#grid ghost

[is-this-even-relatable]

A Rising Phantom

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Summary: danny died, and no one knows. He is a full ghost, and only thanks to his dual obsessions can he “live” a normal life and pretend that nothing happened.

I aim to make this a multichaptered fic! Hopefully, the first fic I post on AO3!

HEADCANONS/TROPES/TAGS:

no one knows! AU

full ghost! danny

eventual everlasting trio

dual obsessions inspired by this post, which are protection (Phantom) and space (Fenton)

my own headcanon: danny's death is inevitable, a single point in time that cannot be avoided or changed.

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Danny died on a Saturday.

He was too young to have been left alone; any other house would’ve be fine, but everyone in that town knew, even then, that the Fentons' house was to be avoided by a wide berth.

His parents had rushed out in a frustrated fit, leaving him and Jazz by themselves for the weekend, just like so many before. They were always an afterthought to their parents, long before he was 14.

Danny didn’t intend to go down to the lab that night. But Jazz was out with her friend Kyle, and he was bored. And something down there called to him, though he didn’t know it.

He didn’t know that forces beyond his comprehension were leading to this point, this singularity.

If Danny had known the fate in store for him, he would have begged his parents for them to stay that night, or take him with them. But he didn't know, he couldn't have known... because that's how it was always going to be.

He didn’t know that a man with a clock in his chest, who changed between ages in the blink of an eye, was watching as he walked down those lonely steps.

He didn’t know, as he pulled on a white hazmat suit hand-sewn just for him, far too flimsy for what it was meant to protect him against, that a sentient dimension was pushing against the veil, straining for him.

He didn’t know, as he stepped through the gaping metal maw, that it had already called his name, and death had claimed it.

And afterwards, while he curled up on the cold basement floor, clutching his chest for a pulse, he still did not know that even if he had known... he would have had no choice but to do the same.

Danny died when he turned the portal on, alone in his parents’ lab.

Standing inside, fifty million Watts of electricity coursed from his palm to his heart, searing its path into his skin. It had no exit route. It cooked him from the inside, lighting all of his nerves on fire, and doused him in an infinite realm’s worth of dimensional energy. After what seemed like hours of screaming, panicking, burning- he somehow managed to crawl out of the portal.

He died then, lying flat in front of the machine that ended him, as the intense pain faded into a dull throb that replaced the beating that used to be in his chest.

And as he sat up, feeling both sore and feather-light, he looked down upon his body, and realized that he had died that day, and he was not coming back.

Danny panicked. And he did the only thing he could do. He decided to run away, afraid of what he was, confused and scared and feeling very not himself.

But the main anxiety that drove him to hide his accident was a rather juvenile one.

…He was afraid that his parents would be upset that he had gone into the lab without their permission.

He had messed with their stuff, and turned something on… something he definitely shouldn’t have.

He had just opened a portal to a realm full of the very things that kept him from sleeping at night, of “unfeeling monsters” that his parents had drilled into him about for years.

A portal to ghosts… that were now free to come through.

That thought made something inside him solidify, and a low hum began to emanate from him as he worried about his family. About the ghosts and the portal and how they were going to manage without him…

He couldn’t just leave like this. Not when he was responsible. He couldn’t let a whole realm of monsters hurt his family. At that thought, dread filled him, and that same something inside his chest ached.

But it occurred to him that he still had to leave. Not just at the thought of his parents stumbling in on his body.

No, it was about him. For he was one of them now, wasn’t he? A ghost. And he was a monster now, too. Despite not feeling like one. Despite knowing that there was clearly something wrong with what he had been told and what he knew was intimately true of himself in this new form.

But something inside him whispered at him that he couldn’t take the chance, if he did turn into a monster. He couldn’t let himself hurt his family.

So with fears on his back and a tingle fading from his fingertips, Danny pulled himself up onto unsteady feet. He took his body outside, to the woods where no one would know. And he buried it, alone, surrounded by trees and the sky.

He sat there, at his fresh grave, and cried.

Holding his arms around himself tight, he mourned the loss of warmth, of blood pumping and his heartbeat, so loud in its absence.

Surrounded by nothing but silence, he mourned that he’d never made close friends, nor really had the chance.

Looking up at the stars, he mourned that he could never fulfill his dream of being an astronaut.

He mourned for himself because no one else could.

And as his last cry petered off into the night, the sun broke the horizon.

A different something tugged at his chest, and he let it pull without resistance, worn ragged as he was.

And he was grateful he did. For a soothing light washed over him and transformed him into something similar, but not quite as he was Before.

But he felt warmth, and he felt a pseudo-beat in his chest, sluggish as it was. And suddenly he realized that although he was dead, he was alive in a different way.

He was still there.

He didn’t have to give up on life.

