#he can poltergeist

[immortal-in-their-way]

Jason Todd haunting the batfamily is brilliant.

Desperately need a fanfic where instead of Jason making the dramatic ass duffel-bag-of-heads comeback, he instead starts doing things to mildly inconvenience Bruce and it increasingly gets worse.

It starts off small, like breaking into all of his cars and just slightly adjusting all the car mirrors, hiding tiny baby figures over the manor where only Bruce is guaranteed to find them (they’re all painted with little batfam suits), just enough plausible deniability that Bruce thinks it’s one of his other kids pulling a prank and doesn’t mention it to anyone.

Then it slowly spirals, Jason rigging the Batmobile to play “Barbie girl” on the loudest setting at random intervals and no matter what Bruce or Tim do, they just can’t figure out where it’s coming from. He drains all of Tim’s energy drinks and replaces them with regular soda, steals all of Bruce’s ties and hides them all around the house (mysteriously not able to be found by Alfred, who is actually in on the whole thing cause come on, its Alfred). He makes increasingly obscure animals appear in front of Damian (Bruce puts his foot down when a sloth shows up and brings him back to the zoo despite Damian’s many protests) and instead of a grand reveal, he hides in random places around the manor and lets Bruce see fleeting glimpses of him, disappearing right after until eventually he lets Tim and Bruce see him at the same time and and gets outed when both of them look in his direction and realise wait you can see him too?

[coconut530]

SERIOUSLY!? RIGHT IN FRONT OF MY PUMPKIN BREAD TRIFLE PT. 2

[blookmallow]

on a mission currently to purge my room of everything that reminds me of my ex in any way. even if it doesnt make sense. if the association occurs when i look at it it goes. ive been holding onto a lot of things because "well, its a nice thing though" no. if it is making me sad it is leaving my house. im also working on reclaiming some oc stuff that used to be ours and now is and desperately needs to be Mine

all of it is going away except for this

this is bastard the clown. i have told his story before. he is a horrible horrible man. my ex bought him against my better judgement and then they left him here when they left me. i feel like he picked up some bad vibes in the process and i think if i ever got rid of him he would end up haunting the shit out of someone with the ghost of my own trauma. and so he will stay as a grim reminder of why i dont date anymore

[poltergeist-coffee]

*explodes you with mind*

while we all wait for me to finish cooking with the food so graciously provided to me by vert I thought it only appropriate to give an appetizer

so phil has betta fish type fins (mixed with leafy sea dragon but that's not the focus right now)

well betta fish fins are so big that they are actually exhausting for the fish to use and bettas regularly have to take breaks/naps, and the bigger the fins the more they have to rest

with phil having quite large betta type fins he gets exhausted extremely fast, and this is actually the reason he takes so many naps during the day

sooo imagine a time where forever is taking him out to explore the ocean and not really realizing how taxing it is on phil since his phils are relatively sleek and dont cause him problems. phil doesn't want to say anything because forever is so excited to show him the ocean so he just grits his teeth and bares with it

until he can't anymore and he's just so exhausted he kinda just stops and starts floating down to the sea floor. when forever turns around expecting to see philza there he is shocked to find phil in the sand passed out

he's super worried until he picks phil up and he sleepily blinks at forever and smiles asking if they could take a little break. forever of course scolds him for not asking earlier but is silenced when phil leans up and kisses him to shut him up, "you were so excited, I couldn't bring myself to ask"

forever carries them to some cover so they can rest

they wake up the next morning wrapped in eachothers arms

-🪶

💥💥💥💥💥EXPLODING💥💥💥💥💥

IVE BEEN RDUCED TO ASHES!!! THERES NOTHING LEFT OF ME!!! IM SOOT AND DEBRIS IM GOING OT EAT YOUR WRITING RIGHT NOW ANON!!!!

[malaierba]

I've read soooo many good spookymatau fics lately it almost doesn't even matter that most are unfinished, they're just so. So fascinating and good.

I might make a rec post soon, spooky AUs are one of my favourite genres of all time.

[svtskneecaps]

agony i've been trying to sleep for an hour but i fucked up my sleep schedule over break so now i just have to lie here like "hmmmmm..... what if....... the harry potter obliviate wizards........ were bad at their jobs.......... and there was a secret colony of young magical & nonmagical children........ who remember magic... and know the wizards don't want them to...... and are in hiding..........."

[frankencanon]

^

If you're like me you recognized the name "Steven Spielberg" but have absolutely no idea what he actually worked on, so here's a link to his filmography on Wikipedia so you know what to avoid.

