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Ken Can't Write
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A would-be writer, playing with his writer's blocks. #fiction #folklore #folkrealism #magicalrealism #amwriting #writingcommunity
This looks fun. 🙂

Studio Wrong has been putting out Betty & Seeka shorts on social media for quite a while now. This is their first full episode.

Love to see folklore-y stuff like this!

youtu.be/oWChnlKcnrI?...

#studiowrong #folklore #animation #bettyandseeka
The Bloody Mary (PILOT)
YouTube video by Studio Wrong
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April 10, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Trying out a new way to store my most aggressive, volatile ink (Organics Studio Limited Edition Nuclear Nitrogen).

Is it unnecessary and overengineered? Yes.

Do I love it? Also yes. :)

#ink #fountainpen #fountainpenink #organicsstudio #glassware
March 10, 2026 at 4:59 AM
Ink sample time!

The "Nuclear Nitrogen" isn't dramatically different from the regular OS Nitrogen ink. The main difference I see is that the purple sheen appears more even when you're looking at it head-on.

FWIW, it writes really nice with a glass dip pen! The fact that it's sticky seems to help.
March 1, 2026 at 10:49 AM
It looks so innocent, doesn't it?

#iykyk #fountainpenink #ink #organicsstudio
February 27, 2026 at 12:01 AM
This is a little thing I'm making. It's simple, but I'm looking forward to using it.

I've been using glass fountain pens a lot lately. This means I need to have a little jar of ink handy. I also use a lap desk, so that can get precarious.

This little thing will hold my pen and a few jars of ink.
February 19, 2026 at 6:38 AM
A little bedtime reading to cap off a good, full day.

I read the novel last year, so far Junji Ito's adaptation has been excellent.

#NoLongerHuman #OsamuDazai #JunjiIto
February 4, 2026 at 9:59 AM
Happy birthday to me!

(But also to a great organization who is doing some really important work in Portland, Oregon!)

www.facebook.com/donate/11616...
November 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
November 3, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Beautiful, powerful day out at the Oregon coast. I don't remember the last time I felt the wind blowing that hard. #oregon #oregoncoast #haystackrock
October 29, 2025 at 10:32 AM
October 5, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Ordered a sort of Halloween palette of fountain pen ink. Not entirely on purpose, but I'm delighted with the result.

Birmingham inks are really excellent, BTW. Highly recommended.

www.birminghampens.com/collections/...
September 25, 2025 at 10:23 PM
"Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams."

The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
August 26, 2025 at 10:19 AM
One of my abs favorite inks. Intense and strangely difficult to pin down with regard to hue, and a bright, metallic gold sheen to top it off.

This color is part of Sailor's "Ink Studio" series, where each ink is given a number instead of a name. That said, I think of this one as "Disco Era Pink".
May 8, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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April 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
At least the pen & ink aren't crashing.

Wearingeul "Shoot the Moon" in a Kakimori dip pen on Cosmo Air Snow.

(Solved. Hint: Delete your font cache.)

#photoshop #photoshopsucks #TomChalky #fonts #type
April 20, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Happy #caturday from Xander!
April 19, 2025 at 10:45 PM
A peaceful & contented #caturday to you.

Also, consider adopting a black kitty, they're wonderful & too often looked over.)
March 29, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Spent some time at Kinokuniya in downtown pdx this evening.
March 29, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Is it just me or are writers some of the neediest people you'll ever meet?

(And I mean "Is it just me" in multiple senses of the phrase.)
March 25, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Oh good GRIEF!

TikTok, take a freakin' chill pill!
February 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Thank you for thrilling and mystifying us in the best way imaginable. Rest in peace.

variety.com/2025/film/ne...
David Lynch, Visionary Director of ‘Twin Peaks’ and ‘Blue Velvet,’ Dies at 78
Director David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like 'Blue Velvet,' has died. He was 78.
variety.com
January 16, 2025 at 6:39 PM
One of my favorite songs to write to for some 35+ years now.

open.spotify.com/track/7aKZzF...

What are you using for inspiration right now?

#amwriting
Ivy And Neet - Remastered
This Mortal Coil · Filigree & Shadow (Remastered) · Song · 1986
open.spotify.com
December 8, 2024 at 10:10 AM
I like weird things to happen in my stories. Twists & turns that don't happen in "real life".

But also, I don't enjoy fantasy. Magic systems & the like. I don't like it when characters are surprised to learn there are elves or monsters in a world just beyond their closet.

#writingcommunity
November 23, 2024 at 1:47 PM
I'm cultivating an approach in my writing that's counterintuitive in a lot of ways, but I'm still fully committed to it.

Here's the deal...
October 6, 2024 at 10:02 PM
Sitting at a local coffee house with my wife and daughter, trying out a new bluetooth kb with my phone. #amwriting #wobkey75 #thok
September 15, 2024 at 9:21 PM