I sometimes imagine a Demon Twins AU where DC and DP are separate universes, with Danny falling through a lazarus pit portal into alternate universe Illinois, and getting adopted by Jack and Maddie Fenton, who of course forge a lot of the necessary documents to make sure Danny legally exists in the first place, and Danny has all this LOA training he can use to avoid some of his newbie hero mistakes, and make a few necessary threats to protect himself and his adoptive family, while Damian must move on and learn the way of the bat (not killing), but eventually the twins reunite through some dumb luck, and Danny wants to go home to live with his emotional family, but it's not safe because of the GIW, so some of the Justice League decide to go into the alternate universe to deal with the GIW, and it ends up being a whole thing where the JL needs contingency plans to deal with a fascist America in its universe, because Danny's adoptive universe has a fascist America and it's really bad, like they have to overthrow the government bad.
I call this AU "My Dark Star", and I imagine it with the Fenton Parents accepting their son in a reveal some time after D-Stabilized like at the end of Reality Trip before Danny wiped the memories of the world.
So Damian's nickname for Danny could be Dark Star or smth.
Creationism and Christian fundamentalism feeds into the medical skepticism we are seeing in the U.S. and, once again, the main victims of phenomenon like vaccine hesitancy will be children who are helplessly dependent on their adult caregivers.
Infants are given a vitamin k shot at birth because they cannot synthesize vitamin k or get it from their diets, it is vital in preventing vitamin deficient bleeding which can cause death or permanent brain damage. Administering the injection is a bog standard preventative measure done on newborns immediately after birth, usually automatically. More and more parents are denying it and more and more babies are having totally preventable complications in their first 6 months of life just because the vitamin k shot has a black box warning. Doctors are repeatedly trying to explain to parents that babies need vitamin k and parents just keep asking “Why? Why are babies born needing vitamin k? Humans survived for thousands of years before it was invented. This must be a conspiracy.”
Infants, the human life stage notorious for randomly dying with no easily discernible cause. I don’t say that to be flippant, human babies are so incredibly fragile that before the modern era, about half of them died before adulthood. That is a natural 50/50 of making it. Humans did not evolve to be perfectly designed and efficient, we are just functional enough for some of us to survive to adulthood and reproduce. We don’t have to live like that! Looking at the human body through the lens of infallible intelligent design and allowing that to inform your medical decisions is so fucking dangerous.
If you believe God created us, you must know he created us to be imperfect, he created us to be imperfect so we could have the pleasure of discovery and progress and improvement and repentance and growth and learning, he did not create human infants capable of synthesizing their own vitamin k but he created humans intelligent and driven and loving enough to want to ensure that the majority of children make it to adulthood.
The Creationist insistence that babies and especially childbirth have been optimized somehow is maddening. It's the number one sign that someone does not know the first goddamn thing about the history of medicine.
"Well if childbirth is so dangerous, how did humans survive so long?"
Because 1 in 100 is not an extinction-level rate of maternal mortality, next question.
"What do you think people did before Vitamin K shots if babies are so vulnerable?"
Infant mortality was 16.5% in 1900 and even higher before that, next question.
"Women have been giving birth for thousands of years, don't you think they know how to do it by now?"
Women have been dying in childbirth for thousands of years, next question.
They just have no goddamn clue how bad things used to be. It's such a spoiled, ignorant perspective. And when they do acknowledge the difference, they claim it's because of hygiene, not 'modern medicine.' Don't even get me started on childhood vaccines.
I blame capitalism.
Also, Young Earth Creationists should not be allowed to vote. I do not consider them sapient enough to vote in their own best interests, let alone in the best interests of a nation, of a civilization.
Fallout x Undertale (An idea I had and my thoughts on it)
I've been playing a lot of fallout new vegas as of late, and my adhd thoughts naturally wondered over to Undertale and made me think "What if my courier, who often kills without mercy, but still shows mercy where the game allows me to, fell into the underground?"
My courier falling into the underground would be quite a change from the trend of children falling into the underground, with him being an adult and all that, and I imagine the first event with Flowey teaching the human about the underground would drastically change, as once the farce of friendliness is dropped, my courier would no doubt shoot flowey through the head. With a gun.
I can't say for sure what would happen next, but I imagine my courier would explain to some of, maybe even a lot of, the monsters he encounters that a nuclear apocalypse has happened, and it happened over 200 years ago, although Dr. Alphys might have surmised as much depending on how much news from the surface world she has access to.
