After years of fighting crime and being a hero, Danny decided that he wanted another profession, something else to do with his life. In the end he decided to be what he always needed: A doctor.

Thanks to Frostbite's teachings and help, Danny managed to become a successful and efficient doctor quickly (although he definitely hated normal medical school), with experience in all kinds of beings (from all kinds of dimensions, he couldn't just be a human doctor, what's the point on that?)

Since his universe didn't need a doctor for heroes and Frostbite was enough for the ghosts he decided to... be a traveler doctor, or something similar, help other dimensions. With the help of the Infinite Map he always traveled where "he was needed", and thanks to Clockwork he always escaped before they could question him.

The Justice League was very confused about who was randomly showing up to heal them. Sometimes by force. But Danny didn't care about the consequences, after all, they need him. And it's kind of funny that he's referred to as "The Doctor" in their files.

Im crying this is so god d* funny.

Is this weird dude; who’s always showing up and saving our lives and giving medical care we otherwise wouldn’t have been able to get, here to help us??? Is he on our side????

No. Maybe. Clearly this medic is dangerous and possibly plotting our downfall.

The level of self centered paranoia is immaculate. Just say thank you. I think after the third save it’s pretty obvious he’s just a mysterious Medic. Thats pretty ally like honestly.

@justwannabecat @memetic-trigger-hazard stop hiding your hot takes in the comments smh

Alright since I was called out and can't write anything fiction, collected everything and added some. feel free to build off these.

Danny saved Donald Wilson's life during WW2 when he was serving with the 43rd Wessex Division of the Scottish Rifles, which is noted to have taken heavy casualties. They become friends and Danny occasionally drops in because he was 'in the neighbourhood'

The portal shock happened on his right side and caused the position of his core to mirror his heart, which due to halfa biology 'pulses' at opposite timing to his heart.

Clockwork is the Master of Time.

Danny as his ghost (adopted?) son is granted the title of "Lord of Time" to go with his "Master of Space, High King of The Infinite Realms, all the Dead, Neverborn and Ancients." etc

He turns up and calls Diana niece.

While he stops Hades latest bullshit.

By reminding him that he's waiting on his paperwork.

Danny is in the Canon hieroglyphs and records as well as the DC ones because Egypt happened before the universe timelines diverged. Include him beating a young Ra's Al'Ghul for leadership of their master's school during the Infini-Map incident with Vlad. Ra's has never let it go. Danny calls him Fruit Loop Supreme.

The Fortress of Solitude has records of "The King of the Zone" who saved ancient krypton and who the Phantom Zone is named after (is the Phantom Zone just the Infinite Realms?)

The House of (Dani) El? Kryptonians did love genetic engineering, stolen or donated dna to cure a disease perhaps? Could be the basis for Kryptonian bs powers.

Krytopnite/Ectoranium?

Danny uses the spectre speeder as a form of travelling office for his King paperwork, as well as emergency 'field' hospital and engineering workshop. Because he has the Kings Castle as his haunt, he is able to make the speeder his "normal" haunt, which due to space powers makes it larger inside.

Grandpa Clockwork let Ellie in on the joke and she painted her Dad's car blue.

Danny went to a University in England due to the anti ecto acts and it affected his accent.

Amity Park is in Illinois. Midwest manners exacerbate the accents stereotype.

Danny still doesn't know the shows based on him.

OK since my previous post got more interest than expected and my ADHD brain kept running overnight, have some more. As always free for anyone to turn into a full story.

The amount of similarities between Dr Who and Danny Phantom are actually pretty funny when you think about it, and Danny would be the kind of guy to just casually let slip information on previous 'minor' events . If you combine that with misunderstandings and miscommunication. Well. Shenanigans ensure. Danny IS a gremlin. Dani comes by it naturally after all. The JL would freak out pretty quickly.

To list a few ideas:

Time Lords are taken to look into the Time Vortex on Galifrey. Sounds mighty like a portal accident to me.

The Time Lords of Galifrey considered themselves guardians of creation and the time stream. Hi there Danny doing missions for Clockwork.

The red robes that Rassilon and his fellow Time Lords have look very familiar. Almost like a certain group of eyeballs.

The Master. Vlad Masters. Just as much of a Fruit Loop.

From some older Who. The Valeyard. Implied to be a future evil incarnation of the Doctor. Sounds very much like Dan no?

