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It’s been a big month for suspension! Read our recaps of the Ontario and Denver suspension conventions, featuring an interview with @bunny.spins on their prep for and experience in the one and only Orbitron. “I felt every single person before me that was in that Orbitron … I just felt the closest to the community I’d ever felt,” Bunny said. “I was shaking talking about [the Orbitron], anytime somebody asked me about it leading up to the susCon. And then afterwards, I felt like I had made peace with it, like we had become friends.” Read the rest at bme.com. Photo 1 credit: @bloodyshutters Photo 2-4 credits: Jon Marshall

Shannon in March, 2013: "I got a message from Heather Simone this morning asking me how common multiple tongue piercings were, and I totally brushed it off — “psshaw! lots of people have two tongue piercings, get over yourself!” and she replied with something like “oh, because I have THIRTEEN OF THEM and I wondered how common that was…” Of course I was, like, “THIRTEEN?!?! Well why didn’t you say that in the first place!” I don’t think thirteen is a world record, but I wouldn’t be surprised if there are less people with ten or more tongue piercings in America than there are States in the Union (although that’s a bad metaphor as she hails from Leighton Buzzard, England) — Heather’s piercings are much, much more unique than I’d given her credit for. I asked her to tell me a little more about them, and she tells me that initially her plan was to get six of them, in a cross shape, but by the time she hit that goal she was totally addicted and now the design motif is something closer to “where will they fit?” The piercings are all done in 14ga, and as she’s gotten more of them she’s had to start putting smaller beads on the bottom to keep it all comfortable. Her first six or so tongue piercings were done by “varying artists” that she “barely remembers”, the next few by Blue Jigsaw, and since then — the most recent four — are self done. I asked her if her speech or anything else is affected by having so many, and besides the healing period (“and sometimes not even then”), the answer is no."... To read more of this post, look up "13 Tongue piercings… and climbing!" on BME.COM ! while this is an old ModBlog post, we'd love to feature you too! Email all submissions to [email protected]

August 2012: "You almost certainly recognize him by his immense forearm implants in the foreground of the picture, but this radical piercing set was done by Gerson de Arauju of João Pessoa, Brazil, who you likely know better as FREAK UREA. His client now wears six sub-clavicle piercings, which may be the most installed in anyone (I can think of several people with four). Sub-clavicles are one of those conundrum piercings which common sense tells you should be almost comically suicidal in nature, opening such an easy channel for infection into the inner body… yet they have proven themselves in the small handful of people wearing them (perhaps a few dozen) to be shockingly trouble-free, taking about a year to heal and rarely causing complications in either the long-term or the short-term — unlike transscrotals, which when done in this style (pierced, not sutured), can hospitalize a person with a life-threatening infection within days of getting it. Now, please don’t read this as me putting on a stamp of “safe” approval because I still consider it near the top of the “risk-level” chart — but, let eyelid piercing and eyeball tattooing and a few other things that common sense says should be high-risk catastrophes, the test of time so far is showing this piercing to be more of a kitten than a lion. And I have to admit that this is to my great surprise. And as a general PS — I always tell people to watermark their photos because of how many people steal pictures and repost them, or worse, claim them as their own work. I’ve always enjoyed how Gerson “watermarks” a picture by tossing his very unique arm into the shot." - Shannon Larratt While this is an archive post, if you want to be featured please email us your submissions at [email protected]

Cyber-scars on @misz_coma by @stigmatainccgn . See more at BME.com . Want to be featured? Send pics and a write up to [email protected]

8g nostrils and a septril by @nativobodyprojects . . See more at BME.com . . Want to be featured? Send pics and a write up to [email protected]

A romantic set by @hayley_piercer on @amberlynnportrait and her partner 💕 . See more at BME.com . Want to be featured? Send pics and a write up to [email protected]

STUNNING jellyfish scarification by @shamanpineapple using aqua, green, and blue glow powder (strontium aluminate). . See fresh pics and more at BME.com . Want to be featured? Send pics and a write up to [email protected]

Scarification over a blacked out arm by @kukulcanrituals . See more pictures at BME.com . Want to be featured? Send pics and a write up to [email protected]

Scarification with glow powder (strontium aluminate). . Want to learn more? See our Patreon for a deep dive on glow scars — link in bio.

Exoskeleton needle set on @the.vidadod by @marcymods 🕷️🕷️🕷️ . See more at BME.com . Want to be featured? Send pics and a write up to [email protected]

Lost footage, exclusive interviews, bts content, and more coming to our new Patreon! All footage from both the Australia and Japan segment of the BME world tour has been found and will be uploaded weekly. The full preview and first episode of the world tour is up now + an in depth look into glow-in-the-dark scarification!

- when one gate closes, another bleeds open - 🧇 🩸 Sent in by @hayley_piercer ! this is a @strangerthingstv inspired #playpiercing to commemorate the season 5 finale! This design draws upon one of the show’s most recognizable motifs: the Christmas lights. Woven directly into the set, they reference the way the lights are used to communicate across worlds in ST, spelling out a most foreboding message - R U N. The alternating needle pattern is a subtle reference to the recurring rise and fall of evil in Hawkins, forming a deliberate V for Vecna. Self-performed. 17 x 19g needles.