/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.3534500]

Do any of you have a tattoo somehow related to literature? It could either be some of your own writing, a quote from someone, or just a piece of text from a book.

Thinking about getting my own tattoo, but could never get myself to get a quote or something like that..

pic semi-related

[Anonymous No.3534506]

>getting a tattoo

[Anonymous No.3534517]

Yes. Many. I don't want to go into much detail because I want to be unique for the particular way it's done and posting about it on an anonymous public forum is not the best way to keep a secret.

Lots of people here will disagree with getting a tattoo at all but fuck 'em; bunch of cowardly snobs.

[Anonymous No.3535343]

>>3534517
Cowardly snob? I just think they're ugly. I have no problem with other people getting them.

[Anonymous No.3535499]

>>3535343
It doesn't sound like he was referring to you then.

[Anonymous No.3535515]

>>3534500
Tattoos are try hard attempts at identity. I just sort of wu-wei pristine bodied by creeks and lakes, don't need no expensive ink to remind me of no no-self.

[Anonymous No.3535537]

I have figured out my opinion. Here it goes: I find the decision to get and the act of getting a tattoo aesthetically displeasing. I don't mind the tattoos themselves so much as the "being a person who gets tattoos deliberately put on their body". Perhaps it's the vanity aspect, I'm not sure. I also dislike people colouring their hair in strange colours. It's the deliberate act to create such a look that speaks of an ugly mind.

[Anonymous No.3535540]

>>3535499
When he makes sweeping generalizations like that, it does.

[Anonymous No.3535545]

All I know is that chicks love 'em. Go on any dating website and you'll find a ton of "love guys with tattoos" on the chick profiles. Gotta love those signifiers of realness and rebellion. Bout to get some sleeves done and score a bunch of pussy. Livin' the life.

[Anonymous No.3535549]

>>3535545
>get some sleeves done and score a bunch of pussy

Lol nope

[Anonymous No.3535553]

>>3535549
How would you know? I bet you don't even have any sleeves

[Anonymous No.3535555]

>>3534500

i have a couple.

i have one under the left arm, which is a fragment of the lyrics of 'Only Skin', a song by Joanna Newsom

>the cities we passed were a flickering wasteland... but his hand in my hand made them hale and harmless. while down in the lowlands the crops are all coming; we have everything; life is thundering blissful towards death in a stampede of his fumbling green gentleness

i have on my back written in korean letters 'the path of the warrior'

and in my right ankle i have a symbol that to me is a non-constructive immidiate depiction of the essence of friendship (something like a letter that means a word but this letter is a symbol i made for my personal alphabet)

i plan on getting others, thought these are not the only ones i have

patrician tattooes, fellers

[Anonymous No.3535564]

>>3535555
Sounds like you got some shitty tattoos.

[Anonymous No.3535566]

>>3534500

I have

In A Station of The Metro:
The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
petals on a wet, black bough.

on my forearm.

[Anonymous No.3535570]

>>3535555
>i have on my back written in korean letters 'the path of the warrior'

bet you are a real tough guy!
i love those people who get tatoos in oriental/foreign alphabet and may end up with
"springroll" on the back...

[Anonymous No.3535573]

>>3535555
>patrician
>tattooes (sic)
pick one

>>3535564
Agreed.

[Anonymous No.3535580]

>>3535555
>i have on my back written in korean letters 'the path of the warrior'

How does it feel to perpetuate this kind of exotification of beloved of white kids towards East Asian culture? At least if you had this inscription in Chinese characters. But it seems so stupid to use Hangul for this purpose. Why not just deface your body with "The Way of the Warrior" in bloody English? Or is that just not pretentious enough for you?

