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Guess what time it is? That Fic: Rec List Pt 8

[Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] [Part 4] [Part 5] [Part 6] [Part 7]

At Haunting Heroes DPxDC Discord we played a fun game during 2023 named "Guess That Fic?" (hosted by the amazing DisillusionedDanny). The premise: guess the name of a DPxDC story based on the following bad summaries, memes, or strings of emojis.

Here are the stories suggested by some of our members for rounds 71-80, anonymized so you can play and find new stories to read (thanks to Ciara, Dis, Dizzly, Midnight, Nixxie, Nutella, Summers, and T for these submissions!)

Good luck guessing!! 👻

71. [Story Link]

🥈💚

72. [Story Link]

[More under the cut]

73. [Story Link]

❌👼🪦

74. [Story Link]

75. [Story Link]

💉❌💉💉❌👶💉❌❌💰...❔...❌💎❌✨❌👶❌🍪✔️

76. [Story Link]

77. [Story Link]

🌳🧒🧒🧒🧒🌰

78. [Story Link]

❤️🟰🪦🪦🪦

79. [Story Link]

80. [Story Link]

[Jump to the next part] - Link coming soon

#fic rec #hey i made one of these

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Last bit of gray ghost art

#gray ghost #danny phantom fanart #valerie gray #danny phantom

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Truly the all time funniest writer thing is when you're doing edits and you think to yourself "omg I've got the PERFeCT sentence to add right here!" and then you stick it in all excited, only to find that literally three lines down you have virtually that exact same sentence in the draft already.

#have absolutely done this

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If you applied to be a contributor to the Worlds Collide Fanzine and you have not heard back from us yet, please make sure you check your spam box! Emails were sent out yesterday and we need to hear back on if you want to be a contributor or not by 4/23!

#dpxdc #worldscollidefanzine #dpxdc fanzine

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been feelin' like a ghost

#danny phantom fanart #danny phantom

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i am. so sorry if i have ever used the phrase “i have an au where—” and led you to believe that there is an actual fic out there for you to read rather than, at best, a post where i explain the concept, and at worst it is simply something that lives in my brain

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#oughta be ranch 2 yeah #but also kinda citrus-y and bitter

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Went to a curiosities and oddities expo today and

it glows under uv light ouo

#omg i need this #where can i get one #i also went to a weird art market the other day and got a bat pin that says stay spooky

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Reblog to give the person you reblogged from the ability to finish their WIPs

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About the AO3 "No Guest Comments for a while" warning

If you're not following any of AO3's social media accounts you might be in the dark as to what kind of "spam comments" have engendered this banner at the top of the site:

These spam comments have been posted about a great deal on the AO3 subreddit for the past couple of days. Initially they comprised a bunch of guest (logged out users) bot comments that insulted authors by suggesting they were using AI and not writing their own fics. Some examples, from the subreddit:

But it then escalated to outright graphic porn images and gifs being posted in comments, again by logged out 'Guest' accounts. Obviously, I'm not going to give examples of those, but between these two bot infestations, AO3 has clearly decided to act and has temporarily closed the ability to post comments for users who are not logged in with an AO3 account.

Unfortunately, this means that genuine readers who don't have an AO3 account won't be able to leave comments on fics that they enjoy.

If you are a genuine reader who doesn't yet have an AO3 account, I strongly suggest getting yourself on the waiting list for one. More and more AO3 authors are now locking their fics down to registered users only - either due to these bot comments or concerns about AI scraping their work - which means you're probably missing out on a lot of great stuff.

Hopefully guest commenting will be enabled again at some point soon, but I suggest not waiting until then. Get yourself on that list.

Wait times are going to be longer than usual at the moment, due to the current Wattpad purge [info on Fanlore | Wattpad subreddit thread], but if you're in line, then your invite will come through eventually.

Update: There's now a Megathread about this on the AO3 subreddit.

#i still have some invites #so if any of my readers needs one #please let me know #ao3

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Jazz is going to get 75% of the way through her first semester studying psychology and then have an existential crisis over the realization that she doesn't actually like it and her entire "mentally stable basically an adult" persona was a coping mechanism for her insane home life thanks for coming to my Ted Talk

#yup #jazz fenton

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Summary: Lex Luthor has recently acquired a son. Weapon? Parole officer? ...Lex now has a teenaged god and he'll be damned if someone tries to take the kid away from him.

