(July 20, 2016 at 8:05 am)The Viking Wrote:(July 20, 2016 at 8:00 am)Bella Morte Wrote: Pretty much same here.
I have designed all of my own tattoos.
For two reasons really - not only will they be entirely unique, but they MUST, MUST, MUST be significant to me in some way.
I now have a rule - any tattoo I have must tell my narrative. I do that for my own pride and my own happiness.
They speak of my experiences, my life events, my family, my heritage and my principles.
I would never get a design because I thought it looked nice in a magazine or I saw something spur of the moment in a parlour.
Every tattoo I have has a story.
Yes that's exactly how I feel
Even if I was going to get a pattern that was inspired by something else, I'd want it to still be, well, "me"
I still have photos of a tattoo my Dad had on his arm, I've considered maybe getting an "inspired" one in memory of him with a more up-to-date design.
"Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the road, and then getting hit by an airplane" - sarcasm_only
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
