Talk:A Pot of Violant Ink/@comment-87.212.51.78-20160202132411/@comment-73.221.62.59-20161227084445

I see that y'all are forgetting that when you use any pen that isn't a ballpoint, aka a quill, you've gotta lick the tip to moisten it, or else the ink dries to the tip and then won't write properly.

You gotta lick the quill while the ink is still on it, like, pretty frickin often.

Which (history aside!) is also why the women who worked in watch factories, who used radium paint to draw on the glowing numbers and hands on the watch faces, got sick and died of radium poisoning constantly, cuz they were lickin the brushes.

I wonder what licking a quill with violant ink on it would do to you, though. Maybe it helps the Correspondents think?? Maybe this is what is helping them write those incisive essays critiqueing the laws of nature?? Maybe in the next, impossible tier of the profession, it allows you to transcend time and space?? ? Maybe that is what is meant by Red Science, since contrary to this image, as described in Sunless Sea, violant is actually reddish, like blood??? ?

anyhow that took a left turn. but so anyways you gotta Lick Tha Tip (TM)