Coolmint

If you see my brain, please ship it to me. PS: That Monteverde 10-ink set was $40 when I put it in my wish list. Now it's $75. Makes the NOOOO! decision much easier.

....thought I had already replied? Basically now I white-knuckle it: 'Stop! Enough ink! Stay away from that keyboard!'

Same here. But a set of ten Monteverde Blue inks are on sale from Amazon… Helppp meeee!

Oooo, yes!

It's a temptation. But I have a real Sailor Sapporo in almost the same blue color. My Jinhao 82 was the soft yellow. Very pretty, perfect for gray or green ink.

Do you not have an 80? At first, they were only available in black, but now there's blue, brown, olive, and probably red. Fun little pens.

In what ways? Well, the 80 is the one that 'looks like a Lamy 2000' but is a c/c filler. The only nib available I was Fine. Gold trim on mine, feels nice in the hand, and posts well, and writes a very very fine, but not stingy, line. At least the ones I got! The 992 set (black, coffee, orange, green, blue and I think clear) are demonstrators. They have the size and form of the Sailor 1911 and also post well, but the nibs write a fatter line than the 80, and at the moment I can't see how they're marked, whether Fine or something else. Silver trim on these.

That is possible. I have two Jinhao 80s (I liked the first so much I bought another), and they write well. And I got a few 992s. Just starting to test them now. The blue and the orange are also good writers. The green is stingy. *shrugs* Why no smilies here? Oh, wait. Just found them.

TWO dollars? I'm jealous. ;-) Paid about ten for mine, and it's a dry, stingy writer.

Back in the Way Beforetimes, I had both pudding ink and weird-floating-white-particles ink. By the time Pudding Ink showed up, I knew better than to use it.

I meant the ink…

I'd kill it with fire anyway.

My 'expensive' pens, at least a couple of them, are stored in their original boxes. But the Sailors are in their own jar. They haven't yet complained.

Laugh all you want, but I store them in jars and drinking glasses. If I can't SEE something, right out in the open, it doesn't exist. Stored by brand, and/or function, and/or characteristics. I have a jar for gushers that need bone-dry inks.

Another one I realllyyyy like: Kabukibu. High school setting. Cute character design, memorable characters, and of course, kabuki. Which I love.

With bootlegs, there are no missing scenes, but the subtitles… arrrggghhhh! Sometimes they don't make sense. I read somewhere that the translations are done from scripts, by people who don't actually watch the booted show. Dot Hack Sign is a favorite, but it takes multiple viewings (even with the legit version) to 'get' everything going on. The background and character designs are beautiful, the Japanese voices are fantastic, with some I recognize from other series. Dot Hack Sign takes place inside an online game that, for some, becomes all too real. And I do recommend it, but only the legit version.

Whatever you buy, stay away from Levenger Raven. More feathering than any other ink I tried.

Cool. Mine is Basic Black, so any ink goes with it. (I think I put a Montblanc ink in, just for laughs). After filling a blue Jinhao 992 with an ink that matched its color, I was looking for the rest of them. I had three, but couldn't find them. Naturally I ordered some more.

There is no better. Just different. Also, 'house elf' sounds nicer than 'house gremlin.'

Poppy Hill is an absolute favorite. I love the soundtrack, with Sakamoto Kyu's big hit Ue wo Muite (also a hit in the USA under the mystifying title Sukiyaki). Both the song and the film capture the era to perfection. The first time we saw Dot Hack, it was a boot, though we didn't realize it. Now we have the Funimation version and it's beginning to make a little sense. But there's a lot to untangle.

I'm still trying to figure out dot-hack-sign, even after multiple viewings.

Oddly enough, I am now using a new pen someone sent me: a plain black Pilot Metropolitan, F. It was writing reluctantly until I refilled it with Iroshizuku Ku Jaku. Iro is my cure-all for reluctant writers.

Thanks, Slowswift. I'll try again.

And to you too. (No way to post videos here?)

First you see which tine's up or down. Gentle thumb or fingernail pressure to try aligning the tines, reducing the difference in their alighnment, then test, repeat, etc., until it writes the way you want. I've done this. Good luck.