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I've rarely seen a more validating sentence in my entire life.

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baihujun

Another six!

neil-gaiman

In the spirit of the holidays, we have a gift for the best fans in the world: more Death & Dream.

This deleted scene from The Sandman episode "The Sound of Her Wings" gives us a little more insight into why Death is the way she is. We hope you enjoy it.

- Neil, Allan & David

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Update is up!! :)

Chapters: 6/? Fandom: Teen Titans (Animated Series), Batman - All Media Types Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Dick Grayson/Raven, Garth/Raven (DCU) Characters: Garth (DCU), Dick Grayson, Victor Stone, Cyborg - Character, Starfire, Koriand'r (DCU), Changeling, Garfield Logan, Killer Moth, Cinderblock, Raven (Teen Titans), Raven's Emoticlones (Teen Titans), Tempest (DCU), Teen Titans (DCU) Additional Tags: Slow Burn, Pining, Raven can be very clueless Summary:

Everything was going well for the Titans, they were working perfectly as a team, had become used to talking to each other with their new aliases. But now they have a visitor, and not only that, one of their team members is feeling a loss of powers whenever they fight their enemies. Nightwing is left not understanding how to help himself or his friend, especially when new feelings arise, and he catches himself not understanding them or how to work through them. Raven, on the other hand, is trying to reconcile if the crush she's had since her teenage years is finally reciprocating her feelings, or if it's all in her head.

petermorwood

Moleskines are Bad...

This post is doing the rounds again.

Everything in it remains true: Moleskine notebooks are overpriced for what they are, and even over-hyped; they’re not the original Moleskines referred to in the Bruce Chatwin (famous travel writer) anecdote which accompanies (or used to) each one. This is a typical example; here’s an extract:

Moleskine notebooks are synonymous with understated style and professionalism. They have been used by some of the greatest writers of our time, including Ernest Hemmingway and Oscar Wilde, whilst plain paper versions were popular with artists Picasso and Van Gogh.

Um. No, they weren’t.

Current Moleskines are a 1997 product which resurrected a long-defunct brand. If those Great Names used them there must have been a bit more resurrection going on, because by 1997 every single one - including Moleskine’s poster-boy Chatwin - was also defunct, most of them for quite a long time…

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There are many other elastic-closure notebooks far more fit for purpose, especially if that purpose involves a fountain pen. My own current fave is Rhodia, with a Leuchtturm next in the queue, though I bought a few Moleskines some years ago when I still used gel pens a lot (Pilot G-2s are excellent).

Despite changing almost entirely to fountain pens, I’ve been working my way through the Moleskines because TBH they were too expensive just to chuck out. But they’re restricted almost entirely to gels again, because the wretched paper is so prone to bleed-through.

Here’s an example:

Here’s the other side. Every line is visible to some extent, and a couple of them have bled through. A broader nib, wetter ink or indeed both combined would leave marks so severe that a “120 page” notebook might have just 60 useable pages, and if the bleed-through was bad enough to mark the next page as well, maybe not even that.

There are several reasons for bleed-through: nib width (obviously a Broad nib <B> lays down more ink than an Extra-Fine <EF>), ink viscosity (“wet” flows faster than “dry”) and the way nibs vary between manufacturers, because widths don’t seem to have a standardised size.

It’s obvious that my Lamy Al-Star <EF> nib writes far broader than my Pilot MR <F>. With the same ink in both, the difference wouldn’t be as conspicuous, though I suspect it would still be there; Lamy nibs skew wide while Japanese nibs skew fine. Those variables apply to all the rest as well.

So why use broad nibs and wet ink if it’s so messy?

On heavy or just well-finished paper it isn’t, and the combination is (a) pleasant to write with, since the nib skims effortlessly along a lubricant of ink and (b) broader nibs with a bit of flexibility create more obvious line variation, and that makes for graceful handwriting…

…and fountain-pens in general, due to not needing pressure, can and probably will improve the sort of scrawl ingrained by years of using ballpoints. Voice of Experience.

The primary reason for bleed-through is low-grade paper, and Moleskine has that without a doubt. They should spend less on marketing and fancy associate-with-whatever’s-trendy-now covers and more on better materials, but they don’t need to, having settled into the comfortable “Lifestyle Accessory” slot where things sell by familiarity of brand-name, not quality of product.

