That’s nice work.
I was in the Army, Ft. Gordon, Ga… Augusta’s main street was like a carnival, and there was a tattoo shop with a picture of Picasso’s “Dove of Peace”. A simple line drawing. I’ve kicked myself in the ass for 50 years for not getting it. On top of it being a beautiful picture, it would have pissed off my nominal superiors big time.
Thank you. My sister spent a lot of time picking the right tattoo artist and designing it. Which is good because if it had been done badly there’s no way I would have considered getting it!
I’m jealous, I’m a taurus, and I don’t like any bull imagery.
Maybe a tattoo of the Ford?
ETA: I was kidding, but I like tattoos that require an explanation, especially if the explanation is facetious/humorous.
Have one just like that, an eye on my right upper arm. Many years ago, when I was headed to Tonga to run a fish collection station for the US aquarium trade, had a friend say she didn’t want me going anywhere she couldn’t keep an eye on me. So I had her eye tattooed on…
Awesome!
When Lewinsky was in the news, I’d tell people I had a tattoo dedicated to her. I’d raise my arm to show it (it’s near my armpit) and they’d see a bird. Specifically a swallow. Some people got it right away.
This is one of those moments where I think “I guess obviously such a job exists, but it literally never occurred to me, and somehow I’m startled by it.”
I know very little about fish, I find them disconcerting, and have never contemplated the industry at all.
I was kayaking this summer in shallow water in the St Lawrence River and stopped to look around and saw a rather large muskie pass right under my kayak…I think if my hand were in the water, I could have touched it. I do think it was 3+ft long…I didn’t know what it was until I googled local fish later to figure it out.
Anyways, to keep this on-topic, one of my vague “tattoo subject matter” ideas is related to kayaking. Just don’t really know what I’d like.
I’m a Leo, so I thought about getting a lion tattoo, but then I remembered that I despise astrology.
I’ve actually seen one that was quite beautiful. The bull was feminized a bit with more flowing and curving lines, and there was a wreath of flowers around the horns that came trailing down.
I mean don’t let astrology stop you… People get lion tattoos for all kinds of reasons, and I’d bet most of them have little to nothing to do with astrology.
I’ve never been into astrology or horoscopes and I still ended up with three fish tattooed on my leg because it was a beautiful way to represent the three of us.
Have that on the top of my left thigh, although certainly untraditional - 2 NW tribal orcas in the Pisces configuration. Back when I had more money than sense, I contemplated a tribal orca chasing a tribal sea lion chasing a tribal salmon down the outside of my left leg.
I’m a man of limited stories, and limited memory. I’ll go back and delete the first one.
I have been thinking about a tattoo since I retired in 2019 - I’d like to get the letter pi tattooed in color on my forearm. What’s holding me up is that I interact weekly with a bunch of seniors, and senior family members, who have very negative opinions on tattoos (my wife doesn’t like them either, and just says “it’s your body”). Our daughter on the other hand has three, her most recent one a gorgeous resplendent quetzal (she’s Guatemalan).
It’s nuts that I’m 62 and still give a shit what anyone thinks.
I got my tattoos on my upper arms, close to my shoulders, and even in a short sleeve shirt people don’t see them. I got them for myself, not others. Even people who have known me for years often don’t know I have them. (I think I come across as the kind of person who would never get tattoos.) Just changing the placement of the tattoo could completely eliminate that complication for you.
Also, “pi” is cool.
I had been thinking about getting a tattoo since the late '90s or so, but never settled on a design. I wanted to make sure that whatever it was would have meaning for me for the rest of my life, because this kind of ‘body bumpersticker’ isn’t as easy to scrape off. Eventually I settled on something I knew would have staying power for me. It’s the emblem of the Kodokan Judo Institute at the top, with four kanji vertically directly underneath it saying (in Japanese of course), “nana korobi, ya oki”, usually translated as ‘fall seven times, get up eight times’. I’ve been practicing judo continuously since 1971, so it was safe to assume the emblem had some permanence, and the proverb is not only one that a lot of judo practitioners adopt but is also a cultural reminder to be resilient. It’s also a reminder of my brother, who passed away at 57 and who was supposed to take over our home judo club with me.
This is what I did. For my 60th birthday I got my first (and still only) tattoo on my right upper arm. Like @Atamasama , even in a short sleeve shirt it is hidden, but if I want to show it to someone it’s easy to pull up the sleeve.
I’m 65 now. But when I showed my tattoo to my mom she winced disapprovingly and responded like I was 16 and a punk, not 60 and retired.
I got a tattoo (after my late husband died) as a Christmas present to myself. He wouldn’t let me get one. You old-timers remember my relationship with that jerk, so it was a relief to do something just for me with no one telling me what I could or couldn’t do. It’s on my shoulder and is a scorpion (my Zodiac sign) with a red rose in its claw, to soften the sting, you know! 
I have two. Left forearm is three happy hobyahs running to the right (my avatar is part of it), I got this one with my oldest daughter. Right forearm is three scared hobyahs running to the left, I got this one with my youngest daughter. Significance? Shared trauma. For generations our family has had a tradition of fathers telling the bedtime story of The Hobyahs to the young’uns, with embellishments here and there to keep it interesting. I’ve only had one stranger recognize them as illustrations from the story. I don’t usually explain them–sorry you can see them sometimes, but they’re no more your business than a nasty scar or some other physical deformity.