#day 2 dinosaur

[dragonshoardofworks]

Chapters: 17/19 Fandom: Danny Phantom Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Danny Fenton & Dinosaurs Characters: Danny Fenton, Dinosaurs - Character, Jazz Fenton Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Not Phantom Planet Compliant (Danny Phantom), College Student Danny Fenton, Stranded In The Past, Chicxulub Asteroid, Prehistoric Survival, Stranded in the wilderness, Wraith, Hurt/Comfort, Angst with a Happy Ending, So much angst, Extinction, but there will be - Freeform, Fluff and Humor, Surprise Adoption, Eggs, Minor Character Death, No Beta we die like the dinosaurs, Mentioned Clockwork (Danny Phantom), Trigger Warning in the Start Notes of Each Chapter, Sick Character, Drown Scare, Acid Rain - Freeform, Earthquakes, Anxiety, Ectoberhaunt Order (Danny Phantom), Ectoberhaunt Chaos (Danny Phantom), Ectoberhaunt 2024 Past (Danny Phantom), Ectoberhaunt 2024 Future (Danny Phantom) Summary:

Alt. Titles: "Stranded Before Time" (thanks @redfoxtail26!) & "Danny's guide: How to escape from an Asteroid (not PP)" (thanks @mymadmedleyw) 🦕🦖/ᐠ｡ꞈ｡ᐟ\☄️☄️ College was meant to be his respite from the craziness of Amity Park, now that he had formed a stable truce with his Rogue Gallery. And it had been! (The first year.) It's the start of the second year that left him stranded in the past of 66 MYA with an... interesting unknown light approaching in the sky...

At long last! The 🦖Dinosaur Phic🦕 is complete! ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ

@ashoutinthedarkness @ectoberhaunt this is for you. Thank you for giving me the strength and the excuse to overcome the Writing Block and complete EH22 with EH24's prompt "Dinosaur". The unintentional peer pressure did wonders (and maybe that was the point...)! (^～^;)ゞ

Anyway! New tags have popped up, chapters have been rearranged in order to go in chronological order instead of following the Prompt List... And the chapter count WENT UP?? THAT IS NOT ALLOWED, HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME, BRAIN OF MINE!

*hem* Welp, hopefully there won't be another hiatus two-years long for the Extra Stories, but in the meanwhile, I hope y'all enjoy the technical end of Danny's Journey to the Past!

(๑•̀ㅂ•́)و✧

[tourettesdog]

Ectoberhaunt Day 2: Dinosaur

[staff]

tumblr tuesday: velociraptors, our beloveds

It's national velociraptor awareness day! What is there that we need to be aware of regarding velociraptors? No idea! We're just here to enjoy renditions of these swift plunderers from 73ish million years ago (the raptors, not the art).

And before you get up in arms about the specification of some of these little guys, we've broadened the scope to include all types of dromaeosaurs...because the art was pretty, and frankly, mistakes were already made before we got here (we're looking at you, Jurassic Park).

So, please enjoy this raptor and raptor-adjacent art. (And, while we have you, can the paleo plushie experts please take a look and see if they can help this user find another Hammer?)

@schroedingerskatze87:

@leaves-and-inks:

@miiilowo:

@duskydrawings:

@osteomaso:

@1dinodaily:

@clemence-dupont:

@sockerart:

@finchwingart:

@sherkathyy:

@korppipoika:

@paleo-cafnir

@owomon:

@styllwaters:

@frogbitee

@dinodanicus:

@dani-m-art:

[chameleocoonj]

curse of dinovember/diNOvember, azhdarchid image too tall :/

[parad0xm0th]

Ectoberhaunt day 2: Dinosaur

GHOST VELOCIRAPTOR

[satans-knitwear]

Pwetty new glasses!!! I shall use them for evil purposes (seeing things.)

Treat me ~ Tip Me ~ More of me

[reginaldubel]

have these 2

[absolutebl]

TOP 10 BL Trends of 2023

This is just me with my analysis hat on. 

1. 2023 = the year EVERYONE went outside their lanes

Everything went topsy-turvy this year in BL. 

For example, Korea gave us agonized yearning and outright queerness (The 8th Sense, The New Employee) while Japan served up soft office workers and tender family (Our Dining Table).��

The BL world went askew for a while, especially in the spring of 2023. 

