#also fic rec for IYGaBaB

[threewaysdivided]

Hi!

Okay, first of all. I LOVE your blog (particularly you Danny Phantom tags). I didn't know this Phandom exist until about a month ago? and I've been having a blast here.

That's and there this one thing. Do you know anything about Duck shaped candle in the Phandom? It's a Fanon thing, right?

I found them in some stories (usually DC x DP fic that have people summoning Phantom) and I just think it's really cute.

Hi, and welcome to the Phandom!

I'm glad you're having fun on my tumblr 💚 A lot of the content in my Danny Phantom tag is reblogged from other users who make excellent stuff (fanfic, art, meta etc) so I heartily recommend checking out the blogs of the original posters to find more things you might like.

Now, as for your duck-shaped conundrum, I think I can give you an answer. It is purely a fanon thing, coming from the DC Comics crossover (DP x DC) space. Specifically, I believe it originates with this story from @noir-renard:

If You Give a Bat a Burger Gen (non-romantic) | Case-fic | Currently updating Strange things are going on in Gotham: A series of crimes linked only by a sentence uttered. A drug that no one seems to be selling, but lots of people are taking. An old enemy reborn, or someone pretending to be him. Graffiti that can't be photographed by normal means. Bartenders disappearing without a trace. John Constantine is also there. Danny wants nothing to do with any of it. He just wants to sell burgers and survive. Actually, he'd like to go home again, but since that isn't possible, he'll stick with burgers. Gotham's vigilante's have other plans. This is why Danny doesn't do favors.

Detouring away from the ducks for a moment, this is a very good elseworld-style crossover fanfic. It has a more traditional spirits-magic-hauntings-psychopomps take on Danny Phantom lore than canon and they use it to create a really cool urban-fantasy mystery setting for the characters. (If you've encountered the Ben Aaronovitch Rivers of London novels, this has a similar general vibe and aesthetic).

Our duck-candle friend first appears in Chapter 1 of IYGaBaB, where a reluctant Danny has it very insistently gifted to him by an amateur occultist, and is then quick to re-gift it to an injured Red Hood. As of the most recent published chapter, the duck-candle is floating in a bowl of water on Jason's nightstand and the rest of the Batfam are giving it little hats. Apparently the candle wards away spirits if burned but no-one wants to light Dr Quack on fire just yet.

Fandom being fandom, people latched onto it as a cute and funny concept, and so began the proliferation of the Red Duck Candle through the DP x DC community.

(This kind of wide-spread fanon lore is not at all unusual for the DP fandom, where a good 50% or more of the most widely accepted concepts are fan-creations at any given time. Ghost Obsessions? Danny as King? Summoning Rituals? Liminality? Ghost Hunger? Ghost Nip? Wes? All fanon.)

As for where the recent boom in DP x DC content came from, I'm not sure. DP x Other Superhero crossovers have had a fandom for a long time (I started writing my own DP x DC crossover fanfic back in 2015, when Teen Titans Animated, Miraculous Ladybug, the Early MCU and the original run of Young Justice Animated episodes were dominating), but it's really ramped up in the last year. I know there are a couple of popular prompt blogs and apparently a DPxDC-focused discord running at the movement, but as for which came first (the duck or the egg, one might say) I have no idea.

Either way, hope you have fun!

#DP x DC #Danny Phantom #fanon stuff #if you give a bat a burger #red duck candle #also fic rec for IYGaBaB #hnymp #3WD answers

[noir-renard]

Heya!!

Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Let’s spread the self-love 💗

Hii Grem! Thank you for the ask!! Let's see, if I can stretch a little and recommend things that aren't fics exactly I think I can come up with five!

my response to @stealingyourbones's prompt! I did two responses in fact, it was that inspirational!

my response to @summerssixecho's prompt! Danny raising Clark is something I didn't know I wanted until I wrote it ^w^ also there are some banger responses to this prompt in the notes, check them out!

Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace a 5+1 things DinLuke fic where they get married and forget to tell anyone, the fallout of which is everyone trying to convince them to confess to each other. L-O-L, am I right?

my response to @akela-nakamura's prompt one day I'll write more of this story, but it's a fantastic prompt and I had fun with it!

Danny having a Bad Time(TM) at work in IYGABAB (comic) or should I say, a Bat Time >:3

Thank you for the ask Grem!!

#answered asks #gremlin-bot #self-rec

[noir-renard]

Fanwork creators self rec! When you get this, reply with your five favorite fics/art/podfics/etc. that you've made, then pass on to others. Let’s spread the self-love 🌼

(No pressure if you don't want to though!)

Hope you have a good day! ✨

hello from several months after you sent this! Thank you for the opportunity to self-rec some things I've made! In no particular order:

forever; without stagnation the DinLuke Star Wars Big Bang I've been working on since April and just finished

This Over The Garden Wall/Dante's Inferno Poster I illustrated and yes you can buy a poster of it if you want to

my response to @midnightenigmados's prompt I recommend scrolling through the notes of this one; there are a ton of great responses!

Chapter Four of IYGABAB Art what can I say? It still makes me laugh >:3

If You Give a Bat a Burger this is by far the most popular thing I've ever written, but it's also my favorite thing I've ever written (and am still writing) thank you again for the tag! Have a good one!

#answer asks #self-recs #a little bit of everything here ^w^