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Greetings and salutations, y'all. I'm Allie, and I got my first tattoo about three weeks ago.
The photos are kind of big, so they are behind the cut.
I got a scribbly semicolon on my right ankle at Ink Inc. in Kingston, NY.
In a larger context on my body:
Here it is up close:
I originally wanted it to be filled-in completely and perfectly, as though it had been typed onto my skin, but upon further reflection I decided it wanted it to be only partially filled and slightly outside the lines, as though it had been graffitied there. I'm pretty happy with it.
I have a second one in mind already, but I'm going to wait a while to have it done, to see if the idea sits as well with me a few months from now as it does at the moment. I'm planning to get a stuffed Hobbes, from Calvin and Hobbes--not an anthropomorphized version, but as he appears to everyone except Calvin. I'm vacillating about whether or not to have it done in color or just in black, but I'm fairly certain I want him on my left hip. I'm not sure if purists would strictly consider Calvin and Hobbes a "literary" source for a tattoo, but I would offer that reading that strip as a child taught me an inordinate amount of vocabulary, aside from the pure entertainment it afforded.
I'm taking my boyfriend to get his first tattoo this weekend as a birthday present. It's not a literary tattoo and so I won't discuss it here, but he has expressed an interest in getting a James and the Giant Peach-themed tattoo at some point in the future. There was a specific image he was attempting to explain to me, but it had been such a long time since I'd read the book that I wasn't sure to which scene he was referring.
So, in light of these two potential tattoos, I have two questions for all of you (having checked the memories only to find no tags on the following subjects):
1. What sorts of Calvin and Hobbes tattoos have you seen/do you have?
2. What sorts of Roald Dahl tattoos have you seen/do you have?
The photos are kind of big, so they are behind the cut.
I got a scribbly semicolon on my right ankle at Ink Inc. in Kingston, NY.
In a larger context on my body:
Here it is up close:
I originally wanted it to be filled-in completely and perfectly, as though it had been typed onto my skin, but upon further reflection I decided it wanted it to be only partially filled and slightly outside the lines, as though it had been graffitied there. I'm pretty happy with it.
I have a second one in mind already, but I'm going to wait a while to have it done, to see if the idea sits as well with me a few months from now as it does at the moment. I'm planning to get a stuffed Hobbes, from Calvin and Hobbes--not an anthropomorphized version, but as he appears to everyone except Calvin. I'm vacillating about whether or not to have it done in color or just in black, but I'm fairly certain I want him on my left hip. I'm not sure if purists would strictly consider Calvin and Hobbes a "literary" source for a tattoo, but I would offer that reading that strip as a child taught me an inordinate amount of vocabulary, aside from the pure entertainment it afforded.
I'm taking my boyfriend to get his first tattoo this weekend as a birthday present. It's not a literary tattoo and so I won't discuss it here, but he has expressed an interest in getting a James and the Giant Peach-themed tattoo at some point in the future. There was a specific image he was attempting to explain to me, but it had been such a long time since I'd read the book that I wasn't sure to which scene he was referring.
So, in light of these two potential tattoos, I have two questions for all of you (having checked the memories only to find no tags on the following subjects):
1. What sorts of Calvin and Hobbes tattoos have you seen/do you have?
2. What sorts of Roald Dahl tattoos have you seen/do you have?