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- Us fountain pen fans are so into collecting inks, it's easy to forget that the average person only stocks a few Iroshizukus and Emerald of Chivor.

- And Diamine Quartz Black, of course.

- Of course.

With original xkcd attached, because assuming everyone's seen it would be very quartz, of course #fountainpen #fountainpens #xkcd

The text of the post handwritten in Iroshizuku Ku-Jaku and Diamine Quartz Black, with the ink bottles next to the text.
xkcd comic: Silicate chemistry is second nature to us geochemists, so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows the formulas for olivine and one or two feldspars. And quartz, of course. Of course. (Even when they're trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person's familiarity with their field.)
#fountainpen #xkcd #FountainPens
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Butterpants 🖋
Butterpants 🖋
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I didn’t know you could collect inks, mine is just this guy that was maybe ten euros and by now I have a lifetime supply of regular ass black cartridges
The most normal mass produced fountain pen you can imagine, laying in soft light on my notepad. It is unknown years old and the outside is worn from use to reveal the brass (?) casing
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abadidea
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@batterpunts I've got well over 50. It's not just a color axis – some inks are "high-shading" (variable like a stroke of watercolor paint), others are a matte uniform color, some sheen different colors at different angles, some have glitter etc. And then there's specialties like iron gall, the traditional-since-ancient-times Extremely Permanent Ink
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
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@Butterpants 🖋 @abadidea it's just that every time you find a new ink it has *something* that all of the other inks you have don't have

but it's perfectly under control, nobody would ever find themself with more inks than they are going to use in their lifetime. *nobody*.

@Butterpants 🖋 @abadidea

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