Reader Tattoos!

Whenever I see one, I put it somewhere in/on this site. But? It’s all scattered. So, this is now, hopefully, going to be the sort of “Master Stack of Tats,” if that can be a thing. I’ll link the tweet or wherever they showed up, but I’ll also harvest the image out, put it in a gallery (in case whatever social media fizzes away). And? Not sure this is all of them. It’s some of them, though. I’ll do my game-best to keep it updated, too. Having “Tattoos” in the heading will hopefully make it easy to find again. Too, way back in about 2009, a student in a grad workshop showed me a couple of Brian Evenson lines he had tattooed on his arm, and, man, I was so awed, couldn’t imagine anyone doing that—such an honor. Such a crazy-wonderful thing to be part of. Should have put a colon there.

To say it with the proper emphasis-via-punctuation, then, and sort of stage a cliff to lean out over: Such a crazy-wonderful thing to be a part of:

Snapshot I took in Paris, of a reader, László Dávid Nagy, out of Budapest, I believe:

https://twitter.com/justathimble_/status/1624597707061972992?s=20&t=ACRczdNdEt7hEHQ8kiTV3A
(reader Hogan at a Theo Van Alst book event in Portland)

And Lorin Elise’s Teenage Slasher one:

Adam Fall’s Buffalo Hunter Hunter one:

Lorin Elise’s BHH:

@theboycourt:

Guy named JJ (ran into him in Denver):

Lorin and Off the Rez:

If y’all haven’t seen my @stephengrahamjones.com Off the Reservation tattoo yet, here she is. Just a small scene, but definitely my favorite! By Chase Martines here in Denver.

Lorin Elise (@paperbackbish.bsky.social) 2026-06-29T19:15:04.304Z

I want to say “Amy,” but . . . I can’t even remember for sure what-town-from-lately this showed up in a signing line. California? Montana? Was I somewhere else, the past couple weeks? Who can possibly know. If it’s you, please claim this, so I can put your name up? It’s so cool:

https://bsky.app/profile/paperbackbish.bsky.social/post/3mrxhlysygc2d

(also, a very cool one showed up in the UK, I forget which stop—Manchester, maybe? but . . . it would have been awkward to ask for a snapshot of it. but, if you’re the one who has that tat, let me know? I’ll include it here. would be honored to [and, it’s not ‘intimate’ or anything, it’s just very personal])

And, a quick gallery of all these, to archive them:

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