awesome girl with a REALLY lame crush. my favorite
Yes, I am late to this. Blame my workload.
Anywayyy, I was an artist on Invisobang for the story Cradle-to-Cradle by WillaKK. I was one of the artists alongside tinyspectre who made an absolutely gorgeous piece.
Now that all my art is published in the fanfic, I'd like to share them on my tumblr and any thoughts I had on it.
One of the first pieces I did for chapter 3. It's an interaction between Danny and an OC named Andy. For this piece, I wanted the hand (Andy) to contrast, foreboding as it comes from the darkness before resting itself on Danny's shoulder in comfort. The blue of the hand's background is also meant to be a lot calmer than Danny's drippy red background.
My second piece from chapter 9. I'll be honest, I am not as happy with this piece. I went for a more shaded and detailed look. The palette is an offshoot of the first one with more colors. I wanted a piece where both characters (Danny and another OC) are talking to one another in a gazebo. I had a tough time picturing the background, which is why it is left in a blue gradient. There's a lot I could've done better.
The very last piece I did was for chapter 11. I went back to using the original palette which I think helped me get into the groove of things.. I liked this much better since I returned to my normal shading style. I also like the background I did, though I wish I included more galaxy designs. I spent a lot of time making Valerie's suit make sense from behind as I didn't have a lot of references.
All in all, I had a fun time during Invisobang! I cranked out 2 pieces I'm relatively proud of and I got to experiment with different techniques.
Here are some wip I also had:
1.) Don't actually delete content from your WIP unless it is minor editing - instead cut it and put it in a secondary document. If you're omitting paragraphs of content, dialog, a whole scene you might find a better place for it later and having it readily available can really save time. Sometimes your idea was fantastic, but it just wasn't in the right spot.
2.) Stuck with wording the action? Just write the dialog then revisit it later.
3.) Stuck on the whole scene? Skip it and write the next one.
4.) Write on literally any other color than a white background. It just works. (I use black)
5.) If you have a beta, while they are beta-ing have them read your fic out loud. Yes, I know a lot of betas/writers do not have the luxury of face-timing or have the opportunity to do this due to time constraints etc but reading your fic out loud can catch some very awkward phrasing that otherwise might be missed. If you don't have a beta, you read it out loud to yourself. Throw some passion into your dialog, you might find a better way to word it if it sounds stuffy or weird.
6.) The moment you have an idea, write it down. If you don't have paper or a pen, EMAIL it to yourself or put it in a draft etc etc. I have sent myself dozens of ideas while laying down before sleep that I 10/10 forgot the next morning but had emailed them to myself and got to implement them.
7.) Remember - hits/likes/kudos/comments are not reflective of the quality of your fic or your ability to write. Most people just don't comment - even if they say they do, they don't, even if they preach all day about commenting, they don't, even if they are a very popular blog that passionately reminds people to comment - they don't comment (I know this personally). Even if your fic brought tears to their eyes and it haunted them for weeks and they printed it out and sent it to their friends they just don't comment. You just have to accept it. That being said - comment on the fic you're reading now, just do it, if you're 'shy' and that's why you don't comment the more you comment the better you'll get at it. Just do it.
8.) Remove unrealistic daily word count goals from your routine. I've seen people stress 1500 - 2000 words a day and if they don't reach that they feel like a failure and they get discouraged. This is ridiculous. Write when you can, but remove absurd goals. My average is 500 words a day in combination with a 40 hour a week job and I have written over 200k words from 2022-2023.
9.) There are dozens of ways to do an outline from precise analytical deconstruction that goes scene by scene to the minimalist bullet point list - it doesn't matter which one you use just have some sort of direction. A partial outline is better than no outline.
10.) Write for yourself, not for others. Write the fic you know no one is going to read. Write the fic that sounds ridiculous. You will be so happy you put it out in the world and there will be people who will be glad it exists.
Cradle-to-Cradle: Reflection So excited to post my very first piece for Invisobang 2024! Big shout out to my author WillaKK for writing a story that mixes two of my favorite things together (Danny Phantom and vampires!) and fellow artist EyesofCrows who inspired and challenged me to do a pixel art piece for this event. I had so much fun working on this with them and hope you all check the story out!
You can read the first chapter on Willa's page here
And you can read the full story here on AO3, which will feature both Eyes' and my pixel illustrations for some of the chapters!
I love it as always! <3 It was wonderful working together for Invisobang!
