#second tattoo

Second Tattoo

Second tattoo!!! Let's gooooo!!!!

It's super fresh in this picture, which is why my skin is irritated

Sorry I've been so dead; lot's of stuff going on like having to get a new phone and tablet to draw, working on graduating, getting my driver's license etc.

I'm still doing art! I have a really big project that is close to being done and I'll drop it here very soon :) hope it's interesting to y'all because I've put a lot of time and love into it.

Do expect my art to still be pretty horse focused lol. The special interest persists.

This one tattoo is in honor of my father, and I plan to get one in honor of my mother at some point as well. (He has approved the design 💪)

Today I got my second tattoo on my left ankle, a tattoo I’ve had planned since before I even got my first one over a year ago. A tattoo in my favourite youtuber’s handwriting, @therealjacksepticeye

I was so apprehensive about getting it because I couldn’t find any in that weren’t all caps and I thought I wouldn’t like that, but I couldn’t be happier with how it turned out. I was gonna get a little septic eye in Seán’s handwriting as well under it, but I decided to wait and I’ll probably go back in a few months.

“Shadowhunters: looking better in black than the widows of our enemies since 1234″

After cosplaying shadowhunters twice, my fantasy finally became reality. One of my favorite runes finally became part of me, part of my body.

It has been a dream of mine since about 2016, the year of my first cosplay. The bookseries, the shadowhunter universe, means so much to me and imprinting it on my body means even more to me. It might sounds so stupid, but carrying a bit of the universe with me wherever I go, makes me feel so much more confident. Just like the series, especially characters such as Magnus, Alec and Raphael, made me feel more confident in the years that I needed it the most. Those were the years that I struggled with my selfimage, but also with my sexuality the most. Reading about characters who learn to accept themselves and whoever they love meant a great deal to me.

(this photo was taken about an hour after it was set, January 18th 2020)

The rune I went with? It’s the courage in combat rune, because of course I went for the one that looks like an awesome dragon. Not only is this rune absolutely beautiful, it also encaptures what the tattoo means to me. Courage in combat would give a shadowhunter bravely above and beyond that of a typical demon killer. And the angel knows that I need that kind of power to help me along in life, that bravery that the TSC gave me for years now simply translates to the tattoo.

Tattoo today, 22/03/2020

I once again want to thank @cassandraclare​ for making my life as a teen, but also as a young adult now, so much more comfortable. Her books really made an escape to me, it was a magical world that I would have loved to live in, filled with characters that I could actually relate to. Never before had I read a bookseries that sucked me in so much, a bookseries that ended up meaning so much to me. To this day, I’m filled with joy whenever a new book comes out, just like I’m filled with joy whenever I re-read the books that came out before. It’s still my escape whenever I feel stressed and I am very thankfull to Cassie for giving us such amazing books.