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[GoodGirlGonePlaid]

I want to get mine updated from a tribal flower (with an eye) to a Scottish thistle, maybe with some swirls.
Lower back. Yup, the "tramp stamp" was sort of a rite of passage for girls of my generation.

[LitTrog]

I want to get mine updated from a tribal flower (with an eye) to a Scottish thistle, maybe with some swirls.
Lower back. Yup, the "tramp stamp" was sort of a rite of passage for girls of my generation.

Let's do away with that term GGGP, since you are proof it doesn't apply in all cases.

Perhaps Vamp Stamp? Or, since the original term has fallen into the realm of absurd cliche...Camp Stamp? Or if your favorite hobby is launching marbles off your buttocks...Ramp Stamp?

Just brainstorming here.

[madman79764]

I've got ink from my knees to my neck so it's hard to pick just one piece so for right now. Considering that I have been getting tattooed since 1986 when I go in to get more work done my artist is working on the available space thats left. I'll just go with my 2 latest pieces that I had done back in March.
The neck piece

And the ambigram of my daughter Tesa's name

[Meggers]

I know these arent terribly exciting but I have always loved them. The one on the left, Saille, represents femininity and the one on the right, Ebhadh, represents the woodland realm. Gotta love the Ogham <3

sorry about the closeup of my veiny feet. Whatdoyado?

[Ryan Ross]

I know these arent terribly exciting but I have always loved them. The one on the left, Saille, represents femininity and the one on the right, Ebhadh, represents the woodland realm. Gotta love the Ogham <3

sorry about the closeup of my veiny feet. Whatdoyado?

I like these... they remind me of the ones they found on Ötzi.

Are you familliar?

[Meggers]

I like these... they remind me of the ones they found on Ötzi.

Are you familliar?

the iceman? For sure. That's totally awesome. Ogham and the symbols on Otzi look sooo similar. In fact, one of his tats has the 4 horizontal lines just like my Saille tattoo. The only difference is he doesn have the vertical line going through it. We almost have identical tattoos

Maybe in a million years they will find my body somewhere in the ground and be like "WOAH! she has crazy Druid tattoos! what could it mean!?" Ive always thought of that.

Lol. In my bellydancing class, we balance these really heavy swords on our heads and, after a long time with them on our heads, they make these horozontal impressions in our scalp (of course they go away after a few minutes) but we were saying how its going to permenently stay on our heads one of these days and our bodies will be found a million years from now and they will think we were some crazy tribal women who ritually indented our skulls. haahha.

I'm a Herman Melville fanatic, especially Moby-Dick. This is my left calf, with the White Whale on the outer side, Captain Ahab on the inner, and filled in with South Seas tribal stuff. The whole thing was done over a two year span. I started with the whale, and kept adding to it!

The illustrations are fromthe famous 1930s set by Rockwell Kent. The quote is "God hunt us all, if we do not hunt Moby Dick to his death!" - chapt. xxxvi

sooooooo awesome. The English major in me totally appreciates this!! Dont you love it when you have a good book or author that just speaks to your soul? I love these tattoos. Beautifully done. They are a work of art.

Of course, all of your guys' tattoos are wonderful and meaningful I just am not able to quote each picture and say what I love about each one

[Ryan Ross]

Excellent! Queequeg reborn...!

Just my thoughts, also.

the iceman? For sure. That's totally awesome. Ogham and the symbols on Otzi look sooo similar. In fact, one of his tats has the 4 horizontal lines just like my Saille tattoo. The only difference is he doesn have the vertical line going through it. We almost have identical tattoos

Maybe in a million years they will find my body somewhere in the ground and be like "WOAH! she has crazy Druid tattoos! what could it mean!?" Ive always thought of that.

Lol. In my bellydancing class, we balance these really heavy swords on our heads and, after a long time with them on our heads, they make these horozontal impressions in our scalp (of course they go away after a few minutes) but we were saying how its going to permenently stay on our heads one of these days and our bodies will be found a million years from now and they will think we were some crazy tribal women who ritually indented our skulls. haahha.

Yep, I almost thought you were specifically thinking of calling the iceman to mind with your tattoos, though they are ever so slightly different.

And speaking of becoming an item of archaeological interest, my friend, Crazy George, is forever on about- "Ryan, one day, hundreds or even thousands of years from now, there are going to be people studying your body, saying: 'This guy's from he 21st century, but check out all of these cuts in his bones; they're perfect for five hundred years earlier, but all wrong for his time period... swords just weren't used anymore, by then. Who was this guy?' Then you'll end up as a piece of evidence for some nutjob that's trying to prove that time travel is real."

But hey- Spend enough time around live blades, and you'll certainly get cut; if you don't, you're very possibly doing something wrong... granted, me and mine do train a bit harder (read more dangerously) than your average Joes, but I figure it's better to be prepared. An no one's lost an eye yet. Or a finger.

[BoldHighlander]

Mine is a little something I designed (mostly my own artwork). The words/phrase is "Quo Itinere Ibis?", which roughly translates as "Upon which path will you travel?"....I ended up contacting a professor of languages/Latin from BC, Canada for the translation, as I wanted "Old Latin" (which would've been recognizable in biblical times) for this design.

The lettering I based upon that found in the Gutenberg Bible (though I ended up changing a couple letter fonts to make it easier to read):



...on the inner arm is a drawing I did of a Christ/Satan mirror image. I won't go into the symbolism, as I don't want to be breaking any forum rules, or start a religious discussion that might go down the slippery slope towards thread closure....(the image was taken from my original design, and was not changed in any way by the tat artist):



...the one addition the tat artist did was the clouds of Heaven & the flames of Hell. I really hate needles, so I decided to get it done in one sitting, about 5+ hours worth. My arm felt like hamburger by the time it was done!



Eventually I plan to get it touched up, including a mini-demon & angel encircling the gap on the lower wrist, wrestling each other...symbolic of the struggle between good & evil.

Anyhow, that's the tattoo in a nutshell.

[crash]

I got this a few weeks ago.

[James Hood]

For whatever reason, trying to understand why anyone would want a tattoo is like trying to get our Scottish Terrier to understand differential calculus.