Thread 24636196

Show off your pens, fountain pens, ink, paper, journals, etc.

Is this the right board to talk about this? I can't for the life of me find a relevant board other than /po/ and that's only for making shit with paper.

>>24636196 (OP)
I saw a really nice ink pen once for 200 that was expensive and I wanted to buy it but I do all of my writing here on this board, so it would just go to waste.

>>24636206
I find physically journalling my thoughts, especially as a new shitty writer that's still getting started out, helps in actually sinking in information and reinforcing it. I dont even need to reread what I wrote, I just end up remembering things I wrote physically faster.

>>24636196 (OP)
Just use a BIC, you pretentious faggot

>>24636196 (OP)
Just some pens under $50 for me. I bought a LAMY Safari last year as a birthday present to myself. This week I ordered an Asvine P20 piston fill pen, blue-black ink and some more notebooks.

>>24636230
oh cool. I had a lamy safari back in undergrad (holy shit it's been 4 years since undergrad WTFF) and I loved it the whole time. Sadly it finally fucked off after 3ish years of a lot of use and now I lost it. I was a NEET for a bit between undergrad and grad school so I ended up using a platinum preppy and a pilot varsity, but im a wagecuck again and just bought a Faber Castel NEO slim like today. Just waiting for it to come in the mail.

>>24636196 (OP)
neat thread. i'm about to convert a Platinum preppy to eyedropper mode.
for notebooks, I really do love Clairefontaine

What are some good highlighters or pens to mark books with. New printed books with cheap ass paper. Usually I use pencil but I need some spice.

>>24636253
idk about highlighters but other anons might

>>24636196 (OP)
I used to make similar pens. How much you oaying? Where at? I will try to find sum photos

>>24636253
for me using different colors on adjacent entries in my notebooks was big

Let me guess. You need more.

For me, it's the Uniball Deluxe Micro

>>24637496
Let me guess. You need more.

>>24638477
How am I supposed to write with a Raspberry Pi, without a monitor, external power source, key oard, etc?

>>24638680
just get the bundle with the acessories and plug it to your tv

where my tombow mono hb scribblers at
pens can't even come close to the utility and cheapness of a pencil. most pen ink ISN'T lightfast, yet abraham lincoln's pencil scribblins are still relatively legible. as it stands, pens are a sign of status and are ultimately mundane. pencils are high precision bonded materials that are sturdy, long lasting, and yet ephemeral in an honest way, each pencil lives and dies, whereas a pen is some lifeless vessel, a ship from one place to the next. a pencil is a dying thing, giving its essence to creation.

From left to right: Some cheap chinese one with a (very smooth) TWISBI nib, another chinese one, a Visconti, and then a Graf von Faber Castell, which is my daily use one. Really lovely pen, love using it to write. The joy of using a fountain pen isn't something you can recreate with a ballpoint, much less a keyboard.

My Asvine P20 is coming in the mail tomorrow.

>>24636196 (OP)
I steal ballpoints from motels and used car dealerships.

>>24638922
very nice looking.
>>24638716
awesome, i want a graf von faber castell some day but i settled for the neo slim this time. still coming in the mail

>stationary hobby
what, so you don't move? like one of those guys at parks dressed up as statues?

>>24639647
you joke but in case no one knows, I explain in the first sentence of OP

>>24640309
You realise the spelling is "stationery," right?

>>24640311
no i didn't. thanks for correcting me.

Spiritually, this is no different than being a Funko pop consoomer

What pens are you guys trying to get?

And what's your current main writing pen?

>Looking to get a Lamy 2000 soon
>Currently using a Kawecco Sport but im out of ink so im using my spare Pilot varsity which I have sitting around usually.

>>24636196 (OP)
I hate to be "that guy," but why the hell would you waste time and money on pens when keyboards exist?

>>24636196 (OP)
consumerism cannot and will never be a hobby
that goes for the "stack" and "shelves" threads too

>>24640460
There's something about a better mind-muscle connection leading to the better integration of ideas, and the slowness of the medium being somehow more meditative in this digital life. Collecting, I agree, is silly, but it's a pretty innocuous one. I have a few fountain pens, and mainly write using a graphgear 500. Does the job.

>>24640460
I have an easier time writing fiction on paper than on a keyboard.