He was not going to be a monster.

Danny walked back home. He washed the dirt away from under his fingernails. He swept the lab until it looked like no one had been there. Minus the massive swirling vortex.

And when Jazz got home from her sleepover, Danny hugged her with a smile.

He was going to be fine.

They would all be fine, he would make sure of it.

[mothlingmeg]

well i know when you’re around ‘cause i know the sound i know the sound of your heart

[siryl]

Cover art by Robert Beatty for Mr. 666 by Michael Perkins.

[chassisfucker]

based on the latest episode of grill the grid im synthesising the perfect pub quiz team. important to understanding my process is that im not only considering who would help me win the quiz but who would provide me with adequate entertainment during winning of said quiz. my choices are:

1. oscar, genuinely good at the trivia but very subtle and sweet about it. would not be yelling out answers at top volume for other teams to copy

2. alex. i am unspeakably charmed by his inability to remember things that he clearly knows. flailing and holding his head in his hands seem to be his default response - i would enjoy this. let men be terrible at trivia and bully them a bit for it <3

3. logan, knows enough to get by but very much not a sore loser when he can’t come up with an answer. very chill! demonstrative of the vibe we would like to establish as a team. i feel like he’d be really good at the music round of your average pub quiz, he’d pull it out of the bag out of nowhere

4. valtteri - wildcard!!! not remotely there for the trivia but i went to a pub quiz once where one of your team had to down a pint the fastest in competition with someone from every other team and i have genuine faith valtteri would destroy that challenge. sorry to stereotype you, finnish people :(

[coupleofdays]

One interesting detail I noticed on my most recent re-viewing of Tron is that during the scene where Flynn is transported into the computer, you can briefly see that the world he arrives on seems to be sphere-shaped, like a planet. I had previously imagined that the whole digital world was just one flat plane that stretched off into infinity, with the different computer systems being locations in this landscape. But now I imagine that each separate system, such as the ENCOM system, is a separate "planet" in the "space" of the digital world. Come to think of it, the final panel of Tron: The Ghost in the Machine (don't worry, there's no spoilers!) seems to be going for this idea as well:

This would mean that communication between separate computer systems, such as via the internet or its predecessors, would be in the form of "space travel" in the digital universe (though interestingly enough, that's not how the internet is depicted in Tron 2.0). I wonder what the Tron equivalent of a spaceship might look like. Possibly like the Solar Sailer, but that was only used in the film to travel along set beams, across a single "planet".

[csashton]

*insert F1 drivers talking about each other*

[insert-stupid-username]

[catbreon-draws]

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[spacecorps]

my hyperfixations are fixating.

starting to plot a tron!au for tf141

[g0ldlockchen]

I post from here

[chelemlem]

so so sad about lando today in the sprint 💔 and his bet about ferrari winning by 30s... gorl stop i'm trying to defend that championship mentality dawg in you 😭 but saying that i hope someone (oscar) gave him a hug

sghdjd ok perhaps controversially going to say that idt lando is an unsubstantiatedly self-flagellative dude? most of his public low moments come from feeling solely responsible for a poor showing relative to the performance ceiling of the car/team that weekend. if we alr suck he's not going to be like omg it's MY fault we suck u kno... and seeing how saturday shook out (13s gap to P2 🥲)...... we were never going to convert that win even if bro hadn't bottled lap 1. sad but true

the way i read the ferrari bet line was him being pleasantly surprised with how well we did on a track ill-suited to our car. unfortch managing one's expectations is merely a muscle you develop by virtue of being a mclaren driver (and by extension a mclaren fan 😔). it is what it is !

also Much can be said about the correlation of dawg & mentality with wdc hopes but in the interest of being brief! fast, reliable, driveable car + competent strat dept + manageable politics to performance ratio + scrub teammate...... it's HARD to round up all the tangibles that amount to a gainful title bid. while certainly necessary and useful, dawg alone does not a champion make. and anyways lando has enough of it over the net course of a season

[duckapus]

Tales From the Grid: Battle Nexus Bozos

An arc on the Grid's channel where Timmy, Piper and a few of the Links (obviously including the Anchor version) are invited to participate in the Battle Nexus Tournament (from TMNT) taking place in the Fairly Oddparents Server (remember; Timmy's server is made up of the Nickelodeon multiverse instead of just the FOP universe thanks to the canon crossovers he's been part of).

And since this can't just be a simple tournament arc, the Syndicate sneak past the Battle Nexus's robust security with their firewall-proof portals to cause trouble, along with their newest allies; the Shredder and his Foot Clan, specifically one of the 2003 Shredders (leaning towards Cyber-Shredder because computer stuff, definitely not using the demon one because he doesn't play well with others, even moreso than most Shredders). I know that one wasn't a Nick show but Rise Shedder's bad at subtlety, worse than Demon Shredder at team-ups, and also very dead (plus he doesn't really have a Foot Clan to lead during the time where he's in any state to do so), and I'm not that fond of 2012 Shredder even though I liked the show.

