Your Tattoos

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Obviously you have not lived long enough yet to know that you cannot make universal declarations about large groups of people. It might appear to work from the long view, but up close this kind of thinking doesn't swing. You dissapoint me.

If you went to trial for pinching a tv you'd be first in line begging the judge for makeup to conceal your coloring book body.

Whats really nasty is the girlz who draw their own tats with ink pens.

 

[vrosej10]

If you went to trial for pinching a tv you'd be first in line begging the judge for makeup to conceal your coloring book body.

Whats really nasty is the girlz who draw their own tats with ink pens.

You presume I would get arrested in the first place. I am about as scary as June Cleaver! You presume a lot and no I wouldn't cover up my tattoos. In Australia it would make shit all difference.

 

[Handley_Page]

I have approxiamtely 40 tattoos, each of them gotten for a different reason. A lot form part of the larger pattern that co-ordinates the individual units. I have a triquetra between my breasts as a symbol of a commitment to my religion. I have a Celtic band around my wrist symbolising my religious vow to never eat veal or pick a particular kind of flower, which is my totem plant. I have the annwn on my neck, which is associated with the gift of the gab, important for a writer. I have 'I love me' tattooed on my wrist to reminder myself to be kind to myself (people think it's hilarious). I have my first name, Violette, tattooed on my chest to celebrate my name change. I have two emporer moths on the inside of my arms done to celebrate marrying my current husband. I also have the first haiku I got published tattooed on the inside of my left arm. A lot of my other tattoos have a heart shape because I seem to keep doodling hearts despite the fact I am really not romantic and I figure my subconscious is trying to tell me something. I hope that helps.

I'd be interested in knowing the Haiku.

 

[buxxxom]

I have one so far, on my back. Got it about 5 years ago. It's a memorial piece, designed by an artist friend of mine. After my father died, my mom was going through his things and found some "squirrel money" that he'd hidden. She gave me a couple hundred bucks of it, and I used it to buy a last birthday present to myself from my dad. He'd have liked it. He's of Irish descent, so I got a shamrock.

My mother passed away a few months ago, and I'm planning a memorial one for her too. It's a toss up, though. Can't decide. It'll either be a "roots and wings" design or a magnolia blossom. I'm leaning toward the magnolia blossom. We moved a couple times during my childhood as my family grew, and at each home, my mom would plant a magnolia tree. It wasn't home to her until she did. I think I'll like having a bit of "home" with me, in ink form, the rest of my life.

Yes, they hurt. Yes, I know they're permanent. Kinda the point. Yes, I'll still like it when I'm 80 and saggier than I am now. They're for me, not for anyone else.

 

[Stella_Omega]

It's obvious jimmybob has been missing his anti-psychotic meds. His nurses need to watch him more closely, and not let him palm them.


I have a pair of Balinese dragons, one on each hip. They signify the active and passive principles-- OM (to be) in sanscrit, and DO (to make, to do) in Japanese behind them. I like mixing and matching cultural references.

Buxxom, I think that the Magnolia tree is the Goddess tree of the north American continent; White wood, evergreen leaves, those huge fleshy blossoms with their lemony scent, and seedpods that look like furry labia with shocking red clitorises...

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I dont confuse my body for a coloring book.

 

[TxRad]

I dont confuse my body for a coloring book.

But Pasty White is a color.

 

[Stella_Omega]

I dont confuse my body for a coloring book.

No problem, jimmy. You have every right in the world to not tattoo yourself. You don't want to, you don't have to. No one will think worse of you for it.

 

[CharleyH]

Hello all,

I'm developing an idea for a new story, and tattoos are a key element--namely, how people use tattoos to express, project, and shape their identity.

If anyone is willing, I'd be grateful for a description or picture of any tattoos you have, with a few words about why you chose that particular tattoo, and what you think it expresses about you, or signifies to you.

Many thanks!

I have a Pyramid, with the sun rising, or falling (depending on how one views it), on the inside of my right ankle. I got it to celebrate my mother's life and death. It has more symbolic meaning than I am saying, but it is the only tattoo I have right now - thank God. I will only get more tatts when my grandparents (who I am very close to), my husband or brother die. Preferably not, though.

