Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the Marilyn Darling Show—today I’m reviewing Scribes Ink Green, and I’m going to tell you right up front: this is a very bleedy ink, but it is also a very fast-drying ink. On most papers it dries in about two or three seconds, which means it absorbs into the page quickly and really grabs onto those fibers. If you’re hunting for something that dries fast and you don’t care as much about pristine letter-writing quality, that speed might be exactly what you want. I swatched it, did a water resistance test (and yes—this one is definitely water resistant), and then I ran it through a whole stack of papers. On some sheets it looks like a nice green, sometimes with a matte vibe, but the big story is how often it bleeds and ghosts—on a lot of notebooks it straight up bled to the page like an alcohol marker. Even my Kinbor planner bled through, which was very upsetting. I wrapped up with a quick comparison panel and called out a few close-ish options (like Green Infinitation, Sydney Darling Harbor, and Franklin-Christoph Forest Green), and I’ll be honest: I’d much rather have Sydney Darling Harbor. If you’re a lefty using an extra-fine nib and only writing on one side, it might still be worth a look—but I personally wouldn’t buy it because of the bleed-through.