[Anonymous No.3535588]

>>3535555
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

[Anonymous No.3535603]

>>3535515

well you certainly are living a no-life, you sound like a total faggot

[Anonymous No.3535609]

>>3535570

i am a taekwondo black belt. thats what it means

[Anonymous No.3535618]

>>3535603
2deep4u

Trickle trickle

[Anonymous No.3535634]

>>3535609
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

[Anonymous No.3535657]

>>3535545
>full-sleeves

I'm always completely fucking confounded by these. How can you live your whole life with those things? I mean, at least a half-sleeve can be hidden when need be without having to wear long-sleeve shirts all the time.

I'm too finicky for tattoos, I think. If I ever got anything, it would have to be abstract and meaningless, I hate sentimental tattoos like >>3535555

>>3535566
Oh God please no.

[Anonymous No.3535675]

>>3535609
i don't doubt you know it,not joking.
but i'm quite sure that 90% of people with oriental tatoos might have springroll on the forearm instead of spirit of the kamikaze or whatever BS they can think of

[Anonymous No.3535679]

>>3535657
>How can you live your whole life with those things?

They likely sorta just become transparent things that don't mean much to you over time and only really mean anything to people who meet you for the first time.

The latter part of that sentence likely influences whether that transparency ever turns into regret.

[Anonymous No.3535696]

>>3535679
>The latter part of that sentence likely influences whether that transparency ever turns into regret.

Nice prose, sir.

[Anonymous No.3535720]

>>3535675
Last summer I was riding the municipal train on my way to the Downtown district when I spotted some dweebus with the now largely obsolete hiragana ゑ—a syllabogram that merely represents the sound "we". On a whim I asked this guy, a lanky twentysomething who seemed that he couldn't decide between being white trash and greasy hipster, but was wearing a fedora just the same to keep his options open, told me that it was the "kanji" for "silent power". I wanted to laugh so hard, but out of courtesy fought back the impulse to do so. True story.

[Anonymous No.3535749]

>>3535720
lol,thanks anon.

[Anonymous No.3535753]

>>3535555
not even those quads can save you

[Anonymous No.3536911]

>getting "the path of the warrior" permanently stung into your back
>sincerely even

All my proxies of irony crumble, my mind is breaking down.

[Anonymous No.3536933]

>>3535555
>my personal alphabet

[Anonymous No.3536938]

>>3535540
>bawww

[Anonymous No.3537228]

on the topic of tattoos, I'd like to get one, not words or even really /lit/ related, but I just feel like everyone always assumes that a tattoo is gonna be shit.
I want the Scottish thistle, not exactly what the pic is, but just like a thistle with maybe the leaves going around it like a circle. I think I want it on my chest, in the general location of my heart (batty boy, I know) or maybe on my left upper arm. I'm Scottish, living in America, so I think it's a pretty good way to remember my heritage.
So, who's got criticisms for me?

[Anonymous No.3537250]

I have DONT PANIC on my arm.

[Anonymous No.3537258]

>>3535555
>Being that cunt who gets some shitty psuedo-motivational tattoo in an asian language

[Anonymous No.3537269]

I knew a guy in college who had "Ars Poetica" tattooed across his back. It just made him look like a pretentious douche.

[Anonymous No.3537276]

[Anonymous No.3537291]

>girls and tattoos

if you wear a polo, some nice jeans, decent shoes and have 1 arm halfway tattooed, you're automatically a 9/10 to most women.

[Anonymous No.3537321]

Chicks dig it.

[Anonymous No.3537340]

>>3537321
oops

[Anonymous No.3537347]

>>3537291
>wearing jeans

[Anonymous No.3537354]

>>3537347

Agreed. Jeans r lame.

[Anonymous No.3537356]

>>3537347
>>3537354
yes, obviously he was trolling. we all wear chinos here

[Anonymous No.3537360]

>>3537340
I listed 1984 as my favorite book for years.

I'm so embarrassed.

[Anonymous No.3537362]

>>3537356
>chinos
Pathetic.

I only wear a rubber one-piece to protect against lightning strikes

[Anonymous No.3537364]

>>3537340

Oh no wow

[Anonymous No.3537378]

>>3537356

I just wear my kilt.

