People have strong personal beliefs when it comes to tattoos and body modification. Some incorporate self-decoration into their lives as rituals, tributes, and ways to mark important parts of their life stories. Other people insist that permanently inking oneself is nothing more than a time-bomb of regrets.

Those who do decide to get tattoos face the daunting of choices of what, where are why? For more and more people the answer is becoming fandom based.

Fans have always enjoyed dressing up as their favorite characters, but now they are making their favorite characters and symbols a permanent part of who they are. Some may ask how these die-hards will feel about their choices in old age. Will their Xbox logo even mean anything anymore, or will their art be antique/obsolete.

Perhaps for some, etching the bits of pop-culture that speak to them into their visage may be like taking some of that story or character’s attributes on as their own. Some may simply see the future for our generation for what it really is: A bunch of wrinkly old punks, listening to gangster rap with our hearing aids turned up and our Super Mario tramp stamps serving as a reminder for what made our days golden.