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Post by luckymud on Dec 22, 2013 6:22:08 GMT
do you want to tell the story, Adam?
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Post by adam on Dec 23, 2013 12:37:39 GMT
Yes! I have pictures of each of ours, as well. The two of us were pen-pals for quite a long time, and, eventually, lovers after a fashion. I left my comfortable bubble-life and took a greyhound bus to Tennessee, where she resided. We walked dogs and made art and then decided to get a tattoo together. The place where we got it, a shack beyond someone's house, weirded me out considerably, haha (being used to the pampered life of tattoo studios abounding in Minnesota). We decided on the Hand of Eris (also know as the five-fingered Hand of Eris or simply as The Hand within a Discordian context. It is a symbol taken from the Principia Discordia (or How I Found the Goddess and What I Did To Her When I Found Her: The Magnum Opiate Of Malaclypse The Younger, Wherein is Explained Absolutely Everything Worth Knowing About Absolutely Anything). " The Hand is one among several symbols commonly used in Discordianism. One significant component of Discordian philosophy addresses the issue of conflicting or opposing forces—sometimes in a state of balance or equilibrium, and other times not. It is this interaction between forces which The Hand represents." Though I pretty much thought it was rad looking, and part of the POEE (Paratheo-Anametamystikhood of Eris Esoteric)- a bridge between Pisces and Aquarius, our signs. Her's scabbed over quite a bit and I'm not sure how it's doing these days; mine could use some touching up but looks pretty much the same. Here are pictures, first, mine:  and, hers:  One of three tattoos I have, and my favorite. |
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Post by luckymud on Dec 23, 2013 15:13:12 GMT
Hey my photo is not appearing, I don't know what's up with that.
I also have photos of that book we were working on I was thinking of posting.
so, after my tattoo scabbed over (to the point where I had to regard it as a wound rather than a tattoo) the scab that came off was black, it looked like the whole tattoo came off. this is because, if you can remember, the guy used his smallest needle and was trying to somehow show off in that he could do the tattoo and I wouldn't feel it. and since he was barely putting the needle in deep enough, the ink wasn't really taking and he went over it again and again, more carving the symbol into my arm than tattooing it, in my memory. but when the scab lifted and the thing healed, surprisingly there was ink beneath it. it looks like a faded rune, weathered and worn, and I love it like this.
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Post by Black Feathered Crown on Jan 25, 2014 2:51:40 GMT
D: What a crummy artist but at least you guys got a great story ~
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