my sister has two fountain pens, both very friendly pilots (a metro and a kakuno) and she brought them to me to clean them or fix them bc neither of them write without flow issues . and well her first problem was that she didn't realize she had no ink in one of them. her second problem was that she brought the ink out to refill and ... baystate blue. noodler's inks are imo extremely overhyped in general but what ive discovered this morning as i'm rinsing her pens out at home is that this one leaves a gritty/sludgy residue of blue/black particulate on fucking everything. i knew it stained to high heaven but it's so GUNKY . and almost greasy? sludgy. this stuff is harder to clean than my organics studio nitrogen and nitro is fucking famous in fountain pen reddits for being so staining and hard to clean. if noodler's ink has one million haters im one of them. if noodler's has ten haters im one. if noodler's has one hater that is me. if noodler's has zero haters i am no more on this earth . if the world is with noodlers then i am against the world
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I know this is not an original thought but I’m rereading Naruto (Land of Waves arc my beloved) and it really fucks me up how easy it is to read their intense rivalry and slowly forming friendship as romantic when it’s so all-consuming compared to the heterosexual relationships in this series.
As of the end of volume 3, we know that Sakura likes Sasuke because he’s… handsome and cool. Meanwhile Sasuke and Naruto share the deep, profound trauma of being orphans, the desire to prove themselves and become stronger above anything else, and a rivalry that drives them to train to their physical and mental limits to show each other up. Yet when push comes to shove Sasuke is literally willing and ready to give up his dearest dream—killing Itachi—to save Naruto’s life. And this is after training together as a genin squad for like??? 6 months, maybe???
“I used to hate you, you know” is an insaaaaane line to say to your rival-turned-friend in your literal dying breaths. Also you’re like 14
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me, finding a shirt that looks good on me: time to buy this in every available color :)
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TW: conditioned whumpee, master/servant dynamic
I don’t know how widespread the “teachers shouldn’t grade in red pen because it makes students feel bad” mentality is but, along with many other slightly-fucked-up-in-hindsight stuff, it was a huge thing where I grew up. So I’m thinking of Whumper indicating to Whumpee what sort of mood they’re in (i.e., how careful Whumpee should be today) with pen colours.
Something like:
Blue: Easygoing, maybe normal, day
Black: Serious. Maybe someone’s coming over or they really need to focus on something important.
Green: They’re in a particularly good mood. Sort of playful. Not much can go wrong.
Purple: Feeling over the top. Whumper’s deserving of a treat.
Red: Absolutely nothing will be right today.
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