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F Yeah Gallifreyan!

@fyeahgallifreyan / fyeahgallifreyan.tumblr.com

A blog for all types of Gallifreyan. Please check the FAQ before asking a question. Requests: CLOSED
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Important note: The response from the government is from January long before the advice from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (3 April) that is IN FAVOUR of making transphobic changes. You can see the full letter from the EHRC here. If you are in the UK YOU STILL NEED TO SIGN THE PETITION!

Also to those outside the UK please share but do NOT sign. The government are very strict and it could invalidate the whole petition.

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Anonymous asked:

Of like to use "We're all stories in the end" as a tattoo. Is that ok? I don't have Tumblr so this is the first time I've tried. I love your gallifreyan!!

Thank you! Feel free to use anything of mine for tattoos or any other personal use!

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Anonymous asked:

I’m looking fo the quote “we don’t just walk away” in either clockwork, circular etc. that is the most elaborate looking for a tattoo for my wife without being wrong like most “translators”. Think you can help?

Hi anon, I’m not taking requests, but could take a commission. If you’re interested message me off anon or let me know an email where I can contact you.

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remdemtion submitted:

Hey! Do a lot of people here make their own gallifreyan? Not completely my own. Based off of Sherman but little tweaks. Still read counter clockwise starting at the bottom of a word circle. But I start at the middle of a circle sentence and go out from there wrapping around the words eventually. I think it’s kind of cool… How about you whovians?

Quite a few people have designed there own Gallifreyan. I have a list here, although it’s somewhat out of date now, and my own is here.

Are the letters altered from Sherman's? I’d proofread but I don’t want to without being sure what I’m looking at.

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Anonymous asked:

Hi! I think your gallifreyan is just absolutely beautiful. I was wondering what your process is for adding dots and lines to letters? Meaning, how do you decide their placement, where the lines will connect and end, how you decide to do circular or linear letter lines, etc? I’m working on a larger piece rn and the amount of possible connections between letters and words is a little overwhelming and I was hoping you might be able to offer advice or insight

Thanks! Line and dot placementis very dependent on style and personal preference but I’ll try andgo though how I do it.

First of all if you haven’talready mark each letter with the lines and dots it’s supposed tohave just so you know where they are, it doesn’t have to be neat.

It won’t look like anythingamazing at this point but don’t worry about it.

I like to space my dots outsemi-randomly, trying to fill in some of the blank space, and spacingout dots of various sizes. I do vowel size and placement in a similarway, but obviously they’re a little more restricted on where theycan be placed.

I like the look of perfectconcentric circles and arcs, so I’ll draw a few circles and seewhat I can get to line up, moving the letters a little if need be.

Leaving line markings foranything not yet connected so they don’t get forgotten.

I try to use the remaininglines to break up some more of the white space. Curves are good forfilling in the blank space to the sides, but I like to have a fewstraight lines just for variation. I just experiment a little withdifferent ways to fill in the space. The advantage of using vectorgraphics is you can just move things around until you’re happy withthe result.

I break up the remaining whitespace with sentence circle indents.

To finish of I add some linethickness variation. I try to space out lines of different thicknessover the design.

Final proof read (little rustyso apologies for any mistakes I missed), and done!

Try not to worry about thedifferent possibilities just try a few things and see what you likethe look of, you can always change it.

I hope that was at least a little helpful. Ifyou have any more questions or would like me to go into more detailabout something please feel free to ask.

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Anonymous asked:

Hi! I’ve been doing Sherman’s gallifreyan translations for several years now, and I’m thinking of doing commmissions and maybe opening a Redbubble for my designs. Do you know if it’s alright to sell designs made using Sherman’s Gallifreyan? I do all the translations myself, if that changes anything.

Yep! I asked him myself a few years ago. Assuming nothings changed since then he's cool with people selling their Gallifreyan so long as it's not an automatic translation.

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So sorry if I missed an announcement or something, but the links in the post about clockwork gallifreyan aren't working. They say that the file isn't found. Do you know what's going on with that?

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Ah, yeh. Sorry about that. Dropbox changed how public files work a while back, so there's probably quite a few broken links about. The clockwork ones should be fixed now, but if there's any other file links you need just let be know!

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My top 5 Gallifreyan blogs

#1 @fyeahgallifreyan So many things ranging from BBC Gallifreyan to Sherman’s to Clockwork! You can find so many quotes and I love the way they do their lines and circles! (They’re currently not taking requests, but Nicky’s lovely and incredibly helpful, I assure you.) Plus the theme for the blog is a wonderful choice.

#2 @babblifreyan Babbli’s amazing. They know so many kinds of Gallifreyan, and do them all excellently. I adore the post they made using several Gallifreyans for one quote, and their requests turn out looking great too!

#3 @translationmatrix Their Gallifreyan designs are so pretty! Always styled in such a way that makes them more like posters than sentences. So far I’ve only seen Sherman’s and Doctor’s Cot used by them but they might know more, each post looks brilliant!

#4 @paradoxgallifreyan This blog is for a spoken form of Gallifreyan rather than written. A proper language instead of cipher/code! It doesn’t look complete, but I adore this one the most due to tenses having a large part to play (and you know how I am with tense-based Gallifreyans XD)

#5 @brittanybgood I love the Doctor’s Cot Gallifreyan system, and the blog of the creator has wonderful pieces in the alphabet! It’s a nice comparison to how the Gallifreyan during Smith’s run looked, rather than Eccleston and Tennant’s. I’d definitely recommend checking all of these blogs out!

Thanks ❤

Followers, you should check out theses awesome blogs, and @rasiloniangallifreyan of course.

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Anonymous asked:

Hey, i really enjoy your gallifreyan work and i was wondering if you take any requests currently? the faq is a bit confusing and conflicting in its information. thanks

You mean the request page? The FAQ itself dosn’t say, so I don’t have to update request information in multiple places.

Everything below the first paragraph is for when requests are open (they are currently not). Updating that now to make it clear. Was there anything else you thought was confusing because I’d like to fix it?

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How would you express an aspirated, labialized, velarized, etc. consonant in Clockwork Gallifreyan?

Most of whats in the IPA diacritics isn’t defined in Clockwork as it is. Is there something specific you need? I’m pretty busy with work atm so probably won’t have time to work everything out for a while, but if you can be more specific I’d be happy to try work something out.

I did take a quick look but most obvious things don’t work without clashing with other symbols or being hard to read.

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hey does anyone have a Sherman’s Gallifreyan chart with extra letters on?? the only one I know is ‘c’ is a ‘b’-shape with 4 dots, but I’m sure there are some others I don’t know.

The extra letters are at the bottom of Sherman’s guide. If you want a single chart with all consonants I have one here. C is a J with 4 dots; there is no B letter with 4 dots.

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Ok honest question here don’t judge: What app should I use to write circular Gallifreyan, because there are so many on the Internet and I don’t know which one is the best help

There is no app that is guaranteed to produce correct results; even the less awful ones will produce something fairly ugly even if they do get it right. (good translator apps still produce what is basically the Gallifreyan equivalent of badly kerned Comic Sans)

The only way to get something likely to be correct is to do it yourself or find someone who will take requests and even then, if it’s for anything important, you really should get it proof read.

If you want to give it a go yourself the creator’s own guide is here. If you find anything in that one unclear there are some other guides linked here.

You can also try making a request on r/gallifreyan.

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