Be only as specific as you feel comfortable.

  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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    I started a sleeve dedicated to music. So far it’s just a Staff with a Quarter Note, Whole Note, Quarter rest, and a triplet made of two eighth notes and a quarter note rotated -90°. It spells out LOVE. It’s on my wrist.

    Once I have some more money I will have the staff continue with as many bars as I can wind around my arm of the vocal sheet music of “O Death Where is Thy Sting?”

    Then I will have all the instruments I can play added in the blank areas.

    Then I’ll work on my Space Sleeve.

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    3 hours ago

    Something dumb and stupid probably lmao. So far I have:

    • A bandaid
    • A bass clef
    • The name of one of my favourite bands
    • An open safety pin
    • A capybara
    • “it” underneath my knee (in my language it’s the same as the "Dis"knee and "that"Knee joke except I ain’t have a corporate bs tattoo on me)

    I have an idea for the next one but my needles and ink have expired so I’m gonna have to wait till I have enough money to buy them fresh. It’s something spongebob related tho

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    3 hours ago

    My girlfriend has a lot of tattoos. I always get asked “Do you have any?”. No I don’t.

    I’ve been thinking of getting a little calf (cow) tattoo on my calf (leg) so I can say “Yeah I have a little calf tattoo”

    My grandmother loved cows, my grandfather loved ice cream. My other grandmother is from Finland, my other grandfather is from Mexico. So it would be a calf eating ice cream made from reindeer milk wearing a sombrero. Then it would represent all my grandparents.

    Any more ideas to add would be welcomed. My girlfriend’s favorite flower is a peony so I was also going to put that in there to help set the scene around it with some grass.

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    4 hours ago

    First tattoo. My dog, difficult because he’s a Tibetan Terrier with lots of hair and I believe that’s hard to draw, but I’ll get it one day.

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    I have wanted a larger piece for a while, an astronaut to memorialize my brother. There’s an artist up the street from us that has a really interesting style but he’s always booked. In the city there’s an American traditional place that my wife and I have been to multiple times. I think I’ll just wander in one day when I have nothing else to do lol

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    My first and only tattoo is Captain America’s shield with a ribbon flowing around it that says, “I’m with you ‘til the end of the line” on my right bicep.

    I am a huge Cap fan and what he stands for (e.g., the Dream, people’s rights such as minorities and lgbtq, fighting gov corruption including the US). My son was also superhero obsessed as a kid and so the quote is something said in the movies between Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes (best friends) and it’s sort of my mantra and promise to my family along with the shared superhero enjoyment with my son.

    Another I thought about was for my left bicep and the Mythosaur skull with Aurebesh writing that says “This is the way” with it split between top and bottom and curved around the skull.

    If I could think of a really cool D&D one, I might do that as a DM and player.

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    8 hours ago

    If I ever get a tattoo it needs to be physics or math related but I have no clue how it’s possible to not be terribly cringe. Maybe a clever geometric argument/proof of something important in physics/math.

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      Yeah the cringe factor on that one is pretty high unless you come up with something unique.

      The Maxwell field equations stand on their own in their beauty I think, but you kind of have to have some tangential relation for it not to just be ugh.

      Or maybe nah that is cringe.

      A good anti cringe factor is humor. If you can find something that’s both meaningful and funny then that always works.

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        58008 And you tell people they can turn you upside down

        Joke aside, I knew a guy who had some version of Binet formula tattooed on his shoulder. I thought it was clever and has an interesting history, and if people ask you can talk about Fibonacci and golden mean and art and the renaissance period and etc

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    Do you know the concept of kintsugi? It’s a Japanese concept where when a dish breaks, you don’t glue it back together with super glue. You glue it back together with gold. The dish is reformed, but its flaws are also on display as a thing of beauty.

    Anyway, I know that gold is not necessarily something that would be conveyed well or stay that way in a tattoo.

    But I am wanting a kintsugi pot with a bonsai tree growing out of it. The only color will be in the cracks or the pot. The rest I want in black and gray. I’m wanting it on my thigh.

    Problem is I have been putting off getting more tattoos for the summer because you can’t swim for like 3 weeks ish after getting one. But I’m a very impatient person!!

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        4 hours ago

        Lmao I didn’t think of that. To be fair this is the longest I have gone without getting a new tattoo since starting to get some in October lol

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    12 hours ago

    First one was a simple tree. I like trees.

    Next one is going to be a possum dressed as a medieval knight with a lance riding on a snail.

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    I have a 4cm long scar on my forearm. I want to have Asmodeus from Redwall wrapped around my forearm with Matthias beheading him with Martin the Warrior’s sword. The scar will be incorporated as the line of the sword strike.

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    I have plans for a piece on my fore arm of a stylized 3 headed rat. There will be a fancy crown hovering over the arch of its back in blacklight ink so in the right setting it glows.

    The Ratking is my favorite mythological creature, in myth they keep and deal in secrets as their rats work as spies. My favorite part though, is that the mythical Ratking is created the same way as the normal one, rats getting stuck together. It’s that mythical from the mundane that I love so much.

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    16 hours ago

    I have no intention of getting a tattoo, but will probably have a number tattooed on my forearm when I get hauled away to the Woke Detention Camp.

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    One of my upper arms has a beautiful photo realistic scene, that was done by my ex as a goodbye present … it was done in one 12 hour session, but doesn’t go around the arm as far as the ones I have on the other side do.

    So, I’m going to ask an artist I trust to make a sort of picture frame for it, plus have something that wraps around all the way as a band, so it doesn’t fall off :-)

    After that … I’m pretty well covered on my top half (neck, chest, top half of my back, both arms, hands) so either I’ll get a tramp stamp or start on my legs a little bit. No rush.

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        When I met her she already had a plan in motion to move to another city, to start a tattoo parlour of her own (since this area is already saturated with them).

        I fell for her pretty hard - the first time we met I told her she could draw anything she wanted on that whole area … she put it off the whole time we were together, until the day before she left.

        It’s a really beautiful tattoo. I still miss her a lot.