Editing The Pen Addict 611/transcript (section)

== Discussion of ink inspired by Heimdall ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, well, I had no clue who or what a Heimdall was before getting into this ink. And, you know, people were telling me, you know, when I bought it. And so, you know, I went and looked it up and read some of the Norse mythology and the history on it. But, anyway, it's an orange ink. It looks like fire. It's awesome. So, like, it rules. Like, I have no, nothing less, nothing more to say about this ink other than, boy, I really had fun reviewing it. And I enjoyed it. And I'll keep using it. So, that's the review. And, you know, we'll have a link in the show notes. You can go read it. But where that brought me to today and kind of had my mind racing yesterday is there was a comment on that review from Jonathan. Don't know Jonathan at all. But I am saying their name because it's listed publicly on the comment. And this is not, like, I'm not calling Jonathan out or anything. But I thought this was a very valuable comment, which is pretty rare as far as comments on a blog post goes. Hey, this was really valuable to me. So, Jonathan says in this review, And so, like, your initial thoughts are like, Oh, man, complaining about the ink, blah, blah, blah, blah. It was like, I don't see it that way. Like, I find this to be extremely valuable. And I thank Jonathan for posting this, giving their experience about Wearing Oil as a brand. Because when you take the snapshot of my Heimdall review, for example, it's one person with one ink and one nib, even though I've used it in two different nibs, on a few different paper, a few different paper types. And my experiences were basically diametrically opposed to Jonathan's experiences. But you know what? Both of our experiences are valid. Right? Sure. And I think about that a lot when we're talking about reviews in the context of stationery reviews. I guess I didn't think about this until I'm literally talking about this. MKBHD is going through some stuff right now.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I love when my walls just collide at a shattering pace. Because you were saying about reviews. I was like, huh, I'm going to be talking about this later on, but in a completely different context. But nope, there we go. He got it. He nailed it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That was not... I have handwritten... I have documented notes for this show, and I have handwritten notes for this show. And that only popped in my head as I was speaking. And I kept saying the word review and how one person's experience.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Number one, MKBHD did no wrong. So we'll leave it at that. Maybe I can guest on another one of your podcasts or something if there's any alternate views. But anyway, so y'all should go check that. Maybe we'll link that in the show notes. But not even the video, but just the fallout to the video. But anyway, so it's good to hear what other people have to say. Because Wearing Old makes a lot of inks. I've used... I was counting how many I've used. I think I've only used four of their inks. And I'll put some links in the show notes. I've reviewed two of them. I reviewed Seven Color Ocean. And I reviewed Cheshire Cat. And then I've just reviewed Heimdall. And then I have Dracula, which is one of their shimmer inks. Which I've actually never reviewed, and I probably should. But anyway, so I've used a few different ones. And so Jonathan... The reason why I'm going to keep going back to this, and I'm going to keep referring to Jonathan. And this is only positive towards Jonathan. I'm just using this comment as a jumping off point to talk about a lot of different things today. And thinking about other people's experiences with similar products or similar brands. And we all have different tastes and different likes and different things. So I got to thinking, just breaking this down for, say, a new user who's not very experienced with inks or fountain pens or things like that. Someone who's listened to the show and is more on the beginner level. Why would Jonathan have such a varied experience with wearing old inks than I do? So there's a few things it could be, right? But I also... We don't have to try to figure it out. It just is, right? I very much believe that as well, right? I don't have to try to dissect, oh, I'm right. Jonathan's wrong. It's not about that. We're both right because these are our truthful experiences with these products, right? But people who are not experienced, they were wondering, well, why does Jonathan's experience vary so much from Brad's experience on this? And there's several different things. So Jonathan didn't specifically comment on Heimdall. And he didn't specifically say this wearing old ink or that wearing old ink. So it could be some...

'''Myke Hurley:''' Or what products Jonathan's even using, right? Which I'm sure we came to.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. I have a whole list. Like, what are these different experiences that we have? Well, Jonathan's wearing old ink colors he may have used could have been something that I've never used. And maybe the properties of that formulation lean to dry times, feathering, you know, dry inks or feathering or things like that. You know, that could be one thing. Just the specific color. Or in an ink brand, say, like, you know, if you take, you know, a Pilot Orozhuzuku ink lineup, you could have one color that just feels different on the page. Are they using the same nib as me? Are they using the same, you know, types of feeds as me? Or, you know, we don't have in the stationery world, like, one set of review parameters to make everything consistent.