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Gianna | traditional tattooer
@dinosaursdied.bsky.social
420 followers 270 following 420 posts
She/They 🏴Ⓐ
Tattooing since 2011
Philadelphia
Instagram @dinosaursdied
giannatattoos@gmail.com
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Gianna | traditional tattooer @dinosaursdied.bsky.social · Jan 26
Admin reveal! I really do love a good painting. I'll be at booth 669 (nice) at the Philly tattoo convention today!

#queertattoo #qttr #tattooer #traditionaltattoo #tattoo #dragontattoo #tattooflash #amunddietzel #capcoleman
A queer cutie holding a painting of a large dragon flanked by 2 swallows
dinosaursdied.bsky.social
A lil dragon friend

#tattooartist #queertattooartist #traditionaltattoo #dragontattoo #queertattoo #dragon #dragonillustration #illustration
A drawing of a dragon in color pencil. The design is graphic yet flowing. The head is pointy with only one eye. It's claws appear more like a lizard than the usual dragon talon.
November 13, 2025 at 10:42 PM
dinosaursdied.bsky.social
I got to do this awesome dragon for my amazing client Ron. He came in and picked this Fred Marquand design right from my book. He is always getting fun and bright designs!

#tattoo #tattooartist #queertattooartist #traditionaltattoo #queertattoo #dragontattoo
A dragon tattoo on the back of the calf. It's colors are red, green, and brown
November 7, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Everett, NYC 1987 •
#dicktattoo #inkdickd #homoink
#gayink #homoeroticphotography
#homoculture #homoart
Everett, NYC 1987 •
November 1, 2025 at 9:29 PM
dinosaursdied.bsky.social
I think it's important to understand that the worst has already happened. There are thousands of people unaccounted for in the US and it's likely some portion are dead.I firmly believe history will reveal this.
October 30, 2025 at 7:47 PM
dinosaursdied.bsky.social
I posted this on Instagram and it seemed to do well, so I wanted to share it here as well. This short clip encompasses the journey of the tattooer. This craft is taxing, physically and mentally, but the support of the people we tattoo is what carries us through.

#tattooartist #queertattooartist
October 27, 2025 at 5:38 PM
dinosaursdied.bsky.social
I could not get a good picture of this dragon but I had fun meeting it. I tried drawing it all on one shot but I couldn't get the head so I ended up stenciling a head and drawing in the rest. Good clean fun.

#queertattooartist #tattooartist #dragontattoo #traditionaltattoo #qttr #tattooer
A dragon tattoo on the back of the calf. It sits in-between several existing pieces to fill out the gap. The dragon is a bright bluish green with purple belly and tongue.
October 24, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Larry Copeland hosted a gathering of tattoo and piercing fans at his Hoboken, NJ residence in 1974/5.

In attendance was Emil Gundelach who continued getting tattooed into his 90s, Tatu Scotty, Spider Webb, Dave Slack, Mary, and Ken Meyer (among other unnamed friends)
October 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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occultvibrations.com
Dave Slack was a queer tattoo artist who worked in NYC in the 1970s/80s. He appeared in the legendary gay xxx video "NYC INFERNO" (playing a tattoo artist).

This clip, recorded in approx 1974/5, also features Emil Gundelach, Larry Copeland, Key Meyer, and Spider Webb.

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October 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
dinosaursdied.bsky.social
Got a fun start to this chest on a great client. Sleeve by me, ribs by my friend Lacey Rae. Sometimes no nips is better.

#tattooartist #queertattooartist #traditionaltattoo #swallowtattoo #chesttattoo #tattooer #queertattoo
A bold chest tattoo of 5 sparrows flying. This is the line work session and black shading will be done the next session they are drawn in a traditional tattoo style with varied patterns on the backs
October 18, 2025 at 9:07 PM
dinosaursdied.bsky.social
I got to do this design at the hocus poke us mini convention this past weekend. It wasn't the busiest I've ever been, but I got the opportunity to do this incredibly fun design and talk to a kid about the band lightning bolt. It was really fun.

#queertattooartist #tattooartist #traditionaltattoo
A graphic space wizard shooting purple lightning from it's hands. It has an array of checker board below it and it wears a purple hat
October 15, 2025 at 9:11 PM
dinosaursdied.bsky.social
St Christopher translated to the style of classic electric tattoo. I grew up in a heavily conservative evangelical home so I have no love for Christianity, but the iconography associated with it makes for a great tattoo.

