Hey there everybody,
Before we do today’s blog, two quick notes:
First, a reminder that we’re running a t-shirt design contest in anticipation of the Geeks Doing Good fundraiser that we’re running in June. If you’re an arty type, we’d love to see what designs you could come up with. Then we’ll vote on them here in the blog, and the winners will become for-real t-shirts that people can buy for charity. (P.S. We’ll pay you, too.)
Fair warning: You have less than a week to submit your designs. If you want more details, you can check out this blog here. (Even if you don’t want details, you can still click the link. If nothing else, there’s a cute video of my kid there.)
Second, we set out our first activism newsletter. It doesn’t have many bells and whistles yet, but those are in development. I think the team did a nice job of providing some good news (with valuable context) for people who want to stay informed (but who are tired of being overwhelmed by getting their news on social media.) Even more importantly, we gave people some good, productive ways to take positive action and help make the world a better place.
We’ve got more than 4000 people signed up at this point. If you’d like to join us, here’s a link.
And now the new coolness:
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Back on the second day of my first booksigning tour, I met a woman who had a tattoo of my signature on her arm.
“Wow,” I thought to myself. “That’s pretty nuts. I guess I’ll never see anything like that again.”
But, as with many things, I was completely wrong. And eventually assembled and shared an entire blog full of tattoos that people got based on my books.
Since then, whenever I see one of these appear on social media, a tuck it away in a folder to share with y’all later.
So here we go. Tattoo blog two:
I’ve seen more than a few of Auri’s brazen gear. That makes me happy.
I like the thought of two people with Fulcrum tattoos noticing each other and becoming friends….
I’m guessing this is the only one of these I’ll ever see. I’m glad they liked Bast’s Rhyme that much….
I’m fond of this quote. (And not just due to… umm… placement.)
There’s some truth in this one that I tend to forget all the time….
This is hardcore nerd. Is nerdcore a word. It should be. And this is it.
Clicking to embiggen is of the Lethani….
Sometimes I write something I’m very proud of. It’s hard to express how flattering it it when someone else likes it enough to put it on their skin, forever.
I like this version too. I’m a big fan of the less-is-more aesthetic.
I never expected to see one of these….
This seems to be one of my more popular quotes.
I’ve heard a lot of folks use it in their weddings…
I think this might be the only Amyr one I’ve seen…
Whoo boy. You better hope I wasn’t lying when I said what that translated into…
I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a foreign translation tattoo before this one. Or one for this particular quote. I think it turned out lovely….
It reads, “Viajé, amé, perdí, confíe y me traicionaron.” (“I trouped, traveled, loved, lost, trusted and was betrayed.”)
I’m very fond of the Auri tattoos. She has a special place in my heart.
We’ll do some more of them in the next tattoo blog. I’m realizing now I have too many of these to include here…
And this is a good one to close on. It says a lot.
Thanks so much, everyone. You mean a lot to me.
One family,
pat