Welcome back. This is another episode of Books Closed. This episode is sponsored by Lucky Supply and River Valley Printing Co.

I don't know what that intro was, but it sounded like a vampire.

I guess it might be clear already that I'm here alone this week.

I don't have a guest.

And that's not to say the show is dying or that I'm losing steam after only three episodes.

I thought it was time to explore the other side of the coin.

The past few shows have been great,

filled with experiences and stories of amazing tattooers, but there's a whole other world out there.

There's things that I don't necessarily agree with, or things that I might not understand.

And I suspect that a lot of you out there could feel the same way, And if you don't, then maybe your opinion can be represented here today.

What a valiant concept, indeed.

So to start off, I want to take a flashback to episode two with Todd Noble.

At the end of the show, we played a game called HIPPER Shit,

where we looked at some insta-famous

minimalism tattoos up against some scratcher tattoos to compare and contrast. Now, one of these

insta-famous tattooers goes by the name of Autochrist, and this is a tattooer who is very bold

in their style and in their attitude, or at least what they put out online.

Sometimes it can be hard to tell who someone really is or what they're really all about.

I found myself endlessly curious.

Is this autocrist someone who tattoos like this by choice, or is this truly a case of limited

technical ability? I plan to get to the bottom of all

of these questions, because right now, I'm going to call Autocris.

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