/lit/ - Literature

my gf had the most delicately annotated notebooks, written in the finest cursive private school can impart. She would write out these elaborate notebooks, full of drawings and note and observations, and every year i watched with horror as she threw them out to start new ones.

She would also buy Japaneses stationery from specialty websites for exuberant prices. Automatic pencils for 50$, little notebooks for 70$, odd assortments of glue and pieces of paper for 40$. I cant complain she'd given me a taste for calligraphy and i now own and use a 300$ white gold Waterman Carene fountain pen that she gave me.
After we broke up I inherited some of these things and have been rationing her Triomphe and Tomoe River writing pads that average out to about 2$ a sheet.

My own handwriting is barely legible for the most part but occasionally i still find myself writing out perfect little sentences in the most delicate business cursive script you can imagine. And i know im doing it in emulation of her.