h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

ewww!.. but jessica rabbit is cool!

hmm.. *drums fingers together and sits in front of your consultancy desk*.. what would you suggest? ()

Welllll...the best tattoo's are always the ones the owner feels most connected to. What images do you feel are beautiful & part of your soul?

I'd say a rose, but that's sufficiently clichéd that I wouldn't like to have it permanently emblazoned on my soul.

Maybe a winkeye smiley, in ascii..

It's an exceptionally good question (which is why it's quite so difficult to answer). What would you say struck you as being images that, from an outsider's perspective, were part of my soul, if you felt you could answer such a question?

Well, I don't know what you look like, so I couldn't tell you what would fit in with your body. My tattoo(s) are worked around my body shape & mind...I love religious imagery, sexuality and other assorted odds and ends. Unless you could give me a starter block, I couldn't say.

Although as an after thought of writing that, I imagine you to be a person who would have landscape tattoo's...like storms and fields and naked ladies - but like European style. Nothing tacky. Like a painting, but permanent. You can pick up tattoo magazines here and there, and they really do show the extent to what you can put on your body. It's not just odds and ends...it's complete materpieces of art. I'm going to hopefully have a Michelangelo sculpture put onto my back one day...

I'm about 6'2.. I'm quite slim, more because I don't eat enough than anything else. ().. I have shoulder-length chestnut hair (perpetually tied back), and pale skin (with freckles, on the arms.. ). Eyes that hover between bluey-grey, grey-y blue, green-y grey, and grey-y green.. ()

I can't comment on facial type, because I never understand how something as complex as a face can be represented by anything less than a picture or perception.. uhh.. *thinks*.. but then, I suppose that invalidates my trying to describe myself for this purpose anyway.. still. .. I'm actually quite heavily built, in spite of being slim. What there is of me is quite muscley, which is a good thing, in ways.

I also tend to be lazy about shaving, and live in a perpetual 3-days-of-stubble-y state, of that adds to the image any. .. and if clothes make any difference, then I tend to wear mostly properly fitting jeans (by which I mean /not/ baggy.. .. 'flattering' would probably be the word, were I to be female..), things tucked into said jeans, and things over the top of clothes tucked into said jeans. I'm somewhat imaginative, but I have a jacket I adore which is worn everywhere. (an old black Lincolnshire fire service ceremonial jacket with pockets and silvery rank insignia on the epaulettes..)

.. anything else that might help?

Landscapes... hmm... when I design things (not that I either do it often, am any good at it, or should compare this to actual art), they tend to be very well-defined.. that is, I don't like blocks of colour which have no concrete starting and ending point, and I suspect that simple landscape would seem to have a contrived starting and ending. Unless areas of design blend extremely well (something probably hard to achieve with a tattoo), they don't strike me as visually attractive. As an example, your cross seems lovely, quite because a cross is a defined shape, as is any detail around or on it..

I love symbols of various sorts.

If you're interested, I think I have a (better) example of what I mean (admittedly designed by me, but still exemplifying the point) online.. http://www.njan.co.uk/files/thing3a.jpg .. that started life as one small ..symbol? logo?.. and the logo ended up being split into two, coloured in, stuck at opposite ends of an A4-sized image, and having a line added so that I could use it as letter paper.

*humms and shuts up*

This is an interesting subject. Ignoring the immense scariness of tattoos, that is.

Tattoo's are not scary. Honest. Life is very very short, and you only get one body for a while, so if you love visual stimuli, you should make the most of it all.

I reckon you should go and peruse through a few tattoo magazines...before I started looking into it all, I had no idea of what could be achieved.Everything that can be done with chalk, ink, pastels, watercolours, oils...it can all be put on your skin via ink. In perfect reproduction. It is just so amazing I was like when I saw some of the one'se in the mags. Go look, even if you don't ever get a tattoo. It's an amazing section of life.

And it's not scary

*nods*.. it's all being given thought. .. It's the sort of thing (like suicide, interestingly) that I'm inclined to think a lot about, on the grounds that if I ever do it, I'm going to be damn sure that I want to, because it's pretty much irreversable.. () so.. yeah.

(Also similarly, it's an idea which is extremely attractive, but the attached pain isn't. Although to distinguish the two, tattoos are attractive most of the time, whereas suicide isn't.)

I thought that was quite a good analagy myself. .. Although I'm still interested in what sort of tattoo(s) you think, from what you know of me, would suit me.