“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.
This I have never understood. Why get a tattoo as some kind of reward or reminder of going through though times? My brother did so as well. I sorta get but then also I don’t get it.
As someone with 0 tattoos but who wants tattoos, I think the bar for those kinds of tats is if the moments you’re signifying through the tattoo have truly defined or been a significant part of your life. I think even though we all change, it’s fine to acknowledge what’s happened in our past in an artistic manner on our bodies. For instance, I learned English playing Zelda & other video games, I’ve played them for decades, so I would consider a tattoo of Nintendo IP, even though I want nothing more than for the entire company to spontaneously combust. My love for the Zelda IP is bigger than my hate for Nintendo, and I have no qualms holding both feelings at once. Such hatred, at least for me, stems from them butchering our childhood memories, after all.
The style of the tattoo might be harder to nail for me, because sure I might want a Legend of Zelda tattoo or something, but I could make something classy and timeless or I could make the worst recreation of AI marketing hallucination content imaginable and regret the ink as it gets injected into me. If I have no taste, I could very quickly regret my tattoo… And that’s why I still have no tats. I’ve seen how I make bases & houses in video games, I don’t trust my artistic choices.
Then fuckit, save the money and print a screenshot of this conversation to put on the wall ;)
Different people are different
I can totally make something up!
Something bad happens to you & you expect It have a subconscious impact on you for the rest of your life, mainly in a negative way. So you go get the tattoo to have a visual reminder that at the end of it all, you were able to overcome. So you have a physical thing to try to help your mental health as a way to offset the intangible ongoing mental impact.
(PERSONALLY pretty sure I’d rather keep bad vibes off my skin)