Okay :). The pictures aren't great. I need to take some new ones with a better camera.
First was the ankle tat, which I got a few months after my dad died. It's kind of a memorial: the intention for this one was for it to mean butterfly (and I had this whole complicated explanation about how souls become butterflies after death), but then I was told what it actually means. It still works for me, though: I certainly still remember why I got it whenever I look at it.
Number two is my favorite, and of course it's somewhere I can't see it. It's a simplified, stylized sacred heart. I studied art in college and while I'm not Catholic, I love the symbolism of the sacred heart: that a saint is so full of love for God, or Mary or Jesus is so full of love for the world, that their body can't contain it. I got this at a fan gathering, and one of my closest friends held my hands while I was getting it.
Three I got in Las Vegas, because I wanted to get tattooed in Vegas. Not so much of a story there, though I got the Celtic know because I'm more interested in the Irish part of my ancestry than any of the rest.
Four and five are on my tummy, and I got them in Atlantic City at another fan gathering. Four or five of us got tattooed that day. They're the Nordic runes for Wunjo and Raido, and I intend them to mean "joy in the journey", which is a motto I try to live by. I'm told they also mean "blessing on the traveler," which works for me, too.
Six is hardest to see in the picture. About three years ago Neil Gaiman did a speech and a signing at the new Salt Lake City library, which is about 40 miles from where I live, and at the book signing he drew that rat in my copy of "Coraline." I liked it so much I got it tattooed when I was in Las Vegas for a wedding a few months later. It's my most fannish :D.
My next one will be to celebrate me being published: either a heart, like people usually get of names or "Mom", but with "words" instead of a name; or a Chinese dragon, because I read somewhere they're a symbol of creative energy. Or Tigger. Because I like Tigger.
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Date: 2007-10-01 09:46 pm (UTC)First was the ankle tat, which I got a few months after my dad died. It's kind of a memorial: the intention for this one was for it to mean butterfly (and I had this whole complicated explanation about how souls become butterflies after death), but then I was told what it actually means. It still works for me, though: I certainly still remember why I got it whenever I look at it.
Number two is my favorite, and of course it's somewhere I can't see it. It's a simplified, stylized sacred heart. I studied art in college and while I'm not Catholic, I love the symbolism of the sacred heart: that a saint is so full of love for God, or Mary or Jesus is so full of love for the world, that their body can't contain it. I got this at a fan gathering, and one of my closest friends held my hands while I was getting it.
Three I got in Las Vegas, because I wanted to get tattooed in Vegas. Not so much of a story there, though I got the Celtic know because I'm more interested in the Irish part of my ancestry than any of the rest.
Four and five are on my tummy, and I got them in Atlantic City at another fan gathering. Four or five of us got tattooed that day. They're the Nordic runes for Wunjo and Raido, and I intend them to mean "joy in the journey", which is a motto I try to live by. I'm told they also mean "blessing on the traveler," which works for me, too.
Six is hardest to see in the picture. About three years ago Neil Gaiman did a speech and a signing at the new Salt Lake City library, which is about 40 miles from where I live, and at the book signing he drew that rat in my copy of "Coraline." I liked it so much I got it tattooed when I was in Las Vegas for a wedding a few months later. It's my most fannish :D.
My next one will be to celebrate me being published: either a heart, like people usually get of names or "Mom", but with "words" instead of a name; or a Chinese dragon, because I read somewhere they're a symbol of creative energy. Or Tigger. Because I like Tigger.