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Danny no longer has a haunt. So… he decides to find another one. And while he technically has a whole world (other dimensions aren’t an option because he’s going to stay near where Jazz’s grave is, damn it) there’s only a couple of other places with enough ambient ectoplasm to sustain him. Nanda Parbat, Tokyo, and Gotham.
Nanda Parbat had a weird old musty immortal that kept trying to summon him and exchange power for the ability to “take a worthy body and rain as much destruction” as he’d like. As if Danny would need a body to bring the world to its knees.
Tokyo… it’s too far from Jazz’s grave. He could ask Wulf or even open his own portal but when Danny tried it out, Tokyo was too peaceful. Obviously there’s crime, but nothing… nothing big like Danny’s used to.
Danny ends up picking Gotham, even if the sewer zombies and the weird group of rich fruit loops with an adoption problem creeps him out. So, he destroys the portal, packs up his parents’ house and sells it, and hauls ass to the cesspool calling his name. His family’s stuff is stored respectfully in a vault located on the deepest parts of his personal haunt in the Infinite Realms.
And honestly, he’s doing better. Sure, he’s got a shitty apartment near another revenant’s almost-haunt and he feels like he’s drowning all of the time, but Danny isn’t in danger of turning into Dan, he’s catching up on royal paperwork, and he’s got like a job as a barista. In his own coffee shop that paid for using his parent’s money (who, despite their hazardous everything, made a crap ton of money off of their more normal inventions).
Gotham’s got some pretty interesting local gangs, most of which respected the sanctity of Danny’s cafe. Sure, they tried blowing it up and tried extorting money from him in the form of “protection costs” but after three months of failure, they gave up.
(Really, the local gangs gave up when they saw him take three shotgun shells to the chest and continued to work.) (They didn’t know it never hit him. Intangibility is extremely useful.)
The Rogues, on the other hand, just gave Danny flashbacks. Their gimmicks are different, sure, but after years of Box Ghost, Skuller, Lunch Lady, etc., Danny’s more than done with costumed villains. They don’t bother him either. Some of the reason is probably due to Harley and Ivy, who had walked into the cafe and (because they were bruised and scratched up from a fight) triggered Danny’s mother hen tendencies. They were promptly fed and watered and caffeinated and their hyenas were also similarly taken care of. They declared the cafe under their protection and that was that.
Red Hood stops by, and begins to interrogate him. But when Danny met his… helmet eyes? The crime lord paused, paid for his coffee, and sat in a corner table of the cafe for the rest of the day.
And he kept coming back?
But Danny figures it’s because Hood was a revenant and people who had come close to death tends to feel more comfortable around him.
(Considering this is Gotham where people almost die every other day? Yeah, he’s pretty much friends with everyone. Or at least, less likely to get shot.)
(Hood does stay because of the King’s presence and the Pit calming itself, but also Danny’s hot and he’s got a sleeper build and Hood definitely did not imagine himself in the place of the heavy box he saw Danny lift effortlessly onto a table. No.)
But of course, the peace couldn’t last forever. But by then, Danny was so antsy, he welcomed the trouble with open arms.
It starts with a clown. Danny knows who he is. He knows who Danny is.
So, Danny has no idea why the clown thought it would be a good idea to aggravate the owner of Gotham’s official neutral grounds. See, Clovkwork? Danny’s learned how to gauge his own political importance!
“HAHAHAHAHA! COME OUT, DANNY-BOY! LET ME TELL YOU A JOKE!”
Danny comes out and grabs a chair, and with a flat expression, says, “you’re not funny and I hate clowns.”
And then he swings and slams the chair into the Joker’s face. Over and over again until Danny’s sure the clown won’t get back up. The thing about Gotham’s outdoor chairs is that they’re mad out of steel and are bolted down to the ground to prevent undedicated thieves (dedicated thieves can and will steal the bolted down steel chairs). The Joker’s hired muscle just watched this scrawny twenty-something year old yank the steel chair and take some of the fucking ground and the bolts with it and beat the fuck out of their boss who is the literal Joker.
They surrender on the spot and is taken to jail. Danny just smiles at the officers who come by and since he’s got pretty privilege and they don’t want to mess with the guy who, again, owns one of Gotham’s official neutral ground and also beat up Joker without breaking a sweat, the officers just lets him go with a warning.
