July 9, 2007

TACKY TACKY TACKY

You've seen self-mutilation. But have you ever heard of self-mutilation plagiarism?

I'm just boggling over the fact that somebody would photoshop another person's injuries onto herself to turn it into angst-art.

What the fucking hell? There's cutting, and there's cut-and-pasting. They're both tragic, just not in the same way.

EDIT: HEY ANONYMOUS COMMENTERS, I FOUND SOME PICTURES OF YOU ON THE INTERNET!



















OMG TRIGGAR

63 comments:

  1. This was somebody else who was pretending to cut HERself. Wacky eh?

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  2. when you cut it feels good like it is taking all of the pain of the world away

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  3. I suggest therapy ASAP. Self-injury probably seems like a great quick fix for all your problems now, but it'll be a lot less romantic when you're 40 and the scars start to turn puckery and gross.

    Plus you'll be a whole person and be able to enjoy life more.

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  4. In response to Luka: If you cut right, you can leave virtually no scars behind. However, therapy is a good suggestion.

    Still, I'm in therapy, and on meds, and I would still love to take a gouge out of my arm right now, if there was a tool sharp enough for the job. The release cutting gives is instant, if not lasting, and therapy seems to only be able to take one so far. Finding good meds, too, seems to be finding a needle in a haystack.

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  5. I myself am a cutter, i went 4 months without cutting, tried to stop cold turkey, i have been a cutter for 9 years, in fact i just carved a deep gash in my arm the other day,

    it doesnt really feel good, but it takes away the emotional pain thats hurts so much yo ucant breath, or do anything, an physical pain is so much more easier to handle, i have thick scares, but cause i cut the same one everyday take the scab off, an make it deeper until it makes it past almost half the layers of skin or to the muscle, i have deep emotional problems an depression, a the scares are hurtful an are reminders, but they are also reminders to the people who caused them, quilt, hurts them more then the scare huts me, plus they arnt all that bad if you put them in the right spots an scars do fade over time,

    so anyways, ya get help if you need that type of thing, or just get away from whats causing the pain

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  6. wow i read what every one said and wow i used to cut i went 4 years without getting caught and with out stoping i havent cut myself in almost a year but reading what everyone said made me want to cut too but i wont. my arm is all tingley


    when i cut i dont want do hurt anyone, i dont want to hurt myself i just love the way it releases everything it didnt hurt it felt really really good but i dont think that its right to do nymore

    to thos who are still cutting be safe i hope you find peace and hopfully stopare atleast try

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  7. i have cut for over 3 years now and im 15,
    cutting to me makes me feel like im cutting my problems away and no1 can hurt me more than i can hurt myself

    besides, it makes me feel loved

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  8. That's not true Luka- a lot of psychologists don't know how to handle cutters. We don't apply to their general criteria- and keeping us in their care can sometimes do more harm than does our habits. They misdiagnose psychological disorders all the time. And technically, cutting is a habit-we aren't psychotic. It's an addiction- like smoking. You don't often see smokers talking to a therapist...
    Besides who says its romantic? I cut to make myself feel better...in actually I hope it'll keep potential lovers away. And nobody's ever whole. Wholeness is denial.

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  9. "A lot" of psychologists don't know how to handle your problem, therefore I'm lying by saying therapy will help? Whatever.

    Do whatever you want to get by, but I'm not in the business of encouraging people to bullshit themselves about the consequences of their choices.

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  10. I like to cut. But I have to hide it. If people didn't consider it a bad thing, I'd cut openly everywhere far more often than I already do. Honestly I don't think it is a bad thing as long as you don't do it just for attention. If it kills your emotional pain and prevents you from killing yourself or someone else then it can't be all that bad now can it?

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  11. iagree i have cut for six years now a little over twenty now and it has been a year of no cutting untill tonoght..... ihave been to seven counslers and they say my problems are to complicated. i have been abused in every way possible by my step mom and my step dad...

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  12. Apparently this year-and-a-half-old post became a pro-SI forum when I wasn't looking. UGHHHH GO BE DAMAGED AND NIHILISTIC SOMEWHERE ELSE.

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  13. I think that most cutters do it for attention because its a new fad. The thing about cutting your self's to prevent suicide is dumb. You could deff kill your self if you cut your self wrong.

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  14. Mi taglio... quando mi sento triste. Quando non vedo nessun'altra via di fuga. Poi..mi sento rinascere...

    Emily - the strange -

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  15. we dont cut for attention ok you dumb bytch dont make fun of something u cant understand

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  16. Where are all of you anonymous posters coming from?

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  17. cutters dont do it for attention. fakes do. those who do it for themselves usually hide it. so shut your misunderstanding mouths.
    and those who do understand, thanks.

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  18. Wow, poor Luka, getting comments from all these people :(

    I think people have found you via Google, you're on the second page that comes up when they search "self mutilation" in the images.

