Editing The Pen Addict 531/transcript (section)

== Miranda's Twitter Engagement ==


'''Myke:''' Like, the OG. Like, I think it was the OG, right? Absolutely. Like, this type of maker pen, like, Sean Newton.

'''Brad:''' And still one of the youngest, and still one of the youngest ones. The OG, but still one on the younger side of the scale. Sean's just a great, great person, and Caroline did a great job of interviewing. And what Caroline's goal is, is to kind of have the same general bucket of questions for everyone, but it's a very, not necessarily in a Q&A style. It's just more of a conversational style, and it came out beautifully. So go check that out. We'll have a link in the show notes for that. Up next, I want to give a shout out to the Words and Roses podcast. This is a new podcast that many of you probably have not heard of. They're only on episode two right now. But it's for my friend Miranda, who I met streaming on Twitch as part of the Stationery Brew team. So Miranda Sanchez, she is the executive editor of Guides at IGN, but she is a very passionate stationary fan. She does a lot with journaling, planning, has a lot of fountain pens, big fan of Sailor.

'''Myke:''' Miranda's like one of the perfect Twitter followers for me personally, because it's like pens or games. It's like great. Right. Yeah. All your content.

'''Brad:''' Yeah, she's brilliant. She's amazing. I got to meet her in person for the first time in San Francisco at our Stationery Brew meetup, where I also met Chelsea, her podcast partner in this of Those With Words. We'll have all the links to all of these shows and Instagram handles and just a fascinating, wonderful Instagram account, Those With Words. Definitely go give them a follow. But this show, I listened to the first episode. There's already a second episode out. I have not caught yet, but it's going to be awesome for someone like myself, who kind is more on the edge of journaling and planning and thinking about, always thinking about like dabbling in doing more with my journals, planners, notebooks, stationery. And they're going to talk a lot about that, how they use things for note, for as far as notebooks, planners, journals, goes memory, keeping commonplace books and everything that goes along with that. And it was just an awesome listen. Like they did a really, really good job. With the first show, I was, I was very much, I was almost taking notes, listening to them, how they use things because I found it that, that interesting and fascinating. So if you're into that, you know, the, the notebook keeping, planning, journaling, as well as, you know, general stationary and pen stuff, definitely give Words and Roses a follow. And Miranda and Chelsea on Instagram. And also the stationary brew team on twitch.tv, which Miranda and Chelsea are also a part of. So we'll give a shout out to them. So wonderful, wonderful people. And I'm glad they kicked this off. It's great.

'''Brad:''' Lastly, Myke, I have had an item on my shopping list for what the entire year so far. So it seems like since the beginning of the year, I've been waiting for pilot of Roshizuku ink cartridges.

'''Myke:''' I feel like we've spoken about it so many times. I'm surprised they weren't available before now.

'''Brad:''' Well, because they got delayed and I'm still not convinced that the delay is over, but other stores outside of Japan, they're starting to trickle in. Right. So I think they were available. They got delayed. Then they became available in Japan. And now for example, Yoseka stationary, stationary, I got a link that said, Hey, Yoseka is stocking them. Holy cow. These are expensive. Like I knew they were going to be expensive. All ink cartridges are a bad value. Right. But there is a trade off in, you know, usability and ease of use and portability and all those things. But a six pack of pilot is Roshizuku ink cartridges set me back $12. I said, I went with one, one six pack of cartridges instead of buying like all the colors. That's like, even the sailor ones are a little, might be like four for $6. Like it's still not great, but it's still better. Wow. So we'll see if my idea, I bought a Suki, Oh, which is like a midnight blue. And that's the ink I always use in my Namiki galaxy. And so I thought, well, maybe I'll try cartridges in this and I'll just stick with only cartridges and that. So that's, that's my idea right now. Maybe I'll end up with a second color, but man, they are, they are less cost effective than cartridges are normally are right. Cartridges are normally not where you want to shop. If you're looking for a best, a best cost per milliliter, but this one is even more. It's like, wow. So hopefully we'll start seeing them more widespread here as through, throughout the end of the year. I think all of your standard retailers will start to get these in soon. At least I hope they do. And I think they'll, they'll do fine, but yeah, that's, that's a pretty big ask for ink cartridges. So anyway, I have mine on the way and I will be testing them out soon.

'''Myke:''' All right. I'll look forward to it. Cause I want to know if this is something that I want to go for.

'''Brad:''' Right. You use enough pilot pens. You have like your M90 that you always use. Like that's a good candidate.

'''Myke:''' I would love some options for that. So I think that's one I've mentioned before too.

'''Brad:''' So I'm looking at the link,

'''Myke:''' the pilot ones, like the kind of like the red or the purple cartridges or whatever. Right. I would love more color options for that. That would be really fun.

'''Brad:''' Right. So a Roshizuku's, I think the full lineup is about 20 or 24 inks. So in the cartridges, they're starting with 12 colors.