Not that we still didn’t still get Korea’s soft angsty bubbles or Japan’s “what are you doing and why does it hurt?” kink-fests. But there were quite a few BLs that made us chronic watchers sit up in confusion and wonder if Korea was dabbling in Taiwan’s territory or Japan in Thailand’s. Then they fudged the kisses and we were like... okay, back in familiar territory. 

In contrast, Thailand stayed course-correcting for the damage they’ve done in the past with tropes (2022) and self referential meta criticism (2021), but also almost aggressively returned to their BL roots after last year’s series of shockers. Certainly, they are reexamining those roots, transplanting some, aerating others. But they really went back to classic Thai university and high school BL and pulps in a big way in 2023. 

Taiwan is always difficult to gage because they produce so few but they seem to have stuck with what they do best with no deviation while producing more this year than they have in ages. I’m happy for that, why change a good thing? But there is a tiny part of me that really wants them to hit it out of the part with a quality piece soon. For me, We Best Love still reigns supreme, but I would really like the HIStory franchise to give us that level but longer - like a happy version of Your Name Engraved Herein. I think Taiwan has the chops to give us something as good as The 8th Sense or Old Fashion Cupcake but in their style, and I would like to see them exercise their talent for good rather than just profit. 

I know, what a very odd thing for me to say. But if any BL is going to break into the mainstream American market, I genuinely think it’s most likely come from Taiwan. 

Vietnam and the Philippines are falling behind, in general. They just didn’t bring out very many shows in 2023, and what the brought out tended to fub the endings. This is forgivable in Japan (because of their style and quality) but not what watchers want in the lower production value propositions. In other words, if you do a pulp, you can’t mess up the ending (by romance standards). that doesn’t look to be changing anytime soon. 

2. The Office Romance Dominated

After years of Thailand serving us an endless (and slightly bland) buffet of university (and a few high school) BLs, this year Korea was basically like...

Ofiice. We like the Office. It’s cheap to film we can use grown up actors, acting (mostly) their actual age. 

And yeah... it totally worked. 

To be fair, Japan has always given us office live action yaoi from the beginning (they had the source material) but this year everyone else, including Thailand, seriously started playing in this setting. 

3. Boys Danced with Boys

The darling @heretherebedork​ was a big fan of this one, and I rather like it myself. Prior to this boys dancing together was very very rare in BL, but this year we got way more than our fair share. It was lovely. 

Never Let me Go

My School President 

Bed Friend 

The Day I Loved You 

Step by Step

Be Mine Superstar

Tie the Not 

Dangerous Romance

I think there were a few more. These are the ones I remembered to write down. 

4. Getting (even more) Meta With Tropes 

BL has been getting more and more meta over the past few years but this year they really focused in on tropes specifically. Calling out their own biggest and most favorite tropes in a massive way, especially Thailand and especially GMMTV. 

Like they tunneled in on damaging tropes with Bad Buddy and the like over the past 2 years, and now they are just having fun with us. 

I mean they just started the dancing trope and already they are calling it out? That’s like rapid-fire regurgitated meta there, GMMTV. 

5. Cameos are the norm now 

Taiwan has always loved cameos but in the past the other countries have been show and steady with only one or two a year. (Unless Japan does a parody.) 

This year Korea got in on the game.

Korea rarely starts trends but they do adopt smaller and lesser known existing ones and make them super popular. 

This year they did that with cameo couple appearances, even borrowing a few of Thailand’s pairs (TutorYim and MaxNat traveled north). They did it so much I stopped tracking. Love Class 2, Why R U?, and Jun & Jun were the heaviest hitters. 

Taiwan, of course, came back swinging. Kiseki was the gum-ball machine of pair cameos. (In Taiwan mafia = gay.) 

6. We are entering the cross pollination age

The number of remakes picked up or started this year was startling, not just countries revisiting their own content (Thailand, Japan) but countries revisiting OTHER countries stuff.

Lemme explain...

Korea has started remaking Thai content (Why R U?) alongside cameo'ing Thai pairs.

Thailand is doing Korean IP (My Dear Gagster Oppa) and has 2 Chinese ones slated for next year. 

GMMTV acquired a lot of Japanese IP (Cherry Magic, Ossen, and My Love Mix Up) - and then had problems distributing it. 

This is probably the most surprising trend for me. Especially the Japanese stuff. I would have thought these properties well outside of Thailand's price range (even GMMTV's) not to mention Japan’s legendary IP issues (I swear I typed this pout before the pulled TayNew’s excellent Cherry Magic). 