And then the bats comes, and wow, Danny’s playing mentor to a formally dead person again!
But before that, the Red Hood asks for an autograph on the Gotham Gazette article with a picture of a tired Danny standing over Joker’s prone body. Then Hood stammers through asking Danny out (which Danny said yes to because he’s tired, not blind, and Hood is built like a brick house and HOT).
Batman interrogates him. Danny, who can tell that this man needs therapy and is Sad TM, tells Bats that Danny’s died before and that’s why he’s like this. He also calls Batman a furry, but like in a nice way. And then he kicks Batman out with a coffee and a file on Nanda Parbat.
Now, Danny’s got a date to prepare for and he realizes that maybe this is what Jazz wanted for him- to be happy and mostly safe and happy. (Or, happier, he thinks. It’s been a long time since he’s been truly happy, but this might be a good start)
#bamf danny phantom#danny phantom#dc x dp#jason todd#Jason takes him to a library and they pick out books for each other#Danny asks him on a second date and they talk about the book over coffee#and then they watch the stars (Danny uses his ghost powers to clear a patch of sky)#but Danny just kind of watches Jason’s face and goes yeah this is just as good#Danny dngasf#Danny will throw hands with a clown#Danny thinks the Gotham Rogues are kinda cute#with their gimmicks#unimpressed bc they’re kind of obvious#and he’s seen worse and better#danny is Gotham’s Mom Friend
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tui has another fucking book to write because peril and sky still haven't had the reunion nor the vengeance they deserve
#peril wof#wof#i am angry !!!!#tell me why the damn scavengers got a reunion but not our fav skywing sibs???#i want to claw#wings of fire#sky wof#also no update on kinkajou living her fun girl life !!! robbed of our second rainwing book#not even gonna get into the fact that there's no way kestrel coild have consented to chameleon when he was lying about his whole being
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How is Clear Sky literally always worse than I remember him?? (I stopped DOTC at the third book I believe)
It may have something to do with the fact you stopped at Book 3, which is First Battle. The book after First Battle is The Blazing Star (and the one I'm posting from now), where the narrative has just decided to treat him as a completely new person.
He never addresses anything about how fucking awful he was in books 1 - 3. Book 4 hits and the book falls face-first into a "redemption arc" which is just everyone immediately forgiving him even though he's still a huge piece of shit. He's "Working Sooo Hard" to not randomly murder people and that means he's a good person, and the writers have a panic attack if any character goes more than 30 seconds without sucking his toes.
So if you're coming at it with Clear Sky from books 1 - 3 in mind, it's infuriating. You remember the actual character they wrote so the "redemption arc" feels as flat as it actually is. It's like watching Fire Lord Ozai suddenly be considered a good guy and the entire plot of Avatar changing midway through Book 2.
#Every time the characters fall over themselves to marvel at some mediocre thing clear sky does my brain is calling it-#a 'Clap At Baby' moment#he is a fucking. adult man. he is supposed to be a father. and the BARE minimum is cheered and clapped at#''oh how nice! my faaaaaaaaaaather said 1 nice thing about me''#''oooooaaaaaaa my Dear Brother isnt ripping women to pieces he's just calling me a few slurs''#''you can do it clear sky you can kill the evil cat you let into your own fucking clan youre so cooool :0''#Clap At Baby moments#the ideal way to read this arc is to not.#the second best way to read this arc is to start at Book 4 and pretend the first 3 don't exist.#just like the writers did#just imagine 3 books instead. it'll be better.#dotc hate
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i’m actually really upset that the reveal scene in book of murder doesn’t have the same Gay Vibes as the manga. like. i think seb and ciel deserve to be allowed to flirt like the two worst people on earth while a man has a wholeass meltdown across the table from them
ciel: i think you let them accuse me of murder for fun & on purpose <3
seb: no way bocchan <333 i just thought it was rude to leave me with work just cos you were sleepy <333
a man experiencing a mental break: what
seb: and then he sent me to get murdered ❤️❤️❤️
a man who is gonna need SERIOUS therapy: WHAT
seb: even i didn’t think he’d put on his rings to slap me ❤️😍(🥵)
ciel will exhibit the most fucked up & twisted personality traits and seb will have to exercise ALL of his self control not to propose then and there
#kuroshitsuji#black butler#sebastian michaelis#our ciel#sebaciel#book of murder#theyre genuinely so fucking funny#the scene is still gay and for the same reasons#but theres just something about the manga thats like. theyre 2 seconds away from making out on the table Right There#sky posting
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Not me searching up the rainbow magic series on here (for possible tattoo inspo? These books were responsible for so much of my personality/ how I turned out now) and finding out my weird obsession with those weeks was very much a lesbian thing I did
#i should've known#it's in the same vein as barbie movies#for a long time these books and barbie movies were my whole personality#i played with dolls while home#and drew fairies in the style of the rainbow magic fairies when i was at school#i drew so many fairies dud#dude#and thats also how i got into fashion#because when i was drawing oh so many fairies i would have to draw different outfits#anyways tag yourself im sky the blue fairy#she was always my favorite#but amber the orange fairy and the violet fairy (i forgot her name aaa) were close seconds#oh right heather#that makes sense#lesbian#rainbow magic#cloudy rambles
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Viren lifted the dagger in response.