The Doctor is known for changing his appearance. You could take this at the basic level of phantom/fenton or ramp it up with some shapeshifting. Dealers choice.

You could take the above even further if it's a very old and immortal Danny. Every time his human side dies his ghost side just makes a new body, ala regenerations. Bonus humour includes Danny having the Doctor's post regeneration cravings and drunken/high/concussed state. Due to ectoplasm's elasticity it could account for initial differences in appearance while he's not 100%in the brain meats.

A sonic screwdriver is exactly the kind of thing Danny would make. A multitool using ectoplasm for telekinesis to be the perfect fitting or attachment for whatever he's working on? A dream come true after the hodgepodge of his parent's inventions being made out of toasters and microwaves.

Intergalactic treaties? Planetary Defence Pacts? Agreements to defend undeveloped worlds with primitive societies? Sounds like something Danny would be involved in as High King. After all, he oversees the Infinite Realms, the Omniverse which contains every instance of the multiverse, anything which threatens all his hard work and repairs after Pariah broke everything is certainly on his radar. Plus this boy loves space. No way is he passing on his chance to live his childhood dreams.

Meanwhile the Justice League is panicking, Clark is fanboying because he really associated with The Doctor growing up, Bruce is binging Dr Who desperately trying to get caught up (he's a Grey Ghost fan ok, he doesn't get why nobody else likes it) while he gets Tim and Barbara to write Cliff Notes versions of what they know about The Doctor from the TV shows.

Meanwhile Constantine is drinking. As an indicator of how bad things are, Zatanna joined him. Because it turns out that the TV wasn't exaggerating when they called The Doctor, The Lonely GOD.

Danny is just thrilled to meet such interesting and colourful new people. He's still not sure why they're so excited to meet a Doctor? Do superheros not have health insurance or something in this dimension? At least they're friendly. And they have a space station :D

Bonus:-Clockwork has played every incarnation of Rassilon in the TV series via overshadowing. Timothy Dalton was his favourite. He will not be taking questions.

yes yes the answer is yes! we are a mid-high support needs disabled autistic polyfragmented DID system with alters with a wide range of vebralness. a lot of us use forms of AACs or TTS in out of inner world / headspace and in real life. if you think you need it, just use it. it's stressful at first, but nonverbal communication is communication and it's a valid way to communicate. 🧩 - The Dreamdrop System

[image ID: six images in rows of two. they have black text in all-caps over a lavender background. the first image has stylized pictures of AACs. the images read:

Can I use an AACs/TTS...

But also.. can if I..

You don't need permission to use AACs/TTS. If you feel the need to use it, do it. Give yourself permission.

If you have verbal issues it's totally OK. It's okay to use AACs/TTS. It's a valid form of communication. It's okay. It's okay..

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If you don't have a device specifically for it, there are TTS apps you can download for your phone. There are probably AAC ones too, but I can't personally vouch for that.

Danny Finds a friend in Death

Death loved Amity Park, with its abundant ectoplasm so could interact with the world and people without there being a dying person.

She even got to meet the Halfa who embodies her concept better than anyone in the universe. She can say she liked being around him, he treated her as a friend and not someone to be feared.

Danny can honestly say he never had a friend quite like Death. Of course like every sane person he feared Death but as he got used to being a Halfa and his chaotic hero life he became less sane.

So when a woman came up to him calling herself Death how could he deny it when he's seen stranger things. So instead of fearing her, he instead wanted to let her experience the world without having to guide some soul to the afterlife.

Danny as a halfa (and king?) intimately understands the necessity of death, and can empathise with her workload (have you seen his paperwork?! at least he gets breaks!) so he's more than happy to sub for Didi when she wants a personal day.

We can take this even further if we consider Liminal Amity Park with a post good outcome reveal.

Death buys a house in Amity Park.

Death doesn't just visit, no. Death of the Endless or Didi, is the most human of all her siblings, given the opportunity to be amongst humans without freaking them the shit out? An opportunity that she can't pass up.

By the time JLD finally works out what's going on, Death is a member of the Amity Park Bookclub. She has a favourite coffee shop. And her neighbours know exactly who she is. After all Mrs Doris next door died 3 years ago, and met Death when she did. When she came back through the Fenton Portal to haunt her still alive husband, well they renewed their vows to omit "death do us part" line.

The Justice League finally investigate Amity Park after realising the Flash marked the distress calls as pranks (Barry:"Ghosts don't exist!")

