April 1, 2025 • 25 mins
The Distracted Librarians gather to talk about tattoos based on books, movies, or video games. They explore why one would get a literary tattoo, who has them, which additional tattoos they want to get, and who has tattoo regrets. You will be planning your next tattoo (or cover-up) by the end of the episode.
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- [Nicole] Hey there, welcome to
"The Distracted Librarians Podcast."
We are your friendly neighborhoodbookworms with a penchant
for all things pop culture.
- [Drew] Picture thisas our digital campfire
where we dive into our latest obsessions,
analyze our favorite distractions,
and rediscover the joy of reading.
- [Killian] Whether you're amedia enthusiast, a book lover,
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or just need a break from the daily grind,
you've come to the right spot.
- [Amanda] So kick back, relax
and get delightfully distracted with us.
- [Nicole] Hey everybody, thisis "The Distracted Librarians."
And today we are going
to be talking about tattoosbased on books, movies,
and video games.
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My name's Nicole.
- [Amanda] I'm Amanda.
- [Killian] I'm Killian.
- [Drew] I'm Drew.
- [Nicole] All right, tattoos.
This is an interesting topic.
- [Drew] I know.
- [Nicole] it's kind of weird,
but I think that we haveenough to talk about in terms
of why do people gettattoos based on books,
movies, or video games?
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- [Drew] I think it hasa lot to do with the fact
that these are the things thatlike touch us emotionally.
Like I have the next four tattoosplanned when I finally get
around to getting them againand they are all book-based.
- [Nicole] Oh really?
That's awesome.
- [Killian] Yeah, I have afew that I know that I want
and they are video game book
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adjacent things primarily
because they're thingsthat are important to me
or things that have had an impact on me.
- [Nicole] Definitely.
I have a few that I thinkI might like in the future.
However, I don't get tattoosas often as I once did.
(group laughing)
I mean I turned 17 andlike immediately went
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and got a tattoo
and didn't stop gettingtattoos for many years.
So I have quite a few at this point kind
of running out of real estate.
But yeah, there's a few things
that I would considergetting tattooed at this
point in my life.
- [Drew] See, I still only have the one
and I haven't filled with regret over it.
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- [Amanda] Just one?
- [Drew] Yeah.
- [Amanda] Oh.
- [Nicole] Okay, tell usabout this regretful tattoo.
- [Drew] Well, it's the HarryPotter Deathly Hollows tattoo.
- [Nicole] Okay.
- [Drew] Because I was verymuch that kid and I got it.
God, it would've been 2013-2014.
- [Nicole] Okay.
- [Drew] And then the Fire Nation attack.
(group laughing)
(02:28):
And then J.K. Rowling turnedout to be exactly who she is.
- [Nicole] Yes.
- [Drew] And that got complicated.
- [Nicole] Yes.
- [Drew] So I am veryhappy that it is in a place
that no one sees on my body
and that one day tattooremoval will be cheap
enough that I'll just go for it.
- [Nicole] Or cover up?
- [Drew] Yeah.
- [Nicole] You can always cover up.
- [Drew] I can always cover up, yeah.
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- Yeah, definitely.
- [Amanda] Oh, that wouldprobably be easy to cover up.
- [Drew] I would think so.
- [Killian] Yeah, I've seensome really nice coverups
of Deathly Hollows tattoos.
- [Nicole] becausethere's a need for that.
- [Killian] Yeah.
- [Nicole] Oh my goodness.
Wow.
Okay.
So what are the other tattoosdo we have here at the table?
- [Killian] So I have five tattoos,
but only one of them isany sort of media based.
The others were one, a couple
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of emerge just things that I liked.
One is related to a Winter Guard show that
was cut abruptly short becauseit was the 2020 season.
But the most recent tattoo
that I have is the keybladeis my favorite keyblade
from Kingdom Hearts.
So it is the Divine Rose keyblade,
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which is this beautifulkey sword wrapped in like
with a rose hilt wrapped in thorns.
And so it has the benefitof, it's from Kingdom Hearts,
but it's also the "Beautyand the Beast" affiliated.
- [Nicole] Oh, that's fun.
- [Killian] Keyblade from that game.
And I, "Beauty and theBeast" is one of my favorite
Disney movies ever.
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Plus I love Kingdom Hearts.
It was very important to me in high school
and then became veryimportant to me again in 2020
with all the lockdowns and everything.
Just before lockdownshappened, I bought a PS4
and the Kingdom Hearts games, all of them
that were remastered for PS4
and played through them all.
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And so that game became very important.
And yeah, so I tookthe image from the game
to my artist and was like, I want this,
but I want this in your style
'cause she does very fine line realistic
and it is really pretty and I love it.
I have zero regrets on that one.
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- [Nicole] Cool.
- [Killian] It's only beena little over a year but.
- [Nicole] Oh, give it time.
- [Nicole] I have zero regrets.
Zero regrets.
- [Drew] Give it time.
- [Amanda] Do you have anyregrets on any of your tattoos?
- [Killian] No, I got all fiveof 'em within a couple years.
And I love all of them.
- [Amanda] That's rare.
- [Killian] They all have somesemblance of meaning to me,
but some are deeper than others.
- [Nicole] Yeah.
(04:56):
This is probably thebenefit of like waiting
until you're an adult to get tattoos
because you have a tendencyof having a little bit
of a better idea of like who you are
and what's important to you.
- [Amanda] And more impulse control.
- [Nicole] A little more impulse control.
- [Killian] I also had a majorneedle phobia to get over.
Like the whole concept terrified me.
It shocked my parents when I got tattoos.
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- [Drew] It shocked mewhen you got tattoos.
- [Killian] I shocked Drewwhen I got tattoos, yes.
Most people who know me
because I am terrifiedof needles, I hate shots,
blood draws, anything.
And then when I went togo get my first tattoo,
I basically fell asleepwhile she was doing it.
So I was like, oh, this is fine.
And we went from there.
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- [Nicole] Nice.
- [Amanda] So I have atattoo that's based on a book
and all literary tattoosare a little bit nerdy,
but this one I think might be extra nerdy
because it was a book I was weeding
from the collection
'cause it had sat on theshelf for, I don't know,
(05:58):
20 years or something.
