Can I be really nosey and ask about your tattoo(s)?? I love them and love hearing people’s stories behind them! Only if you want too though 🖤
no this is fine with me!!
okay so i currently have seven pieces!
on my left arm i have the so wrong it’s right birds along with ‘take a breath and let the rest come easy’ and below that i have ‘a better reality somewhere in neverland’ these are attributed to my love for all time low but also those two specific songs that helped me a lot as i pretty much grew up with all time low. somewhere in neverland also is a tribute to my love for peter pan but i’ve got a planned piece coming up which is gonna have lost boy lyrics mixed in with it
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on my left arm i have a feather with ‘awake and unafraid’ i am emo trash for mcr, you hit that g note at a party and i’m belting out the black parade no holding back. this was my first tattoo and i got it the day after i turned eighteen. it’s a tribute to my uncle (the one who passed on the 23rd of december nine years ago) because he faced his life unafraid of what was inevitably happening and as a fifteen year old who was struggling with a lot it was a prominent thing for me to witness and be in awe of because it was tough to watch him deteriorate. to this day, it is my most cherished tattoo.
above that i have two roses with a monocle over one of them. the rose out of view is black and white and the rose in the monocle is in colour. these are accompanied by the lyrics ‘we can’t all be like you; i wish we were all rose coloured too’ i got this not long after paramore released after laughter because the lyrics resonated with my own habit of looking at the world through rose coloured glasses. it’s also a reminder for me to be kinder to others and myself.
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on my collar bone i have ‘remember who you are’ aka i’m a huge disney nerd who has loved the lion king since i was a child. it is what it says. a reminder of who i am and where i’ve come from with my family. planning to add the drawing of simba to it when i have the time to book an appointment.
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on my neck i have the lyrics ‘i’ll never be what you want’ from we are the in crowd. mostly got it as a fuck you to my dad, mostly got it to serve as a reminder that i will not bend to other peoples wishes anymore. i am my own person.
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finally my thigh piece. this one is a bouquet of my aunt’s favourite flowers, lilies, chrysanthemums, roses and daisies. paired with the lyrics ‘it’s just a spark but it’s enough to keep me going’. paramore released self-titled in the april. my aunt passed in the june. but this album she loved and this song was ours to share. life was bleak at that stage. she was terminal, i thought i was failing college and there was a lot in our lives that made us sad. but we had this song and we’d sing it together on road trips. the reason why its on my thigh is because she loved my legs so much, always telling me i had lovely long legs and it’s only until this year that i’ve really loved my legs. so yeah
i have more pieces planned for the very near future.
