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Maybe a better question for me is "What bottle will I finish?"

Franklin-Christoph, Italix, and Pilot pens are the best!
Iroshizuku, Diamine, and Waterman inks are my favorites!

Apica, Rhodia, and Clairefontaine make great paper!

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It has to be J. Herbin Vert Olive... I love the idea of this color, and it looks great in the bottle, however on paper it's just too washed out. It's only hope is a newly purchased Pelikan M200 italic which is a very wet writer. This may help with saturation and getting decent amount ink on the paper....

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This a surprisingly short list, given how much ink I have. Proabably because I tend to buy cartridges first where possible (Private Reserve are brilliant for that).

 

Diamine Syrah - It writes nicely and everything, and in theory I should love the colour but...I dunno. I just can't get excited about it.

 

Diame Grape - As above. I like it a bit more than Syrah, but it's not rich or saturated enough for me to seek it out.

 

Herbin Poussiere de Lune - As above. Perfectly good ink, I just don't have strong enough feelings about it to use it very often. Now that I've got Sailor Grenade, I can't see PdL getting out of my ink drawer again any time soon.

 

Private Reserve Electric DC Blue - Actually one of my favourite inks (and my darling Sargasso Sea's better behaved, slightly more dignified twin), but it's so saturated that regardless of how well behaved it is, taking it out and about gets messy unless you use cartridges. I have a bottle purely as back-up in case PR ever stop doing it in cartridges.

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"Iktomi is a spider fairy. He wears brown deerskin leggins with long soft fringes on either side, and tiny beaded moccasins on his feet. His long black hair is parted in the middle and wrapped with red, red bands. Each round braid hangs over a small brown ear and falls forward over his shoulders. [...] Poor Iktomi cannot help being a little imp. And so long as he is a naughty fairy, he cannot find a single friend."

 

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Oh, and I also have Havana Brown, which I'm not keen on but will never use up because it was my dad's, and Parker Blue with SOLV-X, also his, that I keep purely for the smell. I get it out every so often just to have a good sniff - because that's what ink should smell like ;)

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"Iktomi is a spider fairy. He wears brown deerskin leggins with long soft fringes on either side, and tiny beaded moccasins on his feet. His long black hair is parted in the middle and wrapped with red, red bands. Each round braid hangs over a small brown ear and falls forward over his shoulders. [...] Poor Iktomi cannot help being a little imp. And so long as he is a naughty fairy, he cannot find a single friend."

 

~Zitkala-Sa; Iktomi and the Ducks & Other Sioux Stories

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