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Hi everyone,

Nice to meet y'all. Call me Nori :) I am 27 y/o, I live in Georgia. I am a recent college graduate at 27, due to earlier adult life happenings. Just sailing through the post-college life, and figuring out what to do from there.

 

It's exciting for me to find a forum where I can connect with fountain pen enthusiasts... Sadly none of my real life friends are into them or have any idea what they are. I discovered this new hobby of mine, when I first discovered planners called "Hobonichi Techo." I noticed from many viral pictures on the net that the paper used in these planners are made from "Tomoe River" Paper. Looking closer, I noticed interesting handwritings on TRP with a particularly standoff-ish ink--The slightly italic, organic writing with beautiful gradient inks. From my observation, they were called fountain pens and from there my mind exploded into this universe.

 

I discovered the difference between dip pens and fountain pens (I thought they were the same thing, but nope) and really sunk into this hobby when I found Brian Goulet's YouTube Channel dedicated to Fountain Pen 101. I drank in all this information like an addict and here I am. I am eager to slowly build my fountain pen collection and ink collection. My first ever fountain pen was the Platinum Preppy, which is a great inexpensive starter pen... But one day, when I have the funds, I want the Visconti Homosapien... God, it's such a sexy fountain pen.

 

When I say I love pens... I (bleep) love pens. I love pens of all kinds--gel pens with 0.7 or 0.5 point, super skinny point pens with 0.38, those felt tip pens everyone buys for their bullet journals, cheap retractable pens with pretty good ink flow that you can get 20 from a box... Omg. It's my porn. I love giving pens I love to my best friends and seeing their faces when they realize what a sweet-(bleep) pen it is. Ughhh...

 

So yeah, this fountain pen hobby is just stepping up my pen addiction. Hahaha. No one in my life really understands my fascination, but hopefully some of y'all do.

 

Anyways... Again, nice to meet y'all. I'm looking forward to great forum conversations,

-Nori

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Hi Nori!!! Do you live i n Athens, GA. If so, I can put you in touch with a friend, who lives somewhere in Atlanta, and she is quite a pen enthusiast. Let me know.

 

EDIT: My friend lives somewhere just outsides the city limits of Athens, not in Atlanta, like I wrote yesterday.

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hello Nori! welcome to FPN, and you're not alone: many of us are fascinated with fountain pens... I got inked :P years ago and it stains: can't get out of it...

Enjoy your time with us!

Francois from Berkeley, CA

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Welcome, Nori !

. No one in my life really understands my fascination, but hopefully some of y'all do.

 

That's because you are nuts ! Welcome home to Nutsville. Actually, you have found the joy of writing with liquid ink. So smooth and effortless, it carried me through college, saving me from hand cramps. (We had the most long-winded profs.)

 

Fascinated ? Read about Louis Waterman and George S Parker. They are the innovators of "self-regulating ink flow" and "self-filling pens".

 

Write with joy.

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Zum Augenblicke dürft ich sagen:
Verweile doch, du bist so schön !

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Hello and welcome from Baton Rouge, Louisiana...Enjoy your time here

I've always wanted to go to Baton Rouge, LA. I'm sure it's quite festive and lovely down there!

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Welcome to FPN! So you've mentioned your paper and pens - have you explored inks yet? I guess I'm being an enabler :)

OMG yes. I want them all--Diamine, Noodler's, Pilot Iroshizuku... OMG.

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Hi Nori!!! Do you live i n Athens, GA. If so, I can put you in touch with a friend, who lives somewhere in Atlanta, and she is quite a pen enthusiast. Let me know.

I would love to meet her! Is she a member of this forum?

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Welcome, Nori !

That's because you are nuts ! Welcome home to Nutsville. Actually, you have found the joy of writing with liquid ink. So smooth and effortless, it carried me through college, saving me from hand cramps. (We had the most long-winded profs.)

 

Fascinated ? Read about Louis Waterman and George S Parker. They are the innovators of "self-regulating ink flow" and "self-filling pens".

 

Write with joy.

I love getting book recommendations. I'll have to check them out! Thank you!

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I would love to meet her! Is she a member of this forum?

Yes, I have contacted her and she should be contacting you.

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Hello Nori and welcome to FPN, from Cape Town, South Africa.

To sit at one's table on a sunny morning, with four clear hours of uninterruptible security, plenty of nice white paper, and a [fountain] pen - that is true happiness!


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