Do you have a literary tattoo? I’d love to feature it!
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I love when books are referenced in other books. I don’t just mean an amazing quote from another book (although I love that too), I’m talking about when a character tells us which book they’re reading or their favorite book. I often come across books this way that I have meant to read in the past and have forgotten or haven’t heard of before and need to look up. Watership Down is one of these books. It is Calla’s favorite book in Nightshade (which was amazing. go read it!). So when I came across kwisper‘s tattoos it just made sense to feature them.
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This is a couple of months after healing, but prior to being touched up. It looks even more amazing now that some of the lines have been evened out, made darker, and some of the letters touched up. The full quote is “My heart has joined the Thousand for my friend stopped running today” and is a rabbit proverb/prayer. It has always sent shivers down my spine and I’ve adored it since the moment I first read it as a small child. It sums up perfectly how I feel about my own pet rabbits.
In the movie this is from the bargain that Hazel tries to make with Frith to save his warren as he is running towards the farm to set the dog loose on Woundwart’s rabbits. In the book, from when El-ahrairah tries to convince the Black Rabbit to take his life and save his people’s: “Bargains, bargains, El-ahrairah,” he said. “There is not a day or a night but a doe offers her life for her kittens, or some honest captain of Owsla his life for his Chief Rabbit’s. Sometimes it is taken, sometimes it is not. But there is no bargain, for here, what is, is what must be.”
Unfortunately I can’t operate a camera with my mouth so I couldn’t get a picture of the two side by side but the placement of the text on the left wrist sits in the space between the two lines on the right.
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I loved both of those but they both look like they would hurt like the dickens!
@ Felicia : I’m terrified of getting one on my ribs. Although a lot of people say the foot is the worst and it wasn’t that bad
That is what I love about this feature. Learning why someone picks the tats that they do. When they are inspired by books and quotes, all the better!
Awesome tats! Thanks for the pictures!
@ Missie : I’ve actually come across books via Bookworms with Ink that I would never have heard of otherwise