#also the pacing feels kinda weird to me tbh i guess i really am rusty rip

[darks-ink]

Okay here's a drabble suggestion for your consideration: I adore reveal fics, so would could you do with "reveal" and "snow"? Bonus points if it's silly

Okay so I will admit that this didn’t come out as silly as I had intended? It’s kinda tough to write a reveal from the POV of the people finding out without referring to how messed up that whole thing is.

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Maddie laughed as asnowball whizzed past her head. Her fingers, protected by the thickmaterial of her jumpsuit, dug through the snow to make one of herown.

“He’s gotten good atthis!” her husband exclaimed, cheerily. “It’s like he’s got anever-ending hoard over there!”

“We’ll get him,” shetold him, voice determined. “Sooner or later he’ll run out, andwe outnumber him.”

Another snowball flew bythem as she finished hers. Spotting the perfect opportunity, shestood up from behind her barrier, winding back her arm.

As the projectile left herhand, another hit her in the face, however. She stumbled back,crouching behind her protection again.

“Missed me!” Dannytaunted from the other side of the fight.

She grumbled, duckinglower to scrape together more snow. “We need a better plan.”

Jack hummed anacknowledgment, eyes darting around the clearing they were in. Thenhis eyes lit up. “I’ve got an idea! Cover me!”

“Cover you? Jack,what--”

He darted away before shecould finished her sentence. Cursing, she balled her handful of snow.It wasn’t a great snowball, but it would do its job.

Maddie waited until shesaw Danny pop up, then lobbed the haphazard snowball at him. Itmust’ve caught him off-guard, because he startled and dropped hisown.

Danny swore, turningaround and starting to duck behind his own cover. Looking for Jack,if she had to guess. She couldn’t give him the chance.

Quickly she scooped upmore snow. She might not know what Jack had thought of, but his planswere always brilliant, if unconventional. If he wanted her to keepDanny distracted, she would.

The two of them kept it upfor a little while, exchanging snowballs. Behind Danny, she could seeJack stealthily moving around. Or, well, as stealthy as he could get,since he was wearing bright orange as usual. To keep him out ofDanny’s sight, and to distract her son even further, she startedmoving as well. Slowly, but surely, they were cornering him, and hedidn’t even know.

She saw Jack scrapetogether a huge heaping of snow, and threw one last snowball to keepDanny distracted just a moment longer. They had gotten veryclose by now; Jack was almost directly behind their son.

Crouching low, she watchedJack dump the armful of snow onto Danny. She was expecting a jubilantcheer, an exclamation of excitement.

Instead she heard a yelpfrom Danny – not entirely unexpected – and a matching noise fromher husband.

Spurred into action, shecovered the last of the distance between her and Danny in a fewsteps, jumping over the snowy barrier he’d formed.

Behind it, she found herhusband staring wide-eyed at their son, expression twisted intosomething weird. And Danny… Danny was covered in the snow Jack hadjust dumped onto him, his hair so extensively covered with snowflakesthat it looked white, an undersized snowball in his hand.

Danny’s eyes darted fromJack to her, and she froze at the sight of them. They looked… odd,somehow. They were still that blue she loved so much, but somethingabout them felt… weird. Too cold, too icy… It made his entireface look just slightly off.

“Uh…” Danny said,eventually. His fingers twitched around the snowball, and sheimmediately zeroed in on his bare fingers, tinged slightly blue withcold.

“Young man!” shesnapped at him, racing over to knock the snow out of his hand. “Whatdo you think you’re doing? Why aren’t you wearing gloves?!”

“I’m-- I didn’t likethem?” he tried, feebly, as he attempted to wrench his wrist out ofher grip again. “It’s not that cold!”

She shot him adisbelieving look. “Your fingers are turning blue, Danny. We’regoing home to warm you up right now. Get in the RV.”

“But-- But--” Helooked over at Jack, as if expecting the man to talk her out of this.Quite frankly, she wasn’t sure why he hadn’t interfered sooner,but he definitely wouldn’t side with Danny on this.

Realizing the same, Dannysighed and slumped, then nodded at her. “Alright, fine.”

Confident that she’dconvinced him, she let him go. She watched him move to the RV for amoment, then stepped closer to Jack. Seeing that his expressionhadn’t changed, she wrapped her hand around his limp one, leaningagainst him.

“What’s wrong, honey?”

Jack heaved out a sigh,looking tired and weary. “Mads… I saw--” He shook his head. “Idon’t know what I saw.”

“Something about Danny?”

“No. Well, yes.” Jackmade a face. “His eyes… didn’t you see?”

