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Continue reading →: Life Happens (An Update)“Better late than never.” – Some procrastinator. When I first started this blog, it was originally for a school assignment. We had to pick a subject to choose as our project for my BFA in Creative Writing from Full Sail University, so I tried to think about what would be…
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Continue reading →: Oh God, what have I done?“Consequences are unpitying.” – George Eliot As someone with Generalized Anxiety Disorder, I like to cap my perfectly normal night with a pleasant game of “Well, time to focus on what you’ve done” for the next several hours. Most folks might focus on that cringe moment in school, the phrase…
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Continue reading →: In Memoriam“Those we love never truly leave us. There are things Death cannot touch.” – Uknown Another Memorial Day has come and gone. With it goes another year of missing friends, family, and loved ones. I always feel a twinge in my stomach when I see a bearded man bearing his…
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Continue reading →: “Shopping Around”“What do you mean you need a $100 deposit, the other places charge $50!” There is a well known trope in the tattoo industry called ” [insert name here] said he/she/they could do it cheaper.” What the person on the other end of the phone usually leaves out is that…
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Continue reading →: Home Away from Home“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door,” he used to say. “You step into the Road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.” -Bilbo Baggins to Frodo Baggins, The Fellowship of The Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien. As…
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Continue reading →: Of Head Tattoos and Consequence“Alright, before we start, you’re absolutely sure you want this tattoo?” – Q Since December of 2023 I have been contemplating on whether I should get a tattoo on the side of my head. I talked to my wife EXTENSIVELY (God bless her patience), talked with my boss, and did…
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Continue reading →: Why do we get Tattoos?Personal expression, creativity, a love of art, and a yearning to be outside the norm is the basis of any tattoo experience. Sometimes we get them in remembrance of something or someone; other times we get them so we never forget. There are tough tattoos, beautiful tattoos, funny tattoos, and…
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Continue reading →: How to Choose an ArtistThere are a million tattoo artists out there, just spend five minutes on Instagram. You could spend an entire day looking at different artist’s posts and still feel lost about who you should go to. Well, today’s your lucky day, because I’m about to give you my un-asked for opinion…
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Continue reading →: Just let them cook….Anyone who has spent any amount of time getting tattooed has asked the person doing the work “So, how long have you been tattooing?” Sometimes it’s a decade, sometimes it’s less, and occasionally you’re in the chair with someone apprenticing who just got a machine in their hands this year…
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Continue reading →: Speaking of Pain…..“Nah bruh, it didn’t hurt.” – The guy with three dots on the side of his hand. I don’t know how to break this to you, but I will try my best to be gentle. Getting a needle pushed into your skin at a high rate of speed for ANY…
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