Author: @halfagone

Submitter: @disillusioneddanny

Note from submitter: This is such an amazing fic by an even more amazing person!! 

#dpxdc #love this fic

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You were kidnapped by a cult to provide sacrificial blood to summon a demon. They manage to finish the ritual and you see a hunky man standing at the centre of the summoning circle, looking confused as fuck, who goes from confused to enraged as he figures out you did not give consent.

#this is just a good 40% of dpxdc fics

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So today I got a rather unkind comment on AO3 (one could call it hate), but I believe it to be a bot for several reasons:

Guest account, but username attached

Said username exists but person is unlikely to be reading Tolkien fic (according to their Tumblr and AO3, they are in other fandoms)

Two grammatically correct sentences

Super generic text that could apply to any fic:

"I've seen better fanfiction written by a toddler. Get it together!"

I'm curious, did anyone else get comments like this? Let me know.

And to those who have gotten rude comments and are now worried/upset: Maybe it was just a bot too. Either way: You're awesome for putting your writing out there for others to enjoy and you don't deserve to get rude comments for it. If you want feel free to message me to compare cases and discuss details :)

#psa #ao3 #how weird #i don't understand why someone would make a bot that does this

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In the meantime, if you have any questions or concerns please feel free to send us an ask! We are more than happy to help!

#dpxdc #worldscollidefanzine #dpxdc fanzine

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Powehouse AU: aka Danny Fenton tries to be a normal college student in the midwest yet is forced to continue to be a hero in secret as ghosts won't leave him alone and soon, neither will the Justice League when he pops up as a new hero.

Additional info and art under readmore:

ANYWAYS, here is some powerhouse au information.

Danny as he grows up manages to keep the ghost situation under control to a point he isn't overly active as Phantom. He finishes highschool no problem and goes to uni over in Central City for Maths and Engineering (not an overtly big fan of the space motif and instead, I'm shoving my boy into something cooler: PLANES! He's studying specifically mechanical engineering and has plans to go to a trade school after his B.S. for A&P mechanics.)

Sam goes to Gotham State University for Ethnobotany and works in one of the unis library part time. Tucker is going to Star City College for Computer Science and a minor in archeology, he tutors part time.

Danny's main design is inspired by a combo of military and blue collar uniforms (you can also see exactly what I reference). I also couldn't decide a face mask so you get all three options.

So as Danny moves to Central City and attends uni, his rouges do sadly follow him and wreck havoc. Danny is stressed from school so he doesn't do quips as much, in fact, he's trying to get this under control as fast as possible so he can go back and study. Here's the thing, no one outside of Amityville has seen Phantom so all of the sudden what seems to be a meta? an alien? something not human? coming out and taking down rouges that, due to being ghosts, other heros struggle to contain and handle.

Speculation rises about Phantom and who he is. Danny is smart and thought this through, kinda. His costume is a modified look what he wore as a kid but he pulls in more military/uniform aspects to make it seem like he belongs to someone or some organization. That maybe somewhere in the US, an organization managed to make a hero of sorts that mimics Green Lanterns. It's just a big red herring, Danny wants them to look for someone older, probably more experienced, and a different background. Not some tired college student struggling with his studies.

Things do start to get dicey when heroes actively try to interact with him, mostly the Flash (because Central City), Superman, and the Green Lantern. Most interactions end up with Phantom not wanting to fight and fleeing or when cornered to fight, he's messy and inexperienced compared to the other heroes. He doesn't stay around and rarely even talks. It's concerning more so because the heroes aren't sure with who they're dealing with and after a few interactions, they aren't sure Phantom is on their side. Just too many questions around him.

This leads to heroes actively trying to capture and bring in Phantom. The more failed attempts that happen, the more flightly Phantom acts when they end up interrupting him capturing his rouges. They do eventually capture Phantom (thank you Superman) and that's kinda where I end on information on this AU. It's just me having fun with interactions and also designing costumes :)

ALSO DANNY IS ROMA/DIDICOY I NEED TO MENTION THAT!!! (Dick Grayson 🤝 Danny Fenton being didicoy)

#ooh fun #dpxdc #danny phantom fanart #hazmat au #sorta

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#constantly