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Help me,

PLAYERRRRR!!!

Also uh..

[lyrouxx]

completed an age timeline for my durge, ionel! at least what happens in a timeline he manages to reject bhaal - he's not really redeemed afterwards, he's fed the fuck up with gods and would rather kill thema all then serve another again, all the mischief is now in his (and his husband's) name.

closeups below~

[lesbian-sastiel-sex]

its weird when people take away dean's problematic traits (gross comments about highschool girls, weird incesty jokes) saying "oh he wouldnt do that because its wrong!" because its kind of like watching hannibal and saying "hannibal wouldnt eat those people! thats gross!"

like dont fucking watch a pervy/scary/problematic show and claim you like the characters if you're forcibly changing the characters until they're more palatable to you because that means you dont actually like the fucking show/characters

[hotpinksprout]

I made skateboard a mini of my version of his design because he's the only playable character without one and I CANNOT WAIT UNTIL HIS REDESIGN ANY LONGER

and also so I could do this

[thebiballerina]

I cannot speak for this specific crossover, but I have some hypotheses about weirdly popular crossover combinations, in general. Regardless of impetus, a few interested people can rapidly grow into a self-sustaining community once you get the ball rolling, especially with two pre-existing pools of fans to recruit from.

As for what gets the trend started in the first place, here are some patterns I notice:

One of the properties has a similarity that is a core component that people like in the other. (In this Batman and Danny Phantom case, presumably double life + superheroing? Same for DC and Miraculous Ladybug.)

One of the fandoms has an aspect that would either cause interesting encounters with the other, be incongruous in an amusing way, or some combination. (Supernatural and Criminal Minds, the top crossover in the Criminal Minds tag on AO3: The main characters of Supernatural are, at various points, legally serial killers and thought to be insane. So you have the Criminal and the Minds. Except both assessments are wrong, if not entirely untrue, and the Criminal Minds protagonists are supposed to see through that sort of thing. Ergo, interesting and incongruous.)

"The fandom has pockets," meaning that there are spaces in the plot or character backstories in at least one fandom that are excellent opportunities to fit another fandom in there. (If I had to guess, White Collar-DC crossovers are at least partially attributable to this.) (Also, thank you to the Leverage (2008) creators for helping me describe this one, since I believe they stated this as a reason not to fill in canon backstories too much. That might have been in one of the commentaries? Leverage fans, help me out here, I know it was said somewhere.)

Usual fan population overlap: Overlap in themes, character archetypes, genres, cast, creators, eras, or settings. For TV shows before streaming was so ubiquitous, you could even get overlap based on timeslots for airing. (This is another one that I think contributes to White Collar and DC: I can spot a fair few Catwoman-type traits in Neal Caffrey, and I can only presume there were plenty of shared influences, if not direct inspiration. And, back to the DP-DC discussed by OP: My information is only based on a cursory web search, but Danny Phantom aired 2004-2007, and Jason Todd was officially resurrected in 2005, with 2005-2011 being the era of his time post-resurrection, pre-New 52 universe reboot.)

I don't really have anything concrete backing this up, just patterns I have noticed. I would love to know other people's thoughts.

Please God what is the connection between Danny phantom and batman in crying i just want to look at silly little batman posts why is the cartoon twink fucking Jason todd??????????

[jesfern]

The doctor's causes of death in nuwho are so silly to me. Like:

9: absorbed the time vortex

10: radiation poisoning

11: old age??

12: lazerbeam to the chest

13: GIANT lazerbeam to the chest

14: lazerbeam to the chest

Do we perhaps see a pattern starting to form?

[borfungus]

been a few loops since ur last touch therapy huh Lulu

[jupiter-on-the-compupiter]

[fern--theplant]

i think the fact that we can see the vote count at the end should've been discussed more

[phibsies]

something me and my friend joked about back in february

[muffinlance]

I appreciate the lovely science museum volunteer who saw my four-year-old and started carefully explaining basic magnetic properties

I appreciate EVEN MORE that when firstborn went "oh, like a maglev train" and "that's an electromagnet!", said lovely volunteer totally code-switched, and we quickly ended up at

"Want to see a gaussian rifle?"

Oh boy did firstborn EVER

[walrus-tusk-615bc]

A buncha ideas for the ancient’s parents and what they would have been like. Also adds a bit of an explanation as why my Golden Cheese is half sphinx.

If you’re wondering why Pure Vanilla and White Lily don’t have pages for their parents, I am of the firm belief that they just spawned in as orphans.

[kyrup]

add another one to the collection of John(ny) Noun’s from brennan

[bugtoast]

Chat is this anything?

[toonsforkicks22]

It’s always the sweetest ones…

[stars-obsession-pit]

Unknowing World-Ender

As Danny’s age and power grew, so too did his haunt. What was once just a single room ballooned into a city, a planet, then far beyond.

His own cosmic playground to rearrange however he wanted.

That unto itself wasn’t too unusual for a ghost. Though his scale was grander than most, plenty of ghosts created sizable haunts of their own too. Even the hollow simulacra of alien lifeforms he created to populate the space weren’t entirely unheard of in the Zone.

Perhaps because of that fact, no one paid close enough attention to notice when it became something more. Not just a Haunt, but a living universe.

Nor did Danny notice the shift either. Space still bent to his will same as before, and the simulacra were already complex enough that being truly alive didn’t look too different at a brief glance. Besides, his attention was usually focused on a far grander scale. Sure, he sometimes enjoyed sculpting out the little things, but his art usually consisted of shaping entire starscapes.

So he continued as before, reshaping his realm to fit wherever his whims took him.

Unintentionally causing an untold amount of chaos and terror amongst the now-sentient denizens of his universe as they watched an incomprehensibly powerful entity creating and destroying whole swaths of their reality.