#dani pearce

[burnnotice]

happy valentines day!!!!!!!!!!

[i-used-to-be-a-spy]

Michael and Pearce in s6e3 Last Rites

He's so adorable here

[imalifegen89]

To Fix What's Broken One Last Time

A Burn Notice Season 7 Rewrite

Playlist for the fic (The one I used for vibes...)

[tiggymalvern]

They would have been fantastic. And it's easy to believe - Jesse's the only person in the gang who calls her Dani, not Pearce.

jesse and dani should have gotten together

[adanieline]

[thesquirrelqueer]

LIAM PEARCE AS ROMEO OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD

[idanielions]

Happy Luke doodle to get me out of the scary art block

[tiggymalvern]

Jesse's the one team member who regularly calls her Dani, not Pearce. They'd be awesome together ❤

i’m sure everyone’s aware by now that i am very much a jesse/dani believer

so i watched all of burn notice with an irl of mine. he’s heard me yap about the show since middle school, so he wanted to watch it together. it was a blast, and he now has brainworms.

anyway, when dani pearce is sent away for helping michael try and find nate’s killer, she’s visibly pregnant. i know it’s not canon to the show, but she was written out because lauren stamile (her actress) could no longer conceal the pregnancy on screen with practical effects, baggy wardrobe, and clever camerawork. she was supposed to come back in season 7 (which im still mad about.)

ANYWAY, during that scene, i pointed it out, and said “that’s jesse’s baby” and my friend thought it was really funny. yes ha ha funny filming error.

but what if………

lol

[haveyoulistenedtothisalbum-poll]

Tracklist:

A Ninja, A DJ • The Short of It • Women of Many Shades • Dream Record 89 • A Cicada Dance • Every Legendary Blade • We Prowl On Furious Feet • Allowed To Forget • Still Untitled • Dream Record 812 • The Neon Ancient • Did The Conversations End • In Every Pussytown Cafe

Spotify ♪ Bandcamp ♪ YouTube

[danileepearce]

I share a plex server with some friends over where I live now and sometime ago someone requested and added Welcome To The NHK to the list of available shows on it. About a week ago i started to work my way through watching it and just tonight I finally finished it. I didn't really think to expect much from it, but it ended up a show, a world, a set of characters that im really glad i ended up spending my nights with.

Firstly, the show for a good handful of its duration is absolutely laugh out loud funny. I now understand in that way why it seems to have been at least a minor sensation in some corners of late 00s internet(i don't know exactly of the reach it had, but it was probably big). so many easily quotable/jokeable/memeable moments throughout, such a hilarious dissection of otaku culture and also really just like, early 20s life. satou is the most 22 years old any human being has ever been in their entire lives.

the show genuinely takes its sweet time really kind of slowly inching its true message on you; it front-loads itself heavily with its comedy and its stories about satou and yamazaki being complete ridiculous dumbasses over several episodes, with every episode ending with that insane ABABA BABA BA ODORU AKACHAN NINGEN song which, the lyrics are so well written and so relatable for 2006…i was only 11 when this first aired! ********************************************************************* [[MAJOR SPOILERS PAST THIS POINT, DONT READ IF YOU DONT WANT THEM, ALSO CONTENT WARNING FOR SENSITIVE SUBJECT MATTER]] *********************************************************************

but then you get to that point in the series where satou becomes This Close to committing suicide. its played off in a somewhat over-dramatic way and even that has humorous undertones to it, but the first true colors of the heart behind the show really begin to introduce themselves in a very visible way after that point. the end credits song changes to something a lot more grounded, and little by little from then on, the humor kind of falls away, the characters satou had to bounce off of in these ways depart from the main plot altogether (but they give satou and yamazaki that one last "snowball fight" lmao. how did those two never kiss) until its just him and misaki. i actually was stunned at how totally transformed the tone had become by the last few episodes.

When I finally got to the end, it was one of those endings….one of those resolutions….where i just kind of ended up going out for a night walk at 2 am, walking for almost an hour listening to music, and then sitting out on a lounge chair on my driveway staring up at the stars and just thinking.

