Maybe the true joy in life was the cringe we found along the way

ao3: AssortedCandy She/Her

[floq]

D - s t a b i l i z e d

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[bronzetomatoes]

the "canon isn't real we make our own rules" to "i am begging you people to revisit the source material" pipeline

[la-vie-en-lys]

#you have to know the rules so you can break them with intention and precision#otherwise your work will never be truly transformative

[frozenpinetree]

a glimpse into danny's home life

[floq]

lies that just keep piling up ~

[tripwhyer]

🧡✨AGIT Jazz appreciation post✨🧡

Sam || Paulina & Star || Valerie || Danny || Clockwork

[phantomrose96]

hiiii idk if you remember me but I'm the anon who asked if you ever changed your url because i didn't recognize you

i decided to just... look at that danny phantom thing you mentioned and now I'm fully obsessed 😭 nearly 2 decades after the show ended fdslkfjds

the fandom's so old that most of links (like you referencing an art you were inspired by to write a fic) are dead because so many accounts deactivated. i am sobbing

but you led me to read the best fic I've ever read in my life: phantom of truth and shadow of a doubt. you have no idea. i read shadow of the doubt like. 8 times. in the course of 2 weeks. i can't.

so thanks for helping me get down this rabbit hole :,) idk why i started following you but I'm so glad i did

have a lovely day!!!

Oh amazing! And yes I absolutely remember the ask. Welcome to the Danny Phantom rabbit hole!

Also I’m good friends with the author of Phantom of Truth/Shadow of a Doubt so I passed along your message to her. Here’s her response

[desolationlesbian]

I cannot put into words how much I Fucking Loathe the fact that when you search something on youtube now it will randomly intersperse blocks of "people also watched" and "for you" into the results. That's not what I searched for, youtube. I typed in a search query because I wanted to see search results, not random unrelated garbage you have placed in my way apparently to either inconvenience me or force me to scroll further for actual results. I despise your wretched little games and every time I see it I can only instantly close the tab as I am overcome with the urge to burn something down.

[macademia-nut]

"I despise your wretched little games" perfectly conveys how I feel about the entire algorithm/attention economy

[babycharmander]

They also refuse to actually show the parameters you searched for. If you sort by “upload date,” the first few videos might be more recent ones by upload date, but anything past that you’ll find a video that was uploaded five years ago, then five months ago, then three years ago, etc, which—NO! That’s NOT WHAT I ASKED FOR!! PUT THEM IN ORDER!!!

Also sometimes the “people also watched” bullcrap will not only be entirely unrelated, it will also be videos with violent, sometimes outright triggering thumbnails. I’ve gotten some AWFUL unrelated video thumbnails just when searching for video game music videos.

[lunafandoms]

YouTube Search Fixer – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download YouTube Search Fixer for Firefox. Remove ALL distracting search results, redirect shorts back to legacy page and try little visual

If you use Firefox this extension is god send :D

[cassierobinsons]

it's important to me that people know the original "he would not fucking say that" was in response to a tiktok where someone said eric cartman would thank you for asking for his pronouns. Like it just doesn't hit the same without context.

[cassierobinsons]

[cassierobinsons]

everytime someone uses "he would not fucking say that" for something he would absolutely fucking say given slightly different circumstances or has already fucking said i immediately become indignant cause you can't waste a joke like this on mild characterisation nitpicks. sorry. it has to be on par with Any Pronouns Cartman.

[sandmandaddy69]

[woefully-undercaffeinated]

This does not even begin to cover the weirdness of cathode ray televisions.

They are literally particle accelerators that you point at your face.

And for eighty years, Americans' favorite thing to do was turn them on and stare at them for hours.

If you overcharge them, they emit gamma radiation.

Servicing them is like disarming a bomb -- their capacitors are enormous and are usually charged to hundreds or thousands of volts, and most of them have no bleed system that drains that charge, meaning that they can still be dangerous months or years after the last time they were powered up. A discharge can not only electrocute you, it can cause tools to melt or explode.

