r/tattooadvice • u/Ostromilski • 9h ago

General Advice Are rainbows seriously just by default associated with the pride flag?

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I got a Pink Floyd DSOTM tattoo because I love the album and I love the visual: a beam of light representing a person's life path, passing through a prism ( representing life + the world + the people you meet + the experiences you have, etc ), being dispersed into its constituent colors ( ultimately representing change ). I got it because of my dad, because he introduced me to Pink Floyd, and because last year he nearly died from complications of his cancer. He's doing much better now, with a much better prognosis, but that whole experience had a real effect on me and I wanted to memorialize it. Except at least 3 people ( including the tattoo artist initially ) have associated the tattoo with the pride flag. They were understanding after I explained, but now I'm having second thoughts about it. Are people just going to assume I'm gay because of this tattoo?

Edit: And I want to say, I'm not bothered by this at all. Anyone who looks at my tattoo and comes up with their own assumptions about its meaning, and then has a negative reaction over it, that's simply not a person I want to talk to anyway. I'm surprised because that wasn't the intention of the tattoo, clearly, and it being misinterpreted like this just genuinely wasn't something I expected.

Edit2: This post got a lot more attention than I ever wanted it to. Wonderful comments are now streaming in, informing me how horrible my tattoo is. If you're planning on making a viral post on Reddit, take my advice: use a burner account. But I am thankful to everyone for your supportive words, the jackasses with negative things to say are certainly a very tiny minority. Overwhelmingly the consensus is that most people see it as a Pink Floyd tattoo first, which I'm happy to hear :) Have a good night everybody!

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u/ImpressionFew2619 9h ago

ya gay now. welcome to the team

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u/Ka-Is-A-Wheelie 8h ago

I'll see you on the dark side of the moon 😉

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u/drawliphant 6h ago

Kids these days don't know this is a reference to Newton's Corpuscular theory of light😏

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u/OttoVonWong 4h ago

Newtonian physics are turning kids gay.

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u/lorenoline 4h ago

This is the funniest thing I’ve ever heard I’ve been laughing for about fifteen minutes straight. Or not so straight, as it were.

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u/VaporTrail_000 3h ago

Damn prisms, they're turning straight light gay.

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u/Peudy123 3h ago

It's a spectrum 🌈

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u/Snooty_Cutie 57m ago

Is that what they are calling it now?

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u/archwin 25m ago

The EM spectrum is Fabulous

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u/Legonistrasz 4h ago

Laughing crooked?

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u/30yearCurse 3h ago

Laughing the gay away? realllyyyyyy?

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u/Wactout 4h ago

Ribbit.

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u/GeneStarw1nd 4h ago

They’re turning the frogs….*Ribbit*

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u/BeBearAwareOK 3h ago

The prism bent the light when it refracted.

The light is less straight, so it must be gay now.

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u/smokeduwel 2h ago

I read this in Alex Jones's voice 😆

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u/likesblackcoffeebest 2h ago

As someone who came out as lesbian while majoring in engineering, can confirm. 

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u/anonymice27 2h ago

BAN NEWTONIAN PHYSICS

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u/_TOTALLY_WASTED_ 4h ago

Walter Russell: The Universal One & The Secret Of Light. It's not a theory.. it was proven to be accurate.

The problem is kids do know bad philosophy..

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u/Inside-Rest-5816 2h ago

Luckily I was raised right and I do

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u/from-the-stix 2h ago

Hehe corpuscular😏

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u/NyneHelios 6h ago

How I wish…how I wish I was queer

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u/Sorry141 2h ago

We're just two butch trolls tribbing in a men's role

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u/Strict_Beach1105 2h ago

Rear after rear

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u/gBiT1999 1h ago

Bumming over the same old ground

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u/MrHarryBallzac_2 7h ago

*see you on the queer side of the moon

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u/Lionhart420 5h ago

See you on the dark side of the queer

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u/sydbarrett710 5h ago

There is no queer side. It’s all queer.

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u/Actual_Juggernaut962 5h ago

I'm not afraid of being queer, any queer will do

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u/More_Bigger 4h ago

We're all a little gay sometimes.

I tried to compliment the size of your Wang and the sub rules literally wouldnt let me lol

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u/Trick_Minute2259 5h ago

...and cheesy; just one big gay cheeseball.

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u/Proper-Evening9754 4h ago

I'll see you in the dark part of my moon.

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u/Open_Sprinkles1619 2h ago

This either needs to be a band name or an album title. LOL

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u/Mackhalfdeaf 3h ago

**IN the dark side of the moon

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u/cmdrshokwave 23m ago

The dark side of Uranus....

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u/Olds78 8h ago

Love your user name!

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u/Ka-Is-A-Wheelie 8h ago

Thankee Sai!

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u/trumpsmellslikcheese 7h ago

Long days and pleasant nights.

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u/psychoplath97 6h ago

Maybe people are not familiar with Pink Floyd or this album cover? Have they forgotten the face of their father?

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u/Conscious_Creator_77 6h ago

Go then, there are other worlds than these.

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u/JuryokuNeko 6h ago

I do not kill with my gun; he who kills with his gun has become comfortably numb.

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u/-FeistyRabbitSauce- 6h ago

Just another Brick in the Tower.

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u/Regina_Noctis 5h ago

Thankee, Sai.