And it's called "Revolution in Print."
It's about the role of newspapersin the French Revolution.
It might be Wayne State University Press,
it's some university press.
Honestly, I don't think itbelonged in a public library.
But it had these illustrationsor actually pictures
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of these newspapers in France.
And one of them says
(French) which is sciencefor the working class.
It translates more directlyto (French) "no pants,"
which in the book it saidit was sort of like slang
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for working class people.
Right, because French Revolution,
you have these like class wars going on.
- [Nicole] Did you say no pants?
- [Amanda] Yeah, yeah.
- [Nicole] Okay, perfect.
- That's what I thought you said at first.
- Just making sure. Sans,without no, without pants.
- [Amanda] And.
(group laughing)
It's like old French too,
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so even if like, I've hadFrench people be like,
what is on your arm?
And I'm like, I know, I know.
But it is an advertisement for astronomy.
So originally from a newspaperin France put into a book
talking about theimportance of information
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for all people regardless of class.
- [Nicole] Oh, I like that.
- [Amanda] So very librarian.
- [Killian] Very appropriatefor a librarian, absolutely.
- [Nicole] Absolutely.
- [Amanda] But I was luckyenough to have an artist
who I had not known of
before because thiswas like pre-Instagram.
And so I went to Toronto,
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asked a bartender if he knows anyone
who is a good tattoo artist.
And he is like actually my ex-girlfriend.
And the next day I wentand got it from her.
- [Nicole] Wow.
- [Killian] Absolutely.
- [Nicole] That's like perfect.
Yeah, I love that.
I have a tattoo and it'sactually from a book
or a movie that we've discussed before.
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There's the movie Titus,
or the book, which was written
by Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus.
So the tattoo that I haveis really just a still
from the film "Titus."
And it is Lavinia who isthe daughter of the general,
he's like a Roman general
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that has come back from war.
And there's this whole situation where
this really devastatingthing happens to her.
And she is disfigured by somecharacters from the book.
So there's the scene inthe film where you see her
and she's standing on a tree stump
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and her hands have been cut off
and branches have been attachedto where her hands were.
And she has blood coming from her mouth.
So I have that tattoo on my leg
because when I was in college I was very,
very introverted.
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And having watched that movie,
I felt very much like Lavinia.
And I kind of feltrepresented by her in a way
because she wasn't able to write
and she wasn't able to speak anymore.
So for me, I felt like thatwas a good tattoo for me.
And it's really twistedand I'm sorry guys,
but it was important to me
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and it still is today.
- [Drew] I see therelevance and also consider
it very on brand.
- [Nicole] Yes, for me, hello everybody.
Yeah, so that there's that.
All right, so why, well,
we already talked about why people
do the things that they do.
We've seen some pretty goofytattoos out there, right?
(10:01):
- [Amanda] Well I think thereis the impulse like factor.
Some people plan, some people don't plan.
Some people go on trends.
- [Nicole] Yes.
- [Amanda] I think when I waslooking into literary tattoos,
it made me supernostalgic for my early-20s
when everything meant so much.
(10:22):
- Everything was like big, big.
- [Nicole] Oh, this is a tattoo.
This is a tattoo.
- Oh no, this is a tattoo.
- [Amanda] A song lyric.
A book.
A movie.
You know, something you wouldbe obsessed with something
that felt so deep
and you sort of wantto remember it forever.
And I think it is this thing
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for most people, I thinkit's something of, you know,
they get the most tattoosin their early twenties.
- [Nicole] It's true.
- [Nicole] It's very true.
- [Amanda] Maybe it likeslows down; also in your
early twenties you havemore disposable income
because you don't have a mortgage payment
or like maybe a car payment
or you know, your moneyis like all fun money.
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- [Nicole] It's like liquid.
You might not have a lot of it,
but you're willing to justblow your entire paycheck
on a tattoo just for fun
because you felt like you had to.
- [Amanda] Right, but that's the thing is
like you're compelled.
It's like I have to dothis, I have to have this.
It has to be on my body forever.
So yeah, I think tattoos arethe things of big emotions.
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And sometimes impulse.
- [Nicole] It doesn't always translate for
the rest of your life.
Sometimes it does, butsometimes it doesn't.
And then, you know, youknow, you're like me
and you're 44 and you're like, wait, what?
What did I do again, thathasn't really happened.
But I'm sure that thereare people out there
that have woken up and said, yeah,
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maybe I shouldn't have gottenthat Winnie-the-Pooh tattoo.
- [Drew] Frankly, thank Godthat I didn't have access
to a tattoo gun when I hadlike AOL Instant Message
statuses because dear God.
- [Killian] Oh the AOL.
The AOL away messages were such a time
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for song lyrics in particular.
- [Drew] The way I wouldbe covered head to toe
with Evanescence lyrics.
- [Nicole] Oh my goodness.
- [Drew] Because that'swho I was 20 years ago.
- [Nicole] Exactly.
- [Nicole] Okay, so what aresome tattoos that we would
we would get now if youcan think of anything?
- [Drew] Oh yeah.
- [Nicole] You said you haveyours planned out, Drew.
- [Drew] I do.
So I have one.
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It is funny you said Winnie-the-Pooh.
- [Nicole] Oh my goodness.
- [Nicole] I'm sorry Ididn't just call that
out of the blue.
- [Drew] So AA Miltonwas a really popular poet
that my grandma was super into.
And so I have a couple of children's books
that she, you know,hand signed at the time.
- [Nicole] Oh wow.
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- [Drew] That were her.
And she would always have hercouple that she knew by heart.
And that would be thelike sing-songy things
that we did when I was sittingon her lap as a little kid.
- [Nicole] Aw.
- [Drew] So I have, there'sone that's called "Halfway Up"
that I've always hadlatched onto in my head.
And I want a line from that
with the Winnie-the-Pooh red balloon.
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- [Nicole] Aw okay.
- [Drew] And sort of a tie together.
- [Nicole] Cute.
- [Drew] I want that on my wrist.
That's the plan.
- [Nicole] Very nice.
- [Drew] I have one that's from Wolfsong.
one that's from Cush Hill's Dart.
- [Nicole] Okay.