    I don't know if there's anything you can do to stop that, but I'd advise you to as you're getting a ridiculous number of comments. (Hasn't anyone realised that this was posted over a year-and-a-half ago?)
    And that at no point in Luka's original post did he say that he wants to know about your experiences regarding self harm, he was just making a point about "art". If you *do* need/want to talk to people about it, there are PLENTY of places to do it, both in Real Life and on the Internet.

    This is not a blog about mental health issues!

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  19. Ah, that makes sense. Had no idea this entry was so high in the rankings D:

    I don't mind all the comments, but I do roll my eyes when somebody wants to be simultaneously pitied and admired for continuing to go without treatment for serious illness. I'm like, "Wake up! This isn't a melodrama, and you aren't the main character!"

    Most of them are obviously kids, and their home lives may not allow them to seek help or even tell anybody, but as somebody who's been there and done that, it can be very frustrating when somebody blithely says that therapy doesn't work.

    Therapy is incredibly helpful. The people who say it isn't have either had a bad experience and given up, or are protecting themselves from the pain of therapy by building it up into an impossibility. What it comes down to is choosing not to get well, and if you're really in distress about something, that's not logical. I understand the desire to wallow, but I can't say I don't want to grab folks by the arms and shake them.

    Sadly, people never figure this out until they've gone through it. You can't just talk everybody into having adult perspective, no matter how much you want to save them the same pain you went through. There aren't always shortcuts.

    Long story short: don't tell other people what cutters do and don't do. Everyone has different reasons to injure themselves, even the ones who do it strictly for attention. Can you imagine being so isolated that you'd harm yourself to get people to notice you?

    Maybe these types aren't cutters the way we are, but they ARE hurting themselves, and their problems deserve treatment just as ours do.

    Just one of the many reasons I don't like to talk about my issues with self injury online: the drama. Also, it's embarassing to reveal something so personal and difficult to talk about, and get jumped on by a thousand competitive emo types who want to show you pictures and brag about how much worse they do it to themselves.

    Humans will make a contest out of anything, won't we?

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  20. thats true, sadly.
    but to all the other people who posted commnets above about cutting...please know that it really doesn't help. because every time u see the scars,its just a painful reminder of the hurt u have caused yourself. If u have issues with cutting then i suggest that u talk to a friend. i have found that to be the best help. If they are a true friend then they will wipe away every tear and drop of blood.

    if anyone is interested in way to quit cutting then try to write "love" on ur arm...in PEN a million times and it will take away the urge to cut...trust me it works

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  21. Why would you do that it is like faking skitzaphrenia

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  22. henry, shut up ya retard, that person was just trying to reach out and help. anyways being skitzo is hearing voices, not writing stuff

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  23. LOL at a guest telling another guest to shut up in someone else's blog. I really should ban under-13s from commenting :(

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  24. I used to cut but talking to a friend or writing everything that hurts you on a piece of paper and burning it helps a lot... not only iis the paper never to be found but there are no scars to be found either.

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  25. I do not cut! But reading this amazes me is almost like i wonder if i was to start. because of painful things growing up would i be able to stop. would it feel good to me. im really glad that when i was 13 14 or 15 i had no clue about cutting. i took more to drinking and being a whore! ha

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  26. just for the record im 19 now and have grown out of that :)

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  27. above it said that when cutters see their scars it is like a painful memory... It isn't so painful for me... It makes me want to make more.. It isn't as bad as everyone says... i don't know why people make such a big deal out of it

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  28. i do it cuz i just like that feel of the razor as it cuts into ur skin and the color of the blood as is comes out and eventually dries then doing it all over again just to get that feel...smell....color...numbness..... and the after effect of the scar... i like the scar alot thats my favorite part the scar.

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  29. I sure do love the way this post was gleefully hijacked and is now about sharing your mad cutting credz. Yep, 'cause it's allllll about you.

    I remember when I was really unique and interesting and the world just had to OMG DEAL WITH ME. Best years of high school ever.

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  30. OH SHIT THIS ENTRY TRIGGERED ME NOW I MUST GO EAT A RAZOR BLADE BECAUSE IT IS SO HARD BEING WHITE IN THE WORLD'S RICHEST COUNTRY

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  31. Man, you whiny, cutting faggots. Congrats on being weakass pansies who can't cope like adults when you don't get your way.

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  32. I'm not annoyed with them for their coping mechanism, just the defeatist attitude that seems to so often go with it. All this shit about therapy not working and how dramatic and romantic their problems are...ugh, please. You're on the internet, how bad can your life really be?

    I guess the whining is annoying but understandable (being adolescent sucks ass) but as for why they choose my blog for their safe space to vent about it, I have no friggin' clue. So I jump 'em for that, because if they read it they'd know that I never really learned to share toys, and that goes double for soapbox space.

