Oh my god, just got to the TMA liveshow and Jon and Martin’s first meeting is so ridiculous I'm crying.

I don't understand how it took Martin such a long time to figure out that Jon might do a good impression of a snotty, stoic academic but he’s actually an anxious idiot when their first meeting was so stupid!

Yeah fine Martin let a dog trick him with its cute face and sneaked into the archive but what kind of person responds with "...in general?" when asked if they've seen a dog? Did he think a perfect stranger was accosting him at work to ask him if he’s ever seen a dog in his life?

I can't believe Martin was even surprised that Jon thought he was a ghost. I can’t believe Martin was ever intimidated by him. I can’t believe Martin ever let him live it down. Every one of their interactions for like, six months should be some variation of:

Jon: Martin, have you seen my glasses?

Martin: Yes Jon, they’re very nice. They make you look very smart.

Jon: What? No, I can’t find them!

Martin: Oh! I thought you meant like, in general.

Jon: *silently seethes*

Martin: They’re on your head, by the way.

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In Ep55 A Place for Everything, when Minkowski thinks Kepler is doubting the likelihood of Eiffel still being alive after he's floated towards the star in his spacesuit, Minkowski says "Eiffel had plenty of air left, and let's not forget he survived for -" It seems pretty likely that she was about to say that Eiffel survived nearly 200 days stranded in deep space on Lovelace's shuttle. It's interesting to me that Minkowski uses that incident as evidence that Eiffel will survive this time too, because that's not really how situations like that work.

We don't know exactly how much Minkowski knows about Eiffel's time on Lovelace's shuttle, but the reality is that he survived for those 193 days due to an extremely specific combination of impressive ingenuity, incredible perseverance, access to the right resources, a fair dose of stupidity, and an extraordinary amount of sheer luck. Without just one of those ingredients, he would never have made back to the Hephaestus alive. The ingenuity and perseverance could serve him well in this situation too, but the other factors don't exactly apply in the same way.

In my view, it isn't really that Eiffel's survival on that shuttle serves as evidence of any specific attributes that will guarantee his survival this time. I think it's more that the events with Lovelace's shuttle - Minkowski thinking Eiffel was gone forever but then being miraculously reunited with him - have given Minkowski a non-specific sense of Eiffel as a person who survives, a person who ends up in nearly inescapable peril and yet somehow always escapes, a person who makes it back alive against all the odds. It's not a piece of logical practical evidence. It's just an emotional instinct that allows her to believe that she's not going to lose him, allowing her to focus on what she can do to try and find him.

Minkowski's 'Goddamn it Eiffel' when he floats towards the star in Ep53 is so much less dramatic than the way she yells his name as the shuttle drifts away in Ep28. And that's partly about what the story calls for in those moments. And it's partly about the specific situations and the agency Eiffel has had in them. But it's also that in Ep53 she already believes that he will be okay, that he'll come back. He's done it before. He'll do it again.

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its been something like six years since i've listened to WTNV but all the cecil-posting is making me nostalgic.... might have to go wait for the bus in the rain (in the rain) again for old time's sake.

" I don't know who I am anymore... And I want to eat you" Darryl I'm twirling my hair. Kicking my feet n such.

Man. The rocky horror show is so good.

why? bc i was thinking about what i watch and what i'd like to see from dan, basically what you said to the previous anon. in late 2018 (at the end of the dan and phil era coincidentally) my taste shifted a lot from mostly comedy and vloggers to video essays and comentary so personally i'd love to see something like that from dan, but i have no idea what dan wants to do. what do you think he wants to do? what's something he'll find fulfilling and sustainable?

i'm going insane reading all these asks about what's next for dan's career. i lobe him i want him to succeed, i want him to get attention and i want to be entertained by him <3

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sustainable? this is UNSUSTAINABLE!! (sorry, the last promo got in the eyes).

