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== Favorite fountain pen inks and personal preferences ==

* So my next just general question is favorite fountain pen inks. But I want to know what your favorite ink that you sell is. Okay. The three that I play with the most is the Ink Institute Tobomori Rec Ice Fog. So and then my Epitome Pens collaboration, Watermelon Slushie. So those three are so much fun to play with. They just complement each other so well. They look so good on the page. It's just incredible. But most of the inks that I design or design that I pick are meant to be playing with like this. Like they are meant to play together on the page. So don't be shy. Throw it on the page and have some fun. Yeah, I have Tobomori Rec and Watermelon Slushie inked up right now from. They're so fun. Yeah, totally. And then you're actually trying to get me into Ice Fog. I was testing them on stream one day. And you're like, you got to do it. You got to do it. And I just haven't inked it up yet. So what I need to do is be more like you and just start slinging, right? You just need to sling it. I'm worrying about like what nib and ink I'm going to fill pen. I'm going to put this in. You know, grab a, you know, grab a dip pen or a glass dip pen and just go to town. Even just take a pipette, drop some on the page and then write through it with a different pen with a different ink in it.
* Just go for it. I am going to go for it. This is kind of my new thing this year. Like I'm not like, you know, I don't have any like written rules that I'm going to do X, Y and Z. But I am playing with more ink this year and I'm having a lot of fun doing it. And it's partially your fault. So congratulations. Well, thank you. I'm very proud of you because it's not easy to do. It's really, really fun. When you're slinging this ink, what kind of, do you have a paper preference? Like do you have ink slinging paper? Do you have journaling paper? This is probably kind of an important question given how you use stuff. I mean, ultimately it needs to be fountain pen friendly. And for me, if it feathers, it's a no-go. If it bleeds, it's fine. I can deal with bleeding because I can make use of it. So my go-tos are 52 GSM Tomoe River, not the 68. Excuse me. Let me go. I know. It's very specific. I like the crinkle. Yeah. You got to break out the safe though. Like you have to, people hoard that stuff. You can't buy the good stuff. I have several hundred pounds of it. It's very embarrassing. Okay.
* Stology, Marmon Nemosyne paper, Grafilo, and Kokoyo KB. Okay. Yeah. That's my, those are my go-tos. I don't really stray from those. And I like A5 and B6. That's pretty much it. So in some ways I'm kind of, it's easy because I know what I like and I don't really need to venture beyond too much.
* Yeah. I mean, I have other notebooks too, but these are my inky messes notebooks. This is what I do with these notebooks. Do you journal? Oh, no. I don't want to think about my feelings anymore. Yeah. I kind of like that answer. I don't technically either. Like I just write stuff, like general stuff, but I don't do like what people think of. Like I'll write nonsense. Yeah. Like traditional journaling. I really don't do, but like I haven't. I don't do, I don't. I, I've done it in the past and I actually found it. I just kept ending up in negative spirals and I was like, you know what? Maybe this is just not for me and that's okay. Yep. So my journaling now is just throwing ink on paper. That is, that's literally journaling in my book. Yeah. And it's better because I'm like, do I feel, depending how I feel, like maybe I want to use more dark colors. Maybe I feel like pretending I'm in a really good mood or maybe I, maybe I need to create some drops of joy. So I'll just go all out, pull out like the hot pinks and like really bright shimmery things. And it's remarkably useful. Love it. So with all this awesome stuff, are you looking for any more stuff? Is there something like on your shopping list? I like, if you asked me this question, I don't know that I can answer it technically. Like, I don't know, but it's like, I'm more of like, I know it when I see it kind of thing. Or do you have something specific that you're looking for? Like, certainly there's nothing that I need. I have, I have everything that I enjoy. I mean, I kind of wish shown design would stop making delightful Monarch nibs so I could stop wanting them. But I, I don't need anything. And I have very specific criteria now about when I'm purchasing something. Oh, can we hear about that? Yeah. I mean, it's, it's quite easy. It has to be really fun. Ideally, shiny and sparkly. And it has to be, I have to be able to eyedropper the barrel. Okay. So that eliminates a lot of pens for me in a good way. It keeps me kind of, kind of sensible, you know, and I need to, I need to have enough cap clearance for a nice chunky nib in there. Okay. So that also eliminates a lot of pens. So you're not hesitant to swap out nibs for sure. Oh, absolutely not. Right. And do I break things? Oh, all the time. But to me, it's just kind of that hazards of the job. Yeah. So now it's worth it. I'm curious with your eyedropper rule, do pistons and vacs constitute partial eyedroppering? Like, are those available? I will, I'm okay with them if I can open up the section. Okay. Or, or take the nib out. You need to be able to get in there. I need to get in there. Yeah. Okay. Fair enough. Okay. Because I, I don't fill by traditional filling mechanisms. I will just pour the ink in, even if it's a piston.
* Yeah. Yeah. We need to. At least to a lot of disaster. I'm glad we're near the end of the show because like, I don't know if I can handle this one.
* This one got me. I know you very, very well. You just got me. I, what, where are you doing this? Like, I mean, this is just at my desk with carpet below me and no protection and it's bad. Things have happened. Things have happened. But I figured, you know what?
* The carpet can be replaced. Okay. You know, it can be replaced. Okay. Fair enough. My desk mats, I have multiple. They are stacked. And so when they get soaked through, I'm like, all right, into the wash with you. I thought you just stack them higher. I just stack them higher. Yeah. And I have three. Okay.
* I try to idiot proof my desk, but step one is remove the idiot and that's me. So then nothing will happen. I've drowned my laptop. There's ink all over my keyboard. And I do clean it because I like them clean. Um, but I just enjoy myself. Is there like a funnel at least? Or like, are we just going for it? We're just going for it. I just go for it. Okay. Let me ask this. The strategies, but I just go for it. All right. I have a real question now. Okay. Okay. What is the best pouring bottle and what is the worst pouring bottle? Okay. I can generalize. The best pouring bottles are thin lips, like around the mouth of the ink bottle. And if the threads for the cap and close to the top. So that sounds really weird. But when you're pouring way beyond anything sounding weird at this point, it's so specific. It's so specific. Like thick mouth glass bottles. You're more likely to have spillage. Sure. But if you've got something with a thin mouth, uh, like plastic bottles, like the, like troublemaker bottles are a dream to pour from. Okay. Okay. So nice. And, and I mean, even ink sample vials, like I'm like, I'll just go for it. But I'm pretty good at it now. When I make ink samples, when people order, I like from the shop, I make them to order and I just pour it into the sample vial. Oh my God. Very rarely. Is there anything really bad?