After plot plaguing my mind, most often when I was trying to sleep, I decided to do Invisobang this year! I had the wonderful opportunity to work with two fabulous artists: tinyspectre (art) and EyesofCrows! They put so much love into their pieces so please go check it out! I'll link their art here soon! I also had some help with all the nitty gritty of the story by my beta reader WriteDreamLie! I hope you enjoy the story as much as she did!
Anyways, here's the story I've been working on!
Cradle-to-Cradle (1229 words) by WillaKK Chapters: 1/14 Fandom: Danny Phantom Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Danny Fenton & Jazz Fenton, Danny Fenton & Tucker Foley & Sam Manson, Danny Fenton & Danielle "Dani" Phantom Characters: Danny Fenton, Jazz Fenton, Sam Manson, Vlad Masters, Danielle "Dani" Phantom Additional Tags: Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Vampires, but not an au, Blood and Gore, Blood Drinking, Characters Consuming Ectoplasm (Danny Phantom), Ghost Hunger (Danny Phantom), Self Depreciating Thoughts, Slight Panic Attack Summary: What starts as what appears as a change in heart with Vlad unintentionally leads to Danny being placed in a fatal situation, one that doesn’t involve his typical fare of rogue ghosts. Instead it’s vampires. Danny now has to ensure that Vlad’s schemes are stopped before it is too late for Elle while also navigating his new relationship with his mortality.
Here’s the first chapter below the cut!
Hi guys! I come with a holiday gift! I've been gone for a while, but I've not been idle!
I've been secretly working on my piece for the @ecto-implosion. This is my first Danny Phantom event and it was an absolute blast! I especially want to thank my author for this event, WillaKK! She's been amazing and I hope you guys check out her great fic for this! Likely my last post for the year, so have a wonderful new year guys!
Keep your eyes peeled for anymore art I post for this, I'll be using the tag #The Astronaut
In this guide we will use Google Drive, Discord, https://postimages.org/, or Tumblr as possible choices to host our images.
In google drive create a new folder where the image(s) or sub folders for further organization.
Right click and select New Folder, name this folder what ever you what.
Now upload your image(s)
Right click on your image and hit share
Under General Access ensure it is set to Anyone with the link
Hit Copy link
The link you have should look something like this
But as is it won’t work! We need to modify it first!
Copy the string of random numbers and letters after /d/ and before /view?
1mzOp9pOYhaWahgJP6yVFXbtYagCQ_0Up
Here’s a template https://drive.google.com/uc?id=
paste your string after id=
your new link should look some thing like this…
Now, you have a working link from Google Drive ready to use.
This Google Drive portion was from this guide here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/28132845
I have a personal discord server I use for sharing links and other information between devices/OSs. Alternatively, you can create a discord server dedicated to AO3 link hosting.
Create a new text channel. I’ll call mine ao3-image-links in this example.
Once you’ve uploaded your image click/tap on it and hit Open original
Or on mobile tap this icon to open the original.
Copy the link from your browser’s address bar on desktop.
from mobile tap the share button then Copy URL
This will give you the full resolution of the image rather than the condensed preview you’d get from the Copy Link in Discord.
Now, you have a working link from Google Drive ready to use.
You can create an account for free with this one. This is pretty straightforward so I’ll gloss over. Hit the sign up button. Then, enter your desired email
Once logged in you will be presented with this page
Upload your image, and you will be taken to this page.
Copy Direct link
Now you have a working link from postimg.cc ready to use.
Tumblr is not always the best to use as blogs can get deleted or URLs can change here. But I’ll include it here anyway.
Long tap the image you wish to use in a post.
You will be presented with this menu.
Tap share photo.
Then you will be presented with another menu.
Tap Copy URL
Right on the image in the post.
You will be presented with this menu…
Click copy the image address.
Now you have a working link from Tumblr ready to use.
Now, you are ready to embed.
Go to the new/ existing chapter you wish to be embed.
Make sure in the HTML editor view.
This is located next to the rich text button in the Worktext section, as shown.
Now, find the place in the text where the image should go…
<p> <img src=“https://i.postimg.cc/8zG9ZNMw/blob-danny.jpg” width=“270” height=“600” /> </p>
For this image, it was much too large. So, I modified it with the width and height modifiers.
**First you must find the dimensions of the image. **
This can be done with the same image URL from earlier. With this online tool.
In this example, my image is 1080x2400
Once you have the dimensions, you can find the aspect ratio.
Use this calculator:
Once have the aspect ratio, you can half or quarter the height or width and calculate for the one you don’t have.
