This post continues my leg of the Blogathon for SSA Week! From now until 9pm PDT, I will write one new blog post every hour. Plus, for every $100 raised during that time, I will post one new picture of our cats! And all donations will be matched by SSA Supporters Jeff Hawkins and Janet Strauss — so whatever you donate, it will be doubled!
As of 3:02 PDT: 436 Donors, $70,488.02
As of 4:03 PDT: 438 Donors, $70,573.02
So I’m thinking of getting another tattoo. A set of them, actually, to commemorate my surgical scars (five of them, I had laparoscopic surgery, so I have five little scars instead of one big one). I’m thinking of getting stars, one on each scar, so the set of them looks like sort of like a constellation.
If it helps, you can see the scars (four of the five, anyway), and where they’re situated on my body — not great, but you can see them — in this picture. It’s the one where I’m half-naked with the word “MINE” written on my torso in lipstick, the one I did in support of Tunisian anti-theocratic activist Amina. They’re in an arc across my belly and above my belly button, with one more dipping down just below my waistband.
Thoughts?
If you like this post — or indeed, if you don’t — please donate to the Secular Student Alliance!
Just as long as it’s not the Raelian star, you should be fine:-)
Seriously, what were they thinking?
Add a couple more stars and you’ve got the big dipper there.
I like the white center with the blue halo on the stars. It might not work against a light skin colored background, I don’t know.
http://amysflorafaunajournal.blogspot.com/2011/09/big-dipper-stars-and-lore.html
Lately I’ve seen several star tats where the star is defined by shading outside of it, without an explicit outline. This image isn’t quite it, but it’s close. Perhaps a band of color, gradating through the spectrum, with the stars “shining” through it?
[Googling “star tattoos” brings up images that make me think tattooists should be strictly regulated; dang, there’s some aesthetic clusterfucks out there]
A compass rose? That’s basically an 8-point star and there are many designs. The Australian flag star is 7-pointed so that looks a bit different, too. (See wikipedia for good images.)
I immediately think of the tattoos I have seen a lot of people get for Harry Potter. I don’t know if you’d want to go that route but I think they look great.
Photo.
I actually do have a constellation on my back – it’s my Zodiac, Sagittarius. It has 21 stars of different shapes and sizes. Some are larger, or have more/less points. All of them are black outline with dark blue inside… It took several hours of consultation with a tattoo artist, but we finally got it right and I really love it. Goes nicely with the archer on my leg. 🙂
I wish I had a picture of it, but I’m not sure my whole back should be on the internets anyway.
Oops forgot to mention- I took in print-outs of the layout of the stars and other print-outs of star patterns that I liked for the artist to start with.