#queertattoo #tattooartist #traditionaltattoo #queertattooartist #tattooer
A tattoo of st Christopher holding a walking stick. The baby Jesus sits on his shoulder
October 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
dinosaursdied.bsky.social
I've been playing with adding more illustrative qualities to my designs lately. A little of the old with a little of the new

#tattooartist #tattooflash #queertattooartist #tattoodesign #tribaltattoo #neotribaltattoo #skulltattoo #traditionaltattooartist #traditionaltattoo #eyeballs
A drawing of an eyeball with a trail of nerves and blood vessels A drawing of an eyeball with trailing eye meat entombed in a graphic black Borneo influenced tribal design A drawing of a skull with eyes. It's drawing to imply much of the skull with blood vessels trailing from the top An eyeball with a trail of pink eye meat. It's inside of and complimenting a Borneo inspired graphic black tattoo design
September 28, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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One healed and one fresh for an all-star client. These both tell exaggerated stories about her childhood. All tattoos on the legs are by me with the exception of the roach tattoo

#tattoo #tattooartist #queertattooartist #traditionaltattoo #transtattooartist #cowboytattoo #philadelphia
A close up shot of a tattoo on the leg. It's a healed design of a cowboy with glasses swinging a baby in a sling. The tattoo is in color featuring red, blue, brown, and gold A close up of a tattoo on the leg. It's a fresh tattoo featuring an over turned Chevy Blazer on fire and billowing smoke. It's a color tattoo using blue, brown, red, pink, and gold
September 19, 2025 at 5:54 PM
dinosaursdied.bsky.social
Tattooing is fun as hell and I love every second of it

#tattooer #tattooartist #queertattooartist #dragontattoo #butterflytattoo #skulltattoo #folkflower #folkflowertattoo
The inside view of a sleeve tattoo. It depicts a dragon head chasing a butterfly as well as a skull with a folk flower growing from it. There's also lots of red and pink flames
September 17, 2025 at 12:24 AM
dinosaursdied.bsky.social
I've noticed over the years that social media has broken out into two factions, consumers and creators with some overlap. This leads to an interesting phenomenon where a large subset of creators are attempting only post without interacting with others content.
September 15, 2025 at 6:06 PM
dinosaursdied.bsky.social
I got to do this classy skeleton ripper yesterday. More skulls please. I'm in skull girl mode

#tattooartist #queertattooartist #queertattoo #tattooer #qttr #skulltattoo #skinripper #traditionaltattoo #skeletontattoo #transtattooartist #tattooer #folktattoo
A tattoo of a skull ripping out of the body. A skeleton have grasps through a rip in the skin revealing a skull with a single eyeball. The skull and hand are black and grey while the eye is in color.
September 12, 2025 at 10:06 PM
dinosaursdied.bsky.social
The key to paying bills as a tattooer is having a diverse skill set. I came into this job through the walk-in ladder and it's been incredibly helpful in these difficult times

#tattooartist #queertattooartist #qttr #transtattooer #finelinetattoo #snaketattoo #battattoo #flowertattoo #tattoosky
A fine line floral tattoo in a graphic black style A fine line snake tattoo in black and grey on the outer forearm A fine line bat tattoo in black and grey below the knee
September 7, 2025 at 3:06 PM
dinosaursdied.bsky.social
I put the final touches on this sleeve project for Austin. He came to me with about 5 designs in place. 2 done by me, and 3 from other artists. We ended up creating a really fun and bright classic arm that I'm so proud of

#queertattooartist #traditionaltattoo #tattooartist #dragontattoo #foxtattoo
A man stands in front of a brick wall revealing a completed tattoo sleeve. It's a patch work style containing animals and flowers in a folk tattoo style. Some pictured designs are an orange fox, a yellow frog, a dragon and a tiger
August 29, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Thank you Gianna ❤️ Houndstooth Tattoo in Philly Amazing work by an amazing person grateful I found her
Finished and fixed a piece that was hard to find an artist to work on I found her on blue sky @dinosaursdied.bsky.social
!!Adult content pictures!! #asstattoo #queertattoo #eroticTattoo #tattoo
August 24, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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I had the pleasure of reworking this tattoo. We connected the flames from the butt to flames on the public mound. We also reworked some loose black the original tattooer haphazardly placed around the anus through the scrotum into graphic black flames.

#queertattooartist #erotictattoo #genitaltattoo
A tattooed butt exposing flames that extend from the butt hole to the checks. A fresh graphic black set of flames runs from the anus through the scrotum.
August 24, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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chimeracoder.bsky.social
RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.
August 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Healed up a few months. This is translated from a painting my client brought as reference.
A tattoo of a woman wrapped in cloth with a small demon in a joker's cap behind holding her dress. That tattoo is on the arm and features reds, oranges, deep greens and yellows
August 22, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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A pretty little sun and moon! This was lightly based on a design a coworker painted.

#queertattooartist #transtattooartist #tattooartist #sunandmoontattoo #tattsky #tattoosky #traditionaltattoo #phillytattooer
A close up of a fresh tattoo on an arm. It's a brightly colored moon and sun overlapping to create a single circle. The moon is a light green and the sun is red and gold. There are simple clouds and stars around the edge of the design breaking up the circular edge.
August 14, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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I got really deep into this painting and ended up trying something and hated the results. That purple in the background haunts my dreams. I might paint out the whole background with a different color and try again. Sometimes art is a lot of work for nothing.

#tattooartist #tattsky #queertattoo #💉
A watercolor in the vertical orientation. It features a blue panther head with butterfly wings sitting on top of a pink lotus. The lotus sits in a gold vase with eyes and claws as feet there are 3 black birds flying in the background and a green checker board pattern creating a horizon line
August 8, 2025 at 8:15 PM
dinosaursdied.bsky.social
Healed up. 🖕12

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A healed tattoo of the numbers 13 and 12 in bold black old English
August 7, 2025 at 6:34 PM