“Do you think my tattoo is cool?” No, I don’t. There are no cool tattoos. “Check out my sleeve!” Oh god ew.

Tattoos themselves are stupid. Doubly so if it’s some media IP. “I put Batman on my body!” “Look at this image of Goku on my calf!” I can’t think of many things I’d want to do less than that.

There are a few narrow exceptions. Chances are yours isn’t one of them.

If you personally like tattoos, fine. I’m not saying nobody should get tattoos because I don’t like them. I’m stating my opinion that tattoos are stupid, and I am stating it here because it is probably not a popular opinion.

  • BlueberryWalnut@sopuli.xyz
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    7 days ago

    My cat died last year. 3 days before he went, he managed to playfully scratch my arm while we were engaged in some “ohhhhhh I’m gonna get’cha” hand play. I had a tattoo artist simply trace the scratch before it healed. If that’s not an exception then you and I are very different people.

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      6 days ago

      I love this. My 12.5 y/o dog recently passed, and I’m still trying to think of something I can get tattood to appropriately honor him. It will be my first tattoo.

      Additionally, my wife and I would love to travel, and I’ve had an idea (independently, but later I learned it’s hardly original), to have a sleeve of some consistent geometric shape, hex, or triangles probably, and find a local artist in each place we go to fill one of the spots with something they determine represents the area.