Posted by cerebral back to the original topic: I used to have a rook pierce which didn't take kindly to being stretched to 6 guage and started growing out. The cartilage is torn (as is the cartilage at my tragus pierces [2 guage]) so I found a piercer who found a place with enough cartilage to hold a new rook pierce in the same ear. ...at 8 guage! :^) next issue...$$$
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I shoved a little (16ga?) ring through the old rook hole and have been wearing it for several months now. I think it'll not grow out if I don't stretch it, so I think I'll keep it.
I've been thinking about a big horizontal hole in my upper conch (flat). I believe I've seen it in the Masai tribe of Africa. definitely more of a "wish list" than an actual plan. May put jewelry back in my frenum holes (one's grown over...there'll be blood) and back in my apadravya (the top hole shrunk quite a bit, but I know it's still open if you know what I mean).
My wife got a tattoo gun, so I got my first tattoo. It's on the back of my left leg from a couple of inches below my knee to an inch above my ankle. It's blackwork cave-drawing style of an African deer-like creature representing our adopted son. It's mostly finished, the quality is kind of spotty, so she'll be giving my lots of free touch ups.
related wishlist (actual plan): She'll be doing a similar, yet subtly different one on my right calf representing our adopted daughter. Sometime in the hopefully not too distant future ($$$) I'll go to a professional and get the Patchwork Girl from the Wizard of Oz series on my right shoulder/arm representing our birth daughter and the patches can be flags/tartans/mini-images representing all sorts of things I haven't finalized yet. Then a professional (or maybe my wife) can do a raven/blackbird image from Marion Zimmer Bradley's book The Forest House on my left shoulder facing forward and one on my wife's right shoulder facing backward (by me or a professional).
More wish than plan would be a cartoon version of a cross between old Sinead O'Conner and new Joan Jett. Bald muscular girl, tank top shirt, rolled up jeans, combat boots representing my inner riot grrrl...heheh.
Another dream is actually a dream of my wife's of a back/body piece for me. A giant squid with tentacles wrapping around my legs, arms and torso. Probably not going to happen, but not ruled out.