Anklebee

[beetiger]

Although those of you who have known me for years may laugh at this, I think I'm finally ready to get my first tattoo. Not the giant thing with the caduceus and the flowering branch with the caught crescent moon that I talk about now and again, not yet, but something smaller and more basic.

I'm ready to put a little bee on my ankle. I'm planning to get this done sometime in the next few weeks probably, by the end of the summer almost definitely. I want to do something in the range somewhere between realistic and stylized/iconic, but not at all cartoony. My big question now, as I start figuring out the details, is whether I'd like to do a honeybee or a bumblebee.

Bumblebee is my namesake, of course, and a personal totem. They're also the native local pollinators in most of the places I've made my home in my life. They live under my porch; they pollinate my apple trees.

But honeybees tie directly in with the Minoan piece of my spirituality, and part of my desire to do this tattoo now is to offer some magical energy toward turning back the decline of the honeybees that is occurring. And frankly, they're much easier to stylize.

Thoughts and comments appreciated. Also, if any of you have a particular tattooist in the New York area that you'd recommend to do this kind of work, please let me know.

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[beetiger.livejournal.com]

I have a strange combination of the profoundly practical and the seriously gaudy in my character, strangely.