#5 year hobonichi

[2057]

[tea-tuesday]

reflections on my two weeks living in nyc again, feat. 192 books, a really cool bookstore i found in chelsea 💗 i'm still figuring out the trajectory of this blog but once i start work (tomorrow, eep!), this may just turn into a workblr or nyc "travel" tumblr??

[orangezeppelin]

More OG Animal Crossing in my journal, my quest for the golden axe has begun and now I just need to maintain a perfect town for 14 more days. I'm not 100% sure why 7 year old me picked "middleto" as the town name, but I'm very fond of my old town.

I've had a lot of side-towns on other memory cards but I've deleted many of them over the years. One of the remaining ones has a very cool layout so I'm considering starting a fresh character and reviving the landscape there.

I also want to draw up a map like this (only nicer!) for my New Horizons town based on the 1973 Wicker Man.

[eggbunni]

Journaling and planning makes me happy. 🥹✨✒️

PEN: Waldmann Xetra Vienna Lady Rose Gold, Medium Nib

INK: Colorverse Tang Pyeong

This fountain pen. Is. STUNNING. ✨ The medium nib is juicy and wet, and the slim body is solid Sterling Silver 925, making it delicate to hold yet luxe and weighty enough to deliver the perfect writing experience. I feel pretty and elegant while recording my thoughts using this stunner, and I get excited to open my journal(s) everyday just to use it. 🥰 Now I’m wondering how Waldmann’s Fine nibs write? I noticed they’ve recently come out with even more colors (hello pink) and I’m drooling thinking about using one!

The Colorverse Tang Pyeong ink is subtle and soft with delightful shading. As always, shading appears best in print writing, but cursive writing really brings out the base shade. I always write using both styles in my journal. Print for emphasis (since it gives such a rich, bold, saturated finish), and cursive for my main body of writing.

And yes. I saved the best, creamiest, and softest bite of my cream cheese slathered and toasted bagel just for you. You’re welcome. 🥯☕️

[tentacleonastick]

ammonite

[hiddenworldofmary]

a reminder from myself to myself to not forget that i have a calendar and that i promised to use it and not abandon like i tend to do

[katerpotater]

I splurged on this beautiful 5 year, once a day Hobonichi journal and this beautiful embroidered cover.

I LOVE IT. I'm actually journaling again because it's so much less pressure to just fill in a few lines each day.

[recordofablerd]

High key wanna make this easy crochet ribbed sweater over my vacation...I’m almost sure I’ve got enough caron one pound yarn skeins to make at least one in an assortment of oranges and yellows.

[iasminaedina]

Hobonichi Techo 2023 Haul // cozy stationery unboxing

My 2023 Hobonichi Techo haul and unboxing! Finally, one of my favourite parts of the year, my annual stationery haul from the japanese planner and stationery brand Hobonichi. This year I got the original a6 techo as my main planner, along with some accessories. I also unbox the a5 five year techo and a6 day free. Hobonichi site: https://www.1101.com/store/techo/en/ More of my art and stationery…

[rpgsandbox]

So this appeared on twitter the other day, a challenge for 2023.

A blog post fleshed out the idea a bit more:

#Dungeon23

A dungeon room a day for all of 2023.

The other day I posted on twitter about a cool little project I’m working on for 2023. Essentially, I’m doing a dungeon room a day, every day, and keeping track of it in a little weekly calendar.

Why?

Well, I love dungeons and megadungeon play, but writing a megadungeon is difficult! It takes a lot of energy and it’s hard to know when to work on it and for how long. This simplifies things.

A dungeon room a day, every day, for 2023. That’s 365 rooms. I’ll do a level a month, so 12 levels. Every week is a little area of 7 rooms, so I can keep my focus small.

I’m using the amazing Hobonichi Weeks which if you don’t know is a great little notebook designed by the writer of the Earthbound/Mother game series. It’s got great paper, and the Weeks version is the smaller more portable notebook. Essentially on a single spread you’ve got seven days on the left and then an open piece of graph paper on the right. That’s perfect for a key of seven rooms and a map. Here’s another one that ship’s from the US. Got a worldbuilder’s notebook you’ve been dying to use? Now’s the time.

You don’t have to use this notebook, don’t get hung up on the details here. Any old notebook will do. I just happen to have an addiction to Japanese stationery and no real need to journal, so this is what I’m doing, dungeon as journal.

There’s some great things you can do here too: instead of room numbers, you can number them with the date. This makes rooms pretty easy to find and reference within your notebook. Don’t need a megadungeon? Try twelve small dungeons! The point is to do a little bit of writing a day. Some tips:

Don’t overthink it. Don’t make a grand plan, just sit down each day and focus on writing a good dungeon room.