- [Killian] You've been talkingabout that one for a while.
- [Drew] I've been talking abouta lot of these for a while.
I want a Calvin and Hobbeslet's go exploring tattoo.
- [Nicole] Aw, cute.
- [Drew] Yeah.
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- [Nicole] Very cute.
- [Drew] Maybe some Heartstopper leaves.
- [Killian] Just to fill in around things.
- [Drew] Exactly.
- [Killian] Yeah.
- [Drew] Tie it all together.
(group laughing)
- [Nicole] Killian, doyou have any upcoming?
- [Killian] I want to do the Cup and Crow
from "Six of Crows."
- [Nicole] So nice.
- [Killian] I actually as a gift from one
of my friends got atemporary tattoo of that
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that they bought from a seller on Etsy.
That's just figuring out where
and finding the money for it honestly,
knowing how much the keyblade was
'cause that was the longest, most detailed
and therefore mostexpensive of my tattoos.
(14:15):
I'm just like, okay, we gottaset money aside for a while
for that one becauseit's gonna be a minute.
I do also, I've talkedabout Dead by Daylight
on the podcast before.
- [Nicole] Yes.
- [Killian] Is my affectionfor this game normal?
Probably not, but itmeans a lot to me still.
And I want to get, there'ssomething in the game.
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You have your totems thatthe killers in the game can
have perks that give thempowers based around those.
There's also perks thatsurvivors can have in game
that are based around those.
And so I would like to get one
of those added alongsidemy keyblade tattoo
and potentially a Sims plumbob as well
(15:01):
'cause those are kind oflike the games that people
who know me and in thatgamer sense of things know
are my main games.
Depending on the mood that I'm in, it's,
it's gonna be Kingdom Hearts,it's gonna be Dead by Daylight
or it's gonna be Sims.
So that's kind of where I'm at right now.
- [Nicole] Nice.
Amanda, do you have any thoughts?
(15:23):
- [Amanda] No upcomingtattoos that I can think of.
I do have a tattoo that Isort of would like adjusted
'cause I was never veryhappy with it, which is sad.
Which not a book tattoo.
- [Nicole] It happens.
It definitely happens.
- [Amanda] I thinkbecause of that experience
so I'm like very wary.
So yeah.
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- [Nicole] I have alwaysconsidered getting a Totoro tattoo.
"My Neighbor Totoro."
This is a movie that I have watched
with my kids since they were really little
and I don't know, somethingabout it just reminds me
of myself and them, me being the Totoro
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and them being the littleTotoros, which I think would be
so incredibly cute.
And not on brand with allthe rest of my tattoos.
But hey, I am getting older
so I can have something whimsical.
- [Killian] Well it's funnyyou say that 'cause I haven't
seen "My Neighbor Totoro," but I've seen
"Kiki's Delivery Service"and "Spirited Away"
and have really loved those.
(16:25):
And I know the soot sprites are bigger
in "My Neighbor Totoro"
but they are in "Spirited Away."
- [Nicole] They are.
- [Killian] And since thefirst time I saw that movie,
I'm just like, oh my gosh,I love these are amazing.
- [Nicole] Yeah.
- [Killian] And so I've toyed with getting
a little soot sprites
- [Nicole] Oh, fun.
- [Killian] Before too.
- [Nicole] Yeah, yeah, yeah, very cute.
Okay, well we have a funlittle game we're gonna play.
- [Amanda] So when I waslooking up literary tattoos,
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by and large, most of them were quotes.
So I thought you guys could see,
if you can guess the author or the book
or both of some of these common
quoted tattoos.
- [Nicole] Okay, excellent.
So you're gonna check
and see if we can identifythese in the wild as librarians.
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- [Amanda] Yes.
I mean, and in the, and for me,
I was finding them astattoos on Pinterest,
but you know.
- [Nicole] Okay, fair enough.
- [Amanda] They are someone's tattoos.
But also all the ones thatI picked, I was like, oh,
I've seen this multiple times.
I've seen this.
It's somewhat common.
- [Drew] To be clear, none ofus have seen this list before.
- [Nicole] Yes.
This is the first time we're hearing this.
(17:30):
- [Killian] We got heretoday and Amanda's like,
so I thought this would be fun.
And we all said yes, absolutely.
Let's do it.
- [Amanda] Most of them you'll recognize
or maybe we'll say, okay,first one "Still I rise."
- [Killian] That's Maya Angelou.
- [Amanda] Exactly.
Correct.
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Okay, "Out damned spot."
- [Drew] Oh, that's Hamlet.
- [Amanda] Macbeth.
- [Drew] Macbeth.
- [Killian] Lady Macbeth.
- [Nicole] I was gonna say Shakespeare.
- [Drew] Yeah, somewhereI knew Shakespeare.
- [Amanda] "Everything wasbeautiful and nothing hurt."
- [Drew] Oh, oh, oh, oh, that's it.
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- [Killian] Sounds familiar.
- [Drew] Is that the end of 1984?
- [Amanda] Slaughterhouse-Five.
- [Drew] Same thing.
- [Amanda] Okay.
(group laughing)
- [Killian] Not quite, but...
- [Amanda] Okay, "It doesnot do to dwell in dreams
and forget to live."
- [Drew] Well that's Dumbledore.
(18:32):
- [Amanda] Exactly.
Harry Potter.
- [Killian] Yep.
- [Nicole] Good job Drew.
- [Amanda] Another common one.
You guys will know this.
"Not all who wander are lost."
- [Nicole] What is it?
- [Killian] "Lord of the Rings."
- [Nicole] Oh, "Lord of the Rings."
There we go.
- [Amanda] "We are all fools in love."
- [Nicole] Hmm.
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I don't think I know that one.
- [Amanda] "Pride and Prejudice."
- [Nicole] Oh.
- [Amanda] The Jane Austen crew shows up
in the literary tattoos.
- [Nicole] Big time.
Big time.
- [Killian] I feel likeI should have known that.
But the reality is I have skimmed the book
and just simply consumedthat almost entirely through.
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- [Drew] Adaptations?
- [Killian] Adaptations,movies and things so.
- [Amanda] "So it goes."
- [Nicole] Hmm.
