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Before you correct my pronunciation just know my Mother is from England, and she said all these names are pronounced however I think is funniest, so.

CW: bad british accents

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i think abt this a lot

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when gerard way sings "the broken, the beaten, and the damned" and when kermit the frog sings "the lovers, the dreamers, and me" they're talking about the same people btw

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Wait!

Nya isn't the master of water in your au??? Is there a reason? Who is?

Nope, I had different plans for her (and two others that I have hidden by gray-scaling the lineart). My personal favorite favorite seasons were when she was Samurai X, so I wanted to keep that in my AU.

I’m still working out who the water ninja could be but that’s for later me to deal with. The Water Element thing of Season 7 is gonna be a bit tricky to deal with but I’ll cross that bridge when we get there.

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Wendy Episode.

Working title is just "Road Rage".

Episode opens with Mabel, Dipper, Soos, and Stan working in the shack. It's not really very busy, Soos is probably trying to show them fushigi tricks or something. They're interrupted by Wendy storming and in acting agitated. She slams the door behind her and takes her position behind the cash register.

Stan breaks the silence this causes with a tactful "Yeesh- What crawled in your cereal this morning and died?"

Wendy reveals that she had a fight with Tambry. Wendy refuses to try and make up with her, as she believes whatever the fight was about is Tambry's fault in the first place and that she herself did nothing wrong. Despite this, Tambry wants an apology. Wendy is not at all willing to give one.

Mabel and Soos try to convince her to make things right between them. Mabel says sometimes you have to say sorry even if you don't really mean it, telling a story about a time she drew with permanent marker all over a white pair of shoes Dipper had without asking him, and that she said sorry even though she totally made them look 100% better. (Dipper gives her a look "...Right."). Soos agrees with Mabel's story and takes it one step further by stating that he's said sorry for things he didn't even do. "Yeah dude, I'm sorry you're having some beef with your friend right now, but sometimes the best way to get things back on the friend track is to just hit them with that sorry. I mean, I say sorry for things I haven't even done! Like two seconds ago when I said 'Sorry you're having some beef with your friend right now.' See? Our friend track is totally still on the rails now."

Both Mabel and Soos's sentiments kind of suck still, so Dipper chimes in with the idea that maybe Wendy might want to reflect on why Tambry thinks she should say sorry, even if she doesn't think she did anything.

Stan, who up to this point hasn't really participated, decides to interject here. Clearly feeling strongly about this, he starts saying that if you don't feel like you did anything wrong, you don't apologize. End of sentence. "Don't just roll over and say you're sorry just because someone else got mad. Stick to your guns."

The air in the shack gets tense. Dipper holds up the magazine Wendy keeps at the cashier desk and points to an ad on the back about a new fast food drive in that just opened and suggests they go there. Stan hangs back because they have vegan milkshakes there and he doesnt want to support them as a result.

Episode cuts to everyone in the car with their fast food. Soos is driving, Wendy is in the passenger seat. Dipper and Mabel are in the back. Wendy checks her phone. She has no new texts from Tambry. The topic of conversation returns apologizing again, and Wendy grows increasingly irate while slurping down one of the vegan milkshakes.

Suddenly at an intersection they're all interrupted by a car cutting off Soos, which he has to hit the breaks hard to avoid hitting. The force causes Wendy to drop her milkshake. She then rolls down the window and yells at the driver and throws up an unseen rude gesture at him. Soos gets nervous, giving her a "I know you're having a bad day and all, but Not cool, dude." Dipper and Mabel look at her in shock. Wendy gets defensive "What? He cut you off! And cost me my milkshake! He deserves it!"

The other car switches lanes to the right and slows down so he can be at Wendy's window. With a stern but calm demeanor, the stranger demands an apology. Everyone in Soos's car also demand she give an apology to him. Wendy pretends to apologize at first, but then hits him with a sick burn "You're right, I'm sorry. ...Sorry your to your Mom that she raised such a bad driver!" She rolls her window up. Everyone shoots her a look thats a mix of shocked/betrayed/upset. Wendy gets defensive again "Guys, come on. It's not like he's going to do anything about it." The other car falls back. "See? It's fine."

Suddenly Soos sees the car behind his. The car starts tailgating him and trying to hit his bumper. He's forced to increase his speed to try and get away from this car, but it doesn't really help. The car stays behind him and continues to nudge at his bumper. The stretch of road they're on leads to a covered bridge, there's no escaping to the left or the right. As they go under the bridge into the dark, the car behind them drops back to make one last charge full speed at them. It hits their car, but phases THROUGH it. Everyone screams.

They reach the other side of the tunnel and are shocked to see nothing amiss. Everyone gets out of the car to investigate a little. Soos wonders if maybe they all died and they're just ghosts now. He picks up his food he got from the drive-thru to test if it will phase right through him. He successfully eats it and feels relief. Mabel worries maybe they're in some kind of mirror world now. She points out a potential mirror world resident. It's just normal all the time Toby Determined. Dipper floats the idea that they might all be cursed now. Wendy gets chastised from the three of them for putting them all in danger like that, but Wendy points out that everyone's still okay and nothing ended up coming of it. "See? I TOLD you guys nothing would happen."

