How I Met Your Brother (DC x DP)

Dan joins the Justice League - not as part of his rehabilitation, but as a reward for doing so well.

Tucker makes the grave mistake of mentioning Dan in front of Jazz. And as an eldest sister myself I would not be happy about an alternate version of my sibling being left completely alone in the world, no support, no family to then be turned into a psychopath. And I would be furious for them to then be imprisoned - not for life but for all time?

However, unlike me, Jazz is the world's foremost authority on ghost psychology. She has Dan out of his Thermos and in a larger enclosure within the week.

Now, a lot of fics have Jazz as a magical therapist who can say a few sentences and make any bad guy cry. Sorry, not today though.

First, they resocialise Dan like a feral cat (solitary confinement does make people get loopy), sitting outside his enclosure and hanging out, doing homework etc. This sort of gets him to figure out emotionally that he's no longer in the timeline where everyone he ever cared about died.

Danny discusses with him how many nightmares he's had over just the idea of losing his entire support network the way Dan did and he can't imagine what he's been through. But no emotions are not, in fact superior to having negative emotions.

After a few months, he decides that he does in fact want to actively try and get better. He goes to a therapist (because family members can't do therapy!!!) who's just unhinged enough to get a kick out of counselling a ghost from an alternate timeline.

There's only one relapse. Clockwork fixed it and they don't talk about it.

A month or so later they let him out of the enclosure for good. They offer to symbolically destroy it but Dan thinks they should keep it just in case.

While Dan's humanity has returned, his actual human half is gone forever. But he's interested in doing something with himself. He can't get a GED, or a degree, or be an astronaut. Maybe something in entertainment?

Tucker makes the grave mistake of mentioning that the Justice League headquarters are in space. Dan isn't as powerful anymore now he's no longer a halfa, but he knows he's handy in a fight. He loves space and due to having them repeatedly and ineffectively implemented against himself - a deep knowledge of international war tactics.

NGL, this isn't where I thought this story was going. But Dan is now an international politics, war policy and foreign affairs expert, I guess.

He helps a fair bit on the team, but his key contributions are his encyclopaedic predictions of how different international communities will react to events. If an out of control meta in Paris takes down the Eiffel Tower, he predicts which countries will immediately 'crack down' on their superpowered citizens - that sort of thing. It's invaluable for their PR team and young meta safety.

He's a friendly guy, doesn't judge anyone for losing control of their powers or going 'too far' on a villain who hurt their friends and family. And he never shuts up about his kid brother who is apparently also his best friend. He briefly mentions a baby sister he's never met and that makes everyone pretty sad.

He doesn't consider this Jazz his sister. He's already had a sister named Jazz and isn't looking for a 1:1 replacement. This Jazz is more like a mum-friend. However, he never had a Danny or an Ellie in his last life.

"My little brother told me about the trick to this level in Doomed 17, want me to explain what you're missing?"

"Sorry, I really can't possess you, even for 'anti mind-control' training. That isn't how overshadowing works, you can't become immune without exposure to ectoplasm in dangerous doses. No, I can't get you some pure ecto, my baby brother would kick my ass to hell."

"Yeah, my baby bro and I both wanted to be astronauts, I died so it's not in the cards for me anymore, but he has a real shot still, we're all rooting for him!"

Most Justice League members think he's a dead eldest brother with living siblings he's still in close contact with.

It's all fun and games until he tries to take a bullet for Batman during an ambush and it's actually an amnesia ray designed to make Batman forget about a specific case until the bad guy can complete his plan.

"I killed you all before, and I will do it again."

Dp x dc AU where all heroes go on high alert every October due to the JLD warnings of extreme cosmic disturbances. 

Danny had long since been keeping the tradition of letting Dan out on their death day. It started as a plea for empathy from someone who quite literally experienced the same traumatic death and traumatic life. 

They never talked for long unfortunately, because inevitably Dan would pick a fight and Danny would have to remind him why he lived in a thermos all 364 other days of the year. It was sad. It was cathartic. 

This year however, all of his alerts coming through his JL communicator were getting really distracting. Apparently, the whole of the JL and JLD was on high alert because the veil between the Infinite Realms and Earth was always weakest on this day (more so that Halloween even). Danny sighed into his hands. 

