Friday, December 19th, 2008

I actually think she looks nice.

[info]solle
bodymods is a community about piercings, tattoos, and other things people decorate their bodies with. It's a bit heavy on the snark at times - making a first post without tags will get you mocked by the mods, and new users are expected to lurk until they get a decent idea of what's allowed and what isn't. But generally it's a nice place to ask questions and share personal experience.

As it turns out, showing off your new piercing in your first post is not what the community is for. lunsanslautre does it anyway. She's told to maybe try that shit somewhere else. ZOMG OPPRESSION I'M LEAVING FOREVER! - THIS IS NOT MYSPACE, also, mod tags. - Everyone here is 15 and I'm a special snowflake! - But it's so myspacey. - Couldn't be more myspacey. - My spacey? - They aren't myspacey, I'm a photographic major. - STOP SAYING MYSPACEY.

We'll have a thread about guinea pigs instead! - No, guinea pigs are bad. :( - Fine, let's talk about how scene kids are oppressing me! - No they're not. - Okay, but I'm still going to cry about it. - We don't care. - I was joking. I don't care. This community is so cunty today.
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Monday, November 24th, 2008

The Lotus Boob! It does haunt my dreams!

[info]beejium
Over at PostSecret, Frank posts a postcard from someone containing a photo of the "Lotus Boob." (For those who aren't in the know, it's a picture of a breast that was clearly photoshopped together with a lotus flower and passed around the 'net as some sort of new horrible disease. Denounced by Snopes in 19-diggity-2.)

Whingeing follows immediately. (See Frank's email picks near and around the offending secret.) Hilarious quote from front page:

"This picture has destroyed my day and will haunt me for months if not years. My hair is standing on end and I haven't been able to stop shivering. I can't concentrate on anything now, my mind always returns to that horrific image.

I am saddened that I can no longer view postsecret, but I am too worried about being assailed with another photo that will severely harm my psyche."


Hordes of young girls are scarred for life and "kept up half the night shivering!" A thread is started on PostSecret Chat to determine whether the secret should be taken down.

Some (read: most) dissenters claim that taking down secrets would completely ruin the spirit of PostSecret, and that there have been secrets that have been far more disturbing, like ones about rape and abuse. But it's a boob! With stuff in it! And now they'll never sleep again, and probably die and I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY, POSTSECRET.

Ahem... 101 pages of flouncing and crying in less than a day, and all I really have to say is, if your constitution is too weak to handle a little lotus boob, you may want to reconsider this whole "internet" thing.

ETA: Bonus LOL: The random-lettered link to the secret includes the phrase "AAAAAAAAH."
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