John Constantine is admitted to the Amity Park hospital for alcohol poisoning after he finds out that not only is there a stable, active portal to the afterlife, not only is The High King Of The Infinite Realms a teenager.

Death has a mortgage.

John can't handle this shite. The Bat can deal with it.

Deaths siblings visit from time to time and also love it. Dream has met Nocturn and had words with him about being over zealous. Despair and Delight don’t stay around long but are happy for their oldest sis. Delirium loves Youngblood and going through the Infinite realms, if it wasn’t a death realm she’d want a home there. Destiny has been having “tea” with Clockwork for years at this point.

Hades and Persephone visit whenever they need a vacation from the bullshit they deal with. (Greek mythology cause hades and persephone are nice couple)

When Hades finds out he also buys a house in Amity. Technically counts as the Underworld, and now he doesn't have to deal with his wife leaving for half the year. Their marriage is as strong as ever but they both agree that long distance relationships suck.

The instances of Hades attacking Themascerya or cursing magicians and starting human sacrifice cults drop to 0.

Turns out he was just getting wasted when his wife was away.

DP x DC prompt #80

When Bruce Wayne gets lost in time, he doesn't end up at the dawn of history. No, he winds up in another timeline, turned into a baby with two parents in hazmat suits, an older sister with long red hair, surrounded by ghost tech, and with no memory of his life as Bruce Wayne or Batman.

Tim finds him post the finale and has to seriously debate bringing him hime. Because, that is very much not Bruce. Not any more. Holy shit!

Imagine the chaos of Tim dragging a recently regained his Bruce memories Danny home to Alfred.

Alfred: I see you ha e inherited Master Bruce's tendencies to bring home stray Master Tim.

Tim: No. It's. This isn't!

Danny/Bruce: Uses some specific code only he and Alfred knew. It was discussed precisely once, long before Tim joined the family. There is no way Tim could have coached him in this.

Alfred: ... I see. So you still wish to be called Bruce sir? Or would you prefer to go by your reincarnation name?

Danny thinks for a moment then nods.

Danny: Call me Danny please Alfred. I'm not Bruce anymore. Not really. As I have tried to explain to Tim.

Tim: I didn't lose a spleen to not being you home!

Danny: And I grew you a new one. You just want to prove you were right to Dick.

Tim stalks off and Danny laughs at his haughty look.

Danny: It is good to see you again Alfred. I hope they haven't been too difficult with me... Indisposed?

Alfred: That you shall have to see for yourself Master Danny.

Danny: Hmm. Tim tells me Damian has been difficult. I take it he took my disappearance poorly then?

Alfred: Indeed. I suspect he will not take your, more relaxed nature well.

Danny: I was rather uptight wasn't I? My older sister for this life was interested in psychology. I never had a chance to avoid learning about emotional health and well being.

Alfred: I can only imagine Master Danny. Now. Come along. I'm sure you and Master Tim have quite the take to tell.

Danny: Do we ever. Ah. If they want me to stick around. I will be finding them a therapist. Clearly whatever I was doing before was not helping. Even if I have to summon my new sister to do it for me.

Alfred: Summon?

Danny: Part of the story Alf. It's a wild one.

There's so much potential here. Now that Bruce reincarnated as Danny and have gone through all the events he experienced and doesn't consider himself as Bruce anymore. That also means he is not Batman anymore too! He is Phantom now, and he may still be learning what death trully means, but he understands. And Phantom can be far more terifying than Batman of he wants to. If we go by ghostking!Danny route, the no killing rule can be changed to kill only if necessary. Now Danny doesn't have to hold back and have every reason to drag the Joker to the ghost zone.

He will finally able to properly communicate with his kids specially Jason. It will be a long and hard road to repair their relationship but they will work hard for it and the therapy helps.

Also a lot of relationship of Bruce/Batman would change a lot. Because how would they be able to grieve their loss when their supposed dead friends'/familys' reincarnation is walking in front of them who is also half-alive and half-dead.

Hear me out! Danny is a little petty gremlin, he totally would prank the JL.

How? by downing his old suit and seeing who is going to be the first to notice the changes.

The kids would totally be in the joke.

Even funnier is if you add the bruce accidentally ascended to godhood au.

Synonyms For Very

This masterlist is a masterlist of words that you may use alongside the word very, very being one of the most common words that are used when writing. I hope this helps you as much as it helps me in our writing seem more sophisticated and unique. 

