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I saw someone's post on the fountain pen subreddit about removing a bottle of ink from their shopping cart, because they calculated their ink would take 33 years to use up.

I have always thought that I already have a lifetime supply of ink as well. I keep thinking of this fact, but also I want new shiny exciting ink colour. Now that winter is over, ink won't freeze in transit, if I really want to, it's time to order.

But let me see how much ink I have in my possession:

Sailor Jentle Yamadori - 30 ml Quink blue black - 25 ml Monteverde purple mist - 15 ml Monteverde rose pink - 29 ml SketchINK Emma - 58 ml J. Herbin 1670 Stormy grey - 45 ml J. Herbin 1670 Chivor Emerald - 49 ml J. Herbin 1670 Hematite red - 49 ml Noodler's raven black - 85 ml

Total 385 ML

I have read that my pilot convertor holds 0.7 ml of ink, and I refill about once per week, so that will take 551 weeks or 10 and a half years to use up. That is more than enough ink for me to use over a lifetime.

It was a mistake that I basically bought the 3 bottles of J. Herbin at once (with those mass drop discounts back in the days) and then I realized that I didn't have pens to use them. I didn't have any non-fine pen at the time. I still only have one medium TWSBI ECO to use that shimmer ink right now and due to laziness, I am only ever using stormy grey in it. If I use a bolder pen, I can probably speed up the timeline a bit. Just a bit. My main pen is Pilor Prera Fine and currently trying to use up yamadori. I even started a tally of how many refills will it take until I empty the bottle. The 30 ml above is most definitely an estimate.

I would really like to get more ink colours. Like what if I buy these nice Diamine colours. I should indefinitely put it off.

I did not even count the other non fountain pen inks that I have. So much drawing is done digitally these days, I end up hoarding these supplies forever, but the lust for new things is also forever.

I can't seem to do anything productive today because of pms, so I looked at my bookshelf to see what can I get rid of. I started pulling out some zines and comics from people that I don't remember. I bought a lot from every comic or zine show that I tabled at. Maybe some of them were trades. I am giving myself permission to just recycle those. I actually had a few that was something like maybe I could donate to a zine library? And then I couldn't find out if the central library takes donation despite the fact that they do have a zine section dedicated to indie comics. I wondered if anyone would actually want them if I give them away online?

But that takes effort.

If there is anything, I found out that if I were to do anything, I just do it without having to talk about it online. This is a blog and I'm not asking anyone to give me suggestions like on xitter or anything. People like to suggest that you may never just recycle any books. It seems like there are unspoken rules on books that somehow books are never allowed to be thrown away because they are sacred text or something. But let's be real, some books ain't worth it. I have already dismantled these zines, taken the staples out and the pages into the recycling box. There is no going back, don't tell me that I must donate or send them to people that wants them.

I remember one very silly idea. I was trying to field for leads like possibly a business that would take massive amounts of books for cheap to redistribute it in a sort of system. I almost wanted to see if there were those monthly blind boxes that send people things (usually themed in art supplies, stationery, or Japanese snacks. Consumable things.) I hoped that maybe someone out there knows what companies do that, but someone suggested that I put them in those little library at the corners of the road. I guess it was my fault that I did not state that the 500 books were in fact, identical, or that it contains things that kids shouldn't see. I will not mention where these books went.

Other time, I was just thinking maybe I should just sell off some rather popular books. Another mistake. I got a long reply that I am going to regret. Years have passed since then, I still have the books out of laziness.

Getting rid of books shouldn't be so taboo. I have the proper tool such as a stack cutter. Chop off the book spines and off to the recycling box they go.

Let me take the path of least effort because there are too many books.

I was just playing with the website builder on my webhost and I meant to save draft but I ended up clicked publish instead, so my original site is gone. It's ok, it was just a placeholder page.

I can try and maintain a blog just for myself. There are a few art topics that I can write about, one of them is 買ってよかったもの which is like things I'm glad that I bought. I often see this tag on twitter and I certainly have a few art tools that I'm very happy about and I would love to talk about it.

Social media is weird, and I don't want to talk on it too much. Bluesky has usability issues, if I even mention some popular words, complete strangers (or actually bots) would come at me. It makes the whole experience very unpleasant, so I mostly just post art. In a way twitter is actually much more pleasant because most muricans have left and the ones who remain are very fandom people who aren't causing the specific kind of distress that I want to see online. So. ¯_ (ツ)_/¯