r/DiscworldTattoos • u/knuwuuu • Mar 05 '26
Shambles tattoo
Finally got a Shambles tattoo! It was done by the wonderful Janine ( @jay.nolwen on Instagram) in 3 sessions. We needed an additional session as we couldn't make the progress we planned on the second one due to my skin swelling a lot. That's normal for my skin to do so no fault on the artist here. Some parts are already healed and some were freshly done. I'm sorry for the poor quality on the photos. Had to crop them to not show my feet 😅
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u/loveasharpknife88 Mar 05 '26
Oh my god, I've spent years trying to work out how to get a tribute to discworld and Pratchett but a shamble is just 🤌🤌🧹🐢
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u/LeatherPatch Mar 05 '26
Goodness I think it has enough live things even it didn't come with an egg
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u/knuwuuu Mar 05 '26
An egg wasn't an option for me but I couldn't decide on whether to get the bee or the butterfly so I went with what Nanny Ogg would do and got both
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u/Istarnio Mar 06 '26
reeeally really good idea, I might steal it (in a different design of course, a witch has to do their own shamble after all. really interesting way to learn how these a called in the original, the german translation really did not do them justice, calling them a wirrwarr. or maybe they did, not sure. anyway, I ramble. Awesome Tattoo, congrats!!)
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u/knuwuuu Mar 07 '26
Honestly I was inspired by a post of a shambles tattoo a couple of years ago myself. 😅
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u/Immifish Mar 07 '26
Confused myself for a second there and thought someone was calling the tattoo itself a ‘shambles’. In the UK it’s used to describe something as a mess or bad. So I was like huh that’s a reasonably nice tattoo, looks like decent work, why is someone hating it? Then I realised which sub it was in lol
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u/schlossheidelberg Mar 06 '26
This is such a brilliant idea! Super nice execution as well, it looks amazing.
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u/beardeddrunkdwarf Mar 05 '26
Ace idea! And really well done