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.

Sticks and Stones and Such


… wait, what? I just got here. I haven’t even had a coffee yet. Why you gotta hate?

Now, now — I appreciate the support, Sylvester, but maybe watch the potty-mouth.

Oh, right. Mornin’, Modblog!

(“STFU NOOB” is on IAM: h3110xk177y by Mitch at In The Flesh in Austin, TX. Swearin’ Sylvester is by Fred “Big Red” Bulbeck at Skin Creations Tattoos and Piercing in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.)

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290 responses to “Sticks and Stones and Such”

  1. Toast Avatar
    Toast

    as someone mentioned above; what if she *doesnt want* sleeves, ect, but DOES want her knuckles?
    im in that position myself, i have a few large pieces, but nothing visible with clothes on, and the only visible work i want will be my knuckles and my throat. i dont have them yet, and i am planning on waiting quite a while (im only 21) but when i do get them, i would be pretty sad to see people talking about me the way all you guys are talking about her.

  2. Toast Avatar
    Toast

    as someone mentioned above; what if she *doesnt want* sleeves, ect, but DOES want her knuckles?
    im in that position myself, i have a few large pieces, but nothing visible with clothes on, and the only visible work i want will be my knuckles and my throat. i dont have them yet, and i am planning on waiting quite a while (im only 21) but when i do get them, i would be pretty sad to see people talking about me the way all you guys are talking about her.

  3. lil Avatar

    I’m almost 22 and I have no full sleeves or a chest piece or any piece, just 5 randomly placed tattoos.

    Does this mean I’m non scene or….?? 😉

  4. lil Avatar

    I’m almost 22 and I have no full sleeves or a chest piece or any piece, just 5 randomly placed tattoos.

    Does this mean I’m non scene or….?? 😉

  5. lil Avatar

    p.s why arent smileys enabled on the internetz :O

  6. lil Avatar

    p.s why arent smileys enabled on the internetz :O

  7. Dagon Avatar

    I’m gonna go get my knuckles tattooed right now JUST TO SPITE YOU ALL.

    Oh wait… I have a sleeve started already… damn.
    Anyway, I’d be angrier at young people starting up smoking than getting visibly tattooed.

  8. Dagon Avatar

    I’m gonna go get my knuckles tattooed right now JUST TO SPITE YOU ALL.

    Oh wait… I have a sleeve started already… damn.
    Anyway, I’d be angrier at young people starting up smoking than getting visibly tattooed.

  9. Smurf666 Avatar
    Smurf666

    Shit
    Tattoo
    Fucked
    Up
    Nine-to-five
    Office
    Occupation,
    Bollocks.

  10. Smurf666 Avatar
    Smurf666

    Shit
    Tattoo
    Fucked
    Up
    Nine-to-five
    Office
    Occupation,
    Bollocks.

  11. kenbot Avatar

    shes pretty amazing i think.

  12. kenbot Avatar

    shes pretty amazing i think.

  13. Pidge Avatar
    Pidge

    Smurf666-As it was mentioned before, what makes you assume she wants an 9-to-5er?

  14. Pidge Avatar
    Pidge

    Smurf666-As it was mentioned before, what makes you assume she wants an 9-to-5er?

  15. Rehan Avatar
    Rehan

    #57 it’s not always about what you want to be, sometimes you just can’t decide where you want your money to come from and at the end of the day it’s the guy forking out your wages that’s got all the marbles and if they don’t like it you’re screwed

  16. Rehan Avatar
    Rehan

    #57 it’s not always about what you want to be, sometimes you just can’t decide where you want your money to come from and at the end of the day it’s the guy forking out your wages that’s got all the marbles and if they don’t like it you’re screwed

  17. jonny Avatar

    everyone be quiet and stop judging people you dont know?

  18. jonny Avatar

    everyone be quiet and stop judging people you dont know?

  19. wigbendy Avatar
    wigbendy

    #55!

    HA! Lovely!

    Yah yah yah, who knows where she lives, what she does, what she will do or won’t.

    You can’t please everyone, so you gotta please yourself!

    props for boldness

  20. wigbendy Avatar
    wigbendy

    #55!

    HA! Lovely!

    Yah yah yah, who knows where she lives, what she does, what she will do or won’t.

