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Tattoos are sexy and I'm tired of pretending they aren't (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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Volcel police can't arrest me, I have diplowlmatic immunity owl-pissed

I am sick of conservative weenies saying tattoos are ugly or self-mutilation or whatever. They're dorks, losers, dweebs even. Tattoos are ART. Hot, sexy ART. Anyone who says otherwise is a repressed nerdlinger that needs to remove the broom from their ass. I see a dude with some sweet tattoos and I'm like damn he's pretty as shit.

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[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 55 points 1 year ago

Tattoos? Like the nazi symbols the Azov guys have? soviet-hmm

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago

frothingfash solidarity maybe-later-kiddo

      "it means peace"

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[-] DayOfDoom@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago

OP's argument demolished in a single post.

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago

NO NOT THOSE ONES ohnoes

[-] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago

You've got some explaining to do

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

IM NOT A NAZI

[-] ScrewdriverFactoryFactoryProvider@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

hitler-detector sicko-no

[-] Weedian@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

It’s gonna be a maze

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[-] RION@hexbear.net 48 points 1 year ago

I just don't have the confidence in my interests to get one of them rendered on my skin in semi-permanent fashion

I would definitely look back in like two years and cringe at it

[-] ScrewdriverFactoryFactoryProvider@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago

I see my older tattoos as contracts with my younger self to be kind and not judgmental towards that younger self. And I think of new tattoos in a similar way. I have an obligation to have just enough foresight to not fuck myself over. So no face tattoos. Nothing edgy or profane just for the sake of it. Nothing political, although that may change now that it’s been almost 8 years since I did a major ideology hop. Did I need several tattoos related to the golden ratio on my leg? No, but they’re also not harmful to me. My younger self did it. They held up their end of the bargain. And that’s kinda nice to know.

[-] thirtymilliondeadfish@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

Ok but what if younger you was an absolute dickhead

[-] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm getting one that says

"FRAGILE

STORE THIS WAY UP"

[-] Riffraffintheroom@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

interests

There’s your problem. Don’t get like tattoos about how much you love Farscape or whatever. Nerd tattoos and even political tattoos are, IMO, almost universally boring and ugly. I’ve had great success viewing tattoo artists as illustrators that I’m commissioning to come up with their own interpretation of a concept or image I’ve provided. I never get what I initially envisioned and that’s a good thing because I choose artists who are creative and skilled enough that I love what they come up with. Tattoos are collaborative between the artist.

[-] pooh@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

I would definitely look back in like two years and cringe at it

This is my fear as well. I refuse to do anything I might regret so that later I can look back at my life and regret not doing more. deeper-sadness

[-] fox@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

I debated getting a tattoo for years and years and years and eventually pulled the trigger after seeing a cool photo of a fox jumping into snow, and got that posed fox as my first tattoo like a week later. Utterly meaningless on a personal level, has nothing to do with my interests, but damn if I ain't mirin that fox doing his lil leap

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[-] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago

Please don't put any identifying marks on you, don't make pigs' job easier.

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

Damn it, pigs ruin everything

[-] Rom@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

Or just get them in places that are easy to cover up when you're doing things that pigs don't like

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[-] Cummunism@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

my friend got an Iron Front tattoo. He an anti-authoritarian "leftist", it's pretty funny.

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[-] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

I have a rat holding up a hammer and sickle on my shoulder and it’s hot as fuck

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

That is cool at shit lmao yes

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[-] Alch_Fox@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

My body is a canvas. I will cover it in art.

Granted I only have one right now. A trans heart with a hammer and sickle. I have plans for several more. They’re just expensive.

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[-] kristina@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

i like it when theyre cohesive and not just a smattering of irrelated concepts tbh. kinda like yokai tattoos that some of the yakuza get, its all around a theme

[-] roux@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

Smattering is cool if they are like small and like in various spots on the body. But full sleeve or back pieces are pretty hot.

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[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

Woman with tattoo no have sexy time with me WHY ooooooooooooooh

[-] SwitchyWitchyandBitchy@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

Cause they're so hot they intimidate you?

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

Why were you pretending they aren't?

[-] riseuppikmin@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

Had a partner in university who had a full sleeve on one of her arms and it was gorgeous.

Tattoos are extremely attractive and once again I stand with the owl.

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My wife just got her first tattoo after years of inside fighting with the pressure and trauma of her controlling mom. Im really proud of her and happy that she's happy with her first tattoo.

[-] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

is it like a points system? what percentage of my skin should I tattoo to become not ugly?

[-] bananon@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

From my experience if they have more than 50% of their visible body covered with tattoos an average white guy can evolve into an above average white guy

[-] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

i don't think i have $5,000 in my art budget

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[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

Been considering getting a tattoo on my left forearm for a while now. An infinity ouroboros.

Knowing there are hot local owls in my area who might be wooed by this inj furthers my resolve

[-] CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml 32 points 1 year ago

Snake eating its own ass.

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

Either that or possum screaming at own ass

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

wooed

Hooed

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

Our eyes met from across the room

I smiled

She hacked up a little pellet of mouse bones and fur

It was destiny

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[-] TheDialectic@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

Ha, you have never seen my tattoos. They are mid at best

[-] ChapoKrautHaus@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

Sorry to say but I don't like tattoos at all. Why do all the kids have them, I don't understand.

They changed what it was and now what's it seems weird and scary to me. marx-doomer

[-] luddybuddy@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

Stick and poke anchor on the inside of my bicep, I usually forget it's there and when I see it I'm always like 'dang that looks fresh' in spite of it truly looking like a child with a sharpie did it.