- [Drew] And I've heardit everywhere, but?
- [Killian] Yeah.
- [Amanda] Slaughterhouse-Five.
- [Drew] Again?
- [Nicole] Again?
- [Amanda] The by and large, the ones
that I saw the most were Kurt Vonnegut.
- [Nicole] Really?
(19:34):
There is a certain Kurt Vonnegut fan base
that loves tattoos.
- [Nicole] Oh my goodness, well.
- [Drew] If there is anyoneout there listening to this
who has a Kurt Vonneguttattoo, please let us know
because this is news to me.
- [Amanda] Oh, okay.
I mean, I also think
there's like a certain demographicwho reads Kurt Vonnegut
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and they think they're super deep
and they're generallywhite males in the category
of 21 to 25.
(group laughing)
- [Nicole] So they fit right into that.
They fit right category wewere talking about earlier,
- [Amanda] I dated afew, I don't know, like.
- [Drew] My one time seeinga Kurt Vonnegut book in the
(20:20):
wild, like not in the librarywas when my cousin gave me a
ride home from college myfreshman year, his senior year.
- [Nicole] Oh my gosh.
- [Drew] And he had it in the backseat
and he would've been awhite male 21 at the time.
- [Amanda] Yeah, yeah.
- [Nicole] Wow.
- [Amanda] I did love the bookSlaughterhouse-Five, though.
- [Nicole] I think I'mgonna have to read that one.
- [Killian} It's on my list.
- [Killian] But I keep like pushing it.
- [Amanda] So good.
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- [Killian] Pushing it.
- [Amanda] It's a fast read.
And also feels very, youknow, big emotion as well.
- [Nicole] Okay.
- [Amanda] So last one, "Ifell in love the way you fall
asleep, slowly and then all at once."
- [Drew] It's anotherone, I know I've heard.
- [Killian] I know thisone, but could I name it?
(21:00):
No, absolutely not.
That would be far too easy.
- [Amanda] "The Fault in our Stars."
- [Drew] Okay.
- [Killian] Of course.
- [Drew] I was at least on teen,
but my head kept saying Twilight
and then my other headwas like, no, no, no,
no, no, no, it's not that.
And that was just thetwo fighting up here.
- [Killian] Okay.
Here's the really sad thing about me not
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being able to do that one up.
I still have a full set ofJohn Green signed posters
that are quotes from his book.
And I am 99% sure thatthat is one of them.
- [Nicole] Oh my goodness.
- [Killian] And yet I stillcould not make that out.
- [Killian] Yikes.
- [Amanda] Out of contextand it's interesting from
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all the ones that I saw,they're all your big classics
and then you have this, I mean,
"The Fault in Our Stars" is a classic,
but it's not like, it's not like Vonnegut,
it's not like Jane Austen.
You know?
One of the other ones was,
that came up a lot was "Perksof Being a Wallflower."
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- [Killian] I think a lot oftimes too, you'll get those
ones that are teen onesbecause it's people turning 18,
just being able to gettheir first on their owns.
- [Nicole] Oh gosh, those booksmean mean so much to them.
- [Killian] I know so manypeople who have like Mocking Jay
tattoos from Hunger Gamesand things like that as well.
- [Nicole] Sure.
- [Killian] So I think thatmakes sense, right as you're
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getting into that, being able
to make those choices for yourself.
- [Nicole] Yeah, absolutely.
- [Drew] I do have a funnystory about misunderstanding
where a quote is from,
I promise this links backto tattoos eventually.
So there's a restaurant
that's literally across thestreet from here that I go
to like two or threetimes a month for lunch.
And there's a girl there that has
a "you jump, I jump" tattoo.
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And today in my present brain, I know that
that's a quote from "Titanic"on the day I saw it in person,
I could only pull upthe season five episode
of "Gilmore Girls,"where they go on a life
and death brigade missionand they jump off the top
of a skyscraper, astructure that they build.
(23:05):
- [Killian] Scaffolding.
- [Drew] Scaffolding, thank you.
- [Nicole] I'm like a skyscraper?
- [Drew] Scaffolding, thank you.
And, but it's like three orfour stories off the ground.
They're like harnessed in.
- [Nicole] Oh, boy.
- [Drew] It's a whole thing.
- [Drew] And in thatmoment, Rory says to Logan,
"you jump, I jump Jack."
And that's what I latch onto from it
because I say that quote allthe time out loud when I'm
driving, if there's a car in front of me
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that has the light go yellow,I will say out loud to
that car, "you jump, I jump Jack,"
as in, if they go through,I'm going through too.
Like they decide our progress.
- [Nicole] Oh my gosh.
- [Drew] So I went to this restaurant
for the first time, likeright when they opened
three or four years ago.
I am so sorry if you're listening to this
and hearing this story andrealizing it's about you,
and I was trying to make conversation
(23:47):
and I was like, oh, Ilove "The Gilmore Girls."
(group laughing)
It was a thing.
- [Nicole] She was probablylike, what is going on?
- [Drew] She's still there.
Like we see each other constantly.
I hope that this isn'tlatched onto her brain as a
a moment with me, but it's in my brain.
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- [Nicole] Wow.
- [Amanda] Have you seena "Gilmore Girls" tattoo?
I have not and I didn't evencome across one when I was
like looking for...
- [Drew] I think I'veseen a "Luke's Diner" mug
tattooed on someone.
- [Amanda] Okay, that's adorable.
- [Drew] But then thatwould've been shared on
a Gilmore Girls Bit postinggroup that I'm in on Facebook.
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So like already predisposed to find it.
- [Amanda] Sure.
- [Drew] I've never like come across one.
- [Amanda] Yeah.
Well that might be something to consider.
- [Drew] That might be on the list.
- [Nicole] All right,well on that note, so
that is us talking abouttattoos based on books, movies,
and video games.
As always, please send usanything that you would like
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to chat with us to ouremail, we'd be happy
to look at those.
If you have any literary tattoos
or any suggestions of literarytattoos we should get.
- [Drew] We should get.
- [Nicole] And on that,we will see you next time.
Thank you.
Thank you for joining us for this episode
of "Distracted Librarians."
