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The only tattoo I've ever actually wanted.

i think theyre shit

trashy

They're for girls and hipster.

>>2346673
I'd totally get this though

the small one on my arm reads:

"let me live, love, sand say it well in good sentences."

Should I get a tattoo of an Elder Thing, y/n

I know more than one girl with the bird cage from Breakfast at Tiffanies. They whores

>>2346689
that's "and", by the way.

>>2346692
yeah make sure its visible. then it would be like leprosy, people will know to avoid you before talking to you.

The urge to get a tattoo is very strange. Not being content with your body and wanting some permanant mark on it is in my opinion either for lack of self esteem, cultural pressure, attention whoring or all of the above

>>2346700
Or a sense of individuality. Don't forget that.

>>2346673
>>2346687

I'd like the idea if it weren't for the commercial aspect.

>>2346700
>Maori face when

>>2346700
It could serve as a token or memento with the purpose of constantly reminding you of a person/idea/text/event. Something that your want to be apart of you forever.

full chest piece of dagny taggart going at it with a marital aid made of rearden metal

This is gonna sound kinda lame but, I've thought about getting the phrase "Et in Arcadia ego" on me somewhere. I like the idea of memento mori's and death scares the shit outa me. On a lit related note, Judge Holden has it inscribed on his gun.

>>2346700

Please make sure to register your tattoo with the police, so it will make your body easier to identify when it washes up. Assuming it hasn't been in the water for more that 5 or 6 days, that is.

If I were to get a tattoo, I would get the Tetrapharmakos by Epicurus, on my upper shoulder (because I want to get a job some day).

"Don't fear god,
Don't worry about death;
What is good is easy to get, and
What is terrible is easy to endure"

Or, for extra douchiness, in Greek:

"Ἄφοβον ὁ θεός,
ἀνύποπτον ὁ θάνατος
καὶ τἀγαθὸν μὲν εὔκτητον,
τὸ δὲ δεινὸν εὐκαρτέρητον"

So we beat on...

Something from Laing's knots. Maybe the "I am not entitled to it because I've stolen it therefore I am not entitled to it" one.

>>2346702
people create their sense of self by addition all the time. when it's imposed and physical it just seems cheap tacky and too easy. I much prefer addition through less tangible and less contrived bonds to people animals and things and I don't understand the necessity to display the things you wish to add to yourself. So it's contrived and ostentatious.

>>2346734
Losing an arm is contrived and ostentatious.

>>2346713
> Something that you want to be apart of you forever.

This is where people slip up. They underestimate our capacity to change.

>>2346735
What? No it's not. seriously do you actually think that's an adequate response to what I said??

>>2346736
People don't change, they just become comfortable with their core misery. Which is a form of happiness.

>>2346741
Tattooing prisoners in Auschwitz was contrived and ostentatious.

>>2346734
>>2346736

I several extremely small numbers on my right upper arm.
Each signifies something important and life defining.
Not for me, but for the past me who used it as a filter to view life.
I like being able to look back on past selves constantly.

I'll get this eventually. Not huge, but not tiny.

>>2346751
on a related note: If I was to get an Auschwitz tattoo on my forearm, do you think it would be received badly?

>>2346772
100% yes. How do you think people are going to react?

I've contemplated "Thou art that"

or possibly one of the plates from Codex Seraphinianus.

>>2346774
with sympathy?

>>2346751
that's like the losing an arm thing, it's still not a response to what I said. holocaust victims dont ask for tattoos. you're trying too hard to some come up with a simple elegant retort that will render my speechless.

>>2346747
are you arguing?

>>2346761
yeah that falls into what I said in my first post and my second refers mainly to people who get partners names on their arms who they soon break up with

I have a zig zag of mustard on my penis. Like a hot dog.

>>2346780
I'm sure the people in Auschwitz were all "Why are they tattooing us? It's contrived and ostentatious" and decades later certainly didn't have any impact on them or others, because things that exist in physicality can only be contrived and ostentatious.

"Hodor", said Hodor.

tattoos are really ugly 90% of the time. I think people are just aesthetically challenged or something because why would they put such ugly shit on their body. Also, these people who have some lame contrives personal meaning behind their tattoos are always douche bags. I wish TLC never made that stupid fucking show so I didn't have to listen to some girl tell me about how the bird on her chest symbolizes freedom so she can remind herself that she is free and it's good to be free. Shut up. That's just fucking stupid.

here is a picture of an ugly tattoo. I found it in a tattoo artists portfolio. That artist must have been aesthetically challenged because why would he have put such a shitty tattoo in a portfolio that's supposed to show off his work.

