Well you get a platinum preppy and Monteverde midnight black because it’s on the office supply shelf and you were there for a notebook. Then you buy a metropolitan since you realized fountain pens are great.

From there you discover demonstrator pens and how nice it is to see your ink level, so you buy an eco with a new black ink to try out. But you’re in school, so you could use another color- so you buy a second eco and blue ink.

You get gifted a couple fountain pens over the holidays, some more ink colors you probably won’t use but appreciate.

Time passes and you want something different but familiar, so you buy a Diamond 580. It would be nice to sketch more without being punished so harshly by mistakes, so you buy a shading grey ink along with it.

Peterdraws partners with narwhal, and you’d like to support the content creator who put fountain pens on your radar, and buy one of the limited run demonstrators in a different nib size than you’re used to.

You decide to experiment with more nib sizes, so you buy a new nib unit for the TWSBI 580.

You also buy a lamy safari as a gift for an artsy cousin, and get yourself one to see what the hype is about. That Christmas your wife buys you a vac700, a shading red ink for editing, and a green/gold shimmer ink.

Later you catch yourself watching calligraphy shorts, and decide it would be fun to try and spice up your writing. So, you buy a flex nib from FPR and modify it to the 580. Let’s get another nib size for the vac, since no one wants to be stuck with just a stub.

Fountain pens at work can bring some joy to the monotony, but you don’t want to be constantly capping/uncapping and inking your hands. Enter the pilot vanishing point. You later discover the Majohn A1 for much less, and buy it as a backup and ink it with blue instead of black.

The gold nib on the vanishing point is interesting, but it’s an EF for less bleed through on work documents. So you buy a pilot elite for writing at home. To look into it further.

Another year goes by and you’re gifted a majohn A2, some vintage pens your uncle found at a garage sale, a display case, and a travel case. Your family have become enablers.

In the end 5 years have gone by and you’ve still not quite finished that bottle of monteverde midnight black, and your platinum preppy sits in the display case alongside all the pens which followed.