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August 6, 2013 at 8:14 pm #143018

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Thanks everybody for responding. 🙂

I want the tattoo to be aesthetically pleasing first and foremost. If the meaning I’m intending ends up meaning nothing for some reason, I still want to like it. I really do want to avoid *direct* references, and alcohol is only a part of it anyway, not the primary part.

I did find something along the lines of what I want after Googling around some more: Neil Dransfield | Customer wants snake impaled on dagger with no… (This looks pretty detailed to my novice eyes, but I’m aware it’s not going to be cheap to have done what I want)

It’s not exactly what I want, but that’s good, since I don’t want to go to an artist with a picture and say ‘DRAW THIS’. I’d rather give him/her the freedom to design what I’m telling them.

One thought I did have, since I don’t have anything against flowers, was a Chrysanthemum in place of a dagger impaling the snake – the only problem is the focus of Chrysanthemums seems to be wholly on the flower, with very little interesting about the stem.

Thanks guys… really great responses. And yeah, it really is important to get something I enjoy aesthetically, regardless of meaning.

August 5, 2013 at 11:50 pm #142961

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Thanks a lot for reading & responding, guys. 😀

@Sam-I-Am 131259 wrote:

Welcome to the forum!

What a challenge. Here’s my stab at it. No religion. Alcohol is the issue. In my opinion there is no place to go but Prohibition. I don’t know if you are in the USA or where you are. In 1920 the United States of America went DRY! It was a boon for organized crime. Bootleg alcohol was everywhere.

I suggest you dig into the posters, slogans, and activities of the “Women’s Christian Temperance Union”.

Good luck, keep us posted.

It’s not just alcohol I’m dealing with, that’s not even the largest portion of it – and I don’t really want to *directly* reference it. Looking more for symbolism.

@peterpoose 131260 wrote:

Welcome mate & good on you for your goals!

You seem to know all this inside your own head and don’t want to advertise it, then why even bother with anything to do with the subject? Why not just get some beautiful art that you can enjoy and think of good times ahead? A tattoo doesn’t have to have a meaning, that’s what Miami Ink has installed in peoples heads.

Good on not wanting text 🙂

I’m not familiar with Miami Ink, just looked it up an it’s a reality show… If I end up getting this tattoo, and love having it just to have it, then I’ll probably end up delving into getting tattoos just for the aesthetics of it.

I want something symbolic and important to me because I want it. Not sure how else to explain it. I don’t want to explain it to other people when they see it, but I do want it to be something for me. And worst case, if it turns out it means very little, at least it’ll look good.

As I was said before, I was thinking something a bit more symbolic… I was looking through and saw a lot of the tattoos of swords with snakes or dragons coiled around them, and was thinking about something like that but rather than a snake coiled around the sword, it was impaled on it? Still wrapped around it, but sticking through it several times.

I did find this on Google, which is along the lines of what I’m thinking of… Neil Dransfield | Customer wants snake impaled on dagger with no…

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