A black-and-white photo of a person mid-air in a Superman-style body suspension pose, supported by multiple hooks in their back and legs, smiling joyfully toward the camera. They are suspended horizontally in a large indoor space with high ceilings and visible rigging. A group of onlookers—some seated, some standing—watch with expressions of admiration, amusement, and support. The atmosphere is lively and communal, capturing a moment of shared experience and transformation.

Almost healed

Steve Truitt (Stay Gold, Albuquerque, NM — but given how regularly he’s featured here I’m sure you know that by now!) has been slowly sculpting *Stitch* (this piece was posted fresh as well) into a scarified dreamgirl. Seriously, the number of gorgeous people, male and female, who are now choosing scarification as their dominant personal artform grows all the time… I love it!

Comments

261 responses to “Almost healed”

  1. paleblue Avatar

    _Stigmata_: Your comments about intelligence would be more compelling if you were more than semi-literate. Shouldn’t you be shooting possums somewhere and beating your wife? Go and do that.

  2. _Stigmata_ Avatar

    there is a difference between having some meat and being fat. There is no good reason healthy wise or for sexually. It shows lack of care for yourself. You dont send in pics cause of your own insecurities. not takin the blame there. I can only expect a fat chick with an attitude dont take very appealin pictures anyways. and why would he post it on here. This whol entry was about her scarification and you twinkie gobblers all got bent out of shape. so quit btiching about bein lazy and fat and do something about it. if you refuse to get off your ass and put down the little debbie snack cakes and work out then expect guys not to find you attractive. There is no reason i should act nice or lie to a plumper about how they look just to make them feel better. Hell they cant show any good quality about them so why should i.

  3. bravemenrun Avatar
    bravemenrun

    I am also sorry that even with my bad attitude about fatties that i still manage to fuck skinny chicks like this.

    You are truly a class act.

    The fact that you don’t even understand what the debate is about only further serves to illustrate your stupidity. You should take paleblue’s advice posthaste.

  4. _Stigmata_ Avatar

    and when it comes down to not having anything else to back yourself up why dont you also try correcting my mispelled wording as well. Im guessing from the sounds of it that paleblue is a chubby chaser and loves to part take in hogging.

  5. _Stigmata_ Avatar

    There should be no debate. the fatties started turning this from her scars into her bein to thin and they could never be on modblog cause of their sloppy bodies. remind them what this is about

  6. painted lady Avatar

    _Stigmata_, i hope i never meet you in real life.

    with that, i’m going to go eat a banana and some granola. i haven’t had a little debbie snack cake in probably two years.

  7. _Stigmata_ Avatar

    dont forget to work out and exercise too. sitting on your big ass alone does not make you lose the weight

  8. bravemenrun Avatar
    bravemenrun

    and when it comes down to not having anything else to back yourself up why dont you also try correcting my mispelled wording as well.

    I don’t have all day, hon.

  9. paleblue Avatar

    _Stigmata_, why don’t you come back when you’re in a position to be criticising other people’s aesthetic standards? kthx.

  10. Holly Avatar

    I’m fat and I’ve been on ModBlog.
    *walks away wiggling her fat arse*.

  11. _Stigmata_ Avatar

    therer you go. a fatty spoke up. shannon is not a bad guy he posted one. so felow plumpers stop crying

  12. Holly Avatar

    I have therefore completely disproved your “they could never be on modblog cause of their sloppy bodies” comment.

    Now shut up.

  13. _Stigmata_ Avatar

    i never said that fatties coulnt be on. just not those deprsessed angry ones bitching about it

  14. Holly Avatar

    You never said that? I cut and pasted exactly what you said word for word. Stop backtracking.

  15. paleblue Avatar

    PALEBLUE LOVES TEH HOGGING

  16. _Stigmata_ Avatar

    read it again fatty

  17. Holly Avatar

    I have, ugly.
    Maybe it’s your lack of punctuation or the multiple spelling mistakes, but it still reads exactly the same.

  18. bravemenrun Avatar
    bravemenrun

    paleblue is obviously jus’ jellus that he can’t bag the scrawny chix0rs.

