Fight Club snowflake tattoo
Okay, so. Sorry for the tacky title.
Hi everybody.
As you can tell, I'm pretty new here, though a long-time Palahniuk fan. I come to you with a rather strange problem:
I'm a big fan of tattoos. Got my first one when I was 16, and was meant to become a tattoo artist myself (didn't really happen, since where I live army service is mandatory, so I currently work in a liaison office for the Air Force), so I pretty much know my way around the business. I've also researched many cultural tattoos and their meanings (i.e. Russian mafia tats etc).
Four years after my first tattoo, it turns out I'm sucker for tattooing idol-related icons on my body. It wasn't intentional, but I ended up having tattoo reference to singers/authors/artists Nick Cave, T. S. Eliot and Geoffrey Chaucer.
My next goal is a Palahniuk tattoo. I'm considering getting the cover of Survivor tattooed on my ankle in the far future, but other than that I'd like to have a small Fight Club gesture tattooed sometime this month. My original idea was of a plain snowflake, just for the sake of 'You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake', but I feel like it's... well, too plain. I wouldn't mind having something written added to it, but first off - I can't think of anything, and second - I already have lines from two different poems and a name tattooed, I don't know if more text is really what I need.
So what I'm saying is, I would very much appreciate it if you guys had any ideas or suggestions as to what I might do.
Much thanks,
Gal
distorted snowflake? I stumbled on this site quite a while back and for some reason it was the first thing I thought of in response (and then I spent a whole three minutes trying to remember what to put in the search to find it)
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After seeing water react to different environmental conditions, pollution and music, Mr. Emoto and colleagues decided to see how thoughts and words affected the formation of untreated, distilled, water crystals, using words typed onto paper by a word processor and taped on glass bottles overnight.
The same procedure was performed using the names of deceased persons. The waters were then frozen and photographed.
Adolph Hitler Water!
Pepper, that website is actually very helpful. I will have to take a closer look at it (am currently in the office). Thanks!
NRWC, trust me, my tattoos fully live up to what I had wanted them to be. I sometimes give my tattoo artist a free hand because I trust him and because he was supposed to be my teacher.
I don't know if I should get another text tattooed on me because I don't know if it will look good to ME. I actually like Survivor a hell more than I did Fight Club, but FC was the first Palahniuk piece I've watched/read, so I want to have some kind of tribute to that too. If I do add text to it, though, I might have to read Fight Club all over again, because the only thing that keeps popping into my head are Choke/Survivor lines.
First off, speaking as someone who's arms are 70% covered, and has tattoos on his back and ribs, I say: Get what YOU want. As long as you're happy with it, fuck what someone else thinks.
Second: Most of my tattoos have words on them to drive in the meaning (for me). Each one is a reminder of something that I want to be reminded of daily (both good and bad).
As for a suggestion, get a snow flake with a red circle around it, and a line crossing through the snowflake. Think No Smoking, but yours would be You Are Not A Beautiful and Unique Snowflake.
Best of luck man. And Happy New Tattoo Day in advance.