A:

Very accurate - exact Very afraid - fearful Very angry - furious Very annoying - exasperating

B:

Very bad - atrocious Very beautiful - exquisite Very big - immense Very boring - dull Very bright - luminous Very busy - swamped

C:

Very calm - serene Very careful - cautious Very cheap - stingy Very clean - spotless Very clear - obvious Very clever - intelligent Very cold - freezing Very colourful - vibrant Very competitive - cutthroat Very complete - comprehensive Very confused - perplexed Very conventional - conservative Very creative - innovative Very crowded - bustling Very cute - adorable

D:

Very dangerous - perilous Very dear - cherished Very deep - profound Very depressed - despondent Very detailed - meticulous Very different - disparate Very difficult - arduous Very dirty - filthy Very dry - arid Very dull - tedious

E:

Very eager - keen Very easy - effortless Very empty - desolate Very excited - thrilled Very exciting - exhilarating Very expensive - costly

F:

Very fancy - lavish Very fast - swift Very fat - obese Very friendly - amiable Very frightened - alarmed Very frightening - terrifying Very funny - hilarious

G:

Very glad - overjoyed Very good - excellent Very great - terrific

H:

Very happy - ecstatic Very hard - difficult Very hard-to-find - rare Very heavy - leaden Very high - soaring Very hot - sweltering Very huge - colossal Very hungry - ravenous Very hurt - battered

I:

Very important - crucial Very intelligent - brilliant Very interesting - captivating

J:

K:

L:

Very large - huge Very lazy - indolent Very little - tiny Very lively - vivacious Very long - extensive Very long-term - enduring Very loose - slack Very loud - thunderous Very loved - adored

M:

Very mean - cruel Very messy - slovenly

N:

Very neat - immaculate Very necessary - essential Very nervous - apprehensive Very nice - kind Very noisy - deafening

O:

Very often - frequently Very old - ancient Very old-fashioned - archaic Very open - transparent

P:

Very painful - excruciating Very pale - ashen Very perfect - flawless Very poor - destitute Very powerful - compelling Very pretty - beautiful

Q:

Very quick - rapid Very quiet - hushed

R:

Very rainy - pouring Very rich - wealthy

S:

Very sad - sorrowful Very scared - petrified Very scary - chilling Very serious - grave Very sharp - keen Very shiny - gleaming Very short - brief Very shy - timid Very simple - basic Very skinny - skeletal Very slow - sluggish Very small - petite Very smart - intelligent Very smelly - pungent Very smooth - sleek Very soft - downy Very sorry - apologetic Very special - exceptional Very strong - forceful Very stupid - idiotic Very sure - certain Very sweet - thoughtful

T:

Very talented - gifted Very tall - towering Very tasty - delicious Very thirsty - parched Very tight - constricting Very tiny - minuscule Very tired - exhausted

U:

Very ugly - hideous Very unhappy - miserable Very upset - distraught

V:

W:

Very warm - hot Very weak - frail Very well-to-do - wealthy Very wet - soaked Very wide - expansive Very willing - eager Very windy - blustery Very wise - sage Very worried - distressed

X:

Y:

Z:

A/N: If you know of anymore words I can add please message me.

This is very important ;)

For some reason I cannot track back to the OP, so I’ll add them here.

Very flighty: frivolous

Very fun: delightful

Very generous: philanthropic

Very giddy: exuberant

Very goofy: puerile

Very ideal: exemplary

Very insulting: denigrating, disparaging

Very joyful: ecstatic

Very just: magnanimous

Very keen: astute

Very kind: benevolent

Very knowledgeable: erudite

Very magical: sublime, divine, surreal

Very mysterious: inexplicable, inconceivable

Very peculiar: anomalous, eccentric

Very rare: inimitable, unique

Very unusual: atypical, extraordinary

Very useful: convenient, advantageous

Clark Kent’s birthday canonically being February 29th is hysterical to me. Not because it’s meant to jokingly explain away how Superman is a timeless character, but because it implies Martha and Jonathan Kent found an alien baby in a cornfield, and when pressed to choose a birthday for their new baby, they gave him the most difficult birthday possible.

clark is clearly not a newborn and they're just going "well he is a leap day baby we don't really know how old he is! you know how newborns are, we lost track of time, the kitchen calendar got ruined by water when the upstairs shower leaked! he could be 1, he could be 2!"

