Dylan Smith, Piercer.

I am a piercer in Columbus Ohio. I have a beautiful wife and son, and I am an amateur musician.

[horrorandhalloween]

by Daniil Volochenko

[scrowkin]

“Hey Little Crow”.

i drew this one for half halloween!

[arbysarcade]

[electronicsquid]

Bobby Fischer at Playland

(Carl Mydans. 1962)

[shiftythrifting]

[gallusrostromegalus]

For those of you that are wondering, please have one of the fiest pieces of radio comedy ever:

[housecatincarnate]

[musicalmelody22]

Fun Story: My director kept telling me and my tenor sax buddy to play softer. No matter what we did, it wasn’t soft enough for him. So getting frustrated, I told my buddy “Dont play this time. Just fake it” 

Our Band Director then informed us we sounded perfect. 

[fororchestra]

To my readers: “p” means quiet, “pp” means really quiet. I’ve never seen “pppp” before haha.

On the contrast, “f” means loud, and “ffff” probably means so loud you go unconscious.

[corruptbucky]

I had ffff in a piece once and my conductor told me to play as loudly as physically possible without falling off my chair…

[justtkeepcalmm-deactivated20250]

Me and my trombone buddies had “ffff” and he sat next to me and played so hard that he fell out of his chair.

The lengths we go for music.

[lady-gorthaur]

Okay yeah so I play the bass clarinet and the amount of air you have to move and the stiffness of the reed means it only has two settings and that is loud and louder, with an optional LOUDEST that includes a 50% probability of HORRIBLE CROAKING NOISE which is the bass equivalent of the ubiquitous clarinet shriek.

[elsajeni]

One day, when I was in concert band in high school, we got a new piece handed out for the first time, and there was a strange little commotion back in the tuba section — whispering, and pointing at something in the music, and swatting at each other’s hands all shhh don’t call attention to it. And although they did attract the attention of basically everyone else in the band, they managed to avoid being noticed by the band director, who gave us a few minutes to look over our parts and then said, “All right, let’s run through it up to section A.”

And here we are, cheerfully playing along, sounding reasonably competent — but everyone, when they have the attention to spare, is keeping an eye on the tuba players. They don’t come in for the first eight measures or so, and then when they do come in, what we see is:

[stifled giggling]

[reeeeeeally deep breath]

[COLOSSAL FOGHORN NOISE]

The entire band stops dead, in the cacophonous kind of way that a band stops when it hasn’t actually been cued to stop. The band director doesn’t even say anything, just looks straight back at the tubas and makes a helpless sort of why gesture.

In unison, the tuba players defend themselves: “THERE WERE FOUR F’S.”

FFFF is not really a rational dynamic marking for any instrument, but for the love of all that is holy why would you put it in a tuba part.

[minguskingus]

This is the best band post 

Everyone else go home

[oxboold-deactivated20180729]

Oh man, so I play trombone, and we got this piece called Florentiner Marsch by Julius Fucik, and we saw this

which is 8 fortes. We were shocked until,

that is 24 fortes who the fuck does that

[prokopetz]

Who does that?

This guy. Take a good look - that is the moustache of a man with nothing to lose.

[vivelafat]

Julius IdontgivaFucik

[septemberbells]

More like Julius Fuckit

[sushinfood]

Pyrozod’s tags for this were too hilarious not to share

[antique-scarecrow]

this post keeps evolving it is GLORIOUS and I just broke at least 3 ribs laughing

[whole-lotta-anarchy]

[bulbasaur-propaganda]

Yo so this picture was posted on Reddit and many people sent it to me!

Love you guys!

[amakeupmassacre]

Thoughts..

People who say getting married is boring or having yourself together isn’t fun haven’t ever been in love. Marriage when you’re in love isn’t boring. It’s a forever slumber party with my best friend. It’s waking up on Sunday mornings making breakfast naked and dancing to music in the kitchen. Every rainy day reminds me of my wedding day getting rained on downtown, saying our vowels in our car then rushing up to the chapel. We grow as people everyday, but we also grow more in love, and become more as a team. It’s a never ending promise to give each other a reason to smile even when life beats us down. If people think marriage is just a piece of paper with control, and miserable days then they have never met a husband like mine. Marriage isn’t for some people, but some people make you want marriage even when you have only seen the negative sides they make you want to write a new story. Not happily ever after. This is just the beginning..

[amakeupmassacre]

3 years later, and I still can’t get enough of you. I love you so much.

[piercerdylan]

I love you with all my heart

[piercerdylan]

Lunch date with the wife! We did a few piercings and then we ate a lot of Fusian.

[piercerdylan]

Target shenanigans with the wife @amakeupmassacre. #sundaymorning

[piercerdylan]

This guy is number 1. I don't share him enough. This kid is my reason. I love you @amakeupmassacre thank you for giving me a son.

[piercerdylan]

Steak and shake with Mrs. Smith. @amakeupmassacre (at Steak 'n Shake)

[piercerdylan]

I got to upgrade this nostril that my pal @ben_poling did 5 years ago here at Piercology to this beautiful #solidgold ipsa nostril screw from @anatometalinc. #anatometal #piercology #assseenincolumbus #piercings #instagold #safepiercing #proudmember #purklenz #614piercing (at Piercology)

[wnq-writers]

Her aura is made of poetry, roses, and galaxies.

(via lovhinq)

[piercerdylan]

Here is the start to a wonderful little #flat project we are working on. We started with a 6mm anodized copper Cabuchon #turqoise. Jewelry is from @anatometalinc. #earprojects #assseenincolumbus #purklenz #614piercing #osu #columbuspiercer #capitaluniversity #buckeyenation #cscc #ou