She thought back. Sure,they had looked a little weird, but that was just the lighting.Right? “Well, they looked a little icy, but--”

“They were glowing,”he interrupted her, staring into the direction that Danny had gone.“I saw, Maddie. They were glowing blue, like a ghost.”

“Our son isn’t aghost, Jack,” she said sternly. “We’ve gone over this before.Just because they’re acting a little strange doesn’t mean thatthey’ve been replaced.”

“I never said he wasreplaced.” Finally he turned to look at her, looking haunted. “It’sDanny. I’m sure of it, Mads. But I’m also sure of what I saw.”

She met his eyes, pressingagainst him a little closer. “Jack, honey, all sorts of thingscould’ve made it look like his eyes were glowing. You know snowmakes things look a little strange.”

“But that wasn’t all Isaw,” he said, and she felt her world grind to a halt at his heavytone.

“What else did you see?”she asked him, almost before he’d finished his own sentence.

Jack heaved out anothersigh, dragging his eyes back towards Danny. “The snowballs, Mads.Didn’t I say, just before this, that it seemed like he had anever-ending supply of them?”

“Yes, but I don’t seehow it’s relevant.”

“He was making them,Maddie.” After a long pause, he seemed to realize that she didn’tsee anything strange about this, because he added, “Making themfully-formed, I mean. Created the snow right in his bare hands.”

“Oh,” she said,thinking back of how none of the snow around Danny had beendisturbed, despite how much snow he must’ve thrown at her. Abouthow he hadn’t noticed how cold it was, about how his fingers hadgone blue with cold without him ever noticing.

He “didn’t like” hisgloves. Because they would make it harder to form snow, probably.Maybe they were too warm, even, but then why didn’t the coat botherhim?

“Oh,” she said again,turning her eyes from Jack to the RV in the distance. Danny stoodnext to it, clearly staring at them, hands in his pockets. Must begetting impatient.

“How long? How long hasour son been a ghost? How have we never noticed?”

Jack shrugged, listlessly,also looking at Danny. “Must’ve been forever. Remember the GhostFinder, back when he started high school? It picked up on him, I’msure.”

“And the Ghost Gabber…”Her eyes widened as realization struck. “All those times ourinventions malfunctioned over the years… God, Jack, he’s been--all this time?”

“No wonder his gradesdropped. He got worse at focusing, at behaving well. But he stilltries so hard…” Jack sniffled. “He’s fighting his nature,just for…”

“For us,” she finishedfor him. “Even though we’ve been telling him all this times howmuch we hate ghosts, how we want to tear them apart and experiment onthem. How they’re good for nothing, and disgusting, and… And hestill fought back his ghostly instincts, just to stay?

“But what could’vehappened to him?” she asked, trying to sort through her memories.“It must’ve happened sometime between middle school and highschool, but what--”

“The Portal,” Jacksaid, grimly. “We finished the Portal, but it didn’t work. Thenhe had an accident with it, and then it worked.”

“Oh God.” Sheshivered, entirely unrelated to the cold. “God, Jack.”

“I know.” He wrappedan arm around her shoulders, rubbing her arm comfortingly. “I know,Mads. I can’t believe it, but…”

“It makes so muchsense.” She leaned against him. “But if it happened with thePortal. God, Sam and Tucker must’ve seen. And Jazz has toknow, too. Remember when she started being so smothering towards him,so caring, all of a sudden? And insisted we were wrong about ghosts?”

He hummed. “And no onetold us. Because… because they were scared of how we would react.Because they thought we hate ghosts more than we love our family.”

“I know.” She wisheddearly she didn’t. “God, Jack, I know.”

“Man…” He huffed,then pulled his arm away from her shoulders to wipe over his faceinstead. “This snowball fight really went downhill, huh?”

She laughed, the soundfragile and thick with unshed tears. “A real Pyrrhic victory.”

“Well, let’s go makeit into something better.” He straightened himself up, eyes stillon their son in the distance. “Let’s make sure he knows how muchwe love him.”

“Yeah,” she said,looking at Danny too. The boy still hadn’t wiped the snow from hishair, the strands looking entirely white from this far. He looked…very familiar like this. “Hey, wait.”

“Hm?” Jack paused,turning to look at her. “What’s wrong?”

“Look at him,” sheinsisted, stepping up next to him. “With the snow in his hair,doesn’t that remind you of someone?”

Jack looked, and she couldsee, clear as day, when he realized too. “I’ll be damned.”

“All this time,” sheagreed, looking at Danny as well. “All this time he’s been aghost hunter too.”

He laughed, hesitantly buthopeful. “God, and he doesn’t even know how proud we are of him.”

“Well.” She steppedforward, dragging Jack along. “Let’s go make sure he knows.”

