# japanese vegan calligraphy ink not using oil from dead cows monkeys deers or goats all that slow grinding effort of production just so pink faced idiots from the dead west can scrawl nice looking allegedly spiritual paintings of ancient misty mountains or scrawl fancy letters to their man bun sporting lovers spitting loose jive about timeless artisan traditions while workers forced to collect the necessary soot for the ink develop cancer from absorbing all the smokey particulates where the nonmythic meets the actual is where real people are often forced to live forced to live that is by the ignorance of others // [[republic of bob contents | imaginary pastime republic of bob]]