It’s weeks like these, when the stationery community fills my inbox with joy, fun and new discoveries, that I realize how amazing this community is and how important it is to my emotional well-being. From cheap French supermarket pens to lots of blue inks to Kottke.org using his comment section as a job search option, you all make my day. xoxo, you are all my heroes.
Pens:
- Ask TGS: Common Questions on Fountain Pens, including Hard Starting Pens and Staining Inks (via The Gentleman Stationer)
- January 2024 in Pens and Paper (via Writing at Large)
- Pronounced ˈwey-ver-lee’ but Do You Mean Waverly or Waverley? (via Chronicles of a Fountain Pen)
- Sailor Dipton + Hocoro Ink & Dip Pen Set Review (via The Pen Addict)
- Cross Peerless 125 Platinum Unboxing and Review (via Penultimate Dave)
- Cheap French Supermarket Pocket Pen (via dapprman)
- Quick Look – Pilots Vanishing Point and Decimo (via The Poor Penman)
- Playing with Four Italic Nib Grinds (via Dime Novel Raven)
- Soft or Marketing? (via Crónicas Estilográficas)
- 2023 METAREVIEW and also 2024 preview (via Extra Fine Writing)
Ink:
- Ink Review #2488: Colorverse 45 Strelka (via Mountain of Ink)
- Shokido Amalfi (via Inkcredible Colours)
- Best Everyday Blue Inks: Monthly Ink Comparison (via Pen Chalet)
- Robert Oster Ink Review: Fire, Water, Earth, and Wind Inks (via Pen Chalet)
- Cult Pens Seven Deadly Sins Swatch Tests (via FOUNTAIN PEN INK ART)
- ink review : TACCIA Ukiyo-e Hiroshige naka murasaki (via inkxplorations)
- Ink Review #798: PenChalet x Van Dieman Mars (via Fountain Pen Pharmacist)
Notebooks & Paper:
- Journaling Suggestions (via Wonder Pens)
- Goldpfeil “Mini-size Extra Slim” Binder (via Inktronics)
- Deconstructing a Dollar Store Notebook (via Inktronics)
- Mark’s Storage.it Notebook Review (via The Pen Addict)
- Mount Street Printers Leather Notebook Review (via BLAKE’S BROADCAST)
- Trying different sizes with a difference (via Philofaxy)
Art & Creativity:
- A short history of the origin of Comic Sans. Interestingly,… (via Kottke.org)
- A Lost Gustav Klimt Painting Rediscovered (via My Modern Met)
- #OneWeek100People 2024, March 11-15! (via Citizen Sketcher)
- On My Table: Beginning of February 2024. (via Apple-Pine)
- Seafolk (via Abigail Halpin)
- Spinning Color Wheel Enamel Pin (via Tools and Toys)
Other Interesting Things:
- 29-day Practice and Suck Less challenge (via Austin Kleon)
- The Enchanting Genius of a Quietly Forgotten Midcentury Maximalist (via Messy Nessy Chic)
- Bluesky is opening up to the public this week. Hot take: I l… (via Kottke.org)
- Amazing Early 20th-Century Optical Illusion Skull Postcards (via Design You Trust)
- Cory Doctorow talks about how he got scammed into giving som… (via Kottke.org)
- What’s Your Favorite Airport Amenity? (via Kottke.org)
- Looking for a Job? Looking for Employees? (via Kottke.org)
- Knit to This: Articles of Interest (via Modern Daily Knitting)
- January 2024 in Reading (via Writing at Large)
- Rolla, Missouri type-in February 10 (via Welcome to the Typosphere)
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Hm, so in order to comment on Kottke.org you have to pay. I hadn’t ever notice that.
I wish I could just tell the commenters on the link you posted about Bluesky Opening now that you CAN post videos to BlueSky, it’s just not embedded (this was added as a feature last year, before opening!)
( https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3khhtntbo6o2h )
So if anyone reading this has a Kottke.org membership/account, it’d be awesome if you could update the top comment on that post (the third link down on “other interesting things”)
Also, lots of good links this week!