Soos, Dipper, and Mabel get back in the car to go home. Wendy, annoyed that everyone is now mad at her "for no reason", decides to walk home. The others drive home feeling a bit bad, but ultimately do leave Wendy behind. Wendy starts her walk back.

As she leaves, we see the car that chased them (which from this point on, will be referred to as the "ghost car") starting to stalk her.

The next day everyone is back at the shack again. Wendy arrives and starts acting strange and paranoid. The others try to ask her about what's wrong, but she refuses to acknowledge her behavior. While trying to start work, Soos tries to do a fushigi trick again to make her feel better. She catches the reflection of the ghost car in one of the fushigi balls. She gasps, then claims she feels sick and decides to go home. While walking home, she looks around nervously. Suddenly, the ghost car shows up and revs its engine at her. She freezes as it tries to run her down, but she is pulled out of the street at the last second by Dipper, who had secretly followed her out of the shack. The ghost car vanishes after nearly missing the two of them.

Dipper, concerned for her safety, yells at her about how she must be cursed now. And how he bets she's been cursed since yesterday. Wendy says that she SHOULDN'T be cursed, because she didn't do anything wrong! Dipper continues yelling at her "Seriously? This is still about your fight with Tambry?? Just get over yourself and apologize and it will be all over! In the meantime, we have to get back to stopping this Creepy Car Guy from-"

As Dipper is speaking, creepy car guy drives past and grabs him. Dipper screams for Wendy as the car drives away with him. Wendy pushes a nearby kid off his scooter and gives chase. Dipper is at this point fully in the ghost car, banging on the back window as Wendy does her best to keep up. The car leads her back through town, back to the intersection where it originally cut Soos off. Wendy gets sort of close to the back of the car, but as they get to the intersection, it picks up speed and disappears under the bridge in the distance with Dipper.

Wendy falls to her knees in anguish as she looks around at her surroundings. Realizing where she is, she cries out an apology. "Look! I'm sorry for how I acted in the car okay?? I was already angry and when you got in front of our car I took it out on you! It was stupid and I shouldn't have done it and I'm sorry!!"

Silence. A small wind wooshes as Wendy worridly looks around. Suddenly we hear the sound of Dipper falling from the sky. Wendy springs into action to catch him. From thin air, a spectral voice speaks "I'm sorry for cutting your friend off... And for grabbing the sweaty boy..." This fades out into silence again

Dipper and Wendy stare in the distance for a bit, their breathing a bit haggard after everything that just happened, then look at each other quietly. Dipper blushes and starts sweating as he registers the fact that Wendy is holding him. He squirms a little. "O-Kay, time to get down now. Thanks for catching me. I'm not really that sweaty I dont know why the ghost said that." Wendy laughs a little "Dude I was just holding you. I felt the sweat." Dipper attempts to brush the sweat off him as Wendy continues to laugh. While she's laughing her phone buzzes. She opens it. There's one new text from Tambry.

We cut back to the shack. Dipper is filling Soos and Mabel in on what happened. Mabel asks if Wendy ever apologized to Tambry. As she does, Wendy walks in, this time with Tambry. They're both smiling and laughing with each other.

...The end. Thanks for reading if you made it this far.

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If Danny is the stars, Dani is the sun !

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Before you correct my pronunciation just know my Mother is from England, and she said all these names are pronounced however I think is funniest, so.

CW: bad british accents

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Can you tell what my favorite part of a drawing is?

I just wanted to show what their eyes look like colored.

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im stacking extension cords on each other like theyre tinker toys. constructing a tower of babel in the name of the god of electricity. there'll be at least 100 outlets when ive hooked these boys up nice and good. ill never run out again

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Drive Like a Fenton

Danny and Valerie attempt to teach Dani how to Drive

"Okay, now carefully take your foot off the break and lightly step on the gas pedal. Drive up to that stop sign, then stop." Ancients, this was scary. Danny was not a good driver. Well, he was decent, but he was also a Fenton and despite Jazz's best effort, some of their dad's bad habits had rubbed off on him. So maybe he wasn't the best person to be teaching Dani how to drive, but what where the options?

Jazz was away at college, Vlad probably hadn't driven himself anywhere in years, and his parents were his parents. So, an obvious big fat no. That left Danny and a somewhat supportive, somewhat motion sick Valerie.

The car lurched forward, making Danny's grip on either side of his seat tighten to the point his fingernails were digging into the fake leather, as his clone threw him an apologetic smile.

"A bit gentler this time?" Valerie piped up from the back seat. "Ease your foot onto the pedals, don't move too suddenly." Dani nodded and tried again; the car rolled smoothly to the stop sign with only a slightly jerky stop. Danny breathed a sigh of relief. Maybe this was going well after all.

"Okay, now turn on your blinker, we're going to turn right," he instructed.

"Right," Dani replied, determination set on her face. "Uh, which one is that?" she asked, shrinking back a bit.

"It's the lever on the side of the wheel, flick it up for right and down for left." That he had learned from driver's Ed. His parents never used their turn signals. Valerie was hard set on not passing that onto their pseudo-adopted kid. "Other lever," he corrected was the windshield wipers activated.

