Show us Your Ink: The Cult's Official Tattooing Thread - NSFW

Six.

ignorance is bliss.

I don't know anything about Danielle Tobias 's tattoos. This one is mine.

That is the top of my foot. It's fairly small. Woot! for single-needle work.

Hells yeah in the single needle work!

Must be pretty small. How'd you go on the top of your foot? hurt? I have these matching heads i want to get down there. and i really want to get Rock/roll on my toes with two little skull and cross bones on my big toes. But i have to wait til i can not wear shoes for a week or two so it doesn't fall out.

Failed artist/photographer
Works at a Starbucks
Can't afford her own place

This is a cause for worship, apparently.

So she's just a regular early 20-something, then.
I never had a problem with her, but I don't see why people make such a big deal out of her - good or bad.

I know, huh? Why has he made this place a shrine for her?

Yeah, you guys are such dicks. Especially you, Brandon, and you're a mod; you should be setting an example. She doesn't care about this place as much as you guys care about her, i promise. Nobody likes you guys, actually.

Especially you, Ritt.

The fuck are you numbnuts going on about?

That's fine, man. You're entitled to your say just like everyone else. Good luck to you trying to convince this place she doesn't care when her alts number somewhere between forty and fifty range.

Oooooohhhh! He was serious. I thought that was sarcasm and he was trying to be funny.

My bad.

I want a butterfly on my other foot. Now I just have to find a picture of a butterfly that I like...

Quite a sig there, Tuffy.

About how you gave this place to that wretch. She's horrible and we have to hear about her all day long because you can't just send bloody-thumbprint-stamped love letters like a normal creep. You gotta come singing about the bitch in here instead.

So, I'm booked in for the 21st of December. It's me ma's Chrissy present to me. Some realistic roses on my forearm under/around Bob.

Very nice! I look forward to seeing them.

Sweet Matty! You've just been getting tatted up like no other this year! I wish I had the money and artist to get my back piece done. I just found the outline drawings I did the other day and I still really want to get it. I'll post pics as soon as I have the time.

Yeah, I'll probably slow up a bit next year. Maybe. I'll probably have to. I've found this artist now and I'm loving workig with him, so I'll likely let him take on a few more portraits for me, but that will take time and money and he's generally booked up for a couple of months in advance, so I won't just be able to book in. Week before or anything. There will be a waiting period, unfortunately.

Plus, I need to start saving some cashola if I want to hit the states next year some time.

What's this back piece? Post it post it post it!

I feel like I'm one of the only ones around here without any tattoos

We'll fix that soon enough.

Someone hold down Kit; I wanna see if I'm any good at tattooing.

I never thought I would get one, if that's any consolation.

You'd have to catch me first!

I'm ok with not having any, I don't object to the idea of them, I just never really found a design I would want permanently etched into my skin. I just find it interesting that so many people have tattoos these days, compared to in the past. It's really not a big deal anymore.

Winston Churchill's mother had a snake tattoo around her wrist. The popularity of tattoos (in Western culture anyway) has long gone through cycles of "in" and "out".

That said, I've got tattoos older than some of you guys.

This.

The only tattoo I have is a dot on my elbow from when my friend stabbed me with a fountain pen. Other than that, yeah, I'm way too fickle about my philosophies and perspectives to feel comfortable with any permanent symbol on my skin. What is it I truly value? Not whatever flaming 8-Balls stand for, that's for sure.

He thing I never got. Why does it have to mean something? What happened to getting a tattoo because it looks cool? It's not a philosophy or a metaphor, it's just a drawing on your skin. Sure, you can get them for symbolic reasons and all that but there's also just te fact that they look badass, chicks dig 'em and whatever else. I've only got this skin for this life, I may as well do some stuff to it. You're not gonna wear the same shirt for your whole life.

It's costly, permanent, and might make it harder for you to get a job (depending on where you want to work) which could be reasons to not get tattoos just because they look cool.

You're not gonna wear the same shirt for your whole life.

What does this mean? That you can cover up certain tattoos if you wear another shirt, or?

It means you're not gonna wear the same shirt forever, so why wear the same skin? Make it different by getting skin drawings.

Also, yes, it's costly, but it's forever. I understand that kind of contradicts my last statement, but, umm, i'm not sure how to explian what i'm trying to say. Hopefully you get it.

