Thanks go to Jamie, the original inspiration for the Cartouche Crusade here at the SDJ site, and to Heather for helping to flesh out the idea!  We take no credit at all for - um - stealing it ;)

What is the Cartouche Crusade?

If you know a foreign language, write a short phrase showing support for MS and the character of Dr. Daniel Jackson. Look up cuneiform and scribble a little of that on a postcard or in a greetings card or letter. Look up heiroglyphs, or runes, or Sanskrit, or Gaelic, or Hebrew or Arabic, or something else that's really obviously NOT English, and scribble some of that down on a postcard or in a greetings card or letter.

Go here for ancient alphabets 

Go here for fantasy, ancient and symbolic fonts

Go here for ancient alphabets and mythic symbol TrueType fonts

Go here for Neferchichis Hieroglyphs font

Go here for ancient scripts links

You could go in character:

For Jack: "You are SO gonna be back for Christmas, Danny.  Look at the gift I gotcha!"  Or, "I wasn't kidding about Groundhog Day!  How'd you think I found time to learn this crap?  Greater love hath no man and all.  Now get your ethereal ass back here!"

For Sam: a splurge of cuneiform, followed by, "Sir, we really need Daniel here to translate this."

For Teal'c: "I must meditate on the meaning of this.  Perhaps your presence at my side will guide me to understanding, DanielJackson."

You could play Hammond: "Dr. Jackson, please give this translation your top priority."

Heck, you could even play Doctor J himself... put a splurge of something really weird-looking and a scrawled "Note similarity to inscriptions at Heliopolis? Find video footage to assist translation".

Fan Heather is going to go with "fellow SGC employee" -- "Hey Doc, thought you might find this interesting; I'm stumped! Mind if I stop by around 3pm? Save some coffee for me."

If you want that post-Abyss glow, you could say, "Welcome back! Work has been piling up while you were gone."

Just find a short foreign something that you can write REALLY BIG on the back of a postcard.  Add at the bottom of the postcard: "Bring Back Michael Shanks as Daniel Jackson"

Write to SciFi Channel AND to MGM :)  Make sure they get our message.  Daniel Jackson is NOT replaceable.  Ask SciFi and MGM to return him to SG-1 and to us. 
 

Heather's Cartouche

Notes:

• Genuine vellum (probably calfskin, though I'm not certain)
• 23K gold leaf surrounding the initial, laid over raised gesso
• The letter style and decorative whitework were popular throught the 13th and 14th centuries, and still used in the 15th century.
• The gesso, blue paint, and white paint are all modern acrylics.
• The calligraphy was taken from "The Englebert Hours", a Flemish book of hours dated to about 1480.
• It was written with a Mitchell #5 dip pen, using walnut-husk ink, made according to a medieval recipe.
• The capital was outlined with a "Crow Quill" metal pen, using the same ink.

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