"And illusions they fly, but someday soon will clear."
--Future Years, Deadsy

This may just be one of my most important entries ever. Read on, true believers. Brownie points to the people that know where that's from.

Yesterday, while traveling through the village, I ran across my brother. A new hole had magically appeared in his tongue, but luckily a piece of metal had been at hand to plug it with. So now my brother has his tongue pierced. He also recently bought blue hair dye, the other thing that our parents won't let us do.

Let me explain one thing: my parents are not extremely strict. They allow just about anything up to a certain point, with very little negotiation after that. They don't care if I drink, as long as I don't do drugs. They don't care where I go or however late I stay out, as long as I call at some point to tell them. And etc. So when they say something like "You can't dye your hair, or get a tattoo, or get these certain piercings," I grin and bear it because they don't really ask for much from me.

Seeing Jordan with these things got me to thinking (quite rightly) that my parents have just given up on this. So I figure there's a pierced labret somewhere in my future. Sadly, when I talk to them about it, the answer is still no. The reasoning? None, really. There are just some piercings they don't like, but at least they admit there's no rhyme or reason for this. They decided that the tongue was ok mostly because they couldn't see it. On that same theme came the following quote from my mother.

"Get a tattoo or pierce your nipples, just don't pierce your chin. Do something we don't have to see."

This = \m/

So now I'm getting a tattoo. Here's the part where you come in, because I'm turning this into a CONTEST. The rules are fairly simple. This tattoo will be placed somewhere in the area covered by the average t-shirt. Spillage outside of that area is acceptable. So send me designs, suggestions, pics, links, whatever. The winner will be vindicated when the design they suggest appears on my body. The one thing that you should keep in mind is that the current standards are the symbols for the Tzimisce and Black Spiral Dancers. In the event no one sends me anything I like, one of those will adorn my back. So get to work :)

And then there was a riot.

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