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#maybe some of the other ghosts have figured this out too and just chill down there

Well, we do see Desiree peaking out of a storm drain in Memory Blank, so it seems she's figured it out. Not sure she's told anyone else, but who knows, maybe off screen Amity Park has a thriving underground ghost scene?

I was considering if Danny knows Amity Park's drainage system; he briefly navigates them during Urban Jungle, but he likely just remembered which direction Fentonworks was in and popped out at the first manhole in that direction. Still, it might be useful for him and Team Phantom generally, if they did learn to traverse Amity Park's underground. Intangibility, flight and glowing makes ghosts uniquely suited to under city exploration. A reliable way for Team Phantom to avoid ghost hunters and other humans could be invaluable.

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I was considering if Danny knows Amity Park's drainage system; he briefly navigates them during Urban Jungle, but he likely just remembered which direction Fentonworks was in and popped out at the first manhole in that direction. Still, it might be useful for him and Team Phantom generally, if they did learn to traverse Amity Park's underground. Intangibility, flight and glowing makes ghosts uniquely suited to under city exploration. A reliable way for Team Phantom to avoid ghost hunters and other humans could be invaluable.

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Control Freaks AU: the Crystal Ball Staff lands upright, stabbing into the ground instead of breaking.

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Sometimes you really have to love fandom. I said off hand in the comments of 'A Surprise Star by FireFromOutHearts that I'd read this crack fic idea:

Regulus survives the Cave, discovers the existence and location of the Cup Horcrux, and digs his way into Gringotts.

if someone wrote it and that maybe I should make a Tumblr post to see if any would. Quess what? In the process of replying the author wrote out enough of the idea that they posted a new fic 'Stars Underground by FiresFromOurHearts' instead of an extended comment.

As author and reader both, people who say fandom runs on interaction, aren't wrong. Positive, engaging, non-pressuring interactions can be really inspiring. Comments are left to show appreciation, and you should never expect anything to come of them, but sometimes knowing that people liked what you made can be the difference between posting something and not.

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I've decided to split my Reblogging posts blog into 3 blogs for easier navigation.

Unlike my earliest attempts at multiple blogs, these are not divided by fandom but by content.

Looking Canon is for canonical text, images or gifts. Basically for referencing.

Cataloguing Meta is for analysis, theories, timelines, worldbuilding, etc.

Fandom Fuel is for prompts, ideas, AUs, fanart, fanfic snippets, etc.

My current other blogs, briarruler2 and cataloguedbymeticuloustags will probably take me a couple of years to delete, as they are much bigger then any of my fandom specific blogs ever were and sorting posts from them to the correct new blog will take a some time.

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I need to update some links on this, and am once again doing some blog shuffling, some I'm going to create a new pinned post for this blog.

List of links to me at other places.

Archive of our Own as Briar_Ruler, DeviantArt as BriarRuler, FanFiction as Briar Ruler.

I used to have specialized side blogs before I deleted them. Now my only other blog is where I reblog posts I like but didn't comment on. This is 99% percent a fandom blog and I almost never post real-world focused stuff.

I currently use the same Avatar everywhere, so that should help with spotting me.

If you see an idea you like, feel free to run with it as long as you credit it and preferably drop me a link so I can enjoy seeing what you make.

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Ghost King Danny AU where instead of Danny wearing the King's Artefacts, it is the other two members of the trio who do so: Tucker with the Crown of Fire and Sam with the Ring of Rage.

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A Glitch in Time hot take: clearly Clockwork should have made Vlad deal with Plasmius Phantom in The Ultimate Enemy.

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Terrible Ways to Find Out your son has become a ghost: being attacked by his gruesomely crispy, zombified corpse because it was dropped through the Fenton Portal into the Ghost Zone and become extremely Ecto-Contaminated (much like the food you make.)

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I thought that people had just started Liking posts more then Reblogging (which is sad and kind of annoying and means I'm less likely to randomly scroll through the blog of someone who left neat tags or comments on one of my posts), but actually I suspect some of my normal fandom interactions have vanished into communities.

(Although I'm reasonably sure that the Liking and not Reblogging thing is an actual and real change and problem that has happened - I've seen other people remarking on it too.)

Effort and possible socialization vs validation and potential Yes And reblogs. Decisions. Decisions.

(Or maybe I've just been less active on Tumblr lately and the recent posts I have made happen to be some of my less interesting ones.)

Either way. I'll join one Community and see if I like it.

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Terrible Ways to Find Out your son has become a ghost: being attacked by his gruesomely crispy, zombified corpse because it was dropped through the Fenton Portal into the Ghost Zone and become extremely Ecto-Contaminated (much like the food you make.)

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I think what Skills and Talents each Warden Origin and Class has preset says interesting things about what each potential Warden had needed in their life.

Skill and Talent points are preset depending on the Class and Origin of the Warden.

Skills

A Skill point in Poison-Making is preset for the Rogue Class.

A Skill point in Combat Training is preset for the Warrior Class.

A Skill point in Combat Training is a preset for the Dwarf Noble Origin and the Human Noble Origin.

A Skill point in Stealing is preset for the Dwarf Commoner Origin.

A Skill point in Coercion is preset for the City Elf Origin.

