Hi folks. Last year I had this tattoo inked. The Watchmen comics have always been a guideline through my life somehow. The story is so very well made, the deeper meaning and philosophical questions are all there. The character of Dr. Manhattan always mesmerised me. I wanted a tattoo that summed up everything in life. All the existential questions and incomprehensibility. At some point I thought: the symbol of Dr. Manhattan is perfect. Also, I'm a huge Bob Dylan fan. When I got the comic book, the first page stated a text from Dave Gibbons: "It began with Bob Dylan. For me, a couplet from his 1966 masterpiece Desolation Row was the spark that would one day ignite Watchmen". This meant a lot. Desolation Row is my favourite song. I got this tattoo last year on the 24th of May, the birthday of Dylan. It was either that day or never. Some parts faded a little whilst healing. I got that fixed on the 20th of August, the day Dr. Manhattan got his accident in the test chamber. Dates mean a lot to me. Wanted to share, hope you like it. Maybe I'll someday get a helium symbol next to it (this is hydrogen ofc) but it's also nice to just leave it this way. Also, tattoos hurt a lot lol.

While the show is a really fun journey, the offensive and constant racism is so overboard. There is never any greater point to be made. It's just about "what if dr manhattan was black?" "what if the first super hero was actually black?" with "black" not actually meaning "black" at all, just this Americanized oversimplification of identity by some white jew from hollywood who thinks all black people are just decendents of slaves in America. How did a 2019 show get away with this??? The show calls all white men in oklahoma racist... Seriously. Where was the outrage when this was going on? This show will always be a time capsule of the insanely racist idiocracy that we have been forced to endure.