G2 gang rise up
G2 0.7 all day!
I’m more of 0.5 kind of guy myself
Alright then you scratchy masochist
First off all, how dare you?! 😤
How dare you pass off a sub-par pen as “proper”
This literally broke me😂😂😂
I like, and definitely accept, the 0.7 but I have since moved to the 1.0. The ink…just flows. It’s big, it’s bold, idk it just seems to make the act of physically writing out words even more intentional. G2 platform is brilliant.
Do you sign your receipts with crayons as well?
J/K, I’m not trying to bring more hate to the G2 crew.
The People’s pen
I’m on my third pen this year already
Left handed people live for a good pen that doesn’t fucking smear constantly
Agreed. Let me know when the world invents one.
I learned to write at like 45° clockwise when I was in school just to avoid the smear.
Fountain pens are pretty great for that. You can customize your feel pretty easily.
My partner got me a TWSBI Diamond 580ALR as a gift years ago, and it’s the only pen I use now.
Goddamm is Sony making the names for those pens?
TWSBI is pronounced “Twizbee”, it’s the name of the company ha. There are a lot of pens with weird, long ass names though.
I use a Majohn A1 and it’s great! Basically a Chinese version of the Vanishing Point/Capless.
Nice. I got one of the clipless versions. Really nice pen.
Reminds me of that Microsoft game
Mahjong? That’s a board game from 19th century China so that makes sense lol. I guess they do sound similar.
My people.
Parker 45 Flighter with Quinoa Black is my daily rn.
If you ever want a cheap, new alternative to Parker 51 style pens, the Wing Sung 601 is actually really good. Most of the chinese imitations are rubbish, but the Wing Sung 601 is fantastic. Obviously a real vintage Parker is going to be higher quality, but if you like your Parker but also want a backup you won’t be terrified of losing or breaking these pens are great. The 601 is heavily inspired by the Parker, it is clearly an attempt to make a modern version but it also isn’t trying to pass itself off as a real Parker 51 with fake branding or anything so it doesn’t feel tacky.
Also the Wing Sung 698 is a $20 piston filler pen that is very high quality (easily beats TWSBI Eco in my opinion in build quality) and the nib can be switched out with a pilot nib from a metropolitan, plumix, or any of pilot’s other stunning nibs (that they stick on ugly pens to try not to completely undermine the market for their expensive pens lol). The fit is perfect, just like an official pilot pen honestly. I use a Wing Sung 698 with a pilot italic nib (from a plumix or a metro I can’t remember) and over the years it has become my favorite daily driver pen that I can stick in my pocket and not care if it gets scratched up.
Here are random ebay links to the specific pens because it can be overwhelming even finding them to buy online. I recommend buying from the ebay seller jewelrymathematics as they are very trustable and focus on carrying chinese fountain pens. I ABSOLUTELY advocate for buying nice fountain pens but also only having expensive pens that are hard to replace is stressful, having some cheap but high quality fountain pens means you can enjoy the hobby in a lot more contexts.
Wing Sung 601 https://www.ebay.com/itm/234861926628?hash=item36aedc98e4:g:-ssAAOSwH8ta6B2H
Wing Sung 698 https://www.ebay.com/itm/234007412192?hash=item367bedbde0:g:KB0AAOSwBwBZkszL
I personally prefer the clear version with silver accents and a white cap but jewelrymathematics doesn’t have it, this is an example of my fav 698 https://www.ebay.com/itm/275375673933?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=frlHIXeQQGu&sssrc=2047675&ssuid=KbfDVa6JQrq&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
Great tips. Another good one is the Jinhao 51A which has some similarities in appearance with the Parker 51 including hooded nib. But they’re super cheap, cartridge-converter pens and the nibs are quite nice. Yes there’s the gamble on quality but I have had good luck with several. The cap slips on and off but not as smoothly as the real deal but for a sub $10 pen who cares.
Pilot Metro ftw.
Tons of different ink colors, too.
I bought a chinese fountain pen and it’s the best thing I’ve ever written with. Shit just hit different
I’ve had good pens but never fucked them.
And you think you’ve lived…?
Clearly not!
Lamy Studio is my jam
Zebra F701
G I R T H
Any pen that I touch instantly dries up, but maybe I’ve only ever used shitty pens. I use a Graphgear 500 0.9mm drafting pencil.
Pentel Energel is the best.
I recently got into Energel and Uni-ball Signo pens. Sooo good.
I’ve switched out the nub on my stylus and have a matte finish screen cover on my tablet so it feels as close to actually writing as possible.
I recall using one when I was a kid. I needed to insert an ink thingie in the pen.
Would be fun to get one again if I wrote enough text or drew on a paper for it to be worth it.
They’re cheap AF. A high quality entry Lamy Safari is barely $20.
I meant that if I had so much use for it that it would be reasonable to buy one 😁
Sometimes (OK, most of the times) I write for the simple sensory pleasure of doing so. I don’t write that much for practical purposes either. I work almost exclusively on computers. But in my down time I write for the fun of it. Sometimes random thoughts, sometimes things that happened recently to me. Sometimes just quotes from my favorite movies or books. Just writing mindlessly for a few minutes resets my mood and acts as a nice break from screens.
The human connection with writing, especially cursive (in my opinion) is pretty shockingly ignored by society. Writing does things to your brain that typing or doing other things just dont do. If you look at a pen and paper and only see an outdated method for recording information you aren’t understanding what fundamentally the technology of pen and paper is. It is a thinking tool, an emotional processing tool (how is the act of writing down how we feel able to help us process emotions so much? It is like magic sometimes) and a creative turbocharger. Handwriting information out also allows you to zone in and out of focusing, you can transition to doodling organically from straight information recording which allows the brain way more flexibility than almost any other information recording technology. Need to just focus on listening? Doodle. Need to abruptly transition to 100% wrote information recording? Go back to writing. Nothing else can do that.
The only thing that makes a serious case for replacing pen and paper are e-ink tablets with styluses like the supernote or boox tablets. Still the sublime feeling of a nice pen on nice paper (oooofff you ever felt nice paper like mnemosyne or tomoe river? mmmmmm) is wonderful. So many people treat a nice pen and paper like it is a silly outdated technology when it is one of life’s cheapest luxuries.
I work almost exclusively on computers. But in my down time I write for the fun of it. Sometimes random thoughts, sometimes things that happened recently to me. Sometimes just quotes from my favorite movies or books. Just writing mindlessly for a few minutes resets my mood and acts as a nice break from screens.
Yeah, what is happening in your brain when you write in spontaneous, creative, and ultimately undefined ways is extremely complex and powerful. I am not a neuroscientist, but all you have to do is try it yourself and be mindful of how writing is impacting your mental state and flow of thoughts to realize something very important is happening even if you can’t define it.
It’s a good practice for the peace of mind!
Get a jetstream
Bic 4 color (black). Love to the pen frens.
Even ink distribution with no gaps, perfect darkness and colour saturation, no ink bleeding
