Puck and Cheddars were definitely pals, though (my wife has her first tattoo of Cheddars)

mental health?; tattoos

Also, what worried me more about getting this tattoo was the social interactions than the pain of the tattoo itself.

But when my artist started working, I was like... uh oh, this is... cathartic? At one point I was ready to doze off. :blobSmileSweating:

@kf RUDE INDEED

mental health?; tattoos

Like, at one point, she was really grinding away at my arm with color and shading. And I was... happily reading a book on my phone? Unexpectedly relaxing. This is problematic because now I'm like, huh, more tattoos? :thinknyan:

gross; tattoo

mmm, my tattoo is turning into a soy sauce packet

tattoos

Also, there was another client in the studio with me today getting work done on a massive full back piece that involved, like, a red panda in a wizard hat and a kitten in plate armor.

So wanted to engage with them and be like, "holy crap, that is epic" but I thought it would be rude. Still, it was inspiring

gross; tattoo

@kf It's just like a "second skin" covering, I guess it's residual ink and a bit of blood plasma seeping in. My wife had the same thing happen with hers for a day or two, so I'm not too worried

mental health?; tattoos

@twobraids Oof and as I recall you had a lot of good work done :blobsweats:

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@rasterweb Nice! I've got something similar going on with Linkding and a feed-to-mastodon tool I ginned up. I send them over to a separate mastodon account, but been tempted to post them from my main

gts.lmorchard.com/@links

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Les Orchard
2026/05/03