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.

Take Him By the Tail


Oh hey, it’s Nik Santos! Here he is, amusing the local schoolchildren in Grass Valley, California (possibly?) with his comically over-sized 5/8″-inch thick “bull ring from hell,” as he puts it. What’s the best way to win over young Nik? “If you’re straight edge, have mods or get naked,” he says, “we could be friends.” We think he’ll get along juuust fine.

After the jump, Nik becomes ensnared in an organic finger-trap. Let this be a cautionary tale to ye all.

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Comments

135 responses to “Take Him By the Tail”

  1. atrophy. Avatar

    sooooooo sick of the better-than-thou sxe mentality..

  2. atrophy. Avatar

    sooooooo sick of the better-than-thou sxe mentality..

  3. atrophy. Avatar

    sooooooo sick of the better-than-thou sxe mentality..

  4. atrophy. Avatar

    sooooooo sick of the better-than-thou sxe mentality..

  5. atrophy. Avatar

    sooooooo sick of the better-than-thou sxe mentality..

  6. Dean Avatar
    Dean

    That is fucking awesome..i love his giant giant ring..an the tattooed eyebrows are pretty funky too..

  7. Dean Avatar
    Dean

    That is fucking awesome..i love his giant giant ring..an the tattooed eyebrows are pretty funky too..

  8. Dean Avatar
    Dean

    That is fucking awesome..i love his giant giant ring..an the tattooed eyebrows are pretty funky too..

  9. Dean Avatar
    Dean

    That is fucking awesome..i love his giant giant ring..an the tattooed eyebrows are pretty funky too..

  10. Dean Avatar
    Dean

    That is fucking awesome..i love his giant giant ring..an the tattooed eyebrows are pretty funky too..

  11. Stephanie Avatar
    Stephanie

    So I guess the easiest way to get on Modblog is to put something stupid in your piercings as jewelry. Man this is so much better than it used to be, who wants to see new an innovative techniques when we can see some moron with ugly facial tattoos put something big in his septum.

  12. Stephanie Avatar
    Stephanie

    So I guess the easiest way to get on Modblog is to put something stupid in your piercings as jewelry. Man this is so much better than it used to be, who wants to see new an innovative techniques when we can see some moron with ugly facial tattoos put something big in his septum.

  13. Stephanie Avatar
    Stephanie

    So I guess the easiest way to get on Modblog is to put something stupid in your piercings as jewelry. Man this is so much better than it used to be, who wants to see new an innovative techniques when we can see some moron with ugly facial tattoos put something big in his septum.

  14. Stephanie Avatar
    Stephanie

    So I guess the easiest way to get on Modblog is to put something stupid in your piercings as jewelry. Man this is so much better than it used to be, who wants to see new an innovative techniques when we can see some moron with ugly facial tattoos put something big in his septum.

  15. Stephanie Avatar
    Stephanie

    So I guess the easiest way to get on Modblog is to put something stupid in your piercings as jewelry. Man this is so much better than it used to be, who wants to see new an innovative techniques when we can see some moron with ugly facial tattoos put something big in his septum.

  16. AnnaMonoxide Avatar

    i’m not really a fan of any of this. i don’t think the eyebrow tattoos are flattering (and i am actually a fan of facial tattoos), and if i’m straight edge, we can be friends? well, i can safely say i’m glad i’m not.

  17. AnnaMonoxide Avatar

    i’m not really a fan of any of this. i don’t think the eyebrow tattoos are flattering (and i am actually a fan of facial tattoos), and if i’m straight edge, we can be friends? well, i can safely say i’m glad i’m not.

  18. AnnaMonoxide Avatar

    i’m not really a fan of any of this. i don’t think the eyebrow tattoos are flattering (and i am actually a fan of facial tattoos), and if i’m straight edge, we can be friends? well, i can safely say i’m glad i’m not.

  19. AnnaMonoxide Avatar

    i’m not really a fan of any of this. i don’t think the eyebrow tattoos are flattering (and i am actually a fan of facial tattoos), and if i’m straight edge, we can be friends? well, i can safely say i’m glad i’m not.

  20. AnnaMonoxide Avatar

    i’m not really a fan of any of this. i don’t think the eyebrow tattoos are flattering (and i am actually a fan of facial tattoos), and if i’m straight edge, we can be friends? well, i can safely say i’m glad i’m not.

  21. mink Avatar
    mink

    sadly, this isn’t to extraordinary for the great city of grass valley i call home.

  22. mink Avatar
    mink

    sadly, this isn’t to extraordinary for the great city of grass valley i call home.