As he continued to fight off his alternate timeline self, Dan escaped from his grasp and the JL appears at the exact wrong time. Danny desperately protects them from Dan’s initial attack, but after a moment, Danny found that there wasn’t any follow up. Dan had flown away. At top speed.

Shit. 

Now Danny had to track down Dan while fielding the panicked questions of all of his coworkers. 

When it all wraps up, and Dan is caught and souped with only a very vague explanation of who he is to Phantom, Constantine accuses him of causing this issue every year. 

This is how the JL simultaneously learn about Danny being the Ghost King and his Death Day. 

so the first two were just some random sketches (b/w), but I like the idea a lot that I moved forward and did this little "comic" of the next 3 sequential drawings. Dani asking the most important questions.

DPxDC prompt:  “Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead” or

Batman Has An Adoption Problem but Phantoms have a Babysitting Problem

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Alicia lives in Smallville. Danny Fenton spent every summer visiting his aunt.

   And until his fourteenth birthday, Danny had no problem with hanging out with a strange child of the Kent family. After all, the Fentons were also considered freaks. He was getting good money for babysitting because he didn’t ask Martha too many questions.

   So this is what do the rest of the Justice League see when they bump into the usually newbie-friendly Superman and the Phantom in the hallway:

Superman: “You’re like my own personal brand of Kryptonite.”

Phantom: ~aww~

Superman: Not in a cute way. You literally make me sick! Have you ever heard of social distance?

Phantom: No :) Tell me, ~I’m dying to know.~

Superman: I hate you!

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Meanwhile in Gotham, 

Dan Phantom is dragging Robin by the neck from Killer Croc’s lair.

Dan: Look, punk, your mother won’t pay me if you don’t live to be a grown-up. Be a good assh…assassin and don’t try to play with someone who’s out of your league.

Robin: Fuck off, I am not a baby to listen to a nanny. I’m 10!

Dan:…I’ll call Alfred and tell him you’re fooling around on school night.

Damian: Don’t you dare!

Here’s an idea:

Dan and Dani meet, but they both have no idea exactly what each other are.

For Dani, she’d see a hulking abomination that’s clearly at least somewhat Danny with a lot of Plasmius mixed in there somewhere, and since she was created long after the events of The Ultimate Enemy she’d have no idea or reason to believe that he’s Danny from a dark future where he tore out his ghost half and merged it with Plasmius.

She’d take one look at this mixture of Danny and Plasmius and go “Oh cool another failed Danny clone”. Probably coming to the conclusion that Dan is some failed experiment that mixed Vlad’s DNA in there for whatever reason.

Meanwhile from Dan’s perspective, he was created way before Vlad started his cloning experiments and due to his actions, Vlad never even started making clones in his timeline, so Dani doesn’t even come close to existing. However, Dan may not know about cloning, but he DOES know about alternate timelines and he knows that alternate versions of you can exist and be wildly different from each other. Just look at him for example.

So he’d look at Dani and not see a clone, but another alternate version of Danny from another timeline, just like himself. (If you believe in the Trans Danny headcanons/theory, he could even come to the conclusion that Dani is a version of Danny that died and got ghost powers WAY earlier than normal, possibly pre-transition.)

When Dan was released from his prison, he was ready to go toe to toe in a rematch with his past self. Instead he was handed a baby and guided to two toddlers by Clockwork. The Ancient of Time explained to him that his parents accidentally created a machine that de-aged ghosts. Now Danny and Ellie, as well as Jazz who was just liminal enough to be affected are all tiny tots without a place to go.

That's about all the explanation Dan gets before he's pushed through a portal and into an alley. Before Clockwork closes the portal he tells Dan "Single fatherhood may be tough but do not lose hope!"

Wait..... Single fatherhood!?

Dan stood there silently looking at them for a moment before shaking his head. Not the time to panic Dan. He has to find somewhere safe to get the lay of the land. Not to mention hope he could find food. Shit. He needed baby stuff. Aww crap. He quickly turned them all invisible and flew up to look over the city.

What city, hell what dimension had clockwork dropped him in? The old bastard didn't give any explanation at all. Fuck! Ok. So it looked pretty run down. Lots of abandoned buildings. He could hole up in one for now. But he needed good and clothes first.

Time to look for a shop to steal from then. Hardly the worst thing he has ever done. And if he chooses a big chain it's practically moral. Why did Clocky think he was the right choice for this!

