Last week when I mentioned I had a tattoo, a few of you expressed curiosity as to what it might be.
So here you go. A serpent. Symbol of renewal, rebirth, creativity, and desire.
And also—as I discovered when I spied this first edition cover of Joan Didion’s Play it as it Lays one day while searching for inspiration—a perfect shape to gracefully cover up a tattoo I had gotten a number of years before, and grown to loathe.
Care to hazard a guess as to precisely that tattoo was? You can still see its (near) exact outline, lurking beneath the serpent. Whoever guesses correctly first wins a $100 gift card to Love, Adorned, one of the best boutiques in all of New York—and sister to famed tattoo emporium New York Adorned. You can guess as many times as you like. Here are a couple of hints to get you going: it’s not a letter of the alphabet. And once you see it, it’ll be the most obvious thing in the world.
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The “at” sign used in email addresses? @
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A horseshoe?
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Is it a copyright symbol, the c inside the circle?
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A yin-yang symbol?
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@?
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Peace sign?
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Crescent moon, jesus fish?
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A snail?
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astrology sign for Taurus?
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An olive.
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A spiral? Heart with an arrow through it?
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kimum, I did not know you had a tattoo.
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Indeedy. And who do you think I got it (in fact, both of them) with?
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Andrea, of course.
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Mushroom? A swirl symbol? Slug?
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I see a tiny blueish star.
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Cupid’s arrow?
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Horseshoe?
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The e circle symbol etc
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A heart, covered up by the snake’s head.
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A star, a moon, and a flower?
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I think I see an eye.
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A hat, a coat, or a pterodactyl? Or the @ symbol. Other than those guesses, I got nothin…
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A heart with an anchor on it?
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A seashell!
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Koi fish or Yin Yang!
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an ouroboros?
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All I see is an “@” symbol.
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Celtic spiral? (Am possibly projecting, as I have an age old “Celtic” tattoo that I try not to think about. It is also sort of in the tramp stamp place, gotten prior to knowing what a tramp stamp was.)
LOVE the use of the Didion cover–long one of my favorite designs.
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A fibonacci spiral
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an ecolocation/wifi/”radioactive” symbol (of multiple “waves” stacked together)
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A bow and arrow?
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looking “underneath” the serpent I only see a spiral a la Anazai Indians or taking in more of the serpent I only see the “@” symbol like so many others. Do love the Didion cover and her writing!
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Ying-yang
And another love of the original J. Didion cover.
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Omega symbol?
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All I see is a penis with unfortunate proportions.
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An AIDS/breast cancer red/pink ribbon?
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infinity?
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Do you remember “Friends”? Phoebe had a blue dot tattoo. I can’t remember why…
I am voting for one of those Grateful Dead dancing bears. Kim has been hiding this former Deadhead existence!
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She went with Rachel, and the blue dot was all the pain she could stand. Like, the tattoo pen touched her to make a dot, and she said “Done!”
And I have sads for remembering that.
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Ahh thank you. I just remember that she had a blue dot tattoo. No sads.
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I see the shape of a “cause ribbon,” like the AIDS ribbon or the breast cancer awareness ribbon. But I have no idea why you would get that as a tattoo.
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A heart! The snake’s head used to be a heart.
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Something like one of these?
http://tattoosdesignslive.com/crescent-moon-and-star-tattoo.php
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om? the copy write symbol?
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a leo zodiac symbol?
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A small turtle.
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I got nothin’.
But I have to say, as tats go, the snake is kind of nice. It is good to see snakes get re-habbed into something positive.
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Smiley face.
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Since everyone else guessed “@” already, I’m going to have to go with an ampersand? Or some kind of zodiacal symbol.
One of these: &
You’d have to be a pretty big Belle and Sebastian fan (see my avatar) or typography fan to get one of those, though.
Now I’m burning with curiosity!
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A heart — that you made into the serpent’s head
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An apple
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A butterfly
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A spade
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I’m thinking the @ sign also. One really far-fetched notion is a smiley face, but that would be extremely odd. Whatever it was, the cover up is lovely.
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oh lord, it’s not the time warner logo, is it? eek.
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Is there no winner yet?!?
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My guess would be @.
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