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[cathybites]

• DO YOU KNOW WHAT TODAY IS? IT'S NEW TATTOO DAY!!! My appointment is at four and I am OMG SO EXCITED. and I think once this one is all healed up, I'll be getting another one right away. I have two designs already sketched out - an Immaculate Heart design that I might put on my inner left arm, and one I want on the back of my neck that's a composite of various lucky symbols. and I still want to get 'kýrie, eléison' on my back across my shoulders, but I'm not sure how I want that to look yet. Hopefully this artist I'm going to is good and not overwhelmingly expensive. fiendling had went to him and liked him, and he's gotten good reviews on Yelp, so. Fingers crossed and all that.

• I'm all, 'tattoo tattoo tattoo!' now, so I think you all should tell me about your favorite tattoos (yours or other people's), or tattoos you want to get, or bad experiences you've had. yes? YES!

• In other exciting news, last night I got my art assignment for thelittlebang and OMG PEOPLE YOU HAVE NO IDEA. I'm *vibrating* with excitement over it. It's like somebody thought, "hey, let's give Cathy this awesome thing to draw...but, wait. How could we make it even *more* awesome?"

• Fic rec! The One With the Romulan Ale by dancinbutterfly [Kirk/McCoy, nc-17, ~6200 words]. Kirk. McCoy. Las Vegas. Romulan Ale. Make an educated guess about what happens. :D

Comments

[redstapler.livejournal.com]

I have three tattoos planned:

1. A zipper pull at the top of my open heart surgery scar.

2. This owl on the inside of my left wrist.

3. Athena's Owl (as drawn by Dave Gibbons) at the end of Dan's essay from Watchmen on my right shoulder. (Placement cos duh...it's Athena's Owl.)

[charliehey.livejournal.com]

Oh man, all these tattoo ideas are awesome, I must say.

[cathybites.livejournal.com]

all of those are great ideas but, oh man, the Picasso owl is so cute! I approve of all tattoos based on art. um. which I guess, technically, is all of them, but you know what I mean!

[winterweathered.livejournal.com]

That zipper sounds SO COOL.

[ethrosdemon.livejournal.com]

I still really want to get the Leonard Cohen tattoo of the outline of the Chelsea Hotel and the robin. I'm just trying to decide where and who I want to do it. I'll probably wait until I move. And then I'll get a few because I've been putting it off, for example I want a hand of fatima and a blue egyptian hippo, too.

[cathybites.livejournal.com]

oh, wait! you asked me to draw that, didn't you? hahaha, yeah, I suck. I'm sorry! I just need to be constantly reminded of things like that.

and you should get a tattoo of the Bathippo I drew you. :D

[tiffosis.livejournal.com]

YAY for new tattoo!! can't wait to see it if your're going to share pics.

my fav is a "dragonfly" i have on the inside of my left leg. he's a serpenty kind of dragon with wings. i call him sparky. he is sassy. i like dragonfiles a lot, but didn't want the boring bug kind of dragonfly, so i came up with this guy.

as for bad experiences, i have a one of my left big toe that was agonzing to have done, had it been the first, it would have been the last. and it never healed well and wasn't done well to begin with, so i hate a it a little. i'll likely never have it fixed up, as i can't bear the thought of that level of pain again.

happy tattooing!!!

[cathybites.livejournal.com]

oooh, that is an awesome idea for a dragonfly tattoo! I like them, too, but I wouldn't want a tattoo of one because, well. They're not the prettiest things up close.

I've luckily had no real bad experienced. The closest would be my first one, where the guy actually lit up a cigarette while he was tattooing me! I mean, wtf? In what universe would that seem like a good idea?

[charliehey.livejournal.com]

I kind of want a bee tattoo, because I love bees. Either a simple line drawning of a bee, or a more anatomical graph-like bee. But I don't know, I waffle on whether I really want something permanent or not, which I think is a good reason not to get anything permanent.

[cathybites.livejournal.com]

ooh, I could picture you getting really cool and almost abstract. kind of like a bee version of the owl redstapler had posted.

[amberlynne.livejournal.com]

I really want to get some sort of hockey-related tattoo but nothing cheesy or Capitals-only. It's HARD!

[antheia.livejournal.com]

This! This is the problem - how to make it awesome and not cheesetastic!

[cathybites.livejournal.com]

You should just get OV riding a dinosaur and holding the Cup over his head. :D

but, yes! I've been wanting a Rangers tattoo for, um. About 15 years minus 17 days now. I'm just waiting for the, ah. right time. ::glares at the Rangers::

[wendy.livejournal.com]

ooohhh I am very interested in your lucky symbol composite. I've been looking for a lucky symbol (or something similiar) for some time but just haven't seen one yet that I connect with.

[cathybites.livejournal.com]

Right now it's a four-leaf clover framed by a horseshoe with a '7' engraved in it, but I want to add some other symbols. Not sure what else yet, but probably bats and/or turtles, because they're considered good luck in Korea.