    You can’t please everyone, so you gotta please yourself!

    props for boldness

  21. Pidge Avatar
    Pidge

    This elitist bullshit that’s being flung around is tiring. You can dress it up all you want, justify it as wisdom and a moral compass kicking in, but it’s still shit. People are getting butthurt because she didn’t go through some ‘initiation’, and presumedly jumped right to getting her knuckles done. No one here really has the right to tell anyone they don’t ‘deserve’ a tattoo or weigh them down with all their hangups. So you’ve gotten crap about your body work, tough titties.

    You don’t know her situation, whether she is financially stable and has it all figured out or not and yet some of you are practically determining her future lying in some gutter begging for change.

    If she ruined her chances of a nice corporate gig, so be it, lessoned learned. It narrows the field and she’ll have to work harder to prove hs’e legit. If she never had any intention, no skin of her nose. There are more than nine to five jobs out there and by your logic, Rehan, she wouldn’t get hired on anyway since the boss ‘won’t like it’.

  22. Pidge Avatar
    Pidge

    This elitist bullshit that’s being flung around is tiring. You can dress it up all you want, justify it as wisdom and a moral compass kicking in, but it’s still shit. People are getting butthurt because she didn’t go through some ‘initiation’, and presumedly jumped right to getting her knuckles done. No one here really has the right to tell anyone they don’t ‘deserve’ a tattoo or weigh them down with all their hangups. So you’ve gotten crap about your body work, tough titties.

    You don’t know her situation, whether she is financially stable and has it all figured out or not and yet some of you are practically determining her future lying in some gutter begging for change.

    If she ruined her chances of a nice corporate gig, so be it, lessoned learned. It narrows the field and she’ll have to work harder to prove hs’e legit. If she never had any intention, no skin of her nose. There are more than nine to five jobs out there and by your logic, Rehan, she wouldn’t get hired on anyway since the boss ‘won’t like it’.

  23. Stessa Avatar

    I mean, I personally wouldn’t do it (for multiple reasons) but hey, if she likes it.
    I’m sure she must have thought of the ‘consequences’ before hand, or at least I really hope she did.
    Plus, It’s well done- so if one day she happens to regret it, at least it won’t be because it was done shitty.

  24. Stessa Avatar

    I mean, I personally wouldn’t do it (for multiple reasons) but hey, if she likes it.
    I’m sure she must have thought of the ‘consequences’ before hand, or at least I really hope she did.
    Plus, It’s well done- so if one day she happens to regret it, at least it won’t be because it was done shitty.

  25. Xenobiologista Avatar

    ROFL @ the first photo. Not so much the second one – cartoon character tattoos are boring, frankly.

  26. Xenobiologista Avatar

    ROFL @ the first photo. Not so much the second one – cartoon character tattoos are boring, frankly.

  27. Jason Avatar

    fuck… I can imagine what would happen if I was ever modblogged haha
    Im 21 have my throat tattooed,my knuckles,my whole hand, my left forearm and both of my legs….
    and to be honest, I couldnt care less what a bunch of keyboard warriors say over the internet about people who clearly are more self confident and happy within themselves than people who look over forums to talk down to people. I hope that everyone that has bitched about this girl will tommorow go out and verbalize those thoughts to the first visibly tattooed person you see…and I hope they kick your ass,….i would.

  28. Jason Avatar

    fuck… I can imagine what would happen if I was ever modblogged haha
    Im 21 have my throat tattooed,my knuckles,my whole hand, my left forearm and both of my legs….
    and to be honest, I couldnt care less what a bunch of keyboard warriors say over the internet about people who clearly are more self confident and happy within themselves than people who look over forums to talk down to people. I hope that everyone that has bitched about this girl will tommorow go out and verbalize those thoughts to the first visibly tattooed person you see…and I hope they kick your ass,….i would.

  29. Jason Avatar

    oh and by the way. They look pretty cool…FTW

  30. Jason Avatar

    oh and by the way. They look pretty cool…FTW

  31. bradly Avatar
    bradly

    #64 ur weaker than any1 posting here threatining people for thier choice of words and thoughts no one condens it here opions and thoughts are alowwed even face to face fuckin wanker

  32. bradly Avatar
    bradly

    #64 ur weaker than any1 posting here threatining people for thier choice of words and thoughts no one condens it here opions and thoughts are alowwed even face to face fuckin wanker

  33. Jason Avatar

    haha your funny!!
    Bradly, you are quite obviously stupid, because if you werent you would realise the point was that NONE of those people would ever say any of those things to a stranger in person so why do people suddenly grow huge balls over the web. Oh and there are a few kids games here on the wide world of the internet that could help you to learn to spell.

