else

Hey guys!!
Long time no see, eh? ;)
I was just thinking about y'all, about how much I missed LST.
I've slowed way down the past few months but I'm still hard at work on the squidpants project.
It is *super* hard to get good pictures of one's own legs... the best I can do at this moment is link back to a picture I posted in the fall. You can't see all of them in it, and there are 2? (maybe 3?) more since then.
http://www.lastsparrowtattoo.com/forum/general-tattoo-discussion/4394-your-overall-look-tattooed-person-page19.html#post81060

Hey guys!!
Long time no see, eh? ;)
I was just thinking about y'all, about how much I missed LST.
I've slowed way down the past few months but I'm still hard at work on the squidpants project.
It is *super* hard to get good pictures of one's own legs... the best I can do at this moment is link back to a picture I posted in the fall. You can't see all of them in it, and there are 2? (maybe 3?) more since then.
http://www.lastsparrowtattoo.com/forum/general-tattoo-discussion/4394-your-overall-look-tattooed-person-page19.html#post81060

Hey guys!!
Long time no see, eh? ;)
I was just thinking about y'all, about how much I missed LST.
I've slowed way down the past few months but I'm still hard at work on the squidpants project.
It is *super* hard to get good pictures of one's own legs... the best I can do at this moment is link back to a picture I posted in the fall. You can't see all of them in it, and there are 2? (maybe 3?) more since then.
http://www.lastsparrowtattoo.com/forum/general-tattoo-discussion/4394-your-overall-look-tattooed-person-page19.html#post81060

Hey guys!!
Long time no see, eh? ;)
I was just thinking about y'all, about how much I missed LST.
I've slowed way down the past few months but I'm still hard at work on the squidpants project.
It is *super* hard to get good pictures of one's own legs... the best I can do at this moment is link back to a picture I posted in the fall. You can't see all of them in it, and there are 2? (maybe 3?) more since then.
http://www.lastsparrowtattoo.com/forum/general-tattoo-discussion/4394-your-overall-look-tattooed-person-page19.html#post81060

Hey guys!!
Long time no see, eh? ;)
I was just thinking about y'all, about how much I missed LST.
I've slowed way down the past few months but I'm still hard at work on the squidpants project.
It is *super* hard to get good pictures of one's own legs... the best I can do at this moment is link back to a picture I posted in the fall. You can't see all of them in it, and there are 2? (maybe 3?) more since then.
http://www.lastsparrowtattoo.com/forum/general-tattoo-discussion/4394-your-overall-look-tattooed-person-page19.html#post81060

Hey guys!!
Long time no see, eh? ;)
I was just thinking about y'all, about how much I missed LST.
I've slowed way down the past few months but I'm still hard at work on the squidpants project.
It is *super* hard to get good pictures of one's own legs... the best I can do at this moment is link back to a picture I posted in the fall. You can't see all of them in it, and there are 2? (maybe 3?) more since then.
http://www.lastsparrowtattoo.com/forum/general-tattoo-discussion/4394-your-overall-look-tattooed-person-page19.html#post81060

Hey guys!!
Long time no see, eh? ;)
I was just thinking about y'all, about how much I missed LST.
I've slowed way down the past few months but I'm still hard at work on the squidpants project.
It is *super* hard to get good pictures of one's own legs... the best I can do at this moment is link back to a picture I posted in the fall. You can't see all of them in it, and there are 2? (maybe 3?) more since then.
http://www.lastsparrowtattoo.com/forum/general-tattoo-discussion/4394-your-overall-look-tattooed-person-page19.html#post81060

@irezumi ahahahahahaha chortle cackle ahahahaha - I really did LOL in that sequence hehehe.
- - - Updated - - -
@CampB @iowagirl @Moreau @Synesthesia @graybones:
I have also had that experience. For some reason it does seem specific to outlines and black. After reading the below explanation, I now consider it an early warning system! It happens to me a lot when it is really hot, too - but I think I have a bad reaction to heat (i'm sensitive, I guess :p), too.
Go here: Microscopics and thank @else for the link!
The important part reads:
It seems to show you that you are having a slight histamine reaction, yes?
So an antihistamine should help, as would a hydrocortisone cream.

I get a lot of "I never would've guessed you have tattoos!" often followed by something along the lines of "but you look so nice!!"

I'm the one on the left, this is from my baby sister's bridal shower...
Didn't want to feel left out of the mustache club ;)

I always think it's funny to imagine the LST cocktail party where everyone has to make sure their most recognizable tattoo is showing or else no one will know who they are.

I kind of like "by threat" better :D

As soon as I can figure out how to get a picture of my bad tattoos I'll post 'em up.
I still love them... wouldn't want them covered... they've been with me for over 20 years now. I wouldn't feel like myself without them. (But I HATE trying to explain what they are!)
Eventually, after pants, if I work my way up that high I plan to get good tattoos all around them and then no one will bother to look that closely anymore.

I was in a wedding back in September, this is one of the candid shots the photographer took :)

Yes!!
I had to do a thing that scared me earlier this summer... I was totally freaked out about it... nearly chickened out and didn't do it at all.
And then I changed clothes into something that showed "Steve" (my knee tiger).
Steve is so tough, he makes me feel 10x tougher when I can see him. I skated through my scary thing no problem...
Reading this, I think it sounds weird, and people will probably think I'm a nut... whatever.
Rawr!!!
Me and Steve. We've got game ;)

I've talked about this some before...
A few years ago I found out that I have a neurodegenerative disease that will eventually land me in a wheelchair. I really don't know how fast or slow it will go. There's not any treatment for it, nothing to do for it but treat symptoms and wait for the inevitable.
I got super depressed about it for a long time. I absolutely HATED my legs. Despised them for having this disease, for failing me, for "dooming" me to be disabled someday.
Sometime last summer I started to have persistent dreams that I was getting my legs tattooed. I ignored them as well as I could for awhile, and then started putting some serious thought into going for it. I started looking around the interwebs to see what was out there...
And then I came here :)
Since I started getting my legs tattooed my feelings about them have changed completely. I don't hate them at all anymore. In fact, I might even love them!!! I definitely love the tattoos, and to a great degree all those positive feelings have bled over onto the legs themselves.
And... I'm finding that my perspective about the disease as a whole is beginning to shift some too...
I'm coming around to the idea that I need to view it less as a curse, not "being doomed", and more of just "a change"...
I'm definitely not all the way there yet, but it's something that never would have been possible in the state of mind I was in when I hated my legs guts for having this thing in the first place.
- - - Updated - - -
And I have to add...
I want to thank all y'all here at LST for being here, for giving such great input and advice, for showing off such great work all the time!!
God forbid, what if I'd gotten crappy leg tattoos?!?!
I doubt it would have had the same positive impact that it's had...

Thank you so much Tron!!!

Thank you so much Tron!!!

Thank you so much Tron!!!

Thank you so much Tron!!!

Thank you so much Tron!!!

Thank you so much Tron!!!

Thank you so much Tron!!!

Thank you so much Tron!!!

Thank you so much Tron!!!