If quipu has taught us anything, it's that any object can be used to cue meaning.
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Write in sand or dirt. Easy to remove
This is how early Christians identified each other during the Roman Empire. They would draw the symbol of a fish in the dirt and erase it before guards and spies could see.
Back to clay tablets I guess
Defiant semaphore
Use them anyways.
Gratuitous acts of memery. Cats, Pikachu faces, swole doge and Cheems - you name it. Arcane to the uninitiated, ever so meaningful to the inner circle.
Goo goo ga ga
Macaroni art
Learn to read people's minds, a la Pyre
Helicopter dick patterns. Richard Code, if you will.
It's the only way.
Nah, fancy fountain pens are way too much of a status symbol to be outlawed. I'd just write with a montblanc - there's no way those filthy proles would be able to afford something like that, thus our interests as the capitalist ruling class are preserved!