i think he wants (or wanted before wad) to get into stand-up comedy. at some point he proclaimed himself a comedian and started acting like one. unsuccessfully, in my opinion. he is a bad actor, but he is good at exaggerating his feelings. and this is why wad show worked for those who were familiar with Dan, his content, his internet personality and the phandom. i think he loves attention from real life audience, and he loves connecting to the audience while being on stage, so audience participation is an important part of what he wants. (let's count how many times i say "audience"). a not-so-strict script that allows to ask questions, react to answers, comment on people's reactions, make faces, laugh randomly, adjust the show to what is happening on stage – that's a stand-up show that hundreds of people are doing. and i think Dan would be very fucking good at it. the problem is the theme of said stand-up. and i think Dan would love for it to not rely on youtube as heavily as it did during wad (which wasn't an actual stand-up comedy).

remember the last vidcon he attended and the panel that felt like a Ted Talk? it was a fail, i'd say. partly because the audience was too diverse in a sense that phannies weren't the majority. and i'm glad he didn't push this type of career path. wad was so much better, but it was also targeted at the people who already knew him. even if in the beginning i think he was trying to get a wider audience, the lack of funding or enthusiasm promo-wise made it impossible for the "outsiders" to make the experience strange for everyone, Dan including. wad happened to be for us. but was it successful or fulfilling, or sustainable? no. not in a money / audience growth / similar future tours ways. there should be done a lot of changes. and i guess completely changing his management was the 1st and very important step. it was fulfilling in a way that he met us, he saw what his coming out did and what an incredible impact he had on us (not to mention that ii was almost the same. a bunch of gays gathered together).

he clearly wants something bigger than we aka phandom can give him. and for that he must change the theme or/and concept of his shows. i do think that he will try to do a performance again. and i hope it's gonna be less acting and more improvisation.

i'm not sure about a filmed show. he sucks as an actor, and i don't want him to fail :( but if Joey Graceffa successfully put out Escape the Night and Liza Koshy had a series that didn't require more acting than her own skits, maybe something similar could be alright?! "danisnotokay" is an outdated title though. we need to change it, he is not 25 anymore, come on.

basically, he loves attention, complaining about his life, trauma dumping, edgy jokes, screaming, laughing, sex jokes, feeling liked, loved and wanted. he fucking beams when people applaud him. and for that he needs audience. he could get all of it minus an applause with a podcast or livestreams, but he is a stubborn asshole, so i do hope to see him on stage again. preferably a smaller one and with new topics to discuss.

though in all seriousness, and also at the risk of overanalyzing 2 seconds in a gaming channel, i really do think a big part of dan being all "love isn't real" is just him being Edgy and maintaining his brand, whether consciously or unconsciously, but i do think another part of it is just that a silly little joke obviously cant contain the nuance of his actual thoughts on love

because from a certain angle, i get what he's saying, as someone who is also maybe a bit cynical and nihilist and generally likes to be pretentious and philosophical about things, like maybe he does think that love ultimately boils down to various chemicals in your brain or something along those lines, but, as cynical as that may sound on the surface, it doesn't actually have to be and i dont think it necessarily is for dan

like the whole sam the surfer moment in that pre-hiatus gaming video, something that really struck me was dan talking about how it's all just coincidence (as opposed to the universe connecting phil and sam the surfer lol) and when he said that you can find the sheer improbability of something like that happening amazing and beautiful, like in finding wonder in the randomness of the universe

and i think that's honestly really in line with a lot of his philosophy he's talked about before, like as much as he's cynical and edgy and talks about how existence has no meaning or whatever, he honestly keeps a fairly consistent string of optimism throughout it all, like even going as far back as his old existential crisis videos, he talks about how the meaning of life is what you make of it, which, to me, is actually quite a comforting and hopeful thought

so i wouldnt be surprised if his thoughts on love fall along similar lines, something that sounds bleak on the surface and sounds cynical when smushed into one sentence, but is probably less bleak and less cynical when you dig into it (and i mean, that part in big about how lucky it is to find someone your that compatible with is already a huge indication of some version of appreciation for the beauty of connection, no matter how much one wants to philosophize about what "love" exactly is) (i dont think any of us really know what it is!!!)

Someone remind me to do one of those “which of these didn’t happen” polls for taz oneshots cuz the material is RIPE

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