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Tattoos as a practice in impermenance and self acceptance

I have lots and generally stopped overthinking them after my first one. In theory, permanently marking your body is seen as an eternal commitment that carries a ton of weight, but I’ve really benefitted from flipping that on its head and using tattoos as a practice to remind myself of the impermanence of life and of my body (we’re all going to die :)). Now I give them to myself with needles from amazon, I let friends tattoo me, I get them on a whim when I’m traveling. I think a lot of people are scared of carrying physical markers of all the different people they’ve been (myself included), but I think doing so is actually a great practice in self acceptance—carrying all those versions of you, on you, all the time, baring them for others to see. The ones I got 4 years ago that I wouldnt get today don’t bother me even though I no longer resonate with them; they’re a personal history of sorts. And because of the whole death thing, all tattoos are temporary :)

@harper

Mar 25, 2024

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Regretting a tattoo

Something sort of Chic about making a mistake and admitting it. Oh well ya know. I’ve lived and I’ve learned

@cowgirljesus

Mar 29, 2025

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prospective decision:tattoo

When thinking about tattoos, it is difficult to decide what I want since they all look cool and my style changes so often and everything is so cool and awesome. I’ve thought of a possible solution, which is: get tattoos based on my history and things that have shaped me as a person. Since history is in the past, it never changes, and I have to accept it whether it’s ink on my body or not. I’m taking inspiration from Polynesian culture here.

@edduh-sahdeeyeh

Mar 7, 2025

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oaf the cat

this is my cat, oaf. she likes to eat paper and is a fiend for ice cream as well

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glass bottles going ‘clink!’

so pleasant

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verboseness

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