#you know whats cooler than being a god? having a giant robot son

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Momma's bo(x)y.

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danny phantom season 2, episode 17-20 thoughts! finishing up season two! the finale is the THIRD 2-PARTER OF SEASON 2. that's so many! I wonder how many season 3 will have?

see prev episode thoughts in this tag <3

-UERGH WHY DOES VLAD HAVE AN AI WITH MADDIE'S FACE ON IT. SOOO CREEPY. AND MORE 'CREATIONS' waiiiit. vlad is Dr. Frankenstein! (despite his ghost design obviously referencing vampires) HE HAS 'CREATIONS' HE MAKES THEN WONT TAKE REAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR!!! this bitch.

-danny was late and his friends immediately start going off about how hes inconsiderate, and has been treating them like sidekicks??? he just overslept, my god. chill. even if he has, be nicer about talking about it with him?? he really can't help that he sometimes has to chase the ghosts, or has a secret identity to protect...

-'what kind of ghost haunts a miniature golf course' umm. me as a ghost. next question

-imagine going home and theres a tiny child on your bed claiming to be your cousin. with as many cousins I have, I would probably believe her. but the 'ran away from home' BIT....SHES 12?? SHES SO TINY. I hate that they have her belly out in her ghost form, but I like how her colors are asymmetrical. something about her design...maybe the proportions?? are weird to me...anyway danny was good to feed her, but he shouldve taken her to his parents FIRST. or, tbh, probably jazz. (JAZZ DIDNT EVEN GET TO MEET HER!!! NOOO. I mean she said she'll be BACK BUT STILL)

-ANYWAY. shes voiced by AnnaSophia Robb, the girl who was in because of winn dixie, played as violet from charlie and the chocolate factory, and was the girl from bridge to terrabithia. (the movie that made me cry hysterically when I was 12 and I never watched it again because it Broke Me!) thats super cool.

-vlad sucks: the episode, basically. what's new!! I love how he's like, I'm Not A Villain. *immediately cuts to him torturing danny to make him transform, to get mid-transformation DNA, to perfect a Clone.* *immediately shows that he doesnt give a shit about his new daughter Dani and just wants a ''more perfect clone'' and will put her in danger to get that. will let her DIE to get that*

-Dani is danny's clone and is a girl? transgenderism....one of them has to be trans. or they both are.

-dani just. leaving at the end. WHAT? SHES 12. DONT JUST. NO!!! SHE WAS PROBABLY JUST BORN, A MONTH AGO AT MOST, RIGHT?? SHE NEEDS...SOMEWHERE TO LIVE. MONEY? FOOD?? A FAMILY?? AN EDUCATION???! WHAT DO YOU MEAN SHE'S LEAVING!!! OKAY BYE I GUESS!!! D: concern!!!

-the next ep opens with skulker chasing a ghost down. ...does skulker count as a ghost hunter in the way valerie and danny do? I mean, sure, he hunts the good guys too, but he. he hunts ghosts...also, we haven't seen his Real Form since his debut episode! tiny...

-the guys in white are back! ngl, I assumed they were a gag for that one episode. you're telling me they might actually be a threat? ok.

-valerie in her lil nasty burger uniform looks so cute!! glad shes not in that mascot uniform this time. I guess she stopped hiding that she's working there now?

-gregor having white hair, dressed in black and white...and green eyes...sam has a Type, I guess.

-danny being unnecessarily hostile about gregor. danny!!! hes been nice so far. he looks a little...tall to be 14, but. danny doesnt know anything about him! (he does Suspect, but...you cant just spy on people and be rude to them from a hunch.) also, gregor kissed her, and when she freaked out, he was like 'oh no!! sorry, we can take it slow! I understand!' which was NICE. I hate jealousy plots still tho.

-altho. umm. tucker, being concerned about danny spying on them??? SAM AND YOU WERE SPYING ON DANNY AND VALERIE A FEW EPISODES AGO!!!!! im not saying its RIGHT, but dont be a hypocrite!!! AND THEN SAM BEING MAD ABOUT IT, TOO.

-DANNY IS A 7 ON THE SCALE OF ECTOPLASMIC POWER!!! out of 10? so I want to know where the other ghosts rank...I mean it's a list from the guys in white, so, it may not even be accurate, like, they havent seen ALL of his powers, have they?

