I’m in an oddball mood this morning, so the quote is from Simon and Garfunkel’s “America”. The original is “Kathy,” the spelling liberty just fit my mood. Same for the mixed styles and colors in the text.

  • Diamine Pink Ice / Preppy 05M
  • Diamine Tropical Glory / Preppy 03F
  • Diamine Apple Glory / Safari M
  • Iroshizuku Shin-Ryoku / Perkeo M

Clairefontaine Triomphe 90gsm lined stationery, which also happens to be stationary within a generic six-ring binder from Amazon that I stripped the cover off, and rigged to a much more solid piece of cardboard cut down to A5-ish.

Slides really nicely that way right into a Travelers Notebook, the original cover was clear flexy plastic and kinda worthless as an insert.

Quickie ink samples are on Midori in A6, weight unknown. It plays pretty well with a lot of things, I thought I’d dig the color, but… Not so much.

Keeb in the background is generic Chinese 80-key from Amazon, to replace the one that was on sale because it was UK layout and my dumb ass didn’t notice. Juuuuuuust different enough to be infuriating when I’m trying to work…

Gotta say, y’all, I enjoy this hobby on a relatively solitary basis, but… I’m having a friggin’ blast doing these - not just because I’m rediscovering stuff I adore that’s been buried too long in my ink drawer, but the sharing as well.

PS my penmanship is almost as potato as my photography skills. But I’m kinda stuck with both skills sucking, at this age. Meh, I still have fun.

  • agent_flounder@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Clairefontaine Triomphe 90gsm lined stationery, which also happens to be stationary within a generic six-ring binder from Amazon that I stripped the cover off, and rigged to a much more solid piece of cardboard cut down to A5-ish.

    Slides really nicely that way right into a Travelers Notebook, the original cover was clear flexy plastic and kinda worthless as an insert.

    I am probably having one of those ADHD moments were words don’t turn into meaning in my head but…

    BLANK STARE WITHOUT THE FAINTEST GLIMMER OF COMPREHENSION 😆

    Could you restate that in a completely different way in hopes that my poor brain will understand? :)

    Sorry. It’s just one of those days.

    Maybe I just need a few pictures lol.

    All I am getting is somehow Triomphe, a six ring binder (what even is that?), and a Travelers notebook meet a stripper undercover and they get blended together into something can write on? 🤪

    It is fun to share with fountain pen buddies!

    As to handwriting…for what it’s worth, my cursive handwriting was ass ever since I was a kid but I managed to improve it a little after I got into fountain pens a few years ago by doing drills. I obviously need to do more of that lol…

    Anyway. I’m liking your ink colors.

    I have put off cleaning some pens until yesterday; I wanted to ink up with something besides black so I could show it off here.

    So this is where I’m at with that:

    All Parker 45s except second from the left is a Pilot Stargazer. I’ll change the water out and flush each a couple more times and hopefully they will finally be clean.

    This is one of my Cherry TKL keebs. I have really fallen in love with these. I hate to be a heretic but I think I like them more than my mechanical. Which is why I got a second one.

    • ____@infosec.pubOPEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Aw, shit, you bribe me with a keeb photo?

      Yeah, I’ll restate gladly! Assuming you are American or at least not European, given unfamiliarity w/ the 6-ring?

      Clairefontaine half-sheet / A5 (half-sheet for most of the civilized non-US world)

      Ripped the rings out of a cheap binder, and duct taped them to a piece o’ cardboard cause they were attached to what may as well have been saran wrap. No idea why A5 requires six rings, when US Letter only needs three. Just is what it is.

      Cardboard fits well into a nice, thick leather cover that a) I adore and b) holds the eleventy-seven cards I need to carry daily, and the whole thing makes a crazy neat package that might as well be tied up with a bow, it works that well together.

      'cept I’m the “stripper” cause I yanked the totally generic actual binder part out of the crap Amazon cover. (k I feel a lilbit dirty now, but that’s, um, maybe not “new” per se)

      <3 Cherry! Do we have a “MechanicalHeadPens” sub here? If not, we should. The “head” part for me is just bog standard bluetooth generic stuff, but it’s the point of it…

      Give me a sec, I’ll update w/ some pics - I posted that at maybe 6 AM and my clarity was probs not what it should be…

      Loving the brotherhood here. Aw, screw it. Let’s call it the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pens. 🙃

      I’m a child of the early 80s, if someone had paid any attention, I’d have been classed an Aspie for sure back when, so… I legit appreciate your blunt “please restate” - within it, I hear “I care, I just don’t know WTF you’re on about!!!”

      • agent_flounder@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        5 months ago

        Much obliged! Ok, that made sense that time. My brain is back to being mostly functional. I’m American so plenty of 3 ring binders. I will go look up 6 ring binders. I swear I’ve seen 5 ring binders here. Anyway…

        Sisterhood of the traveling pens lol I like it. :)

        Thanks for the understanding. I’ve been a little sluggish upstairs all day. If anyone had paid attention in the 70s in elementary school… I still wouldn’t have been tagged as ADHD, because nobody recognized it beyond “hyper boys” and I was generally a quiet bookish lil guy.