Tattoo design approval; does this make me look like a baddie?

March 16, 2023 11:05 AM

So I've got a tattoo design which I'm considering. Does it remind you of anything, especially anything offensive?

It's a variation on The Hand Of Eris, basically I threw the simple design into an AI art thing and got a bunch of variations and I like this one. But I just want to check and see if it reminds anyone of some other symbol which I would want to avoid

posted by The otter lady to Society & Culture (17 answers total)

Best answer: Reminds me a bit of a fleur-de-lis.
posted by mekily at 11:23 AM on March 16, 2023 [21 favorites]

Best answer: I've always thought the Five-Fingered Hand of Eris' proximate symbol was chaos which I suspect you're okay with -- other than that, no associations I'm aware of fnord
posted by churl at 11:30 AM on March 16, 2023 [2 favorites]

Best answer: It reminds me of Twilight Sparkle's cutie mark.
posted by SPrintF at 11:50 AM on March 16, 2023 [2 favorites]

Best answer: It puts me (very vaguely) in mind of the JRRT monogram.
posted by jedicus at 12:46 PM on March 16, 2023

Best answer: I, a random internet person who has sometimes wondered if people's tattoos were hate symbols, wouldn't wonder that about your tattoo design.
posted by bluedaisy at 1:28 PM on March 16, 2023 [7 favorites]

Best answer: Looking at that, I'd just think Art Nouveau. (Or maybe DLC for Cultist Simulator, but that's not a bad thing!)
posted by praemunire at 1:40 PM on March 16, 2023

Best answer: Yeah, my immediate thought was, "Oooh, it's like a sigil made of two crescent moons. COOL."
posted by Kitteh at 1:40 PM on March 16, 2023

Best answer: I might wonder whether it was from a fantasy series I'm unfamiliar with, but no, it doesn't look like anything that would ring alarm bells for me.
posted by Aleyn at 2:20 PM on March 16, 2023 [2 favorites]

Best answer: It's pretty. Like a French bakeshop logo with champagne bubbles.
posted by nanook at 3:03 PM on March 16, 2023 [4 favorites]

Best answer: The interplay of curved and tapered lines is lovely. Because most skin is pre-decorated with randomly placed and sized dots, that part of the design reads as less intentional to me. If that's not your desire, perhaps arrange them more symmetrically?
posted by drdanger at 3:40 PM on March 16, 2023 [1 favorite]

Best answer: It reminded me of an apple, or apple core fwiw!
posted by Carillon at 4:30 PM on March 16, 2023

Best answer: It's vaguely similar to Veve, and or some alchemy symbols. But nothing that strikes me as a casual viewer as anything the least bit problematic
posted by Jacen at 5:40 PM on March 16, 2023

Best answer: Looks completely inoffensive to me. Also, quite pretty.
posted by dg at 6:14 PM on March 16, 2023

Best answer: To me it looks like it might be the logo of an inoffensive pop band or inoffensive pop musician.
posted by chariot pulled by cassowaries at 7:32 PM on March 16, 2023

Best answer: I would assume it was an ornate Cyrillic letter ж (zhe)
posted by sarahdal at 6:22 AM on March 17, 2023

Best answer: I immediately thought of fancy dishware designs from the 40s/50s.
posted by jabes at 12:29 PM on March 17, 2023 [1 favorite]

Response by poster: Thank you Askmefi!
posted by The otter lady at 1:14 PM on March 18, 2023 [1 favorite]