I finally caved and bought myself a fountain pen. But I got a cheap Pilot Kakuno EF. I tried a Fine nib before, but it was a bit too wide for my tastes. The Extra fine suits me better.

I also got some paper from Muji, which I heard is a good cheap fountain pen paper.

It cost me about $11 all in all, but I'll experiment a bit before trying out something else.

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@murid I love the Pilot EF!! If you end up liking the nib but not the look, it swaps into the Metropolitan body no problem... (wish they'd just sell it that way lol)

@maya I found that the F nib was too large for my drawing, which usually has a lot of fine hatching. Also it tended to bleed on the cheap copy paper that I usually use.

But the EF seems to fit my use case now that I've tried it.

Not sure if I want to go down that rabbit hole of better bodies. At the moment I just need a tool for writing that I bring everywhere and not worry about.