What are some genuinely interesting literary tattoos? Do you have one?
>>25554541Tattoos are lowbrow.
>>25554541Tattoos are for retards, so I don't have one. I'm not an Abrahamic golem either, but here's this to answer your first question.
>>25554599>getting a tattoo of a verse explicitly forbidding tattoosI don't get it, is this some hyper ironic post-modern garbage?
A little gay Cocteau face on your shoulderblade (like that Smiths image [?]) might be nice
>>25554546I agree, and I got one that encapsulates my metaphysics & philosophy anyway, because in the post-industrial post-digital post-truth simulacrum society, you either aggressively label & define yourself, or you function like a blank canvas & passively allow other people to do it for you. I didnt make the rules & I dont like them either, but thats how it is.
>>25554859>hyper ironic post-modern garbageIt's just regular cornerstore irony, anon.
>>25554541When visiting my ex at university, we did a pub quiz with a female archeology student who had the opening lines of the Iliad tattoo'd on her chest. Then one of the questions on the quiz was what the opening line of the Iliad was. We obviously thought we had been fated to earn that point, but the bastards refused to count it because it wasn't the translation they were looking at, which is peak fucking midwittery as it's not an English poem and translations vary. It got us quite wiled up, as you could imagine. I also used to message a girl on Instagram who had a massive Cthullu tattoo on her chest. Always wished I could meet her and undress her just to see if the tentecals spread across her tits, but alas, it was not meant to be.
>>25554541Tattoos are for prisoners, gang members, and (future) AIDS patients. Absurd that almost 1/2 of American women under 50 have multiple
Never understood why tattoos trigger people here so much. Its self expression
>>25555268Absurd that you wrote a sentence where you contradicted the first half with the second half to such a glaring degree
>>25555336Not all self expression is good, and not all self expression should be shared publicly.
>>25555336Tattoos trigger & offend the aesthetic-political sensibilities of conservative right-leaning individuals because they're justifiably associated with the normalization of atomized pathological decadence & degeneracy of modernity, eg >>25555413. The proliferation of tattooing to them not inaccurately represents the material ascendance of mass hyperindividualized social anomie & the disintegration of the post-war boomer truth consensus reality. They seem to harbor the delusion that refusing to play the game of self-signification places them in a privileged position outside of it or beyond it, but like I wrote earlier, we're living in the age of the post-industrial post-digital post-truth simulacrum society, and blind faith in the obsolete sophisticated social fabric technologies of the old world are impotent against crude signage; you dont really have the option to not mediate yourself in the present epoch, and attempting to abstain from doing so isnt so much an act of courageous nonconformity as a naive hope & belief that if you refuse to pick up a sword, everyone else will surrender theirs.
>>25554918Memento good ending.
>>25556109Erratum. For "aesthetic-political sensibilities of conservative right-leaning individuals because they're justifiably associated with the normalization of atomized pathological decadence & degeneracy of modernity, eg >>25555413. The proliferation of tattooing to them not inaccurately represents the material ascendance of mass hyperindividualized social anomie & the disintegration of the post-war boomer truth consensus reality. They seem to harbor the delusion that refusing to play the game of self-signification places them in a privileged position outside of it or beyond it, but like I wrote earlier, we're living in the age of the post-industrial post-digital post-truth simulacrum society, and blind faith in the obsolete sophisticated social fabric technologies of the old world are impotent against crude signage; you dont really have the option to not mediate yourself in the present epoch, and attempting to abstain from doing so isnt so much an act of courageous nonconformity as a naive hope & belief that if you refuse to pick up a sword, everyone else will surrender theirs."read "the taste of those whose opinions count because they are ugly."
"Bah hambug, tattoos are so conformist. Nobody should have one. That way everybody looks the same."
>>25555413Subjective.
>>25555336Usually, when a person dislikes something, some exceptional example may cause them to think twice. "Huh. I know I normally don't like [x], but that's actually a pretty good one, I've gotta hand it to them." It is exactly this, the honest recognition of the positive exceptional case, that I have never had happen, even one time, upon observing a tattoo. It is nothing else than a pure negativity, a pure uglification of the flesh.
>>25556176 >>25556191The post-industrial post-digital post-truth simulacrum society age is an ugly socially demoralized semiotically degraded spiritually desolate age; do you think that forbearing the signification of the zeitgeist exempts you from it, or keeps you pure from it? No lol, this is vanity: you're living, breathing, eating, drowning, and dying in the shit just like everyone else, and performing aesthetic contrarianism will not change that.>>25556170>good endingNo such thing
>>25556351Don't care, shan't be getting a tattoo
>>25556182Not raping = conformist.Nice logic.
I've never wanted a tattoo, but if I did, I would probably get a tiny Vonnegut asshole/asterisk. Or "Here I am / So glad you are" in the shape of small diamonds. >>25555336Tattoos are a permanent change that bucked social trends up to about Gen X or so. Every generation after hasn't given a shit, but you can instantly trigger boomers (or the boomerly minded) by showing them. They are a near perfect litmus test for narcissistic victimization too, because a tattoo genuinely has no effect on anyone but the bearer. The moment someone starts whining about a tattoo that isn't theirs, they reveal themselves as part of the establishment and someone who needs to make everything about them and their tastes.
>>25556421Do you want to look like an AI bro?
>>25556421> you can instantly trigger boomers (or the boomerly minded) by showing themWhere? At hospice or the cemetery?
>>25556421> someone starts whining about a tattoo that isn't theirs, they reveal themselves as part of the establishment Just to expand on this since you seem thick as a fucking brick, you ARE the establishment. The Man you’re rebelling against died out in the 70s and his last vestiges of control might have reached the millennium. That’s it. You’re living a life of grievance against an enemy that is literally dead or dying.
>>25556843 Vonnegut's asshole was first and I'll be damned if AI Bros try to make Player Piano reality. >>25556855I have met plenty of people 60+ in positions of power that still hold tightly to these asanine conventions. I actually have no interest in tattoos, but I think sperging out over what other people do to their skin is hilariously indicative of what a fucking control freak someone is. I live in Japan and it's still a very taboo thing here.
>>25555268Thats one of the reasons staying single is preferable. Tattoos on females are garish.
>>25556109Then explain why skinheads have them
>>25556936Because skinheads are typically retarded decadent degenerates larping as sturmabteilungen & they signify their atomized simulacrum identities by tattooing stuff like "1488" and "KILL ALL KIKES & NIGGERS" on their bodies>>25556389Never said you should, only that refusal to drink the water doesnt teleport you outside of the fishbowl
