You may be surprised that this is not the first goldfish I’ve seen with a pierced labret (click that for an interview on the subject). This one is “Hydro” the “shop fish” at Twisted in Oak Harbor, Washington…
I’m probably done (emphasis on “probably” — you know I never follow that “I’m not posting rule” when I say I will) until Monday, but before I go a quick science tattoo done at Exotix in Toronto. As well as BME’s huge “Geek Tattoos” section, I wanted to recommend the superb “Carl Zimmer’s Science Tattoo Emporium” blog, which has lots of science tattoos and their backstories and makes a great read.
c/o The Darthside,
“It says love as thou wilt, inspired by the Kushiel Saga Elua.”
“When I heard the guys from Visavajara were coming up to do a show at a fetish party, I called them and talked Roland into doing the scarification while they were here. I wouldn’t know who else in Germany to trust with this kind of thing, really. And because apparently he liked the project, Roland said yes. In order to keep their workload at a minimum, I then went and begged my tattooist to prepare the stencil, and he also said yes.”
“Anyways, all the Visavajara people are really awesome; we met at Catonium an hour before the beginning of the party, and they took us into the backstage room (an old style classroom usually used for roleplay), and from there on it’s pretty much all in the pictures.”
A few more pictures are after the break.
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Delanne just got double-teamed again by Jeff Paetzold (Topnotch Tattoos in Elgin, IL) and Tim Victim (Deep Six Laboratory in Philadelphia) at the Philadelphia Tattoo Arts Convention, with this alligator versus shark tattoo done over about four hours. She’d previously had a chameleon (which you can see on her page) done by the two of them.
Also after the break is a mildly disturbing tattoo that Jeff also did for her, a worm wrapped around a butterknife with a butter hat, which she wears on her right forearm.
Following up on the inner cheek piercing I posted a few weeks ago, Herini had a similar piercing, although it was placed a little differently (sort of a frenulum-less scrumper/smiley). Hers never healed though, and they’ve since been removed.
See more in “Smiley Piercings“ (Lip Piercing)
I feel like I kind of shortchanged Biohazard the last couple times I posted him by picking unflattering pictures, so I wanted to post these two (the second is after the break) of him doing an arm pull — you can see that the “cheek ladder” he has looks pretty neat.
See more in “Pulling and Trucking“ (Ritual)
Challenge c/o IronPaws:
These are the lyrics to “Little Panda McElroy” by Xiu Xiu, if it makes any difference to the way you choose to interpret the image…
See more in “Ritual Cutting“ (Ritual)
Yes, yes, bring on the jokes about how Miss Mindi (who does “acrobatic neo-burlesque”) is not just very cute, but also very horny (pierced by Kristof in Brisbane)… What I especially got a kick out of though — and you can see this in the play piercing photos after the break — is that she has a Cheshire Cat tail tattooed on her!
If I’m understanding Ashy’s email, she made the mistake of putting some sort of aggressive antiseptic onto her fresh eyebrow piercing (done by Sean at Creative Tattoos and Piercings in Byron Bay) causing it to get irritated and ultimately seriously infected and in need of antibiotics to clear it up… Not that it can’t get worse, but this is definitely one of the more unhappy eyebrow piercings I’ve seen!
See more in “Eyebrow Barbells“ (Eyebrow Piercing)