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A weekend holiday away from my work and I still cant escape these 2.

Here is most of my fountain pen collection 🖋 Can ya tell what my favorite color is?? 😱😂

From left: TWSBI Eco (M), Monteverde Monza 3 (M), Platinum Plaisir Amabie edition (F), Platinum Preppy (F), Pilot Plumix (M), and Pilot Metropolitan (F).

My favorites in order:

TWSBI Eco

The Eco is a banger 💣 it has good looks, personality, and it writes smooooth as buttah. It looks very modern but has an updated, yet old school filling mechanism which I appreciate. It's a juicy, inky pen-just the way I like 'em! It reminds me of the Pilot V7s that I have been using for YEARS (still my favorite non-fountain pen, hands down 👌🏾). I really like the piston filling mechanism vs using converters. It's definitely convenient not having to take apart the pen to fill it. It also holds a shitton more ink to boot. I'm a lazy bitch so it means that I can go longer in between fillings 😂 The M nib let's down a fat, juicy line and I'm so excited to use it with a shimmery ink ✒

I'm really obsessed with this pen model and I have decided to collect all the special edition colors that catch my eye. I already have two more Ecos on the way! Expect more in-depth reviews of the Eco soon 🤑

Platinum Plaisir

The Plaisir is such a beautiful pen that's suspiciously cheap! (I got it on sale for $17) It's actually tied for 2nd place with its even cheaper sister, the Preppy ($4) in terms of quality and bang-for-your-buck 💵 For a F nib (they have the exact same nib), they write smooth with little to no scratchiness or skips (which I appreciate) and even though I write bigger than what the nib calls for it still makes my writing look good. They also don't bleed through on cheap paper, which is mostly what I use 👌🏾

The pearlescent aluminum finish is sleek, expensive looking, and apparently scratch resistant; I appreciate the latter attribute since I'm a fucking klutz. The Platinum pens also have a special mechanism in the cap that prevents the nibs from drying out from disuse for at least a year! That's good enough reason to keep them in my rotation. The regular version has a M nib (which I prefer), so I'm going to pick it up in the future.

Platinum Preppy

The Preppy was my second fountain pen! It was the one that really made me fall in love with using them vs my rollerball/ballpoint pens! (I've talked about why that is in the Plaisir section above). It’s a cheapie, and it looks/feels like it. It stays in my pen rotation mostly because of the Violet cartridge it came with. I'm in love with the ink color! They don't make it in bottled form, sadly 😔 but I don't mind buying more violet carts for it... It's that good. The carts are also usable in the Plaisir, which is a nice bonus for me 😄 The only drawback is it only comes in either EF or F nibs, and I really prefer M to write with 😔

Pilot Metropolitan

The Metropolitan is a great pen. It's just kinda... Boring. I like the design and it writes nice and smooth, but I guess my boredom comes from the basic ass black ink in using with it. I love purple ink, but I figured I need at least one grown up ink color on hand in case I need to adult... Whenever that'll be 🤷🏾‍♀️ I do use it from time to time just to keep the ink flowing from the cart installed. I'm still debating whether to keep it my "boring ink pen" or put something more exciting in to inspire me to use it more.

Pilot Plumix

The Plumix is a pretty unique looking pen but it feels cheap. It's not a bad pen; it's just that it came with a *shudder* basic ass blue cart instead of the purple I was expecting. I'm going to turn it into an eyedropper once I get around to it, and then I'll do a more in depth review with it. I haven't used it beyond a few doodles to test and see if it worked after I installed that blasé blue cartridge.

Monteverde Monza 3

Last, but not least... The Monza is a decent pen. It came with 3 nib pieces (F, M, Omniflex) that you can install so it's like having 3 pens in one, which is definitely unique. It currently has the M nib installed ✒ It's a smooth wet writer that I actually enjoy using. My problem with the pen?

I was cheated, tricked, bamboozled.

Apparently it's just a rebranded Jinhao 992 with the additional nibs/converters thrown in and marked up 12x the price. I didn't find that out until after I got the pen and I was hunting for in depth tips and tricks 😤 Maaaan I was so upset! I literally could have bought a 6 pack of them for $12 on Amazon, and even cheaper on Alibaba or eBay! Ugh 😥 But it taught me a valuable lesson: do 👏🏾 your 👏🏾 research 👏🏾 diligently before buying a new fountain pen. I'm lucky I've had no issues with it, but the betrayal has left a bad taste in my mouth so I don't think I'll ever buy another Monteverde pen.