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Jason
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(He/they Pan/queer) Herein lies writing, reading, and fountain pens. Pretty much in that order. With a splash of tea.

I make jewelry: hootowlcreations.com
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Tonight, for the second time ever in my life, I baked a cake. It’s a belated birthday cake for my mom, and it’s her favorite: oatmeal cake. I was worried I wouldn’t get it right this time, because I figured the first time was a fluke. However, this one is also delicious.
An oatmeal cake with homemade frosting sits in an amber glass baking tray. The frosting consists of shredded coconut and pecans. The frosting was applied while the cake was fresh out of the oven, so it’s melted into the cake. Once the frosting was applied, it went back into the oven under the broiler to lightly roast the coconut. A closeup of a slice of oatmeal cake. It’s a light, airy texture with a crispy aspect to the coconut and pecan frosting thanks to the broiler.
November 27, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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I made a copper ring! It took me three tries to solder it, but that’s part of learning a new skill.

I’ll write up a blog post this coming week on my first two classes. I’m enjoying this. #jewelry #handmade
A handmade copper ring sits upright on a black wooden background. The ring is a size 6, its surfaced is hammered, and there’s a hand-sawn cutout running along the top.
November 23, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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The other night I inked up my Lamy LX fountain pen with Lamy Dark Lilac 2024 edition. Every time I use this ink I’m reminded how much it sheens and how much I do not want anything that sheens more than this. The nib crud and sheen staining on this is intense enough.
A bottle of Lamy Dark Lilac 2024 edition fountain pen ink. It’s a dark, deep violet within a round glass bottle. A Lamy LX cursive fountain pen nib is held over the bottle’s opening. Green sheen coats part of the nib and the grip section.
November 20, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Today was my first jewelry class, and I made a copper thingamabob! It’ll be either a pin or a pendant once I clean it up and learn how to solder a pin or a loop on the back.

I have process photos and I’ll write up a blog post about the experience. I’m really going to enjoy this.
A copper thingamabob. It’s made of copper and there are three pieces that look vaguely like a claw held together at the top with a copper rivet. Each claw section has a narrow, oblong shape cut out of the middle.
November 16, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Caught a good bit of sunset on clouds when I was talking to dinner with a friend last night.
Clouds piled high in the sky and there is one part among them all that catches the rose and golden orange of a sunset against the fading blue of the sky.
November 9, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Fountain Pen Day has fallen on N7 Day.

So, to celebrate:

“I’m Commander Shepherd, and this is my favorite stationery store on the Citadel.”

And bonus Lamy Dark Lilac (2024) sheen photos.
Closeup of a Lamy LX with the cursive nib. The nib itself is black and there is a green sheen across it thanks to the power of Lamy Dark Lilac 2024, which sheens and cruds up at the drop of a hat. Underside of a Lamy LX’s feed, which is black plastic. In this case the black plastic is coated in a green sheen with dark purple ink barnacles because Lamy Dark Lilac 2024 is more like emissions of an Eldritch beast than an ink. However, it is pretty.
November 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Played around with some tiny metal beads and some smaller rings to create a smaller version of my ribbon earrings. They’re cute! #chainmail #jewelry #handmade
A pair of chainmail earrings. Gold polygon beads run down the middle of the silver aluminum rings.
November 7, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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The 75ml bottle of Diamine 160th Anniversary Ink really has the heft of a small brick. I forget how heavy it is because it doesn’t have the width of the Pilot Iroshizuku bottles, for example, but it’s a stout bottle all by itself.
A bottle of Diamine Tariff Teal fountain pen ink. The bottle is a tall square shape with filigreed writing on side saying Celebrating 160 Years of Diamine.
November 4, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Oh. Ohhhhh I like this. I think a 24mm macro lens is about to become my best photography friend. #chainmail #jewelry
Two chainmail earrings. They’re made with black rings in a ribbon weave, where smaller rings connect each larger ring. The beads are small, red magatama beads with a Picasso finish, which is a mottled brown color on top of the red.
November 1, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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My latest finished commission is a trans pride bracelet. Truly, I love making these. #pride #chainmail
A chainmail bracelet in a Persian weave with alternating blue, silver, and pink rings to represent the trans pride flag.
October 28, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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I made the video. I don’t hate it, so I’m running with this. (Also, voice reveal, I suppose?)

Seriously, though, this is important because once I make a bracelet it is sized. I want people to be able to wear a commissioned piece from the moment it arrives. #chainmail #jewelry
October 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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I love Pennonia ink bottles because they’re solid, heft pieces of glass. It’s like the polar opposite of a Robert Oster bottle. The color is very pretty, too.
An open bottle of Pennonia Hannoveri Zöld fountain pen ink. The bottle looks like a medicine bottle, so it’s dark glass with a heavy plastic cap. The ink itself is a satisfying medium-dark green.
October 23, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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I’m always in favor of backgrounds that aren’t plain white. It’s why I used a light tan fabric with a sheening finish for mine.
A square of tan fabric with a horizontal lined texture sits in front of a Nikon camera. Various pieces of jewelry are scattered along the left side.
October 18, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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The janky photo setup worked! I think I need to get a 40mm macro lens with an autofocus, but I’m making this work for now. #jewelry #chainmail
A pair of silver chainmail earrings with glass cube beads running down the center of the weave. The cube beads are in a bright turquoise with a mottled brown Picasso finish.
October 12, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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I have a softbox I bought more than 10 years ago when I started out shooting jewelry. It wasn’t cooperating.

