Ouch!

Jan. 17th, 2007 06:54 pm
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I'd forgotten how much fun getting pierced was!  Today's wound was a septum, because I've got a few days off work to let it heal, and I fancy a bone through my nose.  Yes, it hurt, though compared to the PA it was snuggled into place by fluffy kittens.
The lovely Jess soothed me by playing to a weakness: she had monster feet on.  Big fluffy green ones.  Then she grabbed my conk with forceps and stuck a needle through the leathery flesh in time-honoured tradition.

Date: 2007-01-17 07:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fialta.livejournal.com
Did you get any anaesthetic?

Date: 2007-01-17 07:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] andygates.livejournal.com
Hahahahahahahha!

No. That would take the fun out of it! ;)

Date: 2007-01-17 07:34 pm (UTC)

Date: 2007-01-17 08:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] flitljm.livejournal.com
Ow indeed. Any particular bone in mind?

Date: 2007-01-17 08:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] andygates.livejournal.com
Ultimately I quite fancy a long scrimshaw double taper, but a raccoon baculum will do... I'd really like something classy enough to wear with a suit without just looking like the Accused. But for now, a titanium keeper will have to do.

Date: 2007-01-17 08:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] flitljm.livejournal.com
Just how big is a raccoon's baculum? And do you really want to be haunted by an enraged ghostly racoon?

Date: 2007-01-17 09:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] andygates.livejournal.com
An enraged ghostly horny raccoon ;)

Date: 2007-01-17 11:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] andygates.livejournal.com
Talk about a skull-fuck.

Date: 2007-01-19 02:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] flitljm.livejournal.com
Hadn't thought of that, you horrible man.

Oh, and Happy Birthday!

Date: 2007-01-18 09:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] andygates.livejournal.com
All the bacula you could ever want (I don't think that's an overstatement) at SkullsUnlimited: http://www.skullsunlimited.com/baculums.html

Raccoons, it turns out, are *hung*. But lookit the other species! How much pointless testosterone is there, though, in being able to answer "what are you wearing in your nose" with "a wolverine's cock-bone" ?

Date: 2007-01-18 11:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] justoneway.livejournal.com
I had you down as a Walrus baculum man myself.
Show's just how wrong you can be heh!

Date: 2007-01-18 01:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] andygates.livejournal.com
Have you seen the SIZE of the walrus one? It's nearly two feet long! There is a limit to the stupid things I'll do for a giggle, you know...

...I wonder if you can get carbon-fibre hydrofoil nose-bones?

Date: 2007-01-19 02:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] flitljm.livejournal.com
"Although some items offered require CITES permits, no specimen sold by Skulls Unlimited International are an endangered species."

That's CITES, the Convention on Trade in Endangered Species.

best to stick to harvesting bones from roadkill, I reckon.

Date: 2007-01-17 08:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] despaer.livejournal.com
Silly sod

Date: 2007-01-17 09:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] andygates.livejournal.com
Well, yes.

Date: 2007-01-17 11:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] simoneck.livejournal.com
Nice eye colour. Photoshop, camera or lenses?
Happy birthday and the piercing suits you.

Date: 2007-01-17 11:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] andygates.livejournal.com
Photoshop - the pic came out with such a dull colour I couldn't leave it. They don't do lenses in 30-day toric wildtints just yet. As soon as they do, I'll be on 'em like a rash.

Wow!

Date: 2007-01-17 11:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] n-decisive.livejournal.com
Your eyes are incredibly green! Nice!

Also? Cool, and happy birthday. (Is it today, or tomorrow? Cripes, it could be the 18th where you are. I really have no idea.)

Re: Wow!

Date: 2007-01-17 11:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] andygates.livejournal.com
The guilt I feel at dabbing photoshop over those eyes is beginning to beat the throb in my nose. I'll stick to using it to unshine foreheads and remove stains on walls in future.

And thanks!

Re: Wow!

Date: 2007-01-17 11:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] n-decisive.livejournal.com
You are welcome. :)

I am not as good with photoshopping as you are. Somehow, unless I enlarge and take a whole lot of time, I can't get eyes to change colors without making them solid orbs of an unnatural-looking variety. I really thought your eyes were that color until I read your comments.

Re: Wow!

Date: 2007-01-18 12:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] andygates.livejournal.com
Make a second layer. Slap down your discs of colour (with slightly feathered edges) and delete the centres (so the pupil and shine show through) and any overlap where eyelids, etc are. Then just tweak the layer's opacity until it looks about right - those are about 25% opacity.

Nobody ever asked after the zombie avatar, "Wow are you really the ghastly unliving servants of malevolent Haitian sorcerors?" My green must be more convincing than my grave...

Re: Zombie Icon

Date: 2007-01-18 12:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] n-decisive.livejournal.com
See, I didn't think that was photoshopped, either. I thought it was makeup.

You do make an incredibly good undead, though.

(Now I'm Googling zombies to see if they're technically the undead or not...thinking they aren't, technically, because they're just reanimated...the things that entertain me!)

PS-

Date: 2007-01-18 12:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] n-decisive.livejournal.com
Thank you!

Date: 2007-01-18 12:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] arabis.livejournal.com
Happy Birthday! I second [livejournal.com profile] despaer's comment :)

Date: 2007-01-18 03:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] skean.livejournal.com
Kewl!

Like, when you're cycling in the cold, does it get icicles and stuff?

Date: 2007-01-18 05:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] andygates.livejournal.com
Last winter I got ice in my beard. We'll see if we ever get snow!

Date: 2007-01-18 06:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] inkyann.livejournal.com
LOL - happy birthday :) I shall wish you an absence of colds for a few weeks.

Date: 2007-01-18 09:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] andygates.livejournal.com
You have no idea how much I want to hunt down that bogey just behind the piercing, now. Git!

Thanks for the card ;)

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