That being said I'll probably include multiple versions of the Turtles if I decide to properly write this out. I'm already including multiple Links so why not right?

[laresearchette]

Tuesday, August 06, 2024 Canadian TV Listings (Times Eastern)

WHERE CAN I FIND THOSE PREMIERES? AMERICAN SNIPER (Paramount+ Canada) UP IN THE AIR (Paramount+ Canada)

NEW TO AMAZON PRIME CANADA/CBC GEM/CRAVE TV/DISNEY + STAR/NETFLIX CANADA:

AMAZON PRIME CANADA MONKEY MAN MIRACLE WORKERS (Seasons 1-4)

NETFLIX CANADA THE INFLUENCER (KR) RISING IMPACT (Season 2) (JP)

2024 SUMMER OLYMPICS (CBC) 3:30am: Canoe Sprint (CBC) 4:00am: Athletics (SN) 4:50am: Olympic Morning (TSN3/TSN4) 5:00am: Olympic Games (CBC) 7:00am: Skateboarding (CBC) 10:00am: Women’s Diving (CBC) 11:00am: Morning (CBC) 11:30am: Skateboarding (CBC/SN/TSN) 12:00pm: Olympic Daytime (CBC) 12:45pm: Prime (CBC) 1:30pm: Athletics (CBC) 4:00pm: Prime (CBC/SN1/TSN3/TSN4) 7:00pm: Olympic Primetime (CBC) 12:00am: Late Primetime (CBC) 1:30am: Marathon Race Walk (Wednesday)

NATIONAL BANK OPEN (SN Now) 11:00am: Women's Grandstand Coverage (SN Now) 11:00am: Men's Court Rogers Coverage (SN360) 12:30pm: Women's Day Session (SN1) 12:30pm: Men's Day Session (SN360) 6:30pm: Women's Evening Session (SN1) 6:30pm: Men's Evening Session

2024 HLINKA GRETZKY CUP (TSN) 2:00pm: Czechia vs. Germany (TSN) 5:30pm: USA vs. Finland (TSN/TSN5) 9:30pm: Slovakia vs. Canada

MLB BASEBALL (SN) 6:30pm: Orioles vs. Jays (SN Now) 10:00pm: Phillies vs. Dodgers

HOLMES FAMILY RESCUE (CTV Life) 8:00pm: In a steady effort to repair the damage and dysfunction left after a four year reno nightmare, the Holmes family finally returns the flow that was stolen from Sarah and Matt's segmented main floor.

THE AMAZING RACE CANADA (CTV) 9:00pm: The Race heads east to Guelph and Wellington County, Ont., where teams first take a moment to reflect before getting boosted 90 feet up a limestone quarry.

GHOSTS OFF GRID (Super Channel Fuse) 9:00pm (SERIES PREMIERE): Johnny and Jordan launch into off-grid investigation of Fort la Reine, a museum with paranormal activity in multiple locations; everything seems to come to a head inside a historic train car.

ACTION (Much) 10:00pm (SERIES PREMIERE): An exclusive sneak peek into the high-stakes world of stunts as Jonathan 'JoJo' Eusebio and his crew, Can Aydin, Cha-Lee Yoon, Phong Giang and Mitra Suri, jet off to Winnipeg, Canada, to film the heart-pounding Universal thriller, "Violent Night."

[apuff]

epic mcr merch @thankyouforthev3n0m

ngl you could reverse what's on front and back for this and it would still be cool. ALSO there could be another border line in yellow and it would look nice cause the shirt is in purple

i feel like the shirt color for this is probably best as red (cause it matches the two color vibe) although i could see navy or light blue. if you wanted yellow it'd have to be more mustard so it would stick out from the white, and idk if mustard is an appropriately danger days color :/

WHY DID I WRITE SO MANY TAGS WHAT,

[nico-di-genova]

Oh :D okay :D

[ajournalofconscious]

Devotion

traveling this rocky road, i scanned the shadows

careful to detect her piercing stare

glittering jewels in the darkness observing my every move

well hidden beyond the veil in redacted past life memory

buried under sedimentary layers of pain and regret

500 years of watching and waiting

until now

we finally meet again

the crossroads of our akashic destiny

my oath: protect and shield her from heartache

we both felt in impossible circumstances

my fear of intimacy subjugation betrayal

all purged by her love

heart now activated

glowing torch illuminates its empty space

intention meditation vibration

crystal grid to intensify healing for her broken heart

waiting for any sign of tangible progress

once again, vulnerability is yet to be mastered

dimiserunt eam sana