Daily Writing #258 for 2023
The Diplomat Aero was at the top of my wishlist for a long time. I always imagined getting the orange one, but this black stripe version was definitely my second choice, and the price was very right. I wanted to ink it with a very different color that I hadn’t used in it before, and Pilot Iroshizuku Fuyu-Gaki was perfect. I mistakenly imagined it would be more of a consistent red, but it makes sense that it is an orange-red for its namesake, the persimmon.