Talking Meme: Tattoo
I'm still doing the talking meme. Give me stuff to talk about here
Another one for saba1789: Not sure you wanna talk about it but OMG WHAT IS YOUR NEW TATTOO GONNA BE?!!!
I almost didn't write anything just now because I saw January 11 and thought it was tomorrow. What are dates?!
Anyway, I don't mind talking about it at all. It's going to be an octopus on my back/shoulder, probably with some tentacles crawling over the shoulder or arm. The details are not 100% set in stone. I have an appointment to sketch and work that stuff out before the actual tattooing date. If it works out it's going to covering up the burn scar on my back. I don't actually mind the scar terribly, I just always pictured this going on my right shoulder and if it can cover it up instead of going around it, why not?
This one doesn't really have any special significance. Years ago when I started to really want a tattoo I was tossing around ideas and I wanted something to signify fandom and being fannish without being particularly tied to any single fandom (i.e. exactly why I then got the small AO3 kudos logo to pop my tattoo cherry :D). One of the ideas was something to represent fandoms coming and going but the fannishness and sense of community being there to stay and I thought of an octopus with many tentacles growing them back if one is cut off. I'm pretty sure I was confusing that with starfishes and anyway, it just wasn't a great metaphor so I dismissed it. But then the idea and the image itself had kind of burned itself into my brain and I liked it so much that I still wanted it and have wanted it for the last couple of years and now it's almost time :D
Another one for saba1789: Not sure you wanna talk about it but OMG WHAT IS YOUR NEW TATTOO GONNA BE?!!!
I almost didn't write anything just now because I saw January 11 and thought it was tomorrow. What are dates?!
Anyway, I don't mind talking about it at all. It's going to be an octopus on my back/shoulder, probably with some tentacles crawling over the shoulder or arm. The details are not 100% set in stone. I have an appointment to sketch and work that stuff out before the actual tattooing date. If it works out it's going to covering up the burn scar on my back. I don't actually mind the scar terribly, I just always pictured this going on my right shoulder and if it can cover it up instead of going around it, why not?
This one doesn't really have any special significance. Years ago when I started to really want a tattoo I was tossing around ideas and I wanted something to signify fandom and being fannish without being particularly tied to any single fandom (i.e. exactly why I then got the small AO3 kudos logo to pop my tattoo cherry :D). One of the ideas was something to represent fandoms coming and going but the fannishness and sense of community being there to stay and I thought of an octopus with many tentacles growing them back if one is cut off. I'm pretty sure I was confusing that with starfishes and anyway, it just wasn't a great metaphor so I dismissed it. But then the idea and the image itself had kind of burned itself into my brain and I liked it so much that I still wanted it and have wanted it for the last couple of years and now it's almost time :D