The big lore reveal for misaki around the climax of the story made me realise just how much i had in common with her. Basically ever since i first became homeless, and honestly some time before that, I feel like i've basically just always dedicated myself to helping others as best as i can. i used to be pretty bad at it, but i was dedicated enough to making this a fundamental part of who i was it that it became a skill within myself i refined like a sharp blade over the years. i gave myself up to ppl completely, in more ways than one, often just to have a place to stay. to this day, i feel like i give so much to my friends. i try to give so much to whatever community i find myself in. because i think i too share a compulsion to give others the love and the kindness that i was never given when i most needed it. like misaki. i also have worried pretty heavily about if my usefulness would last to the people around me. ive also hinged my entire life purpose on that.

i dont think i have as tragic of a backstory as misaki's is framed to be, but my family life was in many ways as equally fractured as hers. my mom didn't kill herself, but it feels like she might as well have. she always seemed like there once was a human being there that just became completely consumed with hate, with christofascism, with this desire to have me constantly hurt and beaten by not just her but by just about every adult figure that graced my life for many years. my dad was just simply not present, and was consumed by this complete inability to ever have the relationship with me that i so badly needed from him growing up. at times he was an equal participant in the abuse. and additionally at times he was actually scarier and a lot more energetically violent. when satou is on the island and raises his voice and fist to misaki, her reaction was something i felt very deeply. it especially hit with the lore reveal.

additionally, i related to satou in a number of ways too. up until this year i had spent the last 9 years essentially living in this very open-wound self-exploitative way where i essentially kept no secrets and no part of me concealed from people until this spring, around my 29th birthday, and at some point in the following summer, everything just Slammed Shut on my fingers from the inside and has not reopened. i feel like ive radically transformed into being a much more private person. i hardly post anywhere on social media anymore and most times i just outright avoid it. ive unfollowed/disconnected from a lot of the ppl i knew in that time period. ive struggled lately with a very deep fear of the world and of nearly everybody in it, since many of the people i met after escaping home were also people that hurt me in pretty profound ways, both on and offline. i spend a lot of time just in my house, which i try to maintain as low of stimuli within as i can. sometimes i just lie down and i listen to music and get lost in a very deep currant of my own thoughts. sometimes i just spiral. i was spiraling pretty heavily over this last week especially. feeling like the world and everyone in it wants nothing to do but just hurt me. like ITS ALL A CONSPIRACY (OF COURSE! WHY DIDN'T I REALIZE THIS BEFORE!)to keep me always suffering and in pain.

And, like both characters, i have wanted to kill myself. many times over many years. sometimes for extremely silly and impulsive reasons like satou, sometimes for reasons based out of very real deep-seated trauma, fear, and a sense of never-ending heartbreak like misaki. the way she fixates on death and suicide leading up to her own attempts is something i've done more times than i can count. anyone who has known me for any length of time has learned this about me at some point. my most recent plan to do so was made at the end of july this year. its funny in that way how satou catches misaki before she falls, and how satou is caught by the chain link (lol) and misaki then helps him back onto the cliff. that to me very much analogues my friends catching me and me catching myself. maybe im also that chain link; where even in my most brazen and my most far-flung from a grounded feeling that a hard wall will always stop me short from going through with it. who knows!

and i mean, maybe a hikkikimori partially/subliminally fits my description as of present, but maybe without the negative connotations that seem to associate with that term. ive mostly become a lot more hermetic out of necessity. I've Lived So Much Life and a lot of life that no one should ever have to live, and i've finally arrived at a place of stability and support where i can finally just Withdraw from it all. i can live with a quietness and a control over my environment that i've essentially always longed for. i guess that ive lived the reverse life of satou; he seems very comically dedicated to Always Being A Hikkikimori and yet he ends up doing a lot of Living over the course of the series! and in the end it results in him kind of resurfacing properly into the world. thats what the series portrays as a happy ending but i'd like to think that my "reversed" version of that has a happy ending to it in itself. i can finally live how i feel i deserve to. i can finally find and feel my own happiness in the withdrawal from so many elements in my life that were hurting me, burning me, bruising me very terribly.

