Pilot Metropolitan Retro Pop - Turquoise Dots pink ink Octopus Fluids' Bronze fountain pen

Octopus Fluids' Bronze fountain pen ink is a lovely medium brown

a color introduced from the West during the Meiji era

I enclose it in an additional plain white outer envelope which then actually gets stamped

and kind of goes with everything

Pilot Metropolitan Retro Pop - Turquoise Dots pink ink Octopus Fluids' Bronze fountain penThis is the Turquoise Dots colorway from Pilot Metropolitan's "Retro Pop" collection. It's a light turquoise Pilot Metro fountain pen with a dotted pattern on the section end of the body. The Pilot Metropolitan is both a great entrypoint into fountain pens, or a lovely step up from something cheaper like the Platinum Preppy or Pilot Kakuno. Its all metal painted brass body looks stylish and upscale, and its painted brass construction feels solid and