wait i'm not done.

this man is an ALIEN. he meets Batman AS AN ALIEN BEING. imagine knowing Superman for like, a year or so, enough that this friendship is solidifying, and his age/birthday comes up (maybe because he insisted on getting something small for Bruce's more publicly known birthday!) and this adult alien who is NOT BEYOND pulling petty shit when it's harmless and funny, says with a straight face and no explanation, that he's six years old. what is bruce supposed to do with that? maybe kryptonians age differently! clark could draw it out for a while, letting Bruce think he's younger than Robin! and Bruce wouldn't have a good reason to disbelieve it unless he like, went digging for Clark's high school records or something (which he MIGHT do but then maybe he's trying to respect a little of the privacy of the one friend he managed to make, pre-intense paranoia days).

and then it was just a leap day joke

AND THEN KON SHOWS UP AND IS LIKE

"I'm six!"

AND BRUCE IS LIKE

"i'm not fucking falling for that again."

The last sentence omg

What if everyone in Gotham knows who Batman is? They all know, they just don’t say anything. It’s not something that is spoken of or acknowledged in any way, other than the occasional glance or shared look of understanding. But they all know. Except for Brucie Wayne. Lord bless their himbo sunshine child, but he seems to be the only person in Gotham that doesn’t know who Batman is. He must be protected at all costs.

Everyone in Gotham knows who Batman is. (They’re wrong)

alfred. they all know he works for moneybags wayne, potentially giving him access to crazy tech. plus the idea of an entire city being convinced that a geriatric old man is doing batman-level stunts is hilarious.

(The Butler did it. It's always the butler)

People on the internet treat autism like it's some cute, childish thing, but like, autism and the trauma that comes with it have literally lead me to severe alcoholism, anger issues and a criminal record.

This post goes out to autistic addicts and autistic people who have personality disorders and autistic people who have hurt people during meltdowns and autistic people who have been in trouble with the law and autistic people who have been diagnosed with every mental illness under the sun only to find out it was autism all along.

You are loved. Your trauma and your reactions to it do not make you a bad person.

Allow me to elucidate, @a-sour-nectarine

When most people "roll their eyes", they flick their eyes directly upward, usually as far as they comfortably go, then resume looking normally.

When someone who learned the phrase before the behavior does it, they usually go in a circular (ish) motion. Since most eye movements are lines, it's usually pretty triangular: the key points are usually a diagonal up one way, then to the far other side, then to a diagonal low the first way. Thus, the eyes basically make a loop, so they "rolled".

I've found that when people who learned the up-down way first try the circular motion, they might risk motion sickness, so experiment carefully.

WHAT DO YOU MEAN MOST PEOPLE JUST LOOK UP

IS THIS WHY PEOPLE THINK I’M ROLLING MY EYES WHEN I THINK AND LOOK UPWARD

Damian's new classmate was what most people would deem as strange, Damian however could not see him as anything other than suspicious. Daniel Knight had joined in the midst of the school year, claiming to have moved here with his father Fredric Knight (first area of suspicion, a parent willingly moving both them and their child to Gotham) for a new start following his fathers divorce. The boy was reclusive when not spoken to directly, however he would not stop talking when a topic of his interest would come up. After searching further into his past (as he does with all his classmates) Damian found a relatively normal past, the only outstanding things being a noticeable drop in grades at the beginnings of freshman year relating to an undisclosed accident resulting in lichtenberg scarring starting from Daniels palm, and presumably up his arm being hidden by his sleeve. Apparently this accident left Daniel with irregular tremors and, every once in a blue moon, seizures. Damian had thought about taking this suspicious blockage of information to Tim or the Bat Computer to be bypassed, however the idea of sharing Daniel this cases existence with the rest of his family for some unexplained reason bothered him greatly, so Damian has come to the decision to figure out Knight’s true intentions on his own.

