So it's Pride Month and we'd thought that it'd be a right enough time to celebrate not just queerness in the now-conventional sense, but also queerness--the characteristic that distinguishes, sets apart, makes special--the habits and things that we know and love in the hobby. This isn't an episode about buying yet another thing, but really, just celebrating the innovations and aspects of pens and stationery that are not so conventional but oh-so attention grabbing.   

* Apologies for the audio flitting in and out in the end because, as it turns out, our mic's USB was loose in its port. 

Here are some links of note:  

• Pilot Tsuwairo Inks and Swatches on Reddit
• Fountain Pen Companion, a database for cataloguing Inks and Pens
• A walkthrough of the Fountain Pen Companion Website care of The Pen Addict
• A Platinum Glamour Review on the Estilofilos Blog
• The Pilot Murex (Myurex?) on The Tokyo Fountain Pen Scene Site
• The Dante Alighieri: Inferno Fountain Pen on the Montegrappa Site
• The Conklin Crescent Filler Fountain Pen Review on the Write Experience Blog
• The Best Retractable Fountain Pens of 2021 on Unsharpen.com: 
• A TWSBI Go Review from The Pen Addict
• The Wearingeul Fried Chicken Ink Set on Hamilton Pens
• Ishimarubun Pickled Ginger Scented Ink
• Sylvester Stallone's Chaos Line Fountain Pens on the Nibs.com

We support local LGBTQIA+ organizations that you can look up or help out via the following links: 

• Metro Manila Pride, the organization in charge of the annual Pride March in Metro Manila
• Love Yourself, an organization giving out Sexual and Mental Health Aid to the LGBTQIA+ community

And our usual Pen Noobs Podcast Links: 

• Instagram: @thepennoobspodcast  
• The Pen Noobs Podcast Linktree: https://linktr.ee/thepennoobspodcast
• The Pen Noobs Podcast Episode 28 on Youtube: https://youtu.be/Vlfd67sVqxU