There are trends in tattoo styles? I had no idea.
Sleeve tattoos are still in style, but are much more colorful these days. The other trend I'm seeing is lots of little tatts using "classic" designs (hula girls, anchors, etc.). Not that I'm an expert or anything, having just the one that I only got last year.
All of our kids will be getting "tribal" tatts to go "old school."
lots of little tatts using "classic" designs (hula girls, anchors, etc.).
Yeah, I've noticed this too. Pin-up girls, etc.
So, tell us about your new tattoo, Chopsy.
Nothing too fancy. Wife and kids' names in a typewriter font over the heart, reversed mirror-stylee on the back to simulate the names having gone through my heart. Because I'm a giant effing cheeseball.
The wife won't let me get the giant dragon backpiece I want.
Your wife is a smart woman. I recommend taking her advice more often.
"Thug Life" and "Pura Vida" are timeless, like a little black dress.
I got a tattoo of a little black dress on my face.
I got a Phoenix holding a rose when I moved to L.A. The rose matches the one the DE got on her back. I've been thinking of "DNR" and labels for the underlying organs only reversed to freak out a few med students.
I don't understand the willingness to be jabbed thousands of times in order to color your skin. A Sharpie works fine.
I want a big smiley face on the bottom of one big toe and a big frowny face on the bottom of the other big toe. Or rather, it amuses me to think of smiley/frowny faces on my toes.
If you moved to Phoenix, you could get an angel holding a rose. And then if you moved to Las Rosas, you could get an angel holding a phoenix. Or vice versa.
"Thug Life" and "Pura Vida" tattoos are even more timeless when one wears a little black dress that displays them to best advantage.
All over my torso I have tattooed a trompe l'oeil depiction of the torso of a much fitter man.
For a long time, I was going to get that Sumerian-symbol-turned-libertarian-publishing-house-logo as a tattoo. It's probably for the best that I didn't, but I still like the idea of getting a tattoo, for fairly boring-if-slightly-pathetic reasons--taking ownership of my own body & skin, etc. If only I cared enough about something that could be attractively signified by a tattoo! (I don't think copyright abolition has any particularly nice symbols, though I know the creative commons people have tried.)
I went to school with a guy whom I later met in Japan while he was in the process of getting a spectacular all-back tattoo featuring a marine mammal. I mention this only because I later met his brother on this very blog, where he (the brother) enjoys most-favored-commenter status.
taking ownership of my own body & skin, etc.
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I do that by pissing on myself from time-to-time.
Once I was watching one of those prison shows on MSNBC, or something similar, and a hardened con was showing off his tattoos and explaining the meaning of each. For example, the three bullets on his arm signified that he's stabbed a Mexican. On his back he had a very large self-portrait in which he was slitting the throat of a biker (he didn't explain that one).
I thought about getting a copy of the back tattoo, except with me being the throat-cutter (I look kind of like Matt Yglesias) and the biker, while still being a biker, having the face of Alex Trebek. I don't know why I didn't do it. Primarily cost, I guess.
Plus, I mean, everybody my age has a "murdering a minority celebrity" tattoo.
All over my torso I have tattooed a trompe l'oeil depiction of the torso of a much fitter man.
This was actually a thing on the British Dragon's Den. Only it was a tanning bed/spray stencil, not a tattoo.
For example, the three bullets on his arm signified that he's stabbed a Mexican.
That's not very intuitive.
I do that by pissing on myself from time-to-time.
Just get a tattoo of a yellow stream and be done with it.
three bullets on his arm signified that he's stabbed a Mexican.
That's not very intuitive.
That's why I figure the "here's me slitting a biker's throat" indicated that he smashed a whole street's worth of jack-o-lanterns or something.
A year ago when AWB got her tattoo, I started thinking about getting one. If I have been thinking about it for a year, it looks like I'm probably not getting it.
Obligatory SMBC link.
(I hope that one goes to the right video.)
Maybe your tattoo is like an elephant preganancy?
