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    sophistre got a reaction from Gregor in slang terms that make you cringe?   
    I don't really understand this line of argument. Words bother some people. You are free to choose to use them, sure, but what is the point of stubbornly insisting on using words that bother other people when there are plenty of other functional words that don't?
    I mean, I guess I would understand it more if it was cussing and you were trying to make a point, maybe, by messing with people's conservative something-or-other. But this is just...words for tattoos. Choosing the ones that bug people when there are other ones that get the job done isn't shocking or subversive, it's just kinda...weirdly obstinate. Like...you're choosing words that the community hates, for ...no reason with associated value, other than just doing it because you want to, in spite of knowing that it bugs people. I don't think that rings resoundingly with respecting said community.
    WTF do I know, though. I'm a newbie and should probably shut my cakehole.
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    sophistre got a reaction from williamsejames in slang terms that make you cringe?   
    I don't really understand this line of argument. Words bother some people. You are free to choose to use them, sure, but what is the point of stubbornly insisting on using words that bother other people when there are plenty of other functional words that don't?
    I mean, I guess I would understand it more if it was cussing and you were trying to make a point, maybe, by messing with people's conservative something-or-other. But this is just...words for tattoos. Choosing the ones that bug people when there are other ones that get the job done isn't shocking or subversive, it's just kinda...weirdly obstinate. Like...you're choosing words that the community hates, for ...no reason with associated value, other than just doing it because you want to, in spite of knowing that it bugs people. I don't think that rings resoundingly with respecting said community.
    WTF do I know, though. I'm a newbie and should probably shut my cakehole.
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    sophistre got a reaction from SeeSea in slang terms that make you cringe?   
    I don't really understand this line of argument. Words bother some people. You are free to choose to use them, sure, but what is the point of stubbornly insisting on using words that bother other people when there are plenty of other functional words that don't?
    I mean, I guess I would understand it more if it was cussing and you were trying to make a point, maybe, by messing with people's conservative something-or-other. But this is just...words for tattoos. Choosing the ones that bug people when there are other ones that get the job done isn't shocking or subversive, it's just kinda...weirdly obstinate. Like...you're choosing words that the community hates, for ...no reason with associated value, other than just doing it because you want to, in spite of knowing that it bugs people. I don't think that rings resoundingly with respecting said community.
    WTF do I know, though. I'm a newbie and should probably shut my cakehole.
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    sophistre got a reaction from RoryQ in slang terms that make you cringe?   
    I don't really understand this line of argument. Words bother some people. You are free to choose to use them, sure, but what is the point of stubbornly insisting on using words that bother other people when there are plenty of other functional words that don't?
    I mean, I guess I would understand it more if it was cussing and you were trying to make a point, maybe, by messing with people's conservative something-or-other. But this is just...words for tattoos. Choosing the ones that bug people when there are other ones that get the job done isn't shocking or subversive, it's just kinda...weirdly obstinate. Like...you're choosing words that the community hates, for ...no reason with associated value, other than just doing it because you want to, in spite of knowing that it bugs people. I don't think that rings resoundingly with respecting said community.
    WTF do I know, though. I'm a newbie and should probably shut my cakehole.
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    sophistre got a reaction from Elision in slang terms that make you cringe?   
    I don't really understand this line of argument. Words bother some people. You are free to choose to use them, sure, but what is the point of stubbornly insisting on using words that bother other people when there are plenty of other functional words that don't?
    I mean, I guess I would understand it more if it was cussing and you were trying to make a point, maybe, by messing with people's conservative something-or-other. But this is just...words for tattoos. Choosing the ones that bug people when there are other ones that get the job done isn't shocking or subversive, it's just kinda...weirdly obstinate. Like...you're choosing words that the community hates, for ...no reason with associated value, other than just doing it because you want to, in spite of knowing that it bugs people. I don't think that rings resoundingly with respecting said community.
    WTF do I know, though. I'm a newbie and should probably shut my cakehole.
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    sophistre got a reaction from CultExciter in slang terms that make you cringe?   
    I don't really understand this line of argument. Words bother some people. You are free to choose to use them, sure, but what is the point of stubbornly insisting on using words that bother other people when there are plenty of other functional words that don't?
    I mean, I guess I would understand it more if it was cussing and you were trying to make a point, maybe, by messing with people's conservative something-or-other. But this is just...words for tattoos. Choosing the ones that bug people when there are other ones that get the job done isn't shocking or subversive, it's just kinda...weirdly obstinate. Like...you're choosing words that the community hates, for ...no reason with associated value, other than just doing it because you want to, in spite of knowing that it bugs people. I don't think that rings resoundingly with respecting said community.
    WTF do I know, though. I'm a newbie and should probably shut my cakehole.
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    sophistre got a reaction from hogg in slang terms that make you cringe?   
    I don't really understand this line of argument. Words bother some people. You are free to choose to use them, sure, but what is the point of stubbornly insisting on using words that bother other people when there are plenty of other functional words that don't?
    I mean, I guess I would understand it more if it was cussing and you were trying to make a point, maybe, by messing with people's conservative something-or-other. But this is just...words for tattoos. Choosing the ones that bug people when there are other ones that get the job done isn't shocking or subversive, it's just kinda...weirdly obstinate. Like...you're choosing words that the community hates, for ...no reason with associated value, other than just doing it because you want to, in spite of knowing that it bugs people. I don't think that rings resoundingly with respecting said community.
    WTF do I know, though. I'm a newbie and should probably shut my cakehole.
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    sophistre got a reaction from Tesseracts in Tattoos and the workplace   
    Ugh, he is so ridiculously good-looking.
