To those of you who want a tattoo, but can’t figure out the exact placement, design, or don’t have the money, or don’t want to freak any family or SO’s out just yet, what would you like?
And to those who don’t want one (first off one has to wonder what you’re doing in this thread, :dubious: ) let’s say some crazy tattoo artist has you at gunpoint and is forcing you to get something, what would you get done? It has to be something that would be easily seen if that part of your body was uncovered (though by all means you can get it somewhere that will be covered almost all the time.)
Me? Well, I kind of want a tattoo, but am worried about both my family freaking out about it, as well as potential ramifications of things like jobs and so forth. The reasoning of this freaking is because, if i get what I want, it would have to be on my right wrist. A very prominent location. Luckily, though, I wear a watch on my right wrist (the rare times I wear one,) and would plan it so a watch band would cover it (the design I have in mind is small.) That negates most of the problems possibly encountered from an employment perspective (while I don’t think my career choice is the kind where any kind of visible ink would prevent employment, is still is a mostly “traditional” type of job where lost of people would wear suits and expect everyone to look professional, and most of the time that means no visible tattoos.) Of course, I can’t wear a watch around my family all the time, at some point they’d notice it. (I am ashamed to say I base lots of my decisions, even as an adult, off of how I think my parents will react. )
The actual tattoo would be this. (People who recognize it will understand why I want it on my right wrist.) I also have an idea for a second tattoo, on the left wrist, of one of the three sword pictured in the top row here. I can’t decide if I want the regular sword, the white sword, or the magic sword. I’m leaning towards the white one, if I get one at all, though the other two have their appeal as well.
I’d vaguely like a mercator projection of all the continents except Antartica on my upper back, with Alaska and the Aleutian Islands at my left shoulder and the Chukchi peninsula at my right. I’ve also considered the circle of stars from the Tennessee flag on my left upper arm and a compass on the inside of one of my wrists.
My favorite book of all time is Moby Dick- I guess, if I had to, I’d get a small whale or a ship somewhere, maybe the back of my shoulder.
Since my handle on a lot of sites is nightrabbit, and I’ve gone by nightrabbit for years, I’d also consider something like a rabbit leaping over a moon, again, probably shoulder blade area.
IRL, I will most probably never actually get one. I don’t like pain, much, or the idea of such decorative permanence.
I remember I was about 21 and was on a trip with my parents and I saw a tattoo parlor. I was walking with my dad and I said (just to get a rise out of him), “Maybe I should get one.”
Much to my surprise he said, “Sure, if you want.” Needless to say, I won’t have to worry about the parents freaking out.
At times I’ve considered getting one but I’ve always backtracked because I imagine myself looking at it at 70 and wondering what the hell I was thinking.
The first idea that I had was that I’d get word “shoulder” on my shoulder but in Japanese. I think that’d be funny. A similar idea would be to get, “It has always seemed silly to me to get Japanese characters on one’s body if you can’t read Japanese.” Of course I’d get it in Japanese lettering. These are the sort of ideas I can see myself getting tired of.
I had another tattoo drawn up by an artist friend of mine. Long ago, I did a project on Tigers and since then I’ve always loved them and find myself relating to their behavior in a number of ways. On to the tattoo…I got her to draw tiger stripes that I would get over my left shoulder. It’d be a pretty big tattoo fully covered by a short sleeved shirt but I’m a bit nervous about it because, again, I’m not sure what I’ll think of it a ways down the road.
Honestly, I kind of doubt I’ll get one but I can’t rule it out 100%.
The only tattoo I ever thought much of was that of the quartermaster (I think) in Cutthroat Island. It was a blue, celtic-like design covering his face.
I suspect I would need a bit more muscle and retirement money to pull it off though.
Nothing unless I’d been in the Navy. Had I been though, it’d be a big ass anchor with a huge heart behind with “MOM” written across the front. The classic… and then I’d do curls until my arms got freakin’ huge.
I opened this thread because I was curious about what kind of responses you’d get.
I’ve never had a tattoo and I never really considered getting one (committment issues). But I used to have a set of darts and they had a cool design on the fins. It was an abstract of Groucho Marx - sort of like this (except better - and obviously not animated). I thought it would make a cool tattoo. As I said, I didn’t plan of getting it, but I mentioned it to a friend of mine and he considered it.
