I have an aversion to those goth squiggles. Well, I think they look gorgeous, but they don't seem to mean anything. I like my tattoos (okay, my one tattoo) to be meaningful. There's a lot of cliches out there. Admittedly mine is a snake - but it's one I designed myself, and it's in a Celtic knot, and I was born in the Year of the Snake, so I felt okay about that. *g*

And that's cool about Edward Gorey. I didn't know he was gay. Well, I know nothing about him, actually, other than I love his drawings. They've got the entire collection of Gashleycrumb Tinies here: http://users.aol.com/emarko/gorey.html