And, i'm not trying to sell tattoos to those who don't want them or like them. The fact is, some people just don't like them and or want them. And that's fine with me.

As fa =r as making it harder to get a job goes, I think as long as you're not getting them above the collar or on your hands and knuckles than you shouldn't have any trouble getting a job, even if it's as a lawyer or whatever. Every one knows there's tons of suits walking out there covered in ink. And, not only that, but it's becoming more and more socially accepted. The people that would normally frown upon someone with a tattoo, judge them, and then not employ them are now getting tattoos themselves, so it's easier to be tattooed. Long gone are the days of tattoos only being associated it perverted sailors, murderous bikers and jailbirds.

Flaming 8-Balls are back in style?!?!

Fuck yeah!

In Savannah I was the only person of any of my friends without any tattoos.

Getting a tattoo just because it looks cool seems completely pointless and it seems like it's a lot more likely that you'll regret it. To get get a cool looking tattoo because "chicks dig 'em" just seems shallow, and not to mention it's counterintuitive, since not all girls like tattoos, so you're anchoring yourself to only women who like 'em, and if your tattoo actually means something, maybe that'd be a bit more respectable in the eyes of the girl who doesn't like the tattoo-gettin' type, while still looking cool to the tat lovin' rocker chicks.

I also don't have any. Even the things that come to mind that would actually be meaningful, I don't follow up on.

I don't care if a tattoo has no deep meaning, thats cool with me. I just hate when someone tells me. "I'm going to get a tattoo this weekend!"
and when i ask "WHat are you going to get?"
"oh im not sure im just going to look through the tattoo books and find something."

Atleast think about the tattoo before you let someone permanently decorate your skin.
and Spend the money on a good artist. My friend, who i love to death, has the worsts tattoos imaginable. They are all scar tissue and blow out. But she keeps going back because its cheap.

Who cares if tattoos are permanent, you're just going to die within 100 years anyway

Also this guy is a lawyer, with face tattoos: http://www.bizarremag.com/weird-news/tattoos-body-art/7524/eak_the_geek....

to be fair he started out as some kind of circus freak

I admit, I'm too lame to have gotten a tattoo. I wanted a phoenix but then the thing I wanted it to symbolize didn't happen, so I couldn't get it then.

But I used to write on my arm every morning the names of two people, write it so hard it's as if I hoped the ink would seep into my skin. Two names, Tasha and Brett. No, the two didn't know each other.
But that was aeons ago.

Hey, now I know what my next story should be.

If you ever come to portland you might see this guy walking around. He is an arrogant douche and seems to dislike other people with tattoos.
I do wonder what it would take it get it in my will that i want to skin framed after i die? i assume it could be done?

My first tattoo was out of a book. Not because I didn't have an original idea of what I wanted, but because my friend called me and said she'd pay for me to get one if I came with her to get hers. I basically had three hours to figure out what I wanted that would only cost about $40.

Super spur of the moment and it was more about the expierence of finally popping that cherry just because the opportunity was availble.

It's funny to me, because I always said I'd never just run out and get a tattoo picked out of a book for fun. And then that is exactly what I did.

My second (and I only have the two) was the same thing with the same friend a year later, same phone call, but I had something of my own I'd been been joking about getting for a while.

Actually, correct all of that, my FIRST tattoo I gave my self with a ball point pen and a sewing needle when I was fourteen. A little heart with an arrow wrapped around it way low on my tummy. I don't have it any more, instead a stretch mark, one of my only bad stretch marks.

Hateface explained

It doesn't explain "Property of Jolene." I guess Jolene is the new head Nazi now that Hitler's gone.

I'm a bit baffled by this Six-bashing right now. Why has it all resurfaced today?

it resurfaced a day or two ago.

edit: more specifically it was a few days ago when billyclubs made a very six-like post indirectly bashing tuffy and he called billyclubs out as being six.

So i have figured out a bit about 6 from peoples posts and old picture threads. But what the shit did she do to piss everyone off. With the amount of bullshitting and tomfoolery that happens around here it had to have been something interesting. What made her this legend?

Lots and lots and lots and lots of alt accounts. About 50 or so. And now you can ask yourself why she would do that.

Strange, And she did this from the beginning? She looked cute enough though.
But now i wonder if she is lurking around here.