Also why not option some of the older popular manga instead? Bet that's much cheeper. (I did see a NEW Thai translation of Finder into Thai, which is 90s yaoi, so I have my fingers crossed on that front.)

I shouldn't be too surprised. 

Thailand is running out of y-novel content. Their publication industry is just not robust enough (I was just talking to a friend about this at length recently). But I didn't think they had the funds to option, especially from Japan. 

Perhaps the option deals are for peanuts?

7. Korea got cheeky

I’m not sure quite how else to put this. 

After finally figuring out boys can kiss, Korea started to do not just higher heat but playful higher heat, with more aggressive word play and linguistic innuendo, like they are entering their racy rom-com teenage years (Why R U? Love Class 2 and Jun & Jun in particular.) 

I guess: Welcome to your BL teens, Korea? 

It’s cute of them. I am very much enjoying it. 

And now that comedy is warming them up, we get to see them play with actual queer burgeoning physicality in shows like The 8th Sense. 

It’s nice. I like seeing Korea stretch its wings. They still stick to their bubble, but that bubble seems to be expanding. 

8. The Amnesia Trope is back

And I, for one, would prefer to forget about it. 

9. BL got trendy 

I’m not quite sure how to articulate this category but basically we started seeing a lot of “modern” romance trends out of the west (like a/b/o) show up in our BL. Not a ton and sometimes quite small, but there has a been a steady rise of things like: no seme/uke, femme gay, out gay, condom use, messy gay. 

We also got an increasing range of sub genre frameworks (like mafia, office setting) that’s moved BL pretty firmly (even in Thailand) out of school and into the workplace, whether actual working is involved or not. 

It’s not to the point where it feels like we get more non-school BL than school BL (if I include all countries in this assessment).

Japan, in classic Japanese fashion, quietly started moving in the opposite direction. It’s what they do. 

10. The Vampires are coming 

This is an announcement trend, which I don’t usually report on but it’s so CLEAR. 

So last year we had a spate of announcements of possible Omegaverse (2 from China, 1 from Japan, 1 from Thailand - the only one that’s happened). 

This year we got 5 Vampire (or vampire-esk) Thai BLs announced including one from GMMTV. 

Whether all 5 will actually get made is unlikely, but having had (basically) none prior to this (Kissable Lips), I’m pretty confident that we will get at least 2 of them. And I wouldn’t be surprised if at least one other country made one as well. (Side eyes Taiwan with interest.) 

Final thoughts

It feels like we are also seeing a decline in BL (both by quantity and quality) from Vietnam and the Philippines. As you all know, I don’t track or really watch either of these two very closely. But it feels like, now, no one else is either. 

I think we have likely seen the BL heyday already in both places and their industries are now on the decline. 

We might be witnessing a thinning in the players in the BL field. 

FYI we had approximately 

136 BLs in 2023

Previous Years

2022: 117

2021: 95

2020: 62

2019: 40

2018: 30 

2017: 44 (China’s last gasp)

2016: 27

2015: 17 (50% micro)

2014: 17 (50% micro)

And that’s it! Let me know in the comments if you’ve spotted any additional trends you want to call out.

Last year, 2022′s trend report

2021′s Trend report

Last Year’s Stats & Predictions

(source) 

[prismatixxkhaos]

DAY 2: DISCOVER

Back on my dinosaur king shit again and this time I’m using inktober to do so LOL

Redrew the part where Max “discovers” Chomp if you will and he was scared out of his mind, so I decided to put a “creepier” spin to that scene if you will

[ghostlyglimmer]

@ectoberhaunt Day 2: Dinosaur

Decided to turn Dorathea into a Dino!

[makenna-made-this]

BAWKtober Day 13 - Leaf Rubbings

Artistic license

(If you'd like to support my BAWKtobering by buying a commission or a treat for my spoiled, spoiled chickens, all my links are in my pinned- *a trap door opens underneath me and i fall into a dark pit, from which emanates a cacophony of ferocious clucking*)

[aprocessionofthoughts]

Family Vacation

ectoberhaunt24 day 2- dinosaur tw- none summary- family vacations are the worst

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Call him a pessimist (which Jazz did) but Danny knew that something terrible was about to happen the moment his dad said “family vacation.”

When Danny had asked if their ‘family vacation’ had anything to do with goats, his dad had just laughed and his mother had said they would be sure to do non-ghost related activities as well.

