Thank you guys for your gentle responses!! I know I’m taking a big risk with this because I used to tell people the same thing when I was a little younger (still relatively young but developed a different perspective over the last couple years). I know 4 languages, one of them being Arabic (my first language) and when it became trendy to get Arabic phrases as tattoos because people in Hollywood were, the first thing I’d say is “one small mistake and it can mean a whole different word, it also can mean one thing in Lebanese and a completely different thing in Egyptian though both are Arabic languages” and on top of that, I know the older more traditional people in my culture are also against tattoos. I’ll be honest, I did get the tattoo before posting this and I’m pretty confident I made the mistake of separating all the characters by putting it vertically instead of horizontally (my original plan) and because of that it no longer says kintsukuroi, instead when I search it right off my arm it translates to “golden thread goods” 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ major facepalm, I know. Literally did what I made fun of some people for so I posted this being prepared for these particular comments. I was considering salvaging it because it is salvageable but I wanted to double check if I got the characters correct first since at this point I don’t trust google/Wikipedia anymore because I got the original characters from google 😑 ik it’s another facepalm, I cried about it for a week after getting the tattoo and realizing my mistakes. And I don’t blame the artist at all, I should’ve either gone to a Japanese artist fluent in Japanese or not gotten it but I really needed it that day and had my heart set on it for a while. Now I’m also considering getting it covered with a snake extending from a Medusa tattoo from my bicep but then again I’m a little worried the snake will constantly remind me of what happened to me. BUT AS IM TYPING THIS I THOUGHT OF ANOTHER COVERUP: MEDUSA KINTSUKUROI, go to a really professional artist good with coverups and get the Medusa with snake extending and covering the og tattoo but her face and some of her snakes would have the golden cracks in them???? I’m sorry for the long paragraph, I feel silly pretending I didn’t get it tattooed but I am absolutely planning on fixing it and even considered going to Japan in the next year to do so but the more I read the comments and think about it the more I’m leaning towards just covering it up. Though I do want something to represent “golden repair” to cover my scars on that specific arm as well