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I love this stack, and I loved reading about you two! these are excellent questions, I answered a couple :)

---How particular are you about your notebooks? Pens? What do you write in and with?---

Rigid yet flexible. When I'm jiving with a notebook -- the texture of the paper, the format, the layout, the binding, the ease of use -- I don't want anything but that notebook. If I see something I like, or someone or a brand I want to support, I try and do just that.

****realizes she can't link in substack comments and sheds a tear****

I'm currently using Amanda Rach Lee's dotted notebook in camel. Then I'm eager to move on to the PdiPigna's Olivetti tribute notebook, a very pink and beautifully detailed softcover in homage to the Lettera 22 typewriter. I also always, always have a stash of notebooks at the ready, a literal treasure box of notebooks if you will. In there await a ton of Moglea notebooks.

As far as pens go, my collection ranges from fancier things (like a Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired pen and the Baronfig "Atomic Habits" squire pens) to the freebies that end up enduring the test of time, i.e. the pens I "borrow" from some of my favorite restaurants or bars. The staple pens I use regularly are a Ballograf Epoca ballpoint, a Caran D'Ache 849 ballpoint and various Kaweco Sport fountain pens (I'm obsessed).

---What’s your media diet, at present?---

I'm a news editor by day, so I do read a lot of news of all kinds. (I won't get into the specifics of my news media diet, because that would be an obnoxiously long comment, but I have *thoughts*)

I'm an audiobook devotee. I got back into them ~three years ago and it really changed the way I approach consuming media for ME and for leisure. I listen to books when going on long walks through the city, putting laundry away, commuting, while playing Set on the internet (h/t Michelle for sparking that addiction). Nine out of 10 times, I'm listening to fiction.

I've also been low-key getting back into physical magazines and books lately, because sometimes, you just need to hold and smell and feel a good book. Some recent purchases: "Dancing on my Grave" by Gelsey Kirkland, "This Time Tomorrow" by Emma Straub and "Alphabetical Diaries" by Sheila Heti.

xo, a fellow shapeshifter

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OBSESSED with this pen list!

I love when I "borrow" a pen from a restaurant or establishment and it ends up being my favorite pen to write with and then I have to hunt down the manufacturer LOL

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Right?! I swear the ink in them is more durable, too, lol

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