a shelf-dragon hoard

i have a hobonichi weeks mega that i use to track the discord calls between my partner and i, along with what we watch together in the month section. in the standard weeklies i track my health (i am chronically ill and disabled) and then the back pages i use as an actual planner. i do use other parts for list making but that's not really very interesting.

next is my journal, currently the a5 life pistachio (grid) notebook. the last one was a muji a5 grid notebook and i think the next one will be the kleid life a5 notebook (the one with the 2mm grid). this one has been seen a lot on this blog, its the only book i actually decorate and the writing is mostly just stream of consciousness. i actually havent written anything in here since the 10th of april because i've been too entangled with star trek...

next my pocket notebook, a lined midori a7 book (though my next one will be blank). i keep the clip of that platinum preppy in the plastic cover, held in place by the hairband, so that i can just pull the pen out of the cap and write without fumbling. i use this to scratch down things i want to return to, especially while im out of the house.

here we have my sketchbook(s), the very almost full midori md cotton notebook in the strange f0 size, and then the one i will be moving into, also midori md cotton, but the a5 square size. i pretty much exclusively draw in fountain pen, and use fountain pen ink to prepare the pages, so i figured this counts as part of my notebooks.

so now we start with the hobonichi a6/a5 books. first up of these is my copypaste book- i've been calling it that since before i came across the term commonplace, and also i think with the recent shift in how people describe a commonplace book, copypaste seems more effective shorthand to me? but essentially i directly copy things, with a few of my own thoughts in the margins. its also a record of all the pen and ink combinations i use, each one gets a double page in here. i write in my neat print writing for this one. also that's a postcard from stickii club tucked inside the clear cover

this one is dubbed "character thoughts", as it originally was for that, but it also has media alanysis from the midpoint now as well. the character thoughts part is either fanfiction or original fiction stuff, but its all just written as notes (i am not a writer!) the goal for both sections is to have a record i can look back on for my thoughts. analysis sections are sometimes broad and sweeping, like reflections after watching something, and sometimes are meticulous observations where i pause every 30 seconds or so to write something down

this one is very very recent, its kind of the same thing as the previous one, except this one is just for a specific special interest, because it was fully dominating the other book. rather than start a separate section at the mid point though, i just flip the book over. so the fanfiction type things are in the back of the book, but its upside down so i'm still writing left to right as normal.

now we're getting into swatch book territory, which doesn't really count, but at this point i might as well. this one is everything that i have - including ink samples and inks that i have tried but have let move on to someone else. its just for swatching them, not recording anything about them or how i use them. i do the swatches the same exact way with the same exact amount of ink. this is the hobonichi grid a6 with original trp,there's just a postcard on the front

then there's this one, a reference book i'm still filling out, with all the inks i have -not including samples. there's space to write out whenever i put something into a pen, and the swatches are on the edges for easy comparison.

these are two different small notebooks i bound together, from pages in other books. theyre back to back in a midori clear cover. the first is the midori cotton md paper (f0 size). since i use this paper for my sketchbooks i include how the ink reacts to water after its dry. the other is the kleid x life white paper, with a 2mm grid. i think life paper is really cool with fountain pens, and i love how the grid effects some inks but not others

so,

i did also use the irish green twsbi with sailor manyo kuri for the bottom right memo note but i felt like that didn't count

the dates and "may" are with FWP chidori cherry blossom and hampton harbour respectively.

so everything can still be found here, though there is now the additions of:

kaweco sport lunar shadow green <f> sailor yurameku amamoyoi

obviously the sketchbook is super diluted with water, but in swatches it really does look both green and pink (and brown and grey and-)

the green ink used with the stirrer and medium kakuno nib is lennon tool bar cabbage.... its quite mouldy... so no more pen use. but it turns out its still fine to use this way?

the other ink used was sailor ink studio 273, fascinatingly, it was a light taupe with barely any pink tones when used with the kakuno fine nib!