  34. Jason Avatar

    haha your funny!!
    Bradly, you are quite obviously stupid, because if you werent you would realise the point was that NONE of those people would ever say any of those things to a stranger in person so why do people suddenly grow huge balls over the web. Oh and there are a few kids games here on the wide world of the internet that could help you to learn to spell.

  35. jolly_roger Avatar
    jolly_roger

    this all just seems a bit ridiculous. I’m not a huge fan of what the knuckles say, but their not my hands. Best of luck to her.

  36. jolly_roger Avatar
    jolly_roger

    this all just seems a bit ridiculous. I’m not a huge fan of what the knuckles say, but their not my hands. Best of luck to her.

  37. bradly Avatar
    bradly

    jason{{{{{{
    A note from Trelease on Reading & Spelling

    FOR those obsessing over spelling and phonics, here’s something to ponder. In fact, if you ponder it long enough, it could drive you crazy or at least make you reconsider previous positions. The following paragraph arrived in my email in October, 2003. Nearly every word of it is inexcusably misspelled and phonetically impossible, yet I had no trouble reading and understanding it. You probably won’t either.

    Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer inwaht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is tahtthe frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae.The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit any porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, butthe wrod as a wlohe.

  38. bradly Avatar
    bradly

    jason{{{{{{
    A note from Trelease on Reading & Spelling

    FOR those obsessing over spelling and phonics, here’s something to ponder. In fact, if you ponder it long enough, it could drive you crazy or at least make you reconsider previous positions. The following paragraph arrived in my email in October, 2003. Nearly every word of it is inexcusably misspelled and phonetically impossible, yet I had no trouble reading and understanding it. You probably won’t either.

    Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer inwaht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is tahtthe frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae.The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit any porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, butthe wrod as a wlohe.

  39. Tsarik Avatar
    Tsarik

    rad

  40. Tsarik Avatar
    Tsarik

    rad

  41. Kandy Avatar
    Kandy

    I like the knuckle tats. =^.^= Someday I will have a set of my own. 😀

  42. Kandy Avatar
    Kandy

    I like the knuckle tats. =^.^= Someday I will have a set of my own. 😀

  43. Dakota Avatar
    Dakota

    Thank you #22!!! Hey, maybe she works on computers, notice the l33t sp34k pattern of her tattoo and username? What good is it going to do with you guys criticizing her for getting this anyway, it’s too late. Plus, look at her facial piercings- I’m sure she’s no stranger to the “stigma” attached with such visible body mods.

  44. Dakota Avatar
    Dakota

    Thank you #22!!! Hey, maybe she works on computers, notice the l33t sp34k pattern of her tattoo and username? What good is it going to do with you guys criticizing her for getting this anyway, it’s too late. Plus, look at her facial piercings- I’m sure she’s no stranger to the “stigma” attached with such visible body mods.

  45. bradly Avatar
    bradly

    i have put allot of thought into the swastika(racksha kavach( in the middle of my forhead but draw a blank for now from my knuckles on down I put allot more thought into removing one of my fingers with a stone blade like maybe in atrip to the dani tribe I understand they whack the funny bone on the elbow(arm) as a form of numbing but if i cant do it numb free and without pupil dialation or flickering then im just not there yet but im thinking ill be there b4 i know what i want on my knuckles but what i do know for sure want i do like is beep beep move over that ass is 2 fattt

  46. bradly Avatar
    bradly

    i have put allot of thought into the swastika(racksha kavach( in the middle of my forhead but draw a blank for now from my knuckles on down I put allot more thought into removing one of my fingers with a stone blade like maybe in atrip to the dani tribe I understand they whack the funny bone on the elbow(arm) as a form of numbing but if i cant do it numb free and without pupil dialation or flickering then im just not there yet but im thinking ill be there b4 i know what i want on my knuckles but what i do know for sure want i do like is beep beep move over that ass is 2 fattt

  47. lookimBr4t0lhxc Avatar
    lookimBr4t0lhxc

    Pssh, wow. SO “hardxcore” with those knuckle’s, man! I mean, really. Just wow.

  48. lookimBr4t0lhxc Avatar
    lookimBr4t0lhxc

    Pssh, wow. SO “hardxcore” with those knuckle’s, man! I mean, really. Just wow.

  49. Dandy Avatar
    Dandy

    She is hot and so is her tattoo….

    She can be my wife, ill do the working, she can level my WoW characters…

    Case closed.

  50. Dandy Avatar
    Dandy

    She is hot and so is her tattoo….

    She can be my wife, ill do the working, she can level my WoW characters…

    Case closed.

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