TG_Esq
@tgesq.bsky.social
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Hats | fountain pens | metal | walkable cities
Everything here in a private capacity.
Hats | fountain pens | metal | walkable cities
Everything here in a private capacity.
My YouTube algorithm is so well trained to offer me metal music, notebooks and fountain pens, that I'm reluctant to watch much else in case I corrupt it. 🤘 📓 ✒️
August 31, 2025 at 1:59 AM
My YouTube algorithm is so well trained to offer me metal music, notebooks and fountain pens, that I'm reluctant to watch much else in case I corrupt it. 🤘 📓 ✒️
Counterpoint: small fleet of workhorse fountain pens continues to bring pleasure.
New Pen Brings Fleeting Moment Of Satisfaction To Local Man https://theonion.com/new-pen-brings-fleeting-moment-of-satisfaction-to-local-1819564821/
August 31, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Counterpoint: small fleet of workhorse fountain pens continues to bring pleasure.
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Not a story I tell very often, but my first contact with French poetry, which I now study for a living, happened through Black Sabbath. I had just turned 15, it was the year before the last at school. I skipped a few days and when I came back the literature teacher said I had missed an assignment...
July 6, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Not a story I tell very often, but my first contact with French poetry, which I now study for a living, happened through Black Sabbath. I had just turned 15, it was the year before the last at school. I skipped a few days and when I came back the literature teacher said I had missed an assignment...
Me. And me now.
That line is devastating, four simple words encapsulating - or suggesting - so much, in a novel filled with Bloom's thoughts about identity, time, memory, what he had aspired to be, what we see that day that he had become.
Happy Bloomsday.
#Bloomsday #Bloomsday2025 #JamesJoyce
That line is devastating, four simple words encapsulating - or suggesting - so much, in a novel filled with Bloom's thoughts about identity, time, memory, what he had aspired to be, what we see that day that he had become.
Happy Bloomsday.
#Bloomsday #Bloomsday2025 #JamesJoyce
June 16, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Me. And me now.
That line is devastating, four simple words encapsulating - or suggesting - so much, in a novel filled with Bloom's thoughts about identity, time, memory, what he had aspired to be, what we see that day that he had become.
Happy Bloomsday.
#Bloomsday #Bloomsday2025 #JamesJoyce
That line is devastating, four simple words encapsulating - or suggesting - so much, in a novel filled with Bloom's thoughts about identity, time, memory, what he had aspired to be, what we see that day that he had become.
Happy Bloomsday.
#Bloomsday #Bloomsday2025 #JamesJoyce
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Just getting out your copy of Ulysses today may be enough to make you think you might start on June 1st....
May 17, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Just getting out your copy of Ulysses today may be enough to make you think you might start on June 1st....
Explain yourself with 5 hobbies:
- walking
- ancient Greek
- fountain pens
- metal music
- urban photography
- walking
- ancient Greek
- fountain pens
- metal music
- urban photography
March 24, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Explain yourself with 5 hobbies:
- walking
- ancient Greek
- fountain pens
- metal music
- urban photography
- walking
- ancient Greek
- fountain pens
- metal music
- urban photography
The fountain pen feed is, ah, interesting when a certain segment of the drawing community drops in.
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March 17, 2025 at 5:00 AM
The fountain pen feed is, ah, interesting when a certain segment of the drawing community drops in.
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@alche-mistress.bsky.social
I saw your post on the FP Australia group on Facebook. I'd love it if you could add me to the starter pack you've set up. (Fountain pen chat makes up most of my interactions here.)
Also thank you for creating the starter pack.
I saw your post on the FP Australia group on Facebook. I'd love it if you could add me to the starter pack you've set up. (Fountain pen chat makes up most of my interactions here.)
Also thank you for creating the starter pack.
March 16, 2025 at 11:52 AM
@alche-mistress.bsky.social
I saw your post on the FP Australia group on Facebook. I'd love it if you could add me to the starter pack you've set up. (Fountain pen chat makes up most of my interactions here.)
Also thank you for creating the starter pack.
I saw your post on the FP Australia group on Facebook. I'd love it if you could add me to the starter pack you've set up. (Fountain pen chat makes up most of my interactions here.)
