#I FORGOT THAT AND JUST STARTED LAUGHING

[prosebushpatch]

Love the feeling of going back to a draft after a legit year and laughing out loud at shenanigans you forgot writing.

[bet-on-me-13]

Danny commits to the Bit a bit too hard...

So! For the first few weeks after his accident, whenever Danny would try to help the people of Amity Park, he would be treated as a Villain.

No matter if he had just defeated the Big Bad of the Week or saved a Cat from a tree, everybody in town only saw him as a Monster or Villain to he feared and hunted down. Danny was really getting sick of trying to get them on his side, until Sam made a suggestion.

"Why not just...play into it?" She said, barely looking up from painting her nails.

It was just an offhand suggestion, but it stuck with Danny. Why shouldn't he lean into it? The people of Amity Park already saw Ghosts as Evil, and they already assumed he was in cahoots with the Ghosts attacking the town. Why shouldn't he just...play into it?

So he does just that.

From that day on, whenever Phantom was spotted he would dramatically monologue about his Evil Plans, or claim that another Rogues attack on the City was his own act of terror.

Box Ghost destroys the towns Warehouses? It was on his orders.

Ember mind controls masses of Teenagers? All part of his Plans somehow.

Every Adult in Town is kidnapped by Young Blood? Danny gave them over to a friend as a Gift.

He crafts an identity for himself as the most Vile and Horrible Ghost that has ever attacked the City, using his own infamy to cement his legend even more firmly. The town only sees a Monsterous Villain, who has eveded capture near effortlessly for months on end, who constantly attacks their City and gets away with it.

Of course he still needs an excuse for how his plans keep getting stopped, and he gets it when his girlfriend Valerie becomes the Red Huntress. Before that, he just claimed infighting or the Fentons getting lucky, but Valerie becoming the Town's Hero meant he had a plausible excuse for how he kept getting "Foiled".

Val was suspicious, because she was not as involved as Phantom painted her to be, but in the end she had no proof of him faking his defeats. And she couldn't come up with any explanations for why he would do that in the first place. I mean, who would fake being a Supervillain? It had to he something else.

This did come back to bite him a while later, when the Justice League decided that enough was enough, and dispatched Justice League Dark to recruit Red Huntress and help Deal with him.

Coincidentally, that was the same day Pariah Dark attacked the Mortal Realm and sucked Amity Park into the Ghost Zone.

And honestly? Danny had spent over a Year proclaiming himself as a Villain who commanded Ghosts to attack the Human Realm, and he had heard about the Right of Conquest being Absolute in the Ghost Zone, so why not make it official? Why not overthrow the Ghost King, become the Ghost King, and cement his identity as a Villain while also forbidding Ghosts from entering the Human Realm without his permission?

He may have gotten a bit carried away and forgotten that the Villain thing was a disguise...but hey! He was still preventing Ghost Attacks! ...mostly. That's got to count for something right?

He may have let the Bit run a bit too far...

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[skeletalheartattack]

i just wanted that one baki the grappler image man

[ceaseless-rambler]

Kinda gay to be an avatar of the Buried, why do you want so much pressure around you? To mimic the embrace of another man?

Kinda gay to be an avatar of the Corruption. "You can be fully consumed by what loves you" what loves you? Other men?

Kinda gay to be an avatar of the Dark. Why do you want it to be dark? So no one can see you blush when pretty men talk to you?

Kinda gay to be an avatar of the Desolation. You like things that are hot? Well men can be hot

Kinda gay to be an avatar of the End. What do you want to end? The "are we /r flirting or /p flirting" you have with your friend? Who is also a man?

Kinda gay to be an avatar of the Eye. What do you want to see? Other men?

Kinda gay to be an avatar of the Flesh. This one just sounds like a euphemism for sex and straight people only have sex in TV shows

Kinda gay to be an avatar of the Hunt. What are you hunting for? True love with another man?

Kinda gay to be an avatar of the Lonely. Why are you lonely? No men around to be gay with?

Kinda gay to be an avatar of the Slaughter. You're bound to end up covered in blood, why would you want that? Because other gay people find men covered in blood attractive?

Kinda gay to be an avatar of the Spiral. I mean, look at them.

Kinda gay to be an avatar of the Stranger. Why do you feel like you're other? Because you've been othered by society for being gay?

Kinda gay to be an avatar of the Vast. What's so massive? Your love for men?

Kinda gay to be an avatar of the Web. What strings are you pulling? Strings that bring other men to you?

[marigoldbaker]

revisiting emily of new moon, formative book of my heart, and am experiencing that incomparable feeling when you return to a book years later and find out that not only is it just as good as you remembered, it's better. anyway,

“It has never been slept in since the night before your mother—went away,” said Aunt Laura, with a queer sound in her voice—a sound of which Aunt Elizabeth disapproved. “Your mother,” she said, looking coldly at Emily over the flame of the candle—an attitude that gave a rather gruesome effect to her acquiline features—“ran away—flouted her family and broke her father’s heart. She was a silly, ungrateful, disobedient girl. I hope you will never disgrace your family by such conduct.” “Oh, Aunt Elizabeth,” said Emily breathlessly, “when you hold the candle down like that it makes your face look just like a corpse! Oh, it’s so interesting.” Aunt Elizabeth turned and led the way upstairs in grim silence. There was no use in wasting perfectly good admonitions on a child like this.

[pikasetism]

mod colors a drawing for the first time since the blogs creation

[reineydraws]

this ask got me thinking about the body swap au again lol here's a wip for what is eventually going to become a sketch dump post for the au aha. whenever i finish that.

[bumblingbabooshka]

Every time I watch the cold open of Memorial and B'Elanna tells Tom about how she ASSEMBLED a 50's television set from SCRATCH just to surprise him (there's no reason beyond that - just an incredibly sweet and thoughtful gesture) and replicated popcorn for him to eat while he watches and Tom says "They didn't have remote controls in the 50's ♥ Also where's my beer?" I contemplate murder ESPECIALLY because B'Elanna responds cheerfully to it - GIRL!!! LEAVE HIM!!!!!! IS HE SUPPOSED TO BE CHARMING IN THIS SCENE????

[occultbooks]

you're telling me an entire team of people sat down and looked at the "i was worried your wings would melt" scene at the end of cane and able with gravity by john mayer playing the background and not a single one said hey maybe this will look too gay ? no one said anything?????????

[stayp1eceposts]

I just finished watching 4 and a half hours of matpats final gtlive and I am full on sobbing. We will miss you mat.

Clap and a half for you❤️

[kiwibongos]

giggles maniacally and plops this here

[cobaltfluff]

they're cooking (?) based on a true story that definitely didn't happen to me

[murdocktm]

reason i can't finish anything:

[jobazzle]

i forgot the author of the romance book i'm reading always has the cw-esque dramatic plots in her books bc why was i just reading a normal scene of the fmc in a jewelry store talking to her future brother in law THEN BOOM CRASH BANG OH NO AN ARMED ROBBERY IS HAPPENING!!!!!!! 😭

[thelovelybitten]

you know you love a show and a ship so bad when u write down every. single. sentence. and. breaths. they’ve ever spoken in the entire series (i’m dead serious, this took me months, lol).

(I also need a way to morph my edits to make my own dialogues, if possible) — the commitment is so real

[jenna-louise-jamie]

finally finished reading nightshade