I got a rare treat tonight! I looked over and saw my elusive Chilobrachys sp. 'Electric Blue' out of its burrow. I snapped as many photos as I could without distrubing it too much and these are the four best.

#Tarantula #Tarantulas #TarantulasOfTheFediverse #ILikeTarantulasMoreThanPeople #Spider #Spiders #Invert #Inverts #SpidersOfTheFediverse #InvertsOfTheFediverse

State of The Collection: Retractable Edition

Please pardon, as always, my truly awful photographs.

From left to right:
- Visconti Pininfarina CarbonGraphite Icon 85 Blue
- Stipula da Vinci - Mars Black & Rose Gold
- Pilot Vanishing Point - Raden Stripes
- Lamy Dialog CC - Dark Blue
- Pilot Fermo - Dark Green
- Platinum Curidas - Graphite Smoke
- Majohn/Moonman A1 - Piano Black Clipless
- Majohn/Moonman A1 - Green with Clip

@fountainpens #FountainPens #FountainPen #RetractableFountainPen #RetractableFountainPens

Pretty excited to see these chonky boys putting out some spring growth.

#Ceropegia buchananii and #Brachystelma barberae are two of the prettiest #caudiciforms.

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#NewPenDay! Actually, I received it yesterday. I cleaned it out, inked it up with Diamine Golden Brown, & tested it out. It was *horrible*. Turns out, that ink isn't for this particular feed & nib. They couldn't keep up or something & kept running dry. I was really distraught because I thought it was the pen & I find this material to be so pretty. Then I remembered that I had similar struggles with that ink in a different pen. I cleaned it out again & tried a reliable, known good, go-to ink (Pelikan 4001 Brilliant Black) with much greater success. It's unfortunate that I can't match it up with the Diamine ink because the combination would have been perfect. I'm going to give Pelikan 4001 Brilliant Brown a try at some point because I really want a brown ink in this pen. Turquoise would also be a good choice but I already have too many blue & green inks.

Diamine Golden Brown is the only ink I've ever had problems like this with.

#FountainPen #FountainPens @fountainpens

#NewInkDay from Pen Gallery Malaysia.

Sorry, I'm at work so I can't do proper swatches or writing samples at the moment. Best I can do is some smudges on a sheet of Rhodia.

Sailor Yurameku Byakuya
Diamine Golden Brown
Diamine Manggis
Diamine Tropical Glow

#FountainPen #FountainPens @fountainpens

#NewPenDay!

Schon DSGN Pocket Six - Dexter
EF Jowo #6 nib

I've got a Goulet Pens cart full of dark red or red brown ink samples so I can find the perfect matchy-matchy ink for it. Contenders so far are Diamine Oxblood, Diamine Red Dragon, Private Reserve Vampire Red, and Sailor Manyo Ume.

#FountainPen #FountainPens @fountainpens

My fiancé is a big #Pokémon geek and loves #Squirtle in particular. He does not care about #FountainPens no matter how much I've tried to #penable him.

For my next attempt, I have ordered the Squirtle Lamy Safari #fountainpen for him which should arrive by this birthday. Though I doubt it, maybe this'll finally ignite his interest in @fountainpens.

I recognize that getting someone a gift based more on your own interests than theirs is bad form, but he loves Squirtle so much that I could get him anything Squirtle themed and he'd like it.