Sunbaneglasses wrote:How about simply "Remember The Deathstar" as a play on "Remember The Alamo"?
Haha! That's cool.
Go for 'Lest We Forget'. In my country, everyone knows what that means. It's culturally conditioned into us from a young age. Too bad the politicians have rail-roaded the original message of those words in an Australian context, and people have more or less forgotten what 'Lest We Forget' was meant to be saying. But I'm rambling.
It's a play on a famous phrase - go for it.
"For the love of God, Montresor!"
"Yes," I said, "for the love of God!" - Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado.
Sunbaneglasses wrote:How about simply "Remember The Deathstar" as a play on "Remember The Alamo"?
Haha! That's cool.
Go for 'Lest We Forget'. In my country, everyone knows what that means. It's culturally conditioned into us from a young age. Too bad the politicians have rail-roaded the original message of those words in an Australian context, and people have more or less forgotten what 'Lest We Forget' was meant to be saying. But I'm rambling.
It's a play on a famous phrase - go for it.
Translation = "Lest we forget" is a good one too!
Here's the tattoo I'm getting soon. It's the classic four elements. (top left) Fire, (top right) Water, (bottom left) Earth, (bottom right) Air.
Avatar wrote:But then, the answers provided by your imagination are not only sometimes best, but have the added advantage of being unable to be wrong.
~Lyr, I love the unbroken line of that design. I could just sit and let my eyes follow it over and over.
It's not quite symmetrical, which makes it more interesting.
Mina Harker wrote:This is the tattoo I'm contemplating. I think I'd like to have it fairly large on my back, and perhaps colored. So what do you think?
Very cool...shaded in emerald green would be righteous I think...but even unshaded is very nice...where on the back are you thinking rhomboids/scapula area or closer to the middle of the back?
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Perhaps the top two corners pointing to the shoulder blades, and the tip pointed down the center of the back? That would be pretty cool symmetry - made especially interesting (I agree with Menolly) given the infinite-loop quality of the design... meaning only until someone draws near do they notice that the pattern itself isn't perfectly symmetric.
Mina Harker wrote:This is the tattoo I'm contemplating. I think I'd like to have it fairly large on my back, and perhaps colored. So what do you think?
Very nice! I think uncoloured would look great.
Upper back would seem a better placement than lower back as a couple others have mentioned already. Will you keep it around thi size?
"-People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes."
I'm thinking of having it start between my shoulder blades and pointing downward. I realize that the design isn't perfectly symmetrical, but I think that is due to the fact it is on skin that slopes slightly, which makes it look foreshortened. I don't want anything too high on my back, as I don't want it to peek out unless I intend to show it. My tattoo will be for me--and for any partner I have.
I do want it quite a bit larger than the picture. . . maybe scaled so that it fits between my shoulder blades.
I'm just totally sure I want to have a black-only tattoo. This is the kind of coloring I was thinking. I particularly like the combination of the purple and white. Though I might be open to the emerald green, since green is the color of life and growing things. Do you have a good example of that kind of shading?
I think that looks pretty good with the purple. I could only find one example of green to share:
Keep in mind too that green ink seems to last in skin much longer than any other colour (red the least I am told)
Mine is a mix of red,orange,yellow and black and just out of sight with clothing. I like tattoos like that where you can choose who to share them with.
"-People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes."
Oh wow, that one is gorgeous, Chrysalis.
I don't ever see me getting a tatoo
but something like that
(without the cross of course)
would be mighty tempting.
For some of us, the phrase Never Forget has a totally different connotation EL. I don't have a problem with you using it, but it may bring some interesting comments from your family your way.
True. Unfortunately, I think in South Carolina I'd get beaten up for making fun of 9/11 instead of being insensitive about the Holocaust.
The idea of you getting beaten again for any reason gives me intense shivers. Think this over carefully, OK?
The most apparent solution for EL is obviously is to get both permutations of the death star tattoo (lest and never), one on each arm.
Just kidding
A friend of mine has a corn stalk on her upper leg. I think it's reeeal classy. I think I am in the very small minority in my view.
I'm thinking about getting a tattoo when I'm 70 - or 90, why be pessimistic - so I won't have time for my poor choice (I will definitely end up making a poor choice) to embarrass me. What everyone thinks about it...eh.
Menolly wrote:Oh wow, that one is gorgeous, Chrysalis.
I don't ever see me getting a tatoo
but something like that
(without the cross of course)
would be mighty tempting.
Yeah its a pretty one. Only one I could find on google to show green shading. I love the blues but I dont think I will be getting any more tattoos any time soon.
This is a friends tattoo (done by the same tattooist that did mine). I really like the shades of blue and flames but it takes so long to do as its the full sleeve.
"-People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes."
I doubt I'd ever get another one (20 years on, and it looks like crap), but if I did, it's be this....
...with Cailette's name in the center, and it'd go on my shoulder blade. No beginning and no end for my love for her.
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Wyldewode wrote:Ouroboros? Here's a nice tribal one for you. . .
I like that one.....
Nope, not getting another one.....
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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