fountain pen hack help wanted ad

have you messed around with a pilot parallel?

Do you despise it's incredibly long body?

Can you google better than me/have access to a lot of pen bodies?

Help wanted! Please help me collect info on which pens the parallel can be swapped into! Because for some reason it's not just anything that can take a Jowo #6.

Pay: the feeling of unlimited power that comes from fucking with pilot's proprietary bullshit

links to nib swap posts below the cut

@lettering-is-my-music @theshitpostcalligrapher @mamoru would appreciate a reblog or any info you might have on this

ok so v specifically, it's not all the parallel pen units that can be swapped--afaik it's just the orange 2.4mm one

there's also a decent number of independent pen makers who make pens using a #6 jowo nib

also *potentially* the newer Conklin pens also use a jowo nib so unsure if it fits but it's something to look into!

I have cochlear implants and I can only buy parts to fix them or upgrade then from 1 corporation bc of tech exclusivity. upgrades to get new processors for both ears cost $23k & insurance only covers 90% (and it’s “good” insurance)

cyberpunk dystopia is already here for the disabled. fight for universal healthcare, fight against capitalism NOW.

Cyberpunk dystopia is already here for the disabled.

Cyberpunk dystopia is already here for the disabled.

Ink: Diamine Moon Beam

Who wants to see how the previous owners of my house plugged in the microwave

Show us the horrors Ivan

This is brought to you by the generation that ridicules millennials for having no DIY skills

The first rule of electrical safety is to be yourself and have fun.

@thebibliosphere this seems too familiar

Oh yeah, we had a bunch of stuff installed like that.

Though the dishwasher that was plugged into the wall via a light switch plate instead of an actual box, next to an exposed water pipe still takes the cake.

The first rule of electrical safety is to be yourself and have fun @supreme-leader-stoat

Ink: Diamine Moon Beam

This is too raw of

a line for you to leave in

my inbox like this

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

How do you type like every keystroke is your heartbeat?

Ink: Diamine Moon Beam

help me out! new calligraphy request post!

(I lost the last one)

I have this problem, see. I want to get back into calligraphy. and I have all these pens and inks, but every time I sit down to do calligraphy I forget every language and quote in existence and start writing nonsense. you got to help me. give me as many instances of 1-15ish word quotes in the replies of this post as you can. especially if those words or quotes are meaningful to you.

if it means something to you, then it will be easier for me to write. but it can be just about anything. I just want a big old pool of stuff to pick from, filled with stuff that ideally at least one of my followers is going to appreciate seeing calligri-fied.

you can see examples of my calligraphy over here!

@daughterofsarenrae tags passed peer review

PRONOUNS HE/BREW AHHHHHHHH

Pronouns: he/brew

Ink: Diamine Jacaranda

I'm speaking genuinely to gen z: your life is not a marketable product. you don't have to worry about your entire life being a trend and whether you'll be cringe to some imaginary audience. like it's okay. you're a person, not a product.

and even if it IS your generation's version of whatever...so? we all grow up with tastes shaped by culture and friends and outside influences. if you like something, like it.

look at me in the icon. know that i am saying this with love, kindness, and experience: your generation does not have magical timeless taste. your taste in clothes and furniture and make up will age. the next generation will make fun of you. they will think your stuff is weird and cringe and then in their teenaged years, they'll start copying you anyway. this is literally what happens with every single generation.

and when that happens, you will be old enough to not give a shit. in fact, you may even DELIGHT in misusing their slang or trying out their styles SPECIFICALLY to see them roll their eyes or think you're being dumb. they will not pick up on the fact that you are laughing at them laughing at you. you will understand that it is SO MUCH FUN to do this. you will love the things you love, and you will roll your eyes at "kids these days," and you will see them insisting that THEIR taste is the be all end all of fashion/home design/makeup/hair.

to live well and authentically is to be cringe eventually

stop worrying about it

to live well and authentically is to be cringe eventually

(Also a 14yo recently told me I'm too old to say things are "sus" and I'm still delighted about how horrified he was.)

To live well and authentically is to be cringe eventually @penandinkprincess

Ink: Diamine Jacaranda

you know those tropes where you come across them and are like Hard No Thank You but then you see the author’s name and are like… 😒 i will read this FOR YOU 😒…

Clicking on the fic like

Spoiler: you end up loving it *because* your favourite author transforms the trope into their usual magic.

@nightmarestudio606 🤤

This better not awaken anything in me

Ink: Diamine Jacaranda

The trolley problem was made by Big Car to discredit the trolley and increase support for private vehicles

Time for fewer trolley problems and more trolley solutions.

Like building Trolleys

Time for fewer trolley problems and more trolley solutions @newtsoftheworldunite

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I ran an Aliens rpg years back. But the players didn't KNOW it was an Aliens game until halfway through the first session.

