#forest babbles

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I’m so easily persuaded into a ship. All I need is one good piece of artwork and I’m like, yeah I see it. I approve.

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Danny accidentally seeing Jason shirtless for the first time

Jason, angry and defensive: yeah i died and coroner left me some new scars for when i came back

Danny: at least you weren’t awake for yours

Jason: what??

Danny lifts his own shirt to show matching scars.

Jason, horrified: you weren’t even dead, why the—

Danny: well, no i was dead, technically, just also awake

Jason: im going to need more than that and also some names to pay a visit to 

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One of my favorite things about Olethra in Cloudward Ho is that it was established in episode one that she’s trans and it’s never really brought up again. Her story didn’t need to come back to her gender. No one needed to question it or make it relevant to the plot at any point. She’s just trans. She’s a trans woman on an adventure. It’s as relevant to the plot at as the fact that Van is tall or Monty is black. It just is.

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The super/bat pairing in relentless in the funniest way.

We can’t have canon Clark/Bruce because the characters are too established with their female partners before it became acceptable to have queer characters in comics.

But they won’t give us canon Conner/Tim despite creating the queerest looking Superboy ever and saying he’s straight while making Tim bi.

Then we had a chance with Damian/Jon, but again they’re like “only one of these boys is queer” and for balance sake they made it the Superboy this time.

So we decided to take an older version of Superboy who came from a parallel universe (that is canonically our real life no powers earth) where he’s technically Clark Kent and got mad about Jason Todd’s death (and other things) and developed powers to punch a hole in the multiverse which is the canon reason Jason Todd came back to life and now we’re like “this one please! Give us this one!”

Meanwhile the only canonical super/bat combo is Kara/Dick and it lasted one terrible date and everyone ships Kara with Babs anyway if they want to keep with the trend.

EDIT: I forgot that Conner and Cas dated. Another failed hetero super/bat relationship. Make it gay and make it work DC!

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Danny: who’s that man sitting in menacing silence in the corner of your room?

Stiles: my, uh… cousin. Miguel.

Danny, who was in class when Stiles did his family tree and bemoaned that both his parents were single children and that his only extended family was his paternal grandfather that he never saw: sure. Yeah. I believe you.

Danny, texting Jackson immediately: Stiles has a boyfriend you would come out of the closet for

Jackson: 1) no way Stilinski can pull 2) I’m not in the closet, I’m just not gay

Danny: okay well i was using the universal you, not meaning you you, so maybe doth protest too much

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I didn’t realize Superboy Prime was a whole ass other person from a different universe. The number of times I read about Jason Todd being brought back to life because Superboy Prime punched a hole in reality and I just assumed something weird was going on with Conner and it’s a total mystery why those two things are connected. No one told me about the canon DC universe where they’re all comic books. I feel betrayed by fandom wiki.

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A lot of Danny Phantom fic writers like to give Danny a panic attack when he’s confronted with a man made portal that kinda looks the like portal to the ghost zone he died in. Which, is all fair and good, I just wanted to share my 2 cents of PTSD that’s similar in nature to Danny’s

I was in an elevator accident. Immediately after the accident I kept having to use elevators because I was in a wheelchair for a while. Danny, likewise, went through the portal to the ghost zone a lot after his accident.

It’s a trigger that fades with time. I had to power through. It made me squeamish but not hyperventilate. I breathed through it.

The sight of the non working portal, where it’s just the machine and no green vortex is more like the elevator shaft. Which is also related to my elevator accident.

The shaft is the image that would freak me out more. But just seeing one wouldn’t send me into a full blown panic attack. I might get the start of one: my heart would race, my lungs might feel tight, a sudden spike of fear. But just like with everything else, I breathed through it. Even in the early days when it was still fresh.

When Danny sees a non functioning portal (or a zeta tube if it’s a dc crossover) his reaction wouldn’t likely be as extreme as many authors write it, in my opinion. He’s had time to desensitize thanks to the portal in his parents basement. He’s learned to calm himself.

The first time I ever had a real sustained panic attack about my accident was watching a tv show and an event took place that was visually similar to what I went through.

I’d like to propose to authors that by having someone injured by a faulty portal device (even if it’s just a minor shock, small electrical burn, and everyone’s fine) that that is what sends Danny into a full blown panic attack.

He can still experience PTSD seeing the bare portal. I still close my eyes when images are too similar to elevator shafts in movies. I still have to breathe through it sometimes. But I’m fine. (I was even able to go on the Guardians of the Galaxy Ride at Disney that used to be the Hotel of Horror a couple of years ago without freaking out. Although it was a lot scarier than it had been before my accident)

Danny’s going to feel wrong footed around portals, and get tense in ways that might be noticeable, but save the panic attack for a triggering event and it’ll make it so much more angsty that he was able to manage himself before but can’t now.

You can apply this to many characters. I just happen to be reading dp x dc fics rn and it comes up a lot and it’s so particularly like my own lived experience I felt like sharing

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Reasons I’m tempted to watch the Teen Wolf movie:

Eli looks like the perfect Sterek baby & I want to witness it

Chris and Peter are silver foxes and look so gay for each other

Reasons not to watch the Teen Wold movie:

I know what happens to Derek