astercontrol:

astercontrol:

me drawing a circuit pattern tattoo incorporating a whole bunch of symbols that have meaning to me:

…me realizing that if I don’t run this by my nerdy autistic trans girl roommate who makes her own vacuum tube amps, and have her basically redesign the whole image, I am gonna end up doing the circuitry equivalent of “get a tattoo in a different language that means totally the wrong thing”:

for anyone curious here are the symbols and meanings

batteries: plentiful energy
capacitor: stored energy
transistor: sharing and transmitting energy
alternating current: changes in energy
AND/OR/NAND/NOR gates: logic, reason
Recording instrument/speaker/microphone: creating art, sharing ideas
male plug/female plug/transformer: genderfluidity

…but. again. I am a guest in the house of electronics, and I offer these ideas in the full knowledge that they need the touch of someone who knows what the hell they’re doing

sadly I never got to run this idea by the awesome amp-building roomie, because our household/polycule split up and I moved back to MN and, although I don’t think there were any bad feelings between the two of us, she’s had a kind of overwhelming life since then and I haven’t wanted to drop more things on her

but I still am hesitant to do anything further with this design until I have a better understanding of stuff like, “yes, this means this and that means that, but does connecting them in that way ruin them both or change the meaning entirely?”

and, branching off that question, does that mean I’ll only be satisfied with the design if it would function as an actual physical circuitboard capable of doing something useful?

Or, am I okay with it being wholly symbolic? and if so, at what point does “symbols connected in a way that wouldn’t work” become “symbolic of the wrong thing”

and arrrrrhggh.