The Fanfiction Whisperer

I want to get a tattoo, I know what I want to get and I know how big it will be (the pad of my thumb) but I have no idea where it should go.

Do you have any advice for a first tattoo location (under clothes)?

Hey! So unfortunately I think my answer is going to be somewhat unhelpful, which is that personally I pretty much always have a place in mind when I conceptualize a tattoo, like, as part of the idea.

That said, you have some info which narrows it down: if you're getting something very small, I'd pick somewhere without a ton of surface area (wrist, for example) or anchored near a body part (inside arm above the crook of your elbow, or at your ankle, or behind your knee). I don't know what qualifies as under clothes for you, so that will also narrow it down.

This is also something you can ask your tattoo artist! I don't know what you look like/what it is/if you have any additional plans, so you can tell them and they can help.

As far as it being your first tattoo, I think if it's small the placement shouldn't matter too much re: pain tolerance as long as it's not directly over bone. My only rec is to make sure that, if you're planning to get more tattoos, you don't put the first one somewhere that you're later going to go "aw damn, this is in the middle of where I really want to put [huge dramatic sleeve tat]" or whatever.