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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.
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on 2012-05-12 12:26 am (UTC)I really enjoy Mae Whitman, and liked Ezra Miller in We Need To Talk About Kevin. I still do not have much of an opinion on Logan Lerman, as I've not seen him in anything (still). My feels re: the film come from the fact that I love the book a lot and am bound to hate the movie because of that. This is usually the way for me when I've read the book first (with a few exceptions, like The Hunger Games). I'm sure Stephen Chbosky is psyched about the cast and the movie and all, and that's cool. I'm just not.
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on 2012-05-12 12:49 am (UTC)ETA: But it's okay that you aren't! I just hope you go see it when it comes out and that you end up liking it, even if it's not perfect. It's an extension of the canon, not meant to replace the book we love. It came out when I was in grade nine, I have super special *~feelings*~ attached to it, yo.
Also, there are a lot of ways to entice people into Lerman-love, but sometimes you don't have time to sit down and fall in love with him over the course of his entire career. Or at least, his career from Jack & Bobby onwards, because he grows up ever so nicely and typically chooses really unusual roles for his age. Like "Meet Bill", in which he dresses up in lingerie and dances around for Jessica Alba's amusement.