thought i was over the bridge now
What's new is the text on the left arm, although she also basically completely re-inked the circle on the right arm, which healed funny when I first got it two years ago. She asked me where I got my work done and, it's weird, even though I've lived in Boston for five years, I've never been tattooed here before. The star on the right arm was done in Portland, Oregon, the circle in Washington, DC and the star on the left arm in Burlington, Vermont.
close-up:
The quote is Harvey Milk, the full text of which is: I know you cannot live on hope alone, but without it life is not worth living. And you, and you, and you. You gotta give 'em hope. A less cynical person probably would have gotten the more recognizable money shot ("you gotta give 'em hope"), but, well, you know how I do. I feel a little funny getting it so soon after the movie because I don't want people to be like, "Oh yeah, I liked that movie, too!" I mean, I did like that movie, but Harvey has been my queer/personal/political avatar since I checked The Mayor of Castro Street out of the Sonoma County Public Library when I was in the 10th grade and he's the only person whose words I can't imagine being embarrassed by ten or twenty years from now.
The font is, if it's not obvious, not a font at all but my handwriting. The artist did a really nice job, I think, she didn't just photocopy it but actually traced the outline of each word, so it really does look like I wrote on my arm with a Sharpie, if I could get my hand to bend that way.