It doesn't really go anywhere, actually.
What? I have a future tattoo that will be over a decade since conception, when I eventually get it. (Kittens around my torso, post-mastectomy; it's been mentioned here before.)
That wouldn't be anything like an elephant pregnancy. I was talking to Smearcase.
Maybe this one will work:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckLLeRvIQWk&feature=youtube_gdata_player
When I was pregnant with Pokey, our secretary kept saying things that would imply I was having a 12 month pregnancy. (Like "halfway done!" when I was very, very pregnant, or "Are you going to teach for the first half of the spring?" when I was due in November.) She was breeding horses at the time, and wasn't doing it intentionally.
For a long time, I was going to get that Sumerian-symbol-turned-libertarian-publishing-house-logo as a tattoo.
The sniper team would have been instructed to exterminate with prejudice, on sight.
Did we ever link here to the guy who was caught for a murder because he'd commissioned a tattoo precisely identifying the murder?
20: I put that badly, misleadingly so. Sometimes folks speak of having gotten tattoos as a way to assert control over a body that they were in some sense having a problematic relationship with (as in this dialogue here). But that's actually not what I was talking about, though I used that language because it's a more straightforward issue, even if not quite mine.
What I hoped to do was more firmly anchor my own sense of personal identity, as a physical reification of continuity over time, at a time when it felt somewhat fragile. This fragility was due partly to my falling away from previously strongly-held political commitments, but also, and more generally and more significantly, to an increasing sense of alienation from my past. This, in turn, came from an inability to see my present without an almost overwhelming sense of regret and self-recrimination. Projecting forward, I didn't look forward to that degree of alienation persisting, and judged that even a regretful sense of past-identification would better in some sense--in particular, more useful for feeling productively embedded within a network of relationships with other people and projects, and hence less purely dispensable.
Now obviously a tattoo that symbolizes an ideology I'd already largely discarded wouldn't have done much to help with that; but then, the very acting-in-defiance-of-assured-efficacy was part of the appeal. And in any case it would have served as a standing reminder of an intention.
She was breeding horses at the time, and wasn't doing it intentionally.
"Where do all these extra horses keep coming from?"
"as a physical" s/b "through a physical" in 38.2. Blah.
A somewhat on-topic Portlandia sketch. It's actually not all that funny, but I'm linking to it anyway, because I'm totally in love with Carrie Brow/nstein after seeing a Wild Flag concert two weeks ago.
If anyone is looking for ideas, there's an awesome book on difference science tattoos. It really makes me which I had gotten a PhD in chemistry so I'd have a reason to tattoo my back with a bunch of molecules. Instead I have a silly triskalion design on my hip which might have been cool if I had paid real money to have it done.
37. I love that story so much. One of the secretaries in my office drove me out to that liquor store a few months ago. It looked just like the tattoo! It was like seeing a celebrity.
38 -- Just go with Calvin pissing on a Chevy logo, bro.
What, so you can tell Wat/terson and offer to sue me on his behalf for copyright infringement? Nice try, Halford!
I got a wolf tattoo on my shoulder that looks a bit like this. It looks really great with my mullet.
I was told that three wolves were the thing to have.
46: Pretty, although I can't see the connection with the wolf.
Well, for $100 off State Street in Madison, WI, circa 1995, one wolf was all you got.
I had a brief thought of getting a tattoo with my kid's name on it, and then I thought of the absolutely withering contempt my own father would have for such an action. At that moment, I recognized the real legacy I want to bestow upon my children.
I got an arm band tattoo late 90's (black outline of some vines; in geekly fashion, it comes from of a book, as did my first tattoo which was a zoomorph). I have no idea how dated it is. Tribal ones do seem like they are most likely to seem dates. I still like my arm one, and would be really surprised if I even become embarrassed by it some day. Like Heebie mentions, if anything, it would just recognize a time in my life. I purposefully got it a little high up, so it is rarely visible wearing many short-sleeve shirts. I really dig arm sleeves, but don't have the guts to try and pull something like that off.
