I’m aware. I don’t do it for them.

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.

The big difference besides the fact that I have morals is that I don’t have time to debunk their shit, but their hateful asses have way too much time to debunk anything I might say on the slightest technicality because they’re lonely, hateful piles of shit.

That’s an informed choice, friend. Good luck with however you decide to go about it.

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.

No worries, friend! I wasn’t terribly clear.

Oh no, you misunderstand. I want to see that rate HIGHER than the general tattoo regret. I don’t think it’s lower. I fully believe it’s higher. And it’s definitely much higher than the amount of trans regrets.

But for me to share it, I’d like to see that the number of people who regret their HP tattoo is also enough higher than the baseline tattoo regret to beat out the amount of trans regrets. That sentence got away from me but I hope you understand what I mean.

My reasoning is that people would just dismiss it by saying “A quarter of people regret their tattoos anyway”. Because I want to be able to confidentially fire back “True! However, the Harry Potter tattoo regret is greater than the baseline tattoo regret by 10%. Also, go fuck yourself!”

All because I’m petty enough to send it to known TERF groups.

I like that study. I wonder what the actual rate of people who specifically regret their HP tattoos is vs the rate of overall tattoos. Like the commenter above, I would love to share this but I want to make sure everything about it is unassailable before I do.

Everyone wonders why I’ll put book quotes and imagery all over my arms but none are from living authors.

I thought it was Eric the Paladin. I remember because I have a ttrpg friend named Eric who we mocked in a friendly way about that story.

You’re right, and it’s only been a few thousand years. I’ll still complain to anyone who will listen. If I don’t complain how will you know I really enjoy the series?

If we start pulling at this thread people will start wondering why Wheel of Time had a bunch of pale redheads in the desert.

I was super excited for a minute thinking maybe we were getting a movie about vampire circus performers hurtling through the air.

Ok, so I like bad movies.