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[dannimalsphantom]

Dantopus, 10 Years Later

'enjoy'

[miscellaneoushunger]

I love the existence of frostbite and the far frozen because that implies two things in Danny phantom

Monsters exist in this world but only as naturally forming ghost like ectopi or monsters already existed but have since died

[somoteitbee]

Ok, I thought I would wait, but then decided to watch at least the first episode tonight. I haven't seen this show in its totality, ever I believe. I've seen episodes here and there but that's it.

Lunch lady, we know her, we love her. She's the second (ecto pusses, ectopi? Ghosts came first technically) ghost we meet. Often when I see her fan made obsession, it's meat. Really I think it should be order/routine/having all the food groups. She only came through bc the menu got changed, and really only went after Sam bc she didn't eat meat bc meat is one of the most common and easiest forms of protein. And if we're guessing she has been dead for at least 20-40 years (based solely on how she looks/acts. Honestly bc she's not super into vegetarians I'm assuming she's from a time where it wasn't popular) I wouldn't be surprised if she fully believed that you 100% need meat for a diet.

Also, the amount of handle danny does not have on his powers is kinda funny. I read so much fanfic lately of him having a pretty good handle on it that the random switch from ghost to human is kinda funny.

[cardiacreports2]

In a young male with an undiagnosed or known congenital heart defect (e.g., hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy, or an anomalous coronary artery), the heart is structurally or electrically compromised. This predisposes the individual to ischemia, arrhythmias, or sudden cardiac death.

Physiological Processes:

Increased Myocardial Oxygen Demand:

If the individual engages in physical exertion or experiences stress, the heart’s demand for oxygen increases.

Due to structural abnormalities (e.g., thickened ventricular walls in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy), coronary blood flow may be insufficient.

Compromised Blood Flow or Electrical Instability:

In congenital defects like coronary artery anomalies, inadequate perfusion may cause transient ischemia.

If the defect involves the heart’s electrical system (e.g., Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, Long QT syndrome), abnormal conduction patterns may increase the risk of ventricular fibrillation (VF).

Early Symptoms:

The individual may experience chest discomfort, palpitations, shortness of breath, or dizziness hours or minutes before collapse.

In cases of underlying cardiomyopathy, ventricular ectopy (premature beats) may precede a fatal arrhythmia.

The Heart Attack (Acute Event)

The acute cardiac event is triggered by ischemia, electrical dysfunction, or mechanical failure, culminating in either cardiac arrest or cardiogenic shock.

1. Ischemic Cascade:

If the defect restricts coronary perfusion (e.g., anomalous coronary artery), myocardial cells become hypoxic, leading to metabolic disturbances.

Lack of oxygen shifts cardiac metabolism from aerobic to anaerobic glycolysis, leading to lactic acid accumulation, which further impairs cellular function.

The ischemic region of the myocardium starts to undergo cell death (necrosis) within 20-40 minutes if perfusion is not restored.

2. Electrical Instability → Arrhythmia → Cardiac Arrest:

Disruptions in myocardial ion exchange (potassium, calcium, sodium) lead to prolonged repolarization, increasing the risk of lethal arrhythmias.

The individual may enter ventricular tachycardia (VT), which rapidly degenerates into ventricular fibrillation (VF), where the ventricles quiver rather than contract.

In some cases (e.g., left ventricular outflow obstruction in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy), the heart’s mechanical output drops suddenly, leading to pulseless electrical activity (PEA).

3. Hemodynamic Collapse:

As cardiac output ceases, blood pressure drops to zero, and cerebral perfusion fails, leading to loss of consciousness within seconds.

Lack of oxygen supply to the brain results in seizure-like activity or agonal breathing before complete cessation of respiration.

The absence of circulation initiates multi-organ failure as tissues are starved of oxygen.

Post-Heart Attack (Biological Consequences After Death)

If resuscitation is unsuccessful, biological death follows within minutes to hours.

1. Immediate Postmortem Effects (Minutes to 1 Hour):

Cessation of Brain Activity:

Hypoxia leads to neuronal apoptosis.

EEG readings show flat-line activity within 3-6 minutes of cardiac arrest.

