Mike

@inkdependence.bsky.social

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Stationery lover, youtuber, streamer, pet-keeper, k-pop lover, and philosophy teacher.

This is a smear of reddish, wine-ish ink in on a notebook page.
Walgreens’ “pharmacy” has kept me on hold for over an hour. This ain’t my local Walgreens. I can’t call them directly. I have to call the general line, convince a phone-tree-chatbot that I WANT TO TALK TO A PHARMACIST, and then sit on hold forever, and then give information to someone before they’ll xfer me to the dispensing pharmacy. All I want to do is fill an RX, and this is my second day of trying to do that. I got through yesterday, only for the actual pharmacy to hang up on me. This is stupid.
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Four fountain pens and a gel pen sitting on a desk mat. From top to bottom: A Tactile Turn All Star. It’s the seasonal design right now and you can get the clip engraved with a player’s name (or most anything else). A Snifty erasable fountain pens it uses an ink that is erasable like a Pilot FriXion, and has the same sort of nub on the end. Works shockingly well. A Stilform fountain pen. This has a magnetic cap, and two flat sides to keep it from rolling away. A Visconti Mythos Persephone with a broad nib. Another good magnetic cap, and I really like the way this one feels. Lastly, the new Benu Tessera. Dang this is a good pen. I love the colors, the nib, and the feel.
A pencil sketch of my friend’s dog being proud of her house. She is mostly ears. Snoots are hard to draw.
The Schon DSGN x Custom Nib Studio Sashiko fountain pen. A black pen made from Ultem plastic by a 3-person shop in Philadelphia, and ideated by Gena (they/them) of Custom Nib Studio. Each one is unique, both in placement and shape of the stitch-patterned “X”s.
A picture of myself. A guy with a beard wearing glasses and a grey hat. Come say hi if you see me at the show!
A green fountain pen from Good Made Better with orange, black, and synthetic pearl bands at the bottom. It’s ebonite, and he does a hand-texturing job on the pen that makes it sort of look like wood.
A web comic of one person pinching another person’s lips together and advising them to “shh” and let people enjoy things.
A man’s hand holding a shiny, orange pen with silver hardware and black finials.
A very furry blue pen sleeve pictured with orange and blue TWSBI Ecos.
Lots of people have issues filling fountain pens, but it doesn’t have to be a mess!
A pair of Benu pens.One is painted with an octopus.
Photo of myself at an ATEEZ concert standing by the deserted men’s room holding a sign saying “Bros 4 Mingi.” Mingi is a manner of the kpop group, and my bias. That dude is awesome.
A beautiful glass and hardwood pen display case filled with jade desk sets. It’s an awesome deal.
A NockCo pen case filled with goodness including a Schon DSGN fountain pen, a Diplomat Excellence A, a Pilot Juice, and a green highlighter. There’s a Tactile Turn Nautilus ballpoint laying across the open case.
Left to right: Esterbrook Model J in Lotus Green fountain pen TWSBI 580 ALR in Sunset Yellow fountain pen TWSBI Go in clear fountain pen Tactile Turn Sprout gel pen Zebra Clickart marker Zebra Delguard mechanical pencil
A nearly blank pair of planner pages that really need some decoration.
Stripes the cat singing the song of his people and demanding pets through the bars while he waited at the Vet’s office. He’s a sweet boy, and very vocal. 📢
This is Stripes the cat, and he likes being indoors, but also yearns for the open spaces and multiple food bowls of the wild.
A little black dog looks wistfully out of the window while sitting on a green chair.
The Schon DSGN Monoc fountain pen nib in cursive italic is just one of the best nibs ever made.
My Ranga Abhimanyu Grand pen in a dark, swirly pattern.
This is a pretty piece of data representing my ink collection’s colors. It’s basically lots of bands of color.
A set of Rotring Core fountain pens in a pen case. I have found all of the color combos over the years, as it’s one of my favorites and probably the first pen I bought myself back in the 1900s.
Diamine Lemon & Lime on a colodex card. I drew a blender in there, too.
Zebra JustFit Mojiniline highlighters over fountain pen inks. No smearing.
These are Monami Essential Twin highlighters.
A bearded white guy, his lovely wife, and their black-and-white bearded dog who is dressed as a Jack ‘o Lantern.
It’s a white fountain pen with black blotches that looks like a cow.
Three painted plastic crabs and a shrimp, all offering me some pens in their upraised appendages.
A handful of TWSBI Eco pens. Most of them filled with shimmery inks!
A whole bunch of weirdly good pens in a pen case.
3 pens and a pencil on top of an orange pen case from Rickshaw Bagworks.
A green Plotter binder with a horse hair finish.
A pair of silver-grey fountain pens from Diplomat and Waterman.