Drea (
kissingtheshoreline) wrote in
bakerstreet2026-07-08 11:24 am
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the body is a journal

the LIFE TATTOOS AU meme
what if tattoos just randomly appeared on our skin at key points in our lives and we had to figure out what they meant for ourselves? (x)
i. the blank slate: you don't have any tattoos. are you relieved? upset you don't have anything to tell? do you imagine sometimes what they'd look like if you had them?
ii. the moment: a tattoo has just appeared. is it your first? one of many? what's happening in your life to make it show up?
iii. the reveal: you finally understand what that tattoo means. is it a good thing? a bad thing? or something bittersweet?
iv. the tale: you and someone else are sharing stories about your tattoos. do you tell the truth? lie? only listen and never speak?
v. soulmates: these are the tattoos you and your soulmates share: the ones that mark you as bonded for life. what are they like?
vi. the wildcard: there are many as many options as you can have tattoos. here's a place to make your own story.
image from. adapted from original.

Susan Pevensie | Chronicles of Narnia
Chase | Dispatch
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the idea hit me as i was posting him and YES absolutely let's cry!! probs earlytimes at the SDN
stocking up on tissues now bc of these two
trulyyyyy also sorry robbie's gonna be slower generally, he's very finicky still
omg no worries at all but also how dare u with that last line 😭
one thing you will quickly learn about me is that i am a fiend for making things sad/bittersweet
what are our blorbos for if not Suffering™️
exactly!!!
Archie Kennedy | Hornblower
Grantaire | Les Mis
Quynh | The Old Guard
Bumblebee | Teen Titans
William Laurence | Temeraire
Rachel Caustello | HoC/OC
Dr. Jack Abbot - The Pitt - ota and wildcard, can also reroll
Jack's are different because they move like shadows across his skin. Coiled around his wrists one day, wrapped across his middle the next. Sharp and edged one day, soft and blurred like watercolor the next.
It's not something he likes to talk about because every time they move, something happens and it isn't always a warning that he's about to have a good time.
He didn't hear about the PittFest shooting from the police scanner, at least not at first. The tattoos warned him.
The night shift knows not to ask about them. But that might not stop other people.]
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Thoughts? I'm just rambling here, so anything you have to add or take away is fine! ]
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Yours + extra
It had minor repairs over the years, when he got away from the circus, when he met Phil, it wasn't snapped clean in half anymore; it was still in half, but the parts were lined up, not separated at an angle. When he met Natasha, the head was cleaned up, and more color came in; when he met Barnes, the fletching evened itself out like a bird had run its beak through the feather.
Eventually it was held together by tape, a little broken but whole.
Like him.
2006, he, Nat, and Barnes got sent to extract a medical team that had gotten pinned down, and he felt the arrow move for the first time in decades... it was surrounded in purples and blues, and the crack was mostly healed; it happened when he laid eyes on a guy with curly red hair covered in blood and freckles; why was it always redheads?
He's sitting in the place he's renting in Pittsburgh, chasing down some problems he, Nat, and Bucky had been tracking.
He can feel the arrow drawing back on his arm, and turns on the news and frowns; another mass shooting, when would it fucking end? He gets a text from Jack, and we'll that explains the tattoo.
Heading into work, early.
Clint just responds with Stay fucking safe.
He doesn't want to just sit around, but he wants to help, in his own way, so he perches on the roof of the hospital, doing what he does best, keeping an eye on the people he cares about. In the end, it's just a normal guy, mad his wife left him; this shit pissed him off more than gods, more than aliens...
When it's all over, and he sees Jack heading to the park, he packs up his bow and lingers against a street light for a while before approaching.]
Hey.
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rumi || kpop demon hunters || ota
Conrad Achenleck | Hanna Is Not A Boy's Name 🦇
Rush Warden | OC
Karen Page | MCU | OTA
Benjamin "Dex" Poindexter | MCU | OTA
For shippy stuff, soulmate tattoos are my JAM, especially if they're the kind where it isn't completely obvious who the other person is supposed to be when they first show up.]
Rapunzel l Disney's Tangled
clark kent / superman || superman (2025) || ota
Rocky | Project Hail Mary
Eve Macarro | Ballerina
mia allen | evil dead | ota.
Zoey Westen | original character
Zoey's visions play out along her skin, long before she sees any portents in her dreams or in her head. The flowering vine tattoo coiling up her right leg, up her back, to her right shoulder is mostly always a constant. But her vision tattoos grow out of that tattoo like it's a living plant, down her arms, across her chest, down her other leg.]
Samira Mohan | The Pitt
Like an AU where she sticks around for the upcoming season 3?Samira seems to get a new tattoo showing up every time something bad happens. The morning after, blossoming on her skin like a shitty souvenir. She gets them after something good happens, too, though. It's just the ones that show up after something bad always hit harder.]
zoey | kpop demon hunters | ota