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some of these little guys are a bit messed up but it’s okay failure is part of the learning experience

lamy safari with pilot iroshizuku yu-yake ink, 80gsm paper

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day 13: standard cool faded pink-purple

surprisingly legible for such a light ink, it reminds me of a lighter summer purple kaweco ink. kind of perfect for spring

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got to touch 800 year old calligraphy today

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my city has 2 pen stores. and my favourite one is closing down in 2 weeks 😢😢😢 they didnt announce to their social media, i only found out because my family wanted to surprise me with a gift card for my birthday and the store owner told them 😢😢😢😢😢 theyre not even holding a closing down sale 😢😢😢

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space fountain pen drawings from the in between of revision sessions 🪐

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just hit 90 inks 🔥🔥🔥

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Fountain pen update, January 2025: A couple new ones, and the return of an old one

From left to right: Kaweco Sport piston-filler, Parker 45, Pilot Grance Hello folks! I realize I haven’t had much to say in the fountain pen department as of late. It’s mostly because I didn’t buy much in the way of fountain pens in 2024, instead building up pens in other areas, like with gel pens (Sakura Craft Lab and Zebra Sarasa Grand) or in ballpoint (Uni’s Jetstream series, which I’m…

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hello 2025 🪻

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New pen who dis

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Today in Beautiful Celluloid, please enjoy this WASP Clipper in Brown Lahn:

It's so glittery! It's like bits of gold gauze and tinsel wrapped up in each other. Another fine example of Depression-era creativity.

The nib is a soft and wet medium and works beautifully with Faber-Castel Hazelnut Brown.

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New pen! a hongdian n9 with a long blade nib in just the most enticing cotton candy trans flag colours.

i love any built in line variety, but the long blade knib definitely shares some of the angle touchiness of the similar architect nib, so there will be an adjustment period.

I filled it with my most pastel ink, sailor's nekoyanagi from their manyo line.

I'm growing to accept that, despite the potential quality and lifetime add of metal, i prefer plastic pen bodies. This resin body is warm, it's thick enough for my nerve grafted hand to hold comfortably, and it's not too heavy. there's something inherently soft about a resin pen body, I really do think they're my favorites so far.

that said, i don't have a turned wood or antler fountain pen and I'm extremely open to falling in love with those too if anyone knows a good one!

anyways, fountain pens! they're good actually. still. of course.

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pen tray for my daily writers

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Mont Blanc Limited Edition Mahatma Gandhi Fountain Pen

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Treated myself to a new pen today

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tidying the house in preparation for christmas and i get too close to the christmas tree and see an envelope marked with the logo of my local pen store 😭😭😭 nooo why did i have to ruin the surprise 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 i have the acting skills of a toddler i srsly cant act surprised on christmas day 😭😭😭