“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.
I both fully agree and disagree. While there are several tattoos I would like to have gotten in my life, I’ve never been able to justify the cost. Monitary cost or time cost. I do have one tattoo and it is my wedding ring. I do not wear jewelry and work with my hands. Now some may argue thats stupid for different reasons but it remains my only tattoo.
A friend once drew me a tattoo to get, and that would have been cheaper to have traced on to me, but after many years, I find I’m just as happy to have that piece of art my friend made hanging on my wall.
I love seeing other people’s tattoos, particularly when it’s someone’s art and not yanked from media as you said or just tattoos for the sake of tattoos.
My wife has a number and they all mean something to her individually and look great. My brother has a few that all have meaning to him, and they mostly look terrible, but are still original art.
Its just such a long history and wide range of tattoos and reasons for having them i find it hard to put a blanket statment like " tattoos are stupid" on them. On the other hand i feel “tattoos are stupid for me” completely accurate and reasonable.
But what if you want to take your ring off to fuck some chick you picked up at a bar? You’re SOL. Didn’t think of that, did you?