I think of tribal tattoos as the most dated. The other dated ones are Chinese symbols and bar codes, but those span a wider range.
Celtic things, too, scream 90s to me -- but I should check with heebie on that.
My beloved niece, who lives in Portland, is just covered in all sorts of different bird tattoos. The jokes had to be made, but I felt a little bad.
I knew a dude who got a full back tattoo of a microchip.
I'm sure that's aged wonderfully.
A friend of mine got a tattoo of the biohazard symbol. As a gay man, he's had to explain many times that no, it doesn't have deeper significance, his 19-year-old self just thought it looked cool.
Got an upper arm that you don't know what to do with? Put a bird on it!
Boring left boob? Put a bird on it!
Ankle need some sprucing up? Put a bird on it!
What, so you can tell Wat/terson and offer to sue me on his behalf for copyright infringement?
Gary La/rson hasn't sent me any cease and desist letters yet.
A woman at my community garden apparently rues her pink triangle tattoo and chastised me for "jumping to conclusions" based on it.
60: Maybe she just assumed you were hitting on her.
55: Are they bird species that exist or pretty renditions of birds? I would have trouble choosing which bird to use as a tattoo. I've considered getting tattoos of my cockatiels, but I don't think it would look very good, especially if they were in color. Black colored swallows would look so much nicer.
Is there a tumblr out there of people who got QR code tattoos?
I wonder if AWB is embarrassed now that the Tristram Shandy frenzy has played out.
57: See, if it was a microchip whose design he had worked on, then it would be cool. At least if they got the layout right.
Somehow bad portrait tattoos are the saddest of all, because the loved one ends up looking totally demented.
most dated
The whole idea of being dated only makes sense when talking to people of different ages, doesn't it? Beavis and Butthead as legacy classics or whatever.
I got one tattoo my senior year of high school, when I stopped getting high and so basically lost my social circle and identity; some biker who knew somebody who knew somebody did it. Harmless rebellion, vaguely hippie design of a sun. So tribal is not the most dated choice, no.
You don't know that the loved ones don't look totally demented IRL.
19 is inexcusably opaque. (Or else I am inexcusably out of touch.)
I got a tattoo of Doogie Howser checking his beeper in a Circuit City, with "JUST SAY NO" along the top in this font.
How about getting a microchip implanted on which you store a jpg of a tattoo?
I got a tattoo of a CueCat slitting the throat of a PcJr.
I have the McDonald's M on my forehead, with "I'm Loving It" in old English font across my tummy.
I thought it was weird that RIGHT AFTER I got a giant tattoo across my ribs, every single girl on earth got a giant tattoo across her ribs. Fifty years from now, people will be like, oh, you must have gotten that in 2011, during the Year of the Rib Tattoo.
I'm going to get a McRib tattoo on my ribs.
And assorted KFC pieces all over me.
I've a friend who got a lupus diagnosis and then a wolf tattoo. It made her feel better so "dated" can go fuck itself.
I have a tattoo of Screech pining over Kelly Kapowski.
I got a sick "Instapundit" tattoo.
And assorted KFC pieces all over me.
They have wipes if you ask at the counter.
76: then you can double down on a doubled tattoo of double Double Downs doubling down. On your butt.
"Kony 2012" on my chest will always be relevant.
77's friend has a bad-ass doctor. Mine doesn't even give out lollipops.
I have the lyrics to MMm-Bop! across my forearm.
I'ma get a crossfit tattoo on my beer gut.
I'll never regret this tattoo of Caspar Weinberger done up like Che Guevara except in the Matrix.
I've got a tattoo of a box of deviled fudge SnackWell brand diet cookies across my shoulder blades.
I have a big "Olestra" logo and an arrow pointing down.
"Kony 2012" on my chest will always be relevant.
My "The Juice is on the Loose" tattoo has been unreservedly great for all the past 25 years.
Nothing wrong with a couple matching Lillith Fair armbands to highlight my guns.
