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Day 13 30 Inks in 30 Days

Van Dieman’s Riverbank is a lovely chromoshader that goes from mushroom pink to green.

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November 13, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Day 12 30 Inks in 30 Days

Ostrich Ink Starlight is a pretty chromoshading blue-purple with pinkish shimmer. Seems to shed a fair bit in swatching.

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November 13, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Day 11 30 Inks in 30 Days

Wearingeul Purgatorio is a taupeish brown-pink. Very nice to write with!

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November 11, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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Day 10 30 Inks in 30 Days

Kitty Ink Pot Galloping Across the Wilderness is a lovely purple-pink-brown ink.

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November 10, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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Day 9 30 Inks in 30 Days

Van Dieman’s Underflow is a lovely green to purple chromoshader. In writing I’ve found it to be mostly a pretty sea spray green.

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November 9, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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Day 8 30 Inks in 30 Days

Kitty Ink Pot Wheat Field by Nightfall is a pretty pale apricot pink-brown type ink. It has a small amount of same colour shimmer as well.

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November 8, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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Day 7 30 Inks in 30 Days

Dream Ink White Moss is a lovely muted mossy green with mauve shimmer. Much less shimmer fall out than our last two examples!

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November 7, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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Day 6 30 Inks in 30 Days

Dream Ink Morpho Butterfly is a pretty blue-green chromoshader with purple shimmer. It’s lovely, but an extreme shedder!

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November 6, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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Day 5 30 Inks in 30 Days

Dream Ink The Shadows of the Flowers in the Room. A pretty bluish-grey with some violet tones and copper shimmer. This ink pops, but oh boy is it messy. You can see how smudgy the shimmer is on the chromatography pic.

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November 5, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Day 4 30 Inks in 30 Days

Van Dieman’s Kitten’s Paw is a lovely mushroom pink-brown. Goes down quite brown and pinks as it dries.

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November 4, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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Day 3 30 Inks in 30 Days

Ostrich Ink Peach Fuzz is a pale orange with matching shimmer. It makes me think of tangy sorbet or sparkling peach water.

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November 3, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Day 2 30 Inks in 30 Days

Today we have Kitty Ink Pot x Soe & Soe Moonlot Rose Garden. This is a lovely blue-purple chromoshader. Very pretty ink, looking forward to inking it up!

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November 2, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Day 1 30 Inks in 30 Days

Dominant Industry Fairy Forest is a lovely pale green with beautiful coppery shimmer. Sadly it’s been discontinued, so if you like it look now before shops sell out their stock!

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October 31, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Received my first order from the lovely Melie at Ellipses Collection. Benu Daily Mate and some lovely washi from Australian artists.

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October 21, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Wearingeul The Night Coloured in Grape is a lovely violet with a greyish undertone. It shades beautifully in a stunning nib. It does also have a lovely purple shimmer, but today is very overcast and I’m struggling to capture it.

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October 18, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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Reading spread for Liberation by Tade Thompson

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October 17, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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A pallet for the brown ink lovers! A affirmed for myself doing this one that I prefer warm red or pink browns. What’s your preference?

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October 15, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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Reading spread for You Weren’t Meant to be Human

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October 13, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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THE INTERMEDIARIES covers the time period leading to the Nazi take-over. I have been keeping time with current developments like a doomsday clock. We are getting damn close to ‘midnight’ (1933). We need to know our enemy’s moves to fight them. Book at discount:

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The Intermediaries: A Weimar Story book by Brandy Schillace
Buy a cheap copy of The Intermediaries: A Weimar Story book by Brandy Schillace. Set in interwar Germany, The Intermediaries tells the forgotten story of the Institute for Sexual Science, the world's ...
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August 18, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Reading spread for Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimerer.

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October 12, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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Holy cow I love this so much.

"How each character responds to these fears and griefs is central to the story, moving it forward, and ameliorating or adding to the grief in the story, both for themselves and others."

Love this thoughtful gorgeous response to my book. 🌼🌞♥️
danthesaurus.bsky.social Dan @danthesaurus.bsky.social · Oct 9
Reading spread for Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Charlie Jane Anders @charliejane.bsky.social

Do yourself a favour and read this marvellous story!

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October 9, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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shubbabang.bsky.social
The image is a six panel black and white comic Panel 1- A small child is being told "You'll want kids when you're older!" The child responds with "I don't think so..." Panel 2- The same child, now a teenager, is being told, "You'll change your mind when you're older." To which the teen responds, "I doubt that" Panel 3- Now an adult, someone off screen asks them, "Aren't you thinking of having kids?" To which they respond, "Nope" Panel 4- The same person, an older adult now, is being told, "better have kids soon, or it'll be too late!" to which they respond, "That's fine" Panel 5- Now elderly, they are once again asked "Don't you feel like you missed out?" to which they say, "Still nope." Panel 6- They are now in their death bed, clearly close to death. The nurse says, "Shame you didn't have kids, don't you regret it?" To which the person says "You know what just kill me already"
October 8, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Reading spread for Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Charlie Jane Anders @charliejane.bsky.social

Do yourself a favour and read this marvellous story!

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October 9, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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Reading spread for The Unquiet Grave by Dervla McTiernan

SPOILERS: Do not read this review if you want to stay spoiler free!

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October 7, 2025 at 6:20 AM