Generators are your friend. The point isn’t to get stuck writing the perfect room, the point is to write a room. Randomize the monster, treasure, whatever items you need. Use “Tricks, Traps, and Empty Rooms,” by Courtney Campbell. There’s a billion d100 lists on Elfmaids & Octopi. Take rooms from dungeons you love. Just get the rooms down on paper.

If you can’t think of what to write that day just write “Empty Room,” see how easy that is?

365 rooms written like “3 orcs, 25 gold pieces.” is better than 5 rooms written like “In this beautiful hand carved obsidian room sit 3 orcs arguing over a dice game. 25gp sit on the table, each of them…” See what I’m getting at? The goal is the finish line. Just get to the finish line. Trust me.

If you want to keep up with my progress on Twitter, mastodon, or cohost, use the hashtag #dungeon23. Post your results too! Post a room a day on twitter so other people can steal it and put it in their journals! Become a collector of rooms, you don’t have to be the well.

The greatest creative advice I ever got was “have something to show for your time.” I’ve found a lot of success on always shipping projects every year. This is one of those projects, once you realize you can create a dungeon of this magnitude, your whole world opens up with what you can do. And it’s insanely fun too!

#dungeon23, I’ll see you on the other side.

P.S.

Need a weekly prompt to carry you through? Here’s 52 prompts to keep you motivated:

Ancient

Death

Sunken

Love

Empire

Heavy

Rural

Darkness

Bloom

Rust

Noise

Childhood

Time

Excess

Decay

City

Factory

Flood

Sleep

Cold

Ash

Touch

Meat

Solitude

Growth

Greed

Luck

Fall

Pit

Chaos

Laughter

Smoke

Forgotten

Library

Ocean

Song

Roots

Bones

Hangman

Blood

Prophet

Idol

Door

Light

Stars

Bridge

Mask

Cut

Sacrifice

Incense

Rise

Gold

[tea-tuesday]

(belated) new pen alert + updating my 5-year hobonichi ! a few months ago, i got a lamy safari in the piña colada colorway. unfortunately, the EF nib was SO scratchy and awful, but i got a replacement nib and switched to a different ink, and it flows much better! it is not my favorite fountain pen but i do love how colorful the body is. i'm also behind on my 5-year hobonichi so i have been filling in past missing entries, such as my trip to copenhagen and stockholm last month 💆‍♀️ although not being a student anymore feels strange, i have so much time to catch up on my previously neglected journals :))

[orangezeppelin]

Documented another Animal Crossing (Gamecube) victory, and that is maintaining a perfect town for 15 straight days and claiming the golden axe! 'Course now I don't wanna cut any of my trees down, but it will be helpful in getting my side town looking good too.

This guide was very helpful in cracking the code in exactly what counts as "perfect" https://acthefansclub.proboards.com/thread/224/ac-perfect-town-guide

[eggbunni]

Decided to be a fountain pen masochist and actually ink up my Pilot Kakuno with Organics Studio Nitrogen. Eeee!

Also crazy to see how much my “quick” handwriting has changed in a year.

Book is the Hobonichi 5-Year. ✒️✨

[syysyys]

♡𐙚 iso new planner, any recs? ✉⋆ ˚｡ ⋆୨୧˚

hii im trying to decide what planner to get for classes in the fall.. here are my preferences, if you have a suggestion pls pls pls share, i'd appreciate it sm ૮꒰ ˶ ༝ •˶꒱ა ♡

weekly spreads > monthly spreads

weeks start on monday

only need it for the academic year (august-may), but more months okay

smaller size, 5" x 8" ideal but smaller okay!

i like lines but no check boxes, and must be dated

love plain neutral colors or floral designs, esp pinks and blues

last year i used a blue sky weekly planner (from target), and in the past i've used a hobonichi techo weeks! i love my bluesky sm but i wanna see if others work better!

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[nowoyas]

woke up this morning to my mom texting asking about hobonichi 5 year journals for my brother and sister in law as christmas presents which a) she has no fucking idea the storm she has wrought asking me about stationery b) we're now doing a group order since my order is shipping to her house anyway so I now get free shipping babey and c) she asked about "manly" covers for jake and thinks both the jiary and the dark cherry cow leather cover are "too feminine" for my catholic brother

[rhysnolastname]

Also Jacob Fudefan has already confirmed on multiple occasions the only paper affected is the 5 year hobonichi planner. So if you have any of their other planners, it’s fine.