  19. _Stigmata_ Avatar

    i was referring to the fatties whiningabout how they never had time to take pictures due to over eating. they meaning the chosen few for fat rights spoke up. not all fat people. i have seen big girls on modblog. so twist up words to feel better but im sayin fat girls with attitudes dont take good pics.

  20. paleblue Avatar

    paleblue is obviously jus’ jellus that he can’t bag the scrawny chix0rs.

    That’s the most hurtful thing anyone has ever said about me 🙁

  21. paleblue Avatar

    Also, I cannot help but notice that I bagged comment 88. GO TEAM HITLER.

  22. Holly Avatar

    The advancements in digital photography haven’t quite reached the stage where you can tell what someones personality is like just from a photo. Nor does somones personality influence their ability to take good photographs.

    You’re saying you don’t want to see fat people on modblog, and you seem to be under the impression that all men think fat women are unattractive. You’re wrong, plain and simple.

  23. Shawn Tried And True Avatar
    Shawn Tried And True

    I don’t see anything wrong with admiring beautiful mods on beautiful people. What Shannon thinks is beautiful may be different than what one of us thinks, and chances are it is. Modblog, is a place to admire the work of other people, and to put a spotlight on artists who deserve recognition. I don’t see the point of shannon putting up pictures that aren’t going to meet those qualifications.

  24. paleblue Avatar

    For what it’s worth, I think the girl is pretty hot, and I like the scars. But that’s not the issue here.

  25. Hanargh Avatar

    Curvy women are beautiful. End of.

    As the beautiful south sang “I like to hold something I can see”.

    And Paleblue pwned this “debate”. He loves a bit of hogging, or so I hear.

  26. _Stigmata_ Avatar

    You are a fool if you are sayin you dont see personality threw photos. You cant take and angry person or depressed person and make them look happy. Peoples emotions show threw photographs. If a chick is ashamwed or insecure of her body it will show in the picture. And the issue here was about her work.it was not until some angry insecure fatties came in here talkin shit and complaining like shannon was some type of nazi. well if he is i hope he built a oven bigger enough to squeeze some of these bitter women into. genoicide for the fats

  27. bravemenrun Avatar
    bravemenrun

    I don’t see anything wrong with admiring beautiful mods on beautiful people.

    I don’t think anyone would disagree with that. The problem is that there’s a very narrow definition of beauty being represented. And yes, it’s Shannon’s blog and he can do whatever he wants and blah blah fucking blah, but he’s in a position of considerable influence in this so-called community and he doesn’t seem to take that very seriously. Rather than presenting the true diversity that we all know exists, we get skinny, big-eyed chick after skinny, big-eyed chick. And I think people are right to protest that.

  28. _Stigmata_ Avatar

    skinny girls take better pics.

  29. paleblue Avatar

    I have this image of _Stigmata_ stretched out in a bathtub, jerking off like a safari park chimp while a fat chick in latex takes a shit on his chest. Just sayin’.

  30. bravemenrun Avatar
    bravemenrun

    skinny girls take better pics.

    The person on the other side of the camera takes the pictures, genius.

  31. _Stigmata_ Avatar

    I’ll leave the hogging to you. There is NOTHING attractive to me about a fat girl. How a guy can get hard to fuck one is beyond me. I can drink away ugly but i cant drink away fat

  32. _Stigmata_ Avatar

    maybe skinny girls take pics of skinny girls. you ever thought of that

  33. Fergy Avatar
    Fergy

    Okay, so here is my take on all of this:

    This is Shannon’s blog, hosted on his website. He can do whatever he wishes with it, display whatever pictures he wants on it, etc. However, that does not mean that the people are part of the BME community will not feel offended or left out if he is only displaying photos of one general body type…skinny. There is nothing wrong with skinny people, people of all body types can be very attractive, but a lot of people feel like this should be a place that is different than mainstream society. We can look in any magazine, on any website, on any tv show, anywhere..and see ridiculously skinny/hot women……

    And as for you Stigmata, you need to calm the fuck down. You are being a flaming asshole for what seems like nothing more than the sake of being an asshole. Try conjuring up a single intelligent thought before you post on here next time. It’s goddamn annoying seeing post after post of “fuck fatties, fatties are jealous, fatties blahblahblah”. Jesus Christ man, it’s just uncalled for. You do nothing but come across as an ignorant, judgemental, dick. But maybe that is how you want to come across.

