alias getting_a_tattoo -> tattooing

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BUR #58667 has been approved by @nonamethanks.

create alias getting_a_tattoo -> tattooing
mass update tattoo_machine_(laser) -> tattooing

I was searching for a tag to apply to people getting womb tattoos, and didn't realize we already had tattooing, which is mostly for artists giving a normal tattoo.
We can't imply it directly because there could be cases of a laser tattoo machine being inactive.

Not sure if we care about keeping these apart, and as it stand there's no way to just search for people getting a tattoo, plus tattooing says nothing about it being the classical one.

Alternative is something like an umbrella tag for a tattoo being applied, with tattooing and machine-given tattoos being separate tags under it.

BUR #58669 has been rejected.

create alias tattooing -> getting_a_tattoo
create alias tattoo_machine_(laser) -> tattoo_lasering
create implication tattoo_lasering -> getting_a_tattoo

i think tattoo_machine_(laser) should be changed into tattoo lasering or something like that.

there is no such thing in real life as a machine that just kinds of beams a laser and you get a tattoo

in fact it could be just tentacles like post #4732911

so imo an inactive "tattoo machine (laser)" would look like a random machinery/device on the post. there could be countless tattoo machine (laser) untagged in corruption posts that nobody tagged because they weren't shooting lasers at people in that post specifically but in-universe they would have that capability. we have no way of knowing.

we also have tattoo machine which is for real life tattoo machines. you can tell what those look like.

i think people will want to search for

1. chars getting a tattoo from an artist
2. chars getting a tattoo from evil lasers
3. chars getting a tattoo in general

so it would be better to have an umbrella tag.

the problem is that the umbrella tag would be called getting a tattoo. and if we implied tattooing to getting a tattoo that would be confusing (also there is a weird possibility that a tattoo artist is using a tattoo machine to tattoo a wall or something inorganic so it would be tattooing but you probably wouldn't want to tag it getting a tattoo so one thing wouldn't imply the other). so i guess we could alias tattooing to getting a tattoo and if people want to search for tattoo artists they will either have to exclude laser tattoos or search for tattoo machine specifically.

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