Wanted to talk about something else than lifting now, it’s tattoos! I’ve been thinking about a while for some new ones. I keep thinking though, because in any case it won’t happend before months or years for two reasons:
• Tattoos are permanent so we shouldn’t do them on a whim
• They are expensive ahahah
I only have one for now, the athenian owl for my grandma. In any case, rather than “being a patchwork” of several styles and different kind of tatts, I’d rather be more of a canvas and do everything in the same style.
In any case I’ll find a balance, because I don’t want to completely cover my muscles lol
I want to go towards two directions: either greek or viking.
The greek side, well from being a few months old to 19, I was spending all my summers in Greece at my grand-parents house. Used to talk a bit of it. They educated me more than my parents. When I was a kid I used to believe in the old pagan Greek Gods, and Poseidon as my divinity, from living in the isles, in this magical place full of history and the tales of my grandfather.
Hence why my first tattoo is an owl for my grandma, to represent the wisdom and how she raised me and instructed me.
So this country will always have a special place in my heart (and the food oh my…). I wanted to be an aerchologist because of that. I’ve always been fascinated by the ancient greek, egyptian and nordic Gods and culture.
For the viking side: I’ve never been to Scandinavia, but appart from reading the stories and the myths, I’ve been listening to Black and Viking metal for more than 15 years now. I’ve been bathed in this culture, these langages, these sounds for so long they became an unalterable part of myself. When I was a teen I even bought a Norwegian langage book and I learned some of it.
Anyway, I only have one tatt and the next I’ll be thinking carefully, to stay in the same theme.
I don’t want photorealistic stuff but something old, ancient, like they used to do. Something tribal, primal, an ode to the Old Gods.
For instance this character, I’ve always really enjoyed his tattoos. And recentely I met a girl with tatts on her hands and fingers and it really looked great when I used to think meeeh
And a cosplayer:
The guy is jacked, and we can still clearly see it, his physique is not destroyed.
I want something in this style, and many things I like like runestones:
Or the vegvisir
If I opt to greek, t would be the same kind of stuff but instead of Thor and runes it would be Heracles and Greek alphabet (the 12 labours was one of my favourite books when I was a kid)
I’ve been thinking about stuff depicting my family and all. Like my grandfather, he’s a scientist and taught me much, but his thirst of truth has blinded him from many things and he clashed with my christian grandma mainy times…
So for instance I had the idea of a Greek statue bust, with a candle burning on his forehead, with the wax running on his head and covering his eyes.
But I could totally do something like that from the viking world: Odin or Mimir both sacrificed things for the quest of knowledge.
Anyway, this was a rambling and a melting pot of ideas