-Lancer being like 'im not cooperating with the FEDS' until they said they could access his tax records. they already did that joke with jack, but like, its still funny. kings of tax evasion.

-tucker's aggressive third-wheeling. but gregor being super into it. gregor/tucker is the real ship here. then gregor kissing danny on both cheeks after hugging him. bi poly king gregor. (he does turn out to be a liar with a phoney accent. unsurprising, BUT THE CONCEPT OF HIM BEING GENUINE AND THEM ALL DATING IS FUN)

-THE...GUYS IN WHITE THINKING GREGOR IS DANNY PHANTOM. LMAOOO. GET HIS ASS. or,, Elliot. lmfao

-sam saying tucker is part of the package because theyre friends was super sweet <3 but also 'part of the package'...polyships are obviously the solution to these dumb jealousy/love triangle plots.

-danny crashed a whole plane. the collateral damage...

-is he....

-you know....

.... (ITS NOT GAY IF YOU'RE DOING IT TO PRETEND TO BE SOMEONE YOU'RE NOT, AND LIE TO A GIRL. RIGHT? he was getting a little too into pretending to enjoy tucker's company, and the above...c'mon, guy.)

-lmao, freakshow is in actual prison. I didn't expect a follow up, or for him to show back up! in the finale of this season, too!

-THE SICK TATTOO GHOST IS NAMED LYDIA!!! more Lore On her. freakshow seemed genuinely concerned about her. also, is she mute? I don't think she talked the first time we saw her, either. and we didn't know freakshow 'envied' ghosts, either, the first time, we just knew he was controlling them. interesting!

-...they literally stole the infinity gauntlet from marvel and called it the reality gauntlet. is that legal. what the fuck. even with the gems in the lil slots, having different powers...they had freakshow in jail, but didnt check his pockets??! hes just still in his lil outfit??? what kind of ...oh, its in amity park. yeah, all of the adults are idiots, okay, sure.

-'freakshow!' 'in the anemic flesh!' dude take some iron pills then. also, sure, the red eyes could be contacts for his aesthetic, but the whites of his eyes are yellow! does he have jaundice?! he severely needs more...like, every kind of vitamin. (this is what im worried about as freakshow attacks danny with giant robots)

-again, goth circus is a sick theme, and I love his goth train.

-oh FUCK every single person saw danny transform. on a stage. including his parents via TV. oh god. the guys in white and immediately like 'youre coming in for experiments!' SCARY. at least the crowd is willing to help him to escape...perks of now being a local celeb! even the kids at school are accepting :) this is what, the third time his family has found out? its always been an alt timeline tho. and danny fully intending to just rewrite things again instead of...I dunno, trying to roll with it this time? hes really worried his family won't accept him, huh...

-'maybe our son IS THE GHOST BOY, but its not as if our family's ghostly activities have EVER PUT YOUR FAMILIES IN DANGER' maddie. mmmmmmmmmmmm. okay.

-danny 100% prepared to run away from home because of this :( oh :( and saying his parents are 'looking for him, or a scalpel to dissect him with' ouch...

-THE GUYS IN WHITE TRYING TO ARREST A 14 YEAR OLD. fuck da feds.

-side note (another one about voice actors...) freakshow's voice actor, Jon Cryer, was lex luthor in pretty much every DC tv show, which is why I recognized his voice, because my dad loves those shows so I've seen a good bit of them without seeking them out...)

-the old man saying 'hey, i still had minutes left!' and danny saying 'you gotta watch those roaming charges!' about danny destroying the people in the diner's phones so no one could report seeing him...would kids today understand these things. can you even BUY minutes anymore...I remember my first phone being a flip phone, and the fact I always had minutes when my sister ran out super fast, because I didnt have friends calling or texting me like she did...:/

-the fentons being genuinely like 'why didnt danny trust us and tell us this, we love him :(' and JAZZ LAYING INTO THEM WITH THE 'DISSECTION/MOLECULE BY MOLECULE' LINES. LITERALLLLY. they need to apologize

-technically, lydias stronger than you! -jazz lesbianism moments! when did you even learn her name!!! but also get freakshows ass. lydia is also cooler looking. looove her design sm still.

