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[redbird]

Two strangers commented on my tattoos today.

The first started the conversation, in the elevator from my gym, by asking "Who did your tattoos?" I told her--Craig Cooley of Abstract Tribal Tattoo, on Eldridge--and she then said that she likes tattoos but doesn't have any. She used the word "hesitant." I pointed out that it doesn't hurt that much. That wasn't it: she's worried about how a tattoo will look when she's "90 and sagging". So I said that when I'm 90, the tattoos are likely to be the best-looking part of me.

She hadn't thought of that.

I don't think she's going to head right down to Craig to get a tattoo, but she may think about it.

The other was simple praise, the cashier at Amy's Bread telling me she liked my bird.

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[kiya]

It's one of those things that I think about occasionally; it's the sort of body-modification-thing that I would actually do, at least in potentia. (Unlike, say, a piercing; I don't even have pierced ears.) I'm playing with the idea with greater and lesser seriousness these days. I think it may have something to do with life-phase transition stuff in my head (hello, there's a place for a story idea).

Kevin's thought about it too; the thing is, if he were to do something of the sort, he'd want a wingspread dragon across his shoulders, which is one of those massive time-and-energy-and-money investment things, he figures.

Maybe someday thinking about it will go somewhere.