Apart from all the near accidents thanks to Jack Fenton’s driving the trip went relatively well, and even the haunted house they had gone to see turned up zero ghosts. His parents were massively disappointed and while Danny was relieved, he couldn’t help but be suspicious. His luck was never this good.

They then visited an art museum, but were quickly banned when his dad bumped into one too many exhibits.

Danny now sat in the back of the car, glumly wondering where his parents planned on taking them next.

“We could just go home.” Danny said.

“Nonsense, Danno! We’re on a family vacation! We’re going to do a bunch of fun things! Don’t let those pesky museum staff think you can’t do anything fun!”

“Dad, you literally almost broke a Michalangelo statue.” Jazz said.

“I don’t know why they cared so much. It wasn’t even about ghosts!”

“Jack, dear, keep your eyes on the road.” Maddie said not looking up from her laptop where she was editing her latest submission to some scientific journal who would undoubtedly end up rejecting her paper since it had to do with ghosts.

“Sure thing, honey bunches!”

Danny groaned and focused back on his phone where he was reading the latest update on his favorite fanfic.

He happily zoned out until the car jerked roughly to a stop, the tires squealing and several cars blaring their horns at them. He sighed before looking up and promptly jerked back as he looked out the window and saw a dinosaur.

“Welcome to Dino Park!” his dad exclaimed.

“It says here that they have over one hundred dinosaur sculptures.” Jazz said reading from her phone.

They exited the death trap of a vehicle and paid for their tickets before starting to wander around the sculpture park.

It wasn’t space, but Danny could admit to himself that it was pretty cool to see all the different kinds of dinosaurs.

He finally felt relaxed and started to think that maybe this family vacation wasn’t so bad. Which was of course when everything went wrong.

His ghost sense went off.

He suppressed a groan as all around them the sculptures roared and began to move.

“GHOSTS!” his parents screamed, pulling out massive guns from who knew where. Danny tried not to think about it.

Jazz sighed as their parents ran off.

Danny grumbled to himself as he hid behind some bushes to transform amidst the screeching and roaring of extinct creatures and the firing of his parents' weapons.

Family vacations were the worst.

[sammy8d257]

The way I ugly sobbed 3 times over Minecraft RP in one stream

The F in Team F stands for Fucked Up

Because Day 31 with Team F got me FUCKED UP

[invaderlumen]

ECTOBER 2024

DAY 2

DINOSAURS

one of the better sketches from the first few days, rlly proud of how i drew danny

the idea here was that he was fighting some freaky dinosaur ghost

[sheepheadfred]

Ectoberhaunt Day 2- Dinosaur

Summary: With a portal to the afterlife in his basement, it's a wonder how they haven't been invaded by extinct creatures before. Not that many would complain about it. Danny would care more if it wasn't on a school night.

AO3 link

Damn! These dinosaurs flying at him from all angles at this time of night! Danny has a test to study for that he'd rather do than fight these toothy monsters! A badly done ghost version of Jurrassic Park, though when they said that Sam went off about the horrible capitalist decisions made by the guy in charge that he tuned it out, not in the mood for what is basically a lecture at this time on a school night.

"Where did these extinct lizards even come from? I've never seen them around in the part of the zone the portal is in."

Tired and cranky gripes coming from a half ghost out way past his curfew and definitely getting grounded once he fails that test in school tomorrow.

"Are you really going to complain about real life dinosaurs, ghostly or not, in front of you?"

"Sam, I'm with Danny. I'd rather not get eaten tonight, or see my best friend bite it like he's in Jurrassic Park."

The Fenton Phones are quite useful in battle to receive his friend's support but he really isn't in the mood for their color commentary. All he wants is to go home at this point.

"Thank you peanut gallery, but do either of you have anything helpful to say while I'm being chased by a T-Rex, some small and fast guys, and the winged fossils coming at me?!"

"Technically, those are raptors and Pterosaurs respectively and Pterosaurs aren't actually dinosaurs."

"Can't they all fly, being ghosts and all?", Tucker oh so helpfully chimed in.

"Can't say I'm surprised Sam knows that, but anything i can USE?" Danny is tired and Sam's recent dinosaur kick will serve his irritation right now. He'd appreciate it more if he didn't have to see real ones. At least these creatures being gone aren't something she can get mad at humans for. Something, something how goth it was to learn about these massive animals that no longer exist- right now he can't even care right now if it makes sense.

