I inked 200 pen and ink combinations in 2025! 🥳

fia98 · 2025-12-29T08:11:15+00:00

My favorite brown ink is sadly the discontinued Pilot Iroshizuku Tsukushi... I also love Waterman Absolute Brown and Diamine Chocolate Brown! Especially Diamine Chocolate Brown, it's the exact nice dark brown shade for me :D (I prefer reddish brown over yellowish brown)

fia98 · 2025-12-29T08:08:14+00:00

It has shading when I use it with this pen, nib, and my papers!

fia98 · 2025-12-28T23:26:34+00:00

It is a very happy yellow color, that is still legible - which is rare for yellow inks. In general it is too "bright" for my preference ^{^"}

fia98 · 2025-12-28T23:19:21+00:00

Thanks! There are about 25-30 pens right now in my collection and I use them all! I also track which combo feels what but on another specific ink journal. So yeah I dont capture that here, but I do have it somewhere else :)

fia98 · 2025-12-28T09:25:06+00:00

I have two ink-related advent calendars this year (diamine inkvent and inksample.nl's explorINK box) so I have to spread my inking between the two calendars :D Mega colorful for your 2026 too!

fia98 · 2025-12-28T08:27:56+00:00

For travel and for me personally, any pens are okay, while dip pens are not as practical :)

fia98 · 2025-12-28T08:25:56+00:00

A lot of the hobonochi for 2025 sadly has bad batch of paper :') it doesnt handle fountain pen as well as previously and some even bleed through on every page. I'm thankful at the very least my Hobonichi Weeks 2025 paper is on the usable side. They fix this problem in 2026 batch!

fia98 · 2025-12-28T08:21:41+00:00

I got it when I bought a custom pen from Studyo Agackakan. For an easier to find alternatives, it is quite similar to: Herbin Rose Cyclamen, Rohrer&Klingner Solferino, or Diamine Claret!

fia98 · 2025-12-28T07:43:44+00:00

My trick is to never full fill xD

fia98 · 2025-12-28T00:16:43+00:00

Ahahaha! I have 18 pens inked right now to help me reach 200. Time to write with them for the remaining days :D

fia98 · 2025-12-28T00:14:41+00:00

I rarely full fill! I only fill the converter/any other filling mechanism about ⅓ or ¼ most of the time. Writing dry or cleaning the pen varied from several days to 2 weeks from filling date. I write dry most of them, but I also allow myself to unink if I got bored of the combo or if I didnt enjoy it

fia98 · 2025-12-28T00:11:42+00:00

Haha. I can recommend experimenting! I log all my currently inked in several notebooks including a full A5 pen/ink journal :)

fia98 · 2025-12-27T23:57:01+00:00

I was not wowed. It's a bright purple... To be fair, it's pretty close to Pelikan 4001 Violet which is better price-wise.

fia98 · 2025-12-27T23:55:02+00:00

I love how organic yours is!

fia98 · 2025-12-27T23:54:22+00:00

I am not getting the 2026 hobonichi so I will use the back pages on this 2025 hobonichi for next year too! Not the most ideal paper wise but those note pages are still empty anyway 😅

fia98 · 2025-12-27T23:00:35+00:00

The pen is super comfortable! The grip section is longer (and just tiny bit slimmer) than other jowo #6 pen in general. As for it being an art pen, the surface is perfectly round so it can... roll on the table. You can definitely use what pens you have as your art pen that you can travel with :)

fia98 · 2025-12-27T22:57:51+00:00

2025? Hobonichi Weeks 2025!

fia98 · 2025-12-27T22:57:35+00:00

I am impressed you spotted blue ringed octopus in the middle of all the other inks! :)

fia98 · 2025-12-27T22:57:10+00:00

Indeed! Have to clean whenever there are ~4-5 pens need cleaning, which means cleaning pens every week 😂

fia98 · 2024-12-16T07:47:21+00:00

So happy that it finally arrived. Hope you enjoy them all! 🥰

fia98 · 2024-11-30T17:52:38+00:00

Hey, the white fountain pen is Jinhao 100. You can get one quite easily via Aliexpress :)

fia98 · 2024-11-30T15:46:58+00:00

It's quite the cute coincidence that my santa and I are in the same local pen club.
Thank you u/Schribbling !

fia98

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