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Lee Dandy 💖✨
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Newschool ✨ Whimsy ✨ Puns
Tattoo Artist for Central Arkansas
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Lee Dandy 💖✨ @leedandytattoos.bsky.social · Dec 12
Hello! I’m Lee Dandy. I am an artist and tattooer in Arkansas. I primarily design and create Newschool Tattoos, specializing in color work. I like anything nerdy, whimsical, and weird.

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#tattoos #newschooltattoos #leedandytattoos
A photo of the artist: Lee Dandy. They are dressed in formal attire, navy and gray in color, standing in front of a mirror in a tattoo shop. A newschool-style tattoo of a dead pigeon with gore created with neon pinks and green colors. Bright neon green and yellow fungi grow from the corpse as the design flows down the outside of a right forearm. “Barbie-Yaga” This newschool tattoo is a take on the idea of Barbie’s Dream House mashed up with the Baba Yaga folk tale. The house is pink and purple and the legs are that of a Barbie doll, rather than a chicken. The legs are playfully attempting a “chorus line kick” amid glittery sparkles. A newschool pheonix tattoo that stretches from armpit to knee of a plus-size model, fitting to and compliments her natural curves. The client’s melanated skin tone still holds all colors used in the design: black, orange, pink, blue, and a lot of purple. This image is fully healed—some areas are healed a month and others are healed for almost six months. The tattoo took 4 sessions to complete.
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MUSHIES 🍄💖✨

I love making these little mushroom friends. I’ve started sculpting some out of acrylic clay recently, hopefully I’ll have a few finished soon to share.

#tattoos #mushroom #fungi #funguys #cottagecore #cutetattoo
March 30, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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✨ CHOCOBO THEME MUSIC PLAYS ✨

#videogametattoo #finalfantasy #chocobo #moogle #ff7 #tattoo
A chocobo is a large flightless bird creature from the game series, Final Fantasy. I personally remember them best from Final Fantasy Seven, especially having played through numerous rounds of the mini-racing game. This tattoo features a classic yellow chocobo with another smaller creature, called a “Moogle”, riding on its back. Moogles are little and while they can fly, they move slow. The poor little guy is holding into the reigns while the chocobo speeds forth, eager to win the race.
March 27, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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I can’t believe it’s been 10 years 😢 I’m still working on reading the Tiffany Aching series, because it ends in the Shepard’s Crown and I am *not* ready. #GNUsirterrypratchett
A memorial post for the author, Sir Terry Pratchett, featuring the art of Paul Kirby. Terry is depicted wearing a tall top hat bursting with several of Discworld’s companion characters. The quote is “Mind how you go”, stated by who might have been Terry’s favorite character Granny Weatherwax. Sir Terry Pratchett was born April 28th, 1948 and passed away March 12th 2015. His work was prolific, proudly and fiercely progressive, and changed my life for the better at a time when I needed the most guidance. GNU Sir Terry Pratchett
March 13, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Trash panda! 🦝🍄💖 This is from a few years ago, I have a backlog of work that I want to post here. Eventually I’ll catch up to more recent things, but I’ll try to sprinkle a few of those in too. #tattoos #raccoon #trashpanda
Behold a newschool raccoon tattoo, with playful proportions and filled with cottage-core colors and textures. Orange capped mushrooms, blueberry clusters and oak leaves break up the design and introduce more flow. This tattoo was completed in my third year of tattooing, and it is now my seventh year. I am still proud of it and impressed by how well the gray colors in the raccoon’s coat healed. The subject is my client’s pet raccoon and she spent much of the session chatting about this mischievous little punk and his addiction to sugar.
March 12, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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She’s my angel, my sweet baby bean, my precious little cinnamon roll baby named Hexi and she really just wants to lay on my feet all the time 💖 #cat
A brown and gray tabby cat sits pillowed up on a plush blanket between her guardian’s feet. Her whiskers are relaxed and her ears are forward, she looks at the camera—and her person holding it—and simply stares serenely. The cat’s name is Hexi, she is ten this year. She always wants to be beside me and her affection makes every day a little more special.
March 2, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Ok there’s more people here now, please appreciate my Kim Kitsuragi embroidery 😭 #DiscoElysium
An embroidery of Kim Kitsuragi’s portrait from the video game disco Elysium on black fabric. He is a half Asian/white man with short black hair and round glasses, wearing an orange bomber jacket. There is a white circle painted behind his head The same embroidered portrait but framed in a black frame with a black mat with white trim
December 19, 2024 at 3:00 AM
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A little firefly jar. #posca #markers #painting #fireflies
This narrow, vertical painting is small and depicts a glass canning jar floating open with the lid drifting away. Inside the jar fireflies surge to escape and swarm in the air, among a thicket of honeysuckle flowers. The serene teals remind me of summer in the south, chasing fire flies in the Ouachita Valley. I still remember what honeysuckles taste like, and I think about it when I’m sad.
March 2, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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Son-Of-A-Bitch Mouse Solves Maze Researchers Spent Months Building
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Son-Of-A-Bitch Mouse Solves Maze Researchers Spent Months Building
March 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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who up unbridling they joy
February 28, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Storm Queen ⛈️💙✨ I’m really enjoying my Posca markers, y’all. If anyone wants to get this tattoo it’s perfect for a calf or a forearm! HMU #tattoo #goddess #posca #painting
This tattoo design features a split complimentary color palette that uplifts golden yellow as the star, with teal blue and true blue as it’s complimenting branches. The storm goddess’s royal blue hair echoes the power of rain and the raging ocean. Her iron gray skin promises an outpouring of power, draped in a delicate cream dress with golden jewelry matching her bright gold eyes. A light shines within her golden gaze, breaking through her cloudy face as a reminder that within her is the source of life. After every storm, the sun will rise again.
February 27, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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of all the places to do what you want and say what you want to say, ART IS THE PERFECT ARENA. your writing, your songs, your music can absolutely be as subtle as you want, but especially during times like this, dont let anyone tell you that youre too dang loud. lets trot buckaroos.
February 25, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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ALIEN 👽🍦💖 One of my favorites from last year, I really hope to get more requests as wild as this one! #tattoos #newschooltattoos #alien #colortattoo #horrortattoo
This newschool-style tattoo features a dark purple xenomorph alien crouched around an ice cream cone stuffed with pink alien eggs. Bright green ooze dribbles from the waffle cone’s brim and emits a lime colored haze that drifts through the background. Near the bottom of the cone a crack opens up to reveal more eggs. The alien creature wraps her tail protectively around the precious, sweet bundle and shows her teeth. Mashing together whimsy and horror, this tattoo plays with our expectations of the term “treats”.
February 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Discworld QOTD, from Going Postal
Do you understand what I'm saying?" shouted Moist. "You can't just go around killing people!" "Why Not? You Do." The golem lowered his arm. "What?" snapped Moist. "I do not! Who told you that?" "I Worked It Out. You Have Killed Two Point Three Three Eight People," said the golem calmly. "I have never laid a finger on anyone in my life, Mr Pump. I may be–– all the things you know I am, but I am not a killer! I have never so much as drawn a sword!" "No, You Have Not. But You Have Stolen, Embezzled, Defrauded And Swindled Without Discrimination, Mr Lipvig. You Have Ruined Businesses And Destroyed Jobs. When Banks Fail, It Is Seldom Bankers Who Starve. Your Actions Have Taken Money From Those Who Had Little Enough To Begin With. In A Myriad Small Ways You Have Hastened The Deaths Of Many. You Do Not Know Them. You Did Not See Them Bleed. But You Snatched Bread From Their Mouths And Tore Clothes From Their Backs. For Sport, Mr Lipvig. For Sport. For The Joy Of The Game.
February 11, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Discworld QOTD, from Interesting Times