"Well, excuse me for being well informed! Fine, if you want to be like that just save me one."

"Sam, I am not giving you a ghost dinosaur that you can sic on people," he really should have seen that coming.

"You are no fun, but I guess it would be unfair to cage such beautiful, wild creatures."

"You're still mad your parents won't let you get a tarantula, aren't you?"

Suddenly he felt the shadow and heavy breath of a large mouth about to snap at him. Oh no, was he distracted, are they working together, or both?

"AAAAAAAAAAAaaaaah!" Danny screams, narrowly avoiding being swallowed in one bite.

"We forgot to keep track of them, didn't we?" the deadpan voice in his ear goes.

"No shit, Sherlock." says the snarky voice, answering Danny and Tucker's questions at the same time. Fascination with these creatures aside, it really is time to take it more seriously.

"Since you've already led them to the park, how about -"

This plan took several more hours of back and fourth and near full death. Danny decided to put them back in the zone after school, far away from the portal. If he finds out Vlad was involved he's going to end that man for real.

Danny collapsed on his bed without changing and was awoken three hours later by his dad's booming voice complaining about missing the ghost dinosaurs and that 'no good phantom' a citizen or two must have reported on last night. They weren't exactly quiet after all.

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At school, Dannys meets up with his friends who somehow got in an argument about how dino meat tasted vs the ethics of finding out.

"Can we not do this today, please?" Danny is so tired and if they try to pull him in he will just leave. He's already dreading going to class and he does not need their petty debate added to it.

Two 'Hey, Danny's and a thankfully dropped subject later and they headed inside.

"Still want a raptor, though..."

Tucker and Danny looked at each other and just sighed. Exasperated, Danny replies, "Just get a bird, then. Didn't you say they are descendants of dinosaurs or something?"

"Of all the things you remember from my research and it's that. Not a bad idea, though. Raptors are beautiful and endangered creatures, I should learn falconry."

Danny just looked at her and went, "Are you fucking with us right now, because i seriously can't tell."

"Talking bird capitalism, babey..."

Tucker's deadpan delivery was enough to get all three sleep deprived teens laughing and almost missing the first bell.

[becauseimanicequeen]

Hi Ice Queen!

Your posts on contrasting colours in Wandee Goodday were cool. That was a new concept to me. I’m fascinated by colour in qls and know some symbolism but most of it like the contrasting colours and colour theory in general is new to me. It’s cool learning it from the lens of qls though.

My question is: do you have any other examples of contrasting colours used in qls?

Hi, Anon.

I love all the questions I've gotten about colors lately, so thank you for being one of them. And if anyone wants to learn more about contrasting colors, I've written a basic post about that.

I first want to point out that the examples I include in this post are random moments, which means that most of these characters aren't necessarily color-coded in tune with the colors they're wearing in these examples.

There might be an intention behind the color choices (besides showing contrast) and there might not be. But I won't be diving into that here.

With that said, the most commonly used pair of contrasting colors are on the opposite sides of the value spectrum (dark vs light), and those are black and white.

Here are some examples from series I've recently watched or rewatched (and, therefore, can remember, lol):

A Secretly Love.

Jun & Jun.

Kiseki: Dear to Me.

Love Class 2.

Night Dream.

To Be Continued.

The other three contrasting pairs I want to focus on here (because they're the easiest to find and define) are yellow and purple, blue and orange, and red and green. Let's start with:

Yellow and purple:

Jun & Jun.

Wandee Goodday. I've written about the contrasting colors in this series here and here.

Then we have blue and orange:

1000 Years Old.

Deep Night.

HIStory 3: Make Our Days Count.

Living With Him.

Not Me.

And lastly, we have red and green:

1000 Years Old.

Dinosaur Love. (Btw, don't ask me why I rewatched this recently, because I have no idea why... Perhaps to remember how annoying the music was or how much tongue action there was... lol.)

KinnPorsche.

Knock Knock, Boys!

My Stand-In.

Not Me.

And then there's a contrast I remember vividly that's not necessarily in the same frame together but is included at a bigger story arc level, and that's this heartbreaking contrast: Uea in Bed Friend who was green as a kid...

And then turned red as an adult...

While his predator stepfather followed suit.

Right now, I can't say which contrasting pair out of these three is most commonly used (which may also vary depending on the country where the QL was made), but I might look into it in the future.

Anyway, I hope you liked these examples.

Thank you for your ask.