Re: Branding practice?
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 19:51:38 -0400, Curt James <cwj111@psu.edu> wrote:
>HEY! Are you being flippant???!
Who, me? Flippant? You must have mistaken me for that other anonymous poster,
over there --> :D
>In fact, it wasn't meant so much as an insult, but more of a knee-jerk
>reaction to the thought of branding someone myself. Erghh! Not
>happening.
Until recently, I would have had the same reaction; although I have several
body mods, he doesn't, and branding isn't something I've been interested in
either giving or receiving. However, there's a whole lot of context to this
that makes it feel very right and compelling.
>There's the thing also, again from my perhaps narrow point of view, if
>you won't/can't have/take the opportunity to do this right, then I
>trust you won't do it at all. Duh. I guess your comment, "If I don't
>think I can do this without fucking it up, I won't," sure help me
>sleep easy, right?
Sleep easy. :) We (since I've been posting on behalf of the other party too)
are both adults and will try not to do anything too stupid.
>Best of luck. Please post a follow-up whether you go through with the
>procedure or not.
Will do. :)
>(You ever think of, uh, like, exchanging mood rings or something less
>burning-flesh-intensive. Mood rings can be rather significant/mean a
>lot as well.)
Oh, we're way past mood rings, we two. The burning itself as almost more
symbolic than the scarring.
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