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- [Amanda] Until then,keep those pages turning
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- [Nicole] Hey everybody, thisis "The Distracted Librarians."
And today we are going
to be talking about tattoosbased on books, movies,
and video games.
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My name's Nicole.
- [Amanda] I'm Amanda.
- [Killian] I'm Killian.
- [Drew] I'm Drew.
- [Nicole] All right, tattoos.
This is an interesting topic.
- [Drew] I know.
- [Nicole] it's kind of weird,
but I think that we haveenough to talk about in terms
of why do people gettattoos based on books,
movies, or video games?
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- [Drew] I think it hasa lot to do with the fact
that these are the things thatlike touch us emotionally.
Like I have the next four tattoosplanned when I finally get
around to getting them againand they are all book-based.
- [Nicole] Oh really?
That's awesome.
- [Killian] Yeah, I have afew that I know that I want
and they are video game book
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adjacent things primarily
because they're thingsthat are important to me
or things that have had an impact on me.
- [Nicole] Definitely.
I have a few that I thinkI might like in the future.
However, I don't get tattoosas often as I once did.
(group laughing)
I mean I turned 17 andlike immediately went
(01:46):
and got a tattoo
and didn't stop gettingtattoos for many years.
So I have quite a few at this point kind
of running out of real estate.
But yeah, there's a few things
that I would considergetting tattooed at this
point in my life.
- [Drew] See, I still only have the one
and I haven't filled with regret over it.
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- [Amanda] Just one?
- [Drew] Yeah.
- [Amanda] Oh.
- [Nicole] Okay, tell usabout this regretful tattoo.
- [Drew] Well, it's the HarryPotter Deathly Hollows tattoo.
- [Nicole] Okay.
- [Drew] Because I was verymuch that kid and I got it.
God, it would've been 2013-2014.
- [Nicole] Okay.
- [Drew] And then the Fire Nation attack.
(group laughing)
(02:28):
And then J.K. Rowling turnedout to be exactly who she is.
- [Nicole] Yes.
- [Drew] And that got complicated.
- [Nicole] Yes.
- [Drew] So I am veryhappy that it is in a place
that no one sees on my body
and that one day tattooremoval will be cheap
enough that I'll just go for it.
- [Nicole] Or cover up?
- [Drew] Yeah.
- [Nicole] You can always cover up.
- [Drew] I can always cover up, yeah.
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- Yeah, definitely.
- [Amanda] Oh, that wouldprobably be easy to cover up.
- [Drew] I would think so.
- [Killian] Yeah, I've seensome really nice coverups
of Deathly Hollows tattoos.
- [Nicole] becausethere's a need for that.
- [Killian] Yeah.
- [Nicole] Oh my goodness.
Wow.
Okay.
So what are the other tattoosdo we have here at the table?
- [Killian] So I have five tattoos,
but only one of them isany sort of media based.
The others were one, a couple
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of emerge just things that I liked.
One is related to a Winter Guard show that
was cut abruptly short becauseit was the 2020 season.
But the most recent tattoo
that I have is the keybladeis my favorite keyblade
from Kingdom Hearts.
So it is the Divine Rose keyblade,
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which is this beautifulkey sword wrapped in like
with a rose hilt wrapped in thorns.
And so it has the benefitof, it's from Kingdom Hearts,
but it's also the "Beautyand the Beast" affiliated.
- [Nicole] Oh, that's fun.
- [Killian] Keyblade from that game.
And I, "Beauty and theBeast" is one of my favorite
Disney movies ever.
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Plus I love Kingdom Hearts.
It was very important to me in high school
and then became veryimportant to me again in 2020
with all the lockdowns and everything.
Just before lockdownshappened, I bought a PS4
and the Kingdom Hearts games, all of them
that were remastered for PS4
and played through them all.
(04:14):
And so that game became very important.
And yeah, so I tookthe image from the game
to my artist and was like, I want this,
but I want this in your style
'cause she does very fine line realistic
and it is really pretty and I love it.
I have zero regrets on that one.
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- [Nicole] Cool.
- [Killian] It's only beena little over a year but.
- [Nicole] Oh, give it time.
- [Nicole] I have zero regrets.
Zero regrets.
- [Drew] Give it time.
- [Amanda] Do you have anyregrets on any of your tattoos?
- [Killian] No, I got all fiveof 'em within a couple years.
And I love all of them.
- [Amanda] That's rare.
- [Killian] They all have somesemblance of meaning to me,
but some are deeper than others.
- [Nicole] Yeah.
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This is probably thebenefit of like waiting
until you're an adult to get tattoos
because you have a tendencyof having a little bit
of a better idea of like who you are
and what's important to you.
- [Amanda] And more impulse control.
- [Nicole] A little more impulse control.
- [Killian] I also had a majorneedle phobia to get over.
Like the whole concept terrified me.
It shocked my parents when I got tattoos.
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- [Drew] It shocked mewhen you got tattoos.
- [Killian] I shocked Drewwhen I got tattoos, yes.
Most people who know me
because I am terrifiedof needles, I hate shots,
blood draws, anything.
And then when I went togo get my first tattoo,
I basically fell asleepwhile she was doing it.
So I was like, oh, this is fine.
And we went from there.
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- [Nicole] Nice.
- [Amanda] So I have atattoo that's based on a book
and all literary tattoosare a little bit nerdy,
but this one I think might be extra nerdy
because it was a book I was weeding
from the collection
'cause it had sat on theshelf for, I don't know,
(05:58):
20 years or something.
And it's called "Revolution in Print."
It's about the role of newspapersin the French Revolution.
It might be Wayne State University Press,
it's some university press.
Honestly, I don't think itbelonged in a public library.
But it had these illustrationsor actually pictures
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of these newspapers in France.
And one of them says
(French) which is sciencefor the working class.
It translates more directlyto (French) "no pants,"
which in the book it saidit was sort of like slang
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for working class people.
Right, because French Revolution,
you have these like class wars going on.
- [Nicole] Did you say no pants?
- [Amanda] Yeah, yeah.
- [Nicole] Okay, perfect.
- That's what I thought you said at first.
- Just making sure. Sans,without no, without pants.
- [Amanda] And.
