#micahs foolery

Okay, context time:

TLDR; I want Bojan's eye tattooed on my arm with the number and name of the tarot card Strength but in slovenian. This will be a twin tattoo to one I already have of Jere's eye on the same arm but in the wrist area.

The full story

In 2024, I got myself a new lucky number - the number 8. I started seeing it everywhere starting at Käärijä's Hamburg gig on October 8 (that was one of the most personally blessed K gigs I've ever been to). But actually this started way earlier at the Kääryle Summer Camp around Käärijä's Ravintola Backas gig in Vantaa where I met up with so many awesome Kääryleet from all over the world including Ellu that had made the most wonderful K tarot cards and let each of us pick one at random- here I got card number 8, strength.

This seemed to be too big a thing to be a coincidence so I was tempted to get a tattoo inspired by the tarot card yet when I couldn't figure out a good idea I put it on hold. That was until the end of the same month where I was contacted by an american Kääryle that I had a picture of me from the Ruisrock crowd in the booklet of Käärijä's new album, People's Champion, for - you guessed it - song number 8 (Sex=Money).

One tattoo artist in my hometown that I love a lot (she had previous made my 'are you' tattoo combining Bojere's handwriting) had a cancellation for the next day so I ended up getting this tattoo on the People's Chamipon's release day.

Now the story continues since I am autistic and so tend to hyperfocus so I looked up for the fun of it Jere's birth tarots and lo and behold his birth tarots were Strength (8) and the Star (17). Even better it turned out Bojan has the same birth tarots (another lovely twinning moment). This may seem like a random detail but later in the year I had one more gig where I was lucky enough to meet Jere and interact with him after the show and the was december 17 after the Warsaw gig aka the number for his other birth tarot card. When this happened I started brainstorming a sister tattoo to my strength one where it was Bojan's eye instead of Jere's and it would be for the seventeenth tarot card instead (the star but written in slovene or serbian).

Again, I ended up putting the idea on hold yet from time to time during 2025 it would pop up again. At the same time I have kept seeing the number 8 everywhere and i subconciously started seeing it as a sign for good things ahead even on bad days. When I still had the idea for a Bojan sister tattoo around november where I was to start the Joker Out europe tour with what would be my 8th joker out show in Flex, Vienna on november 22 (one day before my 2 year anniversary on hrt), I decided to make myself a promise: if this concert turned out to be more than decent I would get the tattoo.

Now I have yet to actually make a gig report for vienna but trust me, the concert was more than just decent. We got to hang out with Vita and Katarina, where I got to give Vita a lot of art and talk about it on camera, we saw the guys get there late and wave at us in the queue, during soundcheck there was a lovely rendition of a german Sonce that made me cry, I got to kazoo UM while having the strongest eye contact with bojan (he called it sensual afterwards) and a good, long hug then hold his microphone when he went to other karaoke people a minute later, Kris wore my shirt, I got a wonderfully pure moment with Jure in the newfallen snow (and a picture) and this is just what I remember from the top of my head.

So yeah safe to say, this eigth concert was worth keeping up my promise.

However I have later decided to change the idea of the tattoo to also be inspired by the 8th tarot card, so in many ways this will literally be the same tattoo but with Bojan's eye and language instead of Jere's (maybe with a little star on his eyelid as a nod to their other birth tarot). Since I already have a tattoo on my other wrist I plan to ask for the bojan tattoo to be on the top of my arm next to my 'are you' tattoo where if I bend my arm the two eyes will be level with each other as if to say that even tho they live far apart they will make an effort to meet up and keep contact (I also hope to at one point have a branch run up my arm from one eye to the other connecting them).

Yet since tattoos are permanent I want to make sure I actually found the right word for 'strength' in slovene.