#explain that skeptics

[krispyphan]

I just thought of this but I’m pretty sure I also made a similar prompt on my old blog, but Danny as a payback for all the shit Vlad has done to him, makes it seem like Dani is their biological child and he’s a deadbeat.

This backfires spectacularly because Danny forgets that he’s not very forthcoming with information on ghosts to the JL so they believe he’s actually a 14 yr old, a mature one but a 14 yr old nonetheless.

Really it’s more of an inside joke that got out of hand, as Vlad started to be less of a fruitloop. After Vlad got help on his obsession (turns out having an unhealthy obsession is actually really unhealthy for a ghost) he started to mend what little relationship he had with Dani. And as her other biological parent, Vlad also started mending their relationship.

Ofc with Sam and Tucker they gave him the thought that since Danny took care of Dani while Vlad was being insane, he should be getting “child support for the years he was being a deadbeat”.

Danny lorded this over Vlad for years, a joke that never fails to make Vlad angry. Danny had some brain cells to realize that it would look real weird to outsiders but he always could just pass it off as ghost shit. JL were not convinced, and after replaying everything Danny has said about Vlad, had incriminated him even more in the eyes of the JL.

While Danny went to have a dinner with Vlad and Dani (as per their agreement, as Dani wants both of her family to sit down with her) (they both don’t really mind but each dinner usually ends before a fight can break out) he gets stopped by a JL member, asking him to follow them to a meeting room.

Danny’s met with an intervention, where the JL want him to understand healthy relationships and that he shouldn’t be with a man who’s hurt him before. Danny is absolutely horrified and at the same time laughing so hard he goes intangible.

#danny phantom #dp x dc #batman #danny fenton #dc x dp crossover #dp prompt #dcxdp #danny phantom x dc #dc x dp #ghost king danny #dp x dc prompt #dp x dc crossover #dpxdc #vlad plasmius #vlad masters #dani phantom #Danny explains it throughly and even though some are skeptical he’s let go #Danny would show him that he’s not actually 14 but he’d have to show that he’s also still alive #Danny’s older in this btw like 20s and Dani’s a teen now #vlad actually does send a allowance to him (Jack and Maddie actually asked since they couldn’t) but Danny takes it as child support #yes Danny still gets allowance at 20 hes never gonna stop getting allowance #some of the JL thought that their relationship wasn’t consensual (since Danny calls him a deadbeat sometimes) #so vlad almost had his knees obliterated by a certain undead anti-hero who actually likes Danny #Vlad’s not a villain anymore (like a ghost villain) he’s more like lex luthor now #so Superman definitely thought it was like his situation and after having a one on one with Danny #almost got his light punched out because he made it seem like Danny DIDNT have to raise his daughter just because she was his clone #Clark’s heart was in a good place #it’s just Danny loves his kid and doesn’t even see her as a clone #so many tags LOLOLOLOLOL sorry if my grammar or something is wrong I do not care enough to check

[captainjonnitkessler]

We really, really need to kill the idea that something being a religious belief puts it on a special untouchable level that nobody is allowed to disrespect or think is dumb. A religious belief isn’t any more special than any other belief or opinion, and it should absolutely be held to the same standards and critical thinking as anything else.

#the belief in question is the belief that the earth is 6000 years old for the record #like yeah actually. that is an opinion and it's a stupid one #explain to me why it's okay to make fun of flat earthers for being science-denying conspiracy theorists #but not creationists for the same reason #i'm kind of sick of this #atheism #skepticism umbrella

[fujii-draws]

OKAY! Chatot rant in tags below! Read at your own discretion.

#okay starting from the beginning of where ppl usually dislike him. apple woods chapter. #he doesn’t give hero/partner the CHANCE to explain themselves despite them being relatively good recruits up until that point. #and that legit might be my only gripe with that chapter bc!!! stories need conflict! I LIKE the conflict in apple woods!!! #hero and