I don’t have a tattoo yet but I’m considering getting one related to my fraternity.
yes i know I’m inviting ridicule for considering this, but my defense of that is that I’m not considering an ostentatious display of fraternity allegiance but a rather demure tattoo representing one of our ritualistic mottoes that is quite meaningful to me and one that applies to general life in a way that I can’t think of it being something to regret down the road.
In particular it’s a couple of greek letters (Delta and Pi) standing for one of our secret mottoes, positioned with one on each side of the spine at the base of the neck (the positioning is mostly related to where I think it’d look best) with one of the fraternity symbols adorning it.
I’ve thought for years about getting a tattoo of an antique compass rose. I love maps, especially old maps, and I love the way the way the old compasses look. The reasons I’ve never done it are that tattoos don’t come in gold leaf and also that I don’t really want a tattoo.
I want one and if I ever get up the money and the guts at the same time, iI may just go for it.
It’s going to be a ring on either the fore or middle finger of my left hand. It will consist of three flowers linked by small lines that look like vines. The flowers, based on a design I’ve been drawing since childhood, are four petaled and have a round center and flame shaped petals. They’ll be a simple line drawing with coloured centres, each matching my one of my son’s birthstones.
Since I can’t really wear rings at work, this will be a permanant version of a family ring. I want it to be as tiny as possible.
The coat of arms of Navarra (google navarra cadenas) on my right shoulderblade. I’d go for a traditional design: neither the current stylized official version nor the version with the Laureada, and no crown because the real-old ones (pre-Guerra Civil and therefore pre-Laureada) I’ve seen in relatives’ houses didn’t have the crown.
Red background, golden chains with a very specific design (the original chains are a souvenir Sancho VII brought from the battle of Las Navas) and an emerald in the middle.
I would love to be able to use the Laureada version (my family has 13 individual Laureadas, all of them won in the Carlista side of the Carlista wars; we refer to the Guerra Civil as “la sexta” - the sixth Carlista War) but it’s become non-PC since we’re a democracy and I don’t want to get into fights for being proud of being warrior stock
My family would probably freak out some, but by now they’ve already decided I’m not as crazy as it sometimes seems, just ahead of my times.
The Cruz Laureada de San Fernando (a cross formed by four swords, pommels in the centre and points out, with a laurel crown overlaid on the points) is the highest military decoration in Spain. The collective one was given by Franco to Navarra because without our Carlista troops he wouldn’t have had a snowball’s chance in the Sahara at midday; then because the Falangistas got jealous he gave it to Valladolid as well. So now having it on the Chains is non-PC, but nobody has had the bollocks to try and officially withdraw it… it would be pretty suicidal.
Funny thing is, I’ve wanted it since way before they became cool, much less mainstream.
I’d love a damask style sleeve on both arms and across my shoulders but realistically, it would probably be a very small infinity sign somewhere that would be covered by a bathing suit, like just under my left breast over the ribs or in white on my inner wrist. My mum had the idea of an infinity tattoo so I know she’d be okay with it. But no roses because ‘only whores have roses!’
Most likely, I’d get a stylised version of this, probably on my left shoulderblade.
For geek points, I have seriously considered tattooing the words “Remember Sammy Jankis” on my left hand.
I have also thought about something like a snake crawling down my arm with its head on the back of my hand.
If I were a hot woman (and not completely sure that I’d grow tired of it), I might get a tattoo on my face like this. Damn, that looks good. And as a bonus, in practice it disqualifies you for basically any job that lets people see your face.
If I was going for geek points, I get the Star Trek Mirror, Mirrorknife-through-the-globe logo (as seen on the back wall of the linked image) on my chest.
If that crazy tattoo artist meant business while holding me at gunpoint, and if I would not be allowed to remove the tattoo later, I’d probably get a piece of “jewellery” done, rather then a text or symbol.
I’m thinking a few elegant curving lines around my upper arm, like they were made out of silver thread, resembling an art-deco, celtic or jugendstil bracelet or brooch. Or a few curly lines on my lower back.
I’ve been thinking of getting a tattoo for years but I’ve yet to settle on a design long enough to bother (that, and I’d rather wait until I’ve fully moved out). I’d probably go for something along the lines of a stylised dragon.
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