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pebblerocker) wrote2010-01-08 11:18 pm
pebblerocker) wrote2010-01-08 11:18 pm
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I like to draw. I like to draw on people, sometimes, with felt pens or ballpoint pens or with that nice herby-smelling henna stuff in a tube. Now I find that I have a friend who has a friend who has tattooing equipment and would be happy to let me use it. This is almost tempting even though when you draw on your friends and you make a mistake you can't throw them away like with paper. It would almost be interesting to try.
BUT I believe that tattooing involves needles and maybe even blood, not quick needles at the doctor's and all over with but protracted needles for as long as it takes to finish the drawing. There's just no way. I don't have any sort of needle or blood phobia, it's just that I don't like hurting people. Not even if they would quite like me to. This is where the golden rule falls down, isn't it? Even if they say they don't mind, even if it's what they really wanted, I would never be able to bring myself to stick needles in people.
Related to this, I wonder if perhaps my pain tolerance is actually within the normal range. It's only ever the people who have a very high pain threshold who have to tell all the world about it, so probably the perception of what is normal is heavily skewed.
I hate people who have high pain thresholds and keep talking about it. (If just by quirk of the random number generator YOU have a high pain threshold I don't hate you, I just hate the people who brag about it.) I think it should be a banned topic of conversation for the same reasons as why it's not right to address a group of people on the topic of how spiders have really long legs and move fast and have lots of hair on their long twitchy legs and how there might be spiders right in this room ANYWHERE and you can't see them. Sometimes people just don't need to hear that sort of thing, and the pain tolerance thing comes with an extra helping of "and that's why I'm better than you". People who "don't feel the cold" and like to brag about it, that goes for you too -- I wish thyroid disorders on you all.
BUT I believe that tattooing involves needles and maybe even blood, not quick needles at the doctor's and all over with but protracted needles for as long as it takes to finish the drawing. There's just no way. I don't have any sort of needle or blood phobia, it's just that I don't like hurting people. Not even if they would quite like me to. This is where the golden rule falls down, isn't it? Even if they say they don't mind, even if it's what they really wanted, I would never be able to bring myself to stick needles in people.
Related to this, I wonder if perhaps my pain tolerance is actually within the normal range. It's only ever the people who have a very high pain threshold who have to tell all the world about it, so probably the perception of what is normal is heavily skewed.
I hate people who have high pain thresholds and keep talking about it. (If just by quirk of the random number generator YOU have a high pain threshold I don't hate you, I just hate the people who brag about it.) I think it should be a banned topic of conversation for the same reasons as why it's not right to address a group of people on the topic of how spiders have really long legs and move fast and have lots of hair on their long twitchy legs and how there might be spiders right in this room ANYWHERE and you can't see them. Sometimes people just don't need to hear that sort of thing, and the pain tolerance thing comes with an extra helping of "and that's why I'm better than you". People who "don't feel the cold" and like to brag about it, that goes for you too -- I wish thyroid disorders on you all.
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You should have a henna parlour. There would be cultural appropriation issues for a white girl doing traditional Indian designs, but you could use henna to do tattoo-like designs or other decorative work that you made up yourself. I'm sure there are lots of people who want art on their bodies but don't like needles.
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One $2 tube of henna does a LOT of skin. We squiggled five different people for hours and couldn't use up half of it. They're probably for entire wedding parties...
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