At Least It's Not The Line About Expectorating

[bloodyrosemccoy]

 

Bubble Gum Day
Freedom Day
Hula in the Coola Day
National Wear Red Day
Robinson Crusoe Day (Amelia sez: This one’s for Lychee!)
Women's Heart Health Day

 

So I’m thinking about getting another tattoo.

 

I don’t want to get too many tattoos. I don’t want to wind up with a bunch of tacky spots.* But a few tattoos is okay.

 

Getting too many wouldn’t work very well, anyway, since it takes me years to think up one I’d like. But I think I’ve come up with something I will still want when I finally go to get one: I want a spine tattoo.**

 

It would be simple. I want it in my vertical conlang script (:rimulet), which is very cool looking. The really good news about that is that if I get a quote in my conlang, it doesn’t matter what it says, because people wouldn’t understand it! But of course, I still want it to make sense for me and have some meaning.

 

This means that the suggestions Josh and I came up with for what it says probably won’t fly. Although some of 'em were pretty good:

 

“This is not a zipper.”

“If you can read this, you’re doing it wrong.”

“This way up.”

“Lower.”

“As a specimen, yes, I’m inTIMidating.”

 

I don’t actually want to get rid of all funny ones. I’d actually like something funny, since I like funny. But there’s two other points: it has to be short (one line of :rimulet script), and it has to be something I honestly wouldn’t mind knowing was on my back forever.

 

Here are a few of my favorites so far:

 

• “The difference is that I really am right.” – This is my all-time favorite joke, although it gets complicated why I like it so much. At the end of the day, after we’ve all argued our opinions and carried on about how we all believe that we’re right and everything is subjective, it still boils down to you actually being right.  Even if you change your opinion, you are now right.
• “The ending has not yet been written.” – Yes, this is from Myst.  It’s still something I quite like. It states that the world is open to possibilities and anything can happen.  It also describes a helluva lot of my writing projects.
• “I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.” – Douglas Adams
• “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” – Carl Sagan
• “It is the scientific use of the imagination.” – Sherlock Holmes.  Pretty much describes what it’s like to be a creative nerd.
• “Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.”
• “I can't tell one moon from the other.” – A phrase from the conlang; has to do with the excitement of inspiration and getting assaulted by ideas so fast it gets delirious.

Clearly, it will take me a longish time to figure out which I want to wear.  But I think it’ll be cool no matter what. And nobody can accuse me of a frivolous tattoo when I had to invent the language it’s written in, after all.

 

 

*If you have a large and cool tattoo that’s different, but using yourself as a doodleboard can make you look a little ridiculous.

 

**Let’s get it out of the way right now: “Gee whiz, Amelia! Isn’t that one of the most painful tattoos?!” So they tell me. Oh, well.

Comments

[chairman-wow.livejournal.com]

I like "This is not a zipper", but all of the bullet-pointed ones are really cool also.

What's this script of yours look like? And how does it work? I am intersted.

I'm getting a tattoo this summer. I've been planing to for a few years, and my friend who I'm going to visit in the States knows a very good tatoo artist. Plus, with the value of the dollar as it is, it'll probably be cheaper! :P

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

The script is inspired mostly by Mongolian, although that's mostly just the look and feel of it--the letters themselves don't correspond at all. :rimulet writing has connected consonants and diacritical vowels.

I'll scan an image as soon as I can be assed to get my scanner set up. I am a lazy bum.