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My newest, I call him my Paleolithic pony. My back is to be dedicated to important events in human culture, and he's the first.

My newest, I call him my Paleolithic pony. My back is to be dedicated to important events in human culture, and he's the first.

My newest, I call him my Paleolithic pony. My back is to be dedicated to important events in human culture, and he's the first.

My newest, I call him my Paleolithic pony. My back is to be dedicated to important events in human culture, and he's the first.

bam! its a triangle

seriously sick, awesome foot piece dude

My newest, I call him my Paleolithic pony. My back is to be dedicated to important events in human culture, and he's the first.

My newest, I call him my Paleolithic pony. My back is to be dedicated to important events in human culture, and he's the first.

My newest, I call him my Paleolithic pony. My back is to be dedicated to important events in human culture, and he's the first.

My newest, I call him my Paleolithic pony. My back is to be dedicated to important events in human culture, and he's the first.

My newest, I call him my Paleolithic pony. My back is to be dedicated to important events in human culture, and he's the first.

My newest, I call him my Paleolithic pony. My back is to be dedicated to important events in human culture, and he's the first.

My newest, I call him my Paleolithic pony. My back is to be dedicated to important events in human culture, and he's the first.

My newest, I call him my Paleolithic pony. My back is to be dedicated to important events in human culture, and he's the first.

Yeah, it was totally a "I'm actually conquering this" feeling. WANT MORE.

Yes, I do. I anticipated it being terrible, but honestly I am so accustomed to being in pain 24/7, that it wasn't bad at all. Just the few real tender areas. Lastly, I have not noticed any issues during healing or afterwards.

Hmm. What I meant was literally the origin of tattooing. Before you could walk into a shop and get something done by a guy with a tattoo machine. I doubt he'd be able to tell me about Maori rituals and show me what they looked like, and I won't take his word for gospel even if he did. I don't see why learning about history from a university is a bad idea, since I'll never be able to visit all those places to ask people there how it all went down.

Hmm. What I meant was literally the origin of tattooing. Before you could walk into a shop and get something done by a guy with a tattoo machine. I doubt he'd be able to tell me about Maori rituals and show me what they looked like, and I won't take his word for gospel even if he did. I don't see why learning about history from a university is a bad idea, since I'll never be able to visit all those places to ask people there how it all went down.

Hmm. What I meant was literally the origin of tattooing. Before you could walk into a shop and get something done by a guy with a tattoo machine. I doubt he'd be able to tell me about Maori rituals and show me what they looked like, and I won't take his word for gospel even if he did. I don't see why learning about history from a university is a bad idea, since I'll never be able to visit all those places to ask people there how it all went down.

My arm isn't done, and I've only really started on one, but I can actually contribute! So I shall. :) Taking pictures of my own arm is hard, and I suck at it. There are individual pictures of these in my gallery, though, anyway!

I was really late in coming to an appreciation of traditional designs (aside from traditional Japanese, which I have always loved). What sold me on traditional sleeves was the interesting way in which individual pieces become more than the sum of each individual tattoo...it becomes this collective aesthetic that I find so fascinating, in addition to being a very cool collection of individual images.
I mention this because I have similar feelings about 'masculine' and 'feminine' aesthetics. (I'm also one of those people who thinks a man or woman can wear whatever the hell they want and still be masculine and feminine if they want to be, but that's a discussion of a slightly different variety. For the purposes of this post, I'm just using the generally accepted definitions of those words.) I think whether something reads as 'masculine' or 'feminine' in the traditional sense depends mostly on general presentation. There are tons of pictures out there of women wearing tough, aggressive traditional work, but they dress or present themselves in a way that's still super-girly and feminine. I think this look is amazing.
Of course, there'll always be people out there who just find tattoos in general 'unfeminine' or whatever, buuut. That's really more about them, imo.

Here's my new piece after a couple hours. It looks much calmer already but the knuckle marks in this picture are making me laugh. It's B&G, I just bruise like crazy.

Here's my new piece after a couple hours. It looks much calmer already but the knuckle marks in this picture are making me laugh. It's B&G, I just bruise like crazy.

Actually, I am wanting mehndi :)

I have an appointment tomorrow, and I'm so excited, I'm going to pee myself. Ahhhhh

has this been posted before?

i haven't seen it before. thanks for sharing!