The devil works hard but the Hollywood propaganda machine and the White liberals who take part in it work harder.

[deep-sea-anemone]

I have officially written 2k words of the Sanji Danny Phanton AU! ...I didn't realize how involved it was. I'm still barely into the first scene. Sanji hasn't even died yet. christ, the first chapter alone is probably going to be 7k. I'm planning on keeping it under 10 chapters but still. This is going to end up much longer than I anticipated.

[thatoneskullgrunt]

shit, i havent talked to Paul in a while...

[sleepy-bear-tm]

At first I wasn't sure how supernatural I should go with Death's design but I think having him subdued but with unique eyes and being physically larger is good. Still tossing around Fate's design but I think I have a concrete concept I just have to pin down.

[apparentlyautistick]

Yoda: In your walls, I am.

I'd love to see an AU where instead of going into exile at the end of ROTS, Yoda decides that even if he's not powerful enough to defeat the emperor, he's sure powerful enough to be a pain in his neck, and devotes the next 20+ years to being the biggest nuisance Palpatine has ever repeatedly failed to destroy.

[oblivionsdream]

Character idea- a medium runs an antique store and helps ghosts who haunt old objects move onto the after life. One of these ghosts haunts a 1950's rotary telephone and the medium is able to talk to her through the phone specifically but this ghost refuses to move on. Obviously they're lesbians.

Also there's a poltergeist who haunts the store and is just a pest that knocks shit over. The medium never sees the poltergeist (because ghosts can choose to allow her to see them) and so she thinks he's just an annoying pest. Turns out the poltergeist is a ghost cat just doing cat shit.

[poltergeist-coffee]

, killer whale mermaid etoiles,,, that’s all

FUCKIGN EYOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

yooooooooooooo

hooooyk shit omg no wait no i love that holy shit eveyone look at this omg yes yes yes yes yes i love that i lvoe that i lvoe it 100%

[shushmal]

AU where Eddie’s super passionate about finding evidence of ghosts and his indulgent, actual ghost whisper boyfriend Steve quietly negotiation with the local poltergeist in the background of all of Eddie’s investigations

“C’mon man, can you just say hey to him in his lil recorder thing? … oh yeah no you can say ‘fuck’ for sure, he’ll love it!”

Meanwhile Eddie is acting like he’s excited and brave and charging straight into the creepy doll room without hesitation but runs out screaming right after because of an, in his defense, unusually large moth

[skeletoninthemelonland]

THIS IS SO THEM FR ‼‼‼ CRYING RN AAAA THIS IS VERY CUTE!! I love them in your style 😭😭💖💖 

i dont think theres cats in behind the codes but i wanted to draw tom finding a cat!! au is by @skeletoninthemelonland !!

[zillychu]

I’ve gotten a WAVE of asks about this AU, so I decided to flesh it out some more and answer some of those questions!

I’ll probably polish this extended summary up at some point and submit it to AO3. But for now, here’s a rundown of my thoughts–please feel free to send more questions! I’ll update this post if I get any more. But if you’re someone who wanted to write fic for it, don’t worry, you don’t need to take my headcanons as gospel. It’s a pretty basic AU honestly lol

Summary:

The portal accident results in a violent explosion that wipes out the whole block, and condemns all of Amity Park. Danny haunts the city for 100 years, before Sam and Tucker find him. 

Setup:

In the 1920’s, 19-year-old Danny went into the incomplete portal on his own, hoping to help out his parents. Ripping the portal open through unnatural means created a huge burst of energy that resulted in a massive explosion. A good portion of the Amity Park population died, many were injured, and the ones on the fringes relocated–Amity was quickly deemed too dangerous due to the excess ectoplasm in the area that attracted ghosts. 

While the disaster was in Amity, the fallout was seen around the globe. Before, natural portals were rare, short-lived, and rarely allowed ghosts to fully slip into our realm (the most severe cases being on par with poltergeists that most people didn’t believe in). Now, natural portals pop open frequently around the world, large enough to allow the entirety of a ghost into the physical plane. They’re more common the closer you get to Amity, but they happen enough elsewhere that this change was something of a small apocalypse before people settled back down and found out how to combat at least some of their new, permanent neighbors. 

