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Given that I mentioned my Jinhao shark pen, I figured I should post a picture!

Here's the hooded nib! It's supposed to prevent the ink from drying out in the nib so quickly, as well as preventing inky fingers!

The quality control for the brand, particularly the cheaper pens, can be a little iffy, but most of these pens I've had have written really well. Takes international cartridges but comes with a converter for use with bottled ink. It's also really cute!

Ngl i prefer the 2016 version purple on the right.

Aside from Diamine Writer's Blood, are there any other inks you would recommend for the more financially-challenged among us?

(I'm still researching this myself but I don't want to buy one the inks meant for dip pens that'll clog up the whole mechanism of my pen.) OH AND ALSO! What kind of fountain pen do you use?

Oh man I am very financially challenged, I feel you. I've just found that it's honestly so much cheaper for me personally to buy a bottle of ink once a year than to buy all of the disposable pens I needed before. Writer's Blood is a gorgeous one, and the reason I like it so much is that it's a very "wet" ink. It flows really well in even the cheapest pens, whiiiiich are what I use. Well, there are probably cheaper, but it's not bad. I got a Jinhao x450 like... four years ago, maybe? Maybe five now? And it's still going strong. I kind of like my Jinhao 82 more, just because it's so damn pretty and writes a little better, but they were still both super cheap, less than ten dollars each with shipping factored in. Maybe I just got lucky with a few really good cheap pens, but I love them. They both wrote nicely when I got them, but I ended up deciding to loosen the tines on the 82, and eventually put a new nib entirely into the x450 because while I liked the old one, I didn't love it. I kind of love that pens can be customized like that though. BUT! Jfc I am rambly today, I'm sorry.

Another really wet ink I like, and that I will probably get once my Writer's Blood runs out, is Platinum Carbon Black. It writes like an absolute dream--but a word of warning, it is hard to clean entirely out of a pen, as it basically leaves soot behind. That being said, I am a terrible pen owner and never clean in between inkings until I switch to a new kind of ink, so I'll go an entire year using just one color. PCB is usually about $12-$14 on Amazon, and I think I got Writer's Blood for like $9 on there? But it was on sale. I ALMOST FORGOT: Writer's Blood is NOT water resistant. If your notebook gets wet, you may lose everything. PCB is almost waterproof.

There are much cheaper inks you can get. I tried the Pelikan 4001 series and used each bottle up, but will never get them again. They're way too dry for me, but if you like dry inks or have a firehose of a pen, they can be fantastic. They also worked really well on crappy paper, but I felt like the flow was just... bad. Personal preference though! If you already have a pen though and can swing it, just try a handful of inks. You can get ink samples from pen retailers (although that's not super cheap lbr), or if there's a pen club near you, there will almost always be someone happy to give you samples of whatever inks they have. Finding the right ink for your pen can make all the difference in how useful the pen is for you, how long the ink lasts, all of that.

WOW I am sorry this has been way too much rambling about pens for a blog about gay demon shenanigans! Thank you for not disowning me!