Misfill, Taming 2026 Edition

Each week in Refill, the Pen Addict Members newsletter, I publish Ink Links as part of the additional content you receive for being a member. And each week, after 10 to 15 links, plus my added commentary on each, I'm left with many great items I want to share. Enter Misfill. Here are this weeks links:

Read:

— 2025 Was Brutal: Taming 2026 (Scription Studio)

— My 2025 Favorites (Rachel’s Reflections)

— Inkmas Day 7 – Laura’s 2025 Top Inks (The Well-Appointed Desk)

— A Little Magic (From the Pen Cup)

— How to Use a Notepad (Notebook Stories)

— Ink Review #2894: 3 Oysters Americano (Mountain of Ink)

— Gear of the Year 2025 (Everyday Commentary)

— Diamine Inkvent 2025 Day 14 (Writing at Large)

— 10 More Useful Things (Olive Octopus)

— A fruitful year of creative journaling in the Take a Note Planner (The Penguin Post)

— Two Lists That Work and a Stationery Advent Update (Take Note)

— GIRLFANS launches landmark England edition celebrating seven years of women's fan culture (Creative Boom)

— Ashera Aeon Oleatus fountain pen review. (Fountain pen blog)

— Inkvent 2025 - Day 17 (Cheryl Lindo Jones)

— An ode to the Platinum Preppy (Deliberate Objects)

Watch:

— Uniball Zento Signature: The Best Pen of 2025 Just Got Classier (Fudefan)

— Setting up 2026 Planners & Journals 📚 Dec 19 Livestream Replay (From Carola)

— what it's like working for TRAVELER'S and PLOTTER 🎁 vlogmas day 15 & 16 (Job’s Journal)

— ✨ 📚 My 2026 PLANNER LINEUP! | Midori Hibino, Traveler's Notebook, Hobonichi Weeks, 5-year (Little Coco Studio)

— The Best Pens I Collected This Year (dwrdnet)

— 2025 Inkvent Day 15: Don't let the frostbugs bite! (Inkdependence)

— Figboot's Favorite Things 2025 (Figboot on Pens)

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TWSBI ECO Plum with Onyx Trim Fountain Pen Giveaway Winner

TWSBI unloaded the catalog in the latter half of 2025, and did a nice job with the colors I must say. The TWSBI ECO Plum with Onyx Trim may have been the most well received, and I have one to give away to a reader this week. And the winner is:

Congrats John! I’ve sent an email to collect your shipping address.

MAZE - The End of Boring Fountain Pens (Sponsor)

My thanks to Endless Stationery and Arclayer for sponsoring The Pen Addict this week.

Their new project, MAZE Pens, isn’t just another fountain pen launch. It’s an explorative experiment in what happens when you turn the inside of a pen into the star of the show. Instead of hiding ink channels deep in the barrel, Endless and Arclayer have sculpted them into artful pathways, printed in high-clarity SLA resin and post-processed to gleam like a jewel. The result is a pen that looks alive — ink twisting and drifting through a transparent, three-dimensional maze as you write.

Each MAZE pattern (Five of them!) feels like its own personality carved into light. You can run it as a classic eyedropper or go full engineering-nerd with the Japanese eyedropper shut-off system for leak-proof travel. And yes: shimmering inks look beautiful in these barrels — in the best way possible.

If you’ve ever wished your pen had a little more soul, a little more strangeness, a little more why the hell not — this is the one to get. Head over to their Kickstarter page and grab yourself one!