“Look, I don’t mind summoning some demon and asking it,” said the Lecturer in Recent Runes. “That’s normal. But building some mechanical contrivance to do your thinking for you, that’s … against Nature.”
rincewind.run Micah @rincewind.run · Feb 8
Discworld QOTD, from Mort
February 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Artist Billy Graham (July 1, 1935-April 4, 1997), most known for his work at Warren Magazines, and his great runs on Luke Cage: Hero For Hire, Black Panther, & Sabre. #BlackHistoryMonth
A photo of Graham. The cover to Luke Cage: Hero for Hire #3, two splash pages from Black Panther, and a cover from Sabre.
February 8, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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revpoppop.bsky.social
The fascist can not see beauty in anything that does not conform to what they believe the world should be. Capitalism needs this too, so that they can more easily market to you.

Be ugly.
Be ungovernable.
Be unmarketable.
February 8, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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SHIVERS - MAKE IT RIGHT. MORE THAN YOU KNOW DEPENDS ON IT.
February 7, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Shovel Knight!! Did this a few years ago on my pal, Cody. I am not good at games like this one but I always loved the retro vibes it has 💙✨ #tattoos #videogametattoo #shovelknight #nerdtattoos
A colorful newschool-style tattoo of the main character in the game Shovel Knight. The character wears a suit of blue armor and holds a shovel sword high above their head—true to the character’s valiant and whimsical demeanor. Our favorite characters remind us to have fun and fight evil, and enjoy life. In the words of Joe Dirt, “Life’s a Garden. Dig it.”
February 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Another tattoo artist list! I’ve seen a lot more folks making Bluesky accounts, I’m excited to find even more familiar faces 💖
alienink.bsky.social ΔĿᎥΣᏁ ᎥᏁƘ @alienink.bsky.social · Jan 31
I've started a list of tattoo artists to follow so it's easier to find each other! let me know if you'd like to be added 🖖👽🖤

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February 7, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Tattooing a Goid Boi today! I had so much fun during the design stage that I ended up with 3. We’ll see which one the client picks 💖
February 6, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Me when I played a Blood Elf Warrior on WoW and did fury dps
michaelhobbes.bsky.social Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Feb 3
him: u better not be a war boy twink wielding two bleed weapons when I get home

me:
A war boy twink wielding two bleed weapons
February 3, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Got to tattoo my fav final fantasy character awhile back! 🐥🪄

#tattoos #finalfantasy #vivi #chocobo #nerdtattoo #newschooltattoo
A bright, colorful new-school-style tattoo of the Final Fantasy character, ViVi. He shuffles through a purple background holding a Chocobo egg and his staff. ViVi is looking up at the top of his staff where a baby chocobo has landed, looking happily down at him. ViVi is an interesting character because he is a powerful mage with the capacity for great destruction, and yet he only desires a simple life of helping other creatures around him. His story is a message of hope that we are more than what we’ve been created to do, and that happiness is a more worthwhile pursuit than the endless thirst for power.
February 2, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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This is an old painting but I still love it. I’ll have some fresh ones uploaded soon, still working on my website and just gearing up my online presence. #acrylicpainting #liquitex #plaguedoctor #art
February 1, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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A healed Polywhirl from awhile back! Still stoked years later with how these blues healed out 💙 #pokemontattoo #healedtattoo #newschooltattoo
January 31, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Do it with cartwheels what can go wrong
January 31, 2025 at 3:22 PM