Fountain Pen Garbage
Nov. 10th, 2024 05:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grayestofghostsApparently the owners of GouletPens are core founding members of an Evangelical church offshoot along with all that entails. This along with the recent Lamy/Harry Potter collaboration makes it not feel great to be a trans person into fountain pens right now.
Though, to be honest, the Lamy is more disappointing, because Gouletpens doesn't really offer much besides social media content that I don't pay attention to with purchases, and in the United States that fountain pens bring out all sorts of political weirdos is unsurprising, especially if you've ever been to pen conventions, though in my experience they tend to be more hard libertarian types than Evangelicals.
The thing is that there are definitely a few Lamys that I like, and because Barnes and Noble and Dick Blick sell Lamys around here their cartridges are probably the easiest to find locally. Even though I don't want to give the TERF lady from TERF island money, I'm not sure how much Lamy actually knows or cares about her. Lamy doesn't seem to know or understand too much about their foreign/angosphere market, as demonstrated by the Lamy Dark Lilac ink kerfuffle a little while back. I wonder if it's a little like how Hobonichi had a Michael Jackson collaboration a few years back and they didn't anticipate the backlash against it in the international market. However, I really doubt that the Harry Potter pens will be withdrawn. Ugh.
Though, to be honest, the Lamy is more disappointing, because Gouletpens doesn't really offer much besides social media content that I don't pay attention to with purchases, and in the United States that fountain pens bring out all sorts of political weirdos is unsurprising, especially if you've ever been to pen conventions, though in my experience they tend to be more hard libertarian types than Evangelicals.
The thing is that there are definitely a few Lamys that I like, and because Barnes and Noble and Dick Blick sell Lamys around here their cartridges are probably the easiest to find locally. Even though I don't want to give the TERF lady from TERF island money, I'm not sure how much Lamy actually knows or cares about her. Lamy doesn't seem to know or understand too much about their foreign/angosphere market, as demonstrated by the Lamy Dark Lilac ink kerfuffle a little while back. I wonder if it's a little like how Hobonichi had a Michael Jackson collaboration a few years back and they didn't anticipate the backlash against it in the international market. However, I really doubt that the Harry Potter pens will be withdrawn. Ugh.