(group laughing)
It's like old French too,
(07:07):
so even if like, I've hadFrench people be like,
what is on your arm?
And I'm like, I know, I know.
But it is an advertisement for astronomy.
So originally from a newspaperin France put into a book
talking about theimportance of information
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for all people regardless of class.
- [Nicole] Oh, I like that.
- [Amanda] So very librarian.
- [Killian] Very appropriatefor a librarian, absolutely.
- [Nicole] Absolutely.
- [Amanda] But I was luckyenough to have an artist
who I had not known of
before because thiswas like pre-Instagram.
And so I went to Toronto,
(07:50):
asked a bartender if he knows anyone
who is a good tattoo artist.
And he is like actually my ex-girlfriend.
And the next day I wentand got it from her.
- [Nicole] Wow.
- [Killian] Absolutely.
- [Nicole] That's like perfect.
Yeah, I love that.
I have a tattoo and it'sactually from a book
or a movie that we've discussed before.
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There's the movie Titus,
or the book, which was written
by Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus.
So the tattoo that I haveis really just a still
from the film "Titus."
And it is Lavinia who isthe daughter of the general,
he's like a Roman general
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that has come back from war.
And there's this whole situation where
this really devastatingthing happens to her.
And she is disfigured by somecharacters from the book.
So there's the scene inthe film where you see her
and she's standing on a tree stump
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and her hands have been cut off
and branches have been attachedto where her hands were.
And she has blood coming from her mouth.
So I have that tattoo on my leg
because when I was in college I was very,
very introverted.
(09:16):
And having watched that movie,
I felt very much like Lavinia.
And I kind of feltrepresented by her in a way
because she wasn't able to write
and she wasn't able to speak anymore.
So for me, I felt like thatwas a good tattoo for me.
And it's really twistedand I'm sorry guys,
but it was important to me
(09:38):
and it still is today.
- [Drew] I see therelevance and also consider
it very on brand.
- [Nicole] Yes, for me, hello everybody.
Yeah, so that there's that.
All right, so why, well,
we already talked about why people
do the things that they do.
We've seen some pretty goofytattoos out there, right?
(10:01):
- [Amanda] Well I think thereis the impulse like factor.
Some people plan, some people don't plan.
Some people go on trends.
- [Nicole] Yes.
- [Amanda] I think when I waslooking into literary tattoos,
it made me supernostalgic for my early-20s
when everything meant so much.
(10:22):
- Everything was like big, big.
- [Nicole] Oh, this is a tattoo.
This is a tattoo.
- Oh no, this is a tattoo.
- [Amanda] A song lyric.
A book.
A movie.
You know, something you wouldbe obsessed with something
that felt so deep
and you sort of wantto remember it forever.
And I think it is this thing
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for most people, I thinkit's something of, you know,
they get the most tattoosin their early twenties.
- [Nicole] It's true.
- [Nicole] It's very true.
- [Amanda] Maybe it likeslows down; also in your
early twenties you havemore disposable income
because you don't have a mortgage payment
or like maybe a car payment
or you know, your moneyis like all fun money.
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- [Nicole] It's like liquid.
You might not have a lot of it,
but you're willing to justblow your entire paycheck
on a tattoo just for fun
because you felt like you had to.
- [Amanda] Right, but that's the thing is
like you're compelled.
It's like I have to dothis, I have to have this.
It has to be on my body forever.
So yeah, I think tattoos arethe things of big emotions.
(11:30):
And sometimes impulse.
- [Nicole] It doesn't always translate for
the rest of your life.
Sometimes it does, butsometimes it doesn't.
And then, you know, youknow, you're like me
and you're 44 and you're like, wait, what?
What did I do again, thathasn't really happened.
But I'm sure that thereare people out there
that have woken up and said, yeah,
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maybe I shouldn't have gottenthat Winnie-the-Pooh tattoo.
- [Drew] Frankly, thank Godthat I didn't have access
to a tattoo gun when I hadlike AOL Instant Message
statuses because dear God.
- [Killian] Oh the AOL.
The AOL away messages were such a time
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for song lyrics in particular.
- [Drew] The way I wouldbe covered head to toe
with Evanescence lyrics.
- [Nicole] Oh my goodness.
- [Drew] Because that'swho I was 20 years ago.
- [Nicole] Exactly.
- [Nicole] Okay, so what aresome tattoos that we would
we would get now if youcan think of anything?
- [Drew] Oh yeah.
- [Nicole] You said you haveyours planned out, Drew.
- [Drew] I do.
So I have one.
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It is funny you said Winnie-the-Pooh.
- [Nicole] Oh my goodness.
- [Nicole] I'm sorry Ididn't just call that
out of the blue.
- [Drew] So AA Miltonwas a really popular poet
that my grandma was super into.
And so I have a couple of children's books
that she, you know,hand signed at the time.
- [Nicole] Oh wow.
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- [Drew] That were her.
And she would always have hercouple that she knew by heart.
And that would be thelike sing-songy things
that we did when I was sittingon her lap as a little kid.
- [Nicole] Aw.
- [Drew] So I have, there'sone that's called "Halfway Up"
that I've always hadlatched onto in my head.
And I want a line from that
with the Winnie-the-Pooh red balloon.
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- [Nicole] Aw okay.
- [Drew] And sort of a tie together.
- [Nicole] Cute.
- [Drew] I want that on my wrist.
That's the plan.
- [Nicole] Very nice.
- [Drew] I have one that's from Wolfsong.
one that's from Cush Hill's Dart.
- [Nicole] Okay.
- [Killian] You've been talkingabout that one for a while.
- [Drew] I've been talking abouta lot of these for a while.
I want a Calvin and Hobbeslet's go exploring tattoo.
- [Nicole] Aw, cute.
- [Drew] Yeah.
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- [Nicole] Very cute.
- [Drew] Maybe some Heartstopper leaves.
- [Killian] Just to fill in around things.
- [Drew] Exactly.
- [Killian] Yeah.
- [Drew] Tie it all together.
(group laughing)
- [Nicole] Killian, doyou have any upcoming?
- [Killian] I want to do the Cup and Crow
from "Six of Crows."
- [Nicole] So nice.
- [Killian] I actually as a gift from one
of my friends got atemporary tattoo of that
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that they bought from a seller on Etsy.
