Elbow tattoos still fucking hurt but the pain doesn't make them meaningful

Portrait of a Pain Bag Post Nutrition Label Content Type: Text & Photos Read Time: 5 min Topics: Tattoos, Pain, Accessibility Earlier this week I got my newest tattoos colored in. Let me tell you, All Reading Eye, it was the most painful thing I have ever experienced. Seeing stars. Time dilation. Jumping feet-first into an event horizon and repeatedly wondering "how did I end up here, at this exact place, being stabbed by this many needles this many times for this long." There was no Dana. Only Zuul. YET — I am Quite Pleased with the results. Quick refresher: each band, starting at my wrist, marks a major life event roughly in chronological order. The sleeve, when finished, will be a tattoo life timeline. Tattoos, in order, with very brief descriptions Worth noting: the bear paw dead center was my first tattoo, inked well before I'd conceived of the sleeve at all. One more continuity problem my artist has deftly solved. Wolf paw prints in a purple band — a nod to an early fascination…