I read a book back in high school called Link about kids with computer chips in their brains that connected them to the Internet 24/7. It was cool, except hackers would show up at clubs and shit and give drunk people computer viruses in their brains that gave people freaking skin lesions. And if they had the chip installed after they were a year old, the chip wouldn't work right and they'd die early.

Run on sentences ftw.

Seen waaaay~ too many non-artistically minded people with terrible/cliche tattoos in my time, but something about the whole "modern barbarian" thing does still drag me in... Dunno why.

Perhaps tribal blokes/yakuza have right idea? Patterns which work off the shape of the body frequently look much better than even a skillfully inked individual image IMO. Always thought something like symetrical Nazca lines would be cool, too.

Currently I have none, at any rate; But I know alot of people that do.

Mac is made for a reason, Cake.

Reg: I completely agree. Personally I think you have to think as carefully about where you get your tattoo as what. Work with the 3D canvass that your is body, dude, don't treat it as lumpy 2D.

You sure it wasn't called Feed? Did a at the end?

Spoiler alert!

Jeez.

Yeah, it was Feed. Sorry, it's been a while. No freaking wonder I couldn't find it again.

Also, dude. Spoiler alert.

The book sucks, it doesn't deserve it. Plus, I think it says it happens on the back. *goes back to edit it ine*

I quite liked Feed, I'll have to go back and give it a reread.

In other news, I got my silicone 'hider' plug yesterday :3 It's really comfortable to sleep in.

I hated it. The teacher was trying to get us into transcandentalism with it. Utter failure. If I had chosen book of my own devides, it might've been OK. It really isn't about self modification though. It's more about how we've lost touch with nature. Which, self modification is part of.

Either way, annoying.

All the little English 3 kids have been running around like chickens with their heads cut off talking about transcendentalism and how it's triptacular, so I finally got around to asking my philosophy teacher about it, and he broke it down for me. And sat there in my desk and said, "That's it? I mean, I already knew that, though." He said Yep, it's not that hard. *facepalm* Popular transcendentalism is super lame hype.
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Edit: Went to go talk to a woman who dreadlocks hair yesterday. Masssss disappointment; she won't backcomb processed hair. D: She wants me to go natural for a year, which is utter insanity. I tried to do that in middle school (I bet my hair was thinner back then), and it always resulted in late night tears. I can't even fit an elastic band around my hair if I don't process it. I'd seriously look like Erykah Badu (but obviously not as cool) without it:



So yeah. I'll call the next number on my list for that.

And, oh, ick, my skin just flared up in irritation and is trying to eat my nose ring. D< That was really random, too. Maybe my stud got caught on something and that made my skin angry.


Does anyone have any body-moddy Christmas wishes?

HOLY GOD HOW DID I MISS THIS POSSSTTTT!? THAT HAIR. HOW COULD YOU NOT WANT THAT HAIIIRRR??
HAVE YOU CALLED YET?

Ew, your skin is repulsive. Tell it to chill.

YES. I'm going up to a TEN IF IT KILLS ME. (Obviously not if it kills me. If I'm dead I can't have ammonite plugs.)

Well, I haven't seen my natural hair texture since I was four (and therefore don't remember it), but I honestly think that it would'nt end up like that. My guesses from photos is that it was more frizzy than curly, so it wouldn't look that awesome. My sister's hair would look like that, though. Her hair shaft looks like a telephone wire, just like suuuuper tight helices.

I didn't call my other number, though. I've been running around like a chicken with its head cut off the past week or so for school and have totally forgotten about it.

I'll have to soak my nose in sea salt. I have this mortal fear of keloids on my face. (My ears it them for a while, but it chilled out.)

Wait, what are you at now? 7mm?

Headless chicken when you gonna call, huh? Also your sis's hair sounds awesome.

Is your nose still gross?

I am now at a 10mm!

I was still 6mm when I posted before, but FINALLY, the 10mm is achieved. (8mm was rediculously easy, I was ready to move up a size only two days after) I can now stop stretching and start spending all my money on new piercings :D!

My nose has gotten much, much, muuuch better. Now there's only a tiny bump by the side of the piercing, which is barely noticeable. To get rid of that, I just need to soak it in sea salt water. Apparently the salt sucks up some of the pus day by day and helps fan out all the inflammation.

Hmmm, are you planning on ever downsizing? You went FAST. @___@ If Sy is still reading, I'll point out that I read you can almost go as big as you want so long as you only do it at a rate of 1 mm per month. The woman who said that is a professional piercer and has her own shop. She seems to be great with helping others out if they have any questions about body modding. So yep, if you want to downsize in the future, oil your lobes daily, only try to upsize when you're getting out of the shower and go suuuuper slowly.

SPEAKING OF ANNA. She has some of the greatest posts about plugs, tunnels, and weights. They are goooorge.