IMO Mont Blanc fountain pens are there too, and have been since the early 1990s. @dduane‘s MB-146 was one of the last without the various authenticity marks that happen once a thing becomes desirable enough to be worth counterfeiting - as in China, which churns out a lot of fake MBs. (China is also where Moleskines are made…)

DD’s 146 may also be one of the last meant for use rather than possession. Nowadays (IMO again) a big MB is the fountain pen To Be Seen With. The equivalent big fountain pen To Write With is a Pelikan.

Just don’t try using either of them in a Moleskine…

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And yet, rummaging through old posts, I found something which amazed me as much now as when I first saw it 8 years ago. This was done with ballpoint pen on Moleskine, and embellished with real gold.

Wow…

neil-gaiman

To add a small thing on this, the 1997 Moleskines used a thicker paper. Fountain pens worked fine back then. Several years later Moleskines dropped the thickness of the paper and they became a bit rubbish for fountain pen owners.

gothamcitizen

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jdebbiel

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 5/? Fandom: Teen Titans (Animated Series), Batman - All Media Types Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Dick Grayson/Raven, Garth/Raven (DCU) Characters: Garth (DCU), Dick Grayson, Victor Stone, Cyborg - Character, Starfire, Koriand'r (DCU), Changeling, Garfield Logan, Killer Moth, Cinderblock, Raven (Teen Titans), Raven's Emoticlones (Teen Titans), Tempest (DCU), Teen Titans (DCU) Additional Tags: Slow Burn, Pining, Raven can be very clueless Summary:

Everything was going well for the Titans, they were working perfectly as a team, had become used to talking to each other with their new aliases. But now they have a visitor, and not only that, one of their team members is feeling a loss of powers whenever they fight their enemies. Nightwing is left not understanding how to help himself or his friend, especially when new feelings arise, and he catches himself not understanding them or how to work through them. Raven, on the other hand, is trying to reconcile if the crush she's had since her teenage years is finally reciprocating her feelings, or if it's all in her head.

#robrae #dickrae #dick grayson #raven teen titans #raven roth #garfield logan #changeling #starfire #koriand'r #teen titans #slow burn #pining #cyborg #victor stone #ao3 update #ao3

makaylajade-author

Being a writer is just 97% googling words to make sure they mean exactly what you always assumed they meant.

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 4/? Fandom: Teen Titans (Animated Series), Batman - All Media Types Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Dick Grayson/Raven, Garth/Raven (DCU) Characters: Garth (DCU), Dick Grayson, Victor Stone, Cyborg - Character, Starfire, Koriand'r (DCU), Changeling, Garfield Logan, Killer Moth, Cinderblock, Raven (Teen Titans), Raven's Emoticlones (Teen Titans), Tempest (DCU), Teen Titans (DCU) Additional Tags: Slow Burn, Love Triangles, Pining, Raven can be very clueless Summary:

Everything was going well for the Titans, they were working perfectly as a team, had become used to talking to each other with their new aliases. But now they have a visitor, and not only that, one of their team members is feeling a loss of powers whenever they fight their enemies. Nightwing is left not understanding how to help himself or his friend, especially when new feelings arise, and he catches himself not understanding them or how to work through them. Raven, on the other hand, is trying to reconcile if the crush she's had since her teenage years is finally reciprocating her feelings, or if it's all in her head.

#robrae #garthrae #raven teen titans #raven roth #dickrae #dick grayson #garth #tempest dcu #killer moth #slow burn #love triangle #victor stone #starfire #koriand'r #garfield logan #changeling #emoticlones

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Neurotypical writers giving advice: Be realistic with your goals. Try to outline or write a little every day. Refill the well. Get yourself a cup of tea and write for 30 minutes until the tea is empty. Check in daily with your accountability buddies for the next three to six months.

ADHD writers giving advice: Put on a movie that matches the tone of your novel to kickstart your dopamine and get into hyperfocus, then put a song on loop on noise-cancelling headphones, livestream your writing session so you feel watched and owe someone accountability, and write as much as you can for as long as you can. Don't forget to eat, sleep or drink. Now go write that novel in 5 days.