  34. Holly Avatar

    You can not tell what a person is like from one photograph. The photographer can make a photo say anything they want it to about the subject. It’s all a matter of facial expressions, settings and lighting. All of which can be easily changed.

    You may not find fat girls attractive, that’s your opinion and you’re entitled to it. However, you’re not entitled to insult and belittle people you don’t even know just because you wouldn’t want to fuck them. With an attitude like that no fat chicks will ever want to fuck you either, so you’ve nothing to worry about.

  35. cere Avatar

    You people have way too much free time, i cant keep up.

    In closing. Jons right. The rest of you are wrong. If some of you like fat girls thats fine, everyone has different taste but you cant be so naieve as to not realize that THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE SHARE THE SAME aesthetic and chubby chasers are a minority. Modblog will reflect Shannons ideals of beauty which happen to coincide with the majority.

    The true issue here is Jealousy. You fat girls have got to get over this. Your jealous that someone else is on modblog and you think its their weight that got them there.

    WELL IT PARTLY IS. DONT LIKE IT?? LOSE WEIGHT.

    ANd yes, ANYONE can do it, its a matter of how much devotion you are going to put into it.

    And the majority of fat people are too devoted to making excuses and throwing venom at stitch over their own insecurities instead of getting in shape.

    The TRUE issue here is why isnt her best scarification piece in the photo? (Sorry stitch, had to throw that in there).

  36. painted lady Avatar

    i don’t remember saying that i think shannon is a nazi. in fact, i don’t think that shannon is a nazi at all. he is a nice person.

    like Fergy said, i wish that i could see more people who look average-sized on modblog because in the rest of the world, everyone is pretty much skin and bones and nothing else. i thought people on here had more substance than that (literally and mentally).

    larger women with good tattoos and well-healed piercings exist! there are plenty of women who have amazing body mods who deserve to get onto modblog. i have a few friends who were at the same event, and one of their pictures got on here, and the other’s didn’t. both sets of pictures were beautiful and amazing, but the one who was skinny and “shannon’s type” got on here. that bothers me.

    and my ass is very nice, stigmata, thank you for asking. i don’t just “sit on my big ass” all day. douchebag.

  37. _Stigmata_ Avatar

    Now how did i become the bad guy here. I dont see how anyone could say i was mean and an asshole. you never got the chance to meet me:( we could have sat back and had tea together

  38. Shawn Tried And True Avatar
    Shawn Tried And True

    The thing I don’t understand is everyone’s perceptions on what is fat and what is not…

    Stigmata may think one person is fat while another person may think that same person is average. Instead of taking his words and turning them into something much worse than they are try and think about it in a different light.

    So many people have put the word Fat in quotes in this discussion because the word is subjective. It has different meanings for everyone.

  39. _Stigmata_ Avatar

    one last thing for now. why is it everyone bitching about me being rude ends there statement with some rude insult or comment about me. how is that not a contradiction. average size….wtf is that its quite average to be skinny. its a healthy way to live. you feel better and look better. if so many fat girls take good pics and have good art then why does it not show more. its an average in here to see skinny girls. go figure. anyways… dont hate cere or myself just because we happen to be black. thats just not right

  40. Holly Avatar

    “THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE SHARE THE SAME aesthetic and chubby chasers are a minority.”

    Again I ask: Where is your evidence to support this?

  41. Shawn Tried And True Avatar
    Shawn Tried And True

    I agree with Cere, instead of making excuses when you know there is a problem, take iniative and do something about it. I used to wigh 240lbs, I have made a change, and I did it on MY OWN. I didn’t bitch about it or blame it on someone else.