 

[Angelscuck]

Hello all,

I'm developing an idea for a new story, and tattoos are a key element--namely, how people use tattoos to express, project, and shape their identity.

If anyone is willing, I'd be grateful for a description or picture of any tattoos you have, with a few words about why you chose that particular tattoo, and what you think it expresses about you, or signifies to you.

Many thanks!

Here is a poem I wrote about tattoos:
TATTO LOVE

SOME MEN SWEAR TO GOD ABOVE,
AND SO PROCLAIM UNDYING LOVE;

SOME MEN SIGN ON DOTTED LINES,
ENSURING LOVE TO LAST THROUGH TIME;

SOME MEN GIVE SWEET GIFTS AND JEWELS,
PROMISING LOVE THAT NEVER COOLS;

THIS I SAY, MY LOVE, TO YOU,
I’LL WEAR YOUR FACE AND NAME TATOOED;

ETCHED IN MY SKIN FOR ALL TO SEE,
A LOVE THAT LASTS ETERNALLY;

A PROMISE TO GOD CAN BE MISSPOKEN,
AND CONTRACTS ARE TOO OFTEN BROKEN;

GIFTS AND JEWELS CAN SLIP AWAY,
BUT TATOOED LOVE IS HERE TO STAY;

TO PROVE TO YOU, MY LOVE IS TRUE,
I SWEAR BY MY TATOO.

Discription of my tattoos

I tried to download them here but they are too big. If you email Angelscuck I will send you their pictures.

 

[SeaCat]

I have one. A black Panther on my right Deltoid.

Now you have to understand. While I was growing up I did a lot of hunting, what we call stalk hunting as opposed to stand hunting. This means you walk through the woods and track the animals down. The way I grew up we didn't have a lot of money so you didn't waste ammunition. Because of this you tried to get as close as possible to your prey before you shot. One day soon after I turned ten I crept up close enough to a deer that I didn't kill it with my rifle, I did it with an hand axe. (Hatchet to some of you.) People started saying I moved through the woods like a Cat and the nickname stuck.

When I went to Europe and worked for Uncle Sam the group I was with took as their sign the Panther because much of our work was at night. Again my ability to move quietly and stealthily worked for me and my nickname followed me.

When I started to dive I had this thing about staying near the bottom. I also had a mustache with longish whiskers. Because of this my Dive Instructor said I was like a Catfish.

A couple of years ago we were hit with several, (three) hurricanes in a short time frame. (Jeanne, Francis and Wilma) After going through these and surviving without damage my wife and I decided that we might as well do something different as a kind of commemoration. We decided on the Tatts.

I picked up the Panther and had it stylized a bit to make it mine. My wife picked up a Swallow Tailed Butterfly on her hip. (Stylized in that it is Cobalt Blue and Ruby with no black lines.)

My father has three. He has my mothers name across his shoulders. (They are coming up on their 51'st anniversary in a couple of months.) On his left shoulder he has a set of Master Blaster Wings and on his right shoulder is his oldest one. A wolf sitting on a boulder howling at the moon. (This one was done when he was 18. He had it done in Mexico and they used a metalic ink that hasn't faded since.) If I can get a good pattern made of this tatt. I'll have it put on my left shoulder.

Cat

 

[vrosej10]

I dont confuse my body for a coloring book.

You know what the difference between people with tattoos and people without is? People with tattoos don't care if you don't have tattoos...

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

You know what the difference between people with tattoos and people without is? People with tattoos don't care if you don't have tattoos...

It might astound you if you knew how much damage tats do to your life.

 

[Guest]

It might astound you if you knew how much damage tats do to your life.

Probably not. A lot of us smoke. Most of us drink. Those things have ramifications that exceed the boundaries of our bodies and yet here we are doing them anyway.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Probably not. A lot of us smoke. Most of us drink. Those things have ramifications that exceed the boundaries of our bodies and yet here we are doing them anyway.

