100 Things I Really Really Like (Plus Stories): Literary Tattoos

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I like books most than most people. It's taken me a while to realize that, but it's true. When given a choice between talking to people and reading a book I will usually choose the latter. That is maybe a little sad and antisocial because when you talk to people you can make new friends and, like, soul-bond and shit.

But when you read books you get to read books. Which has always been more appealing to me.

I do not like tattoos more than most people, but I do like them a lot.* I'm not sure when that started- I nknow when I was a teenager I couldn't imagine ever having anything on my body permanently- but it did. When I get sad, one of the ways I bring myself out of it is by thinking about what tattoos I ant next, planning them, sketching them, occasionally calling people out of the blue and asking them to design crap for me. Tattoos are my happy place.**

When I first started getting tattoos at the tender age of nineteen (initially as a misplaced attempt to get my then-girlfriend to stay with me), I figured out pretty quickly that most of the ones I was planning involved books. The second one I got was a Sandman tattoo; the third was a perks reference; the last was the VFD eye. I also have A Wind In The Door, The Homeward-Bounders, and House Of Leaves tattoos planned. There are other things I want tattoos for, like songs and films and family members and relationships, but the book tattoos I want are usually floating somewhere up there in my brain.

I love books. I love tattoos. I love it when they smush together and make beautiful things on people's skin.

Related: Contrariwise.

* I always feel the need to specify this- when I say "tattoos" I mean "well done, well placed, well cared for tattoos," not "look, I got Tweety Bird on my ass!"

** Sometimes thinking about stretching my ears is also my happy place, but that ones gets a little less mileage, as there isn't much variation to "the hole gets bigger."***

*** That's what she said.

Comments

[xcarex.livejournal.com]

Yaaaaaaaay, tattoo talk! Your literary references are my fandom pieces (kawaii bunny face from Sailormoon, the Hanson symbol, the code for ♥ and a Kurt Halsey kitty) aaand about four band lyric bits planned and a combination still-straight-edge/cross-stitching/roman numerals XXX plan for my thirtieth birthday... which is less than two years away.

But more relevant-- I am getting a TARDIS next weekend. :D


PS: Why don't we talk about Perks like, in every conversation we ever have? I am slowly dying inside waiting for the movie to come out. I just want a fucking TRAILER already.

[eljuno.livejournal.com]

One of these days, when I get the time, money and space, I'm going to get the symbol on this icon tattooed on the inside of my left arm.

[gair.livejournal.com]

Ooh, what's the Homeward Bounders one (going to be) like?

[end-in-myself.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Ooh! I've thought about getting a House of Leaves tattoo before. What might you get?

[shitgun.livejournal.com]

i am jelly like burning STILL over your perks tattoo. also this might be a better place than some others to ask since you're into this, PLZ GIVE ME TATTOO ADVICE.

[spikey-kris.livejournal.com]

When I get sad I cheer myself up by figuring out what I can change about myself too, and I have so many tattoos planned out. SO MANY. My tattoos and stretched ears make me happy as fuck. Even when my old crusty aunts cluck about how gross it is while I'm standing right in front of them. Maybe even more in that case...

[uncommon-crow.livejournal.com]

<3

Expect a Thinky Email about related subjects soon...

p.s. Will try to get you some pics of Kelsey's tattoos. They're rather awesome. Like a hundred billion hotdogs.