Anyways, this sort of crossover would, in my opinion, be best suited as like a fan game. Not something I'd be interested in making myself, but if it has extensive enough character customization, I'd for sure play it.
I got a TON of atla content on insta recently soooo
Crossover time!
Lifeupdate :3
Alsoooo i got my grade from my final exam back!!! Not only did i pass, i got a 2!!!! The second best grade!!!! And apparently, no one this year even got a 1, so the 2s ARE the BEST grade!!!! Yayyyy!!!!
And i went to my second concert yesterday!
First one was three days grace, yesterday was breaking benjamin! Honestly? Way better of a concert. The hall was smaller, but also much much nicer. Bff and i went to stand on a viewing platform on the back, so we thankfully didnt get into the moshpit again like during three days grace (it formed RIGHT NEXT TO US...), but it also seemed way more chill than that one... and the singer was very very sweet, also threw a guitar pic at a girls eye (accidentally), and stopped the concert for a minute to ask if shes okay, said sorry (like 7 times), and even handed her a guitar pic himself, as she didnt catch it! It was very very chill and cute, can only recommend! I shall count that as my forst concert experience instead PFFFT
We need a full DP x ATLA fanfic
Something which recognizes Danny's power and makes him essential to the story without derailing the timeline too much.
Maybe some malignant spirit has joined the fire nation, and Clockwork has decided that Danny should correct this imbalance by joining Danny with Avatar Aang's party.
This is inspired by a post where the Fentons, including Danny and Jazz, get arrested by the Justice League. The Doctors Fenton are sent to prison. Danny was placed in a League run foster/youth detention center as a youth at risk of becoming a villain, and Jasmine was completely cut off from him as a potential risky influence.
If you recognize the prompt, please send it btw.
In one of the Reblogs they mentioned Waller recruiting the Doctors so....
"We've lost contact with the Youth Probation facilities. A Type 3 System lock down was signaled before communications went dark."
Bruce watches the way Tim subtlty shifts his weight, a repressed show of worry that has Bruce's stomach clutching before he even opens his mouth. "Nightwing entered the facilities approximately 15 minutes before the lock down triggered. Back up comms have been completely cu-"
Screens flicker to life, Oracle cursing in the comms. Nightwing has been suspended in the omega grade super interrogation restraints. Multiple guard bots are stationed around the cell. Daniel Fenton, recent addition to the facility, steps into frame.
"Approximately 3 weeks after Doctors Jack and Madeline Fenton were placed in New York State's maximum security penitentiary, paperwork was filed indicating their transfer to an non existent facility.
The Director of Project X, Amanda Waller constripted them.
You will get my parents out of Waller's clutches safely. You will have proof that they will be safe from Waller or anyone who would exploit them.
If I lose my parents, you lose your son."
The feed cuts before anyone can respond. Oracle clears her throat. "B, a large file attachment was sent to multiple reporters and leak sites from the facility. What's the plan?"
I would like a full fic of this.
Though I do wonder why Danny and Jazz were arrested with their parents.
Maybe the whole family decided to do some family bonding by completely obliterating the GIW, after a reveal gone good.
A fantasy story starting with the protagonist minding her own business gathering firewood, when a demon appears out of nowhere announcing that she belongs to him now. The protagonist demands to know on what grounds, she's never signed no damn contract. The demon is kind of baffled by this, and awkwardly explains that just now her father had promised his firstborn for something, and she is his firstborn.
The protagonist digs her heels in and says no, she never knew her biological father and by the way the demon explained the situation, evidently her father also doesn't know that he already has a daughter, so therefore the man who had made no contribution to her life after he bred and fled has no claim to her as something he could barter.
Not giving a shit about the fact she's gambling her life in doing so, the protagonist makes contact with the local woodland fae, asking them to negotiate on her side. The fae think that this is fucking hilarious and go with her. So, having lawyered up and with a reluctant demon in tow, the protagonist heads off on a quest to find her father and do whatever it takes to wrangle everyone involved into unmaking the contract.
The Exorcist and the Rabbi are partners... When the problem is talkative the Rabbi takes the lead, when the problem is violent the Exorcist is in their element.
Danny has gotten very good at getting into and exploring the internet. Not only from having to follow Technus through it, but also because it was fun!
So it shouldn't have been a surprise that when the time came when he had to escape Amity Park for good, he did it through the web. He had never gone outside the city's servers before, so he did get a bit lost, but soon he was exploring all around the world.
