Maruzen Athena Eternal Blue
This ink is one of the all-time greats.
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Anderillium Moray Eel Green
Beautifully eel-colored ink handmade in Florida. The yellow-green is perfect for me, and I definitely recommend it.
Teranishi Guitar Taisho Roman Haikara Antique Black
Teranishi’s Antique Black isn’t really black, but I won’t tell if you don’t.
Anderillium’s Blue-Ringed Octopus Blue
This is one of my favorite blues!
Tom’s Studio #60 Pigment Black
It writes great, and it’s waterproof!
#12PenPersonQuestions
My friend Olive Octopus wrote this list of questions for pen people to answer, and I’ve decided to take a swing at it. Some of these questions are really hard! She has a whole list of people who have already answered them, and I’m looking forward to reading those when I’ve posted my own. I don’t want to be influenced on this one. I have a few of these questions that I just don’t know how to answer…
Unboxing some Paper Mind Loot!
Blake is always stocking new and cool things over at The Paper Mind, and I ordered a bunch of stuff from him this summer. Check out this video for some new papers, inks, and a few new pens! Check out the video, visit The Paper Mind, and let Blake know that I sent you.
Check out Diamine's 2025 Inkvent with Audrey!
SPOILERS! Check out the 2025 Inkvent with Audrey!
Push/Pull Sword Fern & Wet Branch
A pair of inks from a new-to-me brand! I wish I could give them a good review…
The Wet Pen Rainier Blue
This is one of my favorite blues, and I bet you’ll like it too. I just can’t spell it.
KWZ “Meet Me in St. Louis - 314 Blues”
The 2025 St. Louis Pen Show Exclusive!
Nagasawa Kobe #22 Monogatari Shinkaichi Gold
The weirdest Kobe ink? Probably!
Octopus Fluids Write & Draw Orange Bunny
This cover-card is so YouTube coded. I don’t usually like doing that, but this one earned the nearly-click-bait title.
Platinum’s 3776 Shape of Heart Bluebird
These Shape of Heart pens from Platinum are always beautiful. They’re also expensive and hard to get. The Bluebird was no exception. It cost $430 when I bought it at Atlas Stationers . It was also a preorder that sold out everywhere immediately.( I think that’s how I ended up with an Extra Fine nib.) This is also the last of the Shape of Heart series. I didn’t know that when I bought it, but I’m…
The Wet Pen’s Elliott Bay
This is just an awesome blue ink.
Lennon Tool Bar’s Want
Is this the one you’ve been Wanting? Or will it leave you Wanting…
Tom’s Studio Wren
This little pocket pen is pretty cool. It writes well, it carries well, and I like that the replacement parts (like the tips and reservoirs) are inexpensive. My only real quibble is that it can be really hard to open up sometimes. I just tried to open mine to write some notes, and I had to get something to grip it with. If they just made that bottom bit a little longer or a little grippier it…
The Carolina Pen Co. Convert!
No Foolin’: Deception Pass
I’m a big fan of all of the inks that Matthew at The Wet Pen makes. They’re all excellent. The flow is good and the colors are great. Some of them have sheen. Some of them have a color-shift as they dry. Some have both ! They’re great. This is one of my favorites in the set, too. Deception Pass is a blue that turns green as it dries. Sometimes it doesn’t change on the weirder papers out there, but…
Midori Dark Red
Midori’s Dark Red was the first ink I’d seen from Midori. They do, apparently, make several colors in this range, and they seem to have shown up at a few stores like Cult Pens and Yoseka . I got mine at Vanness Pens on clearance a while back, and they don’t seem to have them any more. These inks are made for the 15th anniversary, and they’re meant to coordinate with, or invoke the colors of,…