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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.
The difference between Lovecraft and Rowling is, lovecraft doesnt make a profit off of his stuff anymore
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.
except the blatant racism, transphobia, homophobia, slavery apology, and other things are in the actual books
I’m not sure transphobia or homophobia were in the actual books, but the others you mentioned were. Rowling herself obv exhibits all of those things, but I try to think of OP as a 9 year old just discovering a love of reading, who doesn’t know about the racist tones. That’s my story at least, and I’ve been happier just letting people enjoy things.
You can hate on Joanne without being trans because she’s a terrible human being that put Jewish stereotypes in her books, made slave owning the normal and the people going against it the ridiculed minority.
She also made the jock main character that won sports because he always got the newest most expensive broom instead of hard work with rich parents a cop. Also she keeps retconning stupid stuff like how wizards just poop on the floor and magic the shit away.
On top of that she’s a TERF and just a giant shit stain on society that wizards should just magic away.
Imagine the only way to regret putting something made by a terrible human being on your body is to be directly affected by it. Imagine having empathy.
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
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.
That’s an informed choice, friend. Good luck with however you decide to go about it.
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.