#danny phantom #prompt fill #maddie fenton #jack fenton #danny fenton #dark writes #i usually wait a day or so before checking it for spelling but i wanted to get this up so... #also the pacing feels kinda weird to me tbh i guess i really am rusty rip #Anonymous

[blogenana]

Doctor Who - Earthshock Live Review

So I have my crisps and lemonade and im ready to continue my journey through classic who - idk why I just started live blogging it...

• People are climbing

• So they've found something- an alien I'm assuming- why do humans always tamper with things we shouldn't

• Oh they haven't found something theyre looking for people

• I hate how classic who drags on so slowly

• Sinister music

• 'probably nothing" foreshadowing...

• Okay get to the killing already

• YES FINALLY HELLO DOCTOR

• Wow I forget they must have their own rooms in the Tardis

• Lots of books in Adrics room

• "why should that interest me" ooh okay Adric getting a bit sassy

• Why's he fed up

• looool "I'm tired of being considered a joke" "why am I being constantly teased" maybe because you're annoying and you make sexist remarks?

• oh chill

• The doctor don't have time to deal with this

• aww okay Adric being jealous that Nyssa and Tegan get more attention from the doctor than him is kinda cute

• 'I give you my word' 'just as you gave your word to Tegan" okaaaaay go off (spoiler alert) ik Adric dies in this because I saw a spoiler so this is very sad foreshadowing that the doctor will break his word to Adric about making time for him- kinda sad

• I hate the celery stick

• okay Adric kick off

• Doctor can't take criticism which is interesting because the last time he was probably ever blamed for something was One with Barbara and Ian. I don't remember any companion ever criticizing him like this before

• 'Well it can wait' you'll regret that

• "I'm tired of being an outsider" this would make sense if we had seen him being an outsider before - in my opinion Tegan is the outsider as she's new and not as mathematically advanced as the others. also I would say that Adric is the closest to the doctor out of all 3 so his point isn't really valid

• I guess this is the writers way of making adrics death more tragic

• ooh Adrics theme

• I swear he was an outsider amongst his own people too

• 'the tools would go missing" why do these people never take the hint

• forgot Adric was from e space- tbh what was the doctors plan when he did demand to go home eventually- did he wanna travel with him till he died?

• "e space is another universe, there isn't a taxi service that goes back and forth"

• Romana mention!

• "im not waiting around while you plot the course to your own destruction" the doctor has never experienced a companion death before - also foreshadowing

• "you know I think since his regeneration he's become decidedly immature" this is funny also like 4 was soooo mature

• I like Adric and Five's relationship

• the actor who plays Adric has gone better

• Nyssa is the most mature out of this entire group

• "breathe deeply and relax" why is Tegan a meditation instructer out of nowhere

• the doctor didn't take much convincing

• lol the doctor bopping Tegans nose was cute

• Ooh Dinosaur bones

• let me guess - the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was an alien spaceship or aliens killed them

• Someone screamed

• Ooh yeah she be dead

• Okay the villains look like they're wearing gimp costumes

• Reminds me of American Horror Story Murder House & the leather monster

• Aah doctor who giving a lesson on how the dinosaurs were killed. We love a show that educates

• Did I mention how much I hate the celery stick because I hate it honestly whose idea was it

• Bro chill why is this man grabbing the doctor like that what he do

• Calm the fuck down mate

• Gimp people be shooting

• Okay they may be androids but they'll always be gimp people to me

• Android vision

• CYBERMEN!!!! DAMN

• Why they gotta hit us with the plot twist like that i wasn't ready

• The Cybermen looks sad

• Hehehe the face is funny

• Gimps be strong

• Why do the Cybermen sound muffled

• I find it more creepy when they have human voices than Robots because it makes It more real that these machines have humans in them

• hHaven't seen them in some time

• I love Tegans sarcasm

• I'm cracking up at the Cybermen voice

• 1 gimp down 1 to go

• tThe gimps be dead

• 'prepare to activate the devise" dun dun DUN

• Damn the Cybermen be skinny

• I'm bored i want doctor/cybeman action

• Okay it's getting intense

• Cybermen be SHOOK

• "cyber technology is too advanced for earthlings" figure it out then mate

• He's recognised the Tardis

• THE BEST DIALOGUE "TIME LORDS, BUT THEYRE FORBIDDEN TO INTERFERE"

• THIS ONE CALLS HIMSELF THE DOCTOR, AND DOES NOTHING BUT INTERFERE

• YESS PREVIOUS DOCTORS VS CYBERMEN

• I'm geeking out

• Imma watch this bit a few times hang on

• Aah I loved that it was so cool bloody hell I'm a nerd

• The 2nd Cybermen looked shocked while he was watching

• "have you no emotions sir" classic

• "Adric do you have a moment" "I'm hungry" Okay I like him in this one he's a mood. Why is he suddenly likeable the ep he dies

• "all part of the daily routine" see what I mean

• Well your daily routine Is gonna end soon

• He doesn't wanna go home!!