Rigor Mortis Begins:

ATP depletion causes actin-myosin cross-bridges in muscle cells to lock, leading to rigor mortis, which starts in the jaw and upper body within an hour.

Autonomic Release:

Loss of autonomic control results in urinary and bowel incontinence.

2. Early Postmortem Changes (Hours to Days):

Livor Mortis (Blood Pooling):

Blood settles in dependent areas due to gravity, creating purple discoloration on the lower parts of the body.

Cellular Autolysis:

Lysosomal enzymes break down cellular structures, initiating decomposition.

3. Late Postmortem Changes (Days to Weeks):

Tissue Breakdown and Gas Formation:

Bacteria in the gut proliferate, leading to bloating and tissue liquefaction.

Summary of the Fatal Process

Pre-Attack: Structural/electrical defects predispose the heart to ischemia or arrhythmia.

Attack Phase: Myocardial oxygen deprivation, lactic acidosis, and electrolyte imbalances trigger ventricular fibrillation or asystole.

Death and Aftermath: Cessation of circulation leads to rapid brain death, rigor mortis, and eventual decomposition.

[aspensmonster]

"It is poisonous to humans,[5] dogs, cats, and horses.[13] All parts of the plant are toxic, and the plant contains cardiac glycosides.[5] The plant is toxic both green and dried.[14] The stems contain a white sap capable of causing skin blisters.[15]"

Tracking down the sources (5) leads to https://pfaf.org/user/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Apocynum+cannabinum, which in turn cites four sources for its toxicity at https://pfaf.org/user/cmspage.aspx?pageid=174 (1, 4, 19, 62).

Checking out one of those sources (62, from 1982), found it on Anna's archive: https://annas-archive.org/md5/3e8a8a8148cbc2c2afb4b960614a0a87 (also borrowable from IA, though it's timing out for me: https://archive.org/details/fieldguidetonort0000elia/page/282/mode/2up ).

Not exactly super helpful -__- Doing a search on Anna's Archive for just "dogbane" does give this scholarly source though: "Medical Toxicology of Natural Substances || Dogbane Family and Cardenolides" (10.1002/9780470330319.ch147) (https://annas-archive.org/md5/1e3c8186cfe91266972a50468f0fe835).

"The most commonly mentioned folk use was as an abortifacient."

(Well that's a fun side-quest; back to what/how it's poisonous)

"Common oleander contains several cardiac glycosides (oleandrin, digitoxigenin, neriantin, rosagenin) that produce a digitoxin- like effect by inhibiting the sodium - potassium adenosine triphosphatase enzyme system. These cardiac glycosides bind to an extracellular portion of the Na + /K + ATPases and cause increased intracellular calcium concentrations. Minor glycosides in oleander with limited cardiac activity include adynerigenin, adigoside, digitalin, and uzarigenin.11 Because of the lack of toxicokinetics data, the identities of the toxic glycosides or toxic metabolites remain unclear."

"Of over 400 cardiac glycosides isolated from the plant kingdom, most of the cardiac glycosides occur in extracts from the milkweed (Asclepiadaceae), figwort (Scrophulariaceae), lily (Liliaceae), and dogbane (Apocynaceae) families. The highest concentrations of cardiac glycosides are found in seed, stems, and roots, followed by the fruit and leaves. However, the leaves contain the greatest oleandrin concentrations. The concentration of oleandrin varies widely between various strains and species of oleander."

"Oleander poisoning resembles digitoxin poisoning with the predominant symptoms involving the gastrointestinal and cardiac systems. Serious oleander intoxication usually occurs following the ingestion of teas prepared from oleander leaves rather than from the ingestion of plant parts.21 – 23 The bitter taste of the oleander leaves limits the ingestion of oleander leaves in children. Characteristic features of serious oleander poisoning include confusion, marked hyperkalemia, conduction abnormalities, and ventricular arrhythmias. Nausea and vomiting usually occur within several hours, and gastrointestinal symptoms are more prominent following oleander poisoning than following digoxin toxicity. Increased salivation, dry mouth, burning of the mouth, and paraesthesias of the tongue may develop as a result of the local effects of oleander extracts.22 Case reports indicate that the astringent properties of oleander sap produce mucosal irritation.24 The most common serious complication of oleander poisoning is disruption of cardiac conduction.25 Cardiogenic shock, ventricular fibrillation, and cardiovascular collapse may occur following severe oleander toxicity. Conduction delays may persist 3– 6 days, and these cardiac effects resemble classical digitalis toxicity (e.g., conduction abnormalities with ectopy, such as supraventricular tachycardia with atrioventricular block).23,26"

