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Gabi Emerson
@hyperestis.bsky.social
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Darkwave musician, singer, fountain pen enthusiast. In PDX, USA. An august personage of goodly demeanor and noble bearing. Sexy. She/her/hers
If you follow, consider listening to my music:
https://hyperestis.sbmt.to/
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"the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" handwritten two ways. "Which do you prefer?" 1. Getty-Dubay Cursive Italic 2. American Standard Cursive. (Roughly). This is in brown ink on lined paper with the brightness turned up.
November 11, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Fringe paper with yama guri from a fine steel nib. There is very little show-through.
Photo of lined paper upon which is handwritten the words fringe, minimum, some angular scribbles, and some figures 8
November 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Here is a Laban 325 fountain pen in the Cambridge color variation. It's a new favorite.
Atop a notebook open to a lined page is the book Glastonbury, Isle of Avalon by George Winfield, which has a woodcut print of King Arthur's Tomb on the cover. Beside it is a pen sleeve of fabric with a William Morris floral print. Atop the book is an uncapped ivory colored pen with black section and end cap and gold rings at the section, end cap, and double bends on the end of the cap and a large ring at the cap opening. There is a gold plated steel nib.
November 7, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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A green Delta Unica. I feel like this was an Anderson Pens exclusive resin but I am probably wrong.

#fountainpen
A steel Delta nib. It has DELTA in all caps with a pattern of small circles. The metal is somewhat matte. The photo is taken near a cafe window. A capped Delta Unica pen on a wooden windowsill. It has a clip with a little rolling ball at the entrance to ease it into pockets. The color of the resin is something like moss.
November 2, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Aaaaaaawwwwwwwweeeeeeeennnnnnn.
The Atari electronics company logo with 1 line and 2 curves, reminiscent of the druidic Awen symbol. The logo is sub-captioned with the URL www.atari.com.
September 12, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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I don't have words. Here's a fountain pen.
A slate pilot prera on a blue letter pad that says www.paperforfountainpens.com . A sticker with trans flag colors in a heart reads "You are loved".
September 11, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Moon Man / Majohn A1 retractable fountain pen. This is a nice Halloween pen in the right light but is more yellow than orange. I have a Pilot VP and two A1s, and like them all. Comfortable for my tripod grasp.

#fountainpen
A moonman a1 fountain pen, with a retractable nib, in yellow with black trim and button, on a leather chair arm near a wooden chair on a checkered floor in a cafe.
September 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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The Lamy Nexx is a light and comfortable fountain pen, that is, if you use a tripod grasp. The rubberized section is good for those with a writer's callus.

I was reluctant to ink it and may sell my Lamys in light of their Harry Potter line.
A silver plastic Lamy Nexx fountain pen on a blank cream colored page. It has a black cap with a silver plastic clip with a square sautoir hole. A silver plastic Lamy Nexx fountain pen on a blank cream colored page. It has a black cap with a silver plastic clip with a square sautoir hole. Uncapped revealing a standard Lamy steel nib. The silver plastic cap of a Lamy Nexx showing the logo clip with square sautoir hole.
August 27, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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I don't want to alarm anyone but I realized I have never seen a photo of Stephen Miller and Russian space alien singer Vitas in the same room.

Probably nothing.
A photo of Russian counter tenor Vitas in space alien helmet and turtleneck to hide his gills. A picture of someone calling himself "Stephen Miller" in a brown suit against blurred foliage
August 26, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Dollar General pens and journal. Not bad really.
Two packaged pens and one unpackaged pictured with a journal that reads escape the ordinary on the cover. The packaged pens are blue with flowers and red with flowers and come with two refills. The packaged say Journaling by Jot Calligraphy Pen 0.5mm tip black $1.25 UPC code and info from the back of a journal. Notebook 401376 2502. Distributed by Greenbrier International, Inc. 500 Volvo Parkway Chesapeake VA 23320 Made in India Pen and journal page on wooden table. Cursive in the journal says escape the ordinary minimum the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Reverse of the page with writing showing slight to moderate show through.
August 24, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Black cap and endcap from a donor pen on an orange TWSBI Vac 700 body.
August 24, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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More Halloween pen energy. The pen isn't scary. The price tag of the pen it is inspired by is terrifying.
Orange bodied fountain pen with black cap and finial, gold plated scalloped cap band. Orange text on lined paper reads "Give me some more of those warm little beasts I'm so fond of. Majohn #139 #8 nib. Dominant Industry "Earl Grey Tea" Orange and black fountain pen with large gold plated non with a sun motif. Cap is standing next to it. All on a slate colored gridded pencil board.
August 24, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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I feel like solving a murder on a steamship.
August 24, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Broke out this orange and black Jinhao for Halloween
I know, it's August. It's how we roll in PDX.