"First, the bad news. I'm afraid you have ALS. There is a silver lining, however. Literally. The moon that the Native American on your shoulder blade is looking at has one. That's right; here's a mirror."
I've got no regrets about my "Snap into a Slim Jim!" tat.
Relevant. The 19 Most Regrettable Pop Culture Tattoos.
This thread is causing me to break my poker face again and again during office hours. I keep telling them "Sorry, just reading something funny..."
My only tattoo commemorates a relative's longterm battle with cancer. I can sleep well knowing that my simple "Team Edward" will never look silly.
My gothic script "Pog Life" chest tattoo rules.
If it's not too much trouble could you look at my problem set now, ma'am?
96: the "Zack attack" one is really something. I'm kind of impressed by the full-back Buffy piece.
2, 4: Anybody remember that Bunnyhop article about the young guys who had started their own styletribe of trying to look as much like 1950s-era dads as possible? They all got tattoos of anchors and stuff and asked for them deliberately faded and blue-green. Also, they liked to shoplift socks, and had their hair cut in such a way as to suggest graying temples.
60: I knew a Jewish lesbian in the anarchist scene in the early 1990s who had not only a black triangle, but also concentration camp style numbers on her arm. I felt like it was in somewhat poor taste, even if she was memorializing her dead great-grandmother or something. Not really my place to criticize though. Because I'm not a Jewish lesbian, you see.
Of course, the "Sean Young IS Catwoman" is my favorite.
I spent a few minutes staring at 96's Ed Bundy trying to figure out why someone got a Bill Maher headshot tattoo.
19 -- You must have missed the klout score discussion. According to the latest scientific methology, I don't rate any status at all, anywhere.
Of course he's serious. Klout scores are science done right. Physics aims for that kind of certain knowledge.
concentration camp style numbers on her arm
It did occur to me earlier that that's possibly the most dated tattoo ever.
My son's prom date has a tattoo on her collarbone. "Emmaus"
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We've been asked to work from home tomorrow due to the May Day general strike called by Occupy. This time I'll definitely show up.
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"Stop the Insanity!"
My "Stop the Linsanity!" tat will, I fear, be pretty precisely datable.
Seems like ages since we've discussed Crossfit
Relevance booster: the blog author appears to be heavily tattoo'd!
Hm yeah how 'bout that general strike. Somehow sticking it to the man at The Lemonade Society seems kind of non-point-having, plus I think they'd just automatically score it as a vacation day.
113: Woo-hoo! I'll be marching with the immigrant rights rally, and probably doing other stuff too.
NO BORDERS! NO NATIONS! STOP THE DEPORTATIONS!
I think we are reaching the point where facial tattoos are no longer a mark of having deliberately left mainstream society. I feel as if this has happened in the past 18-24 months, but as has long been established, I am a stick-in-the-mud.
I have to admit that they really, really make me wince. Probably because it seems like such a visceral reminder that the person has given up and/or feels given-up upon.
I dunno, maybe they signify something else in other parts of the country.
I got a teardrop tattoo on my face, but it's upside-down and on my forehead, so it looks right when I swoop down on people while hanging from a doorframe by my ankles.
I've perhaps quoted this here before but it's on-topic and makes me happy AND WILL MAKE YOU HAPPY TOO DAMMIT.
"...and she had recently bought an oriental rug for the living room, with Chinese symbols on it she didn't understand. The salesgirl had kept saying she was sure they meant "peace" and "eternal life," but when Zoë got the rug home she worried. what if they didn't mean "peace" and "eternal life?" what if they meant, say, "Bruce Springsteen?" and the more she thought about it, the more she became convinced she had a rug that said "Bruce Springsteen," and so she returned that, too."
Lorrie Moore, "You're Ugly, Too." (A few years ago I looked up how to write Bruce Springsteen in Chinese characters and sent it to Lorrie Moore, just so she'd know. It was a way of writing fan mail that felt like I had added value.)
A different type of "dated" tattoo. For map lovers as well.