id like to think also that our overall attitudes towards ppl who quote-on-quote Don't Contribute To Society have vastly improved since 2006; on a few occasions the series seemed very mean spirited in a way that hasn't aged well. The brief focus on kobayashi's brother i thought was really touching though; seemed like a more sympathetic look at complete reclusiveness even though he too has another "happy ending" type resolution. some ppl are just most comfortable shut off and isolated from most things in the world, especially in a covid age.

but anyway, i really like that the way satou and misaki dedicate themselves to self preservation is a(nother) contract that basically binds them them both to stay alive together. neither one of them wants the other to die, so either they both have to or neither of them do. that's really cute and sweet. i think i would get a lot out of having that kind of agreement with someone. like really, the way that this series extrapolates upon what it means to live, what it means to keep going, is done in a way that is surprisingly very well handled and very affecting to someone like me. and i definitely am sure that im not alone in that. these subjects were always the series' secret weapon, they were always the CONSPIRACY. the series just wants us all to live, to take care of ourselves through everything as much as we can.

in all of this, im reminded of a memory of someone who long ago i used to talk to and message every day as an excited 16 year old who barely knew how to be an actual person and was only really just learning how to interact with people online. if memory serves, Welcome To The NHK was a series that was very close and dear to her at that time. i hope she's doing ok.

but yeah. i guess in its own strange way NHK has become one of my unexpectedly favorite anime of all time, something that is no secret to anyone who has reached this same sentiment about it. It was something that found me at the perfect place at the perfect time. i get it now. i feel like i now get so much. a lot of this feels written very messily and disorganized and complicated in my thinking and wording, but if you made it this far, thank you for reading. its been a minute since i felt this inspired to just write

[oceanlandworld]

i was raised by rivers of blood i fed on the fish of the fire of your scream spare my roasted heart and mind i got gold in places youll never find cause youre not brave like i am brave to dive in filth you must misbehave

[burnnotice]

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[i-used-to-be-a-spy]

I can't, with the way they're both standing in power poses

Burn Notice s5e8 Hard Out

[robynsassenmyview]

Reasons to dance all night

A review of 'My Fair Lady' directed by Steven Stead and performing at Teatro, Montecasino, until 2 March 2025.

ACROSS a crowded room, Freddy and Eliza meet. From left Colonel Pickering (Graham Hopkins), Prof Higgins (Craig Urbani), Eliza Doolittle (Leah Mari), Mrs Higgins (Adrienne Pearce), a servant (Lusibalwethu Sesanti), Mrs Eynsford-Hill (Namhla Tshuka) and Freddy Eynsford-Hill (Sandi Dlangalala). Photograph courtesy Montecasino. SHE’S A POOR little flower seller, her thick Cockney accent endemic to…

[dogeatspine]

dani's late 2010s albums have a certain energy to them that feels really reflective of the changing political environment for trans people in a way that is really affecting to me - this song is an interesting example because as much as it is about the transformative and liberating powers of HRT i also interpret it as touching on the co-opting of trans culture by capitalists in ways that were in some ways optimistic predictions compared to how things have actually progressed since but in other ways feel very relevant to trans culture and identity today

so a toast to us its all working out fine the rivers run with robins eggs blue saccharin now lets try to not tear each other apart this time

[tiggymalvern]

A really solid, long (187k) season seven AU fix-it, in which Michael decides to take Madeline's advice and put his family first. Instead of running after killing Tom Card, he hands himself in to Riley and the plot evolves from there, weaving in and out of canon.

Skilled writing, tightly plotted and edited, it's not a shippy fic aside from some Michael/Fiona background, just good show-style, Michael-centric Burn Notice. And Dani Pearce gets to make a very welcome return :-)

I don't know if it's the lack of shippiness or the sheer length of it daunting people, but it deserves more love ❤