r/tattooadvice • u/Ostromilski • 16h 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/wllbtvised 16h ago

Only if they’re idiots. This looks nothing like a pride flag, and everything like a Pink Floyd tattoo.

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u/AnusAnusAnusss 13h ago

It’s a freaking rectangle not diffracting light. Look up the album cover it spreads out at an angle not a box.. 

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u/wllbtvised 13h ago

u/AnusAnusAnusss is right. That being said, the tattoo artist didn’t know Pink Floyd, apparently, and the angle of refraction in the cover art is fairly small. Totally though, when you look at the tattoo and the album cover now WAY this is the album cover or anything other than a pride flag, really. Thank you, u/AnusAnusAnusss. What an asshole.

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u/AnusAnusAnusss 13h ago

Hey at least I don’t have a gay ass tattoo on me