#discworld tattoo

[klinefelterrible]

I don't know if anyone wants or needs to see it but it is my first tattoo I ever done with a handpoke needle on myself. V is for Vimes. It's rough, it's not ideal but so is he.

[klinefelterrible]

Not my best work, but it was my first tattoo ever, done in handpoke (or stick and poke) method. What deserves mentioning is that I was very John-Keel-like that day, because I was a day after an eyelid surgery, my right eyesocket was swollen, vision blurred... All I wanted was to make myself happy and try and draw a 'V' on me with a red marker and after realising I drew a perfect one, I decided to go for it. A first ever tattoo and without stereovision.

The next one I'm doing is left handedly (I'm a rightie) Summoning/Guarding Dark on my right forearm. Same technique.

Okay I need to get this off my chest

Terry Prachett was the coolest fucking dude who ever lived and honestly the world is a lesser place without him in it.

Dude wrote what is arguable the greatest fantasy series ever, never, ever pulled his punches with what he wrote. He could make you laugh, cry, and sob like a little bitch in like 4 pages.

He made a mod for Oblivion because he wanted to research goblins for one of his books.

He was knighted by the crown, and proceeded to learn how to Smith, dug up his own ore and forged a STAR METAL SWORD

He wrote in such a brilliant, elegant style that perfectly flowed in such a way that it made his books feel long and short at the same time. His prose, his wording, his ability to sneak in jokes.

I can not understate that Sir Prachett changed how I feel about the world. I wish I had started reading his books sooner. That shall remain my greatest regret in life.

[copperbadge]

Not sure if this is a first for you, but I recently got a tattoo inspired by your words. When reading your Discworld fic, Patterns, the closing line just STUCK in my head. "Sooner or later, the thread becomes the pattern" is such a crafter friendly version of Annie Dillard's "how we spend our days is how we spend our lives" and it stuck in my head. I'm in the process of leaving a job that I've been in for almost 20 years (which in reality was probably about 5+ years too long at this point). As part of my commemoration of the transition, I got a needle and thread tattoo to remind myself that the thread does in fact become the pattern and the daily choices I make shape my life as a whole. So thanks!

Oh, that's awesome Anon! I believe someone out there has a Si Creabis, Fit Redunda tattoo, but this may be the first ink inspired by one of my stories (my memory is bad enough that I may be mistaken, but in any case I always love to hear about such things). It's lovely that it's from one of the earliest ones, the Discworld stories that got me back into fandom.

There are things I'd maybe write differently in some of those, with the advantage of time and skill -- that was written over twenty years ago, and some of the stuff about police work at the start could use an update -- but the general sentiment from the ending is sound, and I certainly wouldn't rewrite that line in particular. It holds up, and I'm pleased it had such an impact!

[sing-you-fools]

woke up this morning with an intense urge to get a tramp stamp that reads Abomination Unto Nuggan can someone please talk me out of this or perhaps suggest a font

[thebluecoyote42]

Not the best image, but my BRAND NEW TATTOO is done. The artist was amazing, the shading looks great, and the hat is actually believably gold (or at least was before my skin got all angry and puffy). Hat taken (with permission) from @deboracabral

Thank you so much!

[akboro]

got adult money did childish stuff:)

can't wait for summer to be able to show it off 24/7

A'Tuin from Sir Terry Pratchett's Discworld

[feckineejit]

Got our new Tattoos yesterday - love them

[vimesbootstheory]

yayy I won the september challenge at my gym (basically just whoever did the most workouts in september) and I won a gift certificate to the tattoo parlour where I've already made an appt to get my first tattoo!

[nezumidoll]

Been about 1,5 years since I got my tattoo of the Grim Squeaker. And I love it! It still looks amazing.

Reading Mort at the moment. Sir Terry Pratchett was a wonderful writer and human.

[aeshnacyanea2000]

It’s not a proper tattoo unless no one can remember how it got there.

