#ectopi

[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

[ghostbunnyboy]

I really think Vlad was/is in love* with both Jack and Maddie, in fact even more so with Jack.

Like, why else hadn’t he killed Jack yet if that was really his intent? I know it's rooted in the limits of it being a kids show, but the dissonance in his words versus what he actually does is honestly what makes his character so interesting to me.

I know some people want to see a real murderous, ruthless, and cunning characterization of Vlad, and I can understand that, but honestly? I like this better than his character archetype being played straight. (If I wanted a truly heinous villain, I'd go indulge in, like, Hannibal or something.)

Even in Bitter Reunions, he sends incompetent/non-serious ghosts to test Jack, (the ectopi, the vultures,) when he could've just sent Skulker directly to kill or at least capture Jack. And then at the party, he overshadows Jack himself-- clearly he can do it, he could use any of his ghost powers to deal a decisive death, so why go through the song and dance of trying to humiliate Jack if he wants him dead?

Because he doesn't really want to kill Jack and marry Maddie. He tells himself and everyone else that's what he wants, because maybe if he says it enough, it'll become the truth. But it never does.

What he wants is for both of them to throw themselves at his feet and plead for forgiveness.

He wants to be fawned over and coddled by his two best friends (if the Maddie Program's behavior is anything to go by. Also, the fact that a Jack Program exists at all?? Again, I realize that was for The Bit but the implications are still there.)

***and when I say ‘in love’, it's not necessarily romantic; in fact, I see him as misinterpreting his own feelings as romantic, as per a personal ace spectrum experience.

It’s hard to differentiate between romantic and otherwise platonic feelings when your frame of reference is so narrow and said feelings are so devastating. (Especially when you don’t even know what queerplatonic is.)

It might be some slight projection, as I actually went through the experience of having feelings for both my childhood best friend and the person they ended up marrying (lmao). Or at least, I thought I did. Either way, I’m long since over it, but it’s still such a juicy dramatic concept to explore.

[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.

[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.

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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.

[swiggity-swexual-i-am-asexual]

For consideration—

Danny is many things. Student, hero, teenager, tired. Teenager and tired are shared, student is what he wants, and hero is what he has to be.

So when he’s fighting Val—Red Huntress, as dubbed by the general populace—and they get interrupted from their highly dangerous not-quite game of hide and seek by the Justice League offering her all of the training and support any hero could ever want… well.

It’s a good thing he’s already hidden, because he has no idea what to feel and ghost faces are significantly more stretchy and allow for frankly horrifying face journeys. He could just be a kid. He wanted to have mentorship. He wanted Valerie to be a great hero. He hopes she’s not getting dragged into it. He’s been given an out, possibly.

Or at the least, as Jazz would put in during the video call later that night, he could take a vacation.

Her reasons were fairly pure. He overworked himself by necessity, and he deserved time and rest and the ability to go for his own hobbies.

Danny’s were very much in the petty revenge territory. Blob ghost populations would be outright swarms in about two weeks, and that’s if the ectopi didn’t start hunting them as prey, sending them into a tizzy. Any bigger threats—well. Red Huntress was the hero, the only hero, as Superman said in his little ‘join us’ speech. Clearly, she’d been handling it so far. She’d be fine. There was even Justice League backing and support for her.

He still hid during ghost attacks. Everyone always thought he was scared of ghosts anyways and the rogue gallery had no qualms about kidnapping or otherwise targeting him as a regular teen.

Things… quickly spiral.

For Red Huntress, that is.

Suddenly, her new ghost alarm system that Batman helped her build is going off constantly. She expected an uptick, but she’s gotten maybe five hours of sleep in about as many days. It was a good thing that one of the support benefits was a paycheck, because if she hadn’t quit Nasty Burger they certainly would have fired her by then. Her grades were slipping, even with her best efforts, and her mentors who were supposed to help weren’t listening to her.

It wasn’t them ‘challenging her beliefs’ and asking her to ‘really consider if ghosts are always your enemy’ that made her fights suddenly harder. It wasn’t some adjustment period to her new training. There was just ghosts, all the time, constantly, and she didn’t even know what to do with all of them. She always just ran them off, and she had assumed they went home. She hadn’t realized the reason Phantom always captured them was because otherwise they just would not leave.

And Phantom. He was one of her rogues, play acting as hero for people he’d just put into danger. Sometimes he did—kind of—help, but it seemed more coincidental. A giant bobcat in the yard keeping the bears away sort of situation. Still dangerous, still unknown, no matter how similar he looked to something or someone friendly.