• Doctor is relieved it's cute

• Ah this is sad

• It would be easier if i didn't know he was gonna die

• Cos I do like their relationship

• Okay we're being introduced to new people

• "you're beginning to bore me" the writers knew

• I'm trying really hard to concentrate I've zoned out

• Ah the doctor has got my attention "I want to announce my presence, see what the reaction is" course

• aaaand the doctor is caught and he's being accused for murder again

• Don't they have cctv just check it

• "apprehended why can't he just say caught" me in English classes

• 'even under the threat of death he has the arrogance of a time lord"

• I thought Cybermen had no emotions but this Cybermen just said he wants the doctor to suffer for their past defeats - revenge is an emotion which is v ironic

• Hh SHIT the Cybermen are walking

• lol tegan " im just a mouth and legs" she's such a mood

• The Cybermen music is cool

• The doctors face when he sees them

• Aah the soldier has betrayed them

• Why is it that whenever there's a women in charge the men who is second can't handle it and goes rogue

• iIt's such a typical trope

• The dialogue for the doctor is great

• "you know them"

• "oh yes, we go back a long way"

• Haha "I'm surprised they didn't mention me" 'well perhaps you overestimate your importance" "oh I doubt it" doctor is and will always be that bitch

• The doctor is doing doctory things

• "that's very clever" "oh it is" the doctor bragging about how clever he is starts here

• Damn tegan she just shot a Cyberman

• Flashback to "the doctor makes people into weapons"

• Finally the doctor vs Cybermen showdown

• Lol I knew they would kill the betrayer

• "our records indicate that you have a fondness for earth" (especially earth girls)

• "this time we shall succeed in destroying the earth" no you won't mate

• Ah the Cybermen coming out of plastic Wrap is a throwback to the 2nd Doctor Cybermen story

• Tegan looks like a badass with the gun

• So they're destroying the leaders of various planets before they destroy the Cybermen

• Tegan has no idea what she's doing

• I love how Five says the most savage lines with the most polite tone

• He could tear you down and look like he's complimenting you

• Tegan has been caught

• Cyberman in the Tardis is weird

• 'who is this woman' - 'no-one of consequence' - 'thanks a lot - gotta love Tegan

• Okay wow that scene between the doctor and the Cyberman about emotions gave me goose bumps what a thrilling scene

• The Cybermen has a point- he can control the doctor because he has emotions

• I'll never get tired of the debate about emotions between them because it genuinely feels like the Cyberman defend the concept of having no emotions to defend their existence

• Five looks hot when he's defending emotions

• Fuck they need to leave Adric behind

• Shit I'm getting nervous

• His theme is playing!

• The Doctor looks conflicted

• Adric leaving his hand out after the doctor let go...

• "I'll see you soon" this is the actors best performance because you can see in his eyes he knows he won't

• The Doctor has never had a companion die before so he walks away without looking back

• "it will once you start getting rusty" Tegan is funny

• Adric is plotting

• The Cybermen say they have no emotions but forcing Tegan watch her own planet getting destroyed is extremely sadistic

• Clever Adric

• The Earth looks different

• Okay so Adric's cleverness is what gets him killed because he knows he can crack the code

• The Dinosaurs! I knew it!

• Oh crap Earth is safe but Adric doesn't know that

• I think this comes down to Adric wanting the doctors attention and wanting to be the best to have his attention

• The Doctor has his pin!

• Five suffocating and shooting a Cyberman is shocking to see

• Adric whyyyyyy

• This Cyberman walking towards him is bloody persistent

• "Now I'll never know if i was right" such Adric last words

• Id like to believe he was

• Damn.

• The Doctors face. The fact that it could have been avoided if he just left the ship

• Adric is the first companion that died on the Doctor's watch

• Adric died thinking the Earth was going to be destroyed and he could have stopped it

• The credits!! his gold star! the silence! this must have been a shock to the viewers. If i didn't know beforehand through spoilers I would be going crazy

• Earthshock had it's ups and downs, the downs in regards to the pace of the plot however the story was good and the Cybermen were fantastic especially their interactions against the doctor. Tegan and Adric were great. Nyssa didn't really have much to do. Davison was amazing. I liked the writing.

• Also I liked the structural shift of the story to the cave androids to the bomb to the spaceship to dealing with The Cybermen to saving Earth and then to Adrics death

#Doctor Who #Earthshock #Fifth Doctor #5th Doctor #Adric