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[rm]

I finally finished it. This will be my next tattoo:

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[rani23.livejournal.com]

Nice!

[rm.livejournal.com]

Thank you. And damn you're fast!

[bunnymasterg.livejournal.com]

=O where are you going to put it?

[rm.livejournal.com]

right fore-arm. This is actually orientated for how it will look if viewing me with my arms at my sides. so to me it's actually upside down.

[winterknight.livejournal.com]

That's beautiful. Very striking. :)

[rm.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[schpahky.livejournal.com]

Awesome. Color I assume?

[rm.livejournal.com]

As shown. Possibly with some gold highlighting on the scrolls as well.

[schpahky.livejournal.com]

Tell me what you know about yellow and tattooing. You and I are both really white and I am exploring some options.

[rm.livejournal.com]

You just have to be diligent about taking care of it. Hell, I know peopel as light as me with white-work in tattoos. It may also need touch-ups every 5 or so years.

[torenheksje.livejournal.com]

May I ask what the symbology behind this is? Or is that too personal? I'm curious as to why a compass (at least that's what it appears to me to be).

[rm.livejournal.com]

It is in fact a compass. The way it will be positioned on my har, it will essentially point at my heart. It is, among other things, a way of saying I am my only north star.

It also incorporates a lot of things I love, albeit in a oblique, buried way:

- Regency/Age of Sail stuff
- the fact that I tend to go on weird pilgrimages -- I get ideas in my head, places I must see, things I must honor that usually seem crappy and pop culture to othe people, but invariably wind up changing my life (i.e., my whole australia thing)
- the idea of a compass itself also has a lot of relevance to this Anubis archetype business that crashed into my world via fandom and made me grok stuff about myself I knew but didn't have a package for, per se.
- the green is for my Slytherin crap. The gold, of course for north being whatever we quest for -- the purple in the center of that is a sort of there's blood/life/cost in everything both for good and bad. The blue just looks right -- and it's a mariner's compass for heavens sake.
- the scrollwork doesn't mean anything, it's more just about my aesthetic, and the sourcing of it is personally amusing to me (but would take a really long time to explain and isn't terribly deep).

[torenheksje.livejournal.com]

That's so cool that you are able to incorporate so many important things into one tat. And now I have to go and research Anubis some more, since I know only the bare bones basics about him/Him and now, as usual, you've got me all curious about something.

I'm a big fan of the Golden Age of Dutch history, which started off when I read this book called "Tulipomania" and got sidetracked with "Girl with a Pearl Earring" and has now become a full-blown obsession. It helps that I can spending lots of time walking around in places that haven't changed all that much since then. I'll not also bore you with my Tudor issues, as they've practically become the WalMart of history via the SCA and Ren Faire. :c) But I can identify with how important it is to you.

Too chicken to get a tattoo, though. And I'm already getting wrinkly, so I think my window of opportunity has slammed shut.

[rm.livejournal.com]

There's a fantastic essay by ClunyCat on Scribbulis (or however it's spelled) over on Leaky Cauldron about Snape and the Anubis archetype. Her citations are a good starting place, whether you read the piece or not.

[graene.livejournal.com]

Beautiful. I can't wait to see it actually on you.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[heron61.livejournal.com]

Very elegant, I like it.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[00goddess.livejournal.com]

That's very different than I thought it would be... that's a compass rose :) Very good.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

I hadn't known the right word for it when I started the project. It's actually pretty different than I thought it would be too (what with the gold and the scrolly things).