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  33. It's your own fault for them posting on your blog, you posted that picture. And to all the cutters out there, you CAN stop. You just have to find something you really want, or someone. I was a hardcore cutter for years and I never thought that I would stop, never even wanted to stop, but then it was either keep cutting myself and making more scars that guys do not find attractive (well some do but that's because they have problems just like you and that's a disaster waiting to happen) or be with my boyfriend. He's the greatest guy and we've been together for almost 3 years (and getting married soon!) and I haven't cut myself in all the time we've been together. So if one person can do it why not more?

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  34. Blaming me would fly if they were posting in even veiled reference to what I actually posted, but they aren't. Might as well be the My Little Pony forums for all it has to do with my blog. They googled the topic and hijacked the results for a soapbox rant about their personal pain that has nothing to do with me.

    Then YOU came along and (way to read the thread!) hijacked the already hijacked thread for a meta-soapbox rant, including anecdotes about your personal pain. Why do you think I'm telling the rest of these dinks off? Hint: It has something to do with having nothing to do with this entry.

    FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIL

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  35. Wow. Fuck all those cutter comments, I just want to talk about the 'art.' Damn. What would make a person look at something like the original and say, "Hey, you know what would be awesome? If I took the exact same phrase and copied it on my leg with eye liner or whatever, and make it pretty much identical in tone and content, because the world totally needs more of that." No examination of the original's meaning, no artistic interpretation in creating a new piece, just a straight up copy in a slightly different pose. That's not art, that's imitation. And sure, a lot of artists learn through imitation. BUT developing yourself further? That takes interpretation and using your own artistic vision to create something NEW even if you're working with the same theme and medium.

    BTW? My daddy liked to watch porn in the basement when he thought no one was home.

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  36. YOU ARE MY FAVORITE COMMENTER EVER.

    The rest of you screwballs should be more like Anonymous here. Observe! Imitate! Glean!

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  37. thats one freaky picture, what would compell someone to do that?...i agree that its not art, anyways i read the other comments and well, they are just some poor messed up duckies.
    people should acknowledge more about what u don't want to hear. i mean how r these anonymous people not getting the message!!! DON"T post sob stories on her blog. my gosh
    can't u people freakin read!

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  38. hey luka--not all cutters are defeatists,and not all cutters are kids(39 here)i personally think its funny that your thread was hijacked by a group of people you dont get...thats the twisted beauty of art in real life(wait--is the internet real?)before i read all the cutter goo or even knew this was a hijacked thread--my thoughts about your images were: funny!-followed by: huh-wonder why this guy is so bothered by attention whores....imagine life without them........as gross as they are--they can be so very entertaining!!!!

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  39. cutting is not a sign of just hurting urself. its a way of being in control of your self if you cant control whats going on outside of your body i dont cut just to cut or because it feels good. i cut because im in control of how much i hurt myself. im trying to get help im findng other ways to cope instead of cut. and the scars on my wrists and legs just show me that i was hurting and im past it now.so dont talk on cutters if you dont understand the reason y they do it. and those pictures they are not art!!!!!!!

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  40. Why do people read their agenda into everything? Damn that's irritating.

    First of all, I was saying those things about specific people to whom it was applicable. Secondly, please tell me more about this fascinating subculture of cutters. I have never heard of any of this and certainly have no personal experience whatsoever. Yup, none at all. That must be why I don't get it.

    And finally, you think I'm angry at attention whores? Dude, I wrote this whole post mocking them for my own amusement. Try listening to what people *say* next time, instead of what you assume they secretly mean.

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  41. You cut because you have no better vocabulary to express your pain.

    And you're defensive about it because you are twelve.

    NEEEEEXT!

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  42. lol this is funny
    i loooooved to cut but i had to stop bcuz i was found out and there was a huge scene- the only reason why i dont cut now it that my mom would bring me right back to therapy.
    eveyones like o therapys so cool its great but it totally sucks. no one understands what you feel and they just try to and it makes you feel like shit.
    and no, im not twelve im 15 so dont start picking on me lol

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  43. Clairexo: Sounds like you have a bad fit with your therapist. Of course you won't want to share your inner feelings with someone you don't click with! Therapy starts with you forming a healthy relationship based on trust with your doc.

    Trial and error is part of this, and completely normal. After all, they're just people like you and me. Some of them are dicks, but the majority are good folks who want to help.

    Once you have created a good relationship with a therapist, you'll be willing let them help you get better. When that happens, you'll be blown away by how much you WANT to recover.

    As for the therapy itself, just remember that even when therapy is painful, it's helping you. You have complete control over your recovery, so tell your shrink if you're going too fast or getting annoyed by certain questions, and they will work with you to adjust the sessions so the process won't scare you away from recovering.

