Fountain Pen Day 2025

2025-11-07

There was a time when I favored the fountain pen as a writing instrument. I believe the time frame was high school and I was on a cursive handwriting kick which lasted into my early 20s. I practiced a lot and cultivated a decent freehand script for which I was complemented by many — with the most honor being derived from my good friend the late Dewitt Casey who often commented on my handwriting.

Nowadays the idiot school teachers don't believe cursive is a viable skill in the world so they have stopped teaching it in the local public school system. Further evidence for the fact that there should not be a public school system populated with a bunch of woke stupid bitches out to indoctrinate the students into their libtard world.

So the fountain pen is a writing instrument which features refillable reservoir for ink. The inki is delivered to a metal nib for writing via gravity and capillary action and in an ideal world this provides a continuous supply of ink.

The reservoir stores ink. This is made available from either a bottle, a cartridge, or a built-in mechanism like a piston or vacuum filler.

The nib is the metal tip of the pen that makes contact with the paper and deposits the ink. Nibs come in various sizes and shapes, which determine the line width.

The feed is a slit or channel which regulates the flow of ink from the reservoir to the nib.

Then there are the barrel and cap which form the outer encasement of the pen. The cap protects the nib and prevents the ink from drying out.

Fountain Pen Day is typically the first Friday in November annually. This places it on Friday, November 7th this year.

The purpose of the day is to embrace, promote and share the use of fountain pens.

However, my particular tastes have evolved to the text editor such as Notepad++ over the manual writing endeavors of my past. So much for a beautiful handwriting, eh Dewitt ?!