“ People seem to believe that every tattoo holds some secret meaning, and perhaps this is the final criterion for a “good” tattoo. This assumption never fails to annoy me, as if every swath of ink should have a better back story than something like, “I got this weird Dorito-looking thing on my ankle because I was drunk at a party and this guy said he was pretty good at doing at-home tattoos and I thought he was cute so…
— the problem is that the questioner, who usually means well, seems to need for some greater significance behind my decision, and I suspect I’m actually being asked to justify the whole thing. Why? To clear up some misconception about the type of person who would willingly get some meaningless image permanently captured on their skin simply because –- here is a real shocker -– they might just like the way it looks. [source]