Why was she--no! Don't ask that. No asking that! There is simply no answer to give you. No person here could give you an answer to that question. The answer we got was faulty and then they changed the answer and even argued about what the answer was.

But the question key here, and I know of keys, even having picked locks to doors of which I held the key to--is not WHY she was banned, but why the hell her name resurfaces here every ten minutes?

People hate her! They claim to hate her. They say why they hate her and they bring up things that were true, of her, even when they liked her. This is what humans do, though; we know this. We're a sophisticated lot. They like a person until that person doesn't like them and then they claim they don't like them. Often, even, they have perfectly good reasons not to like that person --which they overlook! Instead, they will say, well I don't like you because you're fat. Even though they liked them before, when they, still, were fat. These people lack some area of the brain, where we see two angles of a triangle and know the third. They know three angles and claim it's a pentagon; shapeless. Without shape, but not without substance, and this substance best explained by the 2009 track by Paris and the Hiltons: Rude and Snide.

Freud. Memories. As if they condense, to a size so small you'd believe them gone but with the uncanny ability to, despite all signs of having disappeared completely, burst forth, growing inside your head to engulf all the space they once possessed and even, sometimes, more. Well, that's not at all frightening. But imagine a thing, inside you, breaking out of you through the skin and growing ten times in size in front of you on the floor--like a facehugger; An Alien from Aliens. That's simply horrifying. But imagine you were the only one who seen it, as if somebody ate your soul on the dance floor and all around you people just kept on dancing, oblivious to it.

Tobii is a person who a lot of people here hate. None of these people hated her until she was banned.

Or perhaps they always hated her. Imagine that! They might hate you if it's true but imagine: Posting in her threads, complimenting her on every picture posted, visiting her blogs, buying her gifts, and all the while, this thing inside sucking and eating and biting and waiting to break out, like an alien. From Aliens.

The main argument at this point is so absolutely devoid of logic you'll shit your pants, filling the elastic of your underwear to the point it snaps: She is obsessed with this place VS This place is obsessed with her.

Both sides have an argument; no doubt. She keeps coming back with new accounts every time someone talks about her, and people keep talking about her.

How will this end!? How will this end when even Brandon Tietz, highly succesful author, with an excellent novel in print, will take the time out of his day to say a word or two about this girl who he hates so much---

Straying from the point. Who is Tobii?

She's five foot something--short. She's like a squirrel. You could almost put her in your pocket, or at least in your jacket. She's very light. You can walk to the fridge and get a beer without even setting her down. In high school, she walked hundreds of miles during a hike all around the woodlands north of New York, over mountaintops and into The Whispering Woods where a forest fire killed a forest and the trees, dead, creak in different tones as if talking to one another. Her father killed himself on her front porch. She was fourteen once and thinking he was addicted to some sort of medication when in fact, it was an illegal drug, and she had this place to help her through that, but that time has passed and is gone and buried except as a thing condensed that might explode at any moment like an Alien from---she's been described as a muse. She's written songs for a band. People have written songs about her. There's a gigantic picture of her painted by an artist on display in a museum somewhere in New York. She has been paid to host parties she had no interest in going to, and she has read over 400 novels and by Phil's, Ritt's, Eddy's, my opinion, she's a better writer than most people at the Cult.

Her mom is a self made woman, and the most interesting person I've ever had a conversation about horror with; almost. Her grandmother could kick your grandmother's ass, and she's sweet as hell, and her grandfather is the most bullshit-free, lookyouintheye, matteroffact mother fucker this nigga has ever met. It's like it's the hardest thing in the world for him to not accidentally stare a hole through your soul.

Seven years. We were raised here. We fell in love here. Nobody talked shit to us while we were here except for big balls Parker, so do us a favor and cut it the fuck out. Stop thinking every new account is her. She's like the Freddy Krueger of this place. Stop saying her name and she'll disappear.

wow, hey Nightrious.

This is me and my tattoo artist at a convention in Atlanta! She did this Van Gogh adaptation into a half-sleeve and I love it (and her).

Shit, anyone who can cause the kind of commotion she did, inspire the kind of rage and hysterical excitement, i wouldnt mind having around.
But if people didnt like her couldnt they just click away? That's what i like about this site. I can close the window and its that easy to get away.

just like Freddy Krueger I'm sure some people hear dream about her.

Anyways, Back to ink.