Alright. So... definitely don't eat off of it, and definitely don't make tea with it (the source mentions a case where tea was purposely prepared and ingested, presumably as a suicide attempt). But assuming you aren't trying to ingest it... then sure? It's probably safe as a base for textiles? I suppose the biggest risk would be the textile getting wet and leaching cardiac glycosides, assuming that those glycosides remain in sufficient quantity after processing the stems.

"Although one leaf has been considered potentially lethal, ingestion of larger amounts is probably necessary to produce serious toxicity. Using calculations on the digoxin pharmacokinetic in the antemortem serum from a 96 - year- old woman who died after ingesting oleander tea, Osterloh et al estimated that the apparent digoxin concentration of 5.8 ng/mL was equivalent to the absorption of cardiac glycosides from 5– 15 Nerium leaves.19 The postmortem examination did not demonstrate any evidence of coronary artery disease. Using a crude oleander extract prepared by ethanol extraction, lead acetate purification, and solvent partition, the group estimated that 100 ng/mL of crude extract produced a 1 ng/mL false elevation of the digoxin concentration. Assuming the Vd of digitoxin was 1 L/kg, the estimated absorbed dose of cardiac glycosides was approximately 4 grams, which was equivalent to 5– 15 oleander leaves."

Hmmm. The leaves have greater concentrations than the stems according to the source, so... probably not a huge risk unless you're recycling water without treating it? Or perhaps during the processing of the plant, those that do the processing might consider it an occupational hazard? I mean, if you wanted to have large crops of it, then I'd imagine you'd need certain precautions when processing on an industrial scale.

I mean, at this point, I'm invested and wanna read more. @headspace-hotel, what sources do you have for "In terms of the quality and usefulness of fiber and the amount you get out of it relative to the amount of work it just blows everything else out of the water"? I figure there's a reason that cotton ended up the most used fiber of the textile industry and not any other.

Also @therobotmonster, @teeth-and-spackle, @oldmanyellsatcloud, @cryptidroots, @ilovemosss, probably several other folks that seemed interested in this that I've missed (can't scroll through the reblogs forever).

also I ended up looking at stuff about soviet agricultural experiments and apparently dogbane (Apocyonum cannabinum) was introduced to the USSR as a fiber crop plant? ???

[crimsonpublishersgernotology]

Location, Number and Morphology of Parathyroid Glands: An Anatomical Study in Surgical Series

Aim of study: The aim of the study is to investigate the frequency of parathyroid gland variations, especially location, shape and number variation during thyroidectomy. Materials and methods: The study involved a number of 137 patients, who underwent thyroidectomy between January 2010-January 2013. Parathyroid glands are studied for determining anatomical variations, especially location variations, shape and number. Results: A number of 452 parathyroid glands were identified. The anatomical norm of number was 4gl/ps found in 62% of patients. Number variations resulted from 2, 3 and 5gl/ps. Most parathyroid glands were found in oval/beanlike shape in 54% of cases. Other shape variations were found in 46%. Ectopy was found in 8.2% of glands, of them superior parathyroids were ectopic in 6% of cases, inferior parathyroids in 9.6% of them. Variation in location was found approximately in 13.7% for superior parathyroids and 41.7% in inferior parathyroids. Discussion: Anatomical knowledge, identification and preservation of glands are necessary for a secure and successful thyroid and parathyroid gland surgery. This study shows that despite the wide distribution, the normal parathyroid glands falls into a definite pattern, and can be uncovered in these locations in the majority of cases. Conclusions: Anatomical knowledge of parathyroid anatomy and its variations is essential in thyroid and parathyroid surgery in order to minimize the rate of thyroid surgery morbidity, especially lesions of parathyroid glands, their iatrogenic excision and laryngeal nerves damage.

