Tattoo Talk Thursday: I Don't Remember What My Tattoo Says
Hey, all you lads and lasses!
Jesus, it's been a while since I did a Tattoo Talk Thursday. I think the last one I did was in May or something? Sorry about that, I've just had other shit that I wanted to share, other things to talk about. Oh no, no! I did one in June when I got my latest neck piece! (Still have to touch that up and have a bit of it re-worked. Ah, I'll get round to that when I do. It still looks okay. Not 100% sold on it and I don't think that I ever will be.)
Jesus, it's been a while since I did a Tattoo Talk Thursday. I think the last one I did was in May or something? Sorry about that, I've just had other shit that I wanted to share, other things to talk about. Oh no, no! I did one in June when I got my latest neck piece! (Still have to touch that up and have a bit of it re-worked. Ah, I'll get round to that when I do. It still looks okay. Not 100% sold on it and I don't think that I ever will be.)
Let's talk tattoos. Most people my age have them. Some of us love them, some of us regret them and some of us have forgotten what the fuck they even say. Yes, you heard that right. I am one of those people. A white boy who thought it would be cool beans, neato and pretty damn sweet to get an Asian tattoo. I can't use my love for anime and Japanese culture / Japanese aesthetics as an excuse for having this on me because it's in Chinese.
I know. I know. "Dan, if it was that important you had to have it permanently placed on your body why don't you remember it? Is it really not that important? Is this just some sort of want to be trend tattoo??"It was important at the time. Or at least I think it was. I got this tattoo like 7 years ago? Maybe 6? I think I have the original artwork somewhere on my Facebook page. Oi! On that sketch is the translation of the Chinese to English and German! What!
I know. I know. "Dan, if it was that important you had to have it permanently placed on your body why don't you remember it? Is it really not that important? Is this just some sort of want to be trend tattoo??"It was important at the time. Or at least I think it was. I got this tattoo like 7 years ago? Maybe 6? I think I have the original artwork somewhere on my Facebook page. Oi! On that sketch is the translation of the Chinese to English and German! What!
((I probably could have had my sister take a better photo, but whatever. This blog is usually a one man show.)) There it is. Right at the top next to the filigree. Actually, the flower, the writing and the filigree is the entire tattoo, it's not just some random Chinese stuck on my leg there. Right, I was going to post the artwork I did for the piece with the translation on here but I honestly cannot find it. I've got almost 10,000 photos on that bitch in one album alone so...If I do find it, I'll probably tweet it or something like that.
There's Chinese on either side of the flower, the bottom one was so much harder to get because I can't bend that way due to a slipped disc, but that's the piece that really ties into the flower. I wanted to balance it, so that's why there's another little neato bit of Chinese up there. That one I do happen to remember *coughs* after tonnes of memory straining. It means wisdom. Interestingly enough, years later on my 24th birthday whilst in Montreal, I got a wisdom tooth tattoo on the small free space I had on my right wrist. And while speaking of wisdom teeth, my old ass is having them yanked out in about two weeks time. That's gonna be an adventure in a half that involves me taking out my piercings during the surgery. Worry not, as soon as I leave the dentist, they will be back in my tongue and lips.
What was I waffling about? Oh yeah, being a dunderhead who can't remember. If I do remember it will be at the most inappropriate time, probably while I'm having my teeth yanked out of my head. I've never forgotten my Sanskrit tattoo meaning or even my Japanese ones. Wait. No, I do remember that one and I even remember my other Chinese one on my upper arm on the opposite side. Poison. Beautiful. Perfect.
What about you guys? Do you have any tattoos in languages you don't speak that you've forgotten the meanings to? I'd love to hear some of your stories!
What was I waffling about? Oh yeah, being a dunderhead who can't remember. If I do remember it will be at the most inappropriate time, probably while I'm having my teeth yanked out of my head. I've never forgotten my Sanskrit tattoo meaning or even my Japanese ones. Wait. No, I do remember that one and I even remember my other Chinese one on my upper arm on the opposite side. Poison. Beautiful. Perfect.
What about you guys? Do you have any tattoos in languages you don't speak that you've forgotten the meanings to? I'd love to hear some of your stories!
CLOSE UP BITCH!
The light looks really odd here, I must have had the chrome filter on it. I will work on another tattoo blog soon and will even have a piercing feature one since I've not done one of those in FOREVER. I think I only have one piercing one.
The light looks really odd here, I must have had the chrome filter on it. I will work on another tattoo blog soon and will even have a piercing feature one since I've not done one of those in FOREVER. I think I only have one piercing one.
There will be more vlogs coming to my YouTube Channel, so when they're up I'll post them up there or just post some of the video clips on here. In 3 weeks time, I'm going to be travelling to Rhode Island to get tattooed and do to a bit of bake-blogging for my birthday! Find out all about that next month!
Also, there's going to be some new Delectables with Dan coming up soon on here and a few new DWD posts will be up on the DWD Instagram page which I've linked down below. And as always, if you have any suggestions or things you want to see me bake/make on the series let me know via social media.
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