Example I’ve quartered my height as halving it was still to big.
In my case the dimensions are now 600 by 270 which fits the page much better.
These will be your new dimensions.
Record them.
Here is a blank template to paste in.
<p>
<img src=“” alt=“” width=“” height=“”/>
</p>
src is the path to the URL.
alt is the alternative text for the image. This is used for accessibility as well as be a modern web standard.
width is the image width in pixels
height is the image height in pixels
You insert your values in between the double quotes.
_*remember to close your quote _
*remember to close your image tag
Make sure in the Rich Text editor view.
Set the cursor where you want the image. Click image icon.
Set the values in this form.
Use the URL we generated in one of the previous 4 options.
Set the Image description
The width and height may be input automatically, if not consult the HTML OPTION for finding the dimensions and aspect ratio of the image.
Here’s how it looks after posting
Shout out to @playedcrowd5610 for inspiring me to make this guide.
mine is a Five Guys
Military recruitment, haha
I know this sounds like the deranged ramblings of a senile old man but I swear it used to be possible to look up information on the internet
For one reason or another, Danny is now living in Gotham and working in a coffeeshop. For one reason or another, Tim frequents the same coffeeshop.
Now, both of them are honest to god messes who treat sleep like a grave enemy. Meaning they both survive on coffee, spite, energy drinks, and their respective hyperfocuses.
They don't even talk, really, they just see each other from time to time: Tim knows the barista who looks like he's been dead for weeks is named Danny, and Danny knows how to make Tim's Death Wish with his eyes closed, but other than that, they are just strangers who largely don't care about each other.
That is, until one time after his patrol, Tim comes to the said coffeeshop in his Red Robin gear. He doesn't even think about it, he simply needs coffee. He comes to the counter. He orders. His voice is tired and emotionless. He just wants his coffee and maybe stare at a wall for a few hours until his brain reboots. Danny takes his order without even looking at him. He has been sitting and staring at a wall for a few hours, night shifts are literally killing him.
They are both so done.
Red Robin waits for his coffee. Danny makes it almost automatically, his mind elsewhere. The coffeeshop is empty, save for them two. It's four in the morning. Nothing feels real.
Danny sets the cup on the counter.
"One Death Wish for Tim," he says out of a habit, not fully registering they are alone, and he doesn't need to do that.
Tim takes the coffee without thinking, nods a silent 'thank you'. Brings the cup up to his mouth-
And notices a glove on his own hand.
He is in Red Robin get up.
He freezes and looks at the barista, who is cleaning the coffeemachine. Danny, noticing him looking, also looks back at him. Did he make the wrong order? He knows Tim's soul, he's seen it a lot, he couldn't have mistaken him for anyone else, but maybe he forgot to add syrup?..
There's a domino mask on Tim's face. A vigilante domino mask.
They stare at each other. No one moves. No one blinks. The sun is rising somewhere over the city.
Tim takes a sip of his coffee. Danny goes back to cleaning the coffeemachine.
They never speak of this again, but Tim becomes a regular here in both of his personas.
Its been a few months since 'the incident.' Tim has gotten to know Danny a bit more, just to make sure his secret is safe. No other reason.
Danny is a veritable prodigy of engineering. He can do things with an old microwave and a bit of loose wire that Tim can't even comprehend. It's really saying a lot when Danny has to explain things step-by-step for Tim to understand, and he even makes sure he's less than 24 hours of running awake before their meetings!
Needless to say, Tim got Danny an internship at WE before Danny could finish stating that it was required for his college degree. In practically a blink of an eye, Danny was moved to work directly under Lucius Fox, in the 'fun lab.'
Danny has already submitted half-a-dozen proposals to improve various bat tech. Tim knows. He's spent hours pouring over Danny's blueprints before approving them for development and testing stage. What little sleep he gets, he dreams of danny's chicken-scratch notes plastered over everything around him, suggesting improvements, jotting down quick math with physics equations applied in creative ways.
On the vigilante side of things, the newest justice league member phantom is settling in. One of his stipulations for joining the league (after the atrocious anti-ecto acts that were deliberately designed to target him were abolished) was that every member of the league, including civilian staff, would learn proper weapons handling of ghost hunting tech, and best practice for handling ghosts. He also needed to join the engineering department to properly upgrade the watchtowers' defenses against any malicious ghosts.