Read more about this article: https://crimsonpublishers.com/ggs/fulltext/GGS.000533.php

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[scrabblings]

My warm-up to NOLA was the Durham Charity tournament. I did so-so given my low seed in the division with an overall 6-10 record. Learned some important things that I hope I can carry into this weekend!

My best game was a 504-360 win over a great player, Jason Mayfield. I was able to find some 8s I’ve been studying, DILUENTS and DECIARES. Also hooked ECTOPI(c) to MY for a fun start to the game.

My other lesson in looking over all my games was that so many points are scored in the short game. So focusing on 3s and 4s leading up to NOLA. Trying to eradicate the bad 3s and 4s stuck in my brain (YOH is not good! TRED is not good!).

My other best game (above) was beating an expert player, Randy Hersom, in my first game. I won this due to some luck but also managed to consistently get 30+ point plays and didn’t get bingo-obsessed. I did find LO(d)ESTAR after a while and was proud of that. Learned that BARB can take an E which is cool.

[dissociacrip]

i don't think i've had bad heart palpitations for a while which. good. they fucking sucked. it prob was anemia-related, maybe. or hormones or something. idk what happened with that holter monitor because at the time i was using it i'd still feel my heart beating in a way that felt weird and i had several points during that test where i recorded that in the little booklet they gave me but according to them it was well. this.

Dominant rhythm: Normal sinus rhythm

Minimum heart rate: 47 bpm (sinus bradycardia -2 episodes (0.04% of analysis time)

Average heart rate: 79 bpm

Ventricular ectopy: 1 premature ventricular contraction (< 0.01%)

Supraventricular ectopy: Absent

Atrial fibrillation: Absent

Pauses: Absent

Patient events correlated with normal sinus rhythm as well as sinus tachycardia (103 bpm)

which, okay. unhelpful lmao.

echo was fine aside from mild pulmonic valve regurgitation, which is incredibly common and usually benign. TTT said "baseline 66bpm with a t-wave abnormality" which is. vague as hell but w/e.

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[draprajitasrivastava01]

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Viral infections - Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection may cause a small amount of clear or white fluid to come from the vagina or cervix. This is called cervical ectopy and it's usually not painful or noticeable unless there's also bleeding from one or both of these areas. HPV can also lead to other problems such as cervical cancer, genital warts, and preterm births.

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[evilanti]

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[angelic-ish-phantom]

Order

Day 3

If Danny had to describe his ghost half in a word, it would be hungry.

Not in any familiar way; there was nothing painful about it, no clawing feeling in his stomach.

There was only craving.

Ever since he’d seen those first ectopi come through the portal, he had felt that deep seated need, that urgency.

To consume.

It felt strange and a little too inaccurate to call it an instinct. It was so much less complicated, foreign…

Trying to describe it in human terms made feel confused. Thinking about it with his human mind made him feel nauseous. He’d much rather just stew in his core as it whirred intricately, whispering impulses into his very ectoplasm.

Danny understood that his core worked like a second mind, intimately so. But is wasn’t a brain… wasn’t human. It was such a foreign way to think, if you could even call it that.

But Danny had the compulsions that came with it under control. Really he did! Sure, he still reflexively bit the odd monster in a fight, and couldn’t help drinking in emotions when he was particularly drained, but it was fine! He could ignore it. It wasn’t a problem.

At least it hadn’t been until Lunch Lady. Not until the first ghost that was a person came through the portal and Danny was just as hungry as he’d ever been.

oOo

“It’s really not as bad as I’m making it sound!” Danny groaned into his hands. This was exactly why he hadn’t wanted to tell his friends; it was hard to put into words that didn’t make it sound sick.

Sam’s eyes narrowed, “Isn’t it? Danny, wanting to… eat the ghosts your fighting doesn’t sound bad to you?”

“Sounds like it’s just another mostly harmless ghost thing. I mean, you’re all made out of ectoplasm, right? So you need more ectoplasm to ‘live’? As established, other ghosts just happen to be a source of that.” Tucker suggested, trying to rationalize his hunger. “All ghosts have cannibalistic tendencies confirmed.” He joked, but Danny could (taste) see he was unnerved.

