Woke up today with such a fully fledged prefect mental image of some Danny Phantom Whump Art, and none of the technical skill to make it real. So have a shitty, 15 minute stick figure mock up of my vision. Feel free to do with it whatever you please.
the thing about this is it kind of has the aesthetic of a found drawing in a horrror movie. Or like colorful, disturbing crayon drawings on the wall of an abandoned nursery. Like, it's kind of scarier because you can't see the reality of it perfectly
Danny, de-age to a seven-year-old: Hello. Would you care for a shoe shine?
Bruce: ....Yes, of course. How much?
Danny: Oh, whatever you can spare. *setting down a portable shining bench* Please put your feet here.
Bruce: Of course. Have you been doing this long?
Danny: a couple of weeks. I'm getting really good at it.
Bruce: You are. These look brand new. *hands him a $ 100 bill*
Danny: Wow! Thank you!
Bruce: Of course. Do you have a safe place to sleep?
Danny: Nope.
Bruce: .....would you like one?
Danny: Sure!
Bruce: Really?
Danny: Yeah, if you're offering!
Bruce: Its never been this easy before....somethings off. Aren't you the less bit wary of me?
Danny: Nah, I can sense people's intentions. You're not a creep trying to get a kid to a second location. You just want to give me a safe place off the streets.
Bruce: .....Are you a Meta?
Danny: I don't belive in organized religion.
Bruce: That's not....you know what, nevermind. Have you had something to eat?
Danny: I found a half finished donut in the trash earlier.
Bruce: Oh. No. Let's get you some dinner.
Danny: I'm buying! *waving money Bruce gave him* I had a good day of work!
That indie game no one else has played. That show from the 1980s that isn't big in the pop culture osmosis. Your deep dive into Tudor history. A liveblog of your experience learning C++. Your welding skills. Post all of it. This is your house
I think everyone, especially gen Z and younger, who hasn't tried it yet should try Galavant, especially if you like musicals in general. It was canceled after 2 seasons, and it's tragic. (There are some plot threads left unresolved, but on the whole it managed to end really well because they knew cancellation was a possibility and planned accordingly.) I think it was just ahead of its time.
It's a fucking incredible show. And you might think you know what it is at the start, but you don't. Don't give up on it in season 1, though it's okay to skip through some sections if you need to. The quality goes up with time, and catches fire in season 2.
Also don't look up songs on youtube ahead of time, because they all contain spoilers. Else I would try to sell people on it using an example song. But I can't pick one that isn't better to discover in context. Also, I just can't pick one.
Weird Al has a song in it, if you like Weird Al? It's not actually one of my favorites, but. I just want people to watch this show!
Sometimes I really wonder how often the average adult on the internet has a full-throated argument with someone who is literally 12, or younger.
Heck, at this point, there could be 5 year olds with ChatGPT writing their comments for them to make them sound less like 5 year olds.
have you considered just getting a heavier weighted blanket? Or one with better weight distribution (if the one you have isn't great in that respect).
as I recall, the "% of bodyweight" recommendations that are everywhere are just blindly copied from the recommendations for children, for whom it's very important not to give them so heavy of a blanket that they can't easily move it. Iirc, the concern is mainly because there have been cases of adults leaving too heavy of a blanket on a kid, or even intentionally using one to restrain a kid who can't get out of it themself, and thereby killing them.
But for an adult, as long as you're strong enough to move the blanket even when sick, you should be fine. Especially if you don't sleep with it over your face.
Also the % of bodyweight thing makes even less sense for adults if you take height into account. I mean, taller people get heavier blankets??? for? reasons?? Naaaah, not having it.
Pirahna eats lesbians, lesbians defeat happy single person (or possibly the concent of waving hello or goodbye?), but happy single person/concept of waving knows that um actually pirahna are just regular scavenger fish and really scared of humans?
Later that day, the same task force member who was fist-fighting Bruce Wayne is now holding his own against Batman.
And in a moment of frustration, he yells out the words, "God damnit! First that charade's billionaire and now this! When I first applied to the job, I didn't know I'd have to fight a dirty-ass SUNDUCKER!!"
Batman: ...
JL: ...
Suicide Squad: ...
Oracle over the comms: ...
Task force member #2 to the other task force members: "...When he said that'll he would get real racist to repeat offenders during training. I didn't think this was what he meant."