  23. mink Avatar
    mink

    sadly, this isn’t to extraordinary for the great city of grass valley i call home.

  24. mink Avatar
    mink

    sadly, this isn’t to extraordinary for the great city of grass valley i call home.

  25. mink Avatar
    mink

    sadly, this isn’t to extraordinary for the great city of grass valley i call home.

  26. WillyWonka Avatar
    WillyWonka

    cat’s bum labret.

  27. WillyWonka Avatar
    WillyWonka

    cat’s bum labret.

  28. WillyWonka Avatar
    WillyWonka

    cat’s bum labret.

  29. WillyWonka Avatar
    WillyWonka

    cat’s bum labret.

  30. WillyWonka Avatar
    WillyWonka

    cat’s bum labret.

  31. hate' Avatar
    hate’

    i really wanna know where he got that ring

  32. hate' Avatar
    hate’

    i really wanna know where he got that ring

  33. hate' Avatar
    hate’

    i really wanna know where he got that ring

  34. hate' Avatar
    hate’

    i really wanna know where he got that ring

  35. hate' Avatar
    hate’

    i really wanna know where he got that ring

  36. Django.Iscariot Avatar
    Django.Iscariot

    Wow, I’m glad I rarely read the comments around here. I think I’ll keep it this way so I go on pretending that the other readers aren’t arrogant, pretentious snobs that have to criticize everything and ruin it for those of us that just like seeing people’s mods.

  37. Django.Iscariot Avatar
    Django.Iscariot

    Wow, I’m glad I rarely read the comments around here. I think I’ll keep it this way so I go on pretending that the other readers aren’t arrogant, pretentious snobs that have to criticize everything and ruin it for those of us that just like seeing people’s mods.

  38. Django.Iscariot Avatar
    Django.Iscariot

    Wow, I’m glad I rarely read the comments around here. I think I’ll keep it this way so I go on pretending that the other readers aren’t arrogant, pretentious snobs that have to criticize everything and ruin it for those of us that just like seeing people’s mods.

  39. Django.Iscariot Avatar
    Django.Iscariot

    Wow, I’m glad I rarely read the comments around here. I think I’ll keep it this way so I go on pretending that the other readers aren’t arrogant, pretentious snobs that have to criticize everything and ruin it for those of us that just like seeing people’s mods.

  40. Django.Iscariot Avatar
    Django.Iscariot

    Wow, I’m glad I rarely read the comments around here. I think I’ll keep it this way so I go on pretending that the other readers aren’t arrogant, pretentious snobs that have to criticize everything and ruin it for those of us that just like seeing people’s mods.

  41. Nick Avatar
    Nick

    @Django.Iscariot

    Honestly, I’m inclined to agree, but at the same time i don’t think anyone in their right mind could argue that modblog is half the place it was when shannon was around. Lately it feels like I only check the blog out of habit. It seems more and more people are realizing that and are sick and tired of the same old recycled crap.

    I wish Shannon would restart bodytwo, Or something that actually benefits the community, as it has become clear that modblog has no intention of living up to what it once was.

  42. Nick Avatar
    Nick

    @Django.Iscariot

    Honestly, I’m inclined to agree, but at the same time i don’t think anyone in their right mind could argue that modblog is half the place it was when shannon was around. Lately it feels like I only check the blog out of habit. It seems more and more people are realizing that and are sick and tired of the same old recycled crap.

    I wish Shannon would restart bodytwo, Or something that actually benefits the community, as it has become clear that modblog has no intention of living up to what it once was.

  43. Nick Avatar
    Nick

    @Django.Iscariot

    Honestly, I’m inclined to agree, but at the same time i don’t think anyone in their right mind could argue that modblog is half the place it was when shannon was around. Lately it feels like I only check the blog out of habit. It seems more and more people are realizing that and are sick and tired of the same old recycled crap.

    I wish Shannon would restart bodytwo, Or something that actually benefits the community, as it has become clear that modblog has no intention of living up to what it once was.

  44. Nick Avatar
    Nick

    @Django.Iscariot

    Honestly, I’m inclined to agree, but at the same time i don’t think anyone in their right mind could argue that modblog is half the place it was when shannon was around. Lately it feels like I only check the blog out of habit. It seems more and more people are realizing that and are sick and tired of the same old recycled crap.

    I wish Shannon would restart bodytwo, Or something that actually benefits the community, as it has become clear that modblog has no intention of living up to what it once was.

