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It'll have to wait to I'm back at the house & I'll get you a photo. Or you could drop by at some point.

Well, the front was poorly glued in (and it's over 15 years old) so that basically popped off so now so I have to do is get the back paper unglued then clean this up & decide what do with it.

Neither! It's glued to it!

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And by "hates fountain pens" I mean turns a CM Pilot Metro into a scratchy, horrifying mess. Just thick, toothy, slow-drying wood pulp. I've met cardboard that was a better writing experience.

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talkendo @talkendo.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

I have acquired a journal that has a lovely tooled leather cover that I love. Sadly it's full of paper that absolutely HATES fountain pens. So now I guess I need to find something to do with the leather after I extract the paper from it.

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Pilot Metro is such a good choice. Both of mine came with both a cartridge & a convertor

talkendo @talkendo.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Oh dear... No. I just got a bunch of brush pens to play with & a CM Pilot Metro & I'm still stalking Sheaffers... But that BB nib? Mercy!

talkendo @talkendo.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I'm not surprised JetPens comes through. Thank you!

talkendo @talkendo.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Fountain pen/journaling hivemind: Does anyone know of or have recs for a top-bound weekly planner? (Preferably with good paper, but I'll compromise there)

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Oh yeah, hand cramps & one of my three different types of hand pain have basically vanished w gel ink then, later, fountain pens.

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Forgive the handwriting, it's speedy & angular, but my best work.

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The top is the line from my DrGrip, the bottom from a Pilot Metropolitan, which I'd recommend as a starter pen in this case (or either a Platinum Plaisir or Lamy Safari or AL-star). All are roughly in the 20-30 USD range.

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talkendo @talkendo.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

What do you value about the G2? For years I used a Dr grip with g2 05 refills bc it was a reliable line and the gel ink was much easier to use for me than a ballpoint. Fountain pins generally require even lighter pressure than the gel, also have a reliable line but I find use ink faster than a G2.

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Oh mine's no better, I assure you.

talkendo @talkendo.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Ok, but that's neat, precise & very legible. 10/10 no notes.

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talkendo @talkendo.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I would agree; it's incredibly soothing.

talkendo @talkendo.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Ok, but your handwriting is lovely & legible. Don't sell yourself short.

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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 05/10/2024

happy Saturday everybody! I'm Nora and I have a jewelry shop. I focus on fused glass but I have quite a bit of other stuff too! nora.jewelry i also post pictures of the process of making these if you're interested in looking behind the scenes!

pink pendants with semi transparent speckles

blue pendant with sparkles and translucent speckles

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Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 23/09/2024

Thing about Goulet fountain pens, and Noodler's, and everybody else I've decided sucks, is yes, they can believe whatever they want. I won't stop them. But If I can tell what someone's values are, I will absolutely use this information to make my purchasing decisions. I don't OWE these ppl money.

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talkendo @talkendo.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

Every Birdverse story has shaken my heart into a new shape and The Unbalancing is no different. It's nothing less than a parable about how the work we all must face inevitably changes us.

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talkendo @talkendo.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

It's been sitting, waiting hopefully for me to take it up, yet I have been too scared. Today, though, I opened @rblemberg.bsky.social 's The Unbalancing and though I wept more than once, it is still a book of great love. It is a story I needed. It is a story I should have read sooner.

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talkendo @talkendo.bsky.social · 01/09/2024

Every small car eventually becomes a big car.

talkendo @talkendo.bsky.social · 04/06/2024

I get why people do that (there's an entire award-winning dissertation on managing others' emotions that a different version of me wrote). It's a hard habit to, but so worthwhile. Let people feel things, even the bad feelings, ffs.

Ben (Bee) Kahn @benkahncomics.bsky.social · 03/06/2024

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Pixar forcing queer and POC stories to go straight to streaming, then using the lack of theatrical success as an excuse to kill queer and POC stories is the entire entertainment industry in a nut shell.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 04/06/2024

It's the flag I show, to show my solidarity, but given that Stonewall was a riot, the architects of whom were trans women of color, that we felt the need to do this feels like a constant reminder we moved away from the very foundations our movement was built upon.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 04/06/2024

There's a lot of talk about Pride flags today. I fall into the category of whatever flag suits you, you should fly, but I find it a bit sad that the Progressive Pride flag came to be because Pride itself had been co-opted so hard by cis white queerdom that the inclusion wasn't automatic.

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talkendo @talkendo.bsky.social · 15/05/2024

Thanks, wonderful human. Glass has no flex, so I wasn't a fan. But it didn't need to be so Moriarty about it.

talkendo @talkendo.bsky.social · 14/05/2024

I guess my glass dip pen didn't like the shit I was talking about it and decided it was better to go out in its own terms. Flinging Diamine Oxblood all over my desk & clothes as it took a dive straight to the floor was a slightly over-dramatic choice but one I expect in this household.