  42. painted lady Avatar

    no one is bitching about being fat or overweight! not one person in here has said, “Oh Em Gee, i am soooooooo fat, and it’s sooooo annoying when i want to wear a bikini! hehehehe!”

    we are average-sized women who are a little fed up with being told we are fat. like it or not, calling someone fat isn’t nice.

    and i called you a douchebag because you’ve insulted me personally quite a few times.

  43. Fergy Avatar
    Fergy

    Why? Because you are being a fucking dick. Why should I not be pissed about that? I’m not just going to say “Stigmata, sir, I politefully request that you stop saying such mean things.” or some such bullshit. You are being a dick and going above and beyond your job. I’m pissed because you are insulting a whole group of people where-as I am insulting an asshole.

    Average is NOT skinny. Average is average. MOST people are not skinny. MOST people on IAM are not skinny. MOST people are not “fat”. Just because you arent fat doesnt mean you arent skinny and vise versa. There is an in-between…it exists! I’m serious about that…there really is more than skinny and fat.

  44. paleblue Avatar

    Dear Cere,

    Please stop wasting bandwidth with your third-rate yttrx impersonation.

    Thanks,

    The Internet.

    PS: What painted lady said.

  45. _Stigmata_ Avatar

    So if i was fat your sayin its ok for me to be an asshole and rude and insult people. average is not a size. fat and skinny are. if there are more skinny good looking women then sayin avaerage would be sayin you are skinny. because then its not sayin your anoeric right? big deal you have some extra weight. decided if you want to be fat or skinny. why stop half way between a side.

  46. Shawn Tried And True Avatar
    Shawn Tried And True

    I never said people in this particular occassion were bitching about their body weight…

    I was just saying, the people that do bitch about it are the ones who don’t do anything about it. And the ones who don’t do anything about it are the ones that don’t get featured on Modblog. Modblog is Shannon’s blog right? So I mean it makes sense that he posts pictures of women/men who are attractive in his eyes.

    And for the record…I love women of all shapes and sizes, and I think women in general are beutiful. My comments in regards to size and relation to beauty are directed at both men AND women. I just think this discussion isn’t at all necessary, but it doesn’t seem to be going away any time soon.

  47. paleblue Avatar

    _Stigmata_: Did you forget to take off Dumb Lock before you started typing? That was just noise to me.

  48. bravemenrun Avatar
    bravemenrun

    Stigmata may think one person is fat while another person may think that same person is average. Instead of taking his words and turning them into something much worse than they are try and think about it in a different light.

    Yeah, the guy who’s advocating “genocide for the fatties” is really having his words twisted around. Poor baby.

  49. Shawn Tried And True Avatar
    Shawn Tried And True

    You’re only supporting it by thinking that way. Like I said, fat is a subjective word. It is the ones who think they are fat that are getting offended.

  50. Fergy Avatar
    Fergy

    What in the fuck are you talking about dude? That shit made no sense at all. NO it is not okay for you to be an asshole. I’m not an asshole because I am “fat” by your standard…how that works I do not know…but what the hell ever. You are being a fucking ASSHOLE to a group of people, you taking cheap shots and acting like a 7th grader. I am insulting YOU. Personally. Because you are a fucking dick. Do you see the difference? If you were insulting mentally handicapped people, or black people, or some other group that already gets enough shit as it is I would also call you out for being a fucking dick. I don’t see why you can’t get this through your head. Do you not think you are a dick? Do you feel you are being reasonable? This shit just makes no sense.

    Also, saying it is “healthy” to be skinny is a fucking joke. I could do coke all day, exercise until I puke and pass out, eat next to nothing, and drink nothing but water and be skinny. Unfortunately I know a of people who do shit like that. That shit is not healthy. Hell, the absolute majority of “skinny” people I know are that way because they have an extremely high metabolism. They eat fast food and pizza all the fucking time. They sit in their chair on their computer and play counterstrike 6 hours a day, and they drive everywhere.

    Likewise I know plenty of people who are technically overweight who eat extremely healthy AND exercise quite often…they are probably more “healthy” than most anyone I know…they just happen to have some chub.

    And dude, there are more sizes than skinny and fat. For fucks sake…what world do you live in?!

    FUCK. This frustrating.

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