Also thank you for creating the starter pack.
Setting up my Lochby Field Journal, and I've decided to name one notebook my Compost Heap.
Where I can throw things, make a mess, write with whatever fountain pen / ink I have in my hand, mix things up and let them lie for a time - I hope to create something rich and aromatic over time.
Where I can throw things, make a mess, write with whatever fountain pen / ink I have in my hand, mix things up and let them lie for a time - I hope to create something rich and aromatic over time.
February 27, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Setting up my Lochby Field Journal, and I've decided to name one notebook my Compost Heap.
Where I can throw things, make a mess, write with whatever fountain pen / ink I have in my hand, mix things up and let them lie for a time - I hope to create something rich and aromatic over time.
Where I can throw things, make a mess, write with whatever fountain pen / ink I have in my hand, mix things up and let them lie for a time - I hope to create something rich and aromatic over time.
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I've spend an unreasonable amount of time trying to find the *perfect* green ink. Here's a blog post about that journey, and some of my favorite green pens and green fountain pen inks. asterisms.lol/posts/i-spen...
I spend way too much time thinking about green ink - asterisms
This is a repost from an article I wrote in July, 2021 for my friend Johnny’s print zine — reposting it here for posterity and archival.
While I've become a pretty solid graphite guy in my every day w...
asterisms.lol
February 27, 2025 at 1:52 AM
I've spend an unreasonable amount of time trying to find the *perfect* green ink. Here's a blog post about that journey, and some of my favorite green pens and green fountain pen inks. asterisms.lol/posts/i-spen...
I was excited to order a Lochby Field Journal, but I'm not thrilled by the finish on the product straight out of the package.
Maybe I need to loosen up and take it hiking and camping to develop its rugged patina, but for now I'm not sure.
Looks and feel cheap, although it wasn't at all.
#Lochby
Maybe I need to loosen up and take it hiking and camping to develop its rugged patina, but for now I'm not sure.
Looks and feel cheap, although it wasn't at all.
#Lochby
February 24, 2025 at 11:34 AM
I was excited to order a Lochby Field Journal, but I'm not thrilled by the finish on the product straight out of the package.
Maybe I need to loosen up and take it hiking and camping to develop its rugged patina, but for now I'm not sure.
Looks and feel cheap, although it wasn't at all.
#Lochby
Maybe I need to loosen up and take it hiking and camping to develop its rugged patina, but for now I'm not sure.
Looks and feel cheap, although it wasn't at all.
#Lochby
A cry into the void about Lamy's terrible M63 refills. I use my two Lamy fountain pens every day. But every M63 rollerball refill I've bought was absolute garbage. I've bought about 10, and each one scratches or drops out.
I know the hacks to use other brands of refill. But why doesn't Lamy fix it?
I know the hacks to use other brands of refill. But why doesn't Lamy fix it?
February 20, 2025 at 7:17 AM
A cry into the void about Lamy's terrible M63 refills. I use my two Lamy fountain pens every day. But every M63 rollerball refill I've bought was absolute garbage. I've bought about 10, and each one scratches or drops out.
I know the hacks to use other brands of refill. But why doesn't Lamy fix it?
I know the hacks to use other brands of refill. But why doesn't Lamy fix it?
Metalheads and metal fans, there's a great metal community at Metalhead.club on the Fediverse (AKA Mastodon).
A great community of fans - and a growing number of bands - brought together by the music and bands we love.
More info and directions for signing up:
metalhead.club/home
#music #metal
A great community of fans - and a growing number of bands - brought together by the music and bands we love.
More info and directions for signing up:
metalhead.club/home
#music #metal
Metalhead.club
Metalhead.club is a Mastodon instance hosted in Germany and powered by 100% green energy.
Metalhead.club
January 26, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Metalheads and metal fans, there's a great metal community at Metalhead.club on the Fediverse (AKA Mastodon).
A great community of fans - and a growing number of bands - brought together by the music and bands we love.
More info and directions for signing up:
metalhead.club/home
#music #metal
A great community of fans - and a growing number of bands - brought together by the music and bands we love.
