no ragrets
no ragrets
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reminder: Harry Potter tattoos have a higher regret rate than trans surgeries and that's very funny actually
God bless my poor folks who regret their Harry Potter tattoo because they're trans. You have my condolences. 😔
Just because an Author has some bad takes doesn't have to sour the franchise for you. On principle, you can move on and still carry the enjoyment of your experience. Chalk the author up as "gone cuckoo" or something and don't spoil your initial reactions and interpretations.
Life is all about what you feel, experience and reminisce over. And no one can take that from you. While facts cannot change, your feelings do evolve over time and something you can and should look forward to.
Nostalgia critic on yt made a good point about death of the author and how it doesn't necessarily apply when it comes to Rollo. It's difficult to separate her from her art because she still profits extensively from the product she created and uses that money to fund anti - trans organizations. It's not so simple as separating the work from the artist in this case.
Everyone wonders why I'll put book quotes and imagery all over my arms but none are from living authors.
I want some Douglas Adams quotes on me at some point. That and the little green alien from the cover of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
He's been gone for over 20 years. I've considered a few select quotes from him as well. I've also got a Robert Jordan, a Kurt Vonnegut, and a well hidden Terry Pratchett and they were more recent.
My sleeve is so busy that you'd never know about the Pratchett unless you were looking for it and the Jordan could probably be taken a few different ways. If it comes out that they were crazy pieces of shit I can always cover them.
As a side note, OSC is actually the reason I will never have a living author quote or image on my body. Once someone is dead I'll do a search to see if there was something I didn't know before I ink myself.
I just want this guy as a tat:
How would I ever regret it?
Don't let your dreams be memes. When we did the blackout thing on reddit last year, I said I'd get a Reggie tattoo if it worked. Sometimes, I'm a little sad it didn't work out, but I'd probably regret getting a Reggie tattoo. So maybe it's a good idea to let some dreams be memes. But I'm not your mum, and you can do whatever makes you happy uwu
You like getting tattoos don't you
This is entirely unsubstantiated but I've heard it's been used to groom minors on Xitter
I got a big Star of David on my arm from a friend when I was 15… then when I was 20 and I thought I was a Rastafarian I got this red gold and green dna strand thing.
Now that my prefrontal cortex has finished developing and I realize that I am a hard atheist, needless to say I have my regrets.
The big decision now is remove them for $$$ or get them covered with something else that I regret 10 years from now /:
Do you regret your specific tattoos or do you regret that you have tattoos? Answering yourself honestly will really help deciding what to do about them.
One of the more beautiful things I was told about them is that tattoos are a permanent reminder of who you were temporarily. They don't represent who you are, they remind you of who you were.
I wish I had never gotten any in the first place, particularly the ones I ended up with. At this stage in life, I could do without the constant reminder of who I was. My guess is that if I continue to change as much as I have in the past 20 years, whatever cover ups I do today will be regretted 20 years from now… so probably removal is in my future.
You could put a little swastika in the middle of that star to balance it out.
Two wrongs don’t make a right.
However that does make me think about how, due to the right wing’s support of the Israeli genocide in Gaza, there probably exists a non-negligible number of pro Israel neo-Nazis, and that is just plain funny.
My wife has one of the Deathly Hallows logo. She's going to keep it, but it's going to be more hidden when she covers her sleeve. She laughed out loud at this.
Anyone know where they sourced that anecdote? I would love to be able to spread that around
The general regret rate is around 25% of people with tattoos who regret any tattoo they have.
Trans surgery regret rates are around 1-3%, last I looked into it.
I definitely regret some of mine. I got them when I was very naive and still believed that not only there was a god but that they were also a good and just and loving god. I would love to get them removed or covered, but they are large enough and dark enough that I would have to spend a lot of money to get them covered or removed. That being said, I am planning to get more tattoos when I have the disposable income. I want to get mushrooms and insects and stuff.
i'll never regret getting remus lupin tattooed on my thigh. it's just where he belongs.
Hmm, what about him (sorry for the mullet)?
Pure art
