Way back when, I posted about getting my first tattoo as a graduation present to myself, and last Friday I finally went out and got it!

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Hello! I've been stalking on here for quite some time, but now I need some advice.

I recently got married, and I liked the idea of getting an ampersand on my inner left wrist to symbolize the union. Thing is, I feel like wrist tattoos are getting overdone, and I don't want to look back in twenty years and feel like I was part of a fad. (No offense ( Read more... )

After hauling myself through four years of undergraduate education, I've decided to treat myself to my first tattoo as a graduation present. I've wanted one for years, and hummed and hawed over what I should get and where I should get it, but I've finally decided on a long loved line from Neruda's 20 Love Poems and a Song of Despair.

( Some help with font selection )

I want to get the following bolded part of Pablo Neruda's poem tattooed somewhere on my back or ribs (painful, I know). As it's alot of text, I'm not sure how to design it so that it doesn't look like a big block of letters that just looks like a rectangle from a distance. Any ideas? Thanks!

I'm Asking for Silence

Now leave me alone.
Now learn to ( Read more... )

Hello all!
I posted waaaaay back in April about a possible Neruda poem tattoo. And finally, a million years later, I finally had the money and the dedication and the concrete idea of what I wanted. And I was on vacation with a wonderful friend and it was the day after my birthday, and there was no time like the present!

( slightly not safe for work, i guess? underside boob, nothing scandalous )

So i've been a stalker of this community for a while..and ive seen some gorgeous tattoos. I decided i should post now cos ive finally kind of decided on the idea i want now.
Ive wanted a tattoo for years but have been stumped on what exactlt to get..but i decided a couple of months ago that i would get a line from my favourite poem from my favourite ( Read more... )

thank you SO MUCH to everyone one that commented on my post yesterday.

i ended up breaking the poem up to fit my arm/the space i had, rather than leave the poem "true to form"- in the end my decision came down to how it would look best on my arm!

( neruda poem. )

I have so many ideas for a literary inspired tattoo but so little space on a body. So I figured I'd ask.

Does anyone here have any Rumi inspired tattoos or Pablo Neruda inspired tattoos? Also would be interested in seeing Craig Thompson, Paulo Coelho, or Nicole Krauss inspired tattoos.