kwisper ([info]kwisper) wrote in [info]literarytattoos,
2009-07-01 11:49:00
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The walking copy of Watership Down

Hi hi hi!

So in case anyone remembers, I was getting some text done on my wrists from the novel Watership Down. And in case anyone remembers, I also have a rib piece which is (you guessed it) from Watership Down.

To refresh your memory....
    


  

This is a couple of months after healing, but prior to being touched up. It looks even more amazing now that some of the lines have been evened out, made darker, and some of the letters touched up. The full quote is "My heart has joined the Thousand for my friend stopped running today" and is a rabbit proverb/prayer. It has always sent shivers down my spine and I've adored it since the moment I first read it as a small child. It sums up perfectly how I feel about my own pet rabbits.
 
 
And my new tattoos:

Left wrist

Right wrist

In the movie this is from the bargain that Hazel tries to make with Frith to save his warren as he is running towards the farm to set the dog loose on Woundwart's rabbits. In the book, from when El-ahrairah tries to convince the Black Rabbit to take his life and save his people's:
"Bargains, bargains, El-ahrairah," he said. "There is not a day or a night but a doe offers her life for her kittens, or some honest captain of Owsla his life for his Chief Rabbit's. Sometimes it is taken, sometimes it is not. But there is no bargain, for here, what is, is what must be."

Unfortunately I can't operate a camera with my mouth so I couldn't get a picture of the two side by side but the placement of the text on the left wrist sits in the space between the two lines on the right.

 
Tags: rabbits, richard adams, watership down

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[info]autumnymph

July 1 2009, 16:35:07 UTC 2 years ago

i just love your tattoos. also great nails!

[info]forestdweller

July 1 2009, 16:38:50 UTC 2 years ago

Incredible. Watership Down has long been an integral part of who I am, part of my personal mythology. Your tattoos resonate with me, very VERY much.

Perhaps my first tattoo WILL be El-ahrairah, after all.

[info]liquidmistletoe

July 1 2009, 16:48:39 UTC 2 years ago

I love them!

Also, I'm normally a sucker for balance, but I really like the lack thereof with the wrists (with a longer quote on the right) because I think where you have it split leaves both sides very effective. Lovin it!

[info]zagzagael

July 1 2009, 16:59:31 UTC 2 years ago

These are really amazing! Well chosen and well placed!

[info]finsong8

July 1 2009, 17:19:44 UTC 2 years ago

I love both your tattoos so much.

<3

[info]violent_aki

July 1 2009, 17:54:31 UTC 2 years ago

So gorgeous. I love the wrists!

[info]skeletalremains

July 1 2009, 22:29:18 UTC 2 years ago

Love them!

[info]nonnycat

July 1 2009, 23:00:58 UTC 2 years ago

I love those. Watership Down is one of my favorite books/movies ever. :)

[info]songforpolly

July 1 2009, 23:12:33 UTC 2 years ago

beautiful!

[info]cyanidechild

July 2 2009, 02:04:54 UTC 2 years ago

aaaaah! lovely lovely lovely! :D

[info]isis_newton

July 2 2009, 07:32:27 UTC 2 years ago

Awesome. I love them. I'm desperately craving a WD tattoo of my own now. Think I'll have to bump the book up my TBR pile and read it next. I'm pining for it.

[info]theanniemal

July 2 2009, 08:44:09 UTC 2 years ago

both are fab!

[info]symphonicpain

July 2 2009, 09:48:47 UTC 2 years ago

wow

OMG I love the ribcage one.. though I've never read Watership Down, it still looks awesome to me. I liked that you didn't get the animals coloured, and they're more of caricatures.

Was wondering, what font did you use for your ribcage tattoo?

[info]kwisper

July 2 2009, 17:39:43 UTC 2 years ago

Re: wow

Thanks. :) The rabbit is the animation from the movie, but I decided that coloured tattoos are not for me. They look good on some people, but I couldn't see myself with multi-coloured tattoos.

The font is called Lainie Day and I got it off dafont. I really loved it. I was originally going to go with Windsong (which I do still really like) but when I saw this one I just knew.

[info]apiphile

July 5 2009, 17:10:18 UTC 2 years ago

Those are incredibly beautiful and, aahah, um, that rabbit proverb still makes me well up (I visited the place, the actual Watership Down when I was a child, people had carved the names of the rabbits into the trees). Awesome tattoo choice. Absolutely awesome.

[info]panton_illustro

July 7 2009, 16:17:28 UTC 2 years ago

Beautiful tattoos, especially the first one. Watership down is such an inspirational book and these do it justice!

[info]uilaengel

July 16 2009, 14:34:56 UTC 2 years ago

can i ask you what is the name of the font you used on the first tattoo, on your torso? if you could send me an e mail with the answer i would be really thankful

uilaengel@hotmail.com
thanks.

[info]manffa

July 20 2009, 00:35:41 UTC 2 years ago

your Watership Down tattoo is incredible. the prayer makes me pout!
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