As I think I've mentioned, I also gave some thought to a design based on this postal stamp, based on Article 1 of the German Basic Law ("Human dignity is inviolable. To respect and protect it is the duty of all state authority.") and celebrating the 50 year anniversary of Germany's Federal Constitutional Court, but ... eh. It would be a bit out of place, given my anarchist sympathies.
121: I dunno, I think a tattoo of elves, dragons, dolphins and roses would be, if not unique, then at least not something you saw every day. Esp. if it were a full back piece.
I've been thinking about getting the Haymarket Martyrs' monument with little insets of all their faces around it as a back piece. But I'm broke and not speaking to my tattoo artist, so it might be awhile before that comes to fruition.
I had previously wanted a big raven, but now my sister has a bunch of ravens, so whatever.
Holy shit Trapnel you have the worst tattoo ideas of all time. I'm stamping some European Community Directives on my ass!
If I were to ever get a literary tattoo, it would be an unobtrusive version of this. One you cold flash at the right people. Because if I'm going to date myself, I might as well do it at age 12.
A pallid bust of Pallas? Might attract a real raven.
125: Oh, that reminds me, I'm also going to get a fancy dollar sign and a fancy cross tattooed on my ass at some point.
Good general advice for protests:
http://occupywallst.org/article/may-day-checklist/
125: I'm stamping some European Community Directives"Ask me about Crossfit!" on my ass!
Natilo has someone he refers to as his tattoo artist?
I'm sure I've linked this before, but it's pretty sweet. Many more at that site.
Holy shit Trapnel you have the worst tattoo ideas of all time. I'm stamping some European Community Directives on my ass!
Heh. It would be amusing if, after his death, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing were found to have had parts of the draft European Constitution tattooed on his. I could totally believe it!
I kind of do have terrible tattoo ideas, though. Probably a good reason not to follow through on any of them!
132: I think you have, and I'll repeat what I think I said then--the Raistlin eyes are by far the most embarrassing aspect of that tattoo.
I can't really tell where this one is placed--I think it's on her shoulder--but this Dylan Thomas quotation would be truly hilarious, in an incredibly juvenile way, if it were on her lower-back instead.
I want a big smiley face on the bottom of one big toe and a big frowny face on the bottom of the other big toe
I haven't read most of the thread, so maybe this has been said already, but getting the bottoms of your toes tattooed would be very, very painful and I think the ink would probably wear away in short order.
Someone linked a limerick version of that poem here once, and I will never be able to forget the damn thing.
There was an old father of Dylan,
Who was seriously, mortally, illin'.
"I want," Dylan said,
"You to bitch till you're dead.
I'll be cheesed if you kick it while chillin'."
Nobody else had any substantive response so you're good.
Texas woman just cannot figure out why her tattoos got her kicked out of Legoland.
137: yeah, I'd heard the first of those before. Sigh. The back of the knee would probably be even worse, huh?
And 141 is super NSFW, at least if you scroll down.
The back of the knee would probably be even worse, huh?
I don't think so. Fingertips and toes are way dense with nerve endings. Back of the knee, not so much.
I have no tattoos but can tie together a bunch of recentish threads with my adventures tonight. The needle was for a tetanus shot. I have those old-school windows that Jroth knew were called sonething better than double-hung, but when I got home and went to open the window over the bathtub for ventilation so I could fix the scratches I commented about recently, the top part of the window that shouod have been immobile smashed down, taking two of my fingers with it, trapped betweethenwindow panes.
While I'd normally have been in AWB's camp of suddenly fearing I'd die alone, I knew both that Lee would be home in 45 minutes and that I'd left the front door unlocked, so the guy next door could help me if I could get his attention. I wasn't wearing any pants, but I was even able to fix that by reaching with my foot as far as I could and sliding my jeans over and pcking them up from the floor with my toes.
