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Wile e coyote’s arm coming out of my butt holding a sign that says “help”

My first and only tattoo is Captain America’s shield with a ribbon flowing around it that says, “I’m with you ‘til the end of the line” on my right bicep.

I am a huge Cap fan and what he stands for (e.g., the Dream, people’s rights such as minorities and lgbtq, fighting gov corruption including the US). My son was also superhero obsessed as a kid and so the quote is something said in the movies between Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes (best friends) and it’s sort of my mantra and promise to my family along with the shared superhero enjoyment with my son.

Another I thought about was for my left bicep and the Mythosaur skull with Aurebesh writing that says “This is the way” with it split between top and bottom and curved around the skull.

If I could think of a really cool D&D one, I might do that as a DM and player.

Do you know the concept of kintsugi? It's a Japanese concept where when a dish breaks, you don't glue it back together with super glue. You glue it back together with gold. The dish is reformed, but its flaws are also on display as a thing of beauty.

Anyway, I know that gold is not necessarily something that would be conveyed well or stay that way in a tattoo.

But I am wanting a kintsugi pot with a bonsai tree growing out of it. The only color will be in the cracks or the pot. The rest I want in black and gray. I'm wanting it on my thigh.

Problem is I have been putting off getting more tattoos for the summer because you can't swim for like 3 weeks ish after getting one. But I'm a very impatient person!!

First tattoo. My dog, difficult because he's a Tibetan Terrier with lots of hair and I believe that's hard to draw, but I'll get it one day.

I have wanted a larger piece for a while, an astronaut to memorialize my brother. There's an artist up the street from us that has a really interesting style but he's always booked. In the city there's an American traditional place that my wife and I have been to multiple times. I think I'll just wander in one day when I have nothing else to do lol

I have a 4cm long scar on my forearm. I want to have Asmodeus from Redwall wrapped around my forearm with Matthias beheading him with Martin the Warrior's sword. The scar will be incorporated as the line of the sword strike.

A menu that has only frogs on it.

First one was a simple tree. I like trees.

Next one is going to be a possum dressed as a medieval knight with a lance riding on a snail.

One of my upper arms has a beautiful photo realistic scene, that was done by my ex as a goodbye present ... it was done in one 12 hour session, but doesn't go around the arm as far as the ones I have on the other side do.

So, I'm going to ask an artist I trust to make a sort of picture frame for it, plus have something that wraps around all the way as a band, so it doesn't fall off :-)

After that ... I'm pretty well covered on my top half (neck, chest, top half of my back, both arms, hands) so either I'll get a tramp stamp or start on my legs a little bit. No rush.

A star trek communicator badge. Still thorn between tng and coffee trek.

I started a sleeve dedicated to music. So far it's just a Staff with a Quarter Note, Whole Note, Quarter rest, and a triplet made of two eighth notes and a quarter note rotated -90°. It spells out LOVE. It's on my wrist.

Once I have some more money I will have the staff continue with as many bars as I can wind around my arm of the vocal sheet music of "O Death Where is Thy Sting?"

Then I will have all the instruments I can play added in the blank areas.

Then I'll work on my Space Sleeve.

Something dumb and stupid probably lmao. So far I have:

• A bandaid
• A bass clef
• The name of one of my favourite bands
• An open safety pin
• A capybara
• "it" underneath my knee (in my language it's the same as the "Dis"knee and "that"Knee joke except I ain't have a corporate bs tattoo on me)

I have an idea for the next one but my needles and ink have expired so I'm gonna have to wait till I have enough money to buy them fresh. It's something spongebob related tho

I've been fleshing out some naturalist motif of a skull on a pike wrapped in ivy growths. Or on a staff. Maybe with a snake, in homage to the Rod of Asclepius. Figure it's a good forearm piece.

Or a bird. It always comes back to birds. There's just a bird for every feeling. A peregrine in a dive, a phoenix taking its throne, a blackbird living life, a raven brooding, an owl observing, a hawk soaring, a seagull eating French fries, a vulture scavenging, a hummingbird hovering, a parrot shouldered, so many options.

My girlfriend has a lot of tattoos. I always get asked "Do you have any?". No I don't.

I've been thinking of getting a little calf (cow) tattoo on my calf (leg) so I can say "Yeah I have a little calf tattoo"

My grandmother loved cows, my grandfather loved ice cream. My other grandmother is from Finland, my other grandfather is from Mexico. So it would be a calf eating ice cream made from reindeer milk wearing a sombrero. Then it would represent all my grandparents.

Any more ideas to add would be welcomed. My girlfriend's favorite flower is a peony so I was also going to put that in there to help set the scene around it with some grass.

I do my own (they suck on purpose & are NSFW) so i was thinking of doing more swear words down my leg or an area i can still cover up when in public

I do not have any tattoos yet, but if I start, my first one will be the text "Don't panic" in big friendly letters. Probably somewhere on my lower arm, for me to read if necessary.

right arm goals: pixelated Charizard and Kirby and a minimalist solar system in color (blue Earth, Red Mars, etc).

Next will be a pawprint of my now-deceased cat. She had a cool pattern of black and pink on one paw that I think would be a nice tattoo.

My goal is to have one memory of each of the important animals in my life tattooed somewhere. But tattoos are expensive, so it's an ongoing project.

Probably in winter. I get a tattoo or piercing almost every winter since it's the best time to heal

My goal is poisonous plants, I wanna start with belladonna on my shoulder, but later I also wanna get some oleander, and I haven't decided what else yet for the other limbs. It's expensive though, so I haven't gotten any tattoos yet. Soon, I have plans.

Same as the last one - this time on the other side

If I ever get a tattoo it needs to be physics or math related but I have no clue how it's possible to not be terribly cringe. Maybe a clever geometric argument/proof of something important in physics/math.

Handala

My first tattoo was done in a shack with a DIY tattoo kit ordered online.

Afterwards we had DIY beer made with a Mr. Beer kit ordered online.

It's the mark of one of the secret societies I'm in. For obvious reasons, I can't say more.

Neotradstyle Red Rooster hanging from their feet on a rope on my inner left arm

I have plans for a piece on my fore arm of a stylized 3 headed rat. There will be a fancy crown hovering over the arch of its back in blacklight ink so in the right setting it glows.

The Ratking is my favorite mythological creature, in myth they keep and deal in secrets as their rats work as spies. My favorite part though, is that the mythical Ratking is created the same way as the normal one, rats getting stuck together. It's that mythical from the mundane that I love so much.

Eraserhead Snoopy

Just need some money to be able to get it. It's the only thing I have ever seen that I would be 100% okay with inking onto my skin permanently.

If I had it in my mind back at BLFC, I might have already had it. I had money, and there was a parlor right in the hotel between the stages.

I have lots of tattoos and am in my dumb fun stuff era. My next is either going to be a Wild Rainier (Rainier beer bottle with legs used in their weird old commercials) with a shot of whiskey, or American trad animals on my kneecaps.

I have no intention of getting a tattoo, but will probably have a number tattooed on my forearm when I get hauled away to the Woke Detention Camp.