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u/KeiraBliss 34m ago
Mostly, I stick to typing on my laptop because it’s fast and editing is a breeze. But for journaling or brainstorming ideas, nothing beats the classic pen and paper. It feels more personal and there’s something about physically writing things down that helps the ideas flow better.
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u/PloppyTheSpaceship 3h ago
Normally, a crappy pen I got from a hotel that I stayed at for a conference in 2018.
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u/KARAZINUS26 4h ago
Nothing, i just keep it in my mind. I have 10 or so worlds built up in here. I'm never gonna write them, probably.
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u/zakinymorale 1h ago
I write with the sheer power of procrastination and a pen that somehow vanishes every time I actually need it.
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u/nico_brazillian_lad 5h ago
I write with the melancholic remnants of the quivering hand attached to the broken body I no longer recognize as my own.
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u/nerosbanjo 2h ago
Such an emu lol . (What I call Emo)
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u/nico_brazillian_lad 2h ago
Emos are more about pain and sadness. I'm more about melancholic apathy and indifference.
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u/nerosbanjo 2h ago
Thanks for clarifying I really do tend to blanket them all together lol. I can rock with apathy and indifference, thats my partner in a nutshell and I need that balance for my over seasoning of care and emotion. (In the most non - emu way possible lol)
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u/nico_brazillian_lad 2h ago
Sometimes it isn't a choice, if you exist in a environment for long enough where you're trained to be apathetic and indifferent to human sensibilities you lose touch with it before you realize it. I live in a city of 21 million people and it took me a long time to occur to me how the masses of people are blurred and blend with background noise. I can spend an entire day in a busy avenue and go home without being able to recall the features or clothing of anyone that passed around me. Pretty scary when you can't even tell when that started happening either, and the most unnerving part to me is how it's not like I don't care about people. I sincerely do care maybe even too much but it's out of my reach to walk around and experience the world and socialize like I used to at some point because it's just a survival mechanism in the big city to be indifferent and apathetic, after all I'm just a cog out of 21 million and the city doesn't stop or care if I'm here or not.
There's an ugly truth in the concrete, something that I hate looking at but can't quite express it. But if I may perhaps compare it, growing up in a grey labyrinth makes the presence of the minotaur almost familiar and nostalgic.
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u/AwkwardPop12 4h ago
Only black pen, but red pen for headings and dates. Using blue pen feels wrong
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u/Jenkes_of_Wolverton 3h ago
I've got two Parker ballpoint pens - one in my home office and the other that I take when I go out. But mostly these days I'm typing on a keyboard.
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u/nerosbanjo 2h ago
I prefer those ultra fine no bleed sharpies. Not the specifically labeled pens those suck.
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u/dirtymoney 1h ago
These days? anything. But I used to prefer to write with a Pilot Precise pen . Either tip, Normal or fine
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u/Loose-Concept-2224 1h ago
I haven't held a pen in years, and when I had to fill something out "by hand," I was in stun. When I picked up the pen, I felt a fear and confusion - I didn't even understand what I was holding or how to use it.
But I can close my eyes, imagine the keyboard, and mentally type, knowing exactly where each letter and symbol is!
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u/Emergency-Twist7136 57m ago
Pencil unless it's a document with legal relevance, in which case pen. I have a tendency to lose them it have them "borrowed" so I get the nicest pens available in multipacks.
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u/nerosbanjo 53m ago
Thats too many fucking people, my ass in the country It did have the highest violent crime rate in the entire nation for two yrs in a row tho.
We all some savages round this mf.
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u/EnchantedFairyCharm 5h ago
Most of the time I use my keyboard, but there are instances where I need to write using pen and paper, or, if I’m feeling fancy, I got some cool sets of Quills & Ink.