#tattoo therapy

[kingoftieland]

While I’ve been listening to Fall Out Boy since 2003’s Take This To Your Grave, their sophomore LP From Under the Cork Tree was the #1 album I listened to in high school. The music and lyrics on this record firmly solidified my love for the band, and I’m still going to their concerts today after first seeing them while promoting FUCT back in 2005.

I contemplated getting a FOB tattoo my senior year of high school, but was told by many that I’d regret it later, so I never did. Still a diehard in my mid-thirties, it was time to finally get that ink I wanted back in my teenage years. The eye/keyhole/crown design was the cover art for FUCT’s vinyl release, and I always loved the look of it. One of my favorite tracks on the album is also “XO,” which is the song that references the image. It was even the secret Magic 8 Ball song I got to hear LIVE when they played Fenway Park last year! Only fitting, then, to commemorate it with my latest tattoo. 🎱

[pyyromoth]

A few favourite pieces of mine, designed and tattooed by me. I have resurrected an old neglected sideblog for my ink so consider this my little introductory 🖤

[brightygirl]

High quality of my most intimate tattoo made by hand poke.

As a talisman it fights against trans genitals fetishization trying to repair my own traumas of the last year.

More than 20 hours split into multiple sessions were required and have become a true empowering art therapy.

8 months later, I still feel shining ✨

[mooodyposts]

first session done on what is shaping up to be my new favorite piece in the collection

[hazywazysmind]

I fucking love it😩🤚🏽

[kingoftieland]

As work continues on my prehistoric sleeve, take a look at this new color addition just below the elbow – a past and present piece made up of modern-day sea life layered over a set of fossilized Megalodon jaws! The now extinct shark was a biological marvel, having teeth up to 7 inches long and the strongest bite force of any animal in history at more than 40,000 PSI (compared to the strongest today: saltwater crocodiles at just 3,700 PSI)!

Megalodon was the largest shark to ever exist, dominating the oceans for more than 20 million years. Reaching sizes upwards of 50 feet in length, the largest jaw reconstruction of the behemoth measures 11 feet across and over 9 feet tall! With a life-size tooth of the shark already tattooed above my elbow, I can once again pay tribute to one of my all-time favorite animals with this unique ink. 🦈

[walkingwithaliens]

[pyyromoth]

all hail the reign of the demon kitties

designed & tattooed by yours truly 🖤

[leighlew3]

I just realized I now have nine tattoos. Eight of them are all on one arm.

And I still have plans for a tenth.

It’s becoming a problem… 😅

[blot-squisher]

After what has been a long seemingly unending day and a half of stress and anxiety, it’s time to relax with some tattoo therapy. God I needed this.

[yoursubmissive46]

A throwback to the pre-tattoo days 😂😂 Now, I am a canvas full of beautiful art by an artist that has provided well needed hours of therapeutic ink and pain therapy 😂😂

~yoursubmissive46

[2alien1]

tfw you have tattoos, and they are already a part of you, and sometimes you forget about some or don't really realise they are there, but then you really look at them, and omg the feeling..like, I have a tattoo, how cool is that? I am so cool..like whaaat?

I need more tattoos...

[bi-luminescentdragon]

So here it finally is! My new tattoo :D so in love with it. Dragons have always been my all time fav and lilies are my favorite flowers. So Dragon Lilly is my writing pen name and felt like I needed something to represent that. So here it finally is 😍

[kingoftieland]

My prehistoric sleeve is finally done, but it wouldn’t be complete without this landmark paleontological find – a fossilized Archaeopteryx! Meaning “ancient feather,” Archaeopteryx was long considered to be the beginning of the evolutionary tree of birds and lived in the Late Jurassic around 150 million years ago. 🌳🐦

Despite their small size, broad wings, and inferred ability to fly or glide, Archaeopteryx actually had more in common with other small Mesozoic dinosaurs than with modern birds. In particular, they shared the following features with the dromaeosaurids and troodontids: jaws with sharp teeth, three fingers with claws, a long bony tail, hyperextensible second toes ("killing claw"), feathers (which also suggest warm-bloodedness), and various skeletal features. With the original specimen of Archaeopteryx being discovered just two years after Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, this all seemed to confirm Darwin's theories and has since become a key piece of evidence for the origin of birds, the transitional fossils debate, and confirmation of evolution. As a science teacher who does an entire unit on this, I can now pay tribute to this “Primeval Bird” with this beautiful forearm tattoo!

[lets-dance-to-joy-division]

For years I’ve used my thighs as a self harm wonderland. Today I covered the scars in my favorite cutting spot with something beautiful. Something that symbolizes the sadness underneath but shows how it’s safe and protected now. Today I made a choice to go a different path, I made the choice of healing and recovery. Everyone’s road to recovery is different, just remember it’s okay to not be okay.

Maybe I can start wearing shorts in public without feeling judged again.

I am not alone; you are not alone

BL

[mermaidgirl30]

Always shouting out how amazing and talented my tattoo artist is 🥹🧜‍♀️