    And that video was amazing. But speaking as someone who puts make-up on on a daily basis just on the face, I don't think it's really viable to plan to do that over a large area. It's not easy to get coverage that full, even with a heavy product, and keeping it 'set,' especially in humid weather, would be pretty much a nightmare. It's a neat option for smaller things, but even then...anywhere that clothing makes contact you'd get a lot of transfer.
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    sophistre reacted to CultExciter in Best post tattoo care?   
    I don't even care that I just spent the last 30 minutes browsing the Sephora website.
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    sophistre reacted to TrixieFaux in Best post tattoo care?   
    Welcome to my world. :D
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    sophistre got a reaction from SeeSea in Old tattoo photos   
    I just spent two hours reading this thread and looking at the amazing stuff in it. It just reinforces how little I actually know about the recent(ish) history of tattooing. So fascinating.
    I'd contribute my stepdad's tattoos, but I'm not sure he'd let me take pictures of them -- I think he's self-conscious about them. He was placed in an orphanage in Chicago along with several of his siblings in what had to be the early 40s...and at some point got his hands on a bottle of ink and decided to tattoo not only himself but most of his siblings, too. The Sisters at the orphanage finally caught him, though, so some of them escaped, heh. I was always amazed he didn't have any from his time in the Army, since he lied about his age to get in (maybe he does, and just didn't tell me about them). Just crazy stories about backing a tank into an officer's car, and playing drums in Chicago with all-black jazz bands before that was a comfortable thing for a young Italian guy to do.
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    sophistre got a reaction from CultExciter in Best post tattoo care?   
    Rando bumps: Keratosis pilaris.
    I only know this because there is a body scrub I use that is designed to treat it, and it is AMAZING. I don't actually have KP, but my mom apparently does, and she swears by the stuff. It involves a scrub component and a light peel treatment, and it makes my skin so freakin' smooth. It is expensive (fittybux), but I've had my tub for about two years and it works better than anything else I've ever tried.
    Just thought I'd toss that out there!
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    sophistre got a reaction from Graeme in Jellyfish tattoos   
    @scubaron: Peter Walrus Madsen, a Danish fellow who apparently does resident guest stuff with Sacred Tattoo. The subject matter isn't his usual fare, but the style works really well with what I've got in my head.
    And the world gets smaller, because China Mieville is my author mega-crush, for reasons professional and otherwise. :( I actually went to see him read from Embassytown when I was living in Cambridge (MA). (Kraken was better. :) Predictably, The Scar is probably my other favorite...if I had to choose.)
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    sophistre reacted to cltattooing in Scary Stuff in Today's News   
    I really hope so too, here's to quality profiling.
    Son, I know you did not just call women the weaker sex ;)
    But yeah, people are shitty to each other, to the planet, to animals, to themselves, to their loved ones, to basically everything. I fully believe that our conditioning in regards to entitlement and disposability is to blame. I struggle a lot with my feelings of helplessness in regards to how humanity is systematically destroying all life known to us, and then I come back to my previous sentiment on how nobody can really change anything or anyone but themselves. So there it is.
    And also, in regards to specifically talking about women, rape is largely a crime committed against women. Although, rape of men does happen and is talked about even less, which I find to be really disturbing. I think a lot of that goes back to how western culture treats femininity and vulnerability, which are traits innate to everyone and largely viewed as undesirable in men. Like think about how many times in your life you have been told to "man up." Like what does that even mean, tangibly? It serves no other purpose than to belittle and silence someone.
    My mom talks about being a humanist instead of a feminist and it bothers me. Not because I think that being a feminist is better, but because I think that to try to tackle a broad spectrum of problems before addressing smaller disenfranchised groups can overshadow very real and demographic-specific problems. Anyway, I hope that answered your question. Thanks for contributing to this discussion, I think it's a really important one to have and is not had often enough.
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    sophistre reacted to cltattooing in Are there way too many tattoos, especially on ...   
    Are there way too many feathers, especially on ducks? The body is not a pillow. What's wrong with these warped pieces of poultry that they don't have any concept of what it means to be a living bird? You're not an eagle that rents grass for piles of snakes and crossbones.
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    sophistre got a reaction from RoryQ in Hello. :)   
    Thank you for the reassurances! It's definitely going to be an experience...and I'm guessing it's going to be a pretty brutal one, especially since I fly home the day after the second appointment. At least I know I get to sleep it off and take it easy when I get back.
    I'm not sure that I want to use numbing agents for a variety of reasons, some of which are hard to articulate, but most of which have to do with the fact that I don't want to risk the tattoo being compromised in any way in the healing process. It just seems like if numbing stuff were the best for tattoos, everybody would use it, no...? Maybe that's faulty thinking on my part. In the end, I will probably go with what my artist and shop feel is best, as long as it's nothing crazy involving vaseline and saran wrap. ;) (They would never suggest that!)
    I wasn't familiar with Henning Jorgenson (I'm actually not really familiar with big names in tattooing these days :o ) but the googled art is lovely! It's funny...the last serious push I made toward getting a tattoo was (first) with Horiyoshi III (we exchanged faxes, that ought to tell you how long ago it was), and later, after he stopped doing large pieces on foreigners at all, I sent a handwritten letter to his former apprentice, Horitaka, and we exchanged emails a little bit. Sadly, after that, my life got turbulent for personal reasons and tattoos sort of fell off of my priority list. I still feel that old amazement when I look at Japanese styles, though; especially floating world concepts. Maybe someday I'll follow through on that. There are so many intriguing 'new' (? ...new to me, anyway) styles out there now, though.
    ...which is all a big, long ramble. I guess that's what happens at 1:30am when I can't sleep. But no, my appointment is with this guy. My concept is not his most usual fare (it's an abstract, deconstructed octopus sleeve), but his style seemed just perfect for it.
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