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still undecided how i feel about these.
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thinking almost two years since my last one is too long. thinking depending on the generosity of my family this holiday, i might just have to remedy that.
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for yourself or on others?
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have three now, balanced out across my shoulders & back, like a shrug.
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i also have three. one across my lower back, one at the top of my belly/right under my boobs and one near the top of my left thigh. i would like a symmetrical one on my right thigh to balance it out.
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See that’s the thing about me – I can be so self_absorbed that I didn’t even consider that someone mightake it as my liking of a tattoo being on someonelse… yet it also never occurs to me to judge someonelse’s choice at all.
My disposition’s weird and some people really like me for it and some people are quite bothered by it.
as for tats, the only thing i seriously considered (and for some years now) is getting my entire body tattooed blue.
and i have no IDEA why'd like to.
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unhinged
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i've always liked your disposition
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jane
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i'll spare you the story of Ol' Blue Leg, but trust me, you do NOT want to tattoo your body blue. trust me.
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yeah, i probably won't go blue. maybe silver.
unhinged, really?
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unhinged
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really
the need for another tattoo is becoming an itch
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coincidentally, my tattoo is becoming itchy.
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haha!
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my new, favorite, addiction
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damn irs taking all my tattoo money
balls
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but the shop where i started my rib cage is closed now and i'm not sure what to get, where to go
much like how i came up with my tag here, the word solitary over my heart in a elaborate cursive script over my heart came to mind
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(i guess im stuck on getting a tattoo over my heart)
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my mother-in-law got her first and only tattoo at age 63, a series of dots along her sternum. these served as a guide for the technicians at md anderson to aim the daily radiation therapy at the tumor she carried in her lungs. she was there for six months; she rung the bell to signal the end of her treatment regimen. we didn’t know then that the cancer had spread to her brain, her liver, her lymph nodes.
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i did end up getting a tattoo on my right hip
a good portion of my back above my first back tattoo is also now covered
and my right side/rib cage
ive wanted a chest piece for all of the pandemic but between lockdowns and my general slowness when it comes to ink (don't wanna regret it later) i'm still waiting on that chest piece
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I wonder if anyone has had a blather tattoo...
I have a (non-blather) tattoo on my wrist and am planning one on my back/shoulder.
Good to see you floating in the red space, unhinged - hope the tattoo planning goes well.
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*waves*
Tenth grade. Stephen thought just because I didn't want tattoos on myself I'd dislike them on other people.
Nope, I said. They're fine on other people.
Of all the things to stay constant about over 18 years.
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i have two other tattoos, besides the aforementioned “smashing_pumpkins” symbol on my right wrist. vertically down my right upper arm are the coordinates for ann arbor; michael has a matching tattoo of it on his left arm in the same place, pieces we got done shortly after we got together. what i love about the coordinates is that west and north are the directions which comprise it—he traveled north from mississippi to come to michigan, whereas i travelled west from ontario in order to be here.
in the inner crook of my right elbow, in stacked abstract looking letters that you wouldn’t know at first glance, are the words “riot grrrl” because i’m a feminist and proud of that. i want two others that i’ve been holding out on due to covid: a small mayfly on my right shoulder, to mark the release of my first chapbook; and above my right elbow, the maiden names of my grandmothers and my mother, written in their own handwriting, to recognize the women who raised me and sacrificed so that i could pursue this creative path.
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hi igg! the idea of a blather tattoo has been bandied about before but i don't know if any of us actually went through with it
my idea for my chest piece has changed; someone convinced me otherwise because what if some day i'm no longer solitary?
so i decided the word bodhisattva may be a better choice since most of my tattoos are buddhist anyways and being reminded of my end goal couldn't hurt. i want to add cherry blossoms in the right side and bleeding hearts on the left side. finding a good artist who wants to collaborate is essential.
(i also want a tattoo of the firefighters union symbol with the phrase 'dare to be different dare to be great' around the symbol as a memorial tattoo for my dad, probably on my left thigh next to my other family tattoo but i don't feel ready for that one yet)
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(your tattoo plans sound really rad, unhinged. side note: "bodhisattva" by steely dan is one of my fave's of theirs—have you heard it?)
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thanks t_s
no, i've never heard that song. funny you bring up steely dan. i have a musical dislike of them much the same way i dislike the taste of melons. i can't really explain why i don't like it but i just don't. i kinda wanna spit it out a little bit actually.
i dated this man for awhile who was a pop culture professor and LOVED steely dan. he liked to play them while we had sex. he was the kind of man i should have been attracted to, good on paper. but like my culinary distaste of melons i ended up spitting him out. the fact that he insisted on steely dan during sex made me spit him out faster than i would have otherwise.
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I will nod and pretend I know the music referenced. :)
unhinged, I think "bodhisattva" fits well, besides being a beautiful-looking word (in English letters, not just in say, Devanagari script - actually I don't know if/when people would write in that script).
tender_square, my favourite, at least by description, is the "riot grrrl" script on the inside elbow.
(Why do I keep writing the word "script"? Everything's a script all of a sudden. Maybe I miss theatre.)
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i don't like steely dan much either; their music just kind of seems lacking in emotion for me, and doesn't grab me. interestingly, most people i know who are big fans of them are men. not exclusively, clearly, but it seems to be the case in my experience.
i don't have any tattoos but i've been thinking of getting one to honour my mom. i'm bad with pain but this is probably worth it.
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what's it to you?
who
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