#those acrylograph pens are ok

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It was my birthday yesterday and I was surprised with this neopolitan archer and olive book! I’m going to have to get some gel pens for those black pages but I’m looking forward to using it (in January...)

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ok presumably ur asleep but for tomorrow: thoughts on pens and stationary?

if there’s one thing that bullet journaling has taught me it’s that i have relatively few/mild opinions on pens and stationery lmao

there are three primary things i use stationery for. first is writing, and i mostly use google docs but i keep a little basic notebook on my desk for... jotting down ideas when i’m in zoom meetings and class lol. i actually try not to invest too much time into my writing setup for handwriting bc i prefer typing so much

second is school and while i tried the cute studyblr notes thing it just doesn’t work for me. my personal key is color coding: every class has a different color associated with it. but it’s not fancy pens it’s just an eight pack of multicolored ballpoints from target and also highlighters from target. HOWEVER i also own a metallic gel pen set that got me through stats class last semester

the one thing i have Actual Opinions on is what i use for bullet journaling. i got a leuchtturm dot grid as my first journal and the ghosting drove me insane so i invested in an archer & olive to replace it and it was sooooo worth it. it’s more expensive and it’s fewer pages but the paper is way thicker and nicer and also mine has shiny silver edges which rules

my default pens of choice (for journaling and for school when i feel fancy) are pilot g2 gel pens, i think the ones i have are ultra fine 0.38mm. i also have a small set of staedtler triplus fineliners that i use just to have different colors, although i need to get a bigger set bc i don’t have purple ones. and then for markers i use zebra mildliners which are like pastel highlighters (they come in brush pen form but I am afraid of brush pens so i just have the markers) and archer & olive acrylographs which are halfway between paint pens and markers and which are just SUPER fun to doodle with. also i got a set of just crayola colored pencils for christmas and it’s been fun using those too

and like i recognize this sounds like A Lot of stuff but the most important thing to me is a range of colors. i see people swearing up and down by, like, fountain pens (scary) or tombow brush pens (expensive) or very specific gel pens and like, i don’t need Top Quality stuff. the only thing in my list that i can’t get at target is the a&o stuff and that’s just because they’re an online only company. the end