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DINOSAUR

My name is Missi and I am proud to have Dinosaur tattooed on my knuckles. I had just moved out of myparents house and into an apartment with a high school friend. I was all excited about not having to listen to my parents or ask them permission so that’s when I got the idea of going to get another tattoo.My knuckles I had always wanted to get done, just didn’t know what to get when Dinosaur finally came to me. I have always loved dinosaurs ever since I was little and watching The Land Before Time. It was a spur of the moment thing. No thoughts about how I would get a better job in the future with knuckle tattoos. No thoughts of what’s it going to look like when i’m 80. Still to this day I don’t think about those things even though people that come into my work as me those questions. I’m proud of my tattoos and no one will ever change that.

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LIVE FREE – IMAGINE – LOVE LIVE

Rishelle sends us these thoroughly done up knuckles, including the stories behind them all:

Hi! These are the knuckle tattoos that I just got done, and the sides of my hands by Derek Davie at Anchor’s End Tattoo in Buffalo, NY. They stand for the fact that you need to live free of everything that is negative, live free of other people’s negative feelings about you. Live the life you want, the way you want, and don’t give a single care as to what others have to say about it. Live free, imagine peace and love your life. The sides stand for that you have to know more to hate less, less is more and more is less, you have to know hate and hate what you know. Enjoy :]

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DILLIGAF

Andy of Belgium sends us these knuckles. When I asked him why he got DILLIGAF he replied:

I love the meaning of it, and its really me!!

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LOVELESS

Billy Crawford sends us these knuckle tattoos, and his story goes like this:

I got Loveless for a few reasons. I came out when I was 11. My mothers response was that I was going to hell and that noone would ever love me. I got it because the gay community is filled with a lot of lust and little love. Every relationship I’ve been in has been short cause they always want more than I’m willing to give. I got Loveless to remind myself not to be Loveless.

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FOTOGRAF

Markus Hartel sent us these knuckle tattoos, and his story behind them a ways back:

I’m a street photographer in NYC and recently decided to get a FOTOGRAF knuckle tattoo. yeah, it reads “photographer” in German, my country of origin. it also is my first tattoo, and I feel pretty good about it – holding a camera with it just looks badass!

Check out his awesome street photography at: http://www.markushartel.com/

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OVERCOME – EACH FALL

Jerricka sends us these double deckers:

Soooo im a 19 year old female whose been thru a lot in life. Everytime i fall in life i get bak up on my feet and move forward. As simple as that…”OVERCOME EACH FALL”

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SOLITARY

Gary H. sends us these knuckles:

This tattoo says it all. I love to live a SOLITARY life. It’s in my nature. I don’t need others to make me whole. The knuckles are a work in progress. They still need some fine tuning.

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SANDWICH

Hey guys!
So I have wanted knuckle tattoos for a long time now, and I had my mind set on what I wanted. 1BAD MAMA.
My mind was made up. That was going to be it.
Then yesterday, in the midst of conversation, knuckle sandwiches came up…. EPIPHANY!
“Sandwich”  I’m all for silly/stupid tattoos. I have a smilie face on my thumb so when I give you a thumbs up… it’s smiling at you… among many other silly random tattoos.
If you can’t laugh, it’s not worth it.

No deep meaning behind my knuckle tattoos. Just that if you give me any lip, I can give you a proper knuckle sandwich now.

xoxo
Jeselyn

www.jeselynonline.com (Ed: Warning, NSFW)
Twitter: Jeselynonline
Facebook: Jeselynonline Dcom

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GOOFBALL


Krysta Stonier sends us these knuckle tattoos and her story:

Knuckle Tats done by Todd Lamere @ Body Art Plattsburgh, http://www.tattoovermont.com/

I was always afraid of getting a tattoo until the first one on my back, and have got 8 since (including my knuckles). I’m always doing stupid things, forgetting the littlest of things, and saying even GOOFIER things. So, when I was 17 I thought, “I should get GOOFBALL, just to be a dumbass”. I waited until my 22nd birthday in January 2011 and just… did it! Every time I see someone that knows me well enough, they say, “What do your knucks say?” and I show them and they ALWAYS say, “That’s so you” or “Only you”. So I think it’s pretty damn fitting :)

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SURVIVOR

I was born with a bad heart. Basically everything everyone else’s heart does mine worked opposite. I had a surgery called transposition of the great arteries (Mustard Procedure) at one years old. The surgery is so obsolete in 2009 when they did mine in 1975, I was one of the last babies to ever had this type of thing done. It was always known I would one day need a heart transplant. No one knew when.

The surgery placed a metal slide in my heart, that would take the blood from the wrong vessel and re-route it to where it was supposed to go. Despite being advised not to play sports as a kid, I played everything from football, to hockey to baseball to eventually weight lifting then into power lifting. Athletics was later credited as a strong reason for me making it over 30 years with a heart that never did work at greater than 15%.

When I hit 30 years old the heart simply began to fall apart on me. It had grown far too large and was straining far too much trying to compensate for ever failing. 4 1/2 years ago I had major heart failure, resulting in having massive organ failure. A priest was called in for Last Rights. When I made it through he night they air-lifted me by helicopter to University of Michigan hospital in Ann Arbor. I would recover from this attack, but close to the end.

Over the next several years I spent most of my time in and out of the hospital, being followed by a large group of cardiologists on a regular basis. After suffering a 4th bout of pneumonia, and my third fight with heart failure in 4 years, U of M hospital placed me on the Heart Transplant Organ Donor List on May 8th of 2009.

Responding well to a temporary medicine (one that kept my now dead heart pumping blood to my body) that kept me alive by being intravenously fed through a tube that went into my bicep, passed my shoulder and neck, I was able to leave the hospital and wait on the donor list at home.

On Sept. 6th of 2009 after continued loss in heart function, I was brought back to the hospital to sit a top the 1A list for a new heart.

On November 22nd, almost 3 months after being admitted, the doctors entered my room at 10pm and said they had found me a heart.

After a 7 hour surgery (normally takes 10-12) that could not have gone better, I am now blessed with a gift from God.

I prepared my whole life for this. I never got scared. I never got down, or cracked. Never gave up. Never gave myself an option B. I pushed forward and thanks to my positive attitude I did so well both during and after the surgery I was able to come home only 8 days after the transplant.

This tattoo – S U R V I V O R across my knuckles represents everything about this part of my life spanning 34 years. I have many tats. None of them even come close to meaning as much as this one does to me.

The tattoo was done by Randy Vollink of Vicious Ink and Piercings, Rochester Hills MI

Rob Beaubien
Detroit Mi