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reminder: Harry Potter tattoos have a higher regret rate than trans surgeries and that’s very funny actually
Hmm, what about him (sorry for the mullet)?
i’ll never regret getting remus lupin tattooed on my thigh. it’s just where he belongs.
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.
I just want this guy as a tat:
How would I ever regret it?
You like getting tattoos don’t you
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
Get a Reggie tattoo anyways, do it
Get the femboy rat tattoo. Please it would be so fucking funny
Peer-pressure me harder, daddy OwO
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 /:
God bless my poor people who regret their Harry Potter tattoo because they’re trans. You have my condolences. 😔
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.
I’d say “imagine thinking that’s what I wrote,” but it looks like you went ahead and did that for me. ❤️
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.
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.
And the whole, “using the profits from the IP to fund hate groups” thing
Lovecraft fans understand this all too well.
As do fans of the Ender’s Game and Ender’s Shadow series.
Are there fans of the actual series? Enders game is pretty good, speaker for the dead was annoying but I saw the point, but I physically tossed xenocide across the room at one point. Just absolutely awful.
The difference between Lovecraft and Rowling is, lovecraft doesnt make a profit off of his stuff anymore
Also, Lovecraft had good relationships with other authors and collaborated with them, and effectively made the Cthulhu mythos open source before that was cool. Rowling on the other hand…
Also, as far as I know, Lovecraft came around and said he was an idiot for being racist.
On the other hand Lovecraft stories work because he was racist. Fear of the unknown etc.
That is the true horror. That something good came from racism and xenophobia.
“On the other hand Lovecraft stories work because he was racist. Fear of the unknown etc.”
Well when you get right down to it, the wizarding world of harry potter only really functions because of the author’s hardcore belief in the importance of the status quo and the existence of groups of people who are inherently evil… Not saying the premise wouldn’t have worked without that but it would have been a really different story
Also the belief that some groups are inherently superior or gifted. Not a great look in context!
Eh, that’s like every super hero story, too. Like The Incredibles, and I still enjoy that movie.
And he hardly made profit off it to begin with. I would bet most HP tattoos will outlive Joan.
Anyone know where they sourced that anecdote? I would love to be able to spread that around
The general regret rate is around 25% of people with tattoos who regret any tattoo they have.
Trans surgery regret rates are around 1-3%, last I looked into it.
So they just pulled the Harry Potter specific part out of their ass?
The article in the link you provided seem to indicate that most of the Tattoos people regret are tied to other people and beliefs. Like ex-lovers names and swastikas.
Wow it would be terrible if someone posted a meme on /c/transmemes and not a scientific study of HP tattoo regret rate 🙄
I just thought it would be funnier if there was anything to it.
If only 5% of people who got HP tattoos regret them (insanely optimistic) that’s still higher than the regret rate for trans surgeries. I didn’t post this here to nitpick about whether or not anyone has polled people with HP tattoos.
I definitely regret some of mine. I got them when I was very naive and still believed that not only there was a god but that they were also a good and just and loving god. I would love to get them removed or covered, but they are large enough and dark enough that I would have to spend a lot of money to get them covered or removed. That being said, I am planning to get more tattoos when I have the disposable income. I want to get mushrooms and insects and stuff.
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