Don't cover it up. Didn't touch it up. Turn to the person and judge them for not knowing what a swastika looks like and be fine with it. We should not cater to people's stupidity or ignorance.
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This!
What kind of people mistakes that with a swastika ?
People who make up things to get attention on the internet
Uncultured swines
Outline the orange circle properly. Black line will ytterly change the visual
I’d use it as an intelligence filter. If you can’t tell the difference you are a moron and unworthy of me talking to you 😀
Just get a swastika tattoo right next to it so that people can see the difference between the two.
Now, that's using 100% of your brain.
Genius
This is the way.
i laughed so hard, i had to explain this to someone else at work.
Just write "NOT SWASTIKA" next to it.
Whoops, your hair moved and has been covering the "not" for most of the day.
And then people would wonder why you'd put textbook-style subtitle on your tattoo.
"I thought it was a swastika."
"I thought you had a brain and functioning eyes."
I'm great at making friends.
Who wants to be friends with people that can't think or play portal? Na, nothing wrong with you.
Thank god im not the only one
That was my first thought. Use it as a filter:
Maybe it's a conversation starter.
Maybe it's an intelligence test for the person asking.
Reminds me of those nazis that aren't even able to draw one properly.
If you see it from the wrong angle and her ear is blocking the front half, then I could see how the back half alone would definitely look like it...
This is just an indicator for people who don't think before they speak. Because if you do, you'd realize that it looks nothing like a swastika. Maybe your brain got duped (hopefully only for a moment) by an abundance of images like this:
Which, incidentally, means NO nazis.
If you see it only by a quick glance or from far away, or have poor vision, it's pretty easy to mistake it for a swastika.
Add a blue portal below it with a person coming out who doesn't look at all like a swastika, maybe?
Should be the other side of the neck
My guess is thats exactly what they have right now
Except that if someone only sees the one side it doesn’t help the problem.
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Blue portal instead?
A blue portal instead of an orange portal would've gone a long way here
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Could be worse. She could have got a Final Fantasy Cactuar tattoo.
Oh man, I looked some up out of curiosity and you're right. I'd do a double-take if I saw them in the wild.
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Was also going to mention this. As much as I think cactuar is a fun monster, I will never be able to bring myself to get merch of them, because of that shape.
Make the portal more saturated and cover up the back lower leg with it.
That song is stuck in my head for 2 days.
Aww man, it's a cool idea, just badly executed.
That’s just what the guy looks like though.
I wouldn't even say badly executed as it looks exactly as it should for portal.
Just change the ring to blue so it stand out more.
I'm assuming you have the blue circle on the other side of your neck try to make the orange one more orange
For the good of all of us
except the ones who are dead
But there's no sense crying over every mistake...
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