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This just made me feel a lot better. I'm gonna get the same tattoo.
From November 2, 2007:
It just occurred to me that I didn't have any pictures of my old tattoo, so here it is, just in case you ever need to identify my body or something.
This is the zodiac symbol for Gemini, and it's on my left shoulder blade.
I got this done on my eighteenth birthday, November 17, 1995. It was my first year in college at NYU. I had it done at a small, shady place just off Union Square. They didn't even ask for ID.
I went there without knowing what I wanted, just that I wanted something for my tiny baby sister, talula728. My first idea was the Gemini symbol that showed two children holding hands. Even though neither of us is a Gemini, we sometimes referred to ourselves as twins, and two children holding hands nicely symbolized how close we were. But when the tattoo artist showed me the stock photo of the two children, they were fat babies. And I didn't want fat babies tattooed on me.
The tattoo artist showed me another page of zodiac symbols, and on that one, the Gemini symbol looked like a Roman numeral two. I liked how it was simple, but clearly showed how two things are part of a greater one thing, the way two sisters were separate people, but always joined together.
Also, back then my favorite movie was The Exorcist III, and the best part was the villain, the Gemini killer. So I figured that, if my sister ever really pissed me off, it could represent The Exorcist III instead.
I asked the tattoo artist to make it as simple as possible, but like it was done by a paintbrush. Since it was just four lines, it didn't hurt at all. It was solid black at the time, and it's faded a lot since then, but I'm not going to get it retouched. I did it at a certain time, and I want it to always represent that time.
From November 2, 2007:
It just occurred to me that I didn't have any pictures of my old tattoo, so here it is, just in case you ever need to identify my body or something.
This is the zodiac symbol for Gemini, and it's on my left shoulder blade.
I got this done on my eighteenth birthday, November 17, 1995. It was my first year in college at NYU. I had it done at a small, shady place just off Union Square. They didn't even ask for ID.
I went there without knowing what I wanted, just that I wanted something for my tiny baby sister, talula728. My first idea was the Gemini symbol that showed two children holding hands. Even though neither of us is a Gemini, we sometimes referred to ourselves as twins, and two children holding hands nicely symbolized how close we were. But when the tattoo artist showed me the stock photo of the two children, they were fat babies. And I didn't want fat babies tattooed on me.
The tattoo artist showed me another page of zodiac symbols, and on that one, the Gemini symbol looked like a Roman numeral two. I liked how it was simple, but clearly showed how two things are part of a greater one thing, the way two sisters were separate people, but always joined together.
Also, back then my favorite movie was The Exorcist III, and the best part was the villain, the Gemini killer. So I figured that, if my sister ever really pissed me off, it could represent The Exorcist III instead.
I asked the tattoo artist to make it as simple as possible, but like it was done by a paintbrush. Since it was just four lines, it didn't hurt at all. It was solid black at the time, and it's faded a lot since then, but I'm not going to get it retouched. I did it at a certain time, and I want it to always represent that time.