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The Korean kids today have Kpop Demon Hunters and Invincible for representation. But she walked so they could run.

Everyone say thank you to Lady Rainicorn

#lady ranicorn was MY KOREAN REPRESENTATION #and the little girl from we bare bears #and now today we also have MARK GRAYSON #The absolute shock when I found out in the animated series hes half Korean #wild #me listening to lady rainicorn for the first time like ?????#am I tripping or was that korean

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Danny becoming increasingly more afraid of his half-ghost disposition is such an interesting concept to think about.

After fighting what would be his evil self in TUE, he writes off him turning evil as an influence from Vlad’s ghost but as he gets older, maybe those traits weren’t so exclusive to Vlad after all.

Danny starts to understand that maybe he DOES need to learn control. Control over his ghost side. Who better to learn it from than the only other half-ghost in the world?

It becomes kinda a paradoxical mental battle of

“Is it really a good idea to take mentorship from my furture’s other EVIL HALF?” Or

“What consequences will I face if I never hold control of my ghost side”

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YES YES YES 10000000x AGREE i agree with this whole post

At the end of the day Danny is more afraid of himself than any enemy he has ever fought. He has such a skewed perspective on who he is as a person. He doesn't trust himself to be able to save people, and he doesn't trust himself to not turn evil if nothing is there to hold himself back. When in reality, while he does bad stuff sometimes, he consistently chooses to learn and grow from his mistakes and be a good person with little outside influence. He has nothing to worry about, but he does worry about it because in his mind, he's a total freak.

He's afraid of himself, what he's become, and what he might become. So afraid that he'd even trust Vlad Masters more than himself if he thought there was a chance he could go down the wrong path. Ironically, that fear is strong enough that it could be the thing that leads him down that wrong path.

To me this ties in a lot with what Phantom represents symbolically. Phantom imo acts as a vehicle for Danny's coming of age story. Danny is terrified of his ghost half. He constantly tries ignore it and get rid of it in any way he can, but he keeps coming back to it because it's not something that will just go away. And then he sees this alternate version of himself that grew up and embraced his ghost side and was totally evil. He's terrified of facing who he is and who he might become because what if that person is bad? It's better for everything to stay exactly the same. If he can keep careful control over every part of himself that could be undesirable then everything will be okay. He can just keep being a normal teenager forever.

The impostor syndrome is great with this one.

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UGH YOU GET ME

#OOMFIE KNOWS BALLLL #YES FOR EVERYTHING IN THE POST #Ugh our mind are bluetoothing to space at this point #The Danny analysis goes crazy

Danny becoming increasingly more afraid of his half-ghost disposition is such an interesting concept to think about.

Danny starts to understand that maybe he DOES need to learn control. Control over his ghost side. Who better to learn it from than the only other half-ghost in the world?

It becomes kinda a paradoxical mental battle of

“Is it really a good idea to take mentorship from my furture’s other EVIL HALF?” Or

“What consequences will I face if I never hold control of my ghost side”

#Danny being controlled by fear of himself is something I think about a lot #He takes Vlads offer and it becomes another mental battle of what is right in his books and whats not #Danny tries to justify it all by saying its for the greater good of the future #but in reality its because hes scared of what he might become if he doesnt take action now #I have so many thoughts lmao #I was rereading Karma again and gave me some feelings about what it would take for Danny to accept Vlads offer willingly

Man I forgot how good an episode My Brothers Keeper was.

Spectra being like “not a boy, not a ghost, what are you? A FREAK?” I do not remember this being a thing she says in my last watch???

#GOD I love Spectra shes so cunty #dang literally S tier episode #Danny being sad really does something for me #Spectra being the start of Dannys existentialism 🫪#I would die for Jazz omg

I agree that people did Sam really dirty. I know the Sam hate has always existed but I feel like it’s really gotten worse lately (maybe with the shift in what terrain the fans are coming from? Like Millennials to Gen Z?). This is why I avoid anything DP related except on here and FF.net. I’ve been recommended the DP page on Reddit a few times but Im worried its full of Sam hate and I’d want to see DxS stuff but I feel like I’d just see hate for that as well and there wouldn’t be much if at all.

I was a teenager when the show came out, and the fanfics and fanart back then for DxS, up until a few years ago I feel like, were plentiful

Heyo! Yeah I think the hate and discourse around Sam is really interesting. Sam’s character is definitely a product of its time, and it’s really difficult to explain to someone that hasn’t lived through that era.

Unfortunately Sam’s “not like other girls” archetype was the thing that was seen as the cool and desirable trait just amongst everyone in the mid 2000s and early 2010s. It was just a popular cultural shift at the time (though it has some obvious flaws now).

But Sam has so many lovely traits as well, and in the same way there’s some cultural parts of DP that hasn’t aged as well, the audience today can overlook them. Sam to me, is part of the complicated aspect of DP that I can accept and continue to love despite its deep flaws.

#I also see a lot of my past self in Sam #Someone that wanted to be different for the sake of being different but thats just how teens and children are you know?#bidulgie screams at clouds #answered asks #THIS IS A VERY NUANCED TOPIC AND IM SIMPLIFYING AND CONDENSING A LOT OF ASPECTS please be kind

Tbh the most grounded, realest episode in DP is when Danny thinks his parents are getting divorced

#ngl as an adult im shocked that the idea of this ep was greenlit for a kids show #me watching this as a child 🫪#danny phantom #bidulgie screams at clouds #danny fenton