did anyone get pictures?

[porphyre]

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[abmann]

I'm looking forward to seeing that video.
I may even download it at work. After hours, 'course. Scouts honor.

It is good that you are doing better.

[porphyre]

It's a very neat clip. I'm pretty sure I got it off Sarah lynchwalker.

and yes, it had to begin eventually...

Well done with the fire stuff

[silver_notebook]

Did you see this body mod goes wrong link? (not for the squeamish.) I think I'll stick to the ones that surgeons have given me.

thank you, it was good

[porphyre]

What bothers me most about that is a niggling bit of my brain that explains to me the entire time that the way they sewed him up after will only result in worse keloid tissue...

Re: thank you, it was good

[silver_notebook]

I agree about that job being the kind of repair that will likely result in further keloid in someone who is obviously prone to keloid formation. Hopefuly, they won't be of the same scale as the first one, as when people go for 'decorative' scaring, they aim to leave a strip of missing skin to encourage keloid formation, for added scarification effect (or at least that's what I've seen in a friend).

I know, living in Britain, one wouldn't face cost or threat of sectioning if one went to a doctor for referral for repair (as some mentioned in the comments as reasons for not going to professionals), so there would be no doubt I would go to a professional to resolve such a mess. With that as my cultural backdrop, I find it obscenely arrogant and irresponsible that these 'artists' should take on the repair, then provide photos of the victim to be posted on the internet without the victim's consent (and the arrogance is seen in the tone of comments from the artists). Even if they were the most competant people to do such a repair (as they

body mod goes wrong...

[silver_notebook]

Um. I'm not too sure about some of the mods that have gone "right".

Glansectomy? Ouch. Those things don't grow back, you know.

Good show!

[alannon]

Thanks for putting on a great show. I managed to get a nice view of everything.

Re: Good show!

[porphyre]

I'm glad! By the time I got the kerosene washed off and all signed out, you were gone. I'll catch you another time?

[donnaidh_sidhe]

The only person to dare claim I would 'understand when I was older,'

This sounds familiar in an eerie way.

[porphyre]

Mmm?

[donnaidh_sidhe]

It seems that this sort of comment and accompanying cluelessness crop up among those with bells on.

[porphyre]

oh! And before I forget, could you do me the favour of swining by and nabbing that book off Troll?

[morbid_curious]

I think there are some things in this world that are far easier to understand if you never let yourself grow too "old". And I am strongly inclined to believe that you are one of them. You should be seen with eyes that are not too tired to wonder anew, not too scared to really see for a change. To do any less would be a crime.

[porphyre]

That's kind of you. I surround myself with people older than I am to the point where I have to remember my age by counting up from the year Phil K. Dick died, to have someone try to pin their own issues on something as pithy as when I was born was tantamount to slapping insults. The first time it slipped from his mouth, I sat speechless, stunned that anyone could be so rude.

[morbid_curious]

I was trying for accuracy (at least from what I know of you) rather than kindness, but I'm fortunate to be in a position where I can do both.

I've reacted in a similarly in the past, when women have said that I couldn't possibly understand some emotional issue because I'm male. Somehow the fact that they didn't even realise that their dismissal was insulting made it even more of a slap in the face.

I think everyone could do with a little more empathy. Sometimes, a lot more.