He knew he had to get out of the web eventually, but the persecution had left him a little traumatized. It was safe in there, and he was healing well, or at least his pixelated body seemed okay. And okay, maybe online food was a little tasteless and numbed his tongue, but it was keeping him fed, so who cared.
Through his exploration, he's found something strange though. It doesn't matter which server he jumps to, he always sees traces of the same digital signature. If he wasn't literally within the internet, he wouldn't have noticed, but it becomes easier to identify the more he sees it. So he eventually decides to follow.
That's how Danny ends up in Oracle's computer, and there was SO much to explore here.
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Something has gotten into her system. She hasn't told anyone yet. There's a big stakeout going on, and the bats and birds can't risk getting distracted, but it is driving her crazy.
She's been using her laptop for her Oracle activities to decrease the risk of the thing getting any information on current patrols, but she hasn't been able to lock it out of the data stored on her main computer or erase enough information to keep it away from anything sensitive.
It has been beyond stressful doing everything on a simple laptop after years of using her constantly upgraded setup.
Oracle can't even identify what it is. It isn't behaving like a virus or spyware, but more importantly, she can't get rid of it. It keeps avoiding all her attempts... almost as if it were alive.
After another frustrated night guiding the vigilantes of Gotham with her laptop, she decides to try and communicate with whatever did this. She creates an open chat.
She doesn't think it will actually get any results, but soon she's getting a text."Your computer is crazy!" accompanied by an anime-like emoticon of a pale boy with green eyes and white hair blinking.
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Or: From what I've seen, Oracle is carrying a crazy amount of work, and I think she deserves a little helper.
Prompt/Idea: They're really dragging out this interrogation
So, a lot of fics have the GIW go straight into the experimentation when they capture Danny, but they mentioned "Interrogation and experiments" in the episode Reality Trip, as far as I remember.
What if Danny is stuck in the interrogation for weeks until he is rescued, having never been placed on the dissection table?
What if people think he was vivisected anyways?
"What powers your ice abilities?" Agent N asks, not even looking up from the computer.
Danny huffs. "Ectoplasm."
"For the millionth time, we need answers more specific than that, Phantom!" Agent I says, doing a great impression of an exasperated professor. Danny has been thinking about asking the man if he had considered the career. It looks like it would fit him.
"And I already told you I don't have them! I'm just a regular ghost! I barely know shit about my biology, man! I don't even know if it would be called biology!" Danny exclaims.
"We're calling it ectology," Agent G offers politely.
"I don't know shit about my ectology then," Phantom corrects, just because he likes Agent G. He has been polite in a way that reminds him of Dora. "I haven't gone to ghost school yet!"
"There's ghost schools?" Agent I asks excitedly.
"For the last time, Agent I, we're leaving your useless social questions for the end!" Agent N grumbles.
"They're not useless! It's important information to know how ghost society works! And your ectology questions are giving us no results!" Agent I rebuts.
Both agents start bickering for the nth time that day. Phantom groans, wishing he could get out of his restraints just to hit his head against the table. Agent G looks judgmentally at his two co-workers. They both know the bickering would take at least ten minutes.
"Would you care for this morning's ectoplasm, Phantom?" Agent G asks.
"Will it be food infused with ectoplasm or..."
"Just ectoplasm. We aren't risking more animated food yet," Agent G says.
Phantom sighs. "Might as well."
At the start, the agents were sure ghosts only ate pure ectoplasm, and since they were trying to keep Phantom "alive" for the interrogation, they kept feeding that to him. Sure, it kept his energy from depleting entirely, but it was such a hollow sensory experience.
Once, Phantom managed to convince the agents to infuse some food. He had even specified food with a low chance of getting animated! Tucker, Sam, and he had managed to make some ecto-snacks that didn't get animated, so he had been hopeful. But the Agents managed to get it animated anyway.
Now Phantom had to deal with just ectoplasm. He was admittedly worried about his human side's nutrition, but he tried not to think about that.
Agent G left the interrogation room just in time for Operative K to arrive. His arrival at least managed to derail Agent I and Agent N's bickering, but it opened the door to another discussion Phantom was growing tired of.
"This interrogation has gone on way too long! We need the subject for analysis!" Operative K exclaims, skipping the greetings.
"The higher-ups have already agreed that our information gathering takes precedence. As we've told you a million times, you can take it up with them if you disagree, Operative K," Agent N practically growls.
"This is ridiculous! What kind of information can you get out of talking with a non-sentient monster!" Operative K screams, pointing his finger at Phantom.
If he hadn't seen it so much in the last... how long had it been? Two weeks? Three? However long it had been. If he hadn't seen it so much in however long he had been here, Phantom would have found it funny. Operative K always looked like he was about to stomp his foot like a toddler throwing a tantrum.
"He is not non-sentient! Non-sentient things can't hold a conversation!" Agent I exclaims almost hysterically.
And hadn't that been a surprise for Danny. To find that his non-sentient status wasn't actually a unanimously agreed upon fact within the Guys in White. One he's glad for, of course. As much as he's tired of this back and forth with the Agents, he's still glad to be in an interrogation room and not on a dissection table with the operatives.
From what he has understood so far, Operatives are those assigned to capturing and field investigation. Some of them, like Operative K, are enlisted in the hands-on ectology investigations as well, aka, the vivisections. But they hadn't been able to do any of that so far, which had the group feeling angsty.
Phantom was glad to know there hadn't been any vivisections behind his back yet.
On the other hand, Agents are in charge of information gathering, either from analyzing samples and data, or from interrogations. In general, this group doesn't seem to subscribe to the non-sentient idea and has promised Phantom that if they're able to prove his sentience to their higher-ups, he won't suffer any physical damage.
Phantom isn't sure how much he can trust that promise, but so far he has been treated decently enough. It was still better than that time he was kidnapped by Vlad.
"He's just mimicking us! You are fools who will doom us all by falling for that miserable act!" Operative K exclaims back, his anger flaring.
Danny decides to save himself the misery and zone out. He had gotten pretty good at that since he got there. It had all been just so incredibly boring.
He wondered, not for the first time, if his parents had already placed missing posters around the city. Or if there was even a city left to place posters around. He wouldn't be surprised if his parents had torn the city apart looking for him on the first night. Hopefully Jazz had been able to prevent that.
He wonders if Jazz has already broken their promise and let his parents know he was Phantom. He wouldn't really blame her. He's been gone for so long. He wonders if his parents believed her, if they would accept him.
There's a lot of things he wonders about. There's a lot of what ifs that have gone through his head since he was captured. He had been so sure he was being sent straight to a lab, his mind wandering through everything he hadn't been able to do before he was placed in this painstakingly boring interrogation.
Were Sam and Tucker covering for him before it became apparent he was missing? Is everyone working together to find him? Did they give up already?
"Operative K, I implore you to leave the interrogation room this instant and stop interfering with our job." Agent G's stern voice cuts through Phantom's zoning out.
This part, Phantom does not get tired of yet. Operative K cowers under Agent G's look, despite the man barely even glowering. Then Operative K sniffs and leaves, looking for all the world like a scolded child, despite the obvious effort to seem intimidating. That's another reason why he liked Agent G.
Phantom will never be able to see Operative K the same if he gets out of here.
"Let's get this ectoplasm in you, alright-" Agent G is interrupted by a loud explosion, followed by multiple others.
"Where's my CHILD!?" Danny perks up. That's his mom's voice. That's Mom! Mom's here, looking for him. She must know he's Phantom then, and yet she's here.
"Danno! Don't worry, Dad will get you out of here!" Dad's booming voice makes the walls tremble.
Phantom can't help the sob that escapes him at his parents' voices. He barely notices when the Agents look at one another, quick decisions being made in a matter of seconds. Then, to his entire befuddlement, Agent I and Agent G are beside him, quickly taking his restraints off.
Phantom can only manage a confused sound.
"We're not confronting the Fentons, Phantom. We've seen what that pair is capable of, and we're not part of the highly trained operatives," Agent N explains, not looking one bit happy with the decision being made.
"Let us know later how you managed to get ghost hunters to adopt you, will you?" Agent I says, like he wasn't one of his captors but just a friend asking for an interesting anecdote.
Phantom can only laugh in disbelief. "I'll see about it, I." The moment the restraints are off, Phantom rushes to the ceiling and out of the Agents' reach. "Hope I don't see you again anytime soon, Agents."
He gives them a quick two-finger salute and starts rushing out toward the sounds of destruction and his parents' voices. His composure breaks down with every passing second, his hands trembling and tears rolling down his cheeks by the time he can finally see them.
An unexpected delight! This is the first time I've seen one of my prompts lead someone into writing a fic! And it's of decent quality too!
Would you be amenable to posting this on AO3? I like to do most of my fic reading there.
Prompt/Idea: They're really dragging out this interrogation
So, a lot of fics have the GIW go straight into the experimentation when they capture Danny, but they mentioned "Interrogation and experiments" in the episode Reality Trip, as far as I remember.