[dramedy.livejournal.com]

I only have the one rainbow lightening bolt thus far, but I know I want to get the words "Something Wicked" in a script font on my side, a tiny TARDIS (from Doctor Who) somewhere, possibly the Wonder Woman insignia on my left shoulder, and something else, but I haven't decided what.

I need money for all this D:

[cathybites.livejournal.com]

dude, if you have a lightning bolt, you NEED to get 'TCB' around it. XD

[meredevachon]

I have no tattoos. Because I am commitment-phobic, and more importantly OMG, new situation-phobic, and because I have no one to go with me and I don't want to go alone. But...

My first tattoo will be a triple spiral-knotwork deal that I'll know when I see it (I've found one that's close, but lack the skills to fix it or to tell someone how to make it what I want), and I'd thought I wanted it at the small of my back, but now I'm thinking upper back but still centered.

My second will be a small spider on the inside of my left wrist.

My third will be a kind of tribal panther that I can visualize perfectly, but again, can't get it from my brain to paper.

[cathybites.livejournal.com]

because I have no one to go with me and I don't want to go alone

Are you going to Wincon this year? We should get brynwulf to tell us a good shop. I'M JUST SAYIN'. :D

[antheia.livejournal.com]

I have three that I know I want to get at some point:

1. Jack Rackham's flag/crest - the skull & crossed cutlasses, for my dad, whose favourite pirate Jack was, on my neck.

2. The Gabriel's Horn equation (http://curvebank.calstatela.edu/torricelli/torricelli.htm) (y=1/x) on my right wrist.

3. Dorky as it is, I want to get all or part of the Bene Gesserit "Litany Against Fear" from Dune...somewhere. I haven't decided where.


And yeah, I do think about potentially getting a NYR tattoo, but I don't know how to do it without it being one of those godawful logo tattoos or worse.

[redstapler.livejournal.com]

3. Dorky as it is, I want to get all or part of the Bene Gesserit "Litany Against Fear" from Dune...somewhere. I haven't decided where.

I think the back of one of your calves would be AWESOME.

Or perhaps a shoulder...

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

brb, too busy DYING WITH LOVE AT YOUR ICON

[cathybites.livejournal.com]

AHAHAHA! Isn't it GREAT? I watch the movie imagining this is what's going through Kirk's head every time he looks at Bones.

[longleggedgit.livejournal.com]

Ahhhhhhh happy tattoo day!! I've yet to ever get one (considering it, though!) but I just went to see my dad get his over my spring break and it was really flippin cool!

[cathybites.livejournal.com]

oooh, it's so pretty!

[turntap2.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU FOR RECCING THAT AMAZING FIC.

[cathybites.livejournal.com]

YOU'RE SO WELCOME! That fic seriously filled my heart with GLEE.

[winterweathered.livejournal.com]

I want pictures of the tattoo!

I want one, and I know exactly what I want it of, but I can't decide where to put it. I was going to get it on my wrist, but when keepaofthecheez and I went to do it, they said they couldn't do it on my wrist, and I was sadddddd.

[cathybites.livejournal.com]

oh, you know I'll be picspamming the hell out of it. :D

ooh, I think I remember you posting about the tattoo you wanted. It's in Arabic script, right? and why wouldn't they do it on your wrist? That's a load of bull!

[kitchendinah.livejournal.com]

That, my friend, is a fabulously fabulous icon.

[cathybites.livejournal.com]

aahahahahah ISN'T IT? I'm kind of ridiculously in love with it. XD

[loveflyfree.livejournal.com]

1. ahahahahaha ICON. ♥
2. I still really want "not all those who wander are lost" but I can't decide if I want it in English or Elvish.
3. I was also thinking today that I might want a very tiny starfleet insignia colored science officer/medical team blue. or possibly three of them in a row, one blue, one red and one gold. WE SHALL SEE.

[cathybites.livejournal.com]

I say get it in Elvish, but I'm a big geek.


but then again, so are you. :P

and, HEE! You should totally get the Starfleet ones! All three of them! :D

[quietdiscerning.livejournal.com]

i have no tattoo as of yet, but i want one. my problem is i cant decide on something.

that fic is EXCELLENT, thank you for pointing me towards it.

[cathybites.livejournal.com]

yes, not knowing what you want exactly is a problem with tattoos. I've seen far too many people who regret the ones they've gotten - and man, am I glad that I didn't get the chance to get the tattoo I was *convinced* I wanted in seventh grade.

[glockgal.livejournal.com]

FYI - please to be making more of this icon:


-in other flavours including (but not limited to) Kirk loving:
a) himself
b) an apple
c) a unicorn


So then Ris and I can PROMPTLY STEAL THEM ALL AND USE THEM BECAUSE OMG IS IT NOT THE BEST ICON EVARRRRRRRRRRRRRR

[cathybites.livejournal.com]

ahahahah! I just might have to! XD