Daniel - VA/audiobooks

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Toronto. Voice Actor. Singer. he/him. Food YouTuber. Curling. Cocktails. Good at talking, and bad at talking about myself. Check out The Three Leonards on Spotify and YouTube Music. Sometimes known as DralenDragonfox.

The Opera York cast of Pirates of Penzance in our pirate outfits during the song "With Cat-like Tread."
A dramatically angled chinook cloud in a bright sky with the sun to the far right casting sharp shadows across the row of houses in the lower third, and making lens flares across the middle of the dark cloud bottoms.
A mirror selfie of me wearing a sword and gauntlet in preparation for staffing rehearsals.
A playbill poster for the Opera York presentation of The Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert & Sullivan with John Holland as Police Sergeant Mark Potvin as The Major General Grace Quinsey as Mabel Douglas Tranquada as The Pirate King Karen Usha as Ruth, Frederic's Nurse Thurs. July 16, 2026 7:30pm Fri. July 17, 2026 7:30pm Philip Trow, Artistic Director Geoff Butler, Music Director Penelope Cookson, Stage Director Tickets: 905 78708811 - rhcentre.ca Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts
A selfie with a shark in a tank behind me.
Anthony on stage singing at karaoke.
A leopard moth with wings furled holding on to the bottom of a bright green fern leaf.
Anthony Oliveira on stage with Ryan McDonald before screening Pink Narcissus.
A picture of the Mattamy Centre set up as a curling rink for the Rock League.
Two ducks floating in a huge puddle through a gap in a chain link fence on a cloudy day with a shopping plaza in the background.
A bunch of furries and Anthony Oliveira beneath the poster for Hundreds of Beavers.
A drone show in the shape of Godzilla using his atomic breath timed to coincide with ground-based fireworks where the atomic breath hits the ground.
A photo of me sitting in a cocktail lounge in a nice dark shirt, red tie, vest, black pants, and nice hat holding up a cocktail in a glass. You can see the back of my head in a mirror on the wall behind me.
A short video of me sledding down a snowy hill at night on a Crazy Carpet.
A tumblr post that reads, "IBM slide, 1979... A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore a computer must never make a management decision." User eerian-sadow adds "That includes hiring. That includes scheduling. That includes firing. That includes approving or denying social benefits." with a period after each word for emphasis.
A poster in the style of soviet propaganda posters with a cat in a space suit looking up at a bright red Mars casting red light down on the background with the caption "To The Greatest Red Dot Of Them All!" There is a hammer and sickle with a star in the red beam of light.
A screenshot from tumblr user bog_chaser saying "Caffeine panic attacks: fuck fuck i'm never gonna get this done on time fuck shit Weed panic attacks: (rotating a 3D model of a spider in my mind) i thiunk my friends are made at me" with user actualmermaid adding the tag #adhd is both of these at the same time constantly while sober
A picture of the landscape from the balcony, almost entirely obscured by a dense white fog.
A classic figgy pudding, freshly turned out after steaming, sitting on a white plate.
My husband and me in a bar wearing nice, slightly fancy party clothes. We look sharp.
A selection of audience members dressed up for The People's Joker in front of a movie screen showing a poster for the movie.
Anthony Oliveira in a Joker costume in front of a movie screen showing the poster for The People's Joker.
A screenshot of Mark, Amy, and Ethan on the set of Unus Annus just as it went dark at the end of their final livestream before all of the videos were deleted from YouTube forever. The clock on the TV between Mark and Ethan shows only two minutes and ten seconds remaining, and the YouTube analytics shows that there are over 1.4 million viewers watching. All three people on screen are looking into the camera.
A photo of the curling rink from behind the house with the opposing skip holding the broom in the house surrounded by red and yellow rocks. You can see a team sweeping on the adjacent sheet.
A portrait image of Union Station with the CN Tower in the background with golden, sun-lit clouds billowing in the sky behind.
I paused the gif on "The Smart One."
Anthony Oliveira and audience members dressed as characters from Phantom of the Paradise against the backdrop of the show poster projected on the screen.
A small mason jar filled with bright yellow hot sauce blended from Ho Chi Minh cayenne peppers, onion, garlic, and salt.
A towel with a little over a dozen bright yellow Ho Chi Minh cayenne peppers from our garden.
Me from the chest up in a selfie wearing a leather pup hood designed by Scrapyard Leather to resemble Legosi from Beastars. My shirt is white with dramatic black zig-zag stripes.