“I am ready,” he said.
But he thought, I am desperate.
#book two: sky#novelization#parallels#wouldn't you want to tell it kinder if you could#viren missing lissa Seconds before this too like#i See you#it was just red#*kronk voice* oh yeah it's all coming together#cube hostage exchange theory#adjacently#and then they use the assassins' souls to achieve their ends UGGHH#rayllum#web weaving#s4 spoilers
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Ihehwjwjwjjwheh kiwi redraw!!!
Soft an warm colors! My favorite colors hehe! She's a comfort oc an I love her lots
This isn't hk related but that's because I'm currently working on a big vesselsona thing for all my friends! So. Ye
#art#help how do i anatomy#oc stuff#kiwi oc#rainwing#wof rainwing#wof oc#wof art#wof oc art#rainwing wof#yeah its wof lol#i used to read those books a lot!!#havnt read the. past the second series an i dont plan on . reading it#im sure its good but im just. not interested#rather play sky or . hollow knigght
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i am re-reading The Shadow Thief despite my absolute terror - it’s been a while, and i’m scared i’ll hate it/regret querying, so to combat my fear mama’s gonna liveread a little bit
#pr: second sky#hi writeblr it's been a while#i've had some health stuff to which i needed to adjust and staying away from Books that long has been hard to jump back in but#here we are
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slightly different route:
the legendary one cycle sprint to ascension! route suggested by @sevenrs which i decided to try. the route is honestly pretty similar to what i was doing before, with a few minor tweaks that ended up making it faster than my original route.
as you can see from the score screen though, it's not actually 'one' cycle; i starved twice to bring my karma up so i could go to pebbles. but the game doesn't know any better :) tbh this was pretty fun, particularly because i'm more familiar with the route now. if you're okay with navigating drainage system and filtration system in the dark, you can give it a whirl!
#sky i am so sorry for the three tags now but i cannot in good conscience not tell you about this#or credit your (and your friend's) route planning#speeeeed#yes game i totally have only 1 minute and 56 seconds of playtime ✨#rain world#for anyone legitimately interested in trying this out:#skip the tutorial by not entering any of the tutorial food rooms#and get food elsewhere. exactly 5 is enough so don't bother hunting bats for too long#save in the outskirts shelter near the industrial complex gate#upon cycle 1's start: starve#do NOT touch the karma flower before you starve. i had to restart because i realized i fucked up#once you enter your starve cycle eat the karma flower in the room below the den#then die. quitting out might be faster but i need to check if it works; it should but just to be safe yknow#repeat with industrial complex flower and den#once you hit karma 4 reroll your rain timer until it's long enough to run all the way to pebbles in one cycle#yes it's doable. it's fun and scary and you will feel so cool#and then die or quit out once he gives you karma 10#so you'll be back in the outskirts den after that. just book it to filtration system through drainage system#you will have to deal with dark rooms but it's like. fuckinnnnnnn uhhh four or five rooms that are pitch black#and then you're in depths! and nothing matters anymore :) except fall damage i guess#don't die in depths to fall damage#i'm excited to see if anyone can beat my time. most of my speed comes from running away from enemies and chaining roll pounces#nothing fancy movement wise. so anyone better at movement than i am could probably beat that time easily
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getting rejected from one ATC company while getting accepted to the next interview stage with another ATC company on the same day... why r u doing this to my emotions
#the sadness of the former definitely outweighed the happiness of the latter for a few days lol i was ANGSTYYYY#now gotta focus on the opportunity i have and try to ace it#i can apply to the first place again in a year anyway so i'm TRYING to get some sense of hope from that#at least the next interview stage at the second place means going abroad and doing tests in person aka i get to travel on a plane YAY :)#if i can get my adhd ass brain into shape i will actually be spending the next month preparing for the tests#somehow#i need to tame my rabid relentless chaotic obsession with getting my dream job#and turn it into a laser focused weapon of determination and drive#because i WILL do this no matter fucking what#i've also booked a flight lesson for next week (!!!) as a pick me up after all the bs going on recently :D#RIDICULOUSLY EXCITED for it cos who can be sad about life when you're flying thru the sky <3#also wanna see if i can get any fun ATC-related insider info and nerdery from the instructor etc#i hope they can tell me how to get into the control tower...#atc
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*grump grump*
It’s a novel about discovering you’re queer in your twenties what the fuck are y’all talking about.
