schrödinger's ghost boy

call me lucy. danny phantom sideblog. my main is ezrabridgerz. mostly inactive. the ptsd flag in my icon is by @/your-fave-has-ptsd. danny fenton is aroace, sorry i make the rules now. i reblog very few ships, all of which will be tagged; most of my content is platonic or familial! if you need anything tagged, please ask! warning: i use swears pretty frequently.

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here is a link to my carrd; please read through it before following 

[coffeecakecafe]

dannymay 2021: day 31 - free day

a nice chill time for our space boy :)

[aerois]

imo the most criminally underrated thing in DP is that Danny is just unapologetically a shitgibbon to Vlad and as a narrative device it never reaches its full potential. This is the same kid that, with absolutely no remorse pulls the “I wuuuv you, c’mere new daddy!” with a fucking weapon hidden behind his back y’all cannot TELL ME, y’all cannot look me in the eye and tell me a solid reason for why Danny never went “Vlad, you can NOT. 🙅‍♀️ just buy my affection... but you can certainly try 😏” and fucked right off into an amity park sunset in his brand new maserati with zero (0) guilt

[lexosaurus]

I got bored and made a uquiz. Go take it to see what danny phantom popular fanfiction trope you are!

*for some reason chrome isn’t loading the images properly so I recommend taking it on literally any other web browser

[fruity-hub-blog]

honestly the most cursed part of that is really that they made an ENTIRE EPISODE just because they went 'oh shit we need to retroactively put in a merchable logo'

Okay okay okay

But the most MOST cursed part about that is that they gave Butch literal Millions for advertising and merch and he blew it so bad that Nickelodeon still won’t touch the show with a ten foot pole

[lexosaurus]

nickelodeon might have scrubbed all evidence of the atrocious danny phantom WWE style fight birch tree blew all their advertising budget on to promote the premier of TUE off the internet and terminated accounts that reuploaded clips of it,

but i’ll never forget 😤🤙

[lexosaurus]

you can’t erase history so easily on me, nickelodeon

[ecto-american]

Okay so like? Some Phandom history time from somebody who remembers TUE airing.

It’s so well known now but like? Back then? The WHOLE appeal and marketing angle of TUE was that we didn’t know who the ultimate enemy was. All that we knew and saw at the time was this huge shadowy figure with glowing red eyes. That’s what the entire commercial buildup Fruity is talking about, and what this screencap Lexx added is referring to. All the marketing around this episode was: Who is Danny’s ultimate enemy?

Basically, on nick.com, they had a bunch of flashgames for various shows, and they had one to promote TUE. You can find gameplay of it everywhere online, but it was essentially making your own lil monster guy, and you could fight other players or canon characters.

During the leadup of TUE’s airing, Pick Boy (if you don’t know who this is, it’s basically this dude in a superhero costume that used to announce the next cartoons about to air) was essentially coaching a wrestling match between these characters people made with Butch Hartman (they picked characters people made at random and had them dress up to fight in this wrestling ring). You used to be able to find the commercials for it online, but the account that I personally knew about it was terminated, so you can’t really find it anymore. You can see some parts of it here in this compilation thing of various wrestling events Nick’s hosted before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvIp71

There was like a whole week of this going on, and I honestly can’t really remember if anything specifically special happened once the episode aired, but this picture and that commercial is what Fruity is referring to. They also had a gameboy advanced game (which I still have, I have five of them because the only thing my family knew about baby Nick was that he REALLY LOVED Danny Phantom and that this game came out, so like everybody got me that lol) and this was why we got the Burger King toys and the hotwheels car (which I had detailed in another post here if you wanna see them).

I personally remember all this hype online on the nick.com forums and tv.com forums about this, with lots of people guessing about who this mysterious new ghost was. I also specifically remember emailing this girl on nick.com that I was online friends with. Plenty of people have heard me tell this story before, but it’s my strongest memory of TUE’s airing lol. nick.com’s email system was shitty bc you could only write words from their select vocabulary (imagine only being able to write messages using very clean sfw voice suggestion texts) and you could animate them and it was fucking wild

I was inboxing with that girl I mentioned who said “i think danny’s ultimate enemy is himself” and the word himself was doing that dvd screen bouncing around the message bc you could animate the words and I told her that she was fucking dumb because that idea was lame and I had to be creative so that I could say specifically say that she was fucking dumb.

Then I watched the episode and was So Mad that she was right and that Danny was his own ultimate enemy that I blocked her. If that was you: I’m sorry lol I was like 11 or something.

[fruity-hub-blog]

God you brought up so many repressed memories, fucking pickboy, the fucking WWE match, the old Nick forums with their balls off the wall text options… 

Yall remember Nicktropolis? I remember Nicktropolis…

[ecto-american]

I remember Nicktropolis but I think the real crime was that we had a 3D Luigi Mansion ripoff game with an INCREDIBLY cute game model that we were robbed of and got that Nicktoon Unite Thing.

LOOK AT HOW CUTE HE IS! This is from Ghost Sweep! The image is kinda fuzzy bc of the game quality, but he’s so cute! You can view gameplay of it here, or if you wanna download it and play it for yourself, I have a copy that people are free to snag here! You need both files to play the game, one of them is essentially the program that runs it and the other is the actual game itself.

But sadly we got…….whatever this is instead for Nicktoons Unite. He looks so odd.

[ghostgothgeek]

Those Danny images are 2020 expectations and 2020 reality respectively

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in a few hours, my very first dannypocalypse starts :3

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I really love aroace! Danny like as an aroace person myself I just really like the idea and concept and honestly its just really cool to see Danny as aro ace

omg i don't know how long this has been in my inbox, i'm so sorry anon! but yeah, my headcanon for him is partially projection and partially because the focus on romance in the show annoyed me lol. i'm glad other aroaces like it, too!

[half-dead-half-wit]

super big & super crisp transparents for all your memeing needs :)

[midnightshadows59]

@lexosaurus Is this what you’re looking for?

[lexosaurus]

YES THANK YOU!!

[coffeecakecafe]

*shows up late to Wing!au with vibes only*

based off of a gyrfalcon!

[lemonomelette]

Been getting into DP recently and I don't see enough fanart of these two

[lucifer-is-a-bag-of-dicks]

so I’ve got a reddit now

[they-bite]

Why don't you like dani

i’m more indifferent to dani than anything but i’m having a bad day and an opportunity to bitch presented itself so

clone characters in general almost always annoy me (the “almost” is the clone troopers from star wars & that’s it)

i don’t understand the fascination cishet white men have with the “female lookalike of male protagonist” trope and i’m a little afraid to ask

i have no interest in vlad being a knight of erebus, which is what’s required for dani to work. i know vlad’s canonically supposed to be heartless and apathetic but i Do Not Fucking Care.

she just kinda,, didn’t give me enough of an impression of her personality to make me like her i’m sorry

she’s kind of like mar’i grayson in that canonically she’s more of a byproduct of two characters’ genuinely interesting interactions than a character in her own right, but she’s cute so fans co-opted her. which i don’t have a problem with whatsoever, bc the fans universally do it better and i’ve seen really cute art of both characters, but personally i don’t get what people see in either one. (except shipping in mar’i’s case)