After giving my presentation and watching everyone else give theirs, I feel like I have a much clearer idea of where my research paper is going to end up. It was super helpful to see how everyone else approached their research – before Julia mentioned it to me, I had not even considered using psychology studies to compare the personality traits of musicians to those of tattooed people. I think this will be a really interesting angle to investigate in my paper, and will help me support my claims related to mental health and the therapeutic roles of both tattooing and music-making. Giving the presentation also made me realize that my history section is neither sufficient nor convincing. I need to find new sources about the intersecting histories of tattooing, youth culture, and music – my history section may end up beginning in the sixties rather than the 19th century. Finally, I will need to find more examples to add to my corpus, this time focusing on either more variety in genre or the complete opposite. I tend to listen to a lot of sad music, and so when I was finding artists to fill out my corpus beyond the GQ video series, I of course chose my favorites. It makes sense that artists who make sad music may also represent their negative emotions through their tattoos. So, I will have to either specify in my paper that I am focusing on a certain genre, which may skew my results, or I will need to find way more examples.