I opened the blinds, stuck a piece of paper over my desk lamp, and started taking photos. I’ll edit them in 20 minutes and I hope they’re good.

Felt janky, but if it works it works.
A Nikon D3100 that’s old as hell but works is pointed at a bistro table with a tan satin fabric square sitting on it. A small rectangular display with two pearl pins sits atop the satin fabric, and the display is covered in the same fabric. A desk lamp covered with copy paper looms over the entire scene in a vaguely ridiculous manner.
October 12, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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For example, this looked acceptable on the camera monitor and it’s okay here or on my phone, but on a computer monitor the focus is all out of wack.

However, I got some decent shots and it’s all For The Aesthetic on the website anyway. #jewelry #chainmail
Slightly out of focus macro shot of a bisexual pride bracelet, a trans pride bracelet, and an ace pride bracelet on a dark wooden surface. All the bracelets are made of brightly colored jump rings and are in a Persian weave chainmail style.
October 11, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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#LGBTQWriteAThon

It’s my group of queer friends, queer writer comrades, and the stationery community. I got to see friends at the writers conference a couple of weeks ago and it helped me feel better. I had dinner with a friend last night and it was great. And y’all on here are great. Thank you!
A sunset over the Pacific Ocean. Whitecaps from the cruise ship fan out in the lower right hand corner, the dark blue water lightens to silver and pink under the inset, and the sun is veiled with dark clouds that scud across the sky. Adding this photo because it also makes me happy. I took it on the last night of the Writing Excuses Retreat in September.
October 10, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Oh the things we do in the fountain pen hobby.

The ink level in the bottle was too low for the nib, or just the converter, to draw anything. I got out my Inkmeiser and a blunt syringe to ink my new pen. I don’t like syringe-filling a converter because then the nib isn’t primed. So I did this.
A tableau of the fountain pen hobby. An open, small, plastic bottle of Diamine Aurora Borealis sits on an ink-stained paper towel. An empty plastic ink well sits next to it. The ink well still has dregs of dark teal ink clinging to its inside. A blunt syringe rests in front of both the bottle and the inkwell, as the syringe was the only way to reach the ink in the bottle.
October 5, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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I made this bracelet last week and I’ve fallen so in love with this weave that I just spent another $100 on rings so I can make more in different colors.

I’ve got so many beads I’m comping at the bit to use. This is exciting!! #jewelry #chainmail
A chainmail bracelet with each ring connected with two rings on other side of a cube glass bead. The beads are a turquoise color and the rings are bright aluminum.
September 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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The clouds were particularly pretty tonight when I got home.
A cloud, shaped vaguely like a collapsed Valentine heart, floats among its much narrower and thinner brethren. The collapsed heart cloud is painted a light peach in the setting sun, while the sky fades from a dark blue to nearly white on the horizon.
August 31, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Florence + the Machine is bringing the energy I need for work this morning. Because, yes, everybody scream.
Florence Welch reclines on a bed with her legs spread with her dress bunched and trailing between her legs and along the bed. The photo is composed like an Impressionist portrait shot with a fisheye lens.
August 29, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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“I don’t care what anyone says, I LOVE that movie.”
Movie poster for the film Dick Tracy. Warren Beatty is Dick Tracy and he’s wearing the yellow fedora and trench coat from the comic. He’s walking toward the viewer with The Kid next to him. It’s all rendered in a 1990 version of a 1930s color comic.
August 29, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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I’m revising the first four chapters of my novella, True Hate’s First Kiss, today and I’m using a Jinhao 92 inked with Sailor Irori.

The 92 is a Graf von Faber-Castell knockoff that’s the closest I’ll get to the Bentley pens. The EF nib is nail-hard, which I love, and Irori is a lovely warm red.
A Jinhao 92 fountain pen sits on a piece of paper with some edits made in Sailor Irori red ink. The Jinhao has a bright metal cap with a beveled edge and a bright metal grip section.
August 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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New fountain pen day! It’s a Ranga Zayante from Peyton Street pens in a gorgeous blue, grey, and black ebonite. This has a cursive smooth italic medium nib, and I love it. I’ve never used a smooth italic before and this won’t be my last.
A blue, black, and grey mottled fountain pen sitting uncapped on a piece of Tomoe River paper. The words written on the paper are: This is a cursive smooth italic and I think I love writing with it. Sailor Ink Studio 123. Ranga Zayante from Peyton Street Pens. Sailor 124 is a light blue-ish grey ink. Closeup of a stainless steel fountain pen nib with no adornment. The nib is ground into a smooth stub.
August 20, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Mowing the overgrown yard in the full Georgia sun means I’m the Lavender Bandit today.
A future with a long lavender colored bandana covering the lower half of their face and neck. They’re wearing a grey longsleeve shirt, large black sunglasses, and a wide grey hat.
August 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM