Vex the Casual Fan

Almost nothing but reblolgs here. lately: TMNT 💙♥️💜🧡🐢, space ✨, Danny Phantom 👻🟢, Teen Titans 🦸🍕

[rutriedtheirbest]

‼️'03 Spotify Playlists‼️

I will continue to update them, they are very short.

Donnie

Mikey

Raph

Leo

Should I do an Usagi one? I feel like I should but Idk.

[wobbegong800]

Some scenes from chapters 18-22 of Liketolaugh’s fic More Like Home. Vlad finds out what happens when you get the attention of the Bats.

[ilikekidsshows]

I'm gonna say, 'Static in Africa' is a MUCH BETTER "superhero of a minority ethnicity visits their home away from home" episode than Miraculous Shanghai. Like, we even start from the same starting point, Virgil is NOT initially too interested in visiting Africa, he's here because it's a family trip, but when he starts to really look around himself, he sees and FEELS how different his standing is in Africa in comparison to the USA.

And Virgil voices these feelings and experiences. He tries to explain it to Richie, who doesn't really get it, being a white boy, but Richie does get SOME of it, when he draws the comparison to his father's reaction to visiting Ireland. And, like, Richie is allowed to not really get it, it would be kind of wierd if this doofy, nerdy white American kid understood exactly what Virgil was experiencing. And Virgil's final discussion with Anansi was very heartwarming, with Anansi pointing out that Virgil himself is the black American superhero that black American kids can look up to. It's a very sweet sentiment.

[vexeria17]

Omg yes! I love this episode!

[asunderstrike]

(Vomits random Danny Phantom art before scampering off back into the hiatus abyss)

[vexeria17]

Gorgeous

[myapathyhaspeaked]

does anyone know what that comic is called where in one issue (don’t know if the comic is only issue or not) 12 splinter introduces his sons in age order, pretty sure nick had it voice acted…can’t find it on batcave.biz and it would probs be easier to find with a name

[forgetful-nerd]

Here it is:

To save y’all time it’s (from oldest to youngest): Leo, Raph, Donnie, and then Mikey

[myapathyhaspeaked]

does anyone know what that comic is called where in one issue (don’t know if the comic is only issue or not) 12 splinter introduces his sons in age order, pretty sure nick had it voice acted…can’t find it on batcave.biz and it would probs be easier to find with a name

[forgetful-nerd]

Here it is:

To save y’all time it’s (from oldest to youngest): Leo, Raph, Donnie, and then Mikey

[duckdodger]

THE LAST RONIN GAME IS NOT DEADDDD

[vexeria17]

Oh thank god

[ace-disgrace-on-the-case]

For those who needed to hear it today

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[greatbigolhampuckjustforme]

Stratt receives an email from a student at an American Ivy-league school with the subject line “Ecto-Entities”:

Dear Eva Stratt,

I hope this email finds you well. I am writing because I know of a resource that could be incredibly beneficial, possibly even crucial to your mission. 

There is an organization in the USA called the Ghost Investigation Ward (GIW) which harbors beings called “ecto-entities”, colloquially known as “ghosts”. One ghost in particular that the GIW has in their custody is an ecto-entity called Danny Phantom, who I believe could aid in saving humanity. 

Danny Phantom has several abilities that could prove to be beneficial when on a space mission, including being able to disregard gravity, thus not requiring zero-grav training prior to the mission. He can also phase through objects, and he does not require oxygen, which leaves more resources on board available for the humans who will be on the craft. Ghosts are also able to withstand enormous atmospheric pressure, or lack thereof, without adverse effects, so he would not require a suit when leaving the ship. He has many other abilities I haven’t listed, but which are less likely to be useful on such a journey. If you’re interested, I can provide you with a comprehensive list.

Something else of note is that over the years, research has suggested that ghosts have something called an “obsession”. Their obsession can be anything from hunting to music to boxes, to any other subject you could think of. This obsession fuels them, and is their reason to remain on Earth, sort of like unfinished business. Danny Phantom is unique in that he has dual obsessions. One of these obsessions is outer space. He can tell you the exact location of a star or planet at any given time, even during the day. He knows how to pilot a space shuttle as well as any trained astronaut. His freckles even glow like constellations when he’s talking about space. And his other obsession is protecting others from harm. There’s not much to say about this other than that he has thrown himself into danger without a single thought for his own wellbeing countless times in order to protect others from harm. He would risk his own life one thousand times over in order to save just one person, much less billions. I’m sure you can see how useful he could be in saving the world, as it seems like this mission was designed for him.

I am aware this is a suicide mission, and that if he is to go, he will never be able to return, but I know that this is better than his current situation. For nearly two years, the GIW has had him in their possession, and I don’t like to imagine what they’re doing to him there in the name of research. Even before they captured him, they promised to him on several occasions that once they had him, they would conduct as many “painful experiments” on him as they could before he perished, and I can’t imagine they’ve broken that promise. 

While his obsessions are perfectly tailored to your cause, I am also writing to you as a plea for you to save him. My family and I, as well as his friends and their families, have been working endlessly since his capture to free him, to no avail. I know that even though he would die on this mission, that is a far kinder fate than what he is experiencing as I write this email. He is a genuinely good person who would do anything to help those around him, and I can’t stand the thought that he will rot in that prison while the rest of us move on with our lives. 

Thank you for hearing me out. I hope you will at least humor me and look into it. And if you do, please don’t believe anything the GIW tells you about him. 

Desperate and hopeful,

Jazz Fenton

[vexeria17]

Omg IMAGINE ✨️

[maxmarvel12345]

Batman Vol. 3 Annual #3 - Father’s Day (December 12, 2018)

Written by: Tom Taylor Artist by: Otto Schmidt Lettered by: Troy Peteri of A Larger World Edited by: Dave Wielgosz (assistant editor) and Dave Wielgosz (group editor) Published by: DC Comics

[mkthedingus]

YAYY IM UNC NOW!!

I wanna take a sec to say I love you all so much. You have no idea how many times I've been up at night kicking my feet at your wonderful fanart and comments. Your kind words and support makes my day and I'm honored to be a part of such a supportive and talented community. Stay weird goobies!!

[vexeria17]

Happy birthday! 🥳 I hope you have a fantastic year!

[moved-to-orpheyon-deactivated20]

Combine your chinese zodiac and astrology sign to make your true fursona

[eternally-a-dreamer]

i still hate this post so much. i’m an ox and a taurus. i’m a bull bull. i’m so fucking annoyed oh m y go d

[daftpatience]

noticed the two types of people in the tags

[imjunebitch]

im a pig ram ok

[metalheadspiderv2]

Crab Snake makes no sense, but i was recently introduced to the Chinese zodiac 60 year cycle.

I’m a Dethklok song :)

[transfemme-shelterdog]

Fire Ox

[liketolaugh-writes]

[vexeria17]

Lion + monkey =

[puppygirllaika]

Could you personally navigate a cross-country road trip, door to door, without your electronics (phone/computer/tablet/etc)?

Yes

No

Voting ended onMay 29

[puppygirllaika]

every other note on this post is someone going "am i allowed to use paper maps?" yes. obviously. i did not say "without a map", i said without your electronics. And to the like, 20% of people saying "of course, i would simply take the train" that is definitionally not a road trip. i love trains too, but that is a rail trip. a road trip requires taking a trip on the road.

[puppygirllaika]

#a train can go on the road if you believe hard enough

casey jones off the shits

[vexeria17]

It would be a lot slower as I would have to triple check to make sure I'm using the best route. But I can do it. Before I got my first GPS I was using an atlas and memory to make sure I was going the right way.

[sonyaskullz]

the funniest part about danny phantom is that the entirety of the ghost zone somehow decides they have beef with this one 14 year old from illinois in particular. like why don’t you have beef with something that makes sense. like the irs. or the church. like you have all of these cool powers for what? picking fights with teenagers? lame. get a hobby.

[chromatographic]

Danny Phantom just gets wilder the more you know about it, really.

first of all i gotta say that it's not actually canon that he's from Illinois. the show is just "generic American small city" for his hometown and the fandom took context cues from other parts of the show and decided "Fuck it Illinois makes sense" and just kept that.

But I guarantee you, nothing about the show makes sense when you look at it too closely so take everything with a grain of salt. Yes I'm looking at you, Timeline.

the teenager in question is also kind of a ghost, hence part of the reason why the other ghosts are picking fights with him. He arguably picks a bunch of the fights himself.

it's not just the entirety of the Ghost Zone that get put into the antagonist role in the show either. Danny's other antagonists include:

A literal billionaire (who is also a ghost) (and gets himself elected mayor)

his parents (literally ghost hunters. who also fight the ghosts.)

a circus ringmaster with mind control and reality bending artifacts

Classmates at school who bully Danny

the closest thing we get to an adult who is on Danny's side is Mr. Lancer, who also supports the school bullies

the ghost who impersonated a school counselor and was literally in the role of Danny's therapist for a bit that one episode

A U.S. government agency

a girl he dates was actually being controlled by a dragon ghost and didn't actually want to date him. Have fun with that fallout kid.

the girl he dates for a bit who *wanted* to date him also shows up in costume to shoot him on sight.

his clone shows up and is supposed to be his enemy. he adopts her instead. yes those pronouns are all correct.

she's not really an antagonist but one of his best friends arguably kills him twice. once very much on purpose.

his other best friend and whatever happened in King Tuck.

like it's not enough that this show puts Danny (and friends) against the regular ghosts and the God-Like Being level ghosts and the literal Ghost Tyrant King guy

he can't even catch a break at home either

kid's literally surrounded by people deliberately or accidentally making his life harder, there are no safe Adults, there are barely any safe friends, and he is fourteen and half dead.

and his parents canonically want to rip his alter-ego apart "molecule by molecule" i am not kidding with that one.

Like they made us a sandbox of a Nickelodeon cartoon and just half assed it by grabbing a bunch of two-by-fours, nailing them together... and then sticking them on the beach.

and then people still get mad when the fandom shows up to build sandcastles and dig to china. Yeah, we know they didn't make it That Deep on purpose.

But we're here with the good Tonka Toys anyway and ready to dig.

[ailithnight]

This post just slapped me in the face (again) with the fact that Danny is just, never safe.

He's never safe.

Home, school, the zone, hanging out with friends, walking down the street, in anotger state; there is nowhere for Danny to go and be safe.

Most ghosts he's met (pretty sure everyone but Frostbite and Pandora), his parents, his friends, Vlad, Jazz; there is almost no one who has not at least once been his enemy.

Can you imagine living like that? At any moment of any day, anywhere he is anyone; even one or both of his best friends, his sister, his mom and dad; anyone could turn around and suddenly become someone he has to fight.

Danny has to be living his life in a perpetual state of adrenaline response. Every waking moment must be spent on a hairpin trigger, ready to fight at the first sign of danger. Can you imagine how much that is going to fuck you up?

[lolottes]

not to mention that even his food at home is not safe and that the fast food places are also a latent bomb

[gildedphoenix]

My man is struggling and any fics that feature PTSD, cptsd, anxiety, paranoia, or just general mental breakdown? 1000% justified. Canon compliant. More canon than Phantom Planet. (Especially since AGIT retcon'd that trash)

[ailithnight]

No, wait, hold on. There's a thought.

Y'know that common thing where we make Danny have a slower heart rate because ghost boi?

So, that's supposed to be true. As a halfa he should have a steady heart rate around 20bpm in both forms. And originally that was true after his body settled into its new healthy after the accident. But by the time anyone team Phantom thinks to actually check that stuff just in case, Danny is already Stressed™ 24/7, so they inaccurately judge his baselines to be in perfectly normal human ranges. Like, 70bpm at rest and 120 immediately after ghost fights.

And since consistently having your heart beat at 50-100bpm above what it should is, mm, not good for the organ... Danny has actually been experiencing frequent cardiac events and just not noticing it because it seems like it's all just his new normal and his ghostliness keeps him alive (enough) and lets him recover.

[moss-covered-thoughts]

I've seen authors explore cardiac stress as one of the reasons he passed out so often in the show, which makes so much sense it's just canon to me now

The fandom gets creative because the show either deliberately or not, puts Danny in absolute batshit situations and tries to sell it to us as normal. He became evil in a timeline because he cheated on test once and it dominoed from there? Come on. The fandom basically takes the show apart (molecule by molecule) and comes up with insanely creative ideas to explain some of the trends

It's so fascinating and honestly I think it's the reason it's kept my attention for so long

[vexeria17]

Gosh I love this fandom. There's SO MANY ways that amazing people have explored the show and made it even better! I especially love stuff like this where fellow fans share their mind-blowing perspectives of everything Danny went through. You guys are some of my favorite types of people.

[llamagoddessofficial]

job interview on tuesday.......... i've been applying to so many places but i legit did not expect this. now i am feeling The Terror

[llamagoddessofficial]

I...... Got the job, ???

[vexeria17]

Congrats! 🥳

[wobbegong800]

a scene from Survivability Bias by Audliminal on AO3. This fic scratches an itch I didn’t know I had. I love it when superheroes work with first responders, AND I love DPxDC fics where Phantom gets some actual support and help. Phantom getting training from firefighters? Genius.

[vexeria17]

I definitely recommend ❤️

Thank you op, now I'm going to go reread it. Amazing fanart btw 💚

Here's the link: Survivability Bias by Audliminal