I'm proud of myself for staying calm for the 35 minutes or so it took for me to finally figure out how to use a little plastic squeegee as a lever and get my fingers free. Meanwhile, my ring had taken the brunt of the hit and despite the fact that it got all smashed up and dug into my finger, probably saved me from worse injury. I got to spend the whole evenng at the after-hours clinic with Lee and as I assumed there don't seem to be any broken bones or anything, but my hand will probably be swollen and gross tomorrow. So that's my exciting story and now I've taken my advil and hope to get to sleep.
Ouch! Hope you recover as quickly and painlessly as possible.
Hope you feel better. Rest really is the best cure for getting your finger trapped in a window.
Don't you think that hearing about A Genuinely Novel Human Sexual Activity would be very soothing, ease your pain, and speed your recovery?
149: I have to admit that I'm as intrigued as themrestnof us but baffled and don't even know where someone would start in thnking up just such a thing. I can assume it doesn't involve knuckle-smashing.
I can assume it doesn't involve knuckle-smashing.
Not boring? Check.
Not fun? Check.
I don't think we can rule it out.
Further to my stpry, there was a point when I wondered if I would be strong enough to pull the window up with one hand if I'd done Crossfit, but mostly that was just a past contrary-to-fact to pass the time.
131: Well, former tattoo artist is probably more appropriate at this point. I can't imagine repairing the rift in our friendship in anything like the near future. Also, he's not really crazy about tattoo artists who insist on being called "artists", thinks it's pretentious.
I've been given to understand that most of the really painful/irritating places to have tattoos done involve parts of the body where bone is very close to the surface. What with the vibration and all. (That's assuming you're being tattooed with a tattoo gun, and not a needle & thread or those bamboo splinter needles or some other low-tech method. Those are alleged to hurt like the dickens, regardless of where they're placed.)
My only disappointment is that you didn't have a phone near enough that you could comment "I'm trapped via crushed fingers for the next half hour. What are you guys chatting about, novel sex positions?"
But glad you're ok.
Even if she had had a phone nearby, how would she have commented with crushed fingers?
now that the Tristram Shandy frenzy has played out
Did AWB really get a tristram reference tattoo'd? I LOVE that! Please be true.
From 37: Investigators don't believe Garcia's elaborate tattoo was a rash decision.
I do not think that word means what you think it means.
(Admiral Lord Charles Beresford - arch-enemy of Dreadnought Fisher and head of the Channel Fleet - had a tattoo of a fox hunt in full cry running down his back, with a fox's tail emerging from his bottom.)
Foxes tails usually emerge from just above their bottom.
not a needle & thread or those bamboo splinter needles or some other low-tech method
Friend of a friend who was in the Peace Corps I-don't-remember-where got a tattoo on her foot using by the local method: shark teeth.
154, 155: It's only two fingers on my left hand and they're not completely crushed, thank goodness. My phone is a stupidphone, though, so even if it hadn't been across the room I would have had to do something boring like call for help rather than keep myself entertained here.
I put a picture of my ring in the flickr pool and another that's a terrible picture but shows the now-warped shape better. My fingers are not all smashed up like that, just scarped and sort of swollen. So yay for gay rings!
I hope you can bend them well this morning.
Your fingers that is, not the rings.
164 comments in and no mention of the recent popularity of the neck tattoo nor is it in the OP, what's up with that? Don't these people have jobs? Don't they have mothers?
Don't these people have jobs? Don't they have mothers?
Umm, no
My girlfriend has a tattoo in an unobtrusive place, a memento of the Peace Corps. I've kind of thought for a while that I should get a tattoo just to individualize myself, but I can't think of anything in particular I'd get a tattoo of. A couple months ago I thought it would be cool to get a QR code tattoo like in 63, but I still have the same problem - nothing in particular to link to.
Pick a Disney character and a household fixture and let your imagination run wild.
My girlfriend has a tattoo in an unobtrusive place, a memento of the Peace Corps.
I am trying to think of the most inappropriately gungho tattoo a Peace Corps veteran could have. Winged flaming skull with crossed daggers and the motto "URBAN SANITATION FROM ABOVE"?
