From my favorite book of all time: "In watermelon sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar." (Richard Brautigan)


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I just got this done yesterday afternoon. It is on the outside of my right thigh. It took about three hours, but luckily I didn't really start to feel until it until the third hour as he got more into the color. I will definitely use my other thigh for ink, considering how well this one went.

( pictures behind the cut )

"We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing."
- Charles BukowskiThis was my first tattoo, done about five years ago ( Read more... )

Alright, I need opinions. This may be a strange question. For quite some time, I've been considering getting the quote: "Come at once if convenient- if inconvenient come all the same." Obviously from Sherlock Holmes, and relatively well known. I love the way it sums up their friendship & find it apropos to mine as well. However! I'm a little ( Read more... )

Hi there everyone! I recently got a tattoo of some lyrics from a Goldfrapp song. Picture and short video of the process behind the cut. It's on my right thigh.

( Walk out into velvet )

Last July, I finally went and got my Harry Potter tattoo. I love it -- even though it sometimes gets me eye rolls and disbelieving laughter. Because, for every eye roll, there's someone who gets SUPER EXCITED because I have a HARRY POTTER TATTOO! :D

(  I'm going to bed before either of you come up with another clever idea to get us killed, or worse, expelled. )

First and only tattoo, from the Keats poem Ode on Indolence. It's in his handwriting.

( Taking a picture of your back with a webcam is hard )

i posted the beginning of my backpiece a while ago. it's based on the snow maiden, a russian fairy tale. i haven't updated my progress in a while despite having quite a few sessions.

here's an update being that i just had a 4.5 hr session with my artist:


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I got my first tattoo a few months ago - the VFD symbol from A Series of Unfortunate Events, pictured below freshly inked. I'd very much like to get "The world is quiet here." tattooed near the symbol, in the font from the books, also pictured below ( Read more... )

I read The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and loved it immediately, but the quote below resonated with such fierceness that I knew it would become a tattoo.  To keep it simple, I chose I want, I want, I want in my own handwriting ( Read more... )