#fountainpens
Orange acrylic fountain pen with gold plated hardware and black end caps. On a black plate with two bagels and a napkin on a speckled white cafe table.
August 18, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Dollar Store Jot "Calligraphy" pens. With a (very) rigid 0.5mm nib thr calligraphy part is on you, but it actually is a smooth pen.

It took a lot of force to attach the cartridge, more than someone may be comfortable with.

Now the field is level. Write your hearts out.
Picture of a blue plastic fountain pen with a white section and chrome nib and safari style clip with a Japanese scallop or wave "seigaiha" pattern. It is on a pad of paper upon which is written The Jot "Calligraphy Pen" $1.25 Works ok once you force the cartridge onto the nib unit. Jot. Smooth. Very, very rigid.
August 14, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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A Faber-Castell Essentio, a mirror compact, and William Carlos Williams.

#fountainpens
A black pen, uncapped on the open recto page of a journal, leaned against a gold colored compact with embedded flowers, and the page depicts William Carlos Williams poem "the red wheelbarrow".
August 6, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Bringing back the cult of Cybele seems like a reasonable solution.

If they are going to hate us let's at least form an elite priestess caste.

I've paid the price of admission, initiate me.
A statue of the great mother Cybele.
August 4, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Sometimes a daily tarot is just too frequent to be helpful. I then might pull from Kipper, Lenormand, or watch clouds.

Today's Kipper shows an apt pairing. Get out of this situation. But when? Next holiday, maybe.
Two Kipper cards, on showing 29, Imprisonment, with a hand reaching out of a jail cell. The other is 17, Gift, showing 2 hands holding out a nicely wrapped gift.
August 2, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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One of these is a Montblanc 146. It's actually the worst of the three because it leaks into the cap. Grr. Also pictured, Moon Man p136, Wing Sung 629.
July 30, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Rewatching Flash Gordon (2007) because Gina Holden.
Gina Holden as Dale Arden with Eric Johnson as Flash Gordon, in a field posing for a publicity photo for Flash Gordon Syfy series.
July 25, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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My Wing Sung 601 has accidental subtle line variation, especially when slightly dry. Pleasant mistakes.
A page in a notebook with cursive rendering of a poem, beside part of a hooded fountain pen. "First Fig My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends-It gives a lovely light! -Edna St. Vincent Millay
July 25, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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The Dia 2 has kept my attention longer than I expected. Not a huge fan of the Sport, but I like some of the Students. This one is just a good solid hard worker with vintage looks.
A modern black and gold trim fountain pen with knurled cap finial, balanced on a blue drip glaze cup of coffee.
July 16, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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New card to promote my music (link in bio).
On a Komplete midi controller there is a portable Positive Grid guitar amp and the front and back of a business card. The front is a woman's face from the brows to her nostrils. Overlaid is "hyperestis" in red and the text "darkwave - Spotify Bandcamp apple music ..."
July 13, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Last day of the PNW pen show. I got this nice acrylic fountain pen turned by Roger Moore of Portland, OR. So many lovely chats. Tough choices. It was difficult not to buy another from Mike Green of Delano, MN.
A swirly capped pen in acrylic with chiefly pink and gold colors, resting on a patterned metal disk with a bird figurine, near a Rickshaw pen sleeve, resting in a windowsill overlooking a bit of blurry backyard.
July 13, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Next to an m800 for size.
July 12, 2025 at 6:50 PM