A slide from IBM in 1979 that says "A computer can never be held accountable therefore a computer must never make a management decision" followed by a tumblr response that says "That. Includes. Hiring. That. Includes. Scheduling. That. Includes. Firing. That. Includes. Approving. Or. Denying. Social. Benefits."
Without going into exhausting detail, it's a conversation between me and a scammer who is trying to phish me, first with a "someone is impersonating you, come to discord and I'll explain it" tactic, then moving on to the "actually, I accidentally reported your account and it's going to be deleted if you don't talk to bsky admin on discord, follow this link to see a screenshot." I very politely reply as if I believe them until I get bored and tell them I'm not going to discord or following any links they send me, and they immediately block me. Username is TideInksOut and the handle is @octinklingocto3.bsky.social
A short video of a skunk wandering in the street at night. Eventually it approaches me and looks up at me in surprise before hurrying off cutely.
Sprites from the arcade game Joust that I drew on wplace.
Dramatically lit picture of a cloud bank over a row of houses.
The Undertale memory format with my dragonfox character in the upper left, and the memory saying "Playing Undertale let me hope that a time was coming when earnestness would replace snark. The writing and story of Undertale gave you permission to enjoy things unironically."
A line of men dressed as sailors in the men's chorus of HMS Pinafore lifting their hats to bow at the end of the show.
A screen capture of the air quality section of wunderground.com showing precipitation 0%, pollen count "high," air quality "unhealthy" with an index of 175, and the UV Index "very high."
A black leopard spotted white moth resting on the stem of a fern.
A cat looking anxious with Impact! font reading "Can I come over and act weird and be strange"
Godzilla Minus One looking up at the mushroom cloud created by his atomic breath in awe.
Haru from Studio Ghibli's "The Cat Returns" growing whiskers and being surprised about it.
A scene from the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Disaster" set in a turbolift, with Captain Picard sitting on the ground (injured from a fall), trying to calm down three scared children in dim lighting.
Uncle Iroh from the Avatar: The Last Airbender cartoon reclining in a hot spring with the caption "I heated it myself."
A sign purportedly from the early days of IBM that reads "A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision." (Also: A computer cannot find out, therefore a computer must never fuck around.)
A sign (purportedly from the early years of IBM) that read "A Computer can never be held accountable. Therefore a computer must never make a management decision."
The cover of Pat Frank's "Alas, Babylon."
The cover of Robertson Davies's "Fifth Business." Beneath the title it reads "Davies' Deptford trilogy is one of the splendid literary enterprises of this decade." -Peter Prescott, Newsweek.
The cover of Rohinton Mistry's "Such a Long Journey."
The cover of Samuel R. Delany's "Babel-17" with the tagline "Think galactic - or your world is lost!"
The cover of Carol Shields's "Swann" with "Winner of the Pulitzer Prize" beneath the author's name, and "An extraordinary novel." - Anita Broonker at the bottom.
The cover of Ursula K. LeGuin's "The Left Hand of Darkness." 25th anniversary edition "With a new afterword and appendixes by the author."
The cover of Mark Z. Danielewski's "House of Leaves: A Novel" "The remastered full-color edition"
The cover of Al Purdy's "Rooms For Rent in the Outer Planets: Selected Poems 1962-1996."
The cover of Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson's "The Illuminatus! Trilogy." At the top it reads "The ultimate conspiracy book... hilariously raunchy... the biggest sci-fi cult novel to come along since Dune." -The Village Voice. Beneath the authors lists the books "The Eye in the Pyramid," "The Golden Apple," and "Leviathan." At the bottom it says, "Over 100,000 copies sold."
The cover of Arturo Pérez-Reverte's "The Club Dumas" with "International Bestseller" at the top, and the quotation, "A cross between Umberto Eco and Anne Rice... Think of The Club Dumas as a beach book for intellectuals." -New York Daily News. And below the author's name "author of The Flanders Panel."
Several whimsical knitted and fabric art head-decked people with the text "Undiagnosed but peer-reviewed" overlaid.
The cover of Shel Silverstein's "Where the Sidewalk Ends: The poems and drawings of Shel Silverstein."
The cover of Yevgeny Zamyatin's "We." At the top if states "The most influential SF classic of the century." followed by "A literary landmark, led the way to Brave New World and 1984." -Saturday Review. Beneath the title it states, "The acclaimed translation by Mirra Ginsburg."
The cover of the omnibus edition of Guy Gavriel Kay's "The Fionavar Tapestry" including the spine indicating the books "The Summer Tree," "The Wandering Fire," and "The Darkest Road" included. At the top is the quotation "It's one of those rare books that change your perception of the world forever afterward." - Marion Zimmer Bradley