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So I've been thinking about getting a tattoo for my dad for a while. Every idea I had was weird, nothing turned out the way I wanted it to, so I gave up on the idea for a while and started thinking of getting something else as my first tattoo.
I want something simple because who knows if I'm gonna be a huge pussy or not, and there was always this saying I liked... nothing is heavy to those who have wings. So I looked it up and found a translation into latin, which I deemed quite classy. "Alis Grave Nil". And something inspirational can't hurt, right? Maybe if I'm having good thoughts injected into my skin by a thousand needles, something will stick and make me a more positive person! :P
The more I thought about it, the more I started to think that... that's sort of how I hope my father is getting along nowadays, y'know? He had so many things to weigh him down in real life - physically, mentally.. illnesses and dependencies. And now, he's free. None of these things are weighing him down anymore. In life he could barely walk, and maybe now he can fly.
So instead of getting those just those three words tattooed somewhere, alone, I added a pair of wings. Black wings, simple.. not feathered or too soft and fancy (my dad would be the first to tell you he never really qualified as an angel :P) to frame the words. I'm going to bring it to a friend I have who's a much better artist than me to flesh it out more mebbe.. I don't know. This is just an outline. Or it could be the final project..
opinions?
I want something simple because who knows if I'm gonna be a huge pussy or not, and there was always this saying I liked... nothing is heavy to those who have wings. So I looked it up and found a translation into latin, which I deemed quite classy. "Alis Grave Nil". And something inspirational can't hurt, right? Maybe if I'm having good thoughts injected into my skin by a thousand needles, something will stick and make me a more positive person! :P
The more I thought about it, the more I started to think that... that's sort of how I hope my father is getting along nowadays, y'know? He had so many things to weigh him down in real life - physically, mentally.. illnesses and dependencies. And now, he's free. None of these things are weighing him down anymore. In life he could barely walk, and maybe now he can fly.
So instead of getting those just those three words tattooed somewhere, alone, I added a pair of wings. Black wings, simple.. not feathered or too soft and fancy (my dad would be the first to tell you he never really qualified as an angel :P) to frame the words. I'm going to bring it to a friend I have who's a much better artist than me to flesh it out more mebbe.. I don't know. This is just an outline. Or it could be the final project..
opinions?