Dani nodded, flipped the correct lever, and made the turn. A little slow, but still really good for her first time out.

They continued down the block a few more times, going over things like changing lanes, stop signs and right of way, how to make a left-hand turn, etc. and gradually, Danny's grip on his seat got looser and looser as Dani became more and more comfortable. Actually, maybe a little too comfortable.

"Watch your speed," Danny warned as they took a right turn a little too fast.

"I am." They sped up.

"Dani-" Val warned. Holy crap they were headed straight for the on ramp.

"Kid, you're not ready for the highway yet, switch lanes."

Dani huffed and jerked the wheel sharply to the left, switching lanes with no warning.

"Dani!-" A sharp grin spread across her face as her grip on the wheel tightened. Clockwork's Crusty Cape, and they had been doing so good too. Val's Iron grip on Danny's headrest was relentless as they tore through uptown Amity Park and came to a screeching halt in front of Fenton Works. At least her parallel parking didn't need much improvement.

"Keys." Danny demanded, holding out his shaking hand as Val stumbled out of the car to collapse on the front steps.

"But-"

"Keys." Dani grumbled but pulled the keys out of the ignition and handed them over. "Thank you. Now please don't ever do that again."

Dani smirked at her. An evil, malicious grin. Danny hated genetics.

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Whenever I get a new hyperfixation I immediately start brewing crossovers with whatever my special interest at the time is. Which is kind of unfortunate because it can result in the most off-the-wall nonsense shit

Anyway I just think it would be fun for Danny to work as Doofenshmirtz’ intern (a PAID intern because he might be evil but he’s not as evil as Major Monogram!)

Danny could technically stop Perry from wrecking Doofenshmirtz’s shit but he just kind of. Doesn’t. It’s not his job to fight off Doofenshmirtz’ nemesis, his job is to troubleshoot Doofenshmirtz’s plans so he stops missing obvious problems

(Vanessa has been lodging complaints)

Danny just wants some formal work experience and Doofenshmirtz was impressed by the things he talked about doing in his parents’ lab and also by his tragic backstory (required)

Doofenshmirtz- also you were the only one that applied

Side effect of this is that Doofenshmirtz starts having to comply with OSHA safety standards because if he doesn’t then Danny refuses to eat lunch at work and Doofenshmirtz doesn’t like it

Doofenshmirtz- I’m not going to give you radioactive food!

Danny- I literally just don’t believe you

And yes Doofenshmirtz DOES immediately start trying to unlock more of Danny’s tragic backstory just because it seems like the thing to do and then proceeds to wheedle him into talking about it during nemesis fights (“You need to communicate!”)

Danny reminds Perry of his boys so they have an unspoken policy of ‘Danny won’t stop Perry and Perry leaves Danny alone’ which Doofenshmirtz appreciates. Perry absolutely realizes that Danny could be a much bigger threat if he wanted to but he also clearly doesn’t want to so Perry’s not really worried about it

Danny doesn’t really interfere either way because honestly the balance these two have going on is impressive. Doofenshmirtz makes his ‘evil’ inventions to work out his trauma and Perry makes sure no one gets hurt from them. No interference needed

This is probably some sort of tragic 18-19 year old Danny that’s really just trying to move on from everything that happened at Amity Park and doesn’t really want to think about it anymore

And yes half of this is just because I think it would be fun for Doofenshmirtz to have a slightly smaller younger assistant with a marginally less tragic backstory

…God why is there so much to this AU

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Hate it when im catastrophizing just to put my thoughts in the open, but instead of reassuring me my lerson is just like: "all of those are valid reasons to give up and stay in the terrible place you are now" 100% unironically

NO!! They arent valid reasons why are you agreeing with me

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Zoey is a veteran danny phantom fan and is secretly incredibly active in the community and reads tons of fan fiction.

She clocks Rumi as a half demon pretty quickly.

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I've recently gotten into a lot of AO3 fanfics that are a crossover of "DC comics" and "Danny Phantom" (such as "Empty Graves" by Binaberries and "Those Who Serve" by aryelee, both of which are fantastic, btw!) and I feel like I'm missing out on at least two decades of context which explains why fics like these are written the way they are.

Like, I remember that Danny in the original cartoon had struggles, but who first decided that Danny ought to be traumatized because his own parents vivisected him on a lab table? That he's constantly looking over his shoulder because he's on the run from the GIW? That the Anti-Ecto Acts constitute genocide because it authorizes the U.S government to kill all ghosts on sight?

I haven't watched "Danny Phantom" in a while, so correct me if I'm wrong, but these all seem like disporportionally heavy topics for what the original cartoon is. Are people just taking details already present in the show and extrapolating them out to their maximum angst? Is it to try to get "Danny Phantom" to fit in with the DC universe? Or is there some other explaination for it?

If there's any OG Danny Phantom fanfic writers out there that can enlighten me, I'd love to get caught up and hear what you have to say!

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The portal accident-

Canon DP : His MoLeCuLeS got all ReArRaNgEd

Phanon: HE FUCKING DIED

this has been the funniest thing about the phandom to me so far