Hey, fountain (and other) pen and paper enthusiasts! We don’t have a Discover emoji tag feed for you folks yet, but I know there are quite a few of you. Roll call? I’d like to keep a list. There are new microbloggers joining us right now who are interested.
@jean How about ✍️ or ✒️ (oh and I love my Kurutoga mechanical pencil as well - thanks to @macsparky 😁)
@jean that's me -- but I don't blog about it much, although come to think of it I did post a photo here with a fountain pen and notebook....
@jean Heck yeah! Analog guy trapped in a digital world here. Have 3 fountain pens inked up and a pile of new notebooks being delivered today.
@cm Anybody who is picky about a writing instrument, or ink, or paper counts 100%. If there is intention, you're a stationery guy.
@jean Yes: Notebooks, mostly Leuchtturn. A German pen called a Schneider (only becasue it's named after me.) Mostly pencils, though. Staedtler, Tombow Mono100, Mitsu-Bishi Hi Uni.
@patrickrhone I think you were on Penaddict Slack for awhile? That scene got old for me because I don’t want to buy 100s of pens. 🙄
@jean I am! Use a paper planner (Filofax) and journal, am a pen geek and especially love fountain pens!
Would love an emoji feed for this!
@Pilchuck Yeah. You just need one pen. The one that's right for you.
(Says the guy who has way too many pens)
@jean Bought, but not yet used the Lamy ABC. 🖋 I am going to re-learn to write cursive with it, so count me in. 😊
@jean I'm definitely part of this group. ♥️🖋➕📜 I've got enough pens and notebooks that I don't know if I'll ever be able to run out. (Yet I still somehow end up with more. Strange that.)
@jean I don’t use fancy pens but I tend to use field notes notebooks daily for work. Does that count 😃
@jean My only pen right now is a Lamy Safari with a cursive italic nib, but I’m eyeing up the Lamy 2000 as my grail pen. I just have to work up the courage to submit an equipment upgrade request to the management...
... otherwise known as clearance from my wife. 😂
@jean Count me among that number. Notebooks, pens, and pencils. Have been known to buy individual sheets of manuscript paper from a charity/thrift shop because of their layout.
@jean I'm late to this conversation - yeh to RSS feeds for spotting it 🎉 - but I'm a pen & paper enthusiast (though I haven't used a fountain pen for a while) 📝
@crossingthethreshold Thanks for replying! It’s not a bullet-proof system, but for now I’ll be sharing the link whenever I want to point people to this interest group.
@pimoore I'm not certain where you're located, but Pen Chalet sometimes has Lamy 2000's show up on their Final Drop page (aka open box returns) at a pretty significant discount. I actually acquired mine there earlier this year.
@dgreene196 thanks Devon, unfortunately I’m in Canada which has draconian import limits and duty charges. If it wasn’t for this I’d be all over that! Now that you mention it though I’m going to peek around and see if I can find any Canadian based deals out there.
@jean Me! I use fountain pens for almost all my handwriting. I'm also a big fan of Noodler's bulletproof inks.
@jean I'm game. I've got a pair of Kaweco Sports on my desk—use them every day in my. . . "Not Sure What to Call It™" Journal.
@jean Ooh me! Fiction writer, do all my first drafts longhand, the pen and paper are very important.
@jean definitely need to add my name here, even if very late! As much as the tech enthusiast in me tries, I can’t ever seem to successfully let go of my love of paper notebooks!
@kitt Yes! Very impressive.
I wish I qualified for this tribe. I have hand tremors, a medication side effect, that have made handwriting kinda stressful. 😒
@jean Count me in. A few months ago i replaced my online calendar with a paper planner/diary. Very happy with the change. I'd correspond with friends by letter/postcard if there were enough other people writing letters/postcards. I don't care much about pens, probably like a Pilot V5 best. (Anne Tyler says she uses those to write all her novels, but so far they haven't made me more creative as far as I can tell).
@jean I am shifting from digital toward analog systems, that is paper notebooks with pencils and pens. I would certainly be interested in anything written about such topics. A special emoji or icon would be a very helpful tool for finding them here. I have a favorite stationery store in Thailand where I always head for the notebooks, pens & pencils inventory, always so fascinating.
@jean tremors suck… I don't think you would not be qualified for this tribe, anyway, I think it's about passion, not necessarily the most perfect writing! But oh, count me in as a pen and ink enthusiast 😀 neeeeed a Discover emoji tag now, we're a legion!
@jean that’s amazing. I love the idea and I also enjoy using the micro.blog app so much and also your company and workers are super nice. I’m so grateful for all of your services so much. Thank you. Grace
@jean I draw with dipping pen and ink. The nibs are sharp, if you drop one by accident onto your arm you end up with a tiny inkblot tattoo 🤕 🖊
@jean My wife is the real fountain pen enthusiast, but I do enjoy my simple Parker. Favorite ink is Bernanke Black. OK maybe not favorite, but most used by far. :-)
@jean 🖋 Quite a herd of inks and a pack of pens in my stable. All meant for getting used, but TWSBI ECO-T and Lamy 2000 are dailies.
@jean Hi Jean. I use pen, pencil and paper all the time and draw with fountain pens quite often as well. Cheers!
@jean Fountain pen enthusiast here! I love my TSWBIs best of all (two Ecos and a Diamond 580) but also a fan of my Kaweco Sport & Perkeo, and a no-brand cheap Chinese pen that's heavy metal and writes like a dream. Notebooks - my own, Leuchtturm or Start Bay.
I love the idea of pen and paper. I love holding and smelling the physical paper... the aesthetic... however, as an aspiring minimalist, I don't love the paper clutter... and I prefer typing rather writing with a pen. I'm not overly enthusiastic about my handwriting, and I like the neatness in typing. I used to keep journals, and in my early decluttering stages, after reading through them, I got rid of them. I processed my life through writing... but now I wanted to live in the present, not hold on to my past.
@jean Just found this. Count me in. Pelikan M800s for me, one with black ink (usually Pelikan 4001) and another with a dark red ink, currently Diamine Red Dragon, though their Writer's Blood looks good too!
@jean I love pens! I love paper! I have a box full of pens and several boxes of different paper/notebooks. It's a bit of an obsession. I've never really gotten into fountain pens, though.