A Skill point in Survival is preset for the Dalish Elf Origin.

A Skill point in Combat Tactics and in Herbalism is preset for the Mage Class-Origin.

Talents/Spells

Dirty Fighting is the preset Talent of the Rogue Class. Shield Bash is the preset Talent of the Warrior Class for the Dwarf Noble and Human Noble Origins. Dual Weapon Sweep is the preset Talent of the Warrior Class for the Dwarf Commoner and City Elf Origins. Pinning Shot is the preset Talent of a Warrior Class Dalish Elf Origin. Arcane Bolt is the preset Spell of a Mage Origin-Class.

I think some interesting deductions can be made from this.

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Hmm, wonder how that conversation went? Because Team Phantom never tells anyone, so why did they tell Ivy? And when, exactly, did they tell her?

Was it in that first month after the accident before they started fighting ghosts? Was it some point later?

Do they tell her because she's a villain, a criminal, someone with no regard for the law? Do they tell her because she's a doctor and they wanted someone's opinion on Danny's health. Do they tell her because she used to be human and now she's not and so she's the closest person anyone of them know to a being like Danny?

Okay DP x DC prompt for you folks (idk if I will write this but I need to get this outta my head, so feel free to use it)

Poison Ivy is really good friends with Sam. She (and Harley if you want) ends up taking in Sam, Tucker and Danny after The GIW found out about Danny.

They met when Ivy attacked a gala Sam was forced to attend. *Shenanigans ensues* And Ivy swaps numbers with a small feral child named Sam. Over the years they’ve grown closer. Hour long phone calls, and Sam sneaking out of every event her parents drag her too at Gotham to see Ivy. Ivy encouraging Sam to be herself and explore her fashion. Sam thinks of Ivy as her mother. Sam even confided in Ivy about the accident and Danny’s resulting afterlife. Despite this Sam never took up Ivy’s offer to runaway and live with her. Staying to help Danny. Until one day Ivy receives a knock on her door. It is an exhausted Sam and a kid she recognised from photos, Tucker. Both of them are struggling to carry a young boy unconscious battered, bruised and bleeding green.

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I think the funniest and honestly most 'canon' take of Danny's attitude towards his secret identity is that: hands down he will not tell so much as a single human, ever, but basically assumes that every ghost he encounters knows, and if a crossover had other non-humans there is a fair chance he just, wouldn't think to try and keep his secret from them.

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You know, the trio kind of has team themed eyes colours as humans? Sam with purple, Danny with blue and Tucker with almost green. I think that should carry across if they become Ghosts together.

Portal Eyes: all of them have neon green eyes, like ectoplasm, like the Portal, as a legacy from dying within it.

Hop one colour clockwise: Sam has blue eyes, Danny has green and Tucker has yellow.

A colour anti-clockwise: Sam has red eyes, Danny has purple and Tucker has blue.

Colour Inverted eyes: Sam has yellow eyes, Danny has orange and Tucker has red.

I just think it's neat.

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To enter the basement of Kinloch Hold the 'Victim's Door' must be opened. While supposedly only openable by a Templar and a Harrowed Mage together, what it actually requires is a password to prime the wards on the door and then a touch of mana.

This is interesting because I see several possibilities:

Really any Mage's mana will work. The Harrowing permanently and recognizably changes something in a Mage's mana. The mana of a mage who's phylactery lies is within cannot be used to open the door. It's actually an affect of the Ring of Study.

Personally I headcanon that the Victim's Door rejects the mana of any mage who's phylactery is within the repository aka any Apprentice of Kinloch Hold because Chantry approved blood magic being used to oppress mages is simply on brand.

But there's something undeniably interesting about the idea that The Harrowing fundamentally alters something about Mages who survive it. And which part? Is it touching the Lyrium? Is it being sent into the Fade? Some other thing they do to you that they don't tell you about?

'It's something the Ring of Study allows' comes from me thinking; what else separates a Harrowed Mage from an Apprentice mage? Different robes yes, but each rank in the Circle wears different clothes and enchanting tons of robes for this function seems inefficient. But traditionally upon being successfully Harrowed a Mage receives a Ring of Study which is made of 'lyrium-infused silver'. That sounds like a good candidate for a secret key.

As for any Mage being able to open it - well you'd think Lily and Jowan would have at least tried before recruiting outside help. Plus while the repository itself has a second door with anti-magic wards that requires two keys to open, from the Knight-Commander and the First Enchanter, that still leaves the rest of the Tower Basement vulnerable. Nothing disproves this possibility but it would be exasperating.

It's unknown if the password has to be spoken by a second person or if the opening mage can do so. If a second person is needed, it is also unknown if they must be a non-mage. It is however demonstrated that no Templar presence is required.

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Sometimes I entertain myself by reading little things fanfic writers let slip and going 'hmm' I'm pretty sure I know what country you're from.

(It is not a hobby because I don't take notes on it and tend to forget the answer until something reminds me. (I have occasionally considered making it a hobby.) (Then I remember that would be creepy and maybe count as stalking)))

And sometimes people list their age, gender and the city they're living in on their profile and I'm like... Why? Anonymity. Internet safety. Do these things mean nothing to you?