-jazz psychoanalyzing freakshow... (also, her also having ghost envy? au where jazz is a ghost!! id like to see it)

-im glad the kids still got to go to their respective vacation things, even if they cant really stick around and enjoy them much...

-furry: confirmed. (also tucker calling her hot. tucker is a furry confirmed)

-danny being mad someone at the comic con is selling comics of him without permission, lmfao. give him his royalties!

-freakshow > thanos because hes a drama clown and does use his gauntlet to be FLASHY AND DRAMATIC.

-jazz's 'USE PYSCOLOGY' to danny about freakshow LMAOO. AND THEN IT WORKING. but, oh, freakshow's ghost form sucks. I like him as a clown better tbh. good thing danny took away his ghost powers!

-his parents hugging him and saying theyre proud :"( and saying 'of course you lied to us, we never gave you a reason not to!' and saying they were in the wrong basically for always talking about hurting ghosts aaaa :""(

-then he WIPED THEIR MEMORIES AGAIN!!! FUCK. I can understand him wiping the goverments/student bodies' memories, but why his parents?? they were being accepting!! ARGHHH. season 3 couldve been them all trying to adjust to them knowing!

-I know, on a meta level the showrunners probably wanted to just reset things to the status quo of him having a secret identity. But. We've been doing that for (2) seasons, I'd love if season 3 could be like, his parents adjusting to this and trying way harder to learn more and accept it (and the shenanigans that could come from that) and for fun, if he didn't wipe the students memories, it could be him being popular for a while, then everyone slowly realizing, oh, he's still Danny. Like. he might have ghost powers but hes Just The Same Guy instead of putting him on a pedestal (and seeing them all try and help him hide it from the giw/people who don't know!!)

-fuck they didn't even explain WHY he wiped everyone except sam, tucker and jazz's memories. he just Did It right when his parents were saying they loved/accepted him!! and sam and tucker didnt question it at all!!! HELLO??? very annoyed about this turn of events.

-anyway. onto season 3! I know its shorter than the first two seasons, and is the last season... I might just do it in 2 bursts if I can... :3c depends on the episodes' content and how much I want to say about each!

[bosstoaster]

PROMPT: The team finds out exactly how much of a nerd Shiro is. Bonus if you can include Matt.

Did you mean: Spectrum Verse?

But...

“Shiro!” Matt yelled out, holding a bag over his head.  He trotted over, grinning like he’d been personally handed the key to the universe.  “Check out what I got!”

“Volume control?” Shiro shot back, before he could help himself.  Matt was shouting loud enough that every eye in the trading bay was drifting toward them.  

Next to him, Pidge snorted.  “No way.  He’d never voluntarily buy that.”

Rather than reply to her, Matt just stuck out his tongue, then shoved the bag into Shiro’s chest.  “Remember that promise I made?”

Shiro eyed him, carefully opening the bag.  “You’re going to have to be more specific.  This morning you swore you’d marry me if I gave you the last of the space eggs.”

“And you didn’t, so I’m off the hook,” Matt replied cheerfully.  “Nah, I meant on the Kerberos trip.  One week off?”

Freezing, Shiro stared at Matt, who beamed back, bouncing on the balls of his feet.  His stomach sank as he reached inside and pulled out a bottle of what was no doubt alcohol.  “No.  Absolutely not.”

But Hunk’s curiosity was peeked, and he looked up from his own purchase (some small blinking device who’s possible purpose Shiro couldn’t begin to divine).  “What promise?”

“I said I’d get him drunk again,” Matt reported, before Shiro could speak up and stop him.

Lance’s head whipped around like he was trying to break his own neck.  “What?  Drunk again?  On the Kerberos mission!  Shiro, you dog.”

That finally broke Matt’s grin, and he huffed.  “Please.  Lt. No-My-Spine-Does-Not-Unbend here wasn’t gunna bring anything.  He was terrified he’d sneeze too loudly and be taken off the mission.  Dad brought it.”

Mouth falling open, Pidge turned to stare at Sam, who only raised his brows back.  “You brought alcohol with you to Kerberos?” 

“Just a little.  Enough for a couple of drinks either, for when we were nearly there.”  Sam smiled at Pidge’s look.  “It was a very long six months.  And a good evening.”