That's just figuring out where
and finding the money for it honestly,
knowing how much the keyblade was
'cause that was the longest, most detailed
and therefore mostexpensive of my tattoos.
(14:15):
I'm just like, okay, we gottaset money aside for a while
for that one becauseit's gonna be a minute.
I do also, I've talkedabout Dead by Daylight
on the podcast before.
- [Nicole] Yes.
- [Killian] Is my affectionfor this game normal?
Probably not, but itmeans a lot to me still.
And I want to get, there'ssomething in the game.
(14:40):
You have your totems thatthe killers in the game can
have perks that give thempowers based around those.
There's also perks thatsurvivors can have in game
that are based around those.
And so I would like to get one
of those added alongsidemy keyblade tattoo
and potentially a Sims plumbob as well
(15:01):
'cause those are kind oflike the games that people
who know me and in thatgamer sense of things know
are my main games.
Depending on the mood that I'm in, it's,
it's gonna be Kingdom Hearts,it's gonna be Dead by Daylight
or it's gonna be Sims.
So that's kind of where I'm at right now.
- [Nicole] Nice.
Amanda, do you have any thoughts?
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- [Amanda] No upcomingtattoos that I can think of.
I do have a tattoo that Isort of would like adjusted
'cause I was never veryhappy with it, which is sad.
Which not a book tattoo.
- [Nicole] It happens.
It definitely happens.
- [Amanda] I thinkbecause of that experience
so I'm like very wary.
So yeah.
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- [Nicole] I have alwaysconsidered getting a Totoro tattoo.
"My Neighbor Totoro."
This is a movie that I have watched
with my kids since they were really little
and I don't know, somethingabout it just reminds me
of myself and them, me being the Totoro
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and them being the littleTotoros, which I think would be
so incredibly cute.
And not on brand with allthe rest of my tattoos.
But hey, I am getting older
so I can have something whimsical.
- [Killian] Well it's funnyyou say that 'cause I haven't
seen "My Neighbor Totoro," but I've seen
"Kiki's Delivery Service"and "Spirited Away"
and have really loved those.
(16:25):
And I know the soot sprites are bigger
in "My Neighbor Totoro"
but they are in "Spirited Away."
- [Nicole] They are.
- [Killian] And since thefirst time I saw that movie,
I'm just like, oh my gosh,I love these are amazing.
- [Nicole] Yeah.
- [Killian] And so I've toyed with getting
a little soot sprites
- [Nicole] Oh, fun.
- [Killian] Before too.
- [Nicole] Yeah, yeah, yeah, very cute.
Okay, well we have a funlittle game we're gonna play.
- [Amanda] So when I waslooking up literary tattoos,
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by and large, most of them were quotes.
So I thought you guys could see,
if you can guess the author or the book
or both of some of these common
quoted tattoos.
- [Nicole] Okay, excellent.
So you're gonna check
and see if we can identifythese in the wild as librarians.
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- [Amanda] Yes.
I mean, and in the, and for me,
I was finding them astattoos on Pinterest,
but you know.
- [Nicole] Okay, fair enough.
- [Amanda] They are someone's tattoos.
But also all the ones thatI picked, I was like, oh,
I've seen this multiple times.
I've seen this.
It's somewhat common.
- [Drew] To be clear, none ofus have seen this list before.
- [Nicole] Yes.
This is the first time we're hearing this.
(17:30):
- [Killian] We got heretoday and Amanda's like,
so I thought this would be fun.
And we all said yes, absolutely.
Let's do it.
- [Amanda] Most of them you'll recognize
or maybe we'll say, okay,first one "Still I rise."
- [Killian] That's Maya Angelou.
- [Amanda] Exactly.
Correct.
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Okay, "Out damned spot."
- [Drew] Oh, that's Hamlet.
- [Amanda] Macbeth.
- [Drew] Macbeth.
- [Killian] Lady Macbeth.
- [Nicole] I was gonna say Shakespeare.
- [Drew] Yeah, somewhereI knew Shakespeare.
- [Amanda] "Everything wasbeautiful and nothing hurt."
- [Drew] Oh, oh, oh, oh, that's it.
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- [Killian] Sounds familiar.
- [Drew] Is that the end of 1984?
- [Amanda] Slaughterhouse-Five.
- [Drew] Same thing.
- [Amanda] Okay.
(group laughing)
- [Killian] Not quite, but...
- [Amanda] Okay, "It doesnot do to dwell in dreams
and forget to live."
- [Drew] Well that's Dumbledore.
(18:32):
- [Amanda] Exactly.
Harry Potter.
- [Killian] Yep.
- [Nicole] Good job Drew.
- [Amanda] Another common one.
You guys will know this.
"Not all who wander are lost."
- [Nicole] What is it?
- [Killian] "Lord of the Rings."
- [Nicole] Oh, "Lord of the Rings."
There we go.
- [Amanda] "We are all fools in love."
- [Nicole] Hmm.
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I don't think I know that one.
- [Amanda] "Pride and Prejudice."
- [Nicole] Oh.
- [Amanda] The Jane Austen crew shows up
in the literary tattoos.
- [Nicole] Big time.
Big time.
- [Killian] I feel likeI should have known that.
But the reality is I have skimmed the book
and just simply consumedthat almost entirely through.
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- [Drew] Adaptations?
- [Killian] Adaptations,movies and things so.
- [Amanda] "So it goes."
- [Nicole] Hmm.
- [Drew] And I've heardit everywhere, but?
- [Killian] Yeah.
- [Amanda] Slaughterhouse-Five.
- [Drew] Again?
- [Nicole] Again?
- [Amanda] The by and large, the ones
that I saw the most were Kurt Vonnegut.
- [Nicole] Really?
(19:34):
There is a certain Kurt Vonnegut fan base
that loves tattoos.
- [Nicole] Oh my goodness, well.
- [Drew] If there is anyoneout there listening to this
who has a Kurt Vonneguttattoo, please let us know
because this is news to me.
- [Amanda] Oh, okay.
I mean, I also think
there's like a certain demographicwho reads Kurt Vonnegut
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and they think they're super deep
and they're generallywhite males in the category
of 21 to 25.
