fountain pens forevah for better for worse - NaBloPoMo Day 16

 Look, fountain pens are the bomb. 

First you have the pens themselves which are gold or silver. They're heavy and they look cool. I sometimes trek down to the Fountain Pen Hospital in TriBeCa just to get my mitts on them. (Even though Fountain Pen Hospital hours are extremely inconvenient and you have to use your outside voice to get someone to help you in that joint.)

We nerds love our fountain pens so much that there's a metric assload of entire blogs and instagram feeds about them. There's major sub-reddits. There are huge arguments about nibs and these arguments are not ironic.

Then there's ink. I have bottles and bottles of ink in really cool looking glass vessels and in all these nifty colors. Here' a few of them:

https://fountainpenlove.com/

Ok someone else, the gentleman behind "Fountain Pen Love," took the above photo, but I think I have three of the same inks in my own hoard as well. You see, I'm very attuned to what is tres cool amongst ink influencers.

But I mean, how could it not make your day to be writing in "tea stain" or evergreen or a really deep ocean blue? These are ink colors seen by no ball point pen, ever. 

Here's more of this Fountain Pen Love guy's stash of ink.
I feel normalized.
https://fountainpenlove.com/

There's also the kind of inks that sort of change color if you press harder. Seriously, when fiddling around with your pen achieves this level of intrigue, even the most boring day of meetings suddenly gathers a little sunshine. If only because it's a great excuse to jot shit down.

Of course there's an underbelly to this whole fountain pen affair.
Nothing can be all unicorns and rainbows: