The Convention of Secrets
January 31, 2019 4:04 PM   Subscribe

 
These are all great, but that Cornish pixie is crazy good. And now you have me itching for another tattoo.
posted by filthy light thief at 4:57 PM on January 31, 2019 [1 favorite]


The one thing I find odd (not offensive or wrong or anything, this is all celebrating beloved fiction, but just odd) is that canonically in the books at least for Eastern/Central European wizards the sign of the deathly hallows is essentially a wizard swastika. Yet it's an incredibly popular Potter tattoo, I guess because of it's simplicity and symbolic meaning? Even more so for the death eater skull thingy, which doesn't even have a double meaning in the books. It's straight up the gang tattoo for the terrorist movement trying to ethnically cleanse Britain and stage a coup. Why is that the tattoo that people want?
posted by Wretch729 at 5:49 PM on January 31, 2019 [3 favorites]


That's not my interpretation of the deathly hallows, I'd class it more like a tattoo of the Holy Grail from Indian Jones: yeah the Nazis want it for their reasons, but a bunch of other people want it for a bunch of other reasons too. It's a symbol of many things.

The dark mark, though, I'm there with you. In the context of our stupid century and what's happening politically I couldn't stop myself from being a bit judgey about people flaunting symbolic, fictional, evil. It's why I can't abide "joking" defenses of the Galatic Empire from Star Wars.
posted by traveler_ at 6:41 PM on January 31, 2019 [1 favorite]


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