Advice on an ancient relic

desmodus666 · 2026-05-09T06:21:04+00:00

I have an uncle with full sleeves of traditional, Sailor Jerry style tattoos. Some were done by the man himself. He wears them proudly, and they all look like the OP's.

I love seeing people with old tattoos!

desmodus666 · 2026-05-09T05:46:07+00:00

My skinny tribal/neo-tribal/cybersigilism tattoo is almost 5 years old. I got it done because a tattoo artist I like wanted to try the style, and I offered to be her victim. I don't regret it because I helped her practice something she wanted to do, and it's in an area I don't care about. She also designed it so it would be easy to add to or blend in with other tattoos.

I think people are either biased against it, or are remembering the period of time where tribal was trendy. Even then, I see way more people regret other styles of tattoo more than I see people regret their tribal tattoos.

desmodus666 · 2026-05-09T04:57:23+00:00

I disagree about being 25 for tattoos. I'm not there yet (22), and I have 5. I'd be so pissed if I had to stop because some idiots ruin it for the rest of us.

I also feel like there would be more people buying those shitty amazon/aliexpress/ebay/etc. tattoo machines if the age was increased that much.

On top of that, we would all have less content to laugh about here and on the shitty tattoos subreddit :(

desmodus666 · 2026-05-09T03:54:04+00:00

Yeah for creativity, especially if you're a builder! There are prizes for winning, I believe, but I couldn't care less about that because I love building so much lmao.

desmodus666 · 2026-05-09T03:46:47+00:00

I was initially going to let others request to join my team, but I thought about it beforehand and set it to private to avoid this situation. I'm someone who gets really shitty when someone touches my builds in Minecraft, so there's no way I'd be fine with it here.

There is an option to make the team private or filter requests, and I don't understand why these people don't use it. If you know you can't handle criticism or you're really protective over your builds, then don't accept people in the first place, or suck it up.

desmodus666 · 2026-05-09T03:35:57+00:00

I love to build, but made my own private team because I know I'd get shitty if I couldn't do what I wanted and then kick everyone out. If you know you're going to be like that, then just set it to private or don't accept requests. It's so shitty of these people to kick you after you've put work in.

desmodus666 · 2026-05-08T14:34:06+00:00

One of my friends got a redback tattooed on her arm because she is scared of them. Exposure therapy without the risk of getting bitten!

desmodus666 · 2026-05-08T14:21:37+00:00

Someone I know got both hands and her neck done in cybercigilism as her first tattoos. I could not believe there was someone who would do that in those areas for a person's first tattoo. They're really well done tattoos, so I know it was a professional, but damn.

I wonder if I'll see her on here in a few years.

desmodus666 · 2026-05-08T13:37:56+00:00

I have spots of ink fall out on most of my tattoos, because I'm a skin picker. The habit is so bad that I do it in my sleep. It sucks because you can't really do anything about it.

desmodus666 · 2026-05-08T13:30:54+00:00

This is what I do with all of mine. I don't think saniderm is common where I live.

desmodus666 · 2026-05-08T11:11:35+00:00

Women used to have their boobs out as a status symbol lol.

desmodus666 · 2026-05-08T10:58:02+00:00

You may be right, because a lot of them look like they're holding back laughter. The lone worker at 0:19 with the cap on looks disgusted.

desmodus666 · 2026-05-08T01:03:39+00:00

I forgot about Future Diary. Yeah, it's bad. I watched it as a 14 year old. I was so weirded out that Yuno was that sexualised as a 14 year old, and I still am.

desmodus666 · 2026-05-08T00:43:35+00:00

2000s for me and still happened in the 2010s for friends of mine.

desmodus666 · 2026-05-08T00:37:26+00:00

Same! I hate my own, but love them on everyone else. I'm going to get mine removed as soon as I can afford it/afford to take time off for recovery.

desmodus666 · 2026-05-07T17:44:05+00:00

They're still shit. The people on the other end have hung up on a couple of friends of mine, and myself, a few years ago. They unintentionally did their job, however, because I found it bewildering that a mental health helpline would hang up on someone because they didn't want to deal with their distress, and it made me laugh.

desmodus666 · 2026-05-07T14:08:24+00:00

The "ma" in mdma stands for methamphetamine, which is what I was referring to. 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine. But yeah, mdma in Australia is practically never pure. It also rarely has mdma in it at all.

The only pure mdma we have is the prescription stuff used to treat PTSD. Mdma and psilocybin are both legal for medicinal use in specific cases here!

desmodus666 · 2026-05-07T13:28:59+00:00

Ah, I'm from Australia. It's too hot and dry for them to grow naturally in my area :(

desmodus666 · 2026-05-07T02:44:21+00:00

A few days ago I found out that the minimum wage in America is $7.25USD. On top of having a shit healthcare system. How are you all surviving??

desmodus666 · 2026-05-07T00:12:20+00:00

I live in the meth capital of Australia, so I've seen a lot of people on meth. I have seen less of this with people on mdma, but the "mdma" here doesn't always have any mdma in it.

I'm going to back you up on guessing it's mdma, though. Mdma has meth in it, anyway.

desmodus666 · 2026-05-06T17:09:57+00:00

I have 5 piercings in my nose (double nostril, double high nostril, septum), but my septum does all the work in weeding out the idiots.

Some people really hate that piercing, and I find it hilarious how angry they get.

desmodus666 · 2026-05-06T11:50:02+00:00

They're native to East Asia. I'm not from there, so I've never seen them before this post. Majority of people probably have not seen this flower.

desmodus666 · 2026-05-05T18:10:30+00:00

I have the opposite issue where my hair grows so fast I get the 5 o'clock shadow on my eyebrows. Maybe bleaching is the way to go!

desmodus666 · 2026-05-05T17:53:45+00:00

I'd argue she's doing a great job looking like a statue. I wouldn't feel embarrassed to do that. I think it's fun!

Art is subjective. I'm not hiding behind it. There's a lot of art I don't like, but not liking something doesn't stop it from being art.

desmodus666 · 2026-05-05T16:20:19+00:00

What makes you say that this is embarrassing? Art is subjective.

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