#was trying to remember the name of A Fistful of Sky’s….. antagonist? second protagonist? secondaryish romantic lead? (it’s Altria)#except my copy is….. somewhere so I couldn’t just grab it#and like all the reviews are both a. trash and b. Missing The Point#like if I had to point at a novel that defined my teenage relationship with being queer this is like top two#(the other is A Stir of Bones which are less blatantly queer than it’s…. later chronological books but for thematically correct reasons)#anyway the two major complaints are ‘this doesn’t wrap up with the family resolving their issues’#and ‘not mature enough for adult fantasy’#and it’s like (spoilers and/or death of the author) this is a novel about coming to terms with yourself for being queer#and coming to terms with coming to terms with your family about being queer may never be an option#and also about taking love where you find it and how it is not how you’d like it to be#(the main character is both explicitly bi by the end (…..sort of)#and in a relationship with a nonhuman shapeshifter who uses female pronouns and wears a woman’s body but doesn’t actually care about it#I’m going to fight all these middle aged moms like what the fuck#also fuck you too mature for ya I was thirteen and it was difinitive and I got way more out of it than my mom did too
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Finished Gideon the Ninth
#sky screams into the void#REALLY liked it the fighting scenes were engaging interesting plot loved gideons voice and then all the characters i liked died!#gonna put a hold on the second book to pick up when i get home
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What is your Hogwarts house?
Honestly I don’t really know. I’ve been told I’m hufflepuff with just a hint of slitherin, but I never got into Harry Potter enough to care either way.
Like maybe it was because I read lotr at age 8, but after reading that when I tried to get into Harry Potter a few years later it just felt infantile and boring, and I never got the appeal of it.
#like? what’s so appealing about a bunch or kids going to magical boarding school?#I don’t want my magic to feel like homework#I want it to feel like it’s being breathed out by the trees and the rocks and the sky#when it becomes homework it instantly loses all its appeal#just like how as a kid I was the biggest bookworm (still am tbh)#but the second a book was assigned to me; even if it was one I was planning to read anyway; it lost its appeal#answers
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with the disclaimer that I don't know all the context since I haven't read it, how WAS he supposed to handle a contagious illness in a society that doesn't have any form of masks or sanitation? Temporarily quarantining contagiously sick cats away from healthy ones just seems like a completely different and much more reasonable thing than kicking out cats permanently for a disability because they would be a "burden".
@halogenwarrior
Ok, going with you having no context for this, he wasn't suggesting a 'temporary quarantine' for sick cats. There is already a quarantine, with only the medics approaching the sick. Following everyone having a Hearty Chuckle that Clear Sky 'cares about other people' now by saying we're "all in it together," Clear Sky shares his full plan;
He nonsensically believes that no sick prey is living in the burnt part of his woods and the fire "cleansed it", so all of the healthy cats will abandon the sick to die in their camps and come live on his territory and 'wait it out.'
His plan is that all the cats who become sick will die. It's not quarantine in the sense that they will 'help the sick but keep a distance', he is essentially suggesting a reverse leper colony where everyone who displays symptoms gets kicked out to fend for themselves.
And, in the past, illness was always part of his talking points for throwing cats out of his clan. It was why he tried to throw Frost out, where he would die alone. I went back to Thunder Rising to grab the passage,
This is after he shoves Thunder's face into it and tells him to lick it.