[Anonymous No.3537385]

>>3537356
Speak for yourself. I walk around naked most of the time.

[Anonymous No.3537437]

>>3535555
>a symbol i made for my personal alphabet

Quads wasted a pretentious ponce who bores his friends

[Anonymous No.3537441]

>>3537250
I bet you don't even know what 42 really is

[Anonymous No.3537491]

>>3537228
Are you afraid you'll forget you're scattesh?

[Anonymous No.3537512]

>>3537356
>chinos

lol @ this trend. Basically everybody is walking around looking like they just got off of their shift from K-Mart and didn't have time to change.

[Anonymous No.3537516]

I wanna get more.

[Anonymous No.3537520]

>>3537362
made me laugh ty

[Anonymous No.3537524]

>>3537512
Those are just cheap khaki chinos. Buy anything cheap and it will look like shit.

Also chinos have been popular for the past 60 years.

[Anonymous No.3537535]

शून्यता

I want to get this one done on my back, or at the base of my neck.

[Anonymous No.3537539]

>>3537535
>शून्यता

why?

[Anonymous No.3537540]

>>3537535
To warn people you haven't got much between the ears?

[Anonymous No.3537543]

>>3537524
Yeah, but black people wear them now.

[Anonymous No.3537546]

>>3537543
It's just a trend for them, as most things are, and they'll move onto something else when the #swag fad passes.

[Anonymous No.3537552]

>>3537539
I don't want to be the cheesy type to say "to help me remember...", but it's the truth. The Dao/Zen Buddhism have pretty much saved me at the darkest periods of my life. Remembering that word helps me keep my head cleared of unnecessary thoughts.

>>3537540
Yup.

[Anonymous No.3537555]

>>3537552
how is that gonna help if it's on your back where you never see it?

[Anonymous No.3537562]

>>3537555
Well, where would you put it?

[Anonymous No.3537565]

>>3537562
on my hand. i look at my hands a lot

[Anonymous No.3537575]

>>3537565
I've heard tattoos on your hands hurt a lot, but if I were to do it there, it'd be at the base of the thumb, kind of small so that it's more of a personal thing.

[Anonymous No.3537581]

>>3537575
why don't you just write it on a piece of paper that you keep in your wallet

[Anonymous No.3537587]

>>3537581
I'd forget it was there and probably throw it out when I clean it.

[Anonymous No.3537594]

>>3537587
Make it your iphone wallpaper you dumb cunt.

[Anonymous No.3537602]

[Anonymous No.3537607]

>>3537602

[Anonymous No.3537613]

>>3537491
you made me reread my post to see if I spelled Scottish wrong.
And I don't know man, I'm just trying to show that I don't need to go into a 5-minute explanation of my tattoo for people to get it. I want some kind of art on my body, so what's better than something to represent my lineage?

[Anonymous No.3537615]

>>3537613
get a corporate logo and tell people they pay you to wear it

[Anonymous No.3537618]

>>3537607

[Anonymous No.3537620]

>>3537602
>>3537607
>>3537618

[Anonymous No.3537630]

>>3534500
>really want to tattoo on my arm: "Welcome, O life!"
>afraid that i'll grow tired of it in too months
;-;

[Anonymous No.3537641]

>>3537615
huh?

[Anonymous No.3537647]

>>3534517
>but fuck 'em; bunch of cowardly snobs.

Whereas you're a bold yet down-to-earth guy, with what is no doubt someone else's deep/witty quote etched onto his skin.

[Anonymous No.3537650]

If I manage to get a job where my appearance doesn't matter, I'm just going to keep getting impulse tattoos as long as there is space on my body. I don't care whether I'll regret it in 10 years or two weeks. It doesn't matter and I can't think of any reason good enough not to do it.

[Anonymous No.3537661]

>>3537647
>bold
Yes.
>yet down-to-earth guy
No.
>with what is no doubt someone else's deep/witty quote etched onto his skin.
Yes, that is what I implied in the post you're replying to. Congratulations on the reading comprehension.

