what's good about a pilot falcon?
HI!
The Pilot Falcon (older generations were sold in the US as the Namiki Falcon for whatever reason) is a japanese fountain pen manufactured by Pilot!
it's often referred to as the best modern flex pen, or the best gold nib for a beginner! Tldr for people who aren't pen nerds, a flex pen is a pen that...well, flexes! Most pens have some sort of "flex" to them that results in some sort of line variation, but flex pens can handle a relatively higher amount of pressure. Think like a G nib used in a lot of manga. Old pens were the MASTERS at this, and a good bit of that is due to the nibs being made of gold, which naturally has a "bounce" to it that modern steel nibs have a really hard time living up to. Most people wax poetic about Waterman or other vintages like that because of it. Even modern gold nibs can't really keep up with the gold nibs of yore, but the Falcon is considered to be one that can. I do think legally it's considered a "soft" nib, meaning it's not truly a flex pen but has a lot of flex qualities to it, but some terms that get used are used interchangably so. idk. True flex nibs aren't really a thing in fountain pens these days outside of Noodler's Ahab and Konrad (which are their own nightmare and a half tbh).
The Falcon prized amongst artists for it's very fine nib, which Japanese pen manufacturers like Pilot and Platinum are known for. A Japanese Fine is comparable to a Western (Kaweco, Lamy) Extra fine, and a lot of these pens come in an EF, F, and M. It gets alot of nice line variation despite being so small, and is really an all-around great pen, if legend is to be believed :]
An alternative to buying the Pilot Falcon would be getting the Pilot 912 FA, which has something called the "Falcon Nib," not to be confused with the actual pen. They actually look pretty different. The FA nib (right) has these weird cuts on their side that help with flexing and allow it to mimic a full-flex nib, but again. According to legend, modern pens don't flex like vintage pens do, but it IS pretty close.
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I've never used either myself, but I'm pretty picky about my pens and so I don't know if I'd ever pay upwards of $200 unless I got familiar with the nib first tbh....The falcon's nib isn't offputting to me like many feel about it, but I'm particular about aesthetics and the feedback on paper and I can't tell if I like them just from looks alone lol. Right now, I don't have much experience with pilot nibs, but if i were to get a pilot pen, tbh I'm looking at the Pilot Elite/e95s in a fine or medium, or a vintage platinum pocket pen.
Anyways that's that and this is also that. *twirls so elegantly and then collapses onto the ground in slapstick fashion*
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Team: im so secretive and sneaky about my relationship with win. no one can know about it, im a very private person
also Team:
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I really can't get over Simon reframing the chimera incident romantically when he finally verbalizes his love for Baz because, first of all, that's very sexy and unhinged of him.
Also, it actually makes sense? Because during CO Baz tell us that Simon is basically unbeatable, and later he says that Simon is "beautiful in battle". And in a way, Simon truly comes alive when he has something to fight, someone to protect. So when a angsty unhinged Baz who can't decide if he wants to "kiss or push" Simon sends a monster after him to scare him, we can read it as practically flirting, even if that wasn't on anyone's confused disturbed little heads atm, cuz truly a monster send after Simon it's a dead monster. And the fact that Simon wasn't scared and instead fought and emerged victorious? It very likely just made Baz like him even more (and was also what deterred him from pulling that shit again, the crazy and dangerous of it all aside, but also cuz what if it just makes Simon hoter?!!). It's kinda on the same level as Simon going to see all of Baz football practices for them, because "surely he must be pLOTting" when in reality Simon was just very into hot and sweaty Baz destroying everyone else on the field.
By sending a monster after Simon, Baz got to see first hand how beautiful Simon is in battle, and while Simon used this as proof of "Evil Baz" atm we know that in retrospect, and in his own unhinged way, there was a part of him that saw himself fighting to keep Baz safe and unharmed as a confession of romantic love (and with Baz being the one getting them in that situation in the first place, he might have been like "you bitch!!" and "haha this didn't go as u planned!" when the chimera turned on Baz, but a part of him was still like "it's ok, i won't let anything actually harm him/put him in actual danger, no matter what he did" which is line with that part in awtwb where Baz is like "you hated me back then Simon, what are u talking about" and Simon goes "yeah sure but I still wouldn't have let anything hurt u")
And I can't definitely see goofy goth "emo shit" Baz frustrated and confused as hell, like he just wanted to scare a guy and is walking away stunned by his beauty in combat and his bravery and how dare he protected him so well??? Truly he wants him dead. Simon not dying can only be described as punishment for Baz's poor dramatic gay heart,
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The fexi fandom in a nutshell:
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You know, one thing ive been thinking about the whole keke's outfit thing...it continues to baffle me how the straight heterosexual view of women's 'attractiveness' STILL tends to equate scantily clad with 'availability' or 'asking for it' or 'putting it on display'. As if wearing something skimpy is what threatens the boyfriend's position as the only man who is allowed to be attracted to his girlfriend.
But like. And i cant speak for all women attracted to women here. But i KNOW i am not the only woman who watched nope, caught the VERY SUBTLE HINTS, and was immediately like 'oh she is the hottest thing ever I AM DEVOTED TO HER' because we are starved for lesbian characters just being allowed to exist and be attractive on screen without catering to the male gaze. Like the akira slide and motorcycle scenes? Sexy as hell. The little dancey thing to classic music? Sexy. Her general refusal to sit upright? Still hot. And she was doing it all in slightly butch but still extremely stylish clothing that basically covered everything. And i mean she was still the most attractive character on that screen the entire time, i probably missed half the movie because i was just watching her the whole time. And it had absolutely nothing to do with how little she was wearing.
Like yes keke herself also looked sexy in that dress/bodysuit that her boyfriend hated so much. But why is it THAT that makes him insecure? Why not the thousands of lesbian/bisexual girls who watched nope a few too many times just to daydream about dating a girl like emerald one day?
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Killian, boarding the Jewel of the Realm for the first time: Boy oh boy I know this ship very well it sure is convenient that the deck and the floorplan and all of the rooms exactly match the cargo ship I've been a slave on. What a coincidence!
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i work from home and kind of only talk with my roommates maybe a little bit in a day, so needless to say i do not talk to people much right now and i do not have a common grasp on what is normal to say in conversations with people who are not my roommates. anyway this thought brought to you by me forgetting it’s not normal to call cool woodworking designs or well made texture trim sheets ‘Sexy’ in normal conversations with most people.
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