Probably bc you're thinking about whats needing to be done to take care of them XD

#dpxdc#deaged fentons#dan phantom#single father! dan#dan with his 3 'kids' in gotham#dan when he's freed: muahahahha! villainous plans part 2!! [evil lightning strike]#clockwork: here - hold this! [passes 3 children over]#dan: [record scratch] wait. no. what do i do? they need so much how do i take care of kids? food. i need food and shelter and-#clockwork: [sipping tea and watching through a mirror] ah yes. perfect distraction

I love your tags XD

But yes. Clockwork had thought about it. Searched the time streams. And the only one that offered Dan a chance at redemption was this one. Now Dan could choose not to of course. In that case he had another guardian chosen already. But he needed to give Dan a chance. And given the way the young man had reacted he has chosen to keep them. Good.

Clockwork smirked to himself. This choice led to a far more entertaining timeline. Dan had no idea what would happen. But Clockwork was looking forward to it. Ahh the follies of youth. He would continue to watch of course. The future was still wavering. But it looked like Dan would be doing the right thing. Entirely of his own volition too! No matter that he won't realise that for a while.

I like the idea of Dan realizing that he was being "a good person"TM while doing something very mundane. Like... washing the dishes after putting the kids down for a nap, or pushing them on a swing at a park, or debating which baby food to get while having baby!danny and dani strapped to his front and back (double harness) and toddler!jazz in the shopping cart

Just, that realization that he's free to do all these plans (he's not in a thermos, the only one who could stop him was a baby, no one here knows him, he still has his powers) and he's choosing to be a dad instead XD

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Also - how old do you think single father dan is? I'm thinking early 20s at *most* bc supposedly the merge with plasmius happened when he was what...15? (It wasn't that same year was it?) And then there's the getting stronger and fights and destruction of the world which I think would be a few years.

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Oh my gosh

Hes in gotham

!!!!!!

Okokokok

Imagine:

Single father dan is neighbors with crime lord's boyfriend jason

Dan (with his skewed morals) gets jason to babysit on occasion

XD

Absolutely. He just stops and stares for a moment. Then very calmly finished his task. Walks to his room and sits down for a moment. And then.

"Clockwork, you motherfucker! Arsehole! Bastard! Creepy watching man! How dare you con me into this! You absolute wanker! How did you even know this would work! "

And Clockwork is in his tower giggling merrily away. Quickly pens a note and sends it to Dan.

'You had a choice to make. I had plans if you made the wrong one. You chose a good path.'

Dan then just has to sit for half an hour to come to grips with the fact that Clockwork gave him a chance to do better. And it took him months to realise. At least he has a family again? Fuck it. He's gonna go bother Jason. Take the kids over with pie.

Jason gets a knock at the door and grins. Hot neighbour Dan probably wants some adult conversation. Jason will not say no to that! Plus the kids are hella cute. And well, they somehow sooth the pit. Jason has been more clear headed since meeting them than since before he died.

Dan greets Jason with an armful of kids and holding a home made pie? Jason is more than happy to let him in. Dan's pie are amazing. Jason is pretty sure the building grannies have started trading clothes and stuff for the kids for them.

Jason: What brings you round tonight?

Dan: Ah. Kinda embarrassed. But uh. You know I've done dodgy shit in the past yeah?

Jason: Yeah. No other reason for you to be laying low in Gotham.

Dan: I uh, had a breakdown. My family were killed when I was 15. Got brutal bloody revenge. Got locked up for a bit. When I got out I was planning to finish the last off. But these three lost their Mum. So I kinda had to look after them yeah?

Jason: Well shit. Fair reason to lie low man.

Dan: I literally just now realised I didn't have to keep the brats. I could have dumped them in a box in a hospital and gone off. Done the whole villain thing.

Jason: Are you having a crisis about choosing to raise your kids?

Dan: Jay, I thought I was irredeemably evil. Yes I am having a crisis over this!

Jason: Well, what's evil anyway? Are you happier?

Dan: Happiest I've been since my parents and sister died.

Jason: Bloody revenge not do it for you?

Dan: Oh I am not saying that! That felt good. But uh, I went a bit too far you know. It's weird, I never thought I'd have kids. Now I've got three. And for all they stress me out....

Jason: Dan your brats all have powers. If course they stress you out. I caught Ellie flying last time I looked after them. I put pillows everywhere!