They thought it was a sci-fi game but they also thought the monsters were going to be zombies.

Over a period of 2 hours they then proceeded to make EVERY Aliens movie cliche "mistake" known to man. Because at the time they all made sense.

The characters in a story don't know they're in a story or what kind of story it is.

They might think their in a romcom instead of a slasher movie. And if you're not in a slasher movie, why the fuck would you search through every closet in your house just because a cup mysteriously fell off a table in the dining room?

It’s unreasonable to assume a character knows what genre they’re in

Ink: Diamine Jacaranda

crazy thang is whenever someone makes a post talkng about how xyz thing annoys them someone will always go 'oh so we're not even allowed to do [thing] anymore??' like no you literally can. that person just will not like you. if that is enough to stop you then its not that youre not allowed its that you are not capable of existing outside of the approval of others

why are you asking for permission. begging? are you a dog or a man

there it is

Stop asking others to normalize things and start getting comfortable being abnormal

Ink: Diamine Bucks Fizz

I made this as a christmas gift this year! It's the first piece I've made incorporating knotwork.

It reads:

Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief.

Do justly now.

Love mercy now.

Walk humbly now.

You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.

- Rabbi Tarfon

Did we do a whole mini photoshoot?

Yes.

Is this random picture we took in the bathroom of the restaurant we ate at afterward the best picture?

Absolutely.

[ID: photo of a Harrowhark Nonagesimus cosplayer leaning on a bathroom stall and holding a bone rosary. The stall has a sign reading "our lady of perpetually out of order"]

Our lady of perpetually out of order

Ink: Wearingeul Wayfarer

Side note: I was reading a calligraphy book recently where the author said essentially “uncial scripts (while what I do isn’t uncial, it’s closely related) should only be used for things like holy texts. Definitely do not do bathroom signs in Uncial” and, reader, the fit of laughing? Disturbed my cat.

INCREDIBLE. I can't wait to go back to that restaurant and show this to them :D

Would it be weird to send you a higher-quality image so you could give them something sized to post on the bathroom stall?

Because that would be amazing if they switched out the sign 😇

Those preventing history from being taught intend to repeat it.

Ink: Diamine Bucks Fizz

good lord

YEAH I GOT NOTHING

i don’t understand a single sentence in this and i’m ok with that

I haven’t stopped saying “it’s called quantum jumping, babe”

I would genuinely like to know who to blame for making these children so disconnected from the concept of imagination that they think the simpler explanation for what they’re doing is that they’re projecting their consciousness into one of infinite realities where fictional characters are real.

topical :/

WHY IS IT TOPICAL

Me shouting at my rash ointment

great post everyone

There’s a lot to unpack here but let’s just throw away the whole suitcase

Ink: Diamine Bucks Fizz

You CANNOT serve from an empty vessel but go off I guess

OP what does this mean?

When your friends are hungry, you cannot serve them from an empty breadbasket, no matter how good your intentions. When they're thirsty, you cannot serve them from an empty pitcher, no matter the effort you put in.

We have to stock ourselves with good things before we are able to give them away, and if we are too exhausted to make bread, we must rest before we can make it to serve our friends. If we are too hungry to serve, we must eat some bread ourselves first.

It's a metaphor for emotional exhaustion. When we wear ourselves down it makes it difficult or impossible to help the people around us, and all the effort and good intentions in the world can't make up for the fact that our vessels are empty. It's hard to not want to serve when our friends are in trouble, but trying to serve from an empty vessel often leaves both of you floundering.

On the contrary, when we care for ourselves and are kind to our body and mind, we are full vessels, and serving the people around us becomes easier. That's why it's important to take time for ourselves once in a while, to refill ourselves with good things.

In the event of a sudden pressure change, put on your own oxygen mask before helping a companion with theirs if needed.

I have never seen this concept so perfectly and eloquently articulated.

You cannot serve from an empty vessel.

You cannot serve from an empty vessel

Ink: Diamine Bucks Fizz

Did we do a whole mini photoshoot?

Yes.

Is this random picture we took in the bathroom of the restaurant we ate at afterward the best picture?

Absolutely.

[ID: photo of a Harrowhark Nonagesimus cosplayer leaning on a bathroom stall and holding a bone rosary. The stall has a sign reading "our lady of perpetually out of order"]

Our lady of perpetually out of order

Ink: Wearingeul Wayfarer

Side note: I was reading a calligraphy book recently where the author said essentially “uncial scripts (while what I do isn’t uncial, it’s closely related) should only be used for things like holy texts. Definitely do not do bathroom signs in Uncial” and, reader, the fit of laughing? Disturbed my cat.

Kate MccGwire, Secrete (mixed media with magpie feathers)

Hey uh…. You spilled your bird

Ink: Wearingeul Wayfarer