#for 20 amazing years

[darthfrodophantom]

Nostalgic Dannyversary post incoming. (I’m sorry, it gets sappy).

I wasn’t one of the lucky few who got to catch the first episode that fateful 4/3/04 day. I didn’t have cable, so I didn’t even know it was a show that existed. I never even saw a commercial.

So summer of 2004, I was visiting my grandparents. I was stuck inside with horrible cramps from a torturous menstrual cycle and couldn’t swim in the backyard with the rest of my family. I flipped idly through the channels looking for something to drown out the squeals of fun from my siblings and cousins and happened upon the Nickelodeon channel.

I had no idea what I was watching, but the animation style caught my eye as something new and I was intrigued by a white haired boy who could fly. I watched him transform and immediately needed to know what was going on. Turns out I’d stumbled into the middle of Bitter Reunions. I had no idea what was happening, but I laughed at the quick and clever writing style and felt even more curious about why this boy had powers.

Another episode came on next (I think it was Attack of the Killer Garage Sale or One of a Kind - the marathon aired them out of order) and I saw the intro for the first time. I bopped along with the beat, cramps quickly forgotten, and saw the intro for the first time and finally had a better idea why this boy could fly, but oh was it only the tip of the iceberg. I watched 3-4 episodes that day and tried to catch as many more as I could until we left.

I actually didn’t think about the show too much after that until we finally got cable in 2005. I immediately remembered this show and tried to find any episodes I could. I watched some as they reran and some as they aired live, but I kept hoping I’d somehow find the first episode. I’d seen Mystery Meat, but I kept feeling like there had to be a first episode where they covered the accident and I just kept missing it. So then I went to the internet, found out there wasn’t a first episode about the accident, and immediately went to fanfiction to find someone’s take on it.

Six months later I published the first chapter of Tortured Truth and a month after that, the first chapter of A Secret Uncovered. The rest, as they say, is history.

So thank you, Danny Phantom, for 20 amazing years. You have played a monumental role in my life. You introduced me to some amazing friends, taught me how to write creatively, encouraged me to get better at writing, inspired me to try my hand at drawing, got me into play by posts with my best friend which helped me get through college, and fostered my creativity more than any other fandom has. You were my gateway into the fandom life, and I’ve loved every minute of it.

Thank you Danny Phantom 💚

(Please share some of your early experiences with the show! I’d love to hear them!)

[vampirehayfever]

"kristen is one of the most gifted clerics the world has ever seen" AND IF I LITERALLY THROW UP BECAUSE SHE DOESN'T GET APPRECIATED ENOUGH FOR HER TALENTS

[embraceweird]

Me every single day:

[moonlightmagical]

horrifying murder shit from this episode aside, seeing how the intrepid heroes have progressed in how they play this game from freshman year to now has been a joy.

like there was a fuck ton of luck in the last stand but there was also just very well thought out combat choices? there was smart understanding of the game mechanics? there was a mastery of higher level combat?

this episode was incredible to watch not only because of the naturally entertaining nature of the bad kids, but also because this combat was just wonderfully run, executed, and handled in every regard.

[stealingpotatoes]

hands you all this cal to announce i’ve FINALLY finished fallen order (by which i mean i finally picked it up again after those couple hours i played a few months ago and then finished the whole game in 2 days lol)

[bigfuckingfrog]

kristen working miracles without cassandra is making me emotional. placing the shards onto the runes and bodies and working a miracle because her god isn’t here to do that. the silhouettes of lucy and yolanda holding hands on the water really got me in my emotions omfg

[miutonium]

PPG ZOMG 💗

[marshmallowgoop]

no thoughts just Heiji Hattori (HD)

[audliminal]

I think the crux of what makes the rat grinders so damn rage-inducing is just. How fucking entitled their whole stance is. Like sure they've put in a lot of time! And frankly, if they were just trying to graduate, put in the work, and get out with average fucking grades that would be fine.

But instead the first thing we know about them is that they feel the treatment some people (the bad kids) get is unfair. And like. That's what makes it so frustrating when the revelation comes of what they've been doing for the last two years. Because in those two years they have risked nothing and helped no one. Killing rats in a trainee forest doesn't change anything. The rats are just there. They're not a threat to anyone, there isn't any danger. Nobody needs to be doing that.

Meanwhile, the bad kids have quite literally saved the world three fucking times. The number of people who have directly benefitted from the actions of the bad kids is astronomical! And they have risked so goddamn much in the process. They have repeatedly put everything they have and are on the line, with the only beneficial reward they've gotten being their grades. Hell, mostly their success has just resulted in them being burdened with more work!

So when these fucking rat grinders show up and start complaining that the bad kids are getting favored unreasonably, they and we all know how absolutely bullshit it is, because the reality is, the bad kids have put in so much more work than the rat grinders have, for barely any reward.

[hamable]

I need Brennan to win an award. I need the world to know how exceptional a storyteller he is. How do you plan something like this?

I’m suddenly seeing the rat grinders as a sort of self insert for him. Not character-wise, but as tools for writing a mystery. Usually you start with the solution and work backwards. Brennan had to concoct this solution and prepare for every possible thing that the best DnD players he’s ever known might do to crack his story wide open. He needed an entire party of character foils whose primary goal was to cover their tracks and account for periphery details to outsmart The Bad Kids. An unfathomable amount of work to be able to tell this story at the pace it’s being told.

I found myself remarking earlier in the season how much planning and foreknowledge he had to have to have the variety of dome projections from @caitmayart he does and now I realize that’s just scratching the surface.

[sittinginsunflowers]

Zac Oyama has done a lot of very attractive things in his life, but asking Brennan if he should rage, getting him to unknowingly command him to do it, then using it to get out of being charmed and frightened, and therefore ruinning Brennan’s life has me wanting to propose marriage.

[deconstructthesoup]

Remembering again that Ragh canonically started gaining weight only after he came out and fully accepted himself and now I'm crying

[kittyoverlord]

This scene could be taken straight out of one of the DnD games I ran when I worked at a LARP camp. I ran games for kids age 8-16 ish (not at the same time, that's just the complete range), and they really are this chaotic. Sometimes you just have to go, "no, that's not gonna happen my dude."

From the trying to supercede the rules with spells, to the non-sequiter bits in the side, to the one player that wants to take things seriously being annoyed, this is a perfect encapsulation of DnD chaos at the table - imo.

And it all ending in, "Vultures, yea or nea?" Classic LARP camp.

[vampirehayfever]

this is where i post from btw if you even care

[indecision-incarnate]

AAAAHHHHHH!!!!! JAWBONE!!

I love him so much @caitmayart

[saturngalore]

the universe of saturngalore 🪐🌈