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Here’s mine! I’d love to collect them all 🤭

Excited to share my husband’s gift: my new fountain pen, the Leonardo x Stilo&Stile Poliedrica “Desert Night”. The color palette instantly made me think of the Atacama Desert in northern Chile: "warm browns, amber reflections, and shifting light across faceted surfaces, like a desert at dusk". The Atacama Desert is somewhere I hope to visit someday, especially because it’s one of the best places on Earth to see the Milky Way thanks to its incredibly low light pollution, dry air, and high altitude. My Poliedrica is currently inked with Dominant Industry’s Unknown Land, which turned out to be a perfect match for the pen’s warm, earthy tones. Honestly, my photos don’t do this pen justice. In person, it’s an absolute masterpiece.

New ink: Unknown Land, a stamp for my ink journal, and an ink muddler/glass dip pen. Didn’t have the time to do the swatches 🥲

Hi everyone, I’d really appreciate some honest feedback on my handwriting. Here’s my sample (it’s a letter I just finished writing to a friend). A bit of context: I tend to write in very small letters, and English isn’t my native language, so I never properly learned cursive connections between letters. I feel like this shows in my writing, especially in how inconsistent it looks overall. If you have any critiques (legibility, spacing, consistency, style, etc.) or suggestions for improvement, I’d love to hear them. Thank you!

I wanted to thank this lovely community for helping me choose my first gold nib pen. I ended up going with a Pilot Custom 742, and honestly… I’m in love with it.

The nib glides across the page so smoothly it almost feels luxurious, the balance in hand is perfect, and the ink flow has been consistently excellent. It’s not just a writing tool for me: it really does make everyday writing feel like a small, quiet luxury.

I do feel a bit silly though: when I started journaling, I told myself I wouldn’t get into fountain pens and inks because it’s such an expensive hobby. Fast forward a year… I now have the 742, and two limited edition pens on the way as well. So much for restraint 😅

Can’t wait to share my new fountain pens with you all when they arrive!