So, it's wholly inappropriate, imo, that Thunder essentially does a little eye roll and a cutesy sigh at this suggestion. "Ohh that's my dad and his ruthless streak." His dad has historically been a monster towards the sick and infirm when they "stop being useful" with this rhetoric. Burdens, disease, weakness. In this moment, he is proposing that they do to an unknown number of cats exactly what he commanded Thunder do to Frost.
Additionally, at this point in time, they don't know how the illness spreads. They're guessing that it's via contact with sick prey, and using leaves as rudimentary tissues/gloves. Clear Sky DOES know, though, these two things;
One Eye knows how it spreads and is not telling.
Many of his cats have been exposed.
He has no idea which cats have been exposed, or how many, or even how long it takes between infection and first symptoms. All they DO know is that symptoms are rapid onset and debilitating. By the time you know a cat is sick, they're covered in sores, have a bloated stomach, and are unable to hunt for themselves. The only thing that is for sure is that turning them out is a death sentence.
And yet he is confused at the idea that Thunder has an objection about leaving Morning Whisker, Wind Runner's kitten who isn't older than a month or two, alone to die.
The solution that the groups eventually come up with is that the clans will remain isolated from each other as to not spread illness, though it doesn't seem to work because infected prey still moves around freely.
Also note that the first time Clear Sky actually gives a damn about an infected person is when Jagged Peak's pregnant wife catches it (After Jagged Peak 'proves' he's useful now by leading a medicine-seeking patrol thanks to Gray Wing). Wind Runner's an "ex-rogue," a group Clear Sky has disdain for, and he doesn't think to have compassion about her baby.
So to answer your question directly, he was 'supposed' to handle it the way the Moor cats did and were, with some basic safety precautions. Not regress to trying to use the illness to get all the cats into a single Clan in his own territory where he could continue to throw "useless/dangerously ill/disabled" out into the wilderness "where the maggots will find them".
#tw medical gore#It's worse than I mentioned but I was trying to be brief about it#Because if I dove into every little thing that is SHOCKINGLY bad about Clear Sky I wouldn't be able to get through the book#I swear im trying to be charitable about the fact his first suggestion was just...#''Kill your sick friends and children and join a brand new camp in MY territory''#''I totally won't assert myself as your leader and make you throw out your friends and family For The Greater Good this time''#''I've been thinking it's a great idea to gather all of the cats in one spot as a contagious illness ravages the forest''#''Don't worry we won't get sick because we'll leave all the weak people behind''#You can think about this for more than 30 seconds and see it fall apart#So isn't it very very convenient that his ''i've been Thinking'' idea involves consolidating power under HIMSELF??? AGAIN?????#At *best* he is so stupid he is inventing a superspreader event#At minimum his plan involves killing a LOT of people via abandonment#And at worst it's actually just another ploy to gain power. But I have to rule that out even though it's the most interesting idea#Because it's Clear Sky Redemption Arc Time and the writers are dead set on not letting him be an interesting character
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I just cried for the past 2 hours finishing the Unwind books and I would do it again!
#unwind dystology#holy shit it's been a while since I read a series that was SO good#and thought provoking and fucked up and dark#and Lev??? I read hundreds of books and thousand stories but that little guy shot to my favorite characters in no time#shit he didn't know peace for a SECOND of his damn life!#but he's good#he's so good#my little boy destined to pull the moon from the sky
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been planning this one for 2 years
[ID: A digital drawing of a scene from The Girl Who Fell Out of the Sky. It has the same composition as my second drawing from book one, but instead of Piper it features Jimmy Joe. It’s split up into three sections separated by clouds. The first shows Jimmy’s concerned face, the second shows his hand reaching for the Fortune Flier, and the third shows his tattered sneakers lifting off of the ground. /End ID]
#This concludes my chronological fanart/reading of the series#unless inspiration strikes me again#but I still plan to draw more of this series lol#I just probably won't be drawing specific scenes#the girl who could fly#tgwcf#the girl who fell out of the sky#Victoria Forester#Jimmy Joe's arc was one of my favourite parts of book 3#and ever since my second drawing for this series#showing Piper first realizing she's in the sky#catching the baseball#and practicing flying at night#I knew I wanted to parallel it with the freedom flier scene#ignore that the sky wouldn't be all these different colours at once lol#I can't draw birds but I've gotten really good at drawing hands#my art
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