Meanwhile Danny’s just trying to live his new, semi-normal life in peace. After a reveal gone wrong results in some good old vivisection, Jazz Sam and Tucker recruit the help of Clockwork to find Danny a new home, where he can heal from both the physical and mental wounds. Clockwork ends up dumping Danny into the DC universe alongside Fright Knight, who was insistent on going with him, feeling responsible in helping to protect his young prince now since he feels he failed the first time. So with a bit of spacetime razzle dazzle, Tucker messing with stuff he probably shouldn't have messed with and a very tearful goodbye with promises to check in every day, Danny goes off to start his new life as Daniel Knight. It was going ok so far, he took half the year to himself, focusing on healing. Also so Frighty could adjust to the whole pretending to be human thing. Danny doesn't have any friends yet, and to be honest hasn't made the effort to make any (Jazz would be disappointed if she knew that), but there's this one boy in Danny's class who might be even weirder than him. Danny can feel Damian's eyes on him, knows how he follows him around without a sound (Danny really shouldn't be able to tell, he only knows because he isn't fully human(and in a weird way, Danny thinks that's kinda cool)), and whenever they do make eye contact Danny can see and feel the boy fluster and shy away.

Maybe he just needs a friend too.

okay a bit out of topic but now I can't the image out of my head of fright night doing all these part time jobs to seem more human and being an awesome single father to danny all the while he is completely oblivious to the growing numbers of admirers in the corner (many of them are villains)

IMAGE ID: A tweet from @meghasomething which says:

Undiagnosed neurodivergence is like being handed a video game that has been set to hard mode, but having people tell you over and over "it's on easy, why do you keep dying?"

Diagnosis is learning the game is on hard mode. It doesn't make it easier, but you can strategize.

END ID

i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again, being autistic is like playing a board game without knowing any of the rules.

"Just roll the dice"

I get that. But what do I do once I do that?

"You're being difficult. Just roll the dice!"

I understand what you want me to do but why?! What's the consequences?!

"This is why no one likes you."

idk if it’s just how my very silly brain operates but does anybody else get like. a weird second wave of procrastination right before you finish something. like you already did 70-90% of the work, it realistically won’t take you that long to be done, but for some reason. u just can’t. like. time’s up on executive function. like. oh sorry did you want to not be worried about this? bc im going to make u have to be worried about this. thanks! 

Literally this is on the most commonly-used evaluation form for adult ADHD

It’s the first item on the damn list! 

(1. How often do you have trouble wrapping up the final details of a project, once the challenging parts have been done?)

suddenly it becomes clear why I’m stuck on chapter fourteen of fifteen of this novel-length

Haven’t finished a bunch of movies/tv shows/assignments and only leave abt 30min left of work on all of these and just never come around to finishing it.

“Played this game for 300 hours but won’t finish the last quest. Why? Can’t do it.”

yk what i hate though. is when i find a meme and im like THIS IS SO [cool intimidating mutual i never talk to] I SHOULD SEND IT TO THEM but then i remember ive never talked to them ever and so i cant just like give them a meme out of the blue and so the meme just withers and rots in my camera roll 😔

Reblog if a mutual who's never spoken to you can randomly send you memes that made them think of you.

Government Dog AU

The US Government has a very strong, very unknown meta that they use to threaten the Justice League when they feel the Justice League goes too far.

He is rarely brought out, he's taller than Superman, and every time the League thinks they know what he can do, they're surprised by more.

He's got white hair, green eyes, and can literally possess any leaguer and force them to do what the government said anyways.

They suspect something is off, but any attempts to reason with the meta are rebuffed with a punch.

Impulse sees him once, and while he hovers behind the General threatening Superman, Impulse zeroes in on one thing.

That meta is wearing a collar. It's well disguised, but that's a collar. He'd recognize one anywhere, being as recognizing one meant surviving in the Future.

He glances at Red Robin.

Red Robin nods subtly back.

Impulse launches forward and attaches himself to the big, scary meta's front.

The meta's hands dart out to grab him, and Impulse dodges, tricking the meta into crushing his own collar.

Everyone goes quiet.

The meta holds the crumpled collar in his hands.

"...I'm...free?"

I would read this. At the moment? Only if this was the first chapter and the rest was nice and soft recovery, found family, and bonding over decimating the government facilities while abolishing the laws that allowed it to happen ^^ but I would 100% read that story XD

Clark tells his parents about Danny and they just

"Well tell the boy to come on down, we could always use a helping hand around the farm."

And Clark agrees, cuz he's hung out with Danny since he was freed and knows the man just wants a place so far removed from the facility he'd been locked away in and yeah, the farm is perfect for that.

Danny becomes Clark's unofficial adopted brother by osmosis.

Ellie coming out of hiding and just appearing on the farm one day, the Kents are like

"Ah, we have a daughter now. Understood."