“But Danny doesn’t need to eat ectoplasm to live.” Sam said, before whirling on Danny, concern under her alarm, “You don’t do you?”

“…I don’t need to, no.” Danny surrendered. “It’s nice though. Not that I would eat a person for it. That’s not why I would want to at least. It’s not- it wouldn’t be for ectoplasm energy. It’s just- guys I swear, this isn’t a bad thing!”

“…You know those monster and animal ghosts have to eat you before. I just thought they were doing what they do, but this could be the reason. But I don’t think any of the ghosts that talk have ever tried that.” Tucker said, shaking off his unease at Danny’s prior words.

He was wrong. Technus had definitely tried to. And Lunch Lady. Box ghost made a pitiful attempt to every time he was alone. Even Spectra had made to, but she’d seemed almost repulsed.

“Probably because they wouldn’t eat another person!” Sam explained, as though it were obvious.

Danny thought they would. If they were feeling what he’d felt, they only wouldn’t eat him if he was too big.

And Danny wondered, what if there was a ghost big enough to try and eat him, and win?

(That should have been a more worrying thought than it was…)

What about the reverse; what about a ghost small enough that eating it wouldn’t be a challenge for him.

Not that he ever would.

oOo

Danny really hadn’t meant to do it.

He’d thought he’d had a pretty good handle on the whole urge to consume any ghost in front of him.

But just he’d been so tired. He hadn’t known the time exactly, just that it was dark, and he’d been operating on so little sleep even before he’d had to take care of the beastly looking ghost that had crawled out of a natural portal in the dead of the night.

And after shooting a quick text to his friends, telling them he’d come out of the fight in one piece, he’d come back to his room.

And glowing softly in center of his bed, was a blob ghost.

Danny had seen blob ghosts before—massive, shapeless, wailing things. But this one was different. It was like the round, ones he glimpsed crawling through the shadows of Skulker’s island, and slipping in and out of the walls of Pointdexter’s lair.

He’d never seen one on the side of the portal before.

Danny looked down at it, a bit suspicious. It appeared to be harmless, but it was also a ghost. One that had been in his room while he wasn’t there.

The thing tilted it’s head curiously as though inspecting him back. Well, not it’s head considering it didn’t really have one; the entire front part of his body shifted, it’s eye spots wide and empty.

Danny couldn’t help but find it cute. Still he raised the thermos and-

The blob ghost flopped over as though in submission, core thrumming a low pitch that made that ever present hunger Danny felt rise to the forefront.

Danny bit his tongue, stepping back a bit. What was it doing, did it want him to- to-

He couldn’t stop himself from lowering the thermos, from locking his eyes on the blob and practically prowling across the space between them.

What was he doing? The thought almost stopped him, but it was too fleeting. Too irrelevant in the face of the ghost’s dull glow.

Danny needed it. Need the strength it could give him, however small. He needed the knowledge. The completeness that would surely come with consuming it, making it an extension of himself.

It trilled as he got closer still, soft approval.

It was so tiny. So weak. It needed him. It needed to be bigger, to be part of him. That way he could protect it.

That thought ran through his obsession in all the right spots. Danny shivered as his human mind expressed the utmost repulsion. Danny licked his ectoplasm-green tongue over ghostly fangs.

Danny opened his mouth.

oOo

For the record, Danny had been going to tell his friends what had happened that night, what he’d done. Really he had been!

But then he’d thought of how exactly he would say that. How would he even broach the topic? Just drop in at lunch and go, ‘Oh hey guys! remember how I was obsessively considering cannibalizing my enemies. Well I tried it out and now I think I’m not gonna stop-‘?

Yeah, no.

He couldn’t stand the thought of how Sam might look at him. At how even Tucker had been unnerved at the idea of his unconventional appetite before he had given in to it. They’d put up with his his weird half-ghost things before, had stuck with him this long, but… this felt like a lot.

Danny didn’t want them to see him, the way his parents saw Phantom.

He knew he was being paranoid. Probably. Especially considering ‘eating’ definitely wasn’t the right word for what he’d done.