Task force member #4: "Yeah, he's like the most nicest guy I know."
Task force member #3, taking a sip from his water bottle: "Well, you clearly never sparred with the guy."
"How dare you stop fighting me, you cryptic daddy issues wanna be motherfu-"
Red Hood, shouting from the side: "Hey, wait! You can't insult him unless you're a Gothamite."
Without hesitation, the task force member slapped the Gotham Knight's emblem to his chest with his birth certificate attached to it, showing that he was born in a Gotham hospital, with another form attached to it showing that he renewed his Gothamite passport yesterday evening. (Author's Note: he does not care 🤣)
Danny Fenton to the task force captain: "Should we stop him?"
Task force captain: "No, maybe, uh. Give it five minutes."
wait the idea that Gothamites all just carry their birth certificates and passports around with them (probably fakes, because who wants to get mugged and lose their passport, or to just hand their real ID to the cops/the penguin/joker/the bats/etc etc) is really funny
They probably have Official Copies as, like, a rule. No one is expected to carry the originals but you also can’t just go to a Print Shop or stationary store like Staples and make your own copies.
You probably have to go through an official government office.
I’m imagining that this is definitely taking place after No Man’s Land when Gotham was declared Sovereign so the US government didn’t have to help after that big disaster.
I also like that all this implies this Task Force member probably has a grudge against the Dark Knight.
Sam / Tucker: "where the heck, did you get that gun from!?"
Danny who stole it from *who ever makes sense*: "uh, we're in Gotham, some bozo wh tried to mug me last night"
Sam / Tucker: "so you killed a mugger!?"
Danny, who just lied about a fake mugger: "what, no no, they weren't bad enough to kill, like, they probably were just down on Their luck, know these bastards here"
In their pov he's John Wicking it right now but his internal monologue is just "Sloopy. Waste of a bullet. Mother would be so disappointed at how rusty I am"
There's gonna be like a lot of yelling and explanations later on but for now Sam and Tuck are in shock and getting away is more important
Snippet of a conversation from a later point:
Danny: "Considering that this is the first time I've killed anyone in 8 years I'd think that I've been doing well."
Sam: "What would your parents say about this!?! They'd be so disappointed!"
Danny: "Mother was a trained assassin. Mom and Dad were fully convinced that ghosts were inheritently malicious and evil, and built a portal to them anyways. They're full on supervillains. The only reason I have any morals are because you two, Jazz is just real good at faking it."
Sam, desperately grasping at straws: "And your father?"
Danny: "......He seems to be on pretty good terms with Red Hood these days. He'd forgive me eventually"
Tucker: "If we have to go in the run from Batman I am not a good enough hacker to beat Oracle. That needs to be noted from the start"
fantastic. i love it. i posted this after my wife said it yesterday and as i was doing it i was like "this can't be an original thought. as soon as i hit post someone's going to say 'you stole this from a tweet from 2014' and i'll say 'no, i stole it from my beautiful wife.'"
When Danny left the vigilante life to become a paramedic in Gotham he didn't think he'd ever step back into that scene. Much less in this way, because now Danny has Robin riding along with him in the ambulance every shift he's on.
He didn't think Robin would even remember him after he had helped the kid take care of a hurt and sick kitten at the end of his shift. How wrong he was though because the next night Robin was suddenly in the ambulance saying that he would be shadowing Danny from this point forward. Danny's coworkers were also no help in getting the kid to not do this.
Robin called this an intern opportunity to learn more about medicine and how to treat people. Danny called it a HIPPA violation. What he thought doesn't seem to matter though as everyone is always just excited to talk to the kid. He ultimately decides to just let it go and be the unwilling mentor to the young vigilante.
It really isn't until Danny is being cornered after one of his shifts by Batman demanding to know what he's doing to Robin that he wished he had fought harder to convince Robin to not ride along.
There's no way Damian would show up to such a thing unprepared so imagine:
Danny's already running through the list of excuses reasons why he can't have Robin shadowing him. He's expecting some push back but he knows Robin will give up in the end. Robin does not in fact give up.
What actually happens is that Robin keeps throwing fully valid paperwork at each of his objections and refuting them like they're nothing. HIPAA violation? Robin pulls out a certificate that's several levels higher than what would be required for an actual intern. No medical training? Robin pulls out his recently earned credentials on different healing techniques (like CPR and EMT training and idk what else). He has more qualifications than people Danny has worked with before. Danny questions the validity, Robin has him check on the official (national? Gotham?) websites and he has in fact taken the trainings/tests required. There's even a log and videos so he couldn't have just hacked his way into the system.
