#skipper dan

[cornaby]

Ok i got encouragement now everyone has to see this incredibly rushed image i made in like an hour, sorry the writing is Kind of incomprehensible but i hope its not too bad

and to be like ultra uber cringe on main I also have a self insert though this might somewhat change because I cant decipher if he's romantic to me or platonic but. art by (@/bacon-pancakes)

Princeton is Dan's therapy cat (Ann also loves him) who he takes to work to help with anxiety, he also uses Princeton as a stand in for an audience sometimes when he practices his acting (just in case). Princeton thinks it's kind of ridiculous but he does it cuz he loves Dan

@thecedarsights thank you for being nice to me here you go

if anyone is even somewhat willing to hear me yap about him please talk to me im going to explode shortly if i dont talk about him

[spencers-selfships]

Im spencer, and im a romantic, platonic, and familial selfshipper!

Here's some of my f/os (〃´ω`〃)

(My self insert for all these are different. Well, besides eddsworld.)

Warning : VERY obsessed with Miracle Machine. He is my everything right now, he's the f/o im utterly obsessed with, so i talk about him A LOT! ok, yeah umm anyways i have others im just not as obsessed with them.. ALSO I WILL GO SANS FANGIRL MODE OVER HIM. IM VERRYY NONSHARING.. he is mine. all mine. LOL!!

Doubles DNI. If I'm selective with a f/o, I'll block you depending on who you are!! My DNI from my main blog goes along with this blog too!

But Miracle Machine doubles STRICTLY DNI. I'm so sorry you're probably really cool and all I am just very heavily nonsharing with him </3

all blinkies were made using blinkies.cafe ! owo

ROMANTIC

Miracle Machine - "Weird Al" Yankovic Fan Music Video (and he was in an official one.) [ EXTREMELY NONSHARING ] Relationship status - DATING MAYBE MARRIED IDK. EITHER WAY HE IS MY EVERYTHING. I AM MADLY IN LOVE WITH HIM. I LOOVEE EVIL PEOPLE. (*≧з≦)

Gideon Graves - Scott Pilgrim [ NONSHARING ] Relationship status - dating (*´▽｀)

Larry - Eddsworld [ SELECTIVE ] Relationship status - dating ヽ(･ω･´)ノ

Stuart "2D" Pot - Gorillaz [ SELECTIVE ] Relationship status - dating (*≧з≦)

Mitch Dollarton III - New Kids on The Rock [ SELECTIVE ] Relationship status - dating (*´ｪ｀*)

QUEER-PLATONIC

Skipper Dan - "Weird Al" Yankovic Music Video [ SELECTIVE ] Relationship status - dating (^ω^)

FAMILIAL

Eduardo - Eddsworld [ I love interacting with other kinds of Eduardo yumes ! ] Family member type (idk what to call it lmao) - adoptive brother (*ゝω･*)

Petey - Dog Man[ I love interacting with other kinds of Petey yumes ! ( my friend is actually dating him , LOL ! @confettipebblez ) ] Family member type - biological brother (*ゝω･*)

PLATONIC

Milo - Milo Murphy's Law [ Other Milo yumes can interact as well ! ] Platonic f/o status/type (once again idk what to call it?) - best friend (о´∀`о)

That's basically it, I hope you enjoy my stuff (〃´▽`)

Main blog: @localgeekyboy

If this post gets edited it's either due to me forgetting something or adding something new!

[billyshamsartblog]

halfway through drawing this, I realized I had no idea what I was going to do for the rest of the pose. So it kinda just turned into this

[russanogreenstripe]

Been thinking around Weird Al

Earlier this week, before I heard about his new single, I was thinking back to my senior year of high school. That was when Skipper Dan came out, and it felt like peering into a possible future of mine.

For reference, two things I was real big into in middle and high school: Weird Al, and theater. First as afterschool drama club, then actual theater classes, and even a fully student-led and organized production because we wanted to. My whole friend group at the end of high school was theater kids. And it would have been very natural to go on and major in theater in college - several of my friends did. But I didn't. Because I was afraid. Because I'd heard so many stories of people who tried doing theater/acting/performance as a living, and ended up waiting tables, flipping burgers, or hosting the Jungle Cruise ride like Skipper Dan here. I'd been told implicitly and explicitly by society that performing arts was not a viable career path, and especially graduating during a recession, the need for financial stability was drilled into my head. This song felt like the straw breaking the camel's back - a creative performer I loved warning me not to go into theater, or else I'd end up a sadsack loser like Skipper Dan. So initially, I went to a local community college for Graphic Design. Completed a semester before falling into major deep depression, both from the stress of school and other life factors. Stopped going to school for years. Very dark period of my life. Not performing theatrically anymore. It wasn't until 2013 that I got motivated enough to change my lifestyle and went back to school, this time for Network Technology. Still prioritized being able to make money and have a long-term career. Graduated in 2016, got a job at a datacenter, and did my damnest at it for two years before having another breakdown. I came to realize that, while I was capable of doing that kind of technical work, it wasn't how I wanted to spend my life. The work felt meaningless and empty, even if I was able to (mostly) make rent and pay bills.

So now I'm in the middle of a career change, going back to school. And part of me wonders now, almost 15 years later, if I should have gone with my original plan. If I had instead leaned into what I was good at - and am still good at, if I'm being honest - and not let fear dictate my actions. Would my path have been as rocky if I hadn't spent all that time trying to hide who I really was, working overtime to convince the world that I'm a tech guy and not a thespian? Part of me thinks that I would have been happier going into Performing Arts, even if I hadn't been successful. That even if I struggled financially and personally, I would have been truer to myself - I was so afraid of ending up like Skipper Dan that I was willing to amputate parts of my soul.

[weirdalyoutubecomments]

[weird-al-song-tourney]

'Weird Al' Yankovic Song Tournament

Round 26

Skipper Dan

Style parody of Weezer & Fountains of Wayne

Skipper Dan vs. Sir Isaac Newton v Bill Nye

Skipper Dan

Sir Isaac Newton vs. Bill Nye

Voting ended onJun 24, 2023

Sir Isaac Newton vs. Bill Nye

[metrosexualcyclops]

thinking about that post where op calls Skipper Dan a sexyman. they were so very real for that

[yourfavehatesautismspeaks]

Skipper Dan from Weird Al Yankovic hates Autism Speaks as much as he hates his job!

[Image Description: Two images set to the background of a flag with three stripes; the upper and lower stripes are both light red, the middle stripe is a darker red. The first picture has Skipper Dan, a drawing of a man, clearly dead inside, wearing a khaki shirt, brown shorts, and a pith hat with a leopard print band. He is also wearing a name tag that reads “Dan”. The second image has the Autism Speaks logo crossed out with a ‘no’ sign. End Description.]