>>2346823
You could do an infinite recursion:
""""Hodor", said Hodor", said Hodor", said Hodor"

here is a tattoo that someone put on reddit and was like Yo guys check out my sick tattoo. Reddit has a lot of stupid people.

here is another bad tattoo. that's supposed to be a dog toy, not poop. Also, in a few years this will look like a black blob with poop beside it.

I think what I'm trying to get at is that tattoos are ugly or contrived or lame 98% or the time. Literary tattoos suck a lot to because someone usually gets some shit that supposed to be inspirational, like ""let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences." Put that shit on your mirror, not you body. Now everyone can see how lame and sentimental you are.

>>2346839

"I speak jive"

>>2346825

dude's skin has the consistency of a basketball

Dumping some retarded Bukowski tattoos

>>2346852
2/?

>>2346856
I heard this guy actually read one of Bukowski's books!

3/?

>>2346810

Those Auschwitz guys are always all "I was getting tattooed way before it was fashionable".

Fucking hipsters, already.

>>2346862
4/?

5>>2346866
So deep. This one gets me every time.

5/?

I had an octopus tattooed on me to celebrate the first time I dived past 50m (an octopus attached itself to me at depth and I nearly lost my shit and panicked, but he was only being friendly).

I also have a "diver down" flag tattooed on me. It celebrates me getting my advanced diving certificate.

I know it's probably hipster or whatever, but I felt that the pain etc. of having them done was some kind of initiation, and a statement that in doing what I'd done, I'd gone beyond the limits a little.

On the other hand, I maybe just like the opportunity to show them to chicks. Who knows, eh?

>>2346810
> things that exist in physicality can only be contrived and ostentatious.
>only

That's not what I said at all, dumbass.

>>2346868

6/?

>>2346852
>>2346856
>>2346858

Those pictures make me want to punch myself in the throat.

>>2346810
the context surrounding the tattoo at Auschwitz is quite different from people who choose to get tattoos - the kind OP is referring to. Are you being deliberately obtuse? are you trying to appear smart by claiming the moral high ground even when I'm not contesting it?

>>2346873
This one is way above you /lit/

7/?

>>2346869
>>2346869

> I'd gone beyond the limits a little.

/lit/ is guaranteed to like

>>2346891

>>2346891
my nigga

I am always amazed what kind of ugly and boring shit people put on their bodies. And all those personal symbols and meanings are so shallow.

In some cultures people are tattooed all over, but they believed that those tattoos meant something beyond "expressing yourself". What once was the signature of pride and social standing has now became a designator for low intelligence and income - the tribal turned trampstamp.

It depends. I've seen too many Vonnegut tattoos to be honest. I do have one myself, though; my name's Sophie, and I have an owl on my arm because they are my favourite animal, and because wisdom is both my namesake and my main incentive in everyday life. The template was taken from one of my father's admiralty badges - he taught me to love storytelling, and learning in general. I may come to regret it one day, but at least it is aesthetically pleasing.

I've been contemplating 'sous les pavés, la plage' for about four months now. Think I'm going in next week.

>>2346911

cool classism man

>>2346895
actually, the correct sentence is "[...] il y avait en moi un invincible été."
what a douche

>>2346922
whatever, bro... shouldn't you be busy getting some palahniuk quote inked on your loin?

> my name's Sophie, and I have an owl on my arm because they are my favourite animal, and because wisdom is both my namesake and my main incentive in everyday life.
> The template was taken from one of my father's admiralty badges - he taught me to love storytelling, and learning in general.

you can't be for real...

... anyways, I would love to hatefuck you for so many reasons...

>>2346911
>I fucking hate people who get their ears pierced. Body piercing used to be a mark of strength and standing in tribal cultures. Piercings meant praising your Gods and Demigods, not just 'expressing yourself'.

>>2346931
Guess where the owl tattoo is.

>>2346944
on your arm?

words suck, if you're going to get a tattoo get one of a picture.

>>2346949
Nope.

>>2346891
>>2346873
>>2346832
>>2346952
How effectively do you find tattoos hide your fatness?

Lol at meth-addled tattoo freaks pretending they can read.

>>2346804
This is the only remotely decent tattoo in this thread, and it will stop looking ok once she gets through her "vintage twee indie" phase.

guys do you think "Cocaine Habits" would make a good pen name

like, if that was my pen name

>>2347004

if you're writing mysteries about a nun who's also a detective then yeah

And I thought Nietzsche tattoos were stupid.

>>2347008
that's exactly what i'm doing, thx 4 the advice

>>2347004
pretty try hard, don't you think?

>>2347008
lol

Ive considered the muted horn from crying lot of 49, i just dont think I want a tattoo

I saw a girl with a Le Petit Prince tattoo on her calf a while ago and they were fabulously done but I guess ultimately I just don't get it. I mean I can't think of anything I'd need to have on my body for life

I came close to getting this in college and while I love Harriet the Spy more than words I'm pretty glad I never bit the bullet

tattoos are disgusting

is this literary?