Batman, the ever-paranoid, was all for new defenses and contingencies, long-since trusting Phantom for his remarkably selfless actions, saving lives and protecting people even while being actively hunted. He, Tim, and various other members of the engineering department, both hero and civilian contractors, gave Phantom a very thorough tour of the watchtower so he could come up with a plan for adding ghost defenses in a way that wouldnt interfere with any of the other tech or hinder any of their more supernatural-leaning members.
Tim was almost dreading having to review Phantom's blueprints for the new shields and alarms that needed to be installed. Danny's chicken-scratch was terrible enough that Tim had to treat it like learning a new language, but his actual designs?
A work of art. Engineering perfection.
Tim was resigned to the fact that nothing and nobody else's work would ever compare.
Not even his own.
At least, that's what Tim thought right up until Phantom waltzed into his Watchtower office with a USB and Tim plugged it in and opened the files.
He glanced back at phantom, then back at his computer screen. Then his hands, to double-check he was in his suit, out the window to a view of earth to see if he was still on the watchtower. Back at the computer screen.
The chicken-scratch notes all over the blueprints were extremely familiar.
Back at Phantom again, who was now holding a coffee thermos (definitely a normal thermos, not one of his weapons of choice).
"One deathwish coffee for Tim," Phantom said with a smile, gently placing the thermos down on the desk.
True to Fenton Luck, it ended up in the batch of emergency blood supply in the Justice League, which meant that it's paper trail was erased and by the time Tucker was able to even try to find it, it was long gone.
Cut to a few months later, and Superman gets into a huge fight.
It's bad.
He actually lost a fair amount of blood.
The reserves that they thought they had specifically for him were far lower than they anticipated.
Clark can probably survive with what they have, but ideally they'd have just one single pint more.
Out of desperation, they start testing all the blood they have in stock. Maybe, just maybe, they'd stored some extra in the wrong place and mislabeled it.
They didn't, but they do find a viable donor. It issn't Clark's DNA, but the blood is unmistakably Kryptonian by nature, and it is compatible with Clark.
Anyways, that's how Danny ends up opening the door to Pulitzer Winning Lois Lane, who wants to know if he's a secret alien.
Or; The Justice League find a blood donor in their stashes that's not only compatible with Clark, but is undeniably Kryptonian in nature. They investigate and find out it's from one Daniel Fenton, and decide to be polite about asking instead of barging in. This is a Clark who had his issues with Kon, because I know y'all love to villainize that, but has grown past them, apologized, and is on good terms with Kon. His issues weren't really with Kon being a clone, they were with him seeing who he could have been if he hadn't been raised by his parents, and also his DNA was taken without his permission and used to create a person. He gave Kon his Kryptonian name and accepted him as a person, hero, and Kryptonian. Please. Please stop taking the easy way out for a villain and slapping it on Clark.
I love this concept. It doesn’t have to be for anything specific, like dpxdc, but just generally. It really adds a new level to space core aus.
This tag isn't from this post, but it's in my screenshots from forever ago, and I couldn't resist adding it.
What I like about this is that dissection isn't part of the original Danny Phantom, but it is part of fandom's Danny Phantom. Someone who writes a fanfic with him being dissected is making a fanfic of the fandom's Phantom. This means that there is a second version, a version that is made up of the fanfics and is constantly evolving as new fan-content is created.
I find this fascinating/wonderful/beautiful.
What do you think they're referring to when they say "molecule by molecule"?
Can someone please pull up the screencap for me where danny nonchalantly goes "I hope my parents don't dissect me later"
like this is a kid show so it can't go that far but the implications are there
Thaaats the one vvvv
Danny has been without a home or a means to get food for a while because of either identity reveal gone bad or Dan timeline shenanigans. Either way he needs to eat. As a last ditch attempt Danny tries to attend/infiltrate a Wayne family dinner. He’s seen the Wayne kids around Gotham and he’s sure that he could look and act the part enough to get in the door and out with some bread rolls at least.
Was it his best idea? No.
But he sure as sugar ain’t firing on all cylinders rn.
And Bruce already has a gaggle of blue eyed, black haired children.
What’s one more?
Batfam of course notices immediately when a whole new kid shows up, grabs some miscellaneous pieces of food and then prattles off some excuse about “not being that hungry.” (Clearly a bald faced lie) And that they were “Going to the library to study for finals, bye Dad!”
1. No one skips out on family dinners. Even Jason was here.
2. Alfred sets the table for everyone ahead of time and the kid had no place to sit.
3. Nobody in this house studies anything beyond case files.
4. Nobody in this house calls Bruce Dad.
Danny thinks he is suffering from success. No matter where he is in Gotham someone picks him up and insists he’ll be late for family dinner which is unacceptable.