Tucker and Sam getting into contact via letter and then phone, before randomly showing up in Gotham next to the skylight with multiple hard drives and flashdrives and paper files to convict certain govenrment bodies enough to spare the ones rich enough to abolish the Anti-Ecto acts so that they'll play along.

Danny just vibing in the middle of a barn, surrounded by cows, just enjoying being alive.

Everyone's saying Danny and I'm just sitting here thinking, "Is this Dan, his timeline being diverted by a time traveller who actually recognises what's happening to him?"

Like, in the events that eventually lead to Dan destroying the world, his mind eventually becomes too strong for the collar to control, and at that point he's learned how to defeat each. and every. member. of the Justice League. In his anger, less at what he's lost and more at what's been done to him, Dan lashes out. And keeps lashing out.

How can he tell his past self what was done to him? That would break little Daniel Fenton. Best to let him think it's his own grief that leads to that path, it's not like it'll matter for long anyway...

But here, that never happened.

Here, Impulse SAW THE COLLAR AND KNEW WHAT IT MEANT.

Here is Dan, having lost everything except Vlad, having to rebuild himself and learn how to trust once more.

He fought again. It was that person with bright colors again. He fought. He won. They put him in. They took him out. He fought.

That was the cycle.

"Get up, PH13" and he's out of the cell, and-

He's moved again-

[sometimes, not very often but sometimes, when they took him in or out he could hear a cry, he could feel another core sobbing quietly. It was important, he still knew that. That was important. He couldn't remember who that was, or why they were important, but-

They are important.]

He thinks there was a time when he didn't fight. He thinks there was something before. That HE was something before. But it hurts to think about it. It hurts so bad.

He thinks there was more pain, before. Sometimes when he sleep-but-not, the long time in, he can see green. Sometimes when he takes too long to do as told, or disobeys, or asks questions, there's electricity. Sometimes they check his collar and there's pain. But that's okay. It used to hurt more, he thinks. They used to hurt- something else. They don't do it anymore. It's okay.

He does as he's told to.

He fights. He wins. They put him in. They take him out. He fights-

Something hit his neck, as fast as light, and there's a sharp PAIN of electricity-

He screams and-

there's-

There's a kid, blue-eyes-black-hair and he flies.

why is it familiar?

The kid's holding a collar. It looks a lot like his own, he thinks. And then his fingers run into a free spot on his neck. A place that was metal as long as he can remember

"...I'm...free?"

It HURTS. IT HURTSITHURTSITHURTSIT

He can hear it now, and it's strange. He isn't even inside the old place. But there's a pain inside of him that pulls him away. And he doesn't remember much- he doesn't know who- what-

But there's a distant cry that he KNOWS. A far, weak, desperate sobbing, asking for help that will never come.

So he turns away. He doesn't hear, can't listen to what they ask him- they say things, but he needs to focus- he has to find-

[They're going to hurt her, he knows it the same way one knows the sun will shine tomorrow].

"Who are 'They'?" asks the big one. The one they made him fight. "Who are they going to hurt?".

He didn't even notice he said it loud. But there's no time to explain, not enough- no-

He's disoriented, and weak from (weeks? months? years? decades?) in captivity. It takes him precious moments to get the direction the sobbing comes from, but the moment he gets it he starts flying, only leaving two words behind:

[TBC...?]

What if everyone in Gotham knows who Batman is? They all know, they just don’t say anything. It’s not something that is spoken of or acknowledged in any way, other than the occasional glance or shared look of understanding. But they all know. Except for Brucie Wayne. Lord bless their himbo sunshine child, but he seems to be the only person in Gotham that doesn’t know who Batman is. He must be protected at all costs.

Everyone in Gotham knows who Batman is. (They’re wrong)

Lord bless their himbo sunshine child 🤣🤣🌼

Ok but like what if Two-Face started the Matches rumor because he wants to protect his little meow meow ? Knowing that no one’s gonna fuck with Matches if they think he’s Batman.

Tags @daydreamerwonderkid

I am not super familiar with this, but... Matches is Bruce too, right?

Yep! Matches Malone was an actual guy who died due to a series of events. He was a criminal but not a bad guy.

After he died Bruce used his identity as a way to gain intel on the Gotham underworld.

Behold Matches Malone

I just now had this thought but another person I think would be entertaining if people assumed they were Batman is Harvey Bullock.

@running-with-batfam adding this to the list as one of the objectively funniest possible options

What if it’s all of them. Different people think it’s a certain person. And everyone thinks everybody else is on the same page as they are

But still no one thinks it’s Bruce.

