>>42196>>42195I've had the same approach with tattoos, but I was listening to Ian Fidance's new special, and while he has issues, there's a too strict approach with getting a tattoo.
There's this approach that since tattoos are permanent, you need to get them with them already having a meaning, but you don't need to do that since they already contain stories.
Like with Ian Fidance, his tattoo of a looney tunes character smoking a blunt had no meaning, but it gained meaning once he got sober and it served as a reminder of what can happen if he touches the bottle again.
I know the example will sound a little contentious since that was a tattoo gotten when the man was intoxicated – but the bigger point is that you don't need a huge reason to get a tattoo, and you should get one if you think it will serve your interests.
Serving your interest ranging from:
>Looking cool>Your dedication to a concept or groupor
>Used as a reminder for something that has influenced and shapes who you are<Whether it being how you approach something, how you feel about it, etc.The third reason being usually seen as the, "correct approach", but also as unnecessary by others since you can use something else as a reminder – even though, despite how large of an influence it has on you, you can lose parts, or even forget it entirely.
This is a silly example, but I have ADHD and I take meds, and despite living with the condition for years, I forget symptoms depending on how long of a streak I'm taking the meds – (fitting I suppose since those with ADHD forget alot). It is because of that I don't take my meds every weekend, and learn more about myself and how the condition has influenced me, (like how it has affected my music tastes).
That /leftypol/ tattoo, which I will speculate, will remind OP of all the time spend on the site, and all of what they learn, enjoyed, hate, etc.
>Learned of the leftist movement and ideology>Enjoyed the memes and dunking on billionare sociopaths that want to sell you a course >Hate the non-read idiots, either right wingers who've invaded the space or the left wingers who aren't doing the work of reading, who they argue with and learn all the ways a topic can be misunderstood or lied about, giving them atleast an idea of how to handle such situations in the real world<(even though they need to take a step back or take breaks to see the bigger picture of the benefit of arguing with others, despite it being bad for conving others).Also, just a me thing: the internet has had a dominating trend of irony for the past while, with it now being in "post-irony", and it's just nice to see something genuine.
There's always the fear of being judged and seen as cringe, and with the further centralization of the web, we have a sad situation where people in the past would make websites and just do some hands on learning even if it was inconvient, now most people hover around the same 5 websites/apps and they don't even post on them, doom scrolling to scratch their creativity itch – (and those people will blame something, like republicans crying about cancel culture, even though they're from bum fuck no where MIssouri, and the "cancel culture' that they cry about is so inconsistent that predators and murders can still see success).
It was so nice seeing the quote from Vinland Saga, "I have no enemies", become a meme/just general post trend – even if it's arguable a flawed/incomplete approach, (like say that to black families that're victims of police brutality for instance) – the warmth alone will make it remember for years to come.
It's nice and refreshing to see someone with a tattoo of this place, even if it's shutdown in a few years – (no danger to the site other than user count, but don't hyperfocus on that, just make the most out of it) – those memories of this place will still be there, and influence anon.
Like in 10 years anon will be reading a new trendy book, realize its ideology is a water down "The Ego and It's Own", and remembers of the weird site that pushed them to read that book, along side Marx's criticisms, plus the memes of that funny blond hair guy who open a milk store and died of bug bites – and after the flash of all those memories, they'll find a smile across their face that replaced the frown created from that terrible trendy book.
It's because of that election, this anon, and that Ian Fidance special – that I've been playing in my mind the idea of getting my own jellyfish tattoo.
It was because of that election that I learned how to commit online voter fraud, and the rush of joy I experienced of even just entering:
$("input[name='qp_v5194412'][value='4']").click()
and getting a result, despite not taking a single html or jquery course, or tutorial, I felt it through my whole body.
Even though ironically I didn't use it to commit voter fraud, it's a nice reminder of why I like coding: to solve any problem, and there's no one solution, and when you think there's only one because of a subscribed approach (such as the solution that's "most optimized"), the box you lock yourself in eventually breaks, and you realize not only all the solutions you could've taken, but even the solutions you missed out on that were already in the box (such as "most optimized" solution being more than just performance but also readability)!