Danny distractedly watched the blob ghost loop through his legs amiably.

It had kind of just fazed back out of him in the morning. Or rather Danny had fazed it out of him.

He had taken hold of its body and suddenly extremely susceptible, suggestible mind and had just made it move.

He could let go, and the blob didn’t seem to mind when he did it… it seemed to enjoy it actually.

It was safe and taken care of. Danny could take care of it. It could help Danny, and Danny could help it. It was mutually beneficial and perfectly fine. Danny would tell his friends exactly how fine it was.

Eventually.

oOo

The thing is, the blob ghost could ask Danny for help in a roundabout way. It could need help and Danny would understand.

So when another ghost had been chasing it around dusk, and Danny had already been transformed from an earlier fight, he had swept in to save it.

And as Danny fought the ghost, an odd wolf like animal with snakes instead of a tail, the blob had gotten some very tempting urges. It had actively pushed its thoughts onto Danny. It had told him to eat, to expand his self. To be stronger so he could protect it, to make it so this other ghost wasn’t so mindless and wouldn’t do any more damage.

And Danny would have been able to ignore the hunger as he always did if it weren’t for the argument proposed, if there wasn’t another smaller mind assuring him, wanting him to take and never stop.

And Danny gave in.

oOo

Ghosts that look like monsters out of some mythology are hard to hide. Even with their forms shrunken slightly, even when Danny willed them invisible most of the time, someone was bound to realize there was a ghost lurking around Amity Park that he hadn’t gotten rid of.

Or well, ghosts.

Which brought Danny to his second issue. When a ghost had already ‘eaten’ other ghosts, and that ghost then too gets eaten, it turns out it makes a chain of command.

First was Danny. Then his blob and the wolf ghost. Then the wolf ghost’s ghosts. And then their blob ghosts.

The control Danny had over them wasn’t overwhelming. They were like limbs with their own minds; Danny could move them as he pleased, but they had their own independence and took comfort in this relationship.

They were much less noticeable that an entire extra arm though. More like a big toe. Toes with toes. Something he could move, and could always feel was there. He would notice if they were missing, but he didn’t always notice they were there.

That made sense. It made enough sense for him to be comfortable thinking about it like a human.

Danny was constantly aware of this order, but was also content to just let them roam with little interference. The odd nudge away from people here, turning one invisible there, using one to handle a smaller ghost fight while he’s in school.

It was useful. It was nice.

Sure it was strange to get used to have so many senses, and the range of emotions they were all feeling at any time was complicated to say the least.

His first blob was a lot more smug lately, about being so high in the order, about being so close to Danny, above ghosts many times stronger than it. Many of the others were content to laze around and explore the living world, bathing in the feeling of being protected. Others kept spooking humans for fun, and causing quiet mischief which was harmless enough that Danny didn’t often stop it.

Being so connected to them all made him feel complete. He couldn’t imagine anything more satisfying, satiating that this.

oOo

When Danny’s core had awoken he didn’t fly into the ghost zone blindly. It had been the impression of knowledge from one of the lowest ghosts in his order, a lizard like creature with a form the consistency of sand.

And then Danny had been taken to the Far Frozen. And he had met Frostbite.

Danny had never been exactly scared of what might happen if a ghost ‘ate’ him. He knew what it was to be at the top of an order, but despite feeling the comfort of his charges, he couldn’t imagine liking being in that position.

He’d have nothing to gain the way his ghosts did, minds going from stilted to simple but fast, aware. He’d just have his aim a massive amount of his autonomy stripped from him.

It made him feel bad about having taken his ghosts when he thought about it like that. Like a human would.

Then in Frostbite’s presence, he’d understood.

He’d known intimately in that moment, why his blob ghost had lured him closer in the hopes he would add it to himself. He felt every bit as small as it must have been in his presence.

Frostbite was bigger than he appeared, Danny could see that. He was letting shrunken yet he was still the largest yeti in the Far Frozen, and every member of that place was part of him.

Danny could only imagine the security they all felt under something so all-encompassing. He could feel Frostbite’s hunger, drawing him in, restrained if only because Danny was a hero to them.