Danny is unaware that he’s only half-dead, believing he’s a full ghost. He ends up sticking around Amity, unintentionally making it his haunt. His grief and guilt over causing the death of his loved ones (and many others) makes him isolate and avoid human contact. Though he has, at times, scared nosy people away from the city in a mix of territorial instinct–and to get them to leave before a less friendly ghost finds them. 

Ghosts are much more of an uncontested danger in this AU. Lesser ghosts are practically mindless, and while stronger ghosts are capable of reason, their interests are limited. They’re highly territorial, possessive, and often destructive. Most worrisome is that they also like to snack on the life force of anything alive. No one is sure what dictates a ghost’s propensity to attack or hunt the living for their life force since ghosts don’t exactly experience hunger. At least, not the way we do. If a human is rescued before their life force is fully drained, they can make a full recovery–though humanity has still not yet found what this “life force" is. 

And since the Fentons’ research died along with them, there aren’t many tools available to the public to protect them from ghosts. Most homes have standard ghost shields and some weapons are available on the market, but certified ghost hunters are required to take care of anything more powerful than your average spook. 

Sam and Tucker met in high school, and are now rooming together for college very close to the Amity border. Rent is surprisingly cheap when you’re a stone’s throw away from a condemned area crawling with ghosts. Sam is the one who drags Tucker along with her fascination over finding out more about the city, and its largely mysterious demise. Sam is aware of the danger, but feels ghosts have a place in this world just like everything else, and does exercise caution–like one would while foraging in the woods with a known tiger population. 

What she and Tucker weren’t expecting was to run into a ghost that felt almost human. One that hasn't hurt them, not for lack of trying–while being powerful enough to walk past ghost shields without so much as a flinch. The long white hair is familiar in the whispers of the ectobiologist community, but there’s no way it could be the rumored ghost king Phantom, right?

About Danny:

He has very long hair, claws, and black sclera. His hazmat suit is more torn and ragged, with exposed hands and feet that fade into a burnt black.

His hair tends to float a lot on its own. It can start morphing into fire under duress. 

He does still technically have gloves and boots, they've just charred and melted into his skin towards the ends. He can't take them off in his ghost form. His hands and feet have a leathery texture that's tougher than the rest of his skin.

The white of his hazmat suit is both supposed to look like flames, and also a battered look representing his more violent, explosive death.

Overall, he appears rather listless and sad, with an unnerving air of danger around him–even for a ghost. 

Danny’s “ghost sense” comes out as white smoke.

He does breathe black smoke at times, usually when agitated. 

He's already fought and defeated Pariah Dark by the time Sam and Tucker find him, technically making him the Ghost King. This is heavily speculated by ghost experts, despite there being no real proof beyond a massive battle that scarred Illinois. He has not donned the Ring or the Crown, and captured sentient ghosts are hesitant to answer questions surrounding him. Danny basically has the throne but doesn’t do anything with it, and finds it meaningless enough to routinely forget he has the title. He only fought Pariah because he knew otherwise, humanity would have perished. A lot of ghosts are scared of him because he's so hard to figure out, and he's strong. 

Danny is usually very quiet and speaks softly, because his lungs were damaged in the blaze that half-killed him. He's technically healed since becoming a ghost, so it's more of a compulsion due to the traumatic memory. That, and he’s just… very forlorn and distant, shy around humans who don’t seem to understand how dangerous it is to keep hanging around him.

His memories pre-accident are extremely fuzzy. He knows the very basics of who he was, but specifics have been muffled due to trauma and isolation. He routinely forgets human habits, etiquette, etc. and tends to act more like a full ghost with some odd quirks. 

He does try to scare Sam and Tucker off numerous times. Unfortunately for him, they realized they shouldn't have been able to escape a ghost that strong–but they did, because he let them. 

Sam and Tucker think he's mute at first! He doesn't speak a word to them until several encounters later, when he fumbles his whole scary act and saves them from another ghost. 

He’s still half-ghost, though he doesn’t figure this out until Sam and Tucker come along trying to unravel the mysteries behind the Amity catastrophe. Physically and emotionally, he’s been stuck for 100 years–so his human form is still 19. It’s unclear at this point if he can age normally like a human as long as he stays in human form, or if he’s immortal. 

Danny's family did not turn into ghosts, though he sometimes worries he'll find them in the afterlife as shells of their former selves. He doesn't know if it's better or worse that he's not sure he'd recognize them. 

(Danny also still has some living family. Take a guess.)

Yes, he knows how to Wail. Understandably, he very rarely uses it. You do not want to witness this.

Danny :) is not immune :) from the allure of eating a human's life force :)))