• penguin
      1·
      1 year ago

      I learned to write at like 45° clockwise when I was in school just to avoid the smear.

  • Ibaudia@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    Fountain pens are pretty great for that. You can customize your feel pretty easily.

    • NathanUp@lemmy.ml
      4·
      1 year ago

      My partner got me a TWSBI Diamond 580ALR as a gift years ago, and it’s the only pen I use now.

      • dumpsterlid@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        If you ever want a cheap, new alternative to Parker 51 style pens, the Wing Sung 601 is actually really good. Most of the chinese imitations are rubbish, but the Wing Sung 601 is fantastic. Obviously a real vintage Parker is going to be higher quality, but if you like your Parker but also want a backup you won’t be terrified of losing or breaking these pens are great. The 601 is heavily inspired by the Parker, it is clearly an attempt to make a modern version but it also isn’t trying to pass itself off as a real Parker 51 with fake branding or anything so it doesn’t feel tacky.

        Also the Wing Sung 698 is a $20 piston filler pen that is very high quality (easily beats TWSBI Eco in my opinion in build quality) and the nib can be switched out with a pilot nib from a metropolitan, plumix, or any of pilot’s other stunning nibs (that they stick on ugly pens to try not to completely undermine the market for their expensive pens lol). The fit is perfect, just like an official pilot pen honestly. I use a Wing Sung 698 with a pilot italic nib (from a plumix or a metro I can’t remember) and over the years it has become my favorite daily driver pen that I can stick in my pocket and not care if it gets scratched up.

        Here are random ebay links to the specific pens because it can be overwhelming even finding them to buy online. I recommend buying from the ebay seller jewelrymathematics as they are very trustable and focus on carrying chinese fountain pens. I ABSOLUTELY advocate for buying nice fountain pens but also only having expensive pens that are hard to replace is stressful, having some cheap but high quality fountain pens means you can enjoy the hobby in a lot more contexts.

        Wing Sung 601 https://www.ebay.com/itm/234861926628?hash=item36aedc98e4:g:-ssAAOSwH8ta6B2H

        Wing Sung 698 https://www.ebay.com/itm/234007412192?hash=item367bedbde0:g:KB0AAOSwBwBZkszL

        I personally prefer the clear version with silver accents and a white cap but jewelrymathematics doesn’t have it, this is an example of my fav 698 https://www.ebay.com/itm/275375673933?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=frlHIXeQQGu&sssrc=2047675&ssuid=KbfDVa6JQrq&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

        • agent_flounder@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          Great tips. Another good one is the Jinhao 51A which has some similarities in appearance with the Parker 51 including hooded nib. But they’re super cheap, cartridge-converter pens and the nibs are quite nice. Yes there’s the gamble on quality but I have had good luck with several. The cap slips on and off but not as smoothly as the real deal but for a sub $10 pen who cares.

  • Damaskox@kbin.social
    3·
    1 year ago

    I recall using one when I was a kid. I needed to insert an ink thingie in the pen.

    Would be fun to get one again if I wrote enough text or drew on a paper for it to be worth it.

        • dustyData@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 year ago

          Sometimes (OK, most of the times) I write for the simple sensory pleasure of doing so. I don’t write that much for practical purposes either. I work almost exclusively on computers. But in my down time I write for the fun of it. Sometimes random thoughts, sometimes things that happened recently to me. Sometimes just quotes from my favorite movies or books. Just writing mindlessly for a few minutes resets my mood and acts as a nice break from screens.

          • dumpsterlid@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            The human connection with writing, especially cursive (in my opinion) is pretty shockingly ignored by society. Writing does things to your brain that typing or doing other things just dont do. If you look at a pen and paper and only see an outdated method for recording information you aren’t understanding what fundamentally the technology of pen and paper is. It is a thinking tool, an emotional processing tool (how is the act of writing down how we feel able to help us process emotions so much? It is like magic sometimes) and a creative turbocharger. Handwriting information out also allows you to zone in and out of focusing, you can transition to doodling organically from straight information recording which allows the brain way more flexibility than almost any other information recording technology. Need to just focus on listening? Doodle. Need to abruptly transition to 100% wrote information recording? Go back to writing. Nothing else can do that.

            The only thing that makes a serious case for replacing pen and paper are e-ink tablets with styluses like the supernote or boox tablets. Still the sublime feeling of a nice pen on nice paper (oooofff you ever felt nice paper like mnemosyne or tomoe river? mmmmmm) is wonderful. So many people treat a nice pen and paper like it is a silly outdated technology when it is one of life’s cheapest luxuries.

            I work almost exclusively on computers. But in my down time I write for the fun of it. Sometimes random thoughts, sometimes things that happened recently to me. Sometimes just quotes from my favorite movies or books. Just writing mindlessly for a few minutes resets my mood and acts as a nice break from screens.

            Yeah, what is happening in your brain when you write in spontaneous, creative, and ultimately undefined ways is extremely complex and powerful. I am not a neuroscientist, but all you have to do is try it yourself and be mindful of how writing is impacting your mental state and flow of thoughts to realize something very important is happening even if you can’t define it.

  • PaupersSerenadeEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I’ve switched out the nub on my stylus and have a matte finish screen cover on my tablet so it feels as close to actually writing as possible.

  • ramenshaman@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 year ago

    Any pen that I touch instantly dries up, but maybe I’ve only ever used shitty pens. I use a Graphgear 500 0.9mm drafting pencil.