El Dolmago

So half sleeve is coming along nicely - foo dog and goldfish recently added. Sleeve by Daniel Innis at the Pearl in Toronto.

So half sleeve is coming along nicely - foo dog and goldfish recently added. Sleeve by Daniel Innis at the Pearl in Toronto.

So half sleeve is coming along nicely - foo dog and goldfish recently added. Sleeve by Daniel Innis at the Pearl in Toronto.

@SeeSea just thought this one came out the best? Here's the one with the flash so you can all our lovely faces!

The upshot is that we identified the need for a female moderator, and @Pugilist has kindly accepted our offer! ;)

Post anything you'd like. We have no problem with you or your non-tattoo photos.
As for that other poster, let's just say that sometimes, a hatchet gets the hammer.

QFT.

Hey dudes, maybe listen to women when they say they find something insulting, instead of telling them how they should take it. It's an infantilizing, objectifying and therefore misogynist thing to say, even if you "mean it" as a compliment. And I agree with @SnowyPlover, it's a nice reminder of why being a woman into tattoos can kind of suck.

It doesn't matter how he meant it - it's a shitty, patronizing, objectifying thing to say and has no place on a board where people are meant to behave respectfully towards each other.

This is why we can't have nice things.

I was hoping we could hold a thorough review of her academic credentials before giving her mod power, but what the hell.
Welcome aboard, @Pugilist!

Help us welcome @Pugilist as our newest Moderator!
She has had a solid presence on LST for the past two years and we look forward to having her on the team!

I got a hummingbird on my back when my brother died two years ago... It's a lovely tribute.

Going in to get my arm worked on tomorrow - ditch/ elbow fun!

Augh Yoni is the best and that is so gorgeous! I am going to make you pull your pants down to show me in person because I am a creep.

Going in to get my arm worked on tomorrow - ditch/ elbow fun!

Going in to get my arm worked on tomorrow - ditch/ elbow fun!

Going in to get my arm worked on tomorrow - ditch/ elbow fun!

Going in to get my arm worked on tomorrow - ditch/ elbow fun!

i like it because it doesn't scream "super meaningful tattoo"

Nice.

To be honest, I like your tattoos more than I like that Cripwell body suit. Your arms are fantastic, there are so many good pieces on them from great artists, everything sits really well, the stars and dots filler is great, and they're these perfect traditional arms that don't feel forced or overly deliberate. Maybe part of it is because I've seen your arms mainly through spending time with you instead of seeing pictures of them on the Internet, but I feel that I get a sense of you from them.
I guess it all comes down to different ways of getting tattooed and people wanting different thing out of tattoos. For me, how I get tattooed has been this fairly gradual process of learning through experience. What I wanted before I first got tattooed is very different than what I want now both in terms of extent of coverage, and what styles and designs I want, and I think that while this inevitably means that I'm going to reach a point where I'll wish that I did things differently, left more spaces open, got fewer little things until I'd gotten more large pieces down, or the thousand other ways I might have done things if only I had the knowledge or foresight, I think there's something cool about tattoos being this record of a process of learning and understanding, even if the results are sometimes less than something that looks incredible in a photo. Japanese tattooing aside, I guess I don't really understand the motivation of somebody who goes from no tattoos to a deliberately planned out (and kind of anachronistic) bodysuit, it almost seems like a fashion statement.
Anyway, different strokes and all.

It was funny looking through Tim's portfolio at the Montreal convention because I swear half of it is pictures of your tattoos. Great ones as always, and I especially love that frog.
I hope you find work too because the only thing worse than having a job is looking for one.

Looks great. I really have to check out Trophy. I heard its a nice spot right by (under?) the new Crow's Nest.
I picked up a couple end of the season tattoos from Tim Pausinger at The Pearl in Toronto today. I'll post in three pictures. My left leg is really coming together now. I hope I can find good employment soon, because there is still a ton of work to be done!

Daniel (my artist) is very quiet and low key so when he gives any direct advice I tend to listen. He mentioned cat fur also as a problem (which is hard to avoid in this house sadly).