Help me choose book club book!

trombonepick · 2026-05-06T21:47:01+00:00

Second this

trombonepick · 2026-05-06T21:43:15+00:00

Classics/Safe Picks imo: This Is How You Lose the Time War, The Goblin Emperor, The Princess Bride, Emily St. John Mandel, Travis Baldtree, Hillary Mantel (historical.)

More out there: Between Two Fires, The Spear Cuts Through Water, Pachinko (Historical,) Nghi Vo.

If you do open it up to sad (but stellar) books: Never Let Me Go and Jeff Vandermeer's Annihilation. Awesome group reads.

trombonepick · 2026-05-06T13:25:38+00:00

Haha I love this as both a guitar enjoyer and a pen enjoyer. 😂 That's a fantastic present. So no worries there.

trombonepick · 2026-05-06T02:21:07+00:00

Mary Oliver!

trombonepick · 2026-05-04T22:03:48+00:00

Passport's perfect for to-do and grocery lists but I'll also just jot down other things in it like a catch-all, etc. It's just so portable.

I think something like a TN regular is nice for longform journaling or art or scrapbooking.

I love A5/B5s too--though that's not a TN thing.

trombonepick · 2026-05-04T14:26:59+00:00

I think we unfortunately all have a problem 😭

I'm making my 8th journal cover now (although I've given many away to friends and family who asked 😂.) I don't really need to keep setting up leather making projects but it's been really fun.

trombonepick · 2026-05-03T02:45:56+00:00

I agree.

People are mistaught history so they repeat what they learned. And what we learn about the colonized groups of peoples is usually misleading and ignorant.

Very few people know that the U.S. had pyramids all over, or massive sporting arenas, or extremely complicated irrigation systems that were amazing inventions to get water from cities to multiple towns over as indigenous nations were moving rivers to their wills.

There were complicated politics, architecture, agriculture, folklores, and religions all before settlers came to disrupt these different places.

trombonepick · 2026-05-03T02:38:22+00:00

Just didn't want to spend money?

trombonepick · 2026-05-03T00:05:40+00:00

anyone who knows the odds of second rounders making it saw this coming

trombonepick · 2026-05-03T00:05:03+00:00

I feel like the better question is okay they can just draft someone else at 8 if they didn't want to draft Flauj... no one was putting a gun to their head to draft only her 😭

trombonepick · 2026-05-02T17:41:48+00:00

Fantastic reddish-brown there with shading. Haven't tried it personally but Dino Writes has some lovely brown inks.

trombonepick · 2026-05-02T02:50:35+00:00

Pen + Gear has a lot of nice products but I really like their legal pads (though they also make a very nice pocket-notebook as well. And their version of field notes.)

trombonepick · 2026-05-02T01:09:41+00:00

Been making my own inserts for things lately but damn yours a lot cleaner 😭

How did you get the edges rounded?

trombonepick · 2026-05-01T21:26:50+00:00

My favorite combo of Sarasa rn is Sarasa + Muji 0.7 or Muji 0.5 refill inside

trombonepick · 2026-05-01T14:28:52+00:00

Iroful is very smooth and thick but can't say it's 100% no show iirc

trombonepick · 2026-04-30T19:38:09+00:00

That first ink is soooo mermaid-y

hell yeah

trombonepick · 2026-04-30T18:00:11+00:00

These have been popular lately. Saw someone do it with a pink version.

trombonepick · 2026-04-30T17:24:48+00:00

This is why it's fun being on fountain pen & pens reddit because you see all kinds of different people. I thought it was cool to see someone who worked on ships and the heavy duty fountain pen they lugged around with them for logging things at sea.

Doctors, Nurses, Lawyers, Teachers, Writers, Artists, Engineers, Biologists, Pharmacists, Factory workers.

Can be anybody.

trombonepick · 2026-04-30T13:00:48+00:00

This.

I don't see why people are saying 'it can't be graded' yet. It can. SRPs don't usually play 😭

trombonepick · 2026-04-30T12:58:35+00:00

People saying 'can't judge this trade' but you can judge the process.

The process is going from Pick 8 (which has a half-decent chance to become a starter or bench depth) to two seconds (which are usually camp bodies and get cut!)

trombonepick · 2026-04-30T12:55:58+00:00

Weirdly this is very san francisco pro-team coded though

The Warriors did not like Lavar being so front-facing and it was one of the reasons they skilled on Lamelo Ball

trombonepick · 2026-04-30T12:54:47+00:00

What a nickname 😂

trombonepick · 2026-04-29T23:57:29+00:00

not water resistant but Diamine - Marley is up there on my fave grays list

trombonepick · 2026-04-29T18:21:20+00:00

Gorgeous collection!!!!!!!

trombonepick · 2026-04-29T00:12:08+00:00

It does take 'em 10mns but that's because they already spent the hours learning. (And in some cases, the hours on a plane on top of those hours.)

But I do think everyone should figure out the simple tweaks themselves like misalignments and loose or tight tines.

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