>>333201792
it isnt crazy to do self harm, even animals do it. seeing a scarred arm, but with no fresh cuts subverts both the expectation that it will be a name written on the arm in fresh bloody cuts, but also subvert the expectation of someone just goofing around with a pen with no prior history of self harming.
you can only do the second thing it subverts so many times in a thread until it becomes standard and you need to subvert that so it hits two birds with one stone.