It was a strange thing to want to be eaten.

Danny might have even asked. If it weren’t for his obsession and obligations, he might have forgotten humanity entirely and joined this wonderfully hidden, protected place.

But he had his haunt, his humans, his home to go back to. Then he did.

And despite how amazingly he’d been treated in the Far Frozen, despite how kind and affectionate the yeti’s were Danny stayed away. Because he didn’t know when he might not be able to pull himself away.

[talzane]

I’ve seen a lot of ghost purring related concepts in fan fictions lately, but as I looked down onto a reef recently, I thought about whales, which--in general--lead to me thinking about how the oceans work and I realized that basing the Infinite Realms on the ocean makes a ton of sense. 1) While ghost purring is a great idea that I love, “ecto-signatures” also exists in canon. What we also know is that the Fentons only rarely seem to respond to ghost attacks, which means that, for some reason, they don’t detect all ghosts. Whales sing, but they aren’t constantly singing, which seems kinda like how Ecto-signatures work in canon; this would mean that the Fentons can only track ghosts that want people to pay attention to them and are keening for some reason or another. This could be used in a “ghosts trying to adopt Danny” way as I would assume that whales sing while looking for their calves. Also whale songs can sound pretty haunting, so depending on if people can hear the sounds, it could add a new layer of ambience to Amity Park. 2) Coral reefs are amazing, and apparently release millions of little blobs that can eventually go on to form new reefs if they don’t get eaten by other sea creatures. This sounds exactly like blob ghosts to me. Imagine the Carnivorous Canyon, River of Revulsion, and all other large, living features to be like coral reefs, every year (or however long), they release tons of blob ghosts, which can be devoured by other ghosts. 2a) The idea of blob ghosts being released by other formations reminded me of jellyfish, which are also apparently spawned from polyps, and some variants also return to polyp form to release more jellyfish (I am not an expert). If almost all predatory ghosts have fangs, what if blob ghosts, released from the “reefs” of the realms could develop into, say, ectopi if they aren’t eaten, but (this is where it becomes a question of ghost-vore vs ghost energy drain) if they get drained of energy--think ghost fangs being used to suck all the ectoplasm from their husk--and their husk lands somewhere, it’d begin to reabsorb ectoplasm to create a new “reef” to release more blobs. There’s more to this idea, but it gets into possible ghost biology, so I’ll cap this point here. 3) Many ocean creatures have lairs: octopi, lobsters, clownfish, icefish, etc., which is another trait shared with denizens of the Infinite Realms. 4) The ocean is three dimensional, although dens are almost exclusively formed on the bottom, which is not a trait shared with the infinite realms, but the contours of the ocean floor and the structuring of reefs is fairly similar to the original appearance of the Infinite Realms as seen in Prisoners of Love. 5) Danny, while frequently compared to a feral kitten, could also easily be compared to a feral Orca...the color scheme is even the same.

[five-rivers]

Your decapitated short was great! Now I’m imagining Danny trying to communicate increasingly absurd explanations in spite of being temporarily mute, through increasingly roundabout methods.

Sequel to this.

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“Run that by us again,” said Tucker.  

Danny’s core whined in frustration as he prepared to go through the whole, stupid charade.  Again.  

First, he pointed at his ruined bandages.  

“Do you want us to help you with those?” asked Sam, concerned. 

Danny made a slashing gesture through the air, since shaking his head was currently a no-go.  

“Karate?” suggested Tucker.  

Danny clicked his tongue and pretended to wash his hands.

"You're anxious?"

Danny glared and crossed his arms that would hopefully be more understandable as a ‘no.’

"Dissapointed parents?"

Apparently not.

He mimed writing. Again. The first time was what had gotten him into this charade mess, but maybe Sam could help now that she was here.

"A perscription?"

"He's asking for something to write on, you weirdo. I'm sorry, Danny. I left my backpack back in the classroom, and I think Tucker's PDA got fried by Technus."

Of course. Danny couldn't help the way his face crumpled.

"Hey, it's okay. We can work this out."

"Yeah," said Tucker. "Just start from the top."

Fine. Danny gestured over his shoulder.

