This is my V.F.D. tattoo from A Series of Unfortunate Events. It is on left ankle as it should be, on the inside side (which is debatable). If you look at the image a certain way, you can see the letters “V”, “F”, and “D”. (And no, when the hair grew back it did not obscure the image at all!)
My arm. Design, inking, and photography by the inimitable Matt Myrdal at Pino Bros. in Cambridge, MA.
The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That’s not true with non-fiction.
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Tom Wolfe /via Brain Pickings (via joestracci) |
A story has no beginning or end; arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
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| — | Graham Greene, The End of the Affair (via grecianurn) |
After 12 years, 7 books and 8 movies I finally decided what would permanently commemorate my love of all things Potter.
“After all this time, Severus?”
“Always.”
It perfectly embodies my love of the series and how all those years reading those books shaped my adolescence. Most Potter-philes get it immediately and I love it even more for that reason :)
Done by Aaron Hammilton. Aerochild Tattoos, Birmingham, AL.
Chatty has lost nearly all of her short-term memory, and she loves it. Wasn’t that the point, she asks, of drinking?
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| — | Tumble Home by Amy Hempel (via unrest) |








