its me, ya boi danny

i’m totally not that ghost boy nope uh uh couldn’t be me

[daniel-danny-fenton]

hi i’m danny! no i’m not the ghost boy stop asking, wes

[nicktoonsunite]

redrew that house md scene

[k4tin]

Sure Dan

[solidgases]

you're more likely to know your killer than not

CHRISTMAS TRUCE GOES WRONG!!! (((NOT CLICKBAIT)))

[robogart]

He’s a phantom. 👻✨

[wildestheart4ever]

Got to thinking about the aftermath of the day of Danny’s accident.

Do you think at the end of the day, when there are no excited parents eagerly yammering about their life’s work finally functioning or at other thing that kept him distracted from his thoughts of what happened

That he just sat in the quiet of his room terrified?

Kid just died, kinda, and those first few minutes of relief when he turned human again must have been staggering.

Like, waking up to find yourself lacking a heartbeat, looking completely different and staring at the mirror just to find something completely other?

Do you think he was just sitting on his bed at the end of the day, gripping his chest just to make sure that he still has a heartbeat terrified of the thought of it stopping?

[spookberry]

Danny and Vlad

[zillychu]

absolutely fantastic headline on the news tonight

[memewhore]

[randomitemdrop]

Item: Christmas Tree Cannon

[jackalspine]

WAHAHAHa! DEATH MIGHT HURT!

[jackson-imbecille]

Both me and @jackalspine used a reference image of mine to make a drawing. Reference image is under the cut. Here’s Jackal’s drawing, and this one shown in this post is mine! (I’m almost two months late with this, but it’s fine.)

(If anyone else wants to also use this reference image and make this a big drawing chain thingy, go ahead.)

[krossan]

[noemmss]

Danny with homophobia /j

(I just wanted to see how it would look on him)

[fine-x]

[daniel-danny-fenton]

there’s something wrong with you starter pack

[chronicdelusionistsart]

So I have been watching Danny Phantom for the first time ever with my friends and I'd kind of previously known about its reputation as a show whose fanbase dives a lot more into the lore than the show is willing to. And I guess I hadn't really understood why until now (I just finished Season 2!). Here's my sort of rambling thoughts on it.

Danny Phantom isn't a show about the horror of ghosts and the dead coexisting in the human realm. It's a show about dropping the most out of pocket lore implications you can imagine on people who in turn say things that would kill a therapist dead equally out of pocket, and then neither are addressed but the watcher has to live with the ghost of the plot that is right behind them but they can't turn around.

DP is a little hit and miss in places, but the very thing that drives people nuts about it is actually I think maybe its greatest strength: it really pulls off show, don't tell effectively. How much of that is intentional is up for debate, but the best episodes kinda leave you wondering, or sputtering like "UH, HEY, BACK UP - HEY BACK UP AND UNPACK THAT -" Is Danny's human body technically alive somehow, or is he a walking corpse? Does Danny have a door in the Ghost Zone? Were Vlad's clones feeling and sentient as they melted into ectoplasm, despite Danny's guess that they weren't? What does it say about Danny that he still erased his parents' memories after finding out they'd accept him as he is?

I think the genius of not answering these questions directly is that it's both funnier AND scarier not to. We can laugh about how fucked up it is and kinda hold our heads like "bro.... did they really just imply that, holy shiiiiiit", and that's really consistent with the emotional core of the show as this knife's-edge dance between teen comedy and horror superhero. Fully explaining the lore or being more direct about how the information is conveyed by and to the characters tips that balance and changes the show into something else, for better or for worse. And I really earnestly like it as it is, even if it's very of its time (sexism.......)! It's a really fun show with some depth to it.

Anyway, I can't wait to watch season 3! I sure hope all these wonderful qualities I like about it hold up!

[1n0sss]

His heart doesn't beat and his lungs don't breathe and yet.

Edit: i made a fic inspired by this! First chapter is out!

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