Alfred just wants to feed the boy.
The batkids are amused by his efforts to look as though he’s been here all along.
Bruce is drafting adoption papers as we speak.
They'll sling an arm over his shoulder and complain how he needs to pick up his phone more as they lead him to the car back to the manor. Tell him its his turn to pick for game/movie night. Text him to cast a vote.
Alfred will pick him up after school and say it's his turn to help with the grocery shopping, that he gets to pick dinner that upcoming Friday, (and once alfred gets Danny's phone number) calls to say he 'forgot' to grab [xyz] and can he please pick it up on his way back home?
He's notified of family outings and forced to go. Danny doesn't really have any objections until the first gala of the season
Danny wasn't sure when there started being a spot for him at the table, but no one said anything, and maybe the old butler guy, Alfred, was having memory problems. (He didn't /act/ like he had memory problems.)
But Danny did his best to be invisible, and ate quickly, making appropriate noises when someone said something to him. He first noticed something unusual when "Dad" cleared his throat and the whole table went quiet.
The whole table /never/ goes quiet.
"I'd just like to remind everyone that annual Memorial Gala will be in three weeks. Everyone /will/ be attending, no excuses accepted. Our guest of honor needs all our support."
"Sure B."
"Of course father."
"Fine."
"I'll be there!"
Even Stephanie agreed without arguing that she wasn't really family. It was… strange. Especially since it seemed like some of them were trying not to laugh. But no one seemed to notice that Danny didn't say anything, so he took the win.
Shortly after that, Danny tried to slip out of the room with a muttered, "Test tomorrow."
Just as he reached the door, he heard Alfred behind him. "Young master," which was how the man addressed Danny, "I will be picking you up at three tomorrow for your fitting."
"Fitting?" Danny squeaked.
"Your suit fitting. For the gala."
"Oh. Yeah. Of- of course…"
Fuck.
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They waited, carefully 'normal' until the front door closed behind Danny. Then the whole table burst out laughing.
"Did you see his face?"
"Wait til he learns who the guest of honor is."
Duke scratched the back of his head and looked around the table before looking down. "Um. Are you all sure we shouldn't just… talk to the guy?"
A resounding "Yes!" came from the rest of the batkids.
"He tried to prank us, we prank him back," Dick said.
Jason grunted agreement. "Rules of the family."
"And he is the one who showed up and announced that he's family now," Stephanie put in with an evil smile. "We're just… taking him at his word."
Tim finally put tablet down. "It's just a good thing he doesn't read the tabloids. They've been speculating on who the 'newest Wayne' is for weeks now."
"Vicky Vale?" Cass asked, concerned.
"I'll make sure Clark is at the gala," Bruce said, "He'll get the first official interview.
"Clark is good."
Danny had never been to a tailorshop before. Had never imagined he'd need a tailor, never mind a custom-made fitted suit just for one stupid party.
A party he would not be going to.
Not that they'd want him to go after he told them the truth.
But he just... he couldn't do this anymore. A big public gala? /Someone/ would find him out, even if the Waynes were all too oblivious.
When the tailor left them alone, he took a deep breath and turned to Alfred. "Look, um... this has... this has gone to far. I'm sorry, i really am, I never should have... but I'm... I'm not part of this family."
"What a thing to say, young master, of course you are part of this family. You have been for a long time."
"No, I'm... I'm really not. And I didn't mean for it to go this far, but everyone was so... I never meant to trick you all. Not for this long."
Alfred gave him a stern long. "Young master, if you haven't noticed yet that pranks are part of how this family shows they care, I truly can do nothing for you."
Danny was tearing his hair out. "That's... that's not what I mean! I mean I'm not a Wayne, I never was a Wayne! I'm a fake, and when everyone finds out, they're going to hate me!"
Alfred tutted. "Very few people in this family started out as 'Waynes', young master. That doesn't make them -- or you -- 'fake.' I truly dislike hearing you talk about yourself in such a disparaging manner.
"There is nothing," he gently set a hand on the boy's shoulder, "nothing you can do that will make the rest of the family hate you. And since are finally having this conversation, I will not that your room has been ready for several weeks now and you have not used it once. Master Bruce and I haven't wanted to press, but I must admit to being very displeased with your living accommodations.
"I think it would be best if you stayed at the manor at least until the gala is over."
His room? What? When the fuck did that happen?
