and another thing about rasfc

[julesjones]

[Note: this post will not make sense to about 3/4 of you. Don't worry about it.]

One of the other things I miss about rasfc-as-was? The pen porn. Can't remember the last time I saw a good stationery fetish post...

This thought brought to you by a stationery fetish post just seen on rasfc-the-LJ-filter.

Comments

[brooksmoses]

That reminds me of this April 1 post by a friend of mine, to her mom about her lost pens. It reminds me, because both rosefox and her mom both have the same opinion that I do about the Pilot V-Ball pens being the Right Pens.

Luckily, Village Stationer still carries them (and will gladly order boxes for me, and call me when I forget to go in and pick them up), even if Staples and Office Depot have moved on to the newer shinier doodads.

[julesjones]

For a brief period after I started at $NEW_JOB, the pens in the stationery cupboard were V-Balls. And there was much lamentation when they were taken away again, and the Keeper of The Stationery Cupboard had to explain that they had been a temporary measure to tide us over while the cheap-n-nasty biros had been out of stock at the wholesaler's. They were much too expensive for the Civil Service under normal circumstances, even if they were ever so much more comfortable to use...

[annafdd.livejournal.com]

My friend Paolo was in charge of stationery acquisition at my office. He told me that we went through 200 pens a week. TWO HUNDRED.

Granted, we did lots of things with a pen and there were two penpots next to the shift leaders' terminals for the bankers to grab, and they often went away with them, but still. TWO HUNDRED. A WEEK.

I was pleased with this arrangement because both Paolo and me are fan of the Bic Orange, which everybody else loathed. They are still sold in bulk, but it's hard to find them at stationery shops.

[tiggerbrasilf.livejournal.com]

Not 100% sure what this is about but mmm stationery porn... You know officepornfic made me giggle every day I went to work for a while...

[julesjones]

You know how Top Gear is basically car porn?

Well, imagine what a bunch of writers are like when discussing a really good stationery shop or a specialist pen shop with the Shiny fountain pens we can't really afford...

[tiggerbrasilf.livejournal.com]

Oh yes (: Slightly disturbing but then again everyone has different tasted (:

See now when I'm ordering stationery at work I'm going to be thinking dirty things... Its bad enough that the people I work with think I'm a little overly friendly with the contents of the stationery cupboard (:

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

I think the fun stuff just dried up because everyone was so exhausted from all the arguing. :(

[julesjones]

Or got fed up with wading through the arguing in an attempt to find the good stuff.

[zeborah]

Your kink is not my kink but any decent writers' group should totally tolerate your kink.

[julesjones]

:-)

[annafdd.livejournal.com]

I have recently started using my fountain pens again, and have therefore plunged into pen porn.

I have also misplaced by Pelikan Souveran. I hope it's misplaced and not lost, but I am getting an increasing lump in my throat. No way I can replace it at my current financial level. Still, both the Parker 51 and the Sheaffer Intrigue are acquainting themselves very well, I have to say.

[julesjones]

Yes, this post was all your fault in the first place. :-)

I tend to go with fairly cheap pens anyway, but I'm rather peeved that I can't find my Parker Vector calligraphy set. It's not as if it would cost me a fortune to replace it, but I *know* that it will turn up about two days after I go and buy a new one.

[green-knight.livejournal.com]

You can never have too many calligraphy pens...

[julesjones]

You enabler, you.

Though admittedly, back when I used it moderately often, I was thinking that it would be nice to have another set so that I could keep one loaded with black ink and another with blue...

[green-knight.livejournal.com]

I was thinking more of a more exotic colour = dak green, red, turquoise - but yes, that is basically what I had in mind...

[julesjones]

It's getting harder to get the more exotic colours in cartridge, although the Nailed Barnacle did send me a pack of red cartridges to keep me going when I was in California and having trouble sourcing anything at all.

I never did much calligraphy as such with it -- but I did use it for occasions when I wanted it to be obvious that yes, a fountain pen had been used. :-)

[hairmonger.livejournal.com]

I miss the pen porn even though I don't like using pens! (Why is there so little keyboard porn? After all, they're just as tactile!)

Mary Anne in Kentucky

[julesjones]

If you want keyboard porn, there's always my review of my ergonomic keyboard, although the porn element in that was deliberately toned down quite a lot.

[hairmonger.livejournal.com]

;-) I was remembering that.

Mary Anne in Kentucky

[green-knight.livejournal.com]

I love the idea of pens more than the actual using of pens, these days, but a good calligraphy pen is a wonderful thing.

I have to admit that I've switched most of my writing to gel pens, which are wonderfully easy in maintenance and reasonably cheap if you buy them in multipacks. They've just worked out better than fountain pens.