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Underground

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Okay so compared to Cass he's a failure. He's been told he's a failure his entire childhood. He's internalised this, it's why he struggles so much with thinking he's as smart as the rest of his family. In this world lets make that known, his parents know he has issues with feeling inferior and had a bad family so had to spend more time with him. They spoke to psychologists, learnt how to help their new baby. They wanted to do everything they could so it resulted in them leanring everything they could about the subject. Ghosts took a break for a month, their baby needed them. This resulted in them taking a hard look at their research with this new information in mind. How can something be planning to overtake the world and be non-sentient? Some of their research didn't make sense. Every scientist makes mistakes, they just need to learn more. This resulted in no rip apart molecule by molecule, and after making the portal they gathered evidence and came to the conclusion ghosts were capable of thinking. Now a new line of study, one specially chosen so they could talk to Jazz about it afterwords. They had spent so much time talking about their interest so now they could link to hers. How does death and the afterlife affect ghosts mentalities and society? Hence the extended trip to the ghost zone.

Danny however, despite being not as good as Cass, is still damn good compared to everyone else. Lets say he is as good at fighting but falls behind in body language reading. This means he cannot predict his opponents like she can and therefore is beaten more often or makes mistakes in fights. He builds on this in the zone, learning new fighting styles in the different communities to bond with his new subjects and learn about them and their culture.

The bats, however, hear about this kid who was abandoned for being a failure in comparison to Cass. A kid who Cain is now taking an interest in as he's lost one weapon, may as well go back to the second choice. So they have it in their heads he can't fight and needs saving, part of the reason they're so desperate to track him down. Cass can barely remember him, they were raised separately so as not to form loyalty to each other instead of David Cain and only really saw each other every few years for a match, which she won. They were still fond of each other but didn't realise they were siblings, just the closest thing each had to a friend. Now she finds out she has a twin who's in danger, who she thought was dead, she wants to add him to her family.

Amity doesn't like these new comers who are after the small Fenton, he struggled so much when he first came here and had that period when the ghost attakc sstarted where he retreated sharply into his shell. He finally seemed to be doing okay again and now this lot was driving his family out of their homes. Combined with their bad experiences with the government and rich people and you get people who are very reluctant to help.

In every fic where Danny is somehow related to the Batfam (via Bruce, Talia, Jason, Dick, etc.) While trying to avoid them he always thinks about hiding out in the ghost zone, but never actually does it. And I crave it. 

Imagine, family trying to find their long lost relative, and he’s fast but they’re faster and they’re catching up and soon /soon/ they will have a reunion and get to know him and he’ll see that they’re really not that bad and be part of the family where he belongs.

But then.

Nothing.

And they search and search, call up old contacts, travel far and wide but every lead is a dead end but they just keep trying because eventually-

And years go by, and occasionally they get an alert or see something in the corner of their eyes during patrol and they run because they can’t miss him what if this is their only chance-

And it’s not him, it’s NEVER HIM. He could be dead for all they know or he’s gone completely into hiding and that’s almost worse because are they really that bad? That awful?

(And Danny has been traveling in the ghost zone for maybe weeks, maybe years now, time is tricky where the laws of nature of different dimensions collide. He’s gone universe hoping and done the ghostly equivalent of a college students gap year to see the world but he’s ready to go home and surely they have given up by now? He’s not that important and he’s sure they’ve realized that after his time away so he leaves the ghost zone and-)

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Danny sighed as he saw another of the League of Hypocrites coincidentally walking into the room with him and Uncle Connie. Was them leaving him alone too much to ask? Did he need to put up with another insincere apology from the group looking for a more permanent attack dog?

Danny knew they weren't apologising because they felt bad, quite the opposite. Some of these individuals were very haunted and more than a few of their ghosts didn't like the one they were bound to. They were perfectly willing to report what they were saying when they thought no one could hear them. Many were irritated at Danny. How dare he refuse to help them, didn't he know everything they did was for the greater good? Sure, apparently they did something to earn his ire but no one knew what it was. It probably wasn't that big a deal anyway and they were certain they had a reason for whatever happened. And wasn't that boy arrogant, all that power and refusing to dedicate his life to helping others like a good person would. Maybe they should keep a close eye on this contact of Constantine's, everyone knows his people are shady.

Danny had heard it all and oh did their arrogance bug him. This little League of theirs had gone so long being the big boys, had been told for so long that they were good, moral and just they had come to believe they could do no wrong. At least some of them. Pride choked him whenever he had to spend extended periods of time around the idiots and the half-ghost could not wait until his honorary Uncle had used up all of the official favours Danny owed him. He would happily leave them to deal with their own messes after that.