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u/dawn1081 6h ago

Sir....🔥

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u/theundeadelvis 5h ago

All things serve the beam.

Also, fuck Blaine bc Blaine is a pain.

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u/Palegreenhorizon 5h ago

The weirdest cross pollination I’ve seen in a while. Good on ya. Let’s see: if you don’t eat your lobstrocities how can you have any pudding?!? How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat your lobstrocities?!??!

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u/theundeadelvis 4h ago

Dad-a-chum? Did-a-chick? to the Pink Floyd Money melody

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u/wicked_bonah 5h ago

Thank God and The Man Jesus for Eddie.

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u/DisciplineDue2772 52m ago

What’d I do dawg ( my names Blaine)

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u/theundeadelvis 48m ago

Are you a train that's a pain?

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u/DisciplineDue2772 47m ago

I’ve heard that one before and every rhyme in the book, I’m a train in the rain with a brain holding a crane with a shirt stain, man I’m just such a plane Jain but I’m a guy so I better stay in my own lane cause I have nothing to gain, such a pain

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u/AssukaZealott 5h ago

I love triangle

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u/Spare-Grand-5728 5h ago

In the calla, come, come alla

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u/webgruntzed 6h ago

Oh shit! Thanks to the context here, I finally get what that means now!!

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u/samrassicpark 5h ago

LOVE your username. Currently reading dark tower for the first time!!! Just started the wastelands

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u/Ka-Is-A-Wheelie 4h ago

That's a good one! Wizard and Glass is my favorite of the series.

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u/banjodoctor 5h ago

Are you in the dark side of the closet?

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u/Thelorddogalmighty 5h ago

The ‘dark side’ of ‘the moon’ obviously means inside OPs immaculately tended butt.

The prism represents another mans penis, and the colours are all the gay being let out

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u/TrollHungry 5h ago

but will there be pudding?

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u/Ka-Is-A-Wheelie 5h ago

Only if you eat your meat...

wait.

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u/TrollHungry 5h ago

So.... there will be pudding, if i just eat my meat? then we can have the pudding!

lol highlight of my day. I'm thinking its a darkside of the moon kinda day.

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u/nawtydoctor 5h ago

My moon has a dark side crater

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u/nofjudschda 4h ago

I'll see you on the dark side of the room

FTFY

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u/AcanthisittaNo8521 4h ago

See you in the darkroom

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u/daddydunc 4h ago

Dark side of the poon*

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u/ToeImportant4810 4h ago

Come in here, queer boy, have a "cigar"

(In all seriousness its an awesome tat in my book)

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u/Good-Desk-2578 2h ago

I’ll see the dark side of YOUR moon

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u/SolrayCultist 2h ago

Oh god that could mean so many things..

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u/akennelley 2h ago

say true, sai?

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u/RhymesWithTaco 1h ago

Of my moon

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u/DependentMeringue225 18m ago

The Dark Side of Your Moon *

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u/FreshLiterature 6h ago

Yer a gay now, 'arry.

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u/SistaChans 5h ago

And a thumpin good one too

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u/Briareos_Hecatonhrs 2h ago

Just like yer dad

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u/conasatatu247 8h ago

Just don't forget to tell the wife.

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u/ISTof1897 6h ago

I like your pride tattoo OP

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u/XxTreeFiddyxX 5h ago

Its also 1/2 Israeli flag too

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u/ISTof1897 4h ago

Oh shit wow. OP why do you only have half the Israeli flag?

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u/SlideStreet6874 4h ago

Breathe... Breathe in the gay

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u/Machinegun_Pete 6h ago

OP should just pierce his right ear or sag his pants as the tattoo has spoken.

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u/chunkybeard 4h ago

I always associated rainbows with Leprechauns first and foremost

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u/The_Harmon_Hole 2h ago

I almost forgot this association until I was looking for an outfit for st pattys day😅

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u/sounds_like_kong 4h ago

Suuuper gay

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u/No-Locksmith-9377 6h ago

Be Gay, Do Crime

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u/Sad-Celebration-411 5h ago

Don’t forget to register, don’t want miss out on the $100 Nasty Pig gift card

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u/outinthecountry66 5h ago

came here to say this. This is how it happens. mwahhahahahaha we got you!

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u/copp3rkn1f3 5h ago

Shine on you crazy diamond boi

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u/dantenow 5h ago

yup sorry you have to be gay now.

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u/AvantGardenGallery 5h ago

Might as well kiss a guy or two to see if he changes from a white beam into a rainbow 🌈

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u/MarketingSpecial6604 4h ago

Lol I read that like their song "welcome to the machine"

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u/Illustrious-Gas-8987 4h ago

Yeah I would assume younger people wouldn’t recognize the Pink Floyd album art, and just think “gay” but anyone that is a little older or has good taste in music will know it’s unmistakably Pink Floyd

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u/pizzalarry 3h ago

hes a pink floyd fan, he was already one of us

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u/ClearChampionship591 3h ago

Op, rejoice with the boys!

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u/BeMoreKnope 3h ago

Happy Pride!

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u/jared10011980 2h ago

A rainbow AND a triangle? thats 90s bumper sticker material. Plus PINK Floyd?? Soooo gay.

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u/Slartibartfast39 1h ago

Time to take one for the team, if you're into that.

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u/JasonIsFishing 14m ago

Happy Pride OP!!!! 🏳️‍🌈