>>2346719
It's fine getting it in Greek if you know Greek. I think it's only douchey if you get a tattoo in a language you don't really know.

I'm fine with literary tattoos, but why would you get a line from a poem about the tragic deaths of a bunch of Irish revolutionaries tattooed on your back

that's what i don't get

>>2346952
This is actually kind of cool. Dore's Paradise Lost, no?

>>2346852
>>2346873
>>2346891
>>2346895

If the first thing to come to mind upon seeing a tattoo is "tl;dr" you did it wrong. These four did it wrong.

vapid cunts with shitty incoherent scribbles & obscure symbols highlighting some dull event in their mind numbingly shitty life should all be sterilized.

>>2348437
>implying all life shouldn't be exterminated

>>2348447

excluding owls & emperor penguins.

>>2348437

are we seriously to the point of people unironically saying "vapid cunts"

get your shit together, /lit/

>>2348456
It's just that one guy.

>>2348455
Of course. Labrador retrievers as well.

>>2348456

Hi you must be new here. Please read the sticky.

Thanks.

>>2348455
also crows. maybe turtles, too.

>>2348467
Well, we might as well include sloths.
I mean, what have they ever dome to anyone?

>>2348467

All Kakapo's get a pass too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T1vfsHYiKY&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Wow, people are really opposed to tattoos. I feel like I'm just way to fickle to ever having something permanently emblazoned onto me, though >>2346673 is a pretty cool idea.

If I just suddenly didn't give a fuck I'd get "You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style" tattooed just above, nay, on my dick.


>>2346825
This. I see a lot of fucking dumb tattoos on a daily basis. I had an argument with this girl over the keystone tattoo this dude sitting in front of us had on his neck. She said there must be some deeper meaning behind it. I said he just likes Pennsylvania and has a really dumb fucking way of epidermally-immortalizing it.

He just liked Pennsylvania.

>>2348038
I'm actually probably going to get this at some point.

>>2348478
> I said he just likes Pennsylvania and has a really dumb fucking way of epidermally-immortalizing it.
This.
I think the only way I would get a tattoo is if I was in the army or navy or ran an Ironman or something that meant something.

I'll probably get a tattoo when I finally get my dick wet, in commemoration.

every time i see a parent with their child's name inked on them a little piece of me dies.

nobody cares, you're really not as important as you think you are.

>>2348485
agreed

>>2348490
I'm important to me.

I would never get a tattoo because I hate being unemployed.

I might consider some Robinson Jeffers quote or sthing

idontknow

Tattoos are just self-mutilation.

>>2348496

Chicken shit conformist like your parents.

>>2348496
Protip: don't get it on your forehead

>>2348498
Self-improvement is just masturbation.

I know of a guy (probably 18 or 19 now) who is really into hip hop, especially wiz khalifa. Somme of you may know wiz belongs to "Taylor gang" and refers to his gang members as "Taylors".. Any way I know through some casual FB stalking this faggot named his first dog Taylor. Then proceeded to get "his dogs name", Taylor, tattooed on him (on the chest, left side). Was pretty see through, to me. But he's some degenerate from my hometown and the whole thing might not be so obvious to his burnout friends. Yea kinda sad too

>>2348502

but i fucking love drake.

>>2348510
And I fucking love Gucci Mane.
What's your point?

>>2348504
Relevance: none.

>>2348514

I've always thought tats look pretty cool on black guys. They aren't as prominent and only really noticeable under certain light.

>>2348499
That's funny that you think by not getting a tattoo I'm a conformist.

Go to any liberal arts college in America and you'll see that 95% of the over-privileged wasp yuppie students have tattoos. If anything you're conformist if you get a tattoo.

You've got a lot of growing up to do if you think that Ray Bradbury quote on your foot makes you a daring intellectual.

>>2348522

You seem slightly agitated, bro?

Did I hit a nerve?

I'd do this for sure.Fucking love Don Quixote

>>2348521
> black guys

>>2348519
It has all the relevance, faget.
Are you zionist or something?

>>2348521
nigger lover spotted

>>2348522
kike spotted
fuck off

The most intelligent people I've met throughout my life have NEVER had any tattoos.

Just saying.

>>2348522
>Go to any liberal arts college in America and you'll see that 95% of the over-privileged wasp yuppie students have tattoos.

so true. yuppies gonna yupp.

Tattoo on titty saying B.I.G.

>>2348507
> hip hop
> wiz khalifa

I have "I don't believe anything but i have many suspicions" on my right forearm.

Do I give a fuck what anyone else thinks? nope.

I'm surprised most people on /lit/ haven't got the first / last / their favourite line of Infinnite Jest tattooed on their chests.

Or faces.

Fucking Infinite Jest.