Dan: Danny sneezed and froze the room last night.

Jason: I caught Jazz picking up a sofa.

Dan: I can't wait till they get older. I wanna see what happens if they get caught in an attack. I know that's fucked up... But.

Jason: Your kids get attacked and the perp is getting destroyed. Fuck me, I'd think you were kryptonians if I didn't know better.

Dan: I know right. And Jazz has the least powers. Bless her.

Jason: Fuck me.

Dan: Gladly!

Jason: Oh piss off! You know what I meant. Imagine them going rogue! Oh, the look on ol bats face!

Dan: Oh, oh that would be so bad! Hah! Gotta admit I do miss fighting.... I should hunt down Croc for a brawl at some point.

Jason: There's a thought. You could always join Hood's gang.

Dan: Nah, can't risk it. Not without another guardian in case I get found out. I

Jason: True that! Anyway, you brought pie. I'll make dinner! What do the bratlings want?l

Jazz: Um! Pizza! And chips!

Danny: Chip! Chip!

Ellie: Peeza!

Jason: That settled that then.

Jazz: fank yu uncle Jay!

Danny: Fank!

Ellie: Yeah yeah!

Jason: And so polite!

Dan: Well done kiddos.

The original Gotei 13 members illustrated by Tite Kubo

First division captain: Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto

Second division captain: Chika Shihōin

Third division captain: Kinroku Izuhara

Fourth division captain: Chigiri Shijima

Fifth division captain: Danjirō Obana

Sixth division captain: Furōfushi Saitō

Seventh division captain: Nobutsuna Shigyō

Eighth division captain: Batsuunsai Katori

Ninth division captain: Entetsu Kumoi

Tenth division captain: Furuoki Ōtogawa

Eleventh division captain: Yachiru Unohana

Twelfth division captain: Uhin Zenjōji

Thirteenth division captain: Saizō Sakahone

Sharecropping.

FYI if your employer does this, if they have done it for a long time especially, you and your coworkers could be owed huge amounts of unpaid wages and it would be an easy suit if there is a paper trail like this and your employer is placing strict requirements on your behavior while not at work. Employment lawyers generally work on contingency. Just food for thought.

HOW?

Apparently someone left a lighter in their pocket and all of That is from the gas released when the lighter ruptured

So there's slightly more to it than that, that dryer is a natural gas dryer rather than a purely electric one. So when the lighter went off (the initial small explosion) it damaged the sealed drum enough to get to the gas lines in the heating element of the dryer which then allowed the natural gas and oxygen to mix, hit the fire from the lighter, and result in the second MUCH LARGER blast.

This is one of the many reasons why you always check your pockets, and also why I've never owned a natural gas dryer, even though they're way more energy efficient than an electric one.

Also the choice of music is... Something

Ah, guys, just to be clear, I realize most of you probably know this but I’m seeing it framed….weirdly, so – 

Tumblr is not $30M in debt. You can’t get Tumblr out of the red by giving them $30M. I mean you can, for a bit, but Tumblr is operating at a $30M deficit. That means yearly, Tumblr is spending $30M more than it earns. 

None of this is to say we can’t have a Crab Day and try to get that $30M covered, sounds like fun! But that just means Tumblr breaks even for the current fiscal year. Tumblr has investors that want profits (or, well, I guess it’s Automattic’s investors, but regardless they want profit), so in order for it to continue operation, it has to either become Genuinely Profitable Very Quickly, or it has to do a fundraising round of some kind and get even more investors on board, which is really just kicking the problem down the road a year or two. 

And either way, the extremely slick and semi-alarming pitch Tumblr is making about all the changes it’s going to make to increase engagement and such is still going to be necessary, because that’s where the money is, unfortunately. I don’t like it either (my favorite bullet point from that pitch is that they will email people who have their notifications turned off, because sure, that sounds like it won’t annoy anyone who like me was already overly inclined to be annoyed) but like. Baby needs a new pair of shoelaces.

None of this is to be alarmist or anything, I just got a bit worried about all this talk of $30M in debt, because this is not a one-time deal. 

no no you don't get it. unlike other birds, it's not caused by a pigment but by the structure of the feather itself. If you had like a bleach or something that affects the pigments but not the feather structure, and applied it to a blue jay feather, the feather would still be blue. Idk how else to explain it man, but it's a really big thing that it's not the structure of pigment but of the feather itself that makes it blue.