More info and directions for signing up:
metalhead.club/home
#music #metal
Someone with a sense of humour writing the Jet Pens gel pen guide. On retractable pens:
"They also don’t have any loose parts for you to lose, and the clicker gives you something to entertain yourself and annoy your neighbors with when you get bored."
www.jetpens.com/blog/The-Bes...
#stationery
"They also don’t have any loose parts for you to lose, and the clicker gives you something to entertain yourself and annoy your neighbors with when you get bored."
www.jetpens.com/blog/The-Bes...
#stationery
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January 11, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Someone with a sense of humour writing the Jet Pens gel pen guide. On retractable pens:
"They also don’t have any loose parts for you to lose, and the clicker gives you something to entertain yourself and annoy your neighbors with when you get bored."
www.jetpens.com/blog/The-Bes...
#stationery
"They also don’t have any loose parts for you to lose, and the clicker gives you something to entertain yourself and annoy your neighbors with when you get bored."
www.jetpens.com/blog/The-Bes...
#stationery
The plastic lid of my Iroshizuku ink bottle has been cracked. (Coincidentally, it happened while I was applying some mechanical force to a lid that didn't want to budge.)
Can anyone recommend a brand or type of ink bottle in which to decant my remaining Kon-Peki ink before it evaporates? ✒️ 💧
Can anyone recommend a brand or type of ink bottle in which to decant my remaining Kon-Peki ink before it evaporates? ✒️ 💧
January 6, 2025 at 11:28 AM
The plastic lid of my Iroshizuku ink bottle has been cracked. (Coincidentally, it happened while I was applying some mechanical force to a lid that didn't want to budge.)
Can anyone recommend a brand or type of ink bottle in which to decant my remaining Kon-Peki ink before it evaporates? ✒️ 💧
Can anyone recommend a brand or type of ink bottle in which to decant my remaining Kon-Peki ink before it evaporates? ✒️ 💧
A lot of people love EF nibs on their fountain pens. I find my F nibs only work with particular papers, so I'm wary about trying an EF.
What do you love about your EFs?
Are they more fussy to pair with the *right* paper?
Are they ever too scratchy?
Is there a brand you'd recommend for a first step?
What do you love about your EFs?
Are they more fussy to pair with the *right* paper?
Are they ever too scratchy?
Is there a brand you'd recommend for a first step?
December 3, 2024 at 9:30 AM
A lot of people love EF nibs on their fountain pens. I find my F nibs only work with particular papers, so I'm wary about trying an EF.
What do you love about your EFs?
Are they more fussy to pair with the *right* paper?
Are they ever too scratchy?
Is there a brand you'd recommend for a first step?
What do you love about your EFs?
Are they more fussy to pair with the *right* paper?
Are they ever too scratchy?
Is there a brand you'd recommend for a first step?
Fascinating that some of the AusPol types who have just arrived here from The Bad Place in the last week or two (or just started actively posting), sounding as if that place suddenly got too bad to bear. As if it wasn't clear two years ago where it was heading.
November 15, 2024 at 11:46 AM
Fascinating that some of the AusPol types who have just arrived here from The Bad Place in the last week or two (or just started actively posting), sounding as if that place suddenly got too bad to bear. As if it wasn't clear two years ago where it was heading.
I love my Lamy AL-Star fountain pens, and I write with them every day, but I've never seen an email from a stationary supplier that was easier to delete than this one.
November 7, 2024 at 12:11 AM
I love my Lamy AL-Star fountain pens, and I write with them every day, but I've never seen an email from a stationary supplier that was easier to delete than this one.
* Taps on the picture and enlarges the pens for a closer look. "What do I recognise? Which ones do I have? Any of my favourites?" *
--> Every person on the fountain pen feed, probably.
--> Every person on the fountain pen feed, probably.
October 12, 2024 at 2:47 AM
* Taps on the picture and enlarges the pens for a closer look. "What do I recognise? Which ones do I have? Any of my favourites?" *
--> Every person on the fountain pen feed, probably.
--> Every person on the fountain pen feed, probably.
Seeing all the pictures from the Pelikan Hub events around the world prompted me to look up their fountain pens on our local pen shop's website. All expensive, for me at least.
Are there any affordable workhorse Pelikans that people would recommend?
Also, what's the appeal with Pelikan in general?
