OP asking the real questions! Also just ducking glad to see something not news or politics related. My gosh it’s overwhelming today.

I have a Plaisir Platinum fountain pen that’s awesome. It was pretty cheap as far as fountain pens go but it writes really nicely and has a good solid feel to it.

For day-to-day disposable pens I like the Zebra Sarasa ones, or the Pilot P500 for drawing. I bought a big box of the P500s to keep in reserve in case they ever stop making them lol.

I commented this elsewhere, but I figured it deserves it’s own top level comment.

You can take an affordable stainless steel zebra f701 and swap out the ink with a fisher space pen refill for a solid, utilitarian pen for less than 15 bucks.

Papermate inkjoy. The other nurses keep trying to steal my last one that I stole from my last workplace just before it started going downhill and stopped buying the nice pens. It was about 6-8 months before they swapped all our managers and supervisors with ones that were literally physically violent. Now that I think about it the pens have actually been a pretty good thermometer of all my past workplaces. If you go to a hospital and all the nurses have the same decently nice pens, that means their employer is probably taking decent care of them (at least as far as healthcare execs go) and well kept nurses are better at taking care of patients.

Bic

Waterman

Zebra Sarasa. Bought one on a whim at a 711 in Tokyo a long time ago, kept coming back.

Sharpie.

Parker, usually. But Pilot is also good. Depends if I want a nice pen or a cheap pen. Kawecos are really nice, but I don’t currently own one.

Zebra F-301

Rotring. German company. Outstanding heft and quality. I like the 800, but if you prefer a click actuation to a twist, go for the 600.

Bank teller w/half a dog tag chain.

I’m no pen enthusiast, but I used to really enjoy Zebra. Build quality was good for the price point, and they were super smooth to write with. Unfortunately the quality went downhill maybe 5 or so years ago and they haven’t been great in my opinion ever since. They still feel fine physically, but the ink will stop dispensing randomly while writing. Got sick of it and switched to Pilot. Been using Pilot Precise V5 0.5mm and find them great. The ink runs a little wet though, so the only downside is that if you rub your palm across the page too soon after writing it’ll smear a bit.

I’ve used all kinds. My favorite is still the cheap Pilot G2. Writes effortlessly and has a great click to it.

G2s are nice for pena. We also have some of the Sharpie ones.

I really like the Papermate felt tip marker pens.

Zebra F701 is also nice.