This tattoo was submitted by Bethany.

I got this tattoo about seven years ago.  I was following a carload of friends to go  play some basketball and we were nearly there when they turned left and I suddenly decided to turn right–I guess I’ve never liked sports.  Instead I impulsively drove over to a shop and got Baby’s First Tattoo right then and there all by myself.  The tattoo artist and the piercer ganged together to try to get me to place it upside from where I wanted it as to make it readable when my arm was to my side.  I wouldn’t budge and they were both sure I would regret going against the “tattoo norm”.  Afterwords I went home and fell asleep where my basketball friends later woke me up wondering where I had been and why in the h-e-double-hockey-sticks I had a bandage around my wrist.  The end.

The phrase “so it goes” appears in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five 116 times.

Can you help me collect 116 “so it goes” tattoos?  6 down, 110 to go.

(23 votes, average: 3.83 out of 5)

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“So it goes.”

- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

This tattoo was submitted by Rheanna:

i’ve always been one to worry about stupid, pathetic things. reading slaughterhouse five helped me to realize that no matter what i do, no matter what stupid mistakes i make, no matter who dies, no matter what celebrity gets breast implants, NO MATTER WHAT – life goes on. so it goes.

I think I now have the definitive Internet collection of “so it goes” tattoos.

(44 votes, average: 3.75 out of 5)

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“So it goes.”

- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

The drawing underneath is a golden spiral.

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(60 votes, average: 4.47 out of 5)

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Kerryn loves Kurt Vonnegut and decided to get “And so it goes” ( a recurring line from Slaughterhouse Five) tattooed on her shoulder.

Finally on the other side of three decades worth of bad shit, Gil decided to get “And so it was” tattooed on her back representing the past that she has moved on from but that made her who she is.

And Meg, the eternal optimist decided to get “And so it will be” on her right arm as a symbol of the beautiful unknown.

(165 votes, average: 4.53 out of 5)

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“So it goes.”

- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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(50 votes, average: 2.68 out of 5)

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“So it goes.”

- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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(48 votes, average: 4.04 out of 5)

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