#pierce talks

[komaedatulpa]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO NAGITO KOMAEDA ON FINGERS IN HIS ASS SUNDAY

It is so funny his birthday this year in 2024 was on Sunday. This character who has so much nuance and layers of his bizarre bastard personality is what made me get into DR. My sickly son who has every disease. A guy who I could 100% believe he has pica and has eaten glass. I want to throw this guy around like a spamton doll for enrichment for him.

[mineral-vulture]

So I have been laid off of my job

Yesterday I was informed that my work would stop all morning shifts for dish washing this week starting tomorrow. In the mean time of me looking for a new job I have some announcement stuff.

I am open for traditional art commissions, both sfw and nsfw, you can read up my prices and what I am willing to draw. Here are some examples of hand drawn comms I have done. Though if you want a more broad scope of what I am capable of drawing I highly recommend looking through pieces I have made for artfight (especially 2022 and 2023). If you have any questions about my prices and TOS and such don't be afraid to ask.

I have adoptables for sale and I am willing to do custom designs.

I sell jewelry as well on my storenvy and I am willing to do jewelry commissions.

I also have a kofi if you want to donate through there.

Sharing this around is greatly appreciated.

[gemevieve]

Borthday

Well now I am 30. Huh, to be honest I never really thought much what would happen once I was that age. Actually I couldn't even imagine it back when I turned 20. I have changed a lot as a person since I was 18 and even when I was 27. I have a job I like, I have two partners I love very much, I have many wonderful friends, I participate in a writing group, and my hobbies have been expanding. So far my life has been going All right and I do hope it stays that way.

[songsforthepierce]

Album Showcase: Three Days Grace -Three Days Grace

I may not remember exactly how I found out about Three Days Grace but I believe it was through two friends I knew in 8th grade. Well, I would say that BUT as I typed this I just remembered it was because I watched a Naruto AMV that used one of their biggest most well known songs in it. After that I would continue to listen to the band for years. Though I mainly stuck to the first two albums. Not because I dislike the later stuff, it was mainly because I stopped paying attention to what else they were doing and was looking at other bands. But regardless, even though I have changed a lot as a person and expanded on my music taste I still have a huge soft spot for early Three Days Grace. It will be nice retreading old ground here.

Content warnings for light discussions of mental illness (mainly depression), discussion on toxic to abusive relationships, and mentions of alcoholism.

The album cover art is simple but gets it across the moody tone for the album. I like the whole sketchy look of it. The imagery of three figures standing away from a burning home does catch my eye. I always interpreted the figures to be a family and the burning home to represent their dysfunction.

Before we go further I do want to say that I tend to get easily amused if an album or song is named after a band. Such as here though I wish they had a song called Three Days Grace so then it would be Three Days Grace by Three Days Grace on the album Three Days Grace. A missed opportunity but oh well. Though speaking of their name I found out that originally the band was called Groundswell and around 1997 the name was changed into what it is now. From what Gointer said in an interview with Florida Entertainment Scene in 2004, “ No, we sort of look at Three Days Grace, as it sort of stands for sense of urgency. Time to pay a debt. if you had three days to change something in your life or if wanted to changed something in your life could you do it in three days. That sort of urgency, I guess.”

That is a pretty heavy meaning for the name and the more I think about the more I get it with what I know about the original lead singer. Anyway, this album was released on July 22nd, 2003 and the genre it leans more towards are alternative metal, nu-metal, and post-grunge. I think this was one of my earliest exposure to nu-metal in general before I would listen to bands such as Disturbed, Linkin Park, Dope, etc. It is hard for me to fully define what exactly alternative metal is without just saying “If you know what alternative rock, then you can put together what this genre would entail” since a variety of bands have been labeled as such from System of a Down, 3Teeth, Bullet for my Valentine, Alter Bridge, etc which all have a distinct sound from one another. Though the term isn’t used much anymore. Post-Grunge I don’t know much about unfortunately but I guess better late than never to look more into it. I am genuinely looking forward to revisiting this album and seeing if it still holds up after all these years.

Track 1: Burn

This is a strong start for the album. The ambient build up before the guitar kicks in continuing the buildup until the lyrics come in. The song is about the narrator going up against someone. Making it clear this person isn’t going to win and they aren’t going to hide. They aren’t going to burn, but the other person will. Very simple concept and the lyrics are not subtle at all. Though despite this I still have a huge soft spot for it. I think mainly because as a teen I would just imagine various ocs of mine fighting against their rivals or something and triumphing over them. Though as much as I wish Burn got more attention I also understand why it didn’t.