"Throw it out?" guessed Tucker.

"Back? Back there?"

Danny pointed at Sam and kept going, trying to act out the incident.

"Okay, yeah, you've lost me. What was this?" She inexpertly tried to replicate the outline of Dash he'd made with his hands.

That was it. After this, he was going to learn sign language, even if it double (triple?) killed him.

But for now...

Danny grabbed Tucker's wrist and tugged him down the hallway to the bathroom and threw open the door.

Tucker squeaked. "Why didn't you tell us Dash was passed out in the bathr- Oh. Yeah."

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Following the Dash-passed-out-in-the-bathroom incident, Jazz and his friends more or less bullied Danny into letting them take care of smaller ghosts.

Of course, Danny was still the only one who could detect ghosts. (No, the Fenton Finder, which even now only found him, Danny Fenton, with any consistency did not count, Jazz.)

He jogged up to Jazz and tugged on her sleeve. She turned away from the poster she was tacking to the bulletin board.

"What is it?"

Danny made 'spooky' hands.

"Jazz hands? Sparkles?"

Why did everyone suck at charades so much? He glared.

"Oh! A ghost. Where? What kind?"

He brought up his hands and made a twisting motion.

"They tried to strangle you! That's terrible. Where is it?"

That's what Danny was trying to tell her. He made the twisting motion again, then pointed to the front of the school.

"Wait... it's on the road?"

Not exactly, but close enough. He held up eight fingers.

"Eight ghosts on the road? I'm not my way!"

Danny refrained from sighing.

Later, when Danny saw Jazz again, she patted him on the shoulder and said, very seriously, "I think you should carry around a pad of paper from now on. I did not get 'Mr. Lancer's car is infested with ectopi' from that."

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Danny rushed into Sam's room, phasing through the wall and started flailing his hands. She, surprised, pulled off her headphones.

"You're so lucky I'm already dressed and you're already dead... wait, slow down, jeez, I can't make out anything, unless you're trying to tell me everything is on fire."

Beyond exasperated, Danny picked up Sam and phased her through the roof.

"OH MY GOD, EVERYTHING IS ON FIRE."

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"This video is part of a series on sign language! Today's video is about finger spelling! Follow along with me as we go through the alphabet!"

[artistfingers]

Do the ghosts treat Danny the same way as they do on the show or is he friends with some of his enemies? I can see him being friends with Johnny 13, Ember, and a few others.

ooohh!! i thought about this waaaay back when there were only like 2 or 3 comic pages but so many things have changed back then.

the short answer is, yes! at this point, anyway. definitely not at the start.

danny's been at this whole Phantom thing for a whole year now, alone. he nobody to rely and at the start was not capable of brute forcing his way through any conflict more taxing than ectopi. so, he had to get creative; he had to get personal; he had to get a grip on ghostly politics, at least the basics of claiming amity as his haunt, which i mean, he was kinda doing by default anyway, patrolling and such.

so, yeah! by this point he's on decent terms with some ghosts who are more amenable to it. not close friends, i'd say, but friendly nonetheless. he really needs sam and tuck to fill that 'close friends' shaped hole in his life i think.

as a nod to his quasi-friendship with some ghosts, there's a little throwaway line in the concert part 1 where danny mentions he hasn't been to a concert since he called a truce with ember. (i imagine that after ember agreed to stop brainwashing people they're actually p chill with each other and danny is always interested in ember's songwriting process)

there's also a nod to it after the ghost encounter at casper where sam and tuck meet fenton. i haven't written the resolution of this scene, though i know i talked about it once (i just can't find it to link it rn AGH) but basically, it's resolved with Fenton striking a deal with the ghost, who was seeking out Phantom to have some kind of strength contest. which kinda boils down to, "yea you can duke it out with phantom if you follow the rules, otherwise you get thermos'd". at least until i think of something more fleshed out and actually write a second scene to that fic or turn the whole fenton meeting into a comic ksjdfgash

i'm hoping to sprinkle in some more details about danny's relationships with the other ghosts as the comics go on, too! i think it could be fun to explore in front of sam and tucker in their friendship with phantom, but especially as they get to know fenton too.

[Undercover AU]