- Us fountain pen fans are so into collecting inks, it's easy to forget that the average person only stocks a few Iroshizukus and Emerald of Chivor.

[0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange]

- Us fountain pen fans are so into collecting inks, it's easy to forget that the average person only stocks a few Iroshizukus and Emerald of Chivor.

- And Diamine Quartz Black, of course.

- Of course.

With original xkcd attached, because assuming everyone's seen it would be very quartz, of course #fountainpen #fountainpens #xkcd

[batterpunts@mastodon.social]

@0xabad1dea I didn’t know you could collect inks, mine is just this guy that was maybe ten euros and by now I have a lifetime supply of regular ass black cartridges

[0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange]

@batterpunts I've got well over 50. It's not just a color axis – some inks are "high-shading" (variable like a stroke of watercolor paint), others are a matte uniform color, some sheen different colors at different angles, some have glitter etc. And then there's specialties like iron gall, the traditional-since-ancient-times Extremely Permanent Ink

[batterpunts@mastodon.social]

@0xabad1dea 🤔 😆 wow, you are IN the INKs 👍

[valhalla@social.gl-como.it]

@batterpunts @0xabad1dea it's just that every time you find a new ink it has *something* that all of the other inks you have don't have

but it's perfectly under control, nobody would ever find themself with more inks than they are going to use in their lifetime. *nobody*.

[batterpunts@mastodon.social]

@valhalla @0xabad1dea time to start journaling like you're double pepys

[valhalla@social.gl-como.it]

@batterpunts @0xabad1dea my real problem is that I tent do use very fine nibs