Track 2: Just Like You

This was one of their big hits from the album and yeah I get why. As a teenager I felt like the song was about a child telling their parents they are not going to follow in their footsteps. They aren’t going to be mean or cruel, they are going to be better. They are going to go down their own path. This is a song I know a lot of teens related to, I know I did. I was not the only one who thought the song was about such. In an interview Adam said,

"It's about being told how to live your life. When we were growing up, we saw it sort of first hand. A lot of our friends were pushed into doing jobs their parents were telling them to do. It's about being pushed around and told how to live your life and standing up for yourself."

One has to keep in mind that Adam was around 25 when this album was recorded which sure that isn’t that young (not compared to when he made Groundswell around 14) but that does explain a lot not just about this song but also the album in general. I don’t have much to say about the music video besides liking the aesthetics of it. However, I want to bring up something interesting about this song. So, when I would go on itunes as a teenager and looked through Three Days Grace’s discography at the time I saw this track was on the soundtrack for the film XXX: State of the Union. Now, I didn’t nor do I still know what this movie is about. But what caught my eye was the title of the song on the soundtrack was instead called Just Like Wylin featuring American rapper Bone Crusher. I took a listen and...I could not anticipated for what I was going to hear. I know teen me didn’t like it but now as and adult I am just HIGHLY amused. This type of mashup is so bizarre but I weirdly love it just for whiplash of it. I HAD to mention it before moving on.

Track 3: I Hate Everything About you

This was the first song I ever heard by the band. Of course I heard it through an edgy Naruto AMV as a middle schooler. This song is one of the band’s most well known songs. Hell, they made this song before the album. It was on their demo when they were still Groundswell and the track got them attention from many record labels. I fully understand why. The song is very in your face about it’s subject matter. A toxic relationship and all the messy feelings that come along with it. Adam has said,

“The song is pretty blunt you know? It's to the point. It's about realizing there's something in your life you're wasting time on. I think everybody, even in this band and a lot of other people have felt that way before at one point or another in their life. Whether it's a person, a relationship whatever it is, you're just wasting time on it. The song is a realization of that.”

While I get the song being blunt and to an extent, whiny, can be seen as a detraction on top of it being not the most polished song. In my opinion, that is what gravitates me towards it. I think that unfiltered emotion from it really makes it stand out on this album. It’s no wonder this song is used for edgy AMVs to playlists for oc stuff. The fact this song was from their demo genuinely amazes me because it is really well done. They got really lucky with this track. I found a review by Heather Phares of AllMusic who said,

"At first, the song seems almost stupidly simple, both lyrically and musically. However, the controlled fury of the choruses and the ambivalent verses make the song a surprisingly smart and concise anthem for anyone stuck in a baffling relationship."

The review gets it. I feel like this song could have easily been fumbled lyrically like many other bands who made similar relationship songs like this. But I think what made this work is that Adam was not trying to write this from the perspective of a teenager for teenagers. But from someone who knows what this type of relationship is like for others who have gone through it.

Track 4: Home

This was apparently another big track from their album which surprises me. Mainly because I never really expected it to be a hit. Though it did not get as big as “Just Like You” and “I Hate Everything About You”. I would listen to this song a decent amount as a teen mainly because I grew up in a not great environment. So at the time it resonated with me but not so much now. It is a decent song, not my favorite track, but all right. Apparently this was Adam Gointer’s favorite track from the album mainly because it was fun to play it live. Though drummer Neil Sanderson talked about the meaning of the song saying,

"It's about being pushed around and neglected and feeling like even though you're in the company of other people, they're not really there at all."

Obvious by anyway, further reading I found this odd trivia about the song. This track along with an interview with the band was included as a bonus with the Prima Games strategy guide for Lords of EverQuest. Huh? That is random. Why was this song chosen for it? Who knows.

Track 5: Scared

I always forget this track exists. It’s not a bad song but it doesn’t stand out compared to the other tracks on the album. I could say what the song is about but I think Genius said it best with and I quote, “This song is about someone is scared and lonely” Thank you random person for saying the obvious. I cannot saying anything else about the song. Narrator is paranoid and is clearly not having a good time in this house because the other person there told him shit he cannot unhear. So far this is one of the weaker tracks on the album. The lyrics are simple and the track feels more like a filler song more than anything. Again, it isn’t like a terrible song but it also doesn’t do much for me. Actually, while I went to listen to it this is a fucking bop. If someone made an AMV of this song with like Scooby Doo on Zombie Island or something it would be perfect. Fuck what I said earlier that this is a weak track.