No, youre wrong as can be.

Places like Dollar-Rama and biker bars dont give a crap about how the company presents itself but most companies and institutions do. Nuthin says 'trash' like a woman covered with tats. Tats may be beauty in the eyes of a biker, but the rest of the world isnt impressed.

 

[vrosej10]

It might astound you if you knew how much damage tats do to your life.

Trust me, they have very little effect on my day to day life bar sorting out the arseholes who are too superficial to be bothered with. Do you fit into that catergory? I hope you think more deeply than that. Tattoos are so common in my generation and the one after it, that discrimination based on tattoos, at least were I live is pointless. I was 27 when I got my first one. I had, by that time, a good idea of where my life was heading. I'm artsy. A little eccentricity is expected. Hell, we are talking on a porn site. When did frequenting this kind of locale suggest that the frequenter was conservative, bit I digress.

 

[vrosej10]

No, youre wrong as can be.

Places like Dollar-Rama and biker bars dont give a crap about how the company presents itself but most companies and institutions do. Nuthin says 'trash' like a woman covered with tats. Tats may be beauty in the eyes of a biker, but the rest of the world isnt impressed.

I object to being called trash for starters firstly. Secondly, we aren't trying to impress anyone. It's a form of artistic impression.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I object to being called trash for starters firstly. Secondly, we aren't trying to impress anyone. It's a form of artistic impression.

You can object to it or ignore it or embrace it; what you do with the opinion is your business. But most people do not buy 'artistic impression.' White trash decorate themselves with tats.

 

[vrosej10]

You can object to it or ignore it or embrace it; what you do with the opinion is your business. But most people do not buy 'artistic impression.' White trash decorate themselves with tats.

Back at you. I can think of a couple of things you can do with your opinion... Honestly, I am an odd person. My tattoos simply make it clear who I am from the outset. They have actually improved my life considerably. I used to get random abuse about my weight from total strangers. It has completely stopped because the tattoos make me look less like an easy target. The cost in social terms for me is far outweighed by the benefits.

 

[Handley_Page]

Back at you. I can think of a couple of things you can do with your opinion... Honestly, I am an odd person. My tattoos simply make it clear who I am from the outset. They have actually improved my life considerably. I used to get random abuse about my weight from total strangers. It has completely stopped because the tattoos make me look less like an easy target. The cost in social terms for me is far outweighed by the benefits.

thanks for the poinsettia.

 

[vrosej10]

thanks for the poinsettia.

Coolio Handley. I don't PM much, so I was hoping it would arrive.

 

[VeritasMaximus]

As far as I know, we only have one life to live in this particular body, and I want mine to be marked in a way that reminds me that I have truly lived it. That's what my tattoos symbolize: one life lived fully and sometimes the hard way but mine to do with as I please.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Back at you. I can think of a couple of things you can do with your opinion... Honestly, I am an odd person. My tattoos simply make it clear who I am from the outset. They have actually improved my life considerably. I used to get random abuse about my weight from total strangers. It has completely stopped because the tattoos make me look less like an easy target. The cost in social terms for me is far outweighed by the benefits.

You get an opinion just like everyone else; tats work for you, tats turn me off.

 

[_Lynn_]

You can object to it or ignore it or embrace it; what you do with the opinion is your business. But most people do not buy 'artistic impression.' White trash decorate themselves with tats.

I may be white, but I am not trash. There's a huge difference between having a few tats and covering tons of skin with them.

Two of my three tats are in places clothing hides them. The third is an ankle bracelet, covered easily. Most people I know don't even realize I have them. But they're for me anyway, so I don't care.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I may be white, but I am not trash. There's a huge difference between having a few tats and covering tons of skin with them.

Two of my three tats are in places clothing hides them. The third is an ankle bracelet, covered easily. Most people I know don't even realize I have them. But they're for me anyway, so I don't care.

Nope. Check out the culture you live in. If tats werent the hallmark of trash every infobabe and weather chick and model and politician and actress would be decorated with them. A tat sez WHITE TRASH AND PROUD OF IT!