/fa/ - Fashion

>>12690368
You know why people shouldn't get generic common tattoos? Because symbols that have been around for ever attract alot of different meanings over the years. You see a neat snake, maybe make something up about new beginnings or some gay shit. But what you actually did is brand with a big huge question your gonna get asked over and over. People will make assumptions about your tattoo and when you don't know what the hell Greek alchemist texts are or some other zen thing, you will look very dumb when you have to really say why you got it. My sisters boyfriend got some runic tattoos, my mom assumed he was a nazi, I assumed he was a big Tolkien fan. When he explained that it's for pegan worship, I suppressed laughing at him. His personal ideas about them were pretty fucking weird, and totally not supported my actual historical religious texts. If you have a emotional or important message to convey, symbols will work, but you must agree that art is the far better choice to give a complex nuanced naritive in single frame. Can you call a single symbol art? Not really up to me, but if I had the limited permenet canvas of my own skin, I'd probably set out to answer a few questions about why exactly I want Jörmungandr the world serpent on my inner arm. Or is it the god Mehen, protector and guide to Ra on his travel to the underworld? Or is it just generically all of them, smooshed Into a grey paste of symbolisum that I think looks cool, and like, represents my like, my childhood, because if death is not the end, then what's before birth? That's heavy man, I really digging this idea so much. I think it might have changed my life, I want to commemorate with is a tattoo, but I only have 200 bucks...