Track 6: Let You Down

This is an interesting track. It is about the narrator urging the other to trust them and they are safe with this person. But shortly reveals that once you give said trust to them, they will disappoint you. I know some could read this as Adam is the narrator in the situation but I don’t personally see it like that. How I saw it was this was akin to a villain song. Which I think works in the song’s favor. Well I know what ocs I’ll be using this song for.

Track 7: Now or Never

I always assumed this track was about the state of the world and we have the decision of either doing something or not at all. Though that was my perspective as a teen. Now as an adult I could see this song on a more personal level of a person having to choose whether to act upon a decision or never getting that chance again. It’s an all right song. Not one of my favorites but it is a nice track regardless.

Track 8: Born Like This

You know, I struggled trying to pin down the exact meaning behind the song. Before relistening to it I assumed it was about like being born a certain way. Like a certain nature be it selfishness to cruelty. Especially from my memory of the song. When I began to listen with lyrics “It’s not what I took from you, It’s not what I stole, we are born like this” I thought it would lean towards that or something but as the track went on it just became more vague. Well to me anyway. I would replay it to see if maybe I’ll get it. I know this verse,

“Somewhere you're floating high You're not living, we are Somewhere, someone's god, someone's god is laughing”

Stood out to me even as a teen. I always liked it but I don’t really know why. I asked one of my friends who listened to a lot of Three Days Grace as a teen and asked what they thought the song was trying to say. What they told me was,”my best guess is about reclaiming agency over one's life, like a "you can't change the person i intrinsically am" kind of thing.” This was after them even admitting they didn’t fully know what the song meant either. Though if lets say that is the message of reclaiming one’s agency then that is genuinely neat.

Track 9: Drown

An obvious about depression and that the narrator will get out of the slump before it overtakes them. I like the whispers that appear in and out of the song especially in the end. It is eerie and gives off an implication of the narrator doing a mantra to encourage themselves to get through this. How I feel about this song is similar to Now or Never, I like it all right but it isn’t my top song on this album.

Track 10: Wake Up

Before I re-listened to this song I was like “I don’t remember this track. This was their fourth hit?” Then when the instrumentals kicked in then I remembered it. The instrumentals are genuinely very nice and oddly relaxing. However the lyrics of it is...a LOT. I am going to be blunt, this is about a couple in an abusive relationship where the narrator is struggling with addiction however he is taking out his frustrations on his partner. He tries to plead to her that he needs her even though this relationship is terrible for both of them. Especially since the girl is the one who has to be in a position to try to calm him down to sober him up. That and he is using her for drunken sex as well which uhh...

Adam in an interview said,

“ We kind of wrote that song together as a band. The other guys in the band have gone through quite a few relationships, and I've been through a couple. Really that song's just about wanting to get a second chance at a relationship that has gone pretty bad."

There is just a lot to unpack here and in this song that I don’t really know if I am equip to actually discuss more. Like yeah, I could bring up that the narrator is probably an alcoholic which explains his anger and behavior towards this woman. But that is obvious. I guess I am just shocked because as a teen I never really paid attention to the lyrics so listening to this as an adult I am just sitting here. I am not sure how I feel about this song at all. Do I hate it? No. Do I love it? No. Does the song make me uncomfortable? Yeah actually. Not because the subject matter is there but more me trying to figure out how am I, the listener, meant to feel towards the narrator? Sympathy? Pity? Disgust? I guess that is up to the listener. I do have some respect for the song being like up front about a bad relationship like this.

Track 11: Take Me Under

I have always felt this track was fatalistic since the whole “Push me under, pull me further, take me all the way” does make it sound like he is asking death to just get it over with. However, reading more into the lyrics I could if I really squinted it COULD be about a relationship based on the lyric,

“ Seems you're wanting me to stay But my dreams would surely waste away And I still have nowhere else to go”

But I think either interpretation works. It is an all right song, got nothing more to say on it.

Track 12: Overrated

Okay, I remember this track and it was my least favorite on the album for years. Mainly how slow and dull it sounded to me. On top of the energy on the track being low. As a teen I thought this was like about overrated music but going back to the first verse this is about generational divide. That the previous generation screwed up the current and future generation with all the issues they created. Which I only found that out now of the song’s message. While I understand the message I feel like there are better songs that do this. The song doesn’t go deeper into what these issues are besides vague things such as “answers to questions they don’t even know” to “the system moves too slow”. I get that maybe the band didn’t want to get too political on their debut album but as it is, it is a weak end to the album. I will say it is not a bad song but it is a very meh song.

Bonus Track: Are You Ready?