He continued on with his work pinpointing the source of the incomplete resurrections, or as everyone else was calling it the zombie apocalypse which was extremely overdramatic for a few measly corspes that couldn't even run, as one of the idiots dithered behind him. He didn't even know the name of this one but it wasn't worth learning. He wouldn't be here for long anyway.

Danny walked off to compare his findings with John as whatever-their-name-is opened their mouth to speak, be it to apologise or repremand him as both had happened over his unhappy stay with this lot, no matter what it was he didn't want to hear it.

Two more favours left and considering the rate they were being used he wouldn't need to deal with this lot for much longer. Danny gestured to the skeleton form of his sister to join him as he wandered to the other side of the room.

Villains had discovered the Leagues ineptitude when it came to dealing with the undead and were taking full advantage. The amount of death magic incidents had spiked, which was probably why they were trying to create bond and convince him to stay. The living couldn't deal with this magic, it was toxic to those who weren't born with an affinity and ironically the halfa was always capable of handling death magic. His ease with it had apparently only grown with his death, at least according to the denizens of the Realms. Anyone else who came into contact with it would die at best, be driven mad or worse.

Sadly for them there were no other people in this dimension with the ability to stand it. He knew, he had checked. Danny, Vlad and his sister were the only ones born recently with the affinity and according to Clockwork no one else would be born for around 700 years. Even Ellie couldn't handle much, hence her many issues, and required intervention from the king of the dead to stabilise. No mortal could impart such a thing and Danny certainly wouldn't give anyone such a blessing. Too bad so sad, Danny's ability to care had faded with his family. These dumbasses deserved it anyway and he was certain he could grab John and keep him safe if needs be. It wasn't like this was apocalypse level danger anyway, just a few shambling corpses, and the villains who were invoking them would begin dropping like flies soon enough. Toxic magic after all. The amount of zombies and other undead would be finite as those with magic learnt to leave necromancy alone.

He simply had to put up with them for a little bit more, then he could leave the hypocrites alone.

The Necromancer

DP x DC Prompt inspired by 'The Ghost Warlock' on A03 by Cas3_Blanca

The Justice League has been dealing with matters related to the Undead recently. And JLD could barely handle the undead. That is until Constantine had called in a favor from someone he knew. A young man in a black trench coat with a skeleton following him everywhere, that skeleton had a burned headband on it.

The young man is a necromancer, and he is very good at handling the matters of the undead. He just has a bit of disdain for the Justice League and keeps to himself whenever he is around any Justice League member. The only person he seems to trust is Constantine, as he doesn't even interact with the rest of the JLD members. The young man had told them that he's only helping because he owed Constantine quite a few favors, and once Constantine used up all those favors on helping the Justice League, he's done with them, which means he'll leave the Justice League and Justice League Dark to deal with the undead.

Danny's life was as good as it could get. His parents had accepted him as Phantom, Clockwork assured Danny that he doesn't have to be the Ghost King just yet, his grades are steadily rising, and he is scheduling fights with his Ghostly Rogues.

That is until the GIW had shown up again. They were in the process of isolating Amity when the entire city fought back against them.

There were a few casualties, which mostly consisted of people Danny is close to. His parents, Jazz, Sam, Tucker, Valerie, Dash, Mr. Lancer and Star had perished during the struggle, and only those close to Danny hadn't become Ghosts. There wasn't enough to recover from them. Danny only has a few things to remember them by. His mom's Goggles, his dad's fudge recipe, Sam's bracelet, Tucker's PDA, and Valerie's earrings. Jazz was the only one to be buried, as she still had a body that wasn't vaporized.

He tried looking for Dani and Vlad but learned from Technus that they were captured and ended by the GIW. Now, the only person he has to lean on is his "Uncle" Constantine.

Constantine has helped Danny many times during his first years as Phantom. That's why Danny owes Constantine so many favors. He had tried to call help from the Justice League whenever Constantine wasn't around, but he was just brushed off. Hence why he doesn't like helping the Justice League's undead problems. He had also asked Technus to put his information and anything else related to him under lock and key. He doesn't want the Justice League to access and have files of his information. He's got Jazz's skeleton with him because he's taken up the role of Ghost King, and it came with Pariah's ability to raise a skeleton army if need be, but he only uses it on Jazz and other nearby buried bodies to help him deal with undead that aren't Ghosts. He also doesn't want to show his Ghostly half to the Justice League.

He's gotten quite good at hiding his mental presence from the Martians on the Justice League, but some of his emotions and thoughts slipped through. Now, the Justice League is being annoying to him by trying to apologize to him for whatever it is they did to him so they could still rely on him for any undead related issues.

