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  1. CW: #Wss366 #MastoPrompt #MicroPrompt : Cats and Food

    Minashi-by-the-Sea (Greetings)

    #Wss366 #MastoPrompt #MicroPrompt 8/18

    The caravan descended the hills of Neither Lang with hurried steps toward fabled Minashi-by-the-Sea, passing through plum and sakura trees in eternal bloom.

    No guards greeted them, for none dared invade. The bones of three times three armies lay bleaching on Neither Lang’s slopes, and none knew what dread curse had felled them.

    Instead, crickets in bamboo cages and bush warblers perched on open fretted enclosures serenaded them as they #filed through ivory gates. Then, the merchants lining the streets sang out their wares: salt-cured #limes, cocoa #nibs, flower petal silks, and food—sakura mochi, citrus tuna, roasted lime-slaked corn, and chiled sprats.

    The travelers hurried to cedar-shaded inns, famous for eel stews redolent with rosemary and pickled limes. With their camels stabled and wares piled high for sale the next day, they sought beds with fine linen sheets sprinkled with lime blossoms.

    Thus, Kurotsuki Kaibyō, the dream-stealing catkin, came to Minashi-by-the-Sea.

    #MicroFiction #TootFic #Serial #NMPrompts #NMV366 #NMMP #LordDunsany #Pastiche #Cats #Neko #Catgirl #Otherkin

  2. The world has now actually gone to hell in a handcart! I won’t talk about it here or I’ll fall out of my tree.

    So, early this morning I successfully made some adjustments to a Kanwrite flex nib that was being a wee bit shit. It’s proper ticketyboo now. Yeah me 😉 The rest was spent gardening…

    Contrary to popular belief, most of us Scots aren’t white, we’re blue. Like lobsters. And then when we’ve been in the sun too long, red. Like cooked lobsters. I was wearing Factor 50 FFS. And yes I reapplied 🙄

    #FountainPens #nibs #fountainpenink

  3. Great episode from the #YeahNahPasaran team, perhaps the hardest working hour that @sexenheimer and @slackbastard have ever had:

    3cr.org.au/yeahnahpasaran/epis

    > Richard Seymour in conversation with Jeff Sparrow

    "about Disaster Nationalism, from an event co-hosted by Critical Research Association Melbourne and the New International Bookshop on March 27."

    #ausPol #antiFascism #cram #nibs

  4. @redbanjer I thought my recent auction house find would appeal to you in particular. So many nib manufacturers represented. I’ll need to take my time going through them. William Mitchell Witch Pens. Osmiroid nibs in the red box… so exciting 😁 #dippens #nibs

  5. Don't know if this counts for #SwatchWednesday too, but one of my grail #nibs arrived this morning (thanks to my Auntie-in-law for agreeing to take delivery and carrying this back to me from the U.S.)

    Mark Bacas "Architect Hybrid" on a JOWO # 6 medium nib. Dip-tested with Pilot Iroshizuku Kon-Peki.

    Apart from Mr. Bacas, massive thanks to Lisa, who handled my order from the first enquiry email, right to the (ecstatic, enamoured) feedback sent I her this morning. 🥹

    #FountainPen #FountainPenInk

  6. Been going through a stub nib phase again and I've been using a few that I haven't used in quite some time. What can I say, I party pretty hard

    #fountain_pens #currentlyinked #nibs #pens #fountainpen #hobonichitecho #hobonichi

  7. (opinion paper) Boosting psychotherapy with noninvasive brain stimulation: The whys and wherefores of modulating neural plasticity to promote therapeutic change onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10 #NIBS #neuromodulation #plasticity

  8. #Greek & #Yugoslavian #AntiFascism in Melbourne’s “Long 1960s”

    #yeahNahPasaran ( @slackbastard @sexenheimer ) had an insightful chat with James Hogg, author of ‘“Fascism Can Only Grow in Secrecy”.

    An interesting look into the roles of migrant anti-fascist groups in the 1960's with a through line to their lasting impact and influence to today.