So basically like how polar bear fur is technically colorless, but the hollow hairs reflect or compound or something the light to appear white? But I figured the person is more pointing out that regardless of the specific cause, if something appears a color any time light touches it, it is that color to us (kinda like how you can SAY magenta “isn’t real” but things are still magenta to us). The structure thing is neat though!

lol i got so caught up in explaining why blue jay feathers are special i forgot to agree, but yes, they are blue. arguably, they're more blue than the i think one animal that has a true blue pigment(a species of butterfly. blue pigment is incredibly rare in animals.)

Some lobsters are blue because they hijack the red pigment astaxanthin to make a new pigment, crustacyanin, which shifts the color range to blue. It’s funky

DP x DC prompt #83

Phantom is known worldwide as the first hero and as the one who started the dawn of Superheroes, though he retired a few years ago. So when the Justice League starts having trouble with a particularly strong Villain, Danny decides to give his juniors a hand.

Ah, well, if it’s the post that was linked to, the OP was: “We need ao3 writers to develop class conciousness. Ao3 is nothing without them. Ao3 needs them but they don’t need ao3. Labour is entitled to all it creates.”

Which is the usual delusional nonsense where people ignore that making sites is labor. Art is labor, but so is building a storefront. So is running a site. So is designing metadata structures. This type of self-absorbed fic writer ignores everyone else’s labor in favor of their own.

OTW volunteers are entitled to say that their labor is for making a nonprofit site with rules against advertising.

“They need us” is a serious misunderstanding. Everyone who uses AO3 costs it money. If it were a hundred friends posting for each other, it would be a lot easier to run. That’s not to say that you should feel bad about using it. It’s there for you to use.

But this concept of sites ~needing you~ is based on commercial sites that want to monetize your data and that are trying to extract user generated content so they can profit.

AO3 generously lets you use a service. It’s more like a food bank than whatever that other post is imagining. You aren’t doing it a favor by being there. Unlike fucking Facebook and the rest of the parasites.

I'm going to peer review myself and elevate my tag rant from my reblog of the post in question:

#AO3 is what happens when fanfic writers develop class conciousness #AO3 exists because a bunch of fans got sick of their work being deleted and went “screw it we have to own the servers” #people NEED to stop thinking of AO3 as some nebulous entity separate from fancreators #AO3 is itself a fanwork# the “our” in “Archive of Our Own” is not just for show #the name reflects that that WE wanted to host our OWN fic without outside forces trying to make money off us or tell us what not to write #you can go look up Astolat herself on AO3 if you want #the woman who founded AO3 is not a tech bro #she's a fangirl who got sick of her favourite fics being taken down

"The gift economy perpetuates the class divide" people really will just string nonsense together into a sentence and call it a hot take.

Gift economy is literally just another term for mutual aid.

The Organization for Transformative Works is a fandom mutual aid organization built by volunteer fan labor to provide free archival services, and free digital distribution services, and even free legal services for free fanwork.

Imagine having the unmitigated gall to tell a group of volunteers they owe you money for *allowing* you use the free services their volunteer labor provided.

Yuuuup

A significant economic concept anyone with half a brain cell should be able to grasp, that’s what.

I'm sort of flipping out even reading this lol. Do they not see that "own the servers" is a play on "own the means of production", that the OTW symbol isn't just an O with an arrow, it's a twist on the copyright symbol, and on the Creative Commons symbol, signalling the belief in creative re-use and recycling--(look up the re-use symbol)--the Commons meanwhile *breathes into bag* is--well, just look up the Commons, ok? But like the name says, the commons is for all, held in common! Also read Lewis Hyde on The Gift. We weren't morons, you know. There was some thought put into this.

*cackling*

I mean, we knew, but it's nice to hear so succinctly

🌲🌳🌴TREE LAW 🌴🌳🌲

Why are you panicking you sanctimonious filth breathers?

#SAG Strike

Short DPXDC Prompts #820

Danny is just trying to live his life on the streets in Gotham running from the GIW. These damn Bats keep trying to help him. What do they want?! He’s FINE! Now if this Ra’s Al Ghul fucker could stop sending assassins after him and keeps making him pop up on the Bats radar THAT would be spectacular.