You can't kill the truth.

[mortalcity]

Nnnngh. This past week has been a constant cycle of "wake up certain I'm finally over my cold, utterly fail at focusing on anything, get smacked in the face with exhaustion, fall into bed ridiculously early." Oooover and over and over.

Anyway. I got a tattoo on Friday, and it was awesome! I kind of almost fainted about halfway through, but I think it was mostly the adrenaline from getting myself all worked up beforehand - the actual tattooing wasn't so bad and didn't hurt very much, and the endorphins afterward were very nice.


This was a couple hours afterward. It's not red anymore, just bumpy and itchy and peeling a little.

It's a quote from Feed by Mira Grant: "alive or dead, the truth won't rest." The placement on my left wrist is because that's where Georgia has her ID tattoo, and it seemed like the only appropriate place to put it (though I am particularly fond of wrist tattoos anyway).

Georgia's one of those characters I want to be when I grow up, but the thing is, I'll never be Georgia Mason. I'll never be that good at separating myself from my emotions, for one thing. But Georgia means a lot to me, as do the books she lives in, and there are parts of her I can make a part of myself. Georgia's known she wanted to tell the truth as long as I've known I wanted to tell stories. She knows what's important to her, and what's not; she has focus and drive and throws it all into accomplishing her life's work. I can be that.

I believe there's truth in stories, even when they're fictional. There are stories that live inside me, stories that whisper in my ear when I'm falling asleep and sing to me when I'm awake and burn in my blood, and no one else can tell them. They're true and they're mine, and I'll die before they do, so I owe it to them to get them down on paper and fight for them, to give them the chance to live without me. There are things I need to do with my life: you can't kill a story any more than you can kill the truth, and this tattoo is a reminder of that.

...and now I guess I have no excuse not to write, huh?

Comments

[whatawaytoburn]

I get stupidly happy when people talk about their relationship with words and stories, I just.....wanted to let you know that. You left me grinning and happy and relieved that I am not the only one who feels this way, who's damn near haunted by the things in their head. Words in my heart and carved on my bones, that's how I know I'm meant to te tales. And just...then I find other people who feel the same way, who are wrapped up in their stories and feel them and I think, these are the people I am meant to be around.

....I don't know. You pleased me, I thought I should mention it.

And now I feel like I should be writing.

[mortalcity]

♥ I am glad I made you happy, and I am also glad to find someone who feels the way I do about it. *Lovenoms*

I vote writing party. When you come up here, we can have all the writing parties in person. 8D

[whatawaytoburn]

Writing parties! *spins* I a all for the writing parties and babbling too. I think there needs to be babbling parties as well. :D

[kikibug13]

... I squeed, now that I actually found out what the tat is. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

[mortalcity]

YEAH, I AM PRETTY MUCH IN LOVE WITH IT. 8D

[yetregressing]

You do have to tell those stories, because they're truth and because the world (read: me) needs to hear them.

I love it and I love you and yeah. I have a cold too, so I'm incoherent as fuck, but. Yeah.