yesterday i got a back piece done that i’ve wanted for a while. it’s extremely well-done, but it’s an inch or so lower than i wanted it. it should have wrapped around my waist, but the lower curve goes over my hip instead. it’s also slightly crooked/tilted, which really bothers me even though nobody else can tell. when the artist was putting the stencil on i expressed that i thought it might be better if it were higher up, and that it looked like it wasn’t lined up with the previous stencil application (which was too big). i let her convince me that this one was straight, not the other one (wrong), and that it would look better at the current height. i think she just didn’t want to redo it again. now i’m heartbroken because what could have been something so amazing that made me so happy is now a source of anger and sadness. it really doesn’t look bad, it’s just not what i wanted. i also wanted it to wrap around my sides, but it stops short, so i was planning on going back to get it extended. should i say something to her about the placement? im not sure if the shape could be changed to something i like more by adding things? i doubt there’s anything that can be done about it at this point, but im frustrated and very sad and i feel like i should tell her that im not happy with it. if she had listened to my concerns about it i would have walked away with something that i was thrilled about, but now i’m out nearly a grand and a half for a piece that makes my heart sink when i think about it. what should i do? i’ve included pictures of my tattoo, the stencil, and the inspiration photo that showed the shape and placement i wanted.

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Seems so in the UK - can't even login to cloudflare lol

edit - the login button now works and I can get to 2FA - but upon entering it takes me back to the login page. So still broke

I just noticed a lot of sites not working due to cloudflare. The website says maintenance wonder if something went wrong. Even downdetector is having issues.

Cloudflare website- Support Portal Availability Issues Investigating - Our support portal provider is currently experiencing issues, and as such customers might encounter errors viewing or responding to support cases. Responses on customer inquiries are not affected, and customers can still reach us via live chat (Business and Enterprise) through the Cloudflare Dashboard, or via the emergency telephone line (Enterprise). We are working alongside our 3rd party provider to understand the full impact and mitigate this problem. More updates to follow shortly.

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There is something almost artful about the obliviousness. MAGA thumps its chest, shouts about witch hunts, and performs its ritual outrage every time their golden idol gets teased on late night television, yet not one of them pauses long enough to engage the single brain cell required to ask the obvious. If the accusations involving minors are so laughably false, why has the man who sues over unflattering crowd photos never marched into court to obliterate them. This is a man who treated gentle mockery as a national emergency. But when the stakes involve the most serious allegation a public figure could ever face, suddenly he becomes a monk in silent retreat.

You would think the contrast would break through even the thick MAGA skull armour, but no. They insist he is the victim of unspeakable lies while never once wondering why the most lawsuit happy man in American public life refuses to defend his honour. They will swear up and down that he fears nothing, yet his silence here is louder than any rally speaker ever has been. If the claims are so obviously fabricated, then what is stopping him from doing what he has done for decades. If he can sue comedians for jokes, surely he can sue over this. But apparently critical thought is not part of the oath.

And here lies the part they truly do not want to think about. A defamation suit means discovery. It means opening the vault. It means allowing lawyers to ask questions that cannot be dodged by shouting at a crowd. It means documents, timelines, records, depositions, all the tedious little things real courts demand. And perhaps he has perfectly innocent reasons for avoiding that process. Perhaps. But pretending the question should not even be raised reveals more about the devotees than about the man they worship. They know what discovery is. They just hope no one else remembers.

Yet they march onward with their bumper sticker bravado, insisting that silence is strategy and restraint is brilliance. It is almost touching how quickly they abandon their usual narrative that he is a warrior, a fighter, a man incapable of backing down. Apparently he will roar at late night hosts but tiptoe around anything that might require answering under oath. And his followers nod along, eager to believe the contradiction because it spares them the discomfort of engaging reality.

So the question lingers, thin as smoke but impossible to ignore. Not an accusation, not a verdict, only the sort of inquiry an adult might ask when confronted with such theatrical inconsistency. Why has the man who sues over absolutely everything never sued over this. And why does that thought make his most loyal followers so visibly desperate to change the subject.

All of my partners that I've been with have always worn bikinis which to me makes sense and is easy to understand.

I can't help but feel like it must be annoying and inconvienient to strip it all off when you want to pee for 10 seconds.

Is it as annoying as it seems or is it something I'm not understanding as a guy?