FPD 2025...my Top 4 +1 Fountain Pens Today

It's Fountain Pen Day and I find myself thinking about what I would do differently on this fountain pen journey if I had it to do all over again...but like other things in life you can't get the experience to know what you know without doing what you have done, right? Keep in my that my needs change over time as does my preference for a certain feeling when writing, but today this is the 4 pens that I own that I would not want to part with plus the one I regret letting go. These are all inked and used every day for at least two months now and thats saying a lot for me. I have been known to just use Kakunos for weeks on end as well and to be honest I do have both M and F nibs inked in Kakunos right now, I just haven't been using them. 

1. Favored Vintage Fountain Pen- Montblanc 146G Celluloid with a OB nib. Wow...thats all I have to say. What a writing experience this provides and it's from the 1950's! Perfection. 
2. Favored Pen in my Purse- Pilot Vanishing Point/Decimo preferably a Stub nib. I have several of these inked and sitting around the house so it's always easy to grab and I never have a dried up nib or leak from them so they are easy and reliable to carry around. 
3. Favored Work Pen- Pilot 823 Clear with Signature Nib. I did not like my first 823 ( medium) and sold it but I really wanted to try the signature nib and now I am sold on this pen. So smooth with a broad line which works great for work notes. I got this in clear this time and prefer that to the amber for some reason that I can't define. 
4. Most mesmerizing writing experience-aka, serious anxiety when buying because it was so expensive pen-Namiki Emperor Vermillion with MF nib. I recently saw that some one described writing with these pens as being like being on a boat in the ocean with the gentle lapping of the waves. Writing with this pen is decadent. It is seriously a meditative experience for me. The nib is gold and so large that you can feel the sway of the nib with the rhythm of your writing. I write with this every day and it is so relaxing. 
5. The one I let go and wish I had kept...Waterman Edson Emerald. Another large pen with a smooth writing experience. One of the few pens I have sold that I wish I still had. 

 I hope you all have had a great Fountain Pen Day. Keep Writing!