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Annabeth: What's the most polite way to phrase "you fucked up big time and need to fix this now or else" in a professional email?

Percy: "Hello, I hope this email finds you before I do"

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I’m sure someones already said this but I often see Tumblr described as a hellsite. This is fundamentally incorrect.

Tumblr is the faesite. Everybody is super confused and lost, you keep running into random places. Somehow you end up stuck there forever after interacting a couple of times. The people are all strange, everybody simultaneously seems to be from the future and the past as if time is meaningless.

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It's refusing to load for me, is anyone else having this issue?

is ao3 broken for anyone else or am i just supremely unlucky

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okay but part of me is thinking of if/when Perse gets her memories after pjo is over and just straight up rejecting the roman interpretation like she was in the recent chapters. Outright saying that she is not Nerio, Nerio is a made up goddess who never existed. She is Perseleia and the version they had created she didn't accept. So she just doesn't get a Roman form because that's not her, would that cause issues with the roman versions of the gods? Like Mars trying to refer to her as his wife and she just outright rejects it. No Roman form for her to struggle with because, whilst she cares for the demigods, she doesn't accept the version of her they created after her death? Also her reaction to seeing the naked statues, destroying them or removing them, making sure they couldn't dishonour her anymore and both versions of Apollo helping by ensuring no one else could make anymore disrespectful art, such as mortal artists facing minor issues like a loss of inspiration or no materials but demigods getting it much worse. It could also be a point of contention between the camps after everything is said and done, they still have their Athenide but Rome does not have Nerio, she doesn't exist and the Athenide rejets their false worship.

Out of curiosity, if Perseleia makes it to the Roman era without fading, what will be her Roman name?

Nerio Fides

Nerio was the personification of valor and was the consort of Mars. She was also identified with Bellona (often) and Minerva (rarely). She got a portion of the spoils of war until she was replaced by gods the Romans brought/stole from other cultures. It seemed fitting for the Athenide au with the bonus of @anotheroceanid and I thinking it's hilarious to have Apollo's crush be married to his brother Ares/Mars

Fides was the personification of trust, fidelity, and good faith which works with for my interpretation of Perse Athenide being a goddess of oaths and loyalty. Fides is usually depicted as wearing a laurel or an olive leaf crown which fits the au aesthetic; she also wears a white veil which goes into the "Athenide is the eternal bride with no groom" thing we got going on

Spes would be an epithet, it means hope and the personification of hope did have a joint temple with Fides but I'm personally going to make Rome absolutely destroy any remains of Perse Athenide out of their sheer hatred for the Greeks, Athena, and Poseidon.

If she is spoken of at all, she is referred to as Mars' Bride

we're not going into the roman emperor fascination with the Athenide; i'm pushing that off to future me

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Love it when tim don't tell people SHIT. 'tim tells nobody he has lost his spleen'? Weak sauce. I want Tim to be a complete and utter mystery just by accident.

I want tim to not tell anyone that Bruce is alive. He just vanishes after bruce dies. Nobody can find him. He just shows up months later like hey the LOA is in town protect these specific people. Also Bruce is alive and I know how to find him.

I want tim to be a cryptid within the batfamily. Enough of sad baby 'please be my family' tim. Let him become ungovernable. It's what canon Tim would want. He didn't invent a fake uncle because he thought Bruce didn't want him, he created a fake uncle because he didn't want bruce

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i saw kakashi in accounting class

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AO3 will be offline for maintenance to fix the ongoing database issue, starting at 9am UTC on 7 Feb. We expect the maintenance to last approximately 6 hours. Thank you for your patience!

Posted: 22:53 UTC February 6, 2025

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my beloved husband (archive of our own) has returned from war and is back home safely (the site was down for maintenance) after six years (six hours) of me praying for him to come back to me (ao3 staff has stated since the beginning that the maintenance will take roughly six hours).

thank you god (ao3 staff) for returning my husband (archive of our own) to me. I am eternally grateful

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my husbands gone to war (ao3 is down)

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this started out as rendering practice (love myself a good shrinkwrapped reflective suit) but it turned into “how many photo compression/degradation mimicking effects can i put on this guy before he becomes unrecognizeable” and the answer is A LOT

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a dc superhero pretends to be OSHA to gain access to the Fenton’s lab and the door is slammed in their face, multiple explosions and crashes are heard including "SCATTER! REMEMBER YOUR TRAINING KIDS!" and the ops centre flies away

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northern hemisphere babes we made it to the longest night of the year. we made it. for the next 6 months, every day will give us a little more daylight than the last. let's go. take my hand. climb out of the darkness with me