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I showed my masterpiece to the grown ups and asked them if my drawing frightened them. They answered: ‘Why should anyone be frightened by a hat?’ My drawing did not represent a hat. It was supposed to be a boa constrictor digesting an elephant. So I made another drawing of the inside of the boa constrictor to enable the grown ups to understand. They always need explanations.

-The Little Prince

fuckyeahtattoos:

My third tattoo, commemorating the end of my third (and best) year at university. The word ‘simulacrum’ means a great deal to me - I’m an English literature student and, aside from anything else, learned the term on my favourite module this year, on post-modern literature. In its most-straight forward context, it just means ‘a copy without an original’, but in post-modern literary theory it’s a by-word for the way that the creation of art, particularly narrative, has really become the creation of reality. So ‘simulacrum’ is a term to describe the interaction of art, literature, media, popular consciousness and the world as we know it. We twist, reshape or impose narratives on neutral events in order to make sense of them, or make them somehow more palatable. (Think about how the media turned Princess Diana into a saint after her death, for instance - despite the fact that right before she died she was something of a parriah for going off with a rich guy who wasn’t the Prince of Wales; or think about how we shape memories of our personal histories to create a coherant sense of self in the present). Narrative becomes reality, reality becomes narrative. But ‘simulacrum’ also feels fitting as a label for who I am personally, because I am a child whose father died - and I’m told that I’m the absolute image of him, both physically and psychologically. I am a copy without an original, too.

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fuckyeahtattoos:

This is my 9th tattoo, and although it’s so simple, it’s probably one of my favorites. I have seen many quotation mark tattoos, and I have admired them all. But I wanted to make mine my own.

 I have been writing since I was 11 years old. On the first page of all of my journals, I’ve drawn open quotations. The open quotations represented my own story that was being written. Once I finished writing on every page in my journals, I drew closed quotations on the very last page. Those closed quotations represented the end of my story. After that, I would move on to the next journal, drawing open quotations, and doing it all over again.

Now, why didn’t I get closed quotations too? Well, because I’ll never stop writing. Writing is my passion, and passions should never fade away.

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Tears.

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