What if Danny is stuck in the interrogation for weeks until he is rescued, having never been placed on the dissection table?
What if people think he was vivisected anyways?
I mean after his bones break they would just adapt after the first time, like hold up, let me break my bones in so I can do this trick.
I feel like this would also be a social media AU for no reason other than if I have perks from my ghost powers I’m so going to use them.
Like he would and does use his power for convenience, whats stopping him from bending in weird ways for the internet to get monetized for some new space stuff, or boring stuff like necessities and rent, cause he’s gotta stop recording in the abandoned observatory in Amity, probably. Sometime maybe.
Watch him try to attempt to do the impossible Flying Grayson quadurble sundae split or splat or something on some scaffolding because why would he ever need equipment. We adapt in this bitch.
Danny would maybe sacrifice his pride to make a compilation of his edited-out fails or first trys, some of them he litterslly just goes splat and then peels himself up to do it again, obviously a guaranteed banger.
Other people or adrenaline junkies wanting to collab with Danny and then they actually meet him and oh— this kid is definitly suicidal, bc what the fuck??
When Danny collabs with other creators his veiwers really get to see how bat-shit crazy he is because he totally edits out all the ‘bad takes’ for continuity or some shit.
Any collab video done with him is just an adrenaline high vlog around whatever city they’re in, 50% chance Danny might use random infustructer to launch himself in a way that might be considered self-harm…and hell no they are not allowed to do the collab in amity so Danny’s just travelling to random city’s to meet up with strangers.
Every once in awhile he’ll record walking out of the house for his part of the video, yelling bye to his parents, saying he’s going to film a video with someone in Texas this week, and they just yell back ‘have fun honey!’
If you're writing anything involving cons, scams, heists, or morally questionable characters who are very good at lying, here are some free resources I've been using for research. Saving you the "why is this in my search history" anxiety.
1. The FBI's Famous Cases & Criminals archive (fbi.gov/history/famous-cases) has detailed breakdowns of real fraud cases, Ponzi schemes, and confidence operations. The language they use is clinical and precise, which is perfect for getting the procedural details right.
2. The FTC Consumer Sentinel Network publishes annual reports on the most common fraud tactics in the US. Great for understanding how modern scams actually work and what makes people fall for them.
3. The Smithsonian's American Art Museum has a free digital collection of forgery case studies. If your character forges documents or art, this is gold.
4. Court Listener (courtlistener.com) is a free legal database where you can read actual court transcripts from fraud trials. Want to know how a real con artist talks under oath? This is where you find out.
5. The Internet Archive's collection of old newspaper crime sections. Search for "confidence man" or "swindle" in papers from the 1920s through 1960s and you'll find incredible real stories that would feel too dramatic for fiction.
Bonus: The Psychology of Fraud section on the Association for Psychological Science website has accessible articles about why people trust, how deception works cognitively, and what makes someone a convincing liar. Essential reading if you want your con artist characters to feel psychologically real.
Reblog to save for later. Your WIP will thank you.
We know from "Public Enemies" to "Reign Storm", Danny was seen as a villain to the general public. Before he would deal with ghosts and only a handful of people saw him at a time, mostly the kids at school. After Walker's invasion, not only was he made fully public to not just the city but possibly the outside world, but he also was framed as a villain.
So in a fusion type crossover story, their should be supers, both hero and villains coming and going inside Amity Park to check out the new budding "villain". Heroes coming in to try and capture him and villains wanting to team up. Maybe a few fans wanting autographs from their new favorite villain. I know there was some of this back when there were a handful of "Danny joins Hive Academy" stories back when the Teen Titans cartoon was more popular but we need more of this, imho instead of the stories that seem to want to make Danny the perpetual victim.
Maybe a young, impressionable villainess wants to meet her celebrity crush (imagine Danny as the Bieber of the teen villain world) and Danny has to try to either get her to leave, convince her he's not a villain and/or reform her. Nothing goes well.
This is a good idea, it allows for a more significant rewrite of events with the plot for DP going of the rails.
An alternative solution for no one coming to Amity Park during the events of canon that doesn't involve a coverup is the rest of the world going through batshit insane shit at the same time as the ghost stuff causing chaos in Amity, leaving no time for the heroes to send anyone to investigate, and the villains too busy causing trouble elsewhere to send in a recruiter.
Add on top of that the JL is struggling to get rid of the federal anti-ecto control act with potentially a disadvantage due to precedent set by the case with Secret.
Alas, I have yet to see a fic that goes the route of "there is no coverup, the government is just fascist"
