I can only imagine the body dysphoria Dan must feel, going from his strong ghost body he's been comfortable with for years to being a tiny little half-human that can barely hold his form.
Created for a secret santa in the Phantomcore Danny Phantom server!
Lake wave recordings by arpeggio1980 and TRP on freesound.org
For @invisobang 2024
Flynn has lived on the edge of this lake for as long as he can remember. And for just as long he's been trying to make sure no one else ends up like him or the ghosts he calls his siblings.
Unfortunately for him, the teenager that keeps knocking on his door seems to have the wrong idea about things and it's only a matter of time the Lake gets him too.
Read the phic here: ao3
Listen to the song here: bandcamp | spotify
Thank you @kinglazrus, for heading Invisobang, and putting so much work into making it such a phun event! And thank you, @strawberrycamel and @underforeversgrace, for all the work you guys put into helping run the event! Y'all are amazing, and you make this event amazing!
And thank you, Bee, for writing such a phenomenal phic! You write creeping horror incredibly well, and I adore how you weave it into everything about the story - the characters, their surroundings, the narrative, the style, everything! I love how you characterize Flynn in particular, and how he relates to his situation, and how he relates to Danny! It's so well done, and so well crafted!
I hope the music does your work justice!
Passage from Chapter 1 under the cut:
A call came from across the water.
“Do you see anything?”
“No,” Flynn called back, half bent over the edge of his small dinghy. His eyes scanned as far as he could see in the dark. The lake was still, flat: more like a black glass mirror than anything else.
They weren’t going to find anything. They never did.
Flynn had to help the search anyways.
It was best to try and avoid anyone else disappearing, and an unorganized search in the middle of the night through miles of deep water was a surefire way for more than just a two-person canoe to disappear.
The one other volunteer with him, Valerie, shifted the searchlight a few inches to the left, lighting up another long strip of identical lake water.
“You’d think they’d stop asking every five minutes when we’ve been giving them the same answer,” she grumbled; frustration, worry, and a distinct lack of sleep all warring for prominence in her features. “This is a waste of time. We’ve never been able to recover anyone from this lake.”
Flynn shrugged, keeping his eyes on the expanse of dark water. For a moment, something blue flickered beneath the calm surface, then disappeared. “You think they’d stop letting people in.”
“Not with the new marina they just opened.” Valerie looked over at him, taking her gaze off the search for a moment just to throw him a look. Assessing.
He couldn’t quite hide his scowl, and turned away to look somewhere else. “Nothing I can do about that, good old imminent domain and the importance of tourists’ pocket money.”
That got him a chuckle and a gentle ribbing on his side with her elbow. “This your origin story as a Scooby-doo villain?” she asked, and Flynn let himself smile, let himself relax.
They wouldn’t find anything tonight, the boat they were looking for would have long capsized and sank to the bottom of the lake. In the morning they’d send out a new crew; different volunteers looking for corpses instead. They’d probably try to dredge the bottom of the lake.
Flynn wondered if they’d find the bodies this time, or if the thick layer of sediment and mud had claimed them already.
“I’ve never liked being out here.” Valerie shivered, taking one hand off the searchlight to try and bring her coat in closer. It was always a bit colder on the lake. She hadn’t properly prepared for it. People rarely did.
A whistle sounded, calling for the end of the search, and Flynn tried not to make it obvious how much his relief relaxed him. “No one actually likes it out here,” he said, back to Valerie’s point. “It's creepy as hell.”
He pulled the starter cord and let out a soft breath when the engine purred back to life. Maybe he’d be able to relax soon, enjoy his night and sit with a cup of tea, a nice book. Maybe he could even get enough sleep to tend to his garden in the morning.
It was a choice to ignore the way Valerie was staring, and how heavy her gaze weighed on the back of his neck.
His brother sees him through the dozens of warm bodies separating them. In the dim, cloudy, darkness of a school bus at 6am. Wes watches as a stray street light shines in through the window.
Kyle’s eyes reflect a solid, piercing silver.
The windchimes, faint at the start, are nearly deafeningly loud now.
He blinks, and offers Kyle a small, if nervous terrified, grin. A too-sharp grin flashes back at him, Threatens back at him.
Fuck.
This is a comic I did a while back based on the end of Chapter 1 of "Into the Infinite Mists", by @kawaiijohn!
I shared it with kawaiijohn a while ago - but I hadn't posted it anywhere! His phic is so cool, and so evocative, and I'm so excited for where it's going!
I'm also excited to submit this work as line art for @green-with-envy-phandom-event! The line arts and colors were so cool last year! And I'm so glad we're allowed to submit old line arts that weren't used previously for the event - otherwise I'd have nothing to submit!
Happy 20th anniversary! This is one of the three pieces I did for the @dpfantasyzine April Fool's Zine! The gimmick was all of us submitting the same idea of Danny in orange wizard’s robes! It was such fun to be a part of! This piece was made entirely in MS Paint! It was a lot of phun to make!
Thank you, @ventisettestars, for organizing and formatting this zine!
Silently Phantom turned to face her, empty eyes and skin the white of moonlight. Wounds on its neck closed as she watched, skin writhed as the flesh beneath it rearranged itself. It spoke in a scratchy and whispered monotone, wisps of mist escaping its mouth.
“The kid, find him.”
And then officer Bailey was alone at the crime scene.
Inspired by “The Ghost Forge” by @the-wizard-dipper.
For @invisobang 2022.
Read “The Ghost Forge” here: ao3 | tumblr
This invisobang has been so much fun! I overworked my wrist a bit, but the results are worth it! I have discovered gradients combined with clipping layers and erasing, and I am now all powerful! TWD’s phic is so good, and so suspenseful, and so very worth reading! I high key recommend it!
Thank you, @kinglazrus, for taking on Invisobang this year, and for bringing me on to help! It’s been such a great experience!
You know that feeling when you're aiming for a shitpost but then you start putting work into it but you're still aiming for a shitpost despite everything?
I made this entirely with a track pad on MS Paint, and I finished just in time for Art Fight.
Anyways, this is En-Meg! One of @kawaiijohn's DnD blorbos! They are an entire chaos gremlin of a child!