>>24640479
I can imagine a gentleman carrying like a single pen in case a signature is required, but I haven't found it useful to write anything down with a pen and paper in over 10 years.

bought myself a chinky pen yesterday with a bottle of grey ink from j.herbin. cost me €30
>>24640460
Most of my writing is done with a computer, but I log my dreams in the morning and I can't stand staring at a screen at that time. Writing is relaxing too.

>>24640514
oh shit its a hong dian!!!! I had one of these for late undergrad and used the living shit out of it. It's all fucked up now and the nib gets fucked up pretty easily but I didnt take good care of it because I didnt know about having to regularly clean FP nibs.

>>24640372
Yeah okay but who cares.

>>24640485
>I have an easier time writing fiction on paper than on a keyboard.
Well you've only got 101 characters when writing on a keyboard.

>>24636196 (OP)
/g/ has fountain pen threads, for some reason.
/fa/ has everyday carry threads where they show off their drugs, pocket knives, and fountain pens
>>24641279
Indeed. Who gives a shit about some plastic chinkshit pen you bought off Aliexpress? Do you see /lit/izens posting their laptops here?
>>24640479
Writing by hand does use a different part of your brain. I find it helps with editing stories. It stops you from endlessly deleting and rewriting sentences and forces you to rewrite it just once.

>>24636196 (OP)
Bic 4 colour and whatever scrap I found at work.

>>24641309
>/g/ has fountain pen threads, for some reason.
what the fuck that's literally the LAST place I would look for a pen thread, I would assume /lit/ would be the best place.
/fa/ is just a weird place, I dont ever post there.

>>24636196 (OP)
why are they all so knobby

all my hobbies are stationary (sitting at my chair looking at a screen)

how do you guys keep your notes
usually i just use one hardbound notebook and end up only wanting to use that for everything
something about spiral bound notebooks makes them seem disposable
whats the best size that is versatile for basically everything from drawing to lists

>>24641419
It's called using a computer

>>24641422
computers are only good for computer things

>>24641430
You idiot. You can use the computer to write (i.e. type) shit.

>>24641434
Like the other anon said up there, writing physically uses a different part of your brain, so it's better for some people over others.

>>24642781
It's the same as reading a physical book—there's a mild benefit from having each word and phrase in a definite physical point in space.

I hope everyone has a good compass

>>24638477
the raspberry pi 3 has issues with a power supply IC - it tends to short itself and the controller when you plug it in. it was so bad that rpi foundation actually asked for broken units to investigate the problem. so yeah, you need a bit more than that

>>24642805
I also specified some people not everyone because I know it worked on me, I have a way easier time writing on paper than I do typing, even if I type fast. Typing in a word document just feels draining in a way I dont like and the distraction to switch to a game or scroll 4shit is always there.

Anyone here use a bulky ass pen ? I'm in the market for one, but can never find a cumbersome and uncomfortably thick pen.

>>24643838
what have you looked at so far?

>>24637496
yes

>>24638716
correct

this is my sheaffer 300, it's great, glides smoothly, faultlessly reliable (even though I've dropped it and bent the nib back with pliers a few times) and I bought more Sheaffers. their quality is all over the place, the Intensity wrote flawlessly, the VFM couldn't even write at all.

>>24645074
>sheaffer 300
how's it for lefties? I write over the paper because I didnt learn to write properly underneath the paper as a kid so I sort of just have shit hand writing

>>24643838
Visconti homo sapiens are pretty bulky, you can see its size in comparison to normal pens in my pic here >>24638716

I go to dromgooles once or twice a year to buy stationary and ink. Just got their special diamine blend last month. I tried out apica silky and a nakabashi notebook, and got a few midori pads.

>>24648381
I have too much laid paper,about 10 of the g lalo books and a half dozen crown mill.

And about 80 bottles of ink.

Are these pens refillable in some way? Does using such a pen have any ecological justification?

>>24649907
>refillable
yes, in fact they're built that way. Now we use ink cartridges, but bottled ink with a reusable reservoir inserted inside the pen is very common and popular, also you can also just fill the inside of the pen with ink and not bother with the cartridges or reservoir.

i'm consuming the writer product. paying money for the writer things. like a writer. i am a writer and i identify as a writer, buying writer things, taking pictures of writer things. talking about writer things and about the buying of writer things. i do not write. i am a writer. what is better is that a good portion of my income goes to writer things. only a writer would have a good portion of their income go to writer things. i buy the writer product. i think of myself with the writer product. i am a writer.