So on the deluxe edition of the album they added this track and I think this song is a weirdly fitting end to the album. Which yes it sounds a lot different than all the other tracks which have more depressing subject matter. But the energy of it I feel like is on par of bring the mood up. Not gonna lie, it sounds like a song perfect for concert audience participation. Not a bad thing but it is something I noticed.

I was pleasantly surprised that I still enjoyed this album as I am getting slowly closer to 30 and farther away from who I was as a middle schooler. I enjoyed most of the songs on this with my top favorites being Burn, I Hate Everything About You, Born Like This, and Scared. The band got super lucky with this album being the success it was. Not every bands first album is solid.Oh, and before I forget this is a Canadian band. I don’t know why I always forget the band came from there but I do. I should have mentioned that a lot earlier but oh well. I actually recommend this album if you like more alternative metal to rock stuff. As I am writing this I have and had worked on Bullet for My Valentine’s The Poison review. Switching back between the two so I hopefully get my review of The Poison out soon.

[becca-e-barnes]

Bucky pinning you down so you can’t squirm and he’s just sitting inside you while he tortures your clit feeling you clench around him. He makes you cum over and over until he finally cums.

Overstimulation + super soldier stamina = …

- 🍯

Dear God, I know I just don't have it in me to behave during cock-warming. When it comes down to it, I genuinely have no patience at all 😵‍💫

"You..." Bucky begins, pressing you down onto the bed before gripping your ankles and forcing you to flip over onto your front. "Have a problem with control."

With your face turned away from him, you can't help but smile to yourself. No one has ever said it out loud but you know he's right.

Being in control is where you're most comfortable. No hands are safer than your own. Except maybe his. You know he won't fuck this up.

"And you..." He continues, gathering your wrists behind your back, holding them tightly with one hand. "Need to learn how it feels to have control taken from you. Do you understand?"

As soon as you begin to nod your head, you feel him start to tape around your wrists, holding them together behind your back. Once he's content they're secure, he sits on the edge of the bed, facing the mirror before he pulls you onto his lap.

"Legs spread over the top of mine." He orders and you do as you're told, not because you have to but because you want to.

You notice the way your cunt is already glistening in the mirror and you're almost embarrassed because he hasn't even touched you yet.

"Fuck, you're made for this." He groans, lining his cock up to your slick entrance and you wonder if he's holding his breath too while he slides into you, as deep as your bodies will allow.

You're obsessed with the sight in front of you; your own naked body, with your legs spread so far apart you can see how your cunt is stuffed full of him.

Being shorter though, your feet can't touch the ground like this. There's no way you'll get enough leverage to fuck yourself on him but as soon as you start to tell him that, he silences you with two thick fingers between your lips.

"I'm not letting you fuck me." His free hand roams over your body, squeezing your breasts, pinching your nipples and then settling between your spread thighs.

"I'm going to play with you. I'm going to see how much you can take. I'm going to work out exactly how you like your clit stroked and I'm going to do that until your legs are shaking and your body won't let you cum any more. Maybe then I'll fuck you but sweetheart, that will be hours from now." His breath is hot against the side of your face, his fingers slipping from your mouth to your waist while he starts to flick gently against your clit.

"I'm going to start slowly. I'm going to do everything I can to drag this out as long as possible. I can feel every clench and flutter of this pretty little cunt and I'm going to enjoy it until you're dripping over my balls." At this rate, it won't be long until you're dripping onto the carpet, never mind over him. You dreamed he'd want to take control like this but you never imagined the way your body would respond.

"And then, when you've cum more times than you can handle, I'm going to tell you that I love you while I fuck you like I don't."

Update: Part 2

[rivenantiqnerd]

I think pierced ears and earrings are cool and all, but I’m not a fan of wearing earrings all the time because they allow the evil god of change and war and destruction to influence your thoughts emotions and actions and prevent the god of safety and peace and preservation from helping you and giving you extra superpowers and letting you share references to your favorite book series.

[i-wanna-hug]

CHOOSE YOUR CHAMPION

[foolishlovers]

anything can be a good omens au if you’re unhinged enough

[himbionn]

SHAKES HIM LOVINGLY

Undercut Adrien Undercut Adrien Undercut Adrien UNDERCU

[hawkeyegender]

hes literally a soaking wet cat here

[mtsodie]

Show me the pathetic wet man (Kallamar), pretty please? 🥺

the slayer

[komaedatulpa]

SO, back in December of 2023 I think I was in a call with @monokumafightclub and @siromany browsing etsy for DR stuff and one of the things that came up was this cursed Komaeda painting. Now I am not calling it cursed JUST because it is cursed but also it was titled such. I was enamored by this painting. It reminded me of the Fluttershy painting that was gifted to me by a friend of mine which was found in an Amvets. The description of the piece said,