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  44. Hahahahahahahahahhahahaha. this is so fucked. shit im so happy. nealry killed mysels a year ago fourtunatly i survived to post this comment to you all.

    listen to Audio slave - Show me how to Live
    and
    MGMT - Time to Pretend

    might cheer u upa bit after reading all these comments

    yours happily

    laurence

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  45. Now Laurence here? Him and me, we could hang.

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  46. i agree with what you posted above. everyone has their own reasons for self harm and it is hard for many to to recover from it. i have been dealing with it for 6 years and my scars are finally healed.it has been 2 years since my last time and it wasn't good. for anybody reading this who hurts themselves, find something you love and are passionate about. i chose playing guitar and it has been a great outlet for me. but seriously, find something like painting, music, woodworking, etc. be good to yourself, and each other,

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  47. i love black people

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  48. whatever you do just keep cutting and stay numb.

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  49. wow, i havnt found this much enjoyment online in a while. it is sad that people cut themselfs as a way to stop emotional pain. been there, done that, got bored, stopped being a loser, got friends, all better (: but now i see cutting, and any other form of self mutilation, as an art. cutting designes into yourself has become just as popular as tottooing yourself. the effect of getting sliced up in decorative ways is very attractive to me. but seeing a bunch of random cuts on someones wrists just looks sad and poser-like to me. if you are going to cut yourself to "take away the pain" do it where no one will see it. if you do it on your wrists or arms and parade you scars around like a badge of "courage" or some stupid idea like that, you are just keeping the trend of being "emo" going. quit it. get a life. go cut yourself, but if you dont want help, keep it to yourself.

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  50. Im 25 & have been harming on & off for 12 years. I just split with my girl & my first thought was to cut. Reading this made me think that maybe that might not be the best path to choose.. But im not sure

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  51. I keep on cutting myself i know is not right but sometimes take the stress away, also if you do it with a very sharp knife it doesnt hurt

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  52. I found myself at the end of this thread. Not metaphysicaly, just literally. I invested a bit of time to reading this all. Now I feel I must add a little to it so it doesn't feel like a waste.

    I don't think some one should take anothers else's art on any medium. Let alone ones own skin.
    I don't know of anyone that would not be upset to see their "art" stolen.
    Personally to me that would be like someone walking around saying, "Look at this sweet tat I just got, yeah it's an original". Knowing full well they picked it off the wall.

    Some mediums such as music or movies copying others I find perfectly exceptable. As long as the idea is the same and it was redone to emulate the times it was recreated.

    Art is a hard thing to describe, but we know it when we see it.

    And that sir is not art. That is just tacky.

    Hell, at least it grabs your eye, and imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

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  53. what a bunch of fucking freaks, cutting for self pleasure??? do you cream in your pants when you have blood gushing out your arm or leg or wherever the fuck you do it, its wrong and if your going to sink that low and cut do it right and slit your throat

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  54. smoke weed man makes everything good man....i love you guys xD

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  55. people just dont understand why we cut...they think its for attention, its not, we cut to feel something different than sorrow shittieness etc. sometimes u want to get it out by crying or expressing yourself but the tears wont come and no1 will listen so this is our cry and expressing maybe if people would listen and comfort us we would stop but untill people understand why dont call us attention whores

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  56. So, I came across this thread and now I am at the end after much time invested....or maybe wasted, I'm not sure...I believe it is only right to comment. And since the majority of this thread has been hijacked by cutting stories, I think I'll share mine. My last one to be more precise. I started cutting when I was 10 years old, but this story took place a crazy 6 years later on April 21st, 2007. I was at my aunt's house for a family dinner and I was wearing shorts (I didn't usually but it was hot that day and I was especially stupid and forgot I had cut the night before on my leg). I sat down to play with my nephew who was a little more than 2 years at the time and he spotted my cuts. He said in his adorable way "Boo boo?" and pointed to my leg, I tried to cover it with my hand but he pushed my hand out of the way and kissed it to make it better. That was the last time I ever cut because I had found my reason to stop. His name is Skyler. He is an extremely intelligent, well adjusted, socialized kindergarten student who will probably never know how he saved his aunt's life at 2 years old. I sit here now as a happy, well adjusted, loved 19 year old who is 15 days shy of 3 years and 6 months free from cutting.

    Don't look down on children because sometime they are the ones that make a strong enough impact to save lives.

    And please people, for the love of all that is good and holy, don't wallow in self pity!! Find your muse/strength/stubbornness/whatever it is, get up off your bed, and kick the world's ass!!! People who are overcomers and not victims are forces to be reckoned with!!

    Remember: bitterness is like eating rat poisoning, you're only hurting yourself.

    And if you would like to keep venting about these SI excursions, go to an appropriate place like www.recovermylife.com or something like that.

    Find your freedom,
    Hillary

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