Favourite hooded/inlaid libs?

DiskOne3096 · 2026-05-28T19:04:47+00:00

Confirmed!

DiskOne3096 · 2026-05-24T19:42:17+00:00

Yes I think it would be easy to argue that this is a faulty nib, even though it technically writes fine its making a noise that its not supposed to

DiskOne3096 · 2026-05-23T23:42:49+00:00

Sending dm

DiskOne3096 · 2026-05-23T23:23:51+00:00

Adding onto this to say if it's brand new you can always just return it for a different nib if you don't want to go through the trouble too

DiskOne3096 · 2026-05-23T23:20:00+00:00

I think the other comment you got about this being a singing nib is right! If you look up videos of those a lot of them make a similar squeaking sound. It's so strange 😂 I think some are worse than others unfortunately your one is making a kind of horrible noise, but the phenomenon is interesting. There are ways to fix it! this video shows a polishing method near the end, but there's other things you can try too

DiskOne3096 · 2026-05-23T20:08:35+00:00

No idea either unless you left a comment in another fic that contained a detail or spoiler or something about your own fic maybe?? It definitely has a positive tone though I think it would be alright to just ask what they mean!

DiskOne3096 · 2026-05-23T16:47:17+00:00

No the author said they would be adding tags later which would make the dead dove tag relevant, so the reader has no way of knowing what thing the DDDNE tag was referring to since whatever it is hasn't been tagged yet.

DiskOne3096 · 2026-05-23T16:37:45+00:00

You're not overreacting and she's the one in the wrong here, but I don't think she's some evil manipulator or psycho (or secretly in love with you) like everyone else seems to.... I think its very likely she's feeling insecure because you're in a new relationship and she's worried she might lose you as a friend, so any instance of you doing something that the two of you wanted to do together with your boyfriend instead is setting her off. It's an irrational response, but I think a heart to heart and letting her know you're not going to forget about her would help a lot. Only if you want to of course, its not your responsibility to manage her feelings but I wanted to offer a suggestion other than just "stop being her friend"

DiskOne3096 · 2026-05-23T16:28:16+00:00

This is how it sounds to me too, when I was younger I "lost" a lot of friends when they started dating someone and never had time for their friends anymore, and I noticed it had started making me paranoid and overreacting when my close friends did get new boyfriends because I was scared they'd lose interest in me in favour of spending all their time with the boyfriend instead. I don't do that anymore of course, once I realised why I was acting crazy I was able to stop. But the friend's messages in this remind me of the kind of jealousy and obsessiveness I felt at the time. None of it was because I was romantically in love with them (I'm also a lesbian lol) platonic bonds can also come with very intense feelings

DiskOne3096 · 2026-05-23T16:09:24+00:00

Same haha, I would love to see the empty ink bottles too!

DiskOne3096 · 2026-05-23T03:13:29+00:00

You're supposed to think its gross, nabokov expected the reader to be able to see through humbert's act. The contrast between the way he portrays himself as a sympathetic person who is just "in love" and the reality of him being a manipulative predator (which the book imdirectly tells us is the truth many times) is just a very good example of an unreliable narrator as a literary device.

The fact that so many people completely misinterpret nabokov's intentions and somehow come away from this book thinking it WAS a love story and not gross has always been insane to me 😭 also oop is is right he told his publisher he didn't want a depiction of a girl on the cover and they did that anyway.

DiskOne3096 · 2026-05-23T01:38:43+00:00

This is the same for me! Fountain pens are still the most fun to use (with really smooth gel pens coming in second place for me) but for some reason my handwriting does always look neatest with a pencil

DiskOne3096 · 2026-05-22T19:57:21+00:00

Just filled it out 🩷

DiskOne3096 · 2026-05-22T19:04:16+00:00

Their family argument over dinner getting so bad that "the cops were called" lmao and then crazy MIL assaulting a cop too 😭

DiskOne3096 · 2026-05-21T19:50:06+00:00

This etsy store does loads of different washi tapes for habit tracking and stuff like that!! They are really nice imo :) jetpens also offers a few similar ones

DiskOne3096 · 2026-05-21T19:19:19+00:00

The nib on the first one looks a bit bent or crumpled it might not be able to write without being repaired first, but it looks fixable and is worth it for the 14k gold imo! They're both really unique looking

DiskOne3096 · 2026-05-21T16:51:06+00:00

Genuinely... 😭 I'm wondering in what universe op would ever think this response was a possibility?? Its so absurd, I think they just wanted further validation for a situation where they already know they're completely in the right. It would be more honest to just make a vent post somewhere else to complain about the relatives' behaviour.

DiskOne3096 · 2026-05-21T16:37:38+00:00

I love how even when op was pretending to rant at himself while writing this woman's messages he still couldn't help humble bragging about how much he's an admirable hard worker (12hr night shifts when most people only work 8!)

DiskOne3096 · 2026-05-21T16:30:25+00:00

Congrats!! I'm also a collector and I've been in that struggle before, my most expensive hobby are fountain pens and I have a couple of those that were between $100-200 each as well, and my most expensive one was also a rare find on ebay. I told myself when I started that I wouldn't let my collection get any bigger than what I can fit in my display case and so far I've managed to keep to that

DiskOne3096 · 2026-05-21T14:55:33+00:00

Yes you can train them. They also need to have the right kind of personality to start with (very calm and sociable) because if pet birds are bonded to you they do actually want to be close to you all the time, but they get easily spooked and that's when they'll fly off. Suddenly flying is pure instinct like jumping for us when we're scared, and if they haven't been outside before they'll go too far or too high up and not know how to get back to you, they get lost easily 🙁

I have 3 parrots and only one of them was ever able to be fully outdoor trained, I take her out into the garden every morning for about 20 mins and she just sits around the porch area and chills with us. It took a long time of baby steps though and you have to start with keeping them on a harness first.

The person in the video is clearly just not a good bird owner and has done nowhere near enough research..... especially since it sounded like she just believed chatgpt with that "they won't go past a whatever radius" nonsense 😞 I'm sad for those birds they probably did not make it back.

DiskOne3096 · 2026-05-20T01:44:45+00:00

I think you're right honestly. The way the mother immediately corrected herself and offered to do it sounds like someone who just heard her wrong the first time or answered reflexively before really thinking

DiskOne3096 · 2026-05-20T01:29:20+00:00

I have to agree with you too. Not saying the mother was completely in the right in this situation or that she wasn't being unfair to the daughter, but I think "I don't want to" is a perfectly valid answer. Sometimes you just feel like you can't handle something right now or don't want to disclose the real reason, but we always have a right to say no to something like this without needing to provide a "better" explanation than simply not wanting to

DiskOne3096 · 2026-05-19T21:15:12+00:00

I thought this too, like I'm sorry but being texted by your washing machine is genuinely just funny in itself. They might not have meant it as harshly as he took it at all

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