That’s absolutely perfect thank you

Some people think it's multiple people. Kinda like "One person could never pull it off. Matches Malone, Harvey Bullock and Vicki Vale take turns. That's why Batman can break his ribs and patrol the next night. They just switch who's in the costume." Meanwhile Bruce is just sneaking past Alfred and going out on patrol with broken ribs despite very clear instructions to stay put.

MASTERPOST (ID and adds, long undercut):

@i-am-snowils-admiral batman#amazing#the question is who's the poor guy everyone is convinced is Batman#one hilarious answer is Matches Malone

@andthebeanstalk also hilarious would be everyone knows it's him but no one tells him

tim gets de-age-beamed and jason is forced to stay at the manor because timmy only wants to hang out with his favourite robin

There's this idea, fairly common in society, that mental illness is for teens and up. Children are happy little creatures, generally, right? Sometimes they're abused and the trauma can make them mentally ill, but that's not common.

There are two fundamental problems with this attitude. One, it's incorrect to assume that trauma is the only reason a young kid can be mentally ill. Two, trauma is more common than people think. I'll be covering the first problem in this post through the lens of my particular experience.

Where I live, you can be diagnosed with bipolar disorder at 18 years old. You cannot be diagnosed with bipolar disorder as a minor. This poses a problem because my age of onset was in first grade, roughly six years old. Because of the fact that I was very young and new to the world, this was also the age of my first suicide attempt. Thinking I wouldn't be able to pass a spelling test genuinely felt like something worth trying to die over. So, I ate some hemlock, since I'd read about Socrates being killed with it. Luckily, I ate western hemlock, an unrelated species, and just felt kind of sick.

I'm not recounting that for fun or pity. I'm recounting it because children with mental illness are in genuine danger because they have little to no experience with managing their emotions, have little to no concept of the idea that their life can change and improve, and are dismissed by adults. I told a teacher that the test made me want to die, though not that I'd attempted to, and it was brushed off as little kid hyperbole. If I had used a method that was effective rather than one I thought would be, I would have been dead at six years old.

I would not receive medication that worked even a bit for another two years. I would not receive treatment for bipolar disorder specifically for ten years, and that required my PCP fudging the reason for the medication because she was afraid I would die if she didn't, and diagnosis was still two years off at minimum. I received a formal diagnosis at age 19, thirteen years after onset.

But surely that's uncommon, right? This story is a huge edge case, right? I actually have no idea, because age of onset and age of diagnosis are massively conflated for most disabilities. Policies like the one in my area that restricted bipolar diagnoses by age can artificially raise the age of "onset", in my case by thirteen years. The general idea that children are somehow immune to mental illness can also delay diagnosis by several years, perpetuating the idea that young children can't be mentally ill. The data on when people start experiencing mental illness is inherently skewed upwards, and I frankly don't have a good estimate on how bad that skew is. If anyone does have that data, please chime in.

Listen to children. If they're saying they're sad all the time, that they don't care about anything, that they don't see a future for themselves, those are signs of depressive symptoms. If they say that tests make them feel sick, that they can't do anything because they're scared, that they can't breathe and freeze up, those are signs of anxious symptoms. Many children talk about imaginary things, and that's just fine, but slip in a question or two about them to make sure that the kid is just playing, and not experiencing psychosis.

Children are new to the world and vulnerable, and they don't know what's normal and what isn't. They need people who are more experienced watching out for problems they might be having, and listening when they talk about having problems. If you can, try to be the person who perceives them, and tells them that things can be better.

Absolutely this, but good news: the DSM-IV no longer has an age requirement for diagnosis of bipolar disorder or many other disorders. Hopefully that means psychologists and psychiatrists are now much more likely to diagnose these disorders early, and help children get the help that you didn't get

The DSM-IV was published before I was born.

Oops, sorry, old fart here, I'm used to writing DSM-IV. It's changed with adoption of the DSM-V

Ahhhh, that makes more sense. That's good to hear. Hopefully, they'll apply it. However, if you browse the tags, you'll see one person being currently restricted from a bipolar diagnosis until they turn 24, and as far as I know, there hasn't been an age limit on anxiety or depressive disorders. There's more going on here than a change of diagnosis restrictions, though loosening of them certainly helps- it's very difficult to get help when the literal manual they use excludes you.