"Acrylic and oil-based painting. Nagito Komaeda from Super Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair. Proudly painted on a Sunday afternoon"

Simple yet intriguing. I knew I HAD to get this painting but I waited till after the holidays to buy it. A day after my birthday I purchased the painting by CursedCactiCreations and I waited. SO this is where things got kind of weird. So it was supposed to be shipped by March 20th and well it didn't go that way. Concerned I messaged the seller, three days passed and nothing. I emailed the seller, still nothing. I then got etsy to help me with this. I was starting to worry that something happened to the seller. We are still in a pandemic after all but also a part of me began to think the painting was maybe JUST MAYBE was actually cursed. Eventually the seller got back to me apologizing for the long delay but also that they painted the Komaeda piece four years ago back when they were high school. That they created the piece when their school shut down due to Covid. They put for sale and just went on with their life. Funnily, the piece was painted on a Sunday. Anyway it eventually got shipped out and I FINALLY got my hands on it. I wasn't upset by how long it took because I got something from all of this, the Komaeda experience. I went through the despair of waiting for the painting for a long while but then I achieved the hope of gaining said piece. I am glad I made this person happy I bought their art piece of a very cursed Komaeda.

ALSO, you may notice my pinboard which has DR stuff which yeah. I am making a pin board of DR characters I like.

ALSO ALSO, I am posting this on Komaeda's birthday I notice.

[mineral-vulture]

Need of Help

So as of late May my hours have been cut which already has affected my income making me tight on money. Just recently my hours have been cut again since business at my job has been not great. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I just recently have been putting up more jewelry for sale you can check out on my storenvy

I have a variety of adopts for sale which you can find through this tag

I am open for commissions and here are some examples of comm work I have done. You can read my TOS for both my comms and adoptables on my carrd.

You can also support me on kofi as well!

Again, any help would be greatly appreciated!

[gemevieve]

Yeah, I had a lot to say in the tags of that post about those MamaMax inspired glitchy thumbnails about insert person here because like it is a layered issue of why videos to thumbnails like that are made on Youtube.

Those types of thumbnails are purposefully meant to look aesthetically interesting but also eerie to draw in the eye. To make someone who vaguely knew about whatever creator the video is about to click on it and watch it. Of course the quality of videos like that are ALL OVER THE PLACE. Some are fine where they get to the point and don't dramatize what is being talked about. Though more likely those types of videos do the spooky voice and music while talking about something that maybe one should talk about with more tact.

It is common for drama, spooky, and true crime videos to have thumbnails like that for a mixture of reasons. One of the main reasons being the Youtube Algorithm. The more eye catching the thumbnail, the more clicks it'll get. Youtube encourages this a lot even if it doesn't match the tone of the video in question. So this makes it harder to tell when someone makes a thumbnail like that because they genuinely want it to be that vs someone doing it to get the most people to click on it.

While some of the comments within that post were insightful others not so much which like I shouldn't be shocked by at all. Like yes, a good amount of time the reason "What happened to *insert whoever here*?" is that whoever was outed as a groomer it is not accurate to claim that is ALWAYS the case. There are plenty of creators that eventually fall off or disappear because of stuff like them being outed for abuse (be it emotional, mental, physical, sexual, and/or financial, you name it), being involved with some sort of crime (arson, robbery, assault, sexual assault, murder, etc), or some other issue. While some creators just disappear with not much explanation besides getting busy with real life or they lost interest in their projects or at times they are the ones victims of abuse to bullying. Not all cases are the same and that is not a good idea to assume every case is such. Like I get it, it would be so easy to look at the tumbnail of a vid and assume what it is going to be like/about just to save a click. Some vids you can do that easily with but other times not so much. Like seeing the comment saying that QuintonReview's recent video's thumbnail was similar to the overblown glitchy effect thumbnails was inaccurate and did irk me about. Which again, I am not shocked by, because I knew people would say such. But it just told me "You didn't watch the video at all and if you did you would understand why he made the simple thumbnail with Dan's eyes censored" as someone who did watch the whole entire thing.

Like in general I am fine with people in general making videos talking about whatever happened to X person as long as the information is properly sourced, what is being told is true, and that the subject matter is being taken genuinely and is NOT being made into a spectacle. Like I get I am talking a lot about a post making a joke about videos about whatever creator one may have never heard of but my gripes come less from the post itself and more with the comments within.

[songsforthepierce]

In lighter news, since I want to balance it all out, I did find seven Front Line Assembly albums for good prices. I nice find.

[ataraxianascendant]

songs that would kill you if you put them on 1.25x speed