Hello, yes, me again ^^

I'd like to thank all the kind helpers, I have learned so many things thanks to my previous post. Stay awesome, LD community.

I hit another snag in my story, but I'm afraid this one will be a lot harder to answer.
I'm still giving it a try, tho.

So. In canon, the Russian man working for the KGB in the early 1960s has a ( Read more... )

Time and Place: Roughly current time, northeast U.S. (probably Maine) Can make it somewhere else if it makes a big difference.

Googled: tattoos to cover scars, checked the Body Modification e-zine FAQ on tattooing and tried searching on the same term and on "scars" there.

( Cut for reference to violence... )

Setting: Modern-equivalent ( Read more... )

Male MC gets a tattoo as a sort of ID marker when he's 12 or 13. It needs to be some place fairly obvious when it's done, so I'm thinking either the back of the wrist or maybe the base of the thumb. The tattoo itself isn't the ID marker as much as it marks the spot that needs to be scanned and there's something like a PIT tag underneath ( Read more... )

I'm thinking of writing a fanfic for
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So, basically I'm trying to create a race of reptile people,and am hung up on one small thing: would it be possible for them to get tattoos? If you can even get visible tattoos on scales, would it last if they shed their skin yearly ( Read more... )

Hi everyone! Couple of questions.

The universe is real-world-ish fictional, pretty much pre-Christian Scandinavia with a couple of tweaks - same technology, same medicine, basically the same societal structure.

( First question - traditional facial tattoos and pain )

 I'm trying to find out what the current cultural norm is regarding tattoos in Ethiopia.  I have a character traveling around the country--both in villages and big cities like Addis Ababa--who is highly tattooed, and I want to know what people would think and how they would react to her.  As it is, she's going to stand out as she's a single, white ( Read more... )

Setting: Fantasy. Some influence from western Medieval, but also from Tan Dynasty to Song Dynasty China (10th-14th century). The story is set in a city-within-a-city which forms the seat of the Empire; the Empress is effectively an absolute monarch. Magic exists, but is very much feared and frowned upon.

Outline of the magic system, in case it ( Read more... )

I have a fantasy culture that practices heavy tattooing, amongst other body modifications, notably scarification and earlobe stretching/ear gauging/whatever. It's a rite of passage for children to get very intricate henna-like tattoos on their hands, arms and feet when they reach a certain age. These ones are usually the only ones they get nowadays ( Read more... )