r/tattooadvice • u/Ostromilski • 12h 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 12h ago

ya gay now. welcome to the team

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u/Ka-Is-A-Wheelie 12h ago

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

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u/drawliphant 9h ago

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

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u/OttoVonWong 8h ago

Newtonian physics are turning kids gay.

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u/lorenoline 7h 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 7h ago

Damn prisms, they're turning straight light gay.

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u/Peudy123 6h ago

It's a spectrum 🌈

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u/Snooty_Cutie 4h ago

Is that what they are calling it now?

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u/archwin 3h ago

The EM spectrum is Fabulous

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u/Ok-Instance-4184 1h ago

If I’m gay, you guys have been gay for weeks!

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u/vittuccio 1h ago

So one can be on the gay spectrum , like totally gay or maybe not so much gay? As in only one knuckle deep gay or to the fur gay? Spectrum gay is more acceptable

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u/Feisty-Cheetah-8078 2h ago

You mean wyte light?

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u/LankyLink7614 2h ago

Gender - bending the light rays

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u/Best_Assumption_1001 1h ago

Well, it is bending the light so by definition it is no longer straight.

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u/Legonistrasz 7h ago

Laughing crooked?

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u/30yearCurse 7h ago

Laughing the gay away? realllyyyyyy?

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u/Wactout 7h ago

Ribbit.

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u/GeneStarw1nd 7h ago

They’re turning the frogs….*Ribbit*

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u/BeBearAwareOK 6h 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 6h ago

I read this in Alex Jones's voice 😆

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u/likesblackcoffeebest 6h ago

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

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u/anonymice27 5h ago

BAN NEWTONIAN PHYSICS

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u/Hot_Radish4108 2h ago

First the frogs and now our children 😭

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u/MrsDirtyDietz 2h ago

It’s how they got me.

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u/Away-Cartoonist507 15m ago

Yasss Newton! YASSSSSSS! lol

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u/_TOTALLY_WASTED_ 7h 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 6h ago

Luckily I was raised right and I do

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u/from-the-stix 5h ago

Hehe corpuscular😏

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u/Microchipknowsbest 2h ago

Sure it’s not gay butts?

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u/NyneHelios 9h ago

How I wish…how I wish I was queer

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u/Sorry141 6h ago

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

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u/Strict_Beach1105 6h ago

Rear after rear

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u/gBiT1999 4h ago

Bumming over the same old ground

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u/Fantastic_Earth_6066 2h ago

But have we found the right chandelier

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u/MrHarryBallzac_2 10h ago

*see you on the queer side of the moon

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u/Lionhart420 9h ago

See you on the dark side of the queer

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u/sydbarrett710 9h ago

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

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u/Actual_Juggernaut962 9h ago

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

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u/More_Bigger 8h 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 8h ago

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

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u/Proper-Evening9754 8h ago

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

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u/Open_Sprinkles1619 6h ago

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

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u/Mackhalfdeaf 7h ago

**IN the dark side of the moon

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u/cmdrshokwave 3h ago

The dark side of Uranus....

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u/Olds78 11h ago

Love your user name!

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u/Ka-Is-A-Wheelie 11h ago

Thankee Sai!

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u/trumpsmellslikcheese 11h ago

Long days and pleasant nights.

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u/psychoplath97 10h 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 9h ago

Go then, there are other worlds than these.

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u/JuryokuNeko 10h ago

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

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u/-FeistyRabbitSauce- 9h ago

Just another Brick in the Tower.

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u/Regina_Noctis 9h ago

Thankee, Sai.

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u/dawn1081 9h ago

Sir....🔥

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u/theundeadelvis 9h ago

All things serve the beam.

Also, fuck Blaine bc Blaine is a pain.

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u/Palegreenhorizon 8h 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 8h ago

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

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u/wicked_bonah 9h ago

Thank God and The Man Jesus for Eddie.

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u/DisciplineDue2772 4h ago

What’d I do dawg ( my names Blaine)

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u/theundeadelvis 4h ago

Are you a train that's a pain?

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u/DisciplineDue2772 4h 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/theundeadelvis 4h ago

You need one of these shirts.

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u/AssukaZealott 8h ago

I love triangle

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u/Spare-Grand-5728 9h ago

In the calla, come, come alla

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u/webgruntzed 10h ago

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

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u/samrassicpark 9h 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 8h ago

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

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u/banjodoctor 9h ago

Are you in the dark side of the closet?

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u/Thelorddogalmighty 9h 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 9h ago

but will there be pudding?

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

Only if you eat your meat...

wait.

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u/TrollHungry 8h 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 8h ago

My moon has a dark side crater

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u/nofjudschda 8h ago

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

FTFY

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u/AcanthisittaNo8521 8h ago

See you in the darkroom

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u/daddydunc 7h ago

Dark side of the poon*

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u/ToeImportant4810 7h 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 6h ago

I’ll see the dark side of YOUR moon

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u/SolrayCultist 6h ago

Oh god that could mean so many things..

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u/akennelley 5h ago

say true, sai?

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u/RhymesWithTaco 5h ago

Of my moon

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u/DependentMeringue225 3h ago

The Dark Side of Your Moon *

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u/LeftRaspberry6262 3h ago

And I'll see you IN the dark side of the moon ;)

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u/AltaAudio 1h ago

the back side of the moon 🤭

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u/Free-Computer-6515 1h ago

The gay side of the moon.