"I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited."
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath// Sylvia Plath
Sorry i just love this fandom so, so much.
I've loved Danny Phantom since I was a kid. But unfortunately in my country, Danny Phantom is simply an old series, a childhood memory. No fanfic, no one to talk to about the series, so gradually I forgot about Danny Phantom. But when I was 15-16 years old, I fell in love with fanfics and started forcing myself to read English fanfics ( such as BnHa, Undertale fanfic,bla bla bla...)because there are more quality English fanfics than fanfics in my mother tongue.
Then one day, I was looking at pictures on Pinterest, and I came across a Danny fanart, and I remembered how much I love the series (no kidding, when I was 8 years old, I was punished by my mother and banned from watching TV, I kept trying to watch it until my mother was helpless and let it go).
And my brain was like "Let's check the Danny Phantom fanfic"
And oh, I see a bunch of fanfics on Ao3 and FanfictionNet and I've never been so happy.
But many fanfics are not enough. I also read fanfics of many other anime, cartoon series,etc..but I've never seen a fandom that has as many quality fanfics as Danny Phantom fandom. Especially crossover fanfic (my favorite genre). Danny Phantom's Crossover Fanfic is the best. The authors are incredibly creative and persistent. And fanfics come out quite continuously. I surf Ao3 quite a few times a day to check if there's anything new and oh, I've never been let down.
And I find everyone in the fandom to be quite friendly (or this is just the surface of it, I hope not). Everyone is very supportive of each other and often communicates, gives new ideas and shares to each other (i wanna join so bad but i’m too shy ;;w;;)
I want to shout out to the world about how amazing Danny Phantom Fandom is, how awesome and dedicated the Artists, Authors and Members of the fandom are. Sorry for my poor English (my grammar is quite weak because I haven't practiced for a long time, I used google translate for this) but THANK YOU SO MUCH FANDOM.
(I have a bit of courage to write and post this but I've run out of it now so I'll probably go into hiding for the next few days)
the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again
being a student during peak pandemic was so fucking surreal like. "it's not an excuse to fall behind" I cannot stress enough to you how much A Worldwide Plague Upending Life As We Know It is literally one of The Top Three Reasons to fall behind
Last Tribe A Day run cycle was today so I decided to combine them all to show the differences!
ID under the cut
[ID: Seven sketchy animated run cycles, all of the original dragon tribes from Wings of Fire. They alternate sides as they go down, starting with the top one on the left and the second on the right, and so on. The background is a blank white. Each dragon has shaded limbs to help see the differences while in movement. The right wing is the darkest shade, followed by the left wing (closest to the screen), the the right legs are the lightest shaded. Descriptions are in order from top to bottom:
Mudwing: Drawn in a dark red. The thickest dragon by far, opening is mouth in a smile as its front legs hit the ground. Its large wings have four toes as if they were a third set of talons, which is used as another set of legs while running. The wings lift off after the back legs. The entire body bobs with its weight while it runs, lunging with its back legs. One of its back legs disappears while it runs (oopsies) and its large tail flicks with the run.
Skywing: Drawn in a darker red. Much skinnier dragon with longer limbs and larger wings. Its large wings remain slight open above its border, slightly bobbing as it moves. The body itself doesn’t move up and down, instead just twisting with movement of its limbs. Its tail is a little stiff, again just moving up and down. As it runs, one foot touches and leaves the ground at a time.
Icewing: Drawn in a dark blue. Its body and shape is ridgid, its head swooping up and down like it lunges with every time its front talons land. Again, its wings are used as a third pair of legs, however they are mostly used after the other limbs are mid-air. Its talons are visibly sharper, as well as its wings. Sharp spines on the back of its neck and end of its tail are visible as well, which bobs with the movement.
Seawing: Drawn in a dark blue. A thicker, long dragon with short but thick limbs and webbed frills along its spine and sternum. It’s thick tail continues the up and down curve it’s body makes with every move, flicking the end of the frills as it does. Its wings are semi open above its body, bobbing with the running movement and tilting up and down as its spine curves.
Sandwing: Drawn in a warm brown. Long limbs but thicker than skywing. All four feet lift of the air when they’re closest during the run, each foot hitting the ground one at a time. It’s barbed scorpion-like tail bobs up and down at the end. Its wings are folded and stuff near its shoulders, tilted diagonally. A solid frill lines its spine, biggest at the back of its neck and above the back legs.
Nightwing: Drawn in a dark purple grey, and by far the stiffest run cycle. Thick body with short but thinner legs than mudwings or seawings. Spikes line the spine all along its body, longest at the back of the neck and back of the body. Its wings are held stiffly and slightly folded over its body. Other than the legs and tail, most of the nightwing barely moves as it runs, and its legs hit the ground in pairs, front legs then back legs. They don’t even cross between each other at the closest part in the run. Its mouth opens and closes as it runs, not in any particular expression, I was just bored.
Rainwing: Drawn in a muted dark green. By far the bounciest run. It has a thin body and a head I accidentally drew a little big. It’s three-toed wings are used as a third pair of legs, used most right before it’s front legs hit the ground. Its front legs hit the ground at different time, however the back legs hit and leave together. Its tail is by far the longest, curled at the end and slightly unraveling as it flicks up and down. Beneath the curved horns is a frill with two connections that slight opens and closes with the movement. It’s grin also opens and closes with the movement.