A black-and-white cathode ray TV driven by an unmodulated analog signal is theoretically capable of resolution that would require a microscope to perceive.

[jesuisloupseul]

Old school CRT monitors had the same issues.

Back when, I worked at a small whitebox pc manufacturer. One day, a service tech brought back an older, gigantic (30 inch or so) AutoCAD monitor from a service call. The customer said "Made me feel nauseous"

So, we put it on the bench and fired it up. You immediately felt the hair on your body stand up, and my co worker put his hand up close to turn the power off, and his hand and forearm started spasming - I yanked the power cord from the wall as the tingle I was feeling began to feel hot.

No idea what was wrong with the thing, but it was kicking out some serious electro magnetic radiation.

[funnelcloudd]

Remembering the almost imperceptible high pitched buzzing that let you know the tv was still on even when nothing was on the screen. Also putting your forearm near the screen and watching the hairs stand up

[silvysartfulness]

The little crackle if you touched the screen to wipe it...

[effeminate-wastrel-deactivated2]

Omg no one's even talking about the smell of the screen

[horrorobsessor]

This is both horrifying to read and nostalgic

[terrestrialnoob]

I feel like people forget that Danny isn't actually feral. Like, I love feral Danny, but, even at the height of his "feralness", his room is spotless, he's sad when he can't study, and he cleans to relieve anxiety (though yes, only when he's alone). He only started not doing his chores, getting bad grades, and missing classes when he stopped having time for it and he hates it! He wants to be a good boy! AND! He loves being a hero and helping people, and I'm tired of people being like "no, actually he hates being a hero and wouldn't do it if he wasn't forced to". No! You are wrong! Danny Fenton loves helping people and being a hero. (I thought we all agreed that Phantom Planet was Out of Character!) He's not a dirty little gremlin child. He's a responsible, well organized teen, and tries to still be that even when he's at the end of his rope and stressed to hell and back.

[terrestrialnoob]

Exactly, I love a feral Danny but, like a diamond, you can only get it after a lot of heat and pressure

[halfa-ghost]

[briarthorne]

Why do people hide this stuff in the tags

[hana-loves-bumblebees]

“Is it okay if I draw fanart of your fanfic?👉🏼👈🏼”

My brother in Christ we shall have a spring wedding

[cookietastic]

I think it's both wild and hilarious Butch Hartman’s need for Danny Phantom to be a copy Spiderman’s homework show (compared to everyone else on the team when creating the show) that he even wants to have Tom Holland as Danny Phantom

[cookietastic]

BH read a single spiderman comic and decided to make it everyone’s problem on the Danny phantom team

[cookietastic]

The big problem is too that he doesn't even understand spiderman or Peter Parker which is funny cause I feel the worst episodes where when BH wants to go full spiderman/copy spiderman’s HW

[cookietastic]

BH pre-production: bruh so get this for Danny-

The team: If you say anything related to spiderman again I Stg…

[cookietastic]

Also it's very interesting comparing Stephen Silver's early version of Danny

to Butch's early ones

[cookietastic]

You summed it up perfectly

[becuzmdsaidineededpersonality]

[steepedfoxglovetea]

[fanlore-wiki]

Happy Femslash February!

[carriecmoney]

You know when you're checking out a new fandom and you stumble across a writer/artist you loved in a previous fandom and it feels like running into a childhood friend at a bar

[carriecmoney]

Running into the arms of trusted ao3 handles in a new tag like an airport greeting

[tower-of-hana]

Dictionaries be like: Instead of using the ipa we made this fake phonetic alphabet made up of esoteric runes. Please find a European with a wild beard to decipher them.

[official-linguistics-post]

official linguistics post

[dustsculptures]

saying “be safe” like a spell that’ll protect them

[dustsculptures]

love everyone in the tags saying “it is” you’re right