  45. Nick Avatar
    Nick

    @Django.Iscariot

    Honestly, I’m inclined to agree, but at the same time i don’t think anyone in their right mind could argue that modblog is half the place it was when shannon was around. Lately it feels like I only check the blog out of habit. It seems more and more people are realizing that and are sick and tired of the same old recycled crap.

    I wish Shannon would restart bodytwo, Or something that actually benefits the community, as it has become clear that modblog has no intention of living up to what it once was.

  46. DS3M Avatar
    DS3M

    @3, 4, 8
    Seriously though,
    I am damned tired of seeing the same bums on here, sticking crazy things in his piercings.

    Seeing peoples Mods? WTF … Whats New Here? Same thing – I got a big hole, I’m gonna put a mouse in it, a finger, a big ring, an inappropriate object, etc. It gets damned old.

    Sick of Babasom, Sick of that ferdudurke dude, Sick of seeing freakishness being done for the sake of freakishness. No close ups on mods, techniques, art pieces on the body. Just long shots of idiocy.

    You’re right, i wanna see mods too. But I am so sick of nude girls with two microdermals, or a cute face with some random piercings. Puh Leeze, let’s get into what this is about – the art, the mod, the experience. Not putting bizarre shit in and through your body so you can snap a pic and send it off to the modblog.

  47. DS3M Avatar
    DS3M

    @3, 4, 8
    Seriously though,
    I am damned tired of seeing the same bums on here, sticking crazy things in his piercings.

    Seeing peoples Mods? WTF … Whats New Here? Same thing – I got a big hole, I’m gonna put a mouse in it, a finger, a big ring, an inappropriate object, etc. It gets damned old.

    Sick of Babasom, Sick of that ferdudurke dude, Sick of seeing freakishness being done for the sake of freakishness. No close ups on mods, techniques, art pieces on the body. Just long shots of idiocy.

    You’re right, i wanna see mods too. But I am so sick of nude girls with two microdermals, or a cute face with some random piercings. Puh Leeze, let’s get into what this is about – the art, the mod, the experience. Not putting bizarre shit in and through your body so you can snap a pic and send it off to the modblog.

  48. DS3M Avatar
    DS3M

    @3, 4, 8
    Seriously though,
    I am damned tired of seeing the same bums on here, sticking crazy things in his piercings.

    Seeing peoples Mods? WTF … Whats New Here? Same thing – I got a big hole, I’m gonna put a mouse in it, a finger, a big ring, an inappropriate object, etc. It gets damned old.

    Sick of Babasom, Sick of that ferdudurke dude, Sick of seeing freakishness being done for the sake of freakishness. No close ups on mods, techniques, art pieces on the body. Just long shots of idiocy.

    You’re right, i wanna see mods too. But I am so sick of nude girls with two microdermals, or a cute face with some random piercings. Puh Leeze, let’s get into what this is about – the art, the mod, the experience. Not putting bizarre shit in and through your body so you can snap a pic and send it off to the modblog.

  49. DS3M Avatar
    DS3M

    @3, 4, 8
    Seriously though,
    I am damned tired of seeing the same bums on here, sticking crazy things in his piercings.

    Seeing peoples Mods? WTF … Whats New Here? Same thing – I got a big hole, I’m gonna put a mouse in it, a finger, a big ring, an inappropriate object, etc. It gets damned old.

    Sick of Babasom, Sick of that ferdudurke dude, Sick of seeing freakishness being done for the sake of freakishness. No close ups on mods, techniques, art pieces on the body. Just long shots of idiocy.

    You’re right, i wanna see mods too. But I am so sick of nude girls with two microdermals, or a cute face with some random piercings. Puh Leeze, let’s get into what this is about – the art, the mod, the experience. Not putting bizarre shit in and through your body so you can snap a pic and send it off to the modblog.

  50. DS3M Avatar
    DS3M

    @3, 4, 8
    Seriously though,
    I am damned tired of seeing the same bums on here, sticking crazy things in his piercings.

    Seeing peoples Mods? WTF … Whats New Here? Same thing – I got a big hole, I’m gonna put a mouse in it, a finger, a big ring, an inappropriate object, etc. It gets damned old.

    Sick of Babasom, Sick of that ferdudurke dude, Sick of seeing freakishness being done for the sake of freakishness. No close ups on mods, techniques, art pieces on the body. Just long shots of idiocy.

    You’re right, i wanna see mods too. But I am so sick of nude girls with two microdermals, or a cute face with some random piercings. Puh Leeze, let’s get into what this is about – the art, the mod, the experience. Not putting bizarre shit in and through your body so you can snap a pic and send it off to the modblog.

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