Dante Srilapa

Connect What inspired your most recent tattoo?

My most recent is a black and white piece, mirroring a panel from Oyasumi Pun-Pun. It’s a portrait of one of the female leads with butterflies and flowers incorporated. It’s almost a commentary on the character, all this beautiful stuff on her and her beautiful face, but in reality she’s had plastic surgery and her fulfillment is self-toxic and toxic to others as well. It’s a very dark story but a beautiful piece of art.

If your ink could speak, what would it say?

It would probably be singing in like 3 different languages, spitting off all the desires I have and my maniacal love for anime and stories in general. I’m getting another piece in August as well (a giveaway win, I’ve won 3 so far). Maybe they’d call me a cheap son of a bitch too haha. I enter a ton of giveaways so it’s no surprise that 3/5 of my tattoos were free or discounted. I find ways to deal with the economy and my desires

What would you do with the $25,000?

Pay off my cards first and foremost. I just want to reset my life a bit. COVID and bad decisions left me in the hole, and life has kinda taken a spiked bat to my head repeatedly over the last half decade. I just want to hit the reset button and get back to living life the way it should be lived. With a lot of discomfort and uncertainty, but by my own terms and not because of some sham president or a pandemic.