-- Terry Pratchett - Jingo

[temporal-mechanic]

my guarding dark tattoo

[fourdiagnosesinatrenchcoat]

You can ask me about my back tattoo and I will answer your question but you have to be prepared for a Discworld treatise

[hearsayhorizons]

The fifth thing Tak did, he wrote a geode, an egg of stone. ... Then Tak looked upon the stone and it was trying to come alive, and Tak smiled, and wrote All things strive. 

And for the service the stone had given, he fashioned it into the first Troll, and delighted in the life that came unbidden.

—The things that Tak wrote, Thud, Terry Pratchett, 

+++ Dear Hogfather, For Hogswatch I Want

OH, NO. YOU CAN'T WRITE LETT... Death paused, and then said, YOU CAN, CAN’T YOU.

+++ Yes. I Am Entitled +++

Death waited until the pen had stopped, and picked up the paper.

BUT YOU ARE A MACHINE. THINGS HAVE NO DESIRES. A DOORKNOB WANTS NOTHING, EVEN THOUGH IT IS A COMPLEX MACHINE.

+++ All Things Strive +++

—Hogfather, GNU Terry Pratchett

The TL;DR is that I had a tough but worthwhile experience as a kid at a bear-themed park and wanted to use this quote along with the constellations for ursa minor and major in some combination for a tattoo, but I wasn’t sure how to do it—runic font for Tak? Something more DOS for Hex? My husband recommended an idea but I am on the fence. I just realized that his idea doesn't solve my font questions, but one issue at a time.

As preteen, I had the opportunity to hike the Sleeping Bear Sand Dunes in Michigan with a cohort of kids my age. The only hiccup is that my slight cerebral palsy means my right foot turns in and I walk on the side of it. I need a solid surface to push off of—ice is only slightly worse than sand (I can roller skate, at least, I could fifteen years ago, but it looks goofy as hell as I’m in a constant shuffle of failing to fall so hard I should be flying instead).

It took a dozen ace bandages and a lot of sweat, but I kept up with everyone else and I still really value the experience.

All things strive has stayed with me for years since I first read Thud. I know I want those words as a tattoo, probably on my calf because everything else fluctuates with the weather. I want the constellations with the words. But what font? What will look nice over time, and fit both myself and the context?

Apparently, my husband has been sitting on “it should be a dung beetle pushing uphill—striving!” but he didn’t want to recommend a... tattpoo. 

But you know what, I don’t mind scarabs. And I could see what he was talking about, so I spent way too long hashing out an approximation

This is a rough draft I hope could be enough for a real artist to work off of: indistinct, placeholder font, the sphere of constellations looks like a dragonball, and I couldn’t get the text to curve despite tutorials! The blue-white is negative space/skin.

I think this could be a largish interesting tattoo. Just the text with stars scattered around it would grab much less attention but be much simpler. I dunno, my husband recommended it, and while he was reluctant because he wasn’t sure how I’d take it, my oversensitivity to being made fun of didn’t alert.

ALL things DO strive!

[jonlybonlyfromboldlygo]

all I want is to lie down flat on a table while a talented artisan with light hands tattoos the Great A'Tuin into my shoulder and I don't feel like that's too much to ask

[andromeda3116]

so, it's not gonna happen anytime soon, but i do want to get a discworld tattoo on my thigh at some point

i know i want the text "the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape" but i'm not sure about what kind of art to do with it? i've considered the picture of the disc on the elephants and great a'tuin, but i'm not in love with it

i know i don't want any people on it, and that quote doesn't really click with the lilac, although if lilacs were incorporated into it somehow, i would really like that

any ideas?

[bipolarediaz]

i would say i’m sorry to the people who followed me for other fandoms now getting spammed with discworld but actually i am not even a little bit sorry. please read discworld. they’re my favorite series of all time, even my brainrot fandoms pale in comparison to the constant brainrot i have for discworld