I’m not in your industry but I briefly flirted with the idea. I’ve had a lot of my drawings, for better and worse lol, be used by others for tattoos. When I was considering it I was primarily doing apprentice work as a piercer, which in South Florida was (is still maybe) pretty common to do both.

I’ve never done a piercing on someone that I haven’t done on myself. Had a friend come in for an eyebrow and insisted I do it. They bled a lot, more than usual but otherwise everything was ok, the pierce was fine, they loved it. That was it for me. I couldn’t settle myself with screwing something like that up

So I would appreciate knowing you take your role seriously. Maybe try to reframe the stress you feel into the honor you have to be trusted to do what you do. Unsure if you did any of your leg work but if so, as a fan of pure black I’d trust you

I hadn’t heard of this person so I asked my 15 year old son if he knew about him or if his friends were in his orbit.

“He’s a loser. No.”

I appreciate you for giving me this intense moment of connection with my boy

We are of similar eras. I just missed the days of building phreak boxes and it was always a bit of wonder to me.

While it’s harder these days for a litany of reasons I think it’s still in our collective interest to be bearers of stories, old and new, to the neophytes of the current generation.

I guess what I’m saying is, I am in your camp but to my kid’s generation we are still warlocks