Link Love: Summer TBR

Slightly dark humor below but I collect books like I collect everything else I love — obsessively and continuosly which means my TBR pile could probably have its own zip code. How about you?

Tom Gauld for The Guardian (via Causal Optimist).

PS: For folks in the US, don’t forget to grab a Father’s Day card or make plans to celebrate your favorite fathers or father figures this Sunday.

Pens:

• Kaweco Sport Piston Fountain Pen Review (via The Pen Addict)
• Gravitas Skittle Dinkey (via dapprman)
• Schon Monoc Nib Fountain Pen Review (via BLAKE’S BROADCAST)

Ink:

• Robert Oster Scorpion (via Inkcredible Colours)
• Ink Review #2549: Pelikan 4001 Brilliant Brown (via Mountain of Ink)
• Lisa’s Top 5 Brown Inks! (For 2024) (via Anderson Pens Blog)
• The Beginner’s Guide to Fountain Pen Inks (via JetPens Blog)
• Ink Battle: Wearingeul and Diamine (via Rachel’s Reflections)
• Colorverse Korea Special Ink, Part 1 (via The Pen Addict)
• Robert Oster Whiskey Fountain Pen Ink Review (via The Pen Addict)
• Ink Review #815: Pilot Iroshizuku Hana Ikada (via Fountain Pen Pharmacist)

Pencils:

• Adventures in Weird Stationery: The Metacil “Infinity” Pencil (via The Gentleman Stationer)

Notebooks & Paper:

• Happy June! Mid-Year Planner Updates, Stationery Fest News and Team Up (via Yoseka Stationery)
• Plotter Letterpress Refill Review (via The Pen Addict)
• One weekly planner in 5 different styles (Bullet journal ideas) (via All About Planners)

Art & Creativity:

• The colours in my small palette (via Liz Steel)
• An Art Tour, My Blogging Break and Shaking Things Up (via My Giant Strawberry)
• Kit Angst: Don’t Make Me Choose My Children (via Fueled by Clouds & Coffee)
• Mural illustration for Sam Leong St. Chicken Rice (via Drewscape)
• Queen Anne Top Pot (via Fueled by Clouds & Coffee)
• Making use of paintings (messes) instead of throwing them all away (via Drewscape)
• Ampersanding (via Austin Kleon)
• Arrtx Acrylic Marker review: 15mm JUMBO and Standard (via Parka Blogs)

Other Interesting Things:

• Reimagining Classic Movies: Modern Actors for Iconic Roles (via Glamour Daze)
• Should you ditch Photoshop with immediate effect? (via Creative Boom)
• Knit to This: Mr. Bates vs. the Post Office (via Modern Daily Knitting)
• Unleash Your Imagination: DUNGEONS & DRAGONS Stamps To Be Released at Gen Con Indy 2024 (via USPS Newsroom)
• Stationery Fest Updates on workshops, apparel and more (via Yoseka Stationery)
• Wanting and having (via A Gathering of Curiosities)
• Adventures in Stationery Travel: What, No Fountain Pens? (via The Gentleman Stationer)
• Scientists Discover Crows Can Count Out Loud (via My Modern Met)

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