Hip To Be Square!

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Permit me to sing you the praises of my new love!

I have become enamored of quad rule notebooks.

It’s funny how a notebook can change the way you think—college-rule feels sharper than wide-rule, and I can scribble with abandon in silly notebooks,* but I’ve never felt so clear as I do writing on graph paper. I have no idea why, but it is a very good feeling—like I am on top of things.

I picked up a quad-rule book originally because I’ve been getting into maps lately. Trying to map out my conworlds, you see. I’m not very spatially smart, so I admit it was a Thus Spake Zarathustra moment when I realized that maps help me visualize a story—and now I’m discovering how darn much fun maps can be.** And the graph paper? Immensely handy for that.

It’s the simple things in life you treasure.


*Fuck all y’all, Ed Hardy stuff is GREAT. You want to say only douchebags own his stuff, then meet my Ed Hardy notebook, and then meet my Ed Hardy mermaid trainers as I kick you with them! That will prove I am not a douchebag!

**Another thing I now have in common with Bilbo!

Comments

[gethenian.livejournal.com]

>.> I have Ed Hardy shoes. And an Ed Hardy purse. Both purchased for ~$15-$20 at Marshall's. Like most things I own that conform to some douchebag-associated fad, I was totally unaware that this shit was well-known or popular until long after I bought it.

I refuse to stop liking it just because douchebags also like it and are stupid enough to shell out over $100 for this shit. The douchebags can stay over there in their little seekrit clubhouse of douchiness. This stuff is awesome.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I discovered after buying these awesome mermaid shoes that people hated the Ed Hardy stuff. I don't see why--I love flash art. Haters gonna hate and all that, wot?

[azurelunatic]

Though sometimes it's just slightly inexplicable. (I think these underpants are Ed Hardy -- I might be wrong though.)

[baby-rissa-chan.livejournal.com]

I first started to learn writing on quad ruled notebooks. They have a certain nostalgic feel to me, and I'm very much enamored of them.

[kadharonon.livejournal.com]

I loved nothing about Germany so much as the nice, pretty, smooth-papered quad rule notebooks I was able to purchase there. I've found nothing like them in the States. They were also thick enough that I could write on both sides with Stabilo marker pens of glorious colors and not get bleedthrough. I was so, so happy with my drawing/writing implements and surfaces and really wish I'd thought to go buy a few more of those notebooks before leaving.

[westrider.livejournal.com]

I've got a big stack of Graph Paper pads and notebooks in all sorts of grid sizes lying around as a legacy of spending most of my Middle School and High School years playing D&D. There's definitely something special about them.