Reddit mentions of Bic 830864 BiC Cristal Original 1.0 mm Ball Pen Pack of 10

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> You have to sharpen them

They make wooden clubs that survive enough strikes strong enough to reduce rocks to gravel or warp lead cannonballs, why would you need to sharpen a quill enough to be a concern? Also, there's probably also a spell for that even if they don't just use the various magical ways to make something massively more durable.

> you need to get new ones

If magic can make a single robe last you decades, including through all of your teenage years despite the huge amount of growth that occurs in them, somehow I don't think replacing things is going to be quite as much of a concern as you think.

> you have to keep dipping them in ink which gets everywhere

Self inking quills, magic solved that problem of having to ink them yourself. They've even created ways so they don't use ink at all, although there can be side effects of that depending on the method used.

> a whole pack of them for a... well for you it would be like, a couple of knuts or whatever you call them

This seems wrong, so some quick maths. A quick google gives this, pack of 10 BiC black ballpoint pens for £2.50. Nice simple figure right? Should be a good judge of price, given how the brand is very well established. That wasn't the only one I looked too, others are pretty consistent.

Anyway, given the exchange rate of galleons to GBP we can get a price of about 8 sickles 18 knuts, or about 250 knuts, as a knut is only worth about one penny. That's pretty close to about one cent USD for reference, be closer to 1.5 cents USD really. This means you could buy your pack of 10 biros, or you could pay Hermione's Daily Prophet subscription for over 8 months assuming it's a daily paper.

Of course, the only way this works is if magic makes things a lot cheaper, but why wouldn't it? For an actual example of something that costs only a few knuts in the wizarding world, the Daily Prophet. Although, we have no idea how much quills cost, but if they're in line with things like the Daily Prophet or drinks (both hot chocolate and butterbeer were 2 sickles each) a price of only a few knuts wouldn't be unusual.

Even if pens were used, it should still be vastly cheaper to get them through magical sources than muggle ones, as muggle ones simply can't compare to the price of basic items.

> Some use electricity but there's entirely mechanical ones.

Not likely to be much of an issue anyway, I mean they can make radios and cars use magic instead of electricity, why not typewriters? Then again, if quills are any indication a magical typewriter would probably be capable of doing some things regarding word processing that we can't do with modern computers. They do print anyway, look at how they have a newspaper with printed text.

Magic has a simply monumental advantage in things like language and speech processing, only with the most modern technology are we catching up, and something like the quills which can transcribe and sensationalize on the spot are still beyond what we can do.

Sorry for the delayed response. I don't know if you're still monitoring this, but I always forget this subreddit exists.

Your paint job looks awesome (and yes, white is very hard to paint with, I'm doing white-armored Tau).

I wanted to comment on the snow/ice theme, and some tricks for basing, scenery, and general fluff.

First, I don't know if you already know this, but in making actual "snow" for bases, I use Elmer's glue mixed with either the snow flock/powder you can buy at hobby lobby or other hobby stores, or with baking soda (which isn't as good in my opinion, but still works). Then you put the globby mess onto the base, sort of shape it the way you vaguely want it, and let it dry. Then later you attach your dude to it. It gives the impression that they're trudging through snow. Or you can just use globs of snow to anywhere you want. You can also play with the ratio to get cool effects, like using lots of powder and a little bit of glue makes crunchy snowballs.

Second, in terms of ice, I saw a tip somewhere once that was really useful. You know those cheap, clear plastic bic pens? Well you can break the clear plastic body of the pen into icicles/ice shards and then use copious amounts of clear glue (which dries to a similar consistency, making it look like it's all ice).

Otherwise, looks great!

This was so much fun! Thanks for posting :)

1 [Something Blue](Playshoes 408566 Girl's Rain Coat Blue 5-6 Years https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B001PDN1O8/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_-CR5AbJ14TEGH). In Scotland April Showers don’t just finish in April! At all points of the year we can expect anything from a light drizzle to torrential rain!

2 Something that says summer. Watermelons totally make me think of summer, and sippy cups are perfect to keep bugs out of your drinks in the summer!

3 food related. A carrot sharpener! I saw these in a local store and couldn’t stop laughing at the thought of someone wanting a really sharp carrot.

4 a gift for someone else. My fiancé is obsessed with this album and I recently bought him a record player so I think he would love having it in this format too!

5 book suggestion. So I don’t know what types of books you are into but this is a YA Fantasy. It follows three sisters who were each born with a power. Now that they are of age, they must use their powers to kill their other sisters and become queen! It’s pretty kick ass :)

6 under $1. Okay so I’m from Scotland and I don’t know if this actually works out to be less than $1 but it is less than £1 so I hope that counts!! And they are really cute :)

7 Doggo related. My spaniel loves things like this! And I think it would work for any dog :)

8 useless but awesome. I’d love for my cats to wear this around Christmas!! Although they’d probably break it within a second haha.

9great movie The LOTRs! Great friendships, a lot of laughs and just a fab story. My all time favourite films!

10Zombie attack. I’m going to be the type of person who hides during the apocalypse and hope for the best! So I think if I find somewhere with some water nearby I could kinda camp out for a while!

11 complete goals. My main goal right now is to be more organised, and to do more creative things. I want to have fun and do more hobbies. So I think a diary where I can be creative and plan all my spare time would be great!

12 add on. WHY ARE PENS ALWAYS ADD ONS????!!!!

13 fandom. This would match my Alice tattoo! And who doesn’t need a purse :)

14 super expensive Jesus!! Who knew you could buy such expensive rings on amazon??

15 sharks or unicorns. Shark cat bed! I can only imagine how my two would react this this haha!

16 wonderful smell. I love this candle! Probably my favourite smell ever!

17 cool toy. I couldn’t find the game I always wanted as a kid, mostly because I couldn’t really remember what it was called! Although here is a Jared Funko pop that I’ve been eyeing up for months!

18 helpful for writers. I thought this was kinda cool. It gives tips on how to get out of writers block as well as mix up characters!

19 current obsession. Musicals are my currently my favourite obsession (see what I did their RHPS fans?)!

20 weird!. I’m just really not sure why these would ever be needed but at the same time I really want a pair haha!

Here you go: BiC Cristal Medium Ball Pen

On point and so cheap that if you lose one it doesn't matter.