[Anonymous No.3537681]

>>3537615
I know someone with the Sonic logo on his ass. He was manager there for 10 years, his dad was like state manager or something, ran in the family, made his best friends there, felt very loyal.

Even without the backstory, it's a much more tasteful tattoo than this pleb shit:
>>3537618
>>3537607
>>3537602

Underarmor on the ankle, Nike swoosh on the foot, those I can get behind, at least you can admit and poke fun at the absurdity of branding your body. It's not like picking a corporate logo over शून्यता is any less born out of mass media influence.

[Anonymous No.3537730]

>>3537228
Any more feedback on this, gents?

[Anonymous No.3537733]

Flowers are for homos. Get a tattoo of a gun or a football.

[Anonymous No.3537735]

I wanted to get a tattoo of the lyre with broken strings from John Keats' gravestone. Tiny, on the back of my neck, and in grey, so it doesn't look like a sharpie drawing but more like a watermark. Tattoo shop told me the grey was a bad idea for a tiny tattoo because it would come out blotchy and fade easily. I didn't want it if I couldn't have it my way, so now I'm a tattoo-less Keats fangirl.

[Anonymous No.3537736]

>>3537228
>I'm Scottish, living in America, so I think it's a pretty good way to remember my heritage.
You one of those Scotch-American idiots?

[Anonymous No.3537739]

>>3537733
or flaming barbed wire wrapped around your massive american biceps

[Anonymous No.3537741]

>>3537607
I wonder how much pressure would be required to snap her neck :3

[Anonymous No.3537764]

>>3535537
>being a person who gets tattoos deliberately put on their body
>being a person who deliberately dresses well in the morning
>being a person that is deliberately nice to others even if they hate them

[Anonymous No.3537770]

>>3535537
I'm guessing you've had extremely limited contact with any of these people or have only bad anecdotal experience to share. Either way, generalizations are never right.

[Anonymous No.3537789]

>>3537736
Not sure what you mean. I was born in Scotland, lived there for a while and then moved to America. One side of my family's Scottish and the other is American/mixed-white-Euro, but I consider myself Scottish.
Wish I still had the accent though

[Anonymous No.3537793]

>>3537789
Give it up Yankee, you're one of us.

[Anonymous No.3537833]

>>3537793
I refuse to call myself American!

[Anonymous No.3537846]

Tattoo stands for Trash. No exceptions.

Sage for white trash thread.

[Anonymous No.3537852]

>>3537789
I moved from Scotland to Ireland aged 7. Still have a Scottish accent (albeit a strange, mixed one).

People here don't consider it cool, interesting or badass like Americans might. I just get the piss taken out of me a lot. Shame it's now too late to cave in and make an effort to change it like my older sister did.

[Anonymous No.3537854]

>>3537846
>can't even sage

[Anonymous No.3537855]

>>3535570

getting "springroll" in chinese alphabet is actually a great idea

>dat edgy

[Anonymous No.3537858]

I wonder if a fad will ever emerge where Asians start getting English platitudes tattooed.

[Anonymous No.3537866]

>>3537852
Well that's the thing, Americans think foreigners are so cool and out-there, while every other country treats a foreigner like a slapdick. Seriously, if I still had my accent I'd be swimmin in the poontang like no tomorrow

[Anonymous No.3537914]

idk, been thinking of a few lines from Horace or Pindar, still I'm not sure if I'm that interested in getting it

I like sumi-e art and Japanese prints so maybe something like that too

[Anonymous No.3537936]

>>3537730
Don't do it, you'll be one of those faux-nostalgic ex-pat cunts and if you ever return home you'll be a chavvy/neddy type who's overly nationalist for no good reason.

[Anonymous No.3538788]

>>3537936
Damn it. Never thought I'd let an anonymous person on the internet make me second guess myself