Text Tattoos

[Rye]

How do you feel about them? I think they're a rather love or hate thing.



I really like them, for the most part. I don't like giant text tattoos, because then you look like a billboard. Having someone's name tattoo'd on you is the kiss of death to a relationship, to me. But a small text tattoos is quite lovely.

I actually want a small part of a rather famous poem tattoo'd on some part of my back. Not a tramp stamp, but somewhere. If I had a nicer figure and never planned on getting pregnant, I'd put it on my hip bone stomach area. I'd probably get it between the shoulder blades. But I'm still definitely weighing on it. People either love the idea or absolutely hate it when I bring it up.

"Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd"

Do want. :3

Really long text tattoos are plain awful. Too ugly to even post photos of, in my honest opinion. My virgin EYES!

[Araciel]

I'm still undecided as to whether or not I'm going to permanently mark myself, but I know absolutely that I would only take flat black and no letters.

I don't have much against text tattoos, I just don't see why I would want something written on my body. I would much prefer an image or design of some sort to say what I want to say.

But again, this is coming from someone who doesn't have any.

[Rye]

I've always been a literary nerd, and I feel like if I would ever get someone permanently inked on my body, it has to be more profound and beautiful than I am. I can't find any image that is really like that, but there are words and sentences that I feel fit that.

[Araciel]

I am also of the same kind of nerdiness, but I still feel that in getting something more or less permanently marked on my body, I'd want it to say something to others, and I feel that an image would be more generally accessible. A non-script tattoo I think is more open to personal interpretation. I suppose it depends on what kind of statement you want to make, and if the reasoning behind the tattoos are more personal than anything, then it stands to reason that it doesn't matter if anyone else 'gets it' or not, but I feel that half of the reason for me to get one would be to display it.

[Yar]

They can look cool, especially depending on what they say, but I sure as hell don't want one. :X

[Flying Mullet]

From reading the thread title I thought people were getting "LOL" and "ASL" tattoos.

[Araciel]

IDK MY BFF JESUS

would rule.

[Quindiana Jones]

I have War and Peace tattooed on my penis.

[Misfit]

I have War and Peace tattooed on my penis.

pix

[Quindiana Jones]

I would, but they'd ban me.

[theundeadhero]

I think text tattoos are retarded.
I think image tattoos are awesome.

[Quindiana Jones]

I have War and Peace in pictures tattooed on my balls.

[theundeadhero]

Is there a portrait of all 100+ character faces?

[Quindiana Jones]

Of course. Not a single event in the whole story is missed. I even have pictures of events that are merely mentioned in the book, rather then lived in.

[rubah]

if it's a paragraph, no thx. Whole sentences beyond four or five words is stretching it

Here's a whole site full of text tattoos Contrariwise: Literary Tattoos