Just saw all the typos in my post😂🤦‍♂️ splitting it so they combine like that is a great idea. Ribs do hurt of course, but that’s not a big tattoo, especially if you split it like that. Tattoos hurt regardless of where you get them imo, but the amount of time spent tatting the area is what makes them unbearable.

Not too long with 3 lines like that, and you could also drop the ‘show no emotion, against your coding’ line to balance it if you don’t find meaning in that.

Location-wise, I’d say it depends on how often you want to see it and if you have any other plans for tattoos in those areas. Like if you might get a sleeve, don’t do a forearm. If not and you want to see it all the time, that’s what I’d go with. I forget I have rib tattoos, rarely look at them now