Keith eyed Shiro.  “So what? Who cares if you guys brought a drink for one night.”  Then he paused, head slowly tilting.  “What did you do?”

Clapping his hands together gleefully, Matt sighed dramatically.  “It was the best night of my life.  Two-drinks-in Shiro is my favorite.  He talks.  It’s amazing.”

“Okay, enough,” Shiro shot back, glaring at Matt.  He shoved the bottle back into the bag and tried to hand it back, but Matt crossed his arms instead, eyes bright with mischief.  “If everyone’s done, can we head back-”

“What’d Shiro do?” Hunk asked, eyes bright.

Shiro’s mouth fell open.  “Hunk!”

He only shrugged back.  “I wanna know, it sounds funny.”

Lance nodded.  “Seconded.”

“Thirded,” Pidge added.

Snorting, Keith rolled his eyes.  “I don’t have to fourth, Matt’s gunna tell us if we wanna know or not.”

Matt beamed.  “Absolutely right!  I wanna see if Shiro can still do the entire Picard monologue from ‘A Matter of Time’.”

Shiro bristled.  “Of course I can.”  Then he paused, realizing that was probably the wrong direction to go in.

“The time and choices one?” Pidge asked, brows up.  “That things, like, five minutes long.  And it’s about- oh, god, we can never let Shiro go back in time.  He’ll change stuff.  Shiro’s gunna cause a paradox.”

Lance snorted.  “Okay, first of all, it’s sad that you all know that off the top of your head.”

“Agreed,” Keith added.

Jerking his thumb over, Lance nodded.  “Even Keith agrees.  When we can agree on something, it has to be true.  Secondly, Shiro gets drunk and he quotes Star Trek?  Lame.”

“And he recalculated his thesis on the top of his head,” Matt added.  “That one was actually pretty impressive.”

Hunk considered Shiro.  “Sorry, Shiro, I’m with Lance on this one.  That’s a pretty sad way to spend being drunk.”

“What else were we going to do?” Shiro replied, shoulders rising defensively.  “We were stuck in the Daedalus.  And that wasn’t all.”  He paused, lips pulling down.  “I guess doing magic tricks while drunk isn’t better.”

“No,” Pidge agreed.  “That’s what made Matt so excited?  This is pathetic, honestly.”

Sam nodded and plucked the bag out of Shiro’s hands.  “It was.  And I was stuck in a ship with them.  Which means I’m taking this.  I’ve earned it.”

“Daaaad,” Matt whined.  “No, give it.  I bought it.”

Sam considered him, then tilted his head at Shiro.  “Takashi, son, would you help me out and hold this over Matt’s reach?”

Perking, Shiro took it and held it up, grinning at Matt’s furious glare.  “Anytime.”

“How about we get more and everyone gets drunk and is better at it than Shiro,” Lance offered.  At Shiro’s flat expression, he rolled his eyes.  “C’mon, we fly giant robots into war.  We should be allowed to drink.”

“Not an argument I’m having with you,” Shiro told him.  “And screw you all, you make fun of me and then think I’ll let you drink?”

Lance inclined his head.  “Fair.”

“And my thesis was beautiful.  Same thing that got me onto the Kerberos mission in the first place.  I calculated chained gravity assists.  You can all talk shit when you do that.”

Hunk and Pidge shared a glance.  “Like, blanket permission?” Pidge questioned carefully.

Shiro sighed and shook his head.  “How about we head back to the castle, if we’re done.”

“One moment,” Sam replied, heading off the way Matt had came.  “I have something to get first.”

“You do?  What- wait, no.  Sam!”  Shiro groaned and dropped his arm.  Immediately, Matt snatched the bottle back and pulled away.  “You know what?  I give up.”

Keith patted his shoulder sarcastically.  “You’ll live.  We already knew you were a dork.”

“Maybe if you were cooler this wouldn’t be a problem,” Lance offered.

Scrubbing over his face, Shiro started to plan the next day’s training.

He’d have his revenge.  And maybe a drink.  Not two, because screw Matt’s plans, but a drink.

***

That evening, they discovered that one drink of whatever hell alcohol Matt had purchased was about the alcohol content of several shots in a row.

And, yes, Shiro could still do the damn monologue, thank you very much.