I've kind of thought for a while that I should get a tattoo just to individualize myself, but I can't think of anything in particular I'd get a tattoo of.
A heart with a scroll that reads "[YOUR NAME HERE]".
"Peace Corps, Fourth Goal" with a locally ethnically appropriate nude would be tacky, certainly. (PC has three official goals. The unofficial fourth is to nail a host country national.)
153: I've been given to understand that most of the really painful/irritating places to have tattoos done involve parts of the body where bone is very close to the surface. What with the vibration and all.
I have three small tattoos behind my ear and getting them was really, really uncomfortable. It didn't hurt more than my other ones (belly & shoulder), exactly, but it did feel like someone was drilling into my skull in a way that I couldn't handle for very long. I got them in two different sessions and asked the tattooer to stop multiple times, which I did not do for the other, larger, tattoos in less bony places.
63, 167: What would a matrix decomposition tattoo look like? Because now I kind of want one.
QR code != QR decomposition, but maybe that's for Standpipe's blog.
Get an SVD tattoo!
Get a tattoo of a QR decomposition of a QR code.
I would like to get another tattoo, because I really like my previous one, but I can't decide if it is even possible to get anything as cool. I've been thinking about it as the problem as having a first tattoo that is so fucking cool there isn't anything else cooler, but maybe it's really the problem that once is cool and twice is queer, and getting a second hyperliterary tattoo (like the first stanza of Pale Fire) is sort of sad. Thoughts? I know plenty of people who had a number of shitty tattoos before their first big life-defining awesome tattoo, but I don't know of anyone else who started with the huge life-defining awesome tattoo and then got lesser ones.
You could get a stanza of "The Destruction of Sennacherib" tattooed across your back.
The first stanza of Pale Fire is quite a bit of text. Sounds painful to have it all tattooed.
But I guess "... out in that crystal land!" is kind of key. Otherwise, one would hardly notice the presence of Zembla.
But then (looking it up and inevitably getting immersed again) who'd want to stop before "svelte stilettos of a frozen stillicide"?
The lemniscate left by the bicycle tires. Lemniscate!
Being in Chicago and reading Nabokov makes me giddy with nostalgia.
Someone should use "didactic katydid" as a pseud.
I'ma keep talking to myself here.
You could get my favorite passage from The Recognitions as a tattoo, except (a) it wouldn't really make sense for you to get my favorite as a tattoo and (b) it's kind of a downer:
If I didn't trust you then, I mean mistrust you, then, I wouldn't have learned to mistrust myself and everything else now. And this, this mess, ransacking this mess looking for your own feelings and trying to rescue them but it's too late, you can't even recognize them when they come to the surface because they've been spent everywhere and, vulgarized and exploited and wasted and spent wherever we could, they keep demanding and you keep paying and can't … and then all of a sudden somebody asks you to pay in gold and you can't. Yes, you can't, you haven't got it, and you can't.
I'ma keep talking to myself here.
Probably a good call, as neb and AWB appear to be engaging in some sort of elaborate cross-thread courtship ritual.
It's only two threads. I'd hardly call that elaborate.
Get an SVD tattoo!
Nice! I'd rather have an AW though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snayperskaya_Vintovka_Dragunova
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_International_Arctic_Warfare#Design_details
180: The first stanza of Pale Fire is quite a bit of text. Sounds painful to have it all tattooed.
At that literary tattoo site, someone had the first line. Here. Can't think of a good Nabakov graphic, which is why my thought for myself in 126 was the muted post horn from Lot 49. A woman might try the definition of the pudendron from Ada strategically placed.
Can't think of a good Nabakov graphic
191: Where the Wild Things Are and The Little Prince show up a lot on that site. Also, at least 2 each from Fight Club and Peter Pan.
I think he would have been very puzzled by that.
Shaved pits weren't a thing back then.
Depending on how you oriented the face, you could use that. Huh -- a lower-abdomen Trollope, integrating the beard organically into the landscape? That might be the most profoundly unerotic tattoo possible.
