he’s writing on himself again. nature is healing

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little sharpie tattoo I gave myself

So I’ve been thinking I’ll probably do sharpie tatts again for my MCR show next week, and it’s a little soon yet to be drawing the ones I’ll actually have on for the show, but it’s gotten me yearning to draw on myself again, and with all the excitement about Badflower tonight (or last night now I’m posting it, but they open again tonight too), I thought, what if I just... gave myself a Badflower sharpie tattoo. For funsies?

So if you’re unfamiliar with their band logo, it looks like this:

So I started by attempting to draw their signature flower on my wrist. I decided to do it in blue rather than black just because I prefer to have some color in my sharpie tatts, even if they’re monochrome. It didn’t exactly turn out super accurately, but, well... the band’s not called Goodflower now are they? Lol. Then it just worked out that I put their name underneath rather than attempting to go on top of the flower, which would’ve required more planning and less coloring in the center. So then it looked like this:

but I wanted to do a little bit more, and incorporate some lyrics into it too. I started looking through some of the lyrics of my favorite Badflower songs, at which point I remembered, oh yeah, a lot of these are really quite grim, lol; I did come up with a few potential selections, but none of them were Vibing just right. But then I was looking at 30 and I saw “so raise up your glasses to going out of fashion!” and it just clicked into place. I mean, one of the great things about doing sharpie tatts instead of real permanent tattoos is that the things one draws on don’t have to be your only all-time favorite absolute best picks from all possible options; I considered going through more options after that, but I felt good about that line, so I went ahead and added it in. 

It felt energizing and defiant, full of weird-and-proud energy; it also seemed a bit appropriate after the night’s twitter dramas. Of course, I have trouble planning spacing and I’m just freehanding this (all the more reason I’m glad this isn’t a ‘real’ tattoo), so the “to going out of fashion” part wound up on two lines, and my script is kind of funky and hard to read in places, but you know, it’s probably not going to last a full week, and I like it. Actually I fell asleep while writing this earlier and I just woke up at like 5:30 and looked at my arm and went “what the-- oh yeah I did do that,” but this is another good thing about sharpie tattoos, that it’s okay when they just sort of appear on your arm in the morning, lol. The text in a circle around the roughly circular logo also reminds me of the Red Hot Chili Peppers logo, come to think of it, but that’s not a bad thing I suppose. Anyways, I am really quite fond of it, so I wanted to go ahead and show off my pics while it’s fresh. “Raise up your glasses to going out of fashion” indeed! I love Badflower, I love their music, it’s 6am now and I want to get back to sleep and this post is probably messy and in need of editing, but I’m going to go ahead and post about my funky little Badflower tattoo now because it’s weird and I like it. 

Sharpie tattoos>>>>

Unlucky - 11.1.23

breaks into your car with gentle sensuality🖤

In memory of

Happy birthday to my gorgeous, amazing @officialladynoirette!!!!

After my amazing Thunderbirds bday gift from last year, I counter with a shameless thirst trap of her favourite iR bird. Just showing off his tattoo, of course! 👀

played lis2 for the first time in a while and missed these goobers

outfits inspired by @thealexchen's misty mouse concert fic <3 + no make up versions under the cut (because they're cute)

THIS JUST IN - gerard wrote ‘let’s go’ on his hand in dublin AND warrington!

Dublin 24th May

Warrington 27th May

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Devan's a very serious merc with very intimidating tattoos you see

On a scale of 1 to 10, how mad would you be if you gave up your ability to swim in exchange for the ability to turn into a bunch of balls?

And also, tattoo alert for his jaw? I guess??

tattooing has made my storage space decidedly worse for visitors because previously there would be boxes with paint, with pencils, metal pieces I press my buttons with,... all art supplies with a clear purpose even if you're not that much of a crafter yourself.

These days, if you want to borrow one of my shopping bags, you get confronted with a big big clear box that only contains: 1 skin colored roll, 3 sharpies and a deoderant stick.

and these things belong together they have a clear purpose

Deoxys--The DNA Pokemon

A warm up sketch with sharpies and a random pen I found at Dollar General.

not religious, not atheist but a secret third thing (watched 15 seasons of supernatural and gets a real buzz off stained glass windows*)