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It sucks that they got rid of every activity. It’s only phone in bed now. They got rid of everything else

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Please Lord take all of TommyInnit's pain and give it to mrbeast

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i was not fucking prepared for october-november 2024 to be the source of so many NEW dsmp related emotions i had accepted that thang was put to rest since april 2023 (sure the finale we dont speak of was 2022 but it was PUT TO REST april 23) and the rest was all on us. i have quite simply lost the emotional resilience to be processing new dsmp information let alone that fucking bitterduo finale let alone a potential cq finale let alone WALKING ON THE FUCKING PRIME PATH ON MY LAPTOP. this is fucking crazy. they could've have fucking warned us i'm going to need 9 months of resting by the sea like those sickly victorian ladies after this. by the sea. you know who else was by the sea. god

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So I have been watching Danny Phantom for the first time ever with my friends and I'd kind of previously known about its reputation as a show whose fanbase dives a lot more into the lore than the show is willing to. And I guess I hadn't really understood why until now (I just finished Season 2!). Here's my sort of rambling thoughts on it.

Danny Phantom isn't a show about the horror of ghosts and the dead coexisting in the human realm. It's a show about dropping the most out of pocket lore implications you can imagine on people who in turn say things that would kill a therapist dead equally out of pocket, and then neither are addressed but the watcher has to live with the ghost of the plot that is right behind them but they can't turn around.

DP is a little hit and miss in places, but the very thing that drives people nuts about it is actually I think maybe its greatest strength: it really pulls off show, don't tell effectively. How much of that is intentional is up for debate, but the best episodes kinda leave you wondering, or sputtering like "UH, HEY, BACK UP - HEY BACK UP AND UNPACK THAT -" Is Danny's human body technically alive somehow, or is he a walking corpse? Does Danny have a door in the Ghost Zone? Were Vlad's clones feeling and sentient as they melted into ectoplasm, despite Danny's guess that they weren't? What does it say about Danny that he still erased his parents' memories after finding out they'd accept him as he is?

I think the genius of not answering these questions directly is that it's both funnier AND scarier not to. We can laugh about how fucked up it is and kinda hold our heads like "bro.... did they really just imply that, holy shiiiiiit", and that's really consistent with the emotional core of the show as this knife's-edge dance between teen comedy and horror superhero. Fully explaining the lore or being more direct about how the information is conveyed by and to the characters tips that balance and changes the show into something else, for better or for worse. And I really earnestly like it as it is, even if it's very of its time (sexism.......)! It's a really fun show with some depth to it.

Anyway, I can't wait to watch season 3! I sure hope all these wonderful qualities I like about it hold up!

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Man walking around the copy of the dsmp world is almost... haunting Almost feels like the reverse of the typical fourth wall breaking situation, instead of the characters breaking out, we broke in, and now we wander through the remains, free to inspect.

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epilogue.

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something insanely meta about jack and tommy chatting about how it all sucked everything sucked and it was a mess and it hurt and no theyd never wanna go back but.. they miss it sometimes. to the way things were and how they felt. sometimes you just wanna go back

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when he said "i keep a couple of pieces of this with me, a couple of people" and i think about that too. the friends i've continued to chat with. seeing others on the dash. the art i've found and created. laughs. events. experiences. things like that.

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sketch vs final

>w<

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The core.

Redrew of old pic.

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I see a lot of posts about how Percy isn't the point of the story in pjo and the story is about the Thalia-Luke-Annabeth narrative and I do agree to a great extent but I do also think it needs to be said the reason why percy is the narrator and not one of them is because he is the cycle-breaker - without him it would have stayed a tragedy but because of him it changed. This is most obvious in how he rejects immortality and instead demands greater support for half-bloods, obviously, but also he trusted annabeth enough to give Luke the knife! he disliked the gods enough to understand Luke even if he didn't agree with his methods and I think that empathy is so so crucial actually! The T-L-A story is built like a mythological tragedy, Percy exists to break the cycle of the story, he's the hero that ends happily.