“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.

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    11 days ago

    The way you wrote the last sentence implies to me you and your wife are planning to intentionally get bad tattoo stamps soon. I love the idea.

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      11 days ago

      Lol, well hopefully they’re not bad. But I see how I wrote that.

      When we see someone with a tattoo we really like we ask who did it and they’re either very far away, dead, or so busy we’d need to get on a multi year waiting list. But as soon as we find an artist we really like where those aren’t true we’ll get the tattoo we want.

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        10 days ago

        Finding a good artist is so difficult. I have a bunch of tattoos in like 4 different intentional styles. So even though I have a handful of artists I trust, it’s even hard to pick out of them which style to go with. Most artists can tattoo anything, but you can tell when it’s someone preferred style of art.

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          10 days ago

          For sure! I’m also particular about their line quality. That’s the struggle, a ton of amazing artists but for some reason it’s hard to find artists who have great inking quality.

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        11 days ago

        My wife had that problem when she got a paw print tattoo when one of our cats passed. She’s hoping now that’s she’s been a previous client she can get in easier in the future

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      11 days ago

      I love these. Some people have children’s drawings or just fun amateurish designs. It’s a whole style!