    3cr.org.au/yeahnahpasaran/epis

    James is also an organiser at #NIBS who are running a fundraiser:

    gofundme.com/f/help-nibs-survi

    #books #australia #ausPol #naarm

  9. The New International Bookshop ( #NIBS ) in Melbourne are running a fundraiser to help with relocation.

    So if you're into #books, #activism, #ausPol, #anarchism #indigenous #lgbtiq+ #politics #philosophy #zines #arts and much much more, flip them some coin or even become a member 😀

    nibs.org.au/
    gofundme.com/f/help-nibs-survi

  10. The new Ferris Wheel Press Kickstarter is live! I like the look of the pen, but I don't think I'll be picking it up. I love the engraving on the individual nib set, but I can't help feeling that they've really missed a trick by only having standard nib grinds. Considering their whole shtick is creativity it would have been nice to have some creative grinds, like a cursive italic, a fude, an architect, that kind of thing.

    kickstarter.com/projects/ferri

    #FountainPen #FountainPens #Kickstarter #nibs

  11. Can nibmeisters make architects or other specialized nibs from original nib sizes smaller than M? I have a fine stub Schmidt nib which I like a lot, and wondered if it's possible to make architect nibs from F or MF nibs. #FountainPens #nibs #lazyweb

  12. Are the Pilot medium nibs the same between the steel nib on something like the Explorer or Metropolitan and the gold medium nib on a Pilot E95s? I find the E95s medium nib to be ridiculously broad and wet (especially relative to a fine on a vintage Pilot Elite) and wondered if the steel nib medium might be less so? 🤔

    #FountainPens #Pilot #nibs

  13. I don’t know why I signed up for the restock notification for this awesome-looking nib, as I have no space in the budget for it now. 😭

    If anyone else gets one of these, I’d love to hear how you like it.

    regalialabs.com/products/cross

    #FountainPens #nibs

  14. A while back I mentioned you can buy purple nibs from Nahvalur for their pens (and others may be compatible; I fitted my Laban Skeleton with a purple nib transplanted into the Laban housing). I see they also have black and blue now, in addition to the rose gold they offered before. They also have these colors for gold nibs. Since they just released a spring pen with a green nib, they might start offering green nibs in the future.

    nahvalur.com/collections/nibs

    #FountainPens #nibs #PSA #FYI

  15. If I like needlepoint nibs (I have a Franklin-Christoph) and the Kakuno EF nib (which is even finer than the F-C), would I like an EF Sailor nib? I have small writing, so I like finer nibs, or architects, as they work well with my block print writing.

    Also, is the Sailor zoom nib really broad? I like architect nibs, but not a really fat, rounded one (I’m not sure I like Naginata-Togi nibs, but I haven’t tried an “official” one; got a couple from AliExpress 😅).

    #FountainPens #nibs

  16. Useful video if you’re researching nib tuning. Doodlebud talks about how to loosen tines for better ink flow.

    youtu.be/TgiGUjF_A5Q?si=oLfJ4e

    #FountainPens #nibs #tuning

  17. I've only gone and made another blog post! This time about a pen with a very unusual nib.

    blog.stationeryvagaries.com/wh

    I've moved platform, so hopefully everything has gone smoothly. If you find any problems, please let me know! I've also added a voiceover for the post for those who would prefer to listen instead of read. I'll be adding this feature to my previous posts over the next few weeks.

    #FountainPens #FountainPen #nibs #fude #fudenib #fudedemannen #musicnib

  18. I posted some thoughts about the stub nib unit I bought for my Waterman Carène:

    cheryllindojones.com/personal/

    Sort of a bittersweet realization about stub nibs for me. My preferences aren't fully compatible with wide stub nibs currently, but they can always change.

    #FountainPens #Waterman #Carene #nibs #blog

  19. I've been very happy with the Jinhao fountain pens I have in my pen collection. Working on them and with them I've collected some information that's useful to me and put it in a blog post.

    shuttersparks.net/jinhao-fount

    #FountainPens #FP #FPs #Jinhao #nibs #feeds

  20. At the local stationery shop they had a special sale on some #German #Online #calligraphy #FountainPen sets with a range of #nibs. I tried the 1.4mm #StubNib, using the #LeftHanded #underwriting technique I've been practising, and the thickness of the strokes didn't vary much. When I switched back to my more natural #overwriting style, there was much more variation in the strokes. Not sure how to proceed from here... @fountainpens