i’m kind of torn on that question. i have a matching tattoo with a friend from boston. we got script on our wrists to mark our time in europe together, but we both agreed on that. if someone took my art (which is on left and right upper arm) and manipulated it, i’d be pretty upset. however, if someone wanted my art tattooed on them somewhere identical to my drawings, i would be flattered. now exact placement or knock-off of a tattoo that i have, that’s a little creepy. people all over the world have similar tattoos, but identical in placement and in image without meaning? weird. all of my tattoos have been carefully drawn, picked out, or placed by me for a reason, so if someone wants to just slap a tattoo like mine on their body…that’s their decision, but it wouldn’t mean the same things that mine mean to me. all of my tattoos symbolize being reborn, my family, and important events in my life. i’d think others would want to make conscious tattoo decisions as well. going off of a design just because you like it and think it’d be cool to have on your body is not a well-researched or smart way to go; why have something permanent if it has no meaning? 

aren’t body modifications and tattoos supposed to mark your body in some unique way to you? i just don’t understand why someone would want to “copy” so to speak.