Danny starts grasping at straws. He brings up child labor laws, Robin shows him a signed permission from Batman with all the requirements filled out perfectly. Danny says he's not comfortable with a minor seeing the level of gore they encounter in Gotham. Robin shows him a few pictures of the more gruesome cases he has participated in during his tenure. Danny talks about disturbed bedtimes and not wanting Robin's grades to drop, Robin shows him his full academic history (name redacted, of course) and his current schedule as a vigilante. Everything's official. Batman's signature is everywhere.
In a last ditch effort, Danny says there's no budget to pay Robin, Robin says that's why it's an unpaid internship and refuses to relent. By the time Danny's officially run out of excuses, Robin's looking at him like he's ready to learn from Danny specifically. His binder's still half full. Danny sighs. He knows when he's been beaten. (Of course he refuses to acknowledge that the actual last blow was when Robin offhandedly mentions his need to know everything he can on medical procedures while mobile just in case anyone in his family ever needs them while working on their more dangerous cases. Danny understands the need to protect family as much as possible. He would do anything to avoid a repeat on the nasty burger incident. He can't deny Robin the chance to get what could possibly help save his family at some point)
Weeks later, when Batman shows up to question Danny about his activities with Robin, Danny stares at him unblinkingly for long enough that Batman almost starts to fidget (Danny's exhausted, ok? He needed the time to even process what Batman was saying). Then he finally just gets up, opens a drawer, pulls out an overstuffed binder and shoves it at Batman. It has a log of all the things Robin has done since he started his internship. It has an index. It's a copy of the official one already filed with the company Danny works for. Robin might be thorough but Danny has experience with OSHA violations and he's not about to compromise safety by cutting corners.
Batman's reluctantly impressed. Neither mention the fact that he clearly didn't sign any of the paperwork Danny saw.
Tim had heard parents joke that one day their kids would have children just like them and finally understand what they'd put their parents through. Bruce had never said that to him, but Tim wondered if he'd thought about it, and if that was the reason why Tim was in this situation.
Danny was a fourteen-year-old Tim had been keeping an eye on. The kid lived in the apartment complex right next to Tim's penthouse, and according to his paperwork, his guardian was one Vladimir Masters, a family friend who had taken him in after his parents died.
Tim had set his sights on the teen because he kept sneaking out at night, and Tim kept finding him close to active battles, just observing, a portable camera usually in hand, though Tim had never seen him actually use it.
By now, it was common for Red Robin to end his patrol by escorting the kid back to his apartment. He was almost giving up on the lectures, as they seemed to have no effect on Danny.
Tim found himself calling Bruce one night to ask for the contact information of the lawyer who had helped him so many times with custody matters, after discovering that there were barely any records of this Vlad Masters ever existing.
He thought he was the only kid crazy enough to pull this kind of shit.
Danny's hyper-independence, dismissal of his own needs, and continual attraction to danger are exhausting to look after. How can he make Danny understand that even if they're not family (yet, Tim is working on that), Tim still cares and worries? How does he make him understand that he can and should rely on him?
What does he need to do to make the kid understand he does want him?
Tim needs to get Bruce a basket or something. He really had no idea how much of a headache he had been giving the man. It had taken Tim, what, two years to start believing himself part of the family? But Bruce had managed to give him a place and a sense of security even with all the family drama they had. He can do the same for Danny.
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Writer's choice for Danny's side of this, but a few things I've thought of are these:
Danny moved to a different universe with Vlad after things got a little too close to a catastrophe for comfort. It had been easy enough to move funds from one side to the other with the help of some of his ghost friends.
Then Vlad tried to pull some shit, and Danny decided he didn't want to deal with all of this again. He pushed Vlad out of the universe, telling him to find one of his own, and simply continued living.
He doesn't really feel scared at night, being a ghost and all. He actually enjoys flying around and taking pictures with spirits all around, and he has found the vigilantes' fights rather fascinating. They're so different from his battles with ghosts.
It is too convenient that only the Supers and some of the Bats are in the Watchtower when they break in, but that's the exact reason why they're doing this right now. Ghost informants are probaby the most accurate out there.