(group laughing)
- [Nicole] So they fit right into that.
They fit right category wewere talking about earlier,
- [Amanda] I dated afew, I don't know, like.
- [Drew] My one time seeinga Kurt Vonnegut book in the
(20:20):
wild, like not in the librarywas when my cousin gave me a
ride home from college myfreshman year, his senior year.
- [Nicole] Oh my gosh.
- [Drew] And he had it in the backseat
and he would've been awhite male 21 at the time.
- [Amanda] Yeah, yeah.
- [Nicole] Wow.
- [Amanda] I did love the bookSlaughterhouse-Five, though.
- [Nicole] I think I'mgonna have to read that one.
- [Killian} It's on my list.
- [Killian] But I keep like pushing it.
- [Amanda] So good.
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- [Killian] Pushing it.
- [Amanda] It's a fast read.
And also feels very, youknow, big emotion as well.
- [Nicole] Okay.
- [Amanda] So last one, "Ifell in love the way you fall
asleep, slowly and then all at once."
- [Drew] It's anotherone, I know I've heard.
- [Killian] I know thisone, but could I name it?
(21:00):
No, absolutely not.
That would be far too easy.
- [Amanda] "The Fault in our Stars."
- [Drew] Okay.
- [Killian] Of course.
- [Drew] I was at least on teen,
but my head kept saying Twilight
and then my other headwas like, no, no, no,
no, no, no, it's not that.
And that was just thetwo fighting up here.
- [Killian] Okay.
Here's the really sad thing about me not
(21:21):
being able to do that one up.
I still have a full set ofJohn Green signed posters
that are quotes from his book.
And I am 99% sure thatthat is one of them.
- [Nicole] Oh my goodness.
- [Killian] And yet I stillcould not make that out.
- [Killian] Yikes.
- [Amanda] Out of contextand it's interesting from
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all the ones that I saw,they're all your big classics
and then you have this, I mean,
"The Fault in Our Stars" is a classic,
but it's not like, it's not like Vonnegut,
it's not like Jane Austen.
You know?
One of the other ones was,
that came up a lot was "Perksof Being a Wallflower."
(22:03):
- [Killian] I think a lot oftimes too, you'll get those
ones that are teen onesbecause it's people turning 18,
just being able to gettheir first on their owns.
- [Nicole] Oh gosh, those booksmean mean so much to them.
- [Killian] I know so manypeople who have like Mocking Jay
tattoos from Hunger Gamesand things like that as well.
- [Nicole] Sure.
- [Killian] So I think thatmakes sense, right as you're
(22:23):
getting into that, being able
to make those choices for yourself.
- [Nicole] Yeah, absolutely.
- [Drew] I do have a funnystory about misunderstanding
where a quote is from,
I promise this links backto tattoos eventually.
So there's a restaurant
that's literally across thestreet from here that I go
to like two or threetimes a month for lunch.
And there's a girl there that has
a "you jump, I jump" tattoo.
(22:45):
And today in my present brain, I know that
that's a quote from "Titanic"on the day I saw it in person,
I could only pull upthe season five episode
of "Gilmore Girls,"where they go on a life
and death brigade missionand they jump off the top
of a skyscraper, astructure that they build.
(23:05):
- [Killian] Scaffolding.
- [Drew] Scaffolding, thank you.
- [Nicole] I'm like a skyscraper?
- [Drew] Scaffolding, thank you.
And, but it's like three orfour stories off the ground.
They're like harnessed in.
- [Nicole] Oh, boy.
- [Drew] It's a whole thing.
- [Drew] And in thatmoment, Rory says to Logan,
"you jump, I jump Jack."
And that's what I latch onto from it
because I say that quote allthe time out loud when I'm
driving, if there's a car in front of me
(23:26):
that has the light go yellow,I will say out loud to
that car, "you jump, I jump Jack,"
as in, if they go through,I'm going through too.
Like they decide our progress.
- [Nicole] Oh my gosh.
- [Drew] So I went to this restaurant
for the first time, likeright when they opened
three or four years ago.
I am so sorry if you're listening to this
and hearing this story andrealizing it's about you,
and I was trying to make conversation
(23:47):
and I was like, oh, Ilove "The Gilmore Girls."
(group laughing)
It was a thing.
- [Nicole] She was probablylike, what is going on?
- [Drew] She's still there.
Like we see each other constantly.
I hope that this isn'tlatched onto her brain as a
a moment with me, but it's in my brain.
(24:08):
- [Nicole] Wow.
- [Amanda] Have you seena "Gilmore Girls" tattoo?
I have not and I didn't evencome across one when I was
like looking for...
- [Drew] I think I'veseen a "Luke's Diner" mug
tattooed on someone.
- [Amanda] Okay, that's adorable.
- [Drew] But then thatwould've been shared on
a Gilmore Girls Bit postinggroup that I'm in on Facebook.
(24:29):
So like already predisposed to find it.
- [Amanda] Sure.
- [Drew] I've never like come across one.
- [Amanda] Yeah.
Well that might be something to consider.
- [Drew] That might be on the list.
- [Nicole] All right,well on that note, so
that is us talking abouttattoos based on books, movies,
and video games.
As always, please send usanything that you would like
(24:52):
to chat with us to ouremail, we'd be happy
to look at those.
If you have any literary tattoos
or any suggestions of literarytattoos we should get.
- [Drew] We should get.
- [Nicole] And on that,we will see you next time.
Thank you.
Thank you for joining us for this episode
of "Distracted Librarians."
(25:13):
- [Drew] Many thanks to BCTVfor their support in recording,
editing and releasing this podcast.
And to the Friends of the Library
for sponsoring closedcaptioning on every episode.
- [Killian] If you have any questions
or suggestions, feel free to reach out
to us at distracted@btpl.org.
- [Amanda] Until then,keep those pages turning
and those screens lighting up.
(25:34):
We'll catch you in the next episode.
- [Emily] The views and opinions expressed
in "The Distracted Librarians Podcast"
do not necessarily reflect those
of Bloomfield Township, BloomfieldTownship Public Library,
Bloomfield Community Television,
the Birmingham Area CableBoard, or its producers
or production staff.
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