I have a few I'm planning to get when I have the money: a protective sigil I first started drawing on myself in middle school (it's just lines but it's intended to look like a bird taking off) on my left thigh, the mindcaster symbol from Midnighters on my right wrist, and eventually when I'm richer a set of wings on my back.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh you guys all have such cool tattoo ideas!! I think my first professional tattoo (once I figure out where to put it) will be a line from an Enya song, which is actually a line from a poem by Horace:"Omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum", which means "Believe that each day will be your last" (The next line of the poem is "grata superveniet, quae non sperabitur hora" which means "The unexpected hour will come as a welcome surprise". These aren't literal/exact translations, I took some liberties, but if you google the line, you can turn up the "real" translations if that's your thing.) My main problem with this is it would go REALLY WELL on my back, but that's like the one place I'm not comfortable getting a tattoo. I don't like people behind me and I don't like people touching me and tattoos hurt, so a back tattoo is a giant flaming ball of nope, unfortunately. I also thought about putting it on my thigh or something, running down the outside from hip to knee, but then I'd be kind of concerned about body shape changes (losing/gaining weight) because that's a thing that happens kind of regularly for me. Has anyone had their tattoo change significantly due to their body shape changing?
or you can read my no doubt faulty attempts at literal translation! because I haven't read Latin since Wednesday and that is far too long. "Omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum" is something like "Believe that every greatest day shined for you," and "grata superveniet, quae non sperabitur hora" means "the hour which will not be hoped for will come upon [you] beloved." ...Boots' non-literal translation makes a lot more sense, which is pretty typical of Latin. :P