The two young heroes he had picked up when they arrived fall asleep easily in Phantom’s arms after being exposed to Nocturn’s mist, and he hears the mad scream from Batman, asking what he has done to them. He does not really need to try to avoid the various attacks from the other Bats, simply turning intangible. He had expected some ghost weaponry. That was the only reason why the Fright Knight was with him. This is a little too easy.
He notices Superman, Supergirl and Supernova gritting their teeth as they try to fight, despite how human they must feel when exposed to the Infinite Realms’ magic.
Maybe it is cruel, but Danny is more than a little desperate here. He is past the point of being kind.
Danny thought he would be able to deal with it. He just had to keep an eye out and protect his people from the GIW. He had been doing well. Even if someone was captured, he had been able to get them back before anything could be done to them.
He had hoped that campaigning with the other teens, and the few adults who joined the cause in Amity, would be enough for the anti-ecto law to be repealed. And once that happened, he could keep his people protected.
He was wrong.
Lunch Box is missing. She has only been gone for 12 hours, but Danny is pretty sure those are the most important. The only thing he knows is that she still exists, thanks to the perception being the Ghost King gives him. But that is all. He cannot find a trace of her. She is just an infant. She's still so much younger than she was when Danny first met her in the future, and now she is missing, and Danny knows it was most likely the GIW.
He will not be able to find her soon enough. He does not know what the GIW will do with her. He can make an educated guess, but he is not sure. What he does know is that he needs a lot of people acting now, and that the JL has not been reacting in any way to all the chaos.
So yes, when he sees the absolute terror in Batman’s and Superman’s eyes as he kidnaps their youngest, without giving them any chance to react, he knows he may be a bit cruel. But the kids will be okay with them. Lunch Box may not have the same luck.
“The conditions are simple. If you want your kids back, you will have to give ours back. You have three days.”
-_-_-
The JL is panicking. They had not even known Infinite Realms beings existed, yet the King and his knight appeared out of nowhere and took their youngest sidekicks. They cannot even touch them.
The JLD is doubly panicking. Why do they have a law that is basically declaring war on the Infinite Realms? And they need to get that Infinite Realms neverborn saved immediately, from whoever these GIW agents are. Neverborn infants are rare and highly treasured. If something were to happen to that child, it is not just Robin and Superboy they will have to worry about.
The JLD spends longer than they think they should trying to get the JL to understand that their best shot at getting the kids back is to comply with the demands. The Infinite Realms beings are powerful, but they have pride in their word. The kids will be fine as long as they have the neverborn in time.
I was rewatching Teen Titans(2003) and had the passive thought; "Hey, doesn't Danny sometimes feel like, in an AU, he could totally pass as a Beast Boy x Raven love child? He has Raven's looks(*), sass, and knowledge of the occult, but he has Beast Boy's outgoingness, prankster personality, and killer Puppy Dog eyes. And we can also probably tie in BB's scientist parents to the Fentons somehow if we really had to."
And now, I can't unthink it!
*Raven has Purpleish Black hair and Purpleish Dark Blue eyes in my opinion, which when mixing genes could lighten them to Blueish Black hair and a Lighter Blue eyes with offspring.
BB and Raven find out about their erstwhile child somehow, and they go looking for him, and they get to Amity and find a green dog. Clearly, their child has inherited BB's powers!!1!
Tim: I know you feed on emotions. You're an ecto-being, known as Phantom, and you're hiding in Gotham from the government. Your real name is Daniel Fenton.
Danny defeated: Who are you working for? How did they find me?
Tim: Don't worry about that. I'm the only one who knows. Listen, I need your emotional eating abilities. Robin died a few weeks ago, and Batman is losing it. Could you eat his sorrow? Help cut through his fog of grief?
Danny: I- ugh I never tried that?
Tim: Well, now is a good chance to try. Pack your bags, you're moving into Drake Manor as my uncle, and we're going to save Batman.
Danny: Okay?
Tim: You seemed confused. Do I need to explain the plan again?
Danny: I'm not confused. I didn't expect this when I opened the door to a seven-year-old.
Tim: I'm thirteen.
Danny: I'm so sorry. Are you not being feed?
Tim: Everyone blooms at their own time!
Danny: Sure, buddy.
Tim: You-! You will actually do really well at posing as an annoying uncle. You're on thin ice, though. So watch it.
Danny: I'll take that threat more seriously when you can reach my chin.
