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At least I'll try to get an aluminum one next so I can see how the weight thing goes... I want a pocket six but also while they're pretty I do kinda just love bare metal... hmm

I suspect I'm just going to become a metal pen guy. I know they're heavy and probably a contributor to why my thumb joint is aching lately but any time I see a pen with any kind of metal body all I can think is GET IN MY MOUTH

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I suspect I'm just going to become a metal pen guy. I know they're heavy and probably a contributor to why my thumb joint is aching lately but any time I see a pen with any kind of metal body all I can think is GET IN MY MOUTH

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It's a cold morning in 2024 and I am thinking about Segata Sanshiro. This is @decepti-thots 's fault somehow

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Things I have learned just now about Segata Sanshiro:

He began as a parody of a character from a Kurosawa film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanshiro_Sugata

He is a Kamen Rider

It's a cold morning in 2024 and I am thinking about Segata Sanshiro. This is @decepti-thots 's fault somehow

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It's a cold morning in 2024 and I am thinking about Segata Sanshiro. This is @decepti-thots 's fault somehow

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For the last decade or so, I’ve been routinely attending a ride-on lawnmower race. I’ve always wanted to participate, but the high cost of used mowers is better spent on more practical vehicles, like literally anything else. Sometimes, though, the universe sends you a message. And in my case, that message came in the form of an awkward leg of a huge trade-in scam.

Picture, if you will, the humble redneck. They await the approach of big, fast domestic mowers. John Deeres, Cub Cadets, even weird modified Chinese stuff they looted from Aliexpress. There is jubilance, but that soon comes to an awkward hush. An unfamiliar engine note approaches.

My International 1480 combine harvester, all ten tons of it, is barrelling down the highway at a clip somewhere between “tepid” and “jaunty.” Even though I have shown up for a race, I am sandbagging a little bit, making sure that the bets get settled against my vehicle before I show them the might of a fully operational monster such as mine.

Technically, there is no violation. I had looked at the rulebook from every angle in the previous year: it has the correct number of wheels, the proper agricultural intent, and with precise work on the tiller, it can even (poorly) mow a suburban lawn. Is it modified? Oh yes, yes indeed, but I see the nitrous bottles poking out from the rows of Kubotas at the starting line.

And when I leave the starting line, it is a thing of beauty. At least for a few milliseconds. It seems that the wizards at International Harvester simply did not comprehend of a situation in which the frame of their combine would be launched into the air by means of one thousand eight hundred foot-pounds of supercharger-bolstered torque. I had erroneously believed that the loose soil of the rural community would let the wheels dip in, but now I am facing directly into the sky, having twelve o’ clocked hard on my wheelie, shooting flames from my exhaust and whirling vertical blades of death towards the grandstand.

It’s not about whether you win or lose. Sometimes it’s about how many pages you add to the rulebook.

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for tori

: )

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“This is the single greatest panel ever published in a Transformers comic.”

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This guy here is my new pen. A Parker 45 Flighter Deluxe from the 80s, more or less. You can't really see it since the clip ends pu facing down, but he has gold trim and a gold nib. Here's a nicer pic from parker45pens.com:

^ the 1980-2000 model. I am choosing to believe he's from the 80s, though I have no actual information on his provenance.

He's in beautiful shape, supposedly a bit of shrinkage on the barrel but I don't see it. The nib is bouncy and unfortunately now has me understanding why people like gold nibs. He's made of beautiful brushed stainless steel, inspired by planes as well as designed to be less likely to leak if you take it on a plane flight. (I have not tested this; I'm not super worried about it tbh)

He is also the most moody, petulant motherfucker.

How moody? Well, within the last week I've done research both on good wet inks for a dry nib and good dry inks for a wet nib. Rotate 15 degrees in the wrong direction and he's scratchy as a pencil. Warm day in the office? He's practically spitting ink on the page. On a cold day, however, you might have to press down to get him started. All of this can happen within fifteen minutes if you're lucky.

I love him. I've used him more than any other pen since he arrived. He's a little shit but when he's behaving, he's a joy to use.

I'm not as much of a pen namer as James. My only named pen right now is the brass pocket pen Isaba-chan, after the fandom nickname for [redacted spoilers for the final episode of Bravern]. However, I have to admit that I've already started calling him by name in my head, even if I didn't mean to.

Brushed metal fighter plane, unreliable little diva that I can't help but love? Yeah, this is Starscream.

(I still haven't actually seen any of Prime but the aesthetic fits)

Currently he's just got the Quink cartridge he came with, which is nice enough but I do want to see how he behaves with other inks. He's absolutely crying out for either a deep red or a royal blue, imo. (I really want to put Asa-Gao in him but I feel like that's probably TOO wet even though I assume every pen yearns to be full of Iroshizuku)

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When people say you should be at the club, this is the club they mean.

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You know what, Etsy? Sure

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today's pedal chapter got me thinking about how much I enjoy the vocative

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This is pure pedantry, but please, folks: it's nepotism if the unfair advantage is because of your relatives. If it's because of your friends, it's cronyism.

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however this does probably mean that shatterstar now taught himself Spanish via duolingo or something rather than by watching five local Mexican channels plus Univision at the same time as MTV and that's much less cool tbh

Actually at this point he probably learned it watching spanish tiktoks on five phones simultaneously, that might be cool again

years ago I read a line in a fanfic which referenced something that happened in the 90s X-Force comics being on Youtube in universe, which blew my mind because the thing is, while obviously at the time the comic came out, Youtube did not exist and therefore at the time the story was written Youtube was not part of the story, because of Marvel's sliding timescale it is now the case that Youtube exists in that story. Just about anything that happened in public in 90s Marvel comics, and indeed further back, could plausibly have been uploaded to Youtube.

(the fact that I genuinely don't know if it was intended as a sliding timescale nod or whether it was just a case of briefly forgetting that the world was not always the way it is now - this isn't a criticism, it was a throwaway line and it's not like I don't constantly forget that frex nobody in a movie from the 90s has a cellphone - makes me feel even more unhinged tbh)

how many different angles of grainy cellphone footage of the death of gwen stacy do you think are floating around the marvel internet. presumably every year that passes in our world the footage gets better. can you post that to youtube? it's not very graphic but like it is a death. idk.

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I think cyclonus listens to enka