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Mm, scabbilicious tattoo. Quote from John Webster's "The Duchess of Malfi."

Lynn Brewer came to Pilcrow Lit Fest with part of Sylvia Plath's Lady Lazarus on her shoulder. Naturally, I whipped out my shoulder to show her my typewriter tattoo.

assignment: things that are joined

New Diana Wynne Jones tribute tattoo =)

Inked by Kosta of Zoo Body Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (10/11/2010).

 

Excerpt from Howl’s Moving Castle:

 

"I’m the eldest!" Sophie shrieked. "I’m a failure!"

 

"Garbage!" Howl shouted. "You just never stop to think!"

  

I chose to have this inked because:

 

1) I love Diana Wynne Jones, she’s one of my favourite authors. She’s been very sick lately (she’s 76, and recovering from lung cancer) so maybe this might cheer her up a little, eh?

 

2) Jones once said that... every fairy tale has at least one strange truth to it. The main problem with Sophie was that she always accepts without questions… Also, she tends to be very rash with her actions and decisions. This tattoo will remind me to always stop to think – to prod, to examine, to question, to challenge.

Bad photo, sorry. Very grainy and distorted, but it's the best one I could do on my own.

 

But the tattoo work was brilliant! Will take a better photo soon =)

Inked by Kosta, at Zoo Body Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (10/11/2010).

  

“This time she thought for an instant before she acted.”

 

- Howl’s Moving Castle, Chapter 21: In which a contract is concluded before witnesses.

  

“The music broadened and deepened, put on majesty and passion, and moved onward in some way, fuller and fuller. All four players were putting their entire selves into it. Polly knew they were not trying to prove anything – or not really. She let the music take her, with relief, because while it lasted she would not have to make a decision or come to a dead end. She found her mind dwelling on Nowhere, as she and Tom used to imagine it. You slip between Here and Now to the hidden Now and Here – as Laurel had once told another Tom, there was that bonny path in the middle – but you did not necessarily leave the world. Here was a place where the quartet was grinding out dissonances. There was a lovely tune beginning to emerge from it. Two sides to Nowhere, Polly thought. One really was a dead end. The other was the void that lay before you when you were making up something new out of ideas no one else had quite had before. That’s a discovery I must do something about, Polly thought, as the lovely tune sang out fully once and then fell away to the end, as the piece had begun – in a long, sullen note. And her mind was made up.”

 

- Fire & Hemlock, Part 4: Nowhere, Chapter 6.

  

I mashed the two sentences together because:

 

1) They fit well together.

2) Both sentences indicate turning-points in which both heroines finally found the strength, courage and determination to step-up and take charge of their lives and their... happiness.

New Diana Wynne Jones tribute tattoo =)

Inked by Kosta of Zoo Body Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (10/11/2010).

 

Excerpt from Howl’s Moving Castle:

 

"I’m the eldest!" Sophie shrieked. "I’m a failure!"

 

"Garbage!" Howl shouted. "You just never stop to think!"

  

I chose to have this inked because:

 

1) I love Diana Wynne Jones, she’s one of my favourite authors. She’s been very sick lately (she’s 76, and recovering from lung cancer) so maybe this might cheer her up a little, eh?

 

2) Jones once said that... every fairy tale has at least one strange truth to it. The main problem with Sophie was that she always accepts without questions… Also, she tends to be very rash with her actions and decisions. This tattoo will remind me to always stop to think – to prod, to examine, to question, to challenge.

the second part of the shel silverstein arm. This is a quote by Dr. Seuss that I absolutely love. I'm thinking maybe an Edward Gorey image for the back part of my arm?

Impromptu tat at Blackblood Tattoo in Lander, WY. Color/art will be added next month.

my latest tattoo! it is quote from john green's looking for alaska, a young adult fiction book about a boarding school in alabama.

 

dftba!

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night". -Edgar Allan Poe.

Cell phone picture of Jenn's newest tattoo--an illustration of the Rose from _The Little Prince_, done by Cat of Strange Brew Tattoos.

Et Tu? wrist tattoos

9 hours done, the whale is getting coloured next :)

 

Toni Moore @ Broad Street Studio, Bath, UK.

This is how you see the tattoo if you're looking at me. I had to get a Terry Pratchett tattoo--I've loved his books for so long and have read all of them at least twice. Some six or seven times. I identify more strongly with Granny Weatherwax and Sam Vimes than any other characters in literature. Maybe the next one will have a Vimes reference.

This is my new Edward Gorey tattoo, nestled between shel silverstein and dr. seuss.

 

geek-betty

Redesigned tattoo of Billy Pilgrim's gravestone from Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five." You can see the original "Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt" design and then my tampering with it. I got the tattoo done by Sun Il in Deajeon, Korea.

the second part of the shel silverstein arm. This is a quote by Dr. Seuss that I absolutely love. I'm thinking maybe an Edward Gorey image for the back part of my arm?

From the song "Nightswimming" off the Automatic for the People LP. Left forearm.

Done by Cyndi Lou at The Squid and the Whale, in Portland, ME

This is my forearm piece on my right arm. The line reads "It is winter here" from a Sylvia Plath poem called "Tulips".

Done by Oli at Inka. This is a quote by Mephistopheles (the devil) in Goethe's Faust and translates as "I am the spirit that denies". The font is Dei Gratia by Pia Frauss.

 

I've been a huge fan of Mephisto ever since we did Faust in school, later expanded to fictional devils in general. I mean, the only devils there are. He's not real, people!

Storyteller (writer) tattoo by Cat of Strange Brew Tattoos in Kenmore, NY.

Cell phone version of Sarah's new tattoo, done by the amazing Cat at Strange Brew Tattoos.

This is how it looks to me in the mirror.

Redesigned tattoo of Billy Pilgrim's "Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt" gravestone from Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five."

my extremely loud and incredibly close tattoos.

 

Cell phone version of Sarah's new tattoo, done by the amazing Cat at Strange Brew Tattoos.

Sometimes I look at the hands of the old and feel so young. I know my hands will look like theirs one day and I have to take pictures of my hands to preserve the feeling of youth.

Tattoo for my dad who passed away October 2011. He loved Pink Floyd almost as much as he loved his family.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=modXbqbsAvs

 

Having troubles telling how I feel

But I can dance, dance and dance

Couldn't possibly tell you how I mean

But I can dance, dance, dance

So when I trip on my feet

Look at the beat

The words are, written in the sand

When I'm shaking my hips

Look for the swing

The words are, written in the air

Ed's latest, to mark his 50th birthday.

 

Samuel Beckett, The Unnameable

"Perhaps it's done already, perhaps they have said me already, perhaps they have carried me to the threshold of my story, before the door that opens on my story, that would surprise me, if it opens, it will be I, it will be the silence, where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.

  

Sisyphus in Greek Mythology.

 

Tattoo for my dad who passed away October, 2011. He loved Pink Floyd almost as much as his family.

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