Ouch!

[andygates]

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.

Comments

[fialta.livejournal.com]

Did you get any anaesthetic?

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Hahahahahahahha!

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

[ankaret.livejournal.com]

Cute!

[flitljm.livejournal.com]

Ow indeed. Any particular bone in mind?

[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.

[flitljm.livejournal.com]

Just how big is a raccoon's baculum? And do you really want to be haunted by an enraged ghostly racoon?

[andygates.livejournal.com]

An enraged ghostly horny raccoon ;)

[thudthwacker.livejournal.com]

Haunted in your nose.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Talk about a skull-fuck.

[flitljm.livejournal.com]

Hadn't thought of that, you horrible man.

Oh, and Happy Birthday!

[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" ?

[justoneway.livejournal.com]

I had you down as a Walrus baculum man myself.
Show's just how wrong you can be heh!

[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?

[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.

[despaer.livejournal.com]

Silly sod

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Well, yes.

[simoneck.livejournal.com]

Nice eye colour. Photoshop, camera or lenses?
Happy birthday and the piercing suits you.

[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!

[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!

[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!

[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!

[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

[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-

[n-decisive.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[arabis.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday! I second despaer's comment :)

[skean.livejournal.com]

Kewl!

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

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Last winter I got ice in my beard. We'll see if we ever get snow!

[inkyann.livejournal.com]

LOL - happy birthday :) I shall wish you an absence of colds for a few weeks.

[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 ;)