But. He’d been MIA since their last fight. And she didn’t know why.

Sure, she could guess that maybe he had heard the whole acceptance into the Junior League, or whatever it was called, that had happened. And with his whole ‘hero’ shtick, he’d maybe be a little weird about it. Not emotional, ghosts didn’t have true emotions. No matter what Black Canary was currently researching on the topic, Valerie was sure of it.

Just like she’d been sure that she was actually helping Amity Park.

If she heard one more property damage assessment, she’d strap one of her ecto guns to the lecturer and let them have a crack at it. Ghosts didn’t care about material things that mattered to other people. They might have attachments to certain types of objects or things they considered ‘theirs’, but if that thing was a living human’s… it didn’t matter, it’d be taken or broken just the same.

Sam was, of course, leading a small protest asking for Phantom’s return. She and Danny had at least three fights about it, and it wasn’t pretty.

Paulina had a different approach to the same issue, asking for recognition of her ghost boy.

Tucker was egging both on, mostly to distract Sam from actually bothering Danny, but also because he loved a good cat fight.

Danny was getting so much sleep, and he’s getting caught up in school. Sure, the school is usually at least a little on fire these days, but he actually read the assignment book for Lancer’s class. That hadn’t happened like, ever! And his Doom stats were getting pretty high, since the only grinding he had to do now was against virtual enemies that didn’t try to snap his spine… Technus notwithstanding.

As these things usually happen, Valerie blames Phantom for all of her woes, again. The Fenton Parents, being thoroughly exhausted at this point as well, completely back her.

And Danny has had a lot of time to rest and think on the actions of himself and others.

He’s been declared a menace, again. And he’s kind of tired of people not realizing that if he WANTED to be a villain, he could be. He wanted his town safe, and honestly, the ghost populace explosion was getting annoying. Red Huntress’s last “big fight” had nearly killed someone.

… He wouldn’t be Dan, oh no. He wouldn’t cause damage, he’d prevent those from being hurt, and he would generally look at the Hero Guideline Handbook he had… temporarily borrowed and copied from Val’s backpack. He’d be campy and totally not serious to anyone who didn’t realize he actually was just playing around. And him actually taking on ‘big fish’ persona in Amity Park’s ‘little pond’ should help get rid of at least some of the lower level guys.

It’s not like it’s be hard, honestly. He’d get to make his own hours, at least. And since Valerie saw Fenton as someone to protect, someone that he well knew she broke up with to ‘keep him safe’, she wouldn’t think of him twice as being Phantom. Danny wouldn’t use their friendship against her, but he could easily admit that it was a little scummy to do. But. Well. He’d always fought a bit dirty, and she had literally tried to kill him. Multiple times.

If Red Huntress was going to be a villain-like Hero, then it was simple.

Phantom just had to be a hero-like Villain.

Prompt

The justice league FINALLY investigates Amity, and realizes that they’ve made a grave mistake by letting a burgeoning hero shoulder a large problem without any training or support. They rectify this immediately by offering a position in the JL along with an assortment of mentors and other teen heroes to bond with. 

Red Huntress receives this invitation in front of Phantom, while actively trying to hunt him down.

[human-antithesis]

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[draprajitasrivastava01]

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[bouffees]

Hi can anyone help me with this result from my 24 hr Holter.❤️❤️

Status. Document Type: Event Date: Performed By: Auth (Verified) Special Testing Service 2022/Nov/23 19:23 Grant, Andrew D,MD (2022/Nov/24 09:38) Special Testing Service Andrew D. Grant, MD 2022/Nov/07 RE: MRN: DOB: 1957/Feb/10 CLINIC DATE: 2022N0v/07 A. 24 HUR HOLTER MONITOR: DATE OF TESTING: November 7, 2022 INDICATION: PVCS. FINDINGS: Underlying Rhythm: Sinus rhythm with rates from 48 to 132 and average heart rate 83 beats per minute Pauses and AV Block: None Ventricular Ectopy. onice renresent 21.9% of all complexes. 26,279 ventricular ectopics represent There were 7 runs of nonsustained ventricular tachycardia, the longest 5 beats in duration. There were also 97 triplets and 426 couplets, Supraventricular Ectopy: 343 supraventricular ectopics represent 0.3% of all complexes SYMPTOMS: None reported. IMPRESSION: This is an abnormal 24-hour Holter. It documents very frequent PVCs including multiple short runs of NSVT. Andrew D. Grant, MD

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[mediumsizetex]

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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.