#dani is yapping

[dani-ya-dig]

I just watched a really shitty movie so I’m gonna rant about how The Balance did this better when it was made by one dude voicing most of the characters.

So The Balance is a great series with where it’s at so far, but what I mainly am focusing on (as far as this little rant goes) is how Erik introduced Elliott.

Erik did a good job with introducing and endearing Elliott to the audience before the all of the events that take place in The Balance really occurred.

Which I understand seems like such a “yeah, fucking duh that’s what you should do” thing. But I watch a lot of horror movies, and obviously a lot of these horror movies have horrible things happening to the characters in these movies. But somehow these movies, some of which are made with huge teams by large production companies, fail to do this seemingly very obvious thing even half as well as A FUCKING BOYFRIEND ASMR CHANNEL.

Starting off point, Sunshine and Elliott were already best friends even before Elliott’s first audio and that was a good choice. The dynamic between them is already there, and that kind of gives off an immediate sense of familiarity with the character. Putting the listener in the position of someone close to the character already endears him because, yeah that’s our bestie!!!

And then along with this in his first two audios you learn enough about him to make him a lovable character. Just small things like him being afraid of open water, his love for the stars especially ones that people can’t see that well, having used looking at the stars as an escape from his life as a kid, him actively helping Sunshine with their nightmares when they met even if they never became friends, how despite him loving his powers he prefers to live in reality over dreams because reality is complex, and flawed, and unpredictable, and real.

My point being, that is not a lot of time between Elliott’s first introduction, and when him and Sunshine get thrown into all the cult shit. Yet still even with that little time I’ve learned enough about Elliott and who he is that the stakes feel serious when he gets put in a horrible situation, and I can actively route for him to get out of said situation.

And yes, Erik does have more time to do that given that it’s a series rather than a movie… but ONE DUDE WITH A MICROPHONE DID WHAT SO MANY PEOPLE WHO WRITE MOVIES PROFESSIONALLY SUCK BALLS AT!!

(Feeling very “TONY STARK WAS ABLE TO BUILD THIS IN A CAVE!! WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!!”)

Like yes, I can watch a character going through a horrible situation and feel base empathy for them of “oh that would really suck to go through”. But if I know nothing about that character, or you don’t give me any information about this character to form an opinion off of, it’s never going to go beyond that base level empathy. I’m not going to be actively and hopefully routing for your character to get out of the situation, I’m just gonna be passively watching as things happen to them.

tl;dr

Watching horror movies sucks sometimes because ya gotta go through a bunch of bad ones to get to a good one, and redacted audio good.

Also 10 dani points to whoever can guess what movie inspired this rant

[kusanagihaku]

saw this floating around weibo and made a completed version in english if anyone's interested!

[luc3ks]

they are so cute when they are teens ... 🥹

[danieyells]

THERE'S GONNA BE ANOTHER B'D LOG FEATURE FOR TOKYO DEBUNKER probably not the same degree as the previous one ofc but they're gonna share costume details again apparently so that'll be cool!

Apparently my copy of B's log and all the merch actually got here thursday but i didn't get any sort of notification that it had even shipped so i didn't grab it from the front desk until yesterday when i got home and i kinda crashed right away so i haven't even opened it yet LMAO BUT I'M EXCITED I'LL PROBABLY OPEN IT WHEN I GET HOME. Obviously i've already seen the art but it's nice to have like. Something tangible relating to some of my current blorbos.

[ales-macaroni]

ok back to the topic of the latest TW aftermovie..

are we gonna pretend like we didn’t just hear the words “christian dating app” come out of dany’s mouth?????

like, what was the reason? what was the conversation about?? is dany on christian mingle???

I NEED CONTEXT BRO

[daniiii-california]

me n the (short) homie

@t20-scientist

[kiwikiswia]

yeag

[personthatdrawssometimes]

HI SORRY FOR LACK OF POSTING I KEEP FORGETTING TUMBLR EXISTS

anyways not spilling the details but the school friend group drama got so bad we had to pull out the google docs. how does one get burnt out writing a TEXT MESSAGE

oh and my best friend got deadnamed :3

istfg im tweaking SO BAD

[mossy-fae]

trying to explain things to your kink oriented best fried doesn't always work

[winterisol]

I found a dovi look-a-like at the museum I went to

[danielletylr]

Hari y Dani comparten la merienda en la terraza. @yiharin

— ¿Nunca probaste hacer paracaidismo? Te sientes como que vences a la gravedad misma, es genial —comentaba mientras tomaba otro pan tostado de la mesilla—. ¿Sabes qué es esto? —preguntó primero, señalando una pasta con untador, mas tampoco esperó respuesta antes de poner un poco en su pan.

[holyfacehead]

which yellowjacket do you relate to the most?

this is such a great question, tHANK YOU (you just gave me an excuse for me to yap). probably teen shauna, more specifically pre-crash. i always saw her (may or may not be accurate since this is just how i view her personally) as someone who tries very hard to break free from other people’s expectations and prove that she could be different in the sense that she could do more (she's in her #im not like other girls era) but is always held back due to self-esteem issues. and ig i kind of relate to that specific trait in a way because i try to do the same thing (like the i-could-be-more-than-how-other-people-perceive-me yada yada yada) but i end up always reverting to that box that was alr laid out for me because i just don't have the self-esteem to actually do somethjng abt it.. like i just tend to always seek the comfort of what's already labelled as me even though i don't really resonate with it anymore. in a way that kinda makes me sort of resentful towards other people for iDKK i guess being the person i wanted to be but can't be for personal limiting reasons (as much as i’d like to explain this better, english fries my brain so this will do) similarly to how shauna sort of resents jackie and their relationship for, albeit unknowingly, putting her in a box and giving her a specific role to play, shaping how other people see and perceive her individuality which frustrates her because as much as she wants to break free from that, she's also anchored to jackie yada yada yada like the whole self-esteem and codependency thing. yeah idonknaur shauna’s just a very complex character overall and even though i know that's not a really good trait to resonate with (im not proud of that behavior in any way and im working on the self-esteem thing, might i add !!) it's still validating (for me) to have that sort of experience be portrayed.. like it’s bad but also you’re not NOT normal for feeling that way.

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[ynjnscatt]

my account is so dry idk what to post about😭 I need ideas😘🙏🏻💗

[so-sobirdsong]

Sometimes I get paranoid that the friends I send Tumblr memes to will find my account by looking through the likes and recognizing my signature sense of humor but then I remember I've been on Tumblr for almost ten years and I can't fucking find anything on it.

[areyouthorreal]

so i’m watching true blood with my roommate for the first time and i’m scratching my head trying to figure out where i know sookie from right? i voice this to said roommate

“oh anna paquin? she’s been in a lot actually”

“she’s been in one of your superhero shows! you know the one where evan peters plays the flash?!”

girly was so so close! i then realized she was talking about the one and only rogue (shame on me for not realizing this right off the bat)(should be noted that i talk about dc so much she gets tik toks about it)(sends me every single one she gets)