Are there any affordable workhorse Pelikans that people would recommend?
Also, what's the appeal with Pelikan in general?
September 29, 2024 at 7:55 AM
Seeing all the pictures from the Pelikan Hub events around the world prompted me to look up their fountain pens on our local pen shop's website. All expensive, for me at least.
Are there any affordable workhorse Pelikans that people would recommend?
Also, what's the appeal with Pelikan in general?
Are there any affordable workhorse Pelikans that people would recommend?
Also, what's the appeal with Pelikan in general?
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All the ads I keep getting for "distraction free writing tools" kind of make me laugh. I like my gadgets, but when it comes to writing simpler is better.
September 25, 2024 at 12:42 PM
All the ads I keep getting for "distraction free writing tools" kind of make me laugh. I like my gadgets, but when it comes to writing simpler is better.
1) Fountain pens
2) Heavy metal
3) Walking
2) Heavy metal
3) Walking
This post accidentally provoked a kind of cool thing. Let's keep it rolling! Tell me about things you like! I will start:
1) Chinese Food
2) 80s and 90s dancehall reggae
3) Leeds United Football Club
1) Chinese Food
2) 80s and 90s dancehall reggae
3) Leeds United Football Club
We've really gotta normalize talking about things we like as much as what we don't
August 29, 2024 at 9:41 AM
1) Fountain pens
2) Heavy metal
3) Walking
2) Heavy metal
3) Walking
Questions for FPSky.
Santa's Helper has suggested buying me a Monteverde Innovo blue fountain pen for Christmas, but I've read some bad things about them. End breaking off, cap stuck, uneven feed etc.
If you have one, what do you think about it?
What do you like / dislike?
Would you recommend one?
Santa's Helper has suggested buying me a Monteverde Innovo blue fountain pen for Christmas, but I've read some bad things about them. End breaking off, cap stuck, uneven feed etc.
If you have one, what do you think about it?
What do you like / dislike?
Would you recommend one?
August 20, 2024 at 10:26 AM
Questions for FPSky.
Santa's Helper has suggested buying me a Monteverde Innovo blue fountain pen for Christmas, but I've read some bad things about them. End breaking off, cap stuck, uneven feed etc.
If you have one, what do you think about it?
What do you like / dislike?
Would you recommend one?
Santa's Helper has suggested buying me a Monteverde Innovo blue fountain pen for Christmas, but I've read some bad things about them. End breaking off, cap stuck, uneven feed etc.
If you have one, what do you think about it?
What do you like / dislike?
Would you recommend one?
Happy Bloomsday to those who celebrate.
"She was no more: the trembling skeleton of a twig burnt in the fire, an odour of rosewood and wetted ashes. She had saved him from being trampled underfoot and had gone, scarcely having been."
#JamesJoyce #Ulysses
"She was no more: the trembling skeleton of a twig burnt in the fire, an odour of rosewood and wetted ashes. She had saved him from being trampled underfoot and had gone, scarcely having been."
#JamesJoyce #Ulysses
June 16, 2024 at 6:44 AM
Happy Bloomsday to those who celebrate.
"She was no more: the trembling skeleton of a twig burnt in the fire, an odour of rosewood and wetted ashes. She had saved him from being trampled underfoot and had gone, scarcely having been."
#JamesJoyce #Ulysses
"She was no more: the trembling skeleton of a twig burnt in the fire, an odour of rosewood and wetted ashes. She had saved him from being trampled underfoot and had gone, scarcely having been."
#JamesJoyce #Ulysses
You know when you make a cup of tea, and you think you've made it exactly the same as any other cup of tea, and you sip it and you think to yourself: "Wow, this is the finest cup of tea that I've had in a *long* time."?
Well, this morning was one of those mornings.
#TinyJoys
Well, this morning was one of those mornings.
#TinyJoys
March 17, 2024 at 10:45 PM
You know when you make a cup of tea, and you think you've made it exactly the same as any other cup of tea, and you sip it and you think to yourself: "Wow, this is the finest cup of tea that I've had in a *long* time."?
Well, this morning was one of those mornings.
#TinyJoys
Well, this morning was one of those mornings.
#TinyJoys