have not been in the night kitchen
either last night or tonight
i do not know where they can have gone
i have a new ink
my favorite ink ina-ho
does not look happy in the fine nib pen
i am using in my smallish notebook
i love it in a medium nib
it shades
it's a golden color with green and brown
but
in a fine nib
it's kind of a puke-y brown color
so
i went through all sorts of colors
and i really wanted to get a diamine color
and i really wanted to get a kyo no oto color
but
what i ended up getting
was an orange with slightly pinky tones
partly because of the whole tree thing
partly because a pinky orange sounded good
and partly because i could get in fast
i'm quite happy with it
and with the fine nib pen
i can get six words per line
instead of three or four
sometimes more
i write big normally
and i like wide nibs
but
i have small books
and i don't want to carry around a giant one
although, it's not like i'm treking around
i'm interested in diamine sepia and raw sienna
i've been looking at ancient copper and autumn oak for a while
i'm also interested in damson which is a smoky purple
that i don't like quite as much as
kyo no oto sakuranezumi
or sailor shikiori yozakura
a bunch of the pen people i follow love diamine
and it's a huge bottle for cheap
apparently it's super cheap to order from the uk
with free shipping
or like almost twice as much to order in the us
and pay shipping
i love sailor ink
it's very wet
i have two inks
i'm not looking to get a bunch of ink
i have ina-ho
and sailor jentle doyou
so i'm reasonably sure i'd like the shikiori
although itis not the same formula, so idk, really
i have been wanting to try the kyo no oto
for a long time
although the color that originally drew me was
kyo-iro stone road of gion
that's another of their line
that i think raw sienna is a good dupe for
but actually
it's a little warmer the raw sienna
for a long time i used cartridges
and i used oyster grey
the shading in a medium nib is so beautiful
it was pretty expensive in cartridges
but i used it at work mostly
and it took a long time to go through it
but
i'm not using cartridges now
now i've moved on to actual bottles of ink
the last few years
but i'm not looking to have
a jillion bottles of ink
and in the fine nib
wet ink becomes more important
i've heard that diamine can run a little dry
also
they have these fun inks
purple rain
bloody brexit
they have super sheen
and
i'm not sure i want that
but they look so pretty
but no shading in fine
so
maybe sheen
dunno
not really important
but
colored inks are so happy-ifying
