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I have 6🎀

I have 6 tattoos (plus one stick and poke I let a man do on me at a party when I was 18.) And of course- I want more. My first tattoo I got during my first month of freshman year of college freshly moved to New York- it’s on my rib cage- it says “goodnight nobody” which is pulled from the children’s book goodnight moon. 1. I was read that book as a kid. 2. I remember I rediscovered that book when I was high in the mall in high school and that blank page saying “goodnight nobody” felt poignant for all kinds of reasons. Just a call into the void in a children’s book? A rendition of a sculpture from Portia Munson’s installation ‘Bound Angel’ that I saw at PPOW a couple years ago- because the work just spoke to me and womanhood at large i have a fairy (way bigger than I intended) because fairies were a huge part of my girlhood hey arnold (helga’s locket of arnold) because my mom watched that show with me before I can even remember and 2. I like Helga was also a yearner in middle school A bunny because bunny And most recently two of my best friends and I got matching three-headed deer. I haven’t even known them for very long but a portrait of our love felt like a very beautiful and sentimental thing to do regardless of fate. The only one that hurt was the poorly done stick and poke done at the party right next to my vagina- but ofc I acted like wasn't that bad (it was pretty bad).

@gabz

Mar 24, 2024

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Remembering you have tattoos

Through many years of tattooing the memorable, the impulsive, and the stupid on my body, I tend to forget that I have them, even though I technically see them every day. Every now and again, I like to do a tattoo review where I return to the site of each tattoo, reminding myself of why I got them and what the story was behind each piece. They blend in so well to my perception of my skin that I forget sometimes that once upon a time, I was some former age and I found something that meant a lot to me so I had it tattooed. And that that version of myself had her future self in mind while getting the tattoos, sending off a faraway message in a bottle, waving a twinkling greeting from forevers ago. I carry her with me everywhere I go.

@platypus_angel

Mar 10, 2025

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Tattoos as a practice in impermenance and self acceptance

I have lots and generally stopped overthinking them after my first one. In theory, permanently marking your body is seen as an eternal commitment that carries a ton of weight, but I’ve really benefitted from flipping that on its head and using tattoos as a practice to remind myself of the impermanence of life and of my body (we’re all going to die :)). Now I give them to myself with needles from amazon, I let friends tattoo me, I get them on a whim when I’m traveling. I think a lot of people are scared of carrying physical markers of all the different people they’ve been (myself included), but I think doing so is actually a great practice in self acceptance—carrying all those versions of you, on you, all the time, baring them for others to see. The ones I got 4 years ago that I wouldnt get today don’t bother me even though I no longer resonate with them; they’re a personal history of sorts. And because of the whole death thing, all tattoos are temporary :)

@harper

Mar 25, 2024

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Make it nice

dress up your dinner table for one. it’s like dating yourself and honestly, you should be so lucky

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Get red wine stains out with white wine. Erase permanent marker by scribbling over it with a whiteboard marker. Keep exposing yourself to your fears and watch them become mundane and disappear over time. Like cures like.

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