but it’s tough to be sure. This is super common when learning new scripts
5. Officially the spelling of understood has d at the end of the first syllable, rather than the start of the second. This kind of misspelling is, I really mean this, very minor. There are a few words where misplacing a syllable boundary could be genuinely confusing, but I would never expect someone just learning the letters to be aware of how syllable boundaries are placed (it’s unfortunately kind of complicated). Just pointing out why I wrote something differently than you did here

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🔥✍️ ⚠ @invalidhangul.reductive.group · 04/09/2026

Giggled when I saw this one. It was cute

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🔥✍️ ⚠ @invalidhangul.reductive.group · 04/09/2026

I have my explore page sorted by family. I have to scroll a lot since I don’t really know my families, but it should be usable the way you’re describing

Merline explore page sorted by family. Tits are between thrushes and wrens along with waxwings, nuthatches, and treecreepers

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🔥✍️ ⚠ @invalidhangul.reductive.group · 03/09/2026

This is such a small thing but I noticed yesterday if I slow down the pen slightly at the ends of long strokes instead of dashing them away while lifting the pen they come out looking crisper, straighter, and more balanced