#12 nostalgia: shanghai stationary mudan fountain pen ink
If nostalgia has a colour, it is pink. Maybe because of this association I’m very picky with pink fountain pen inks. In my collection there are only a few of them, all similar in hue: bright pink. Shanghai Stationary Mudan is the newest of them, named after the peonies.
#10 last weeks’ pens: weeks 13-20 of 2026
I didn’t have a lot of time for maintenance, so I was mostly putting pens in and out of use within a 5-pen rotation. Yes, it is in a 6-pen case. No, I simply didn’t want to ink another pen.