why are music personality quizzes always about the same two genres. if u dont like kpop or folk punk your taste in music is obscure or something ig
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I’m jumping on the bandwagon!! I was going to make the oc question “more than 100 ocs” (I think I have a little over 200 when reciting from memory) but figured that would be too much lol. Happy voting!!
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after over a year of hunting, i finally found the mechanical pencils to match my pair of favorite 1970s japanese fountain pens. now i just need the ballpoints and i'll have two completed sets of three :)
some history about these guys below
in the ~70s, platinum (& sailor & pilot) made a ton of pocket pens¹ with screenprinted nature motifs. these are from a series of 8 designs that had white-lacquered bodies and matching mechanical pencils & ballpoints
considering i got them from 3 different sellers, my quartet are surprisingly similar! they all have their price tags², which i slip off during use, and they’re all likely NOS store displays/testers³. the fountain pens have (very, very nice, less common) 18k soft fine nibs
¹with ~60s-80s japanese fountain pens, “pocket pens” = this specific form factor. slip-caps and short when capped, with a cap that’s most of the length of the body so the pen is comfortably longer when posted
²the prices & tag style put these btwn the series' ‘69 launch and its early-70s ¥500 price increase, at which they also made the pencils shorter
³the pencils show no weathering; the ginkgo pen is slightly sun-yellowed. the hydrangea pen is much more interesting: it was displayed posted, likely for years. there’s negligible fading on the barrel, but the yellows that platinum screenprinted green leaves with were fugitive, so the cap shows this beautiful green-teal-aqua gradient that works as a map for the pattern of sun exposure in its part of the store. i think that’s really charming.
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How do you draw so frequently???
I'm starting to think I probably have some passive ADHD so I end up always admiring ppl who can just constantly do stuff, it's like a dream, your art is also like a dream, Vasco is also a sweet dream, I really like Vasco, he looks really sweet
I set aside a little bit of time every evening just to draw, it's become almost like a wind down routine for me. It helps if I don't treat it as serious 100% effort hard mode art time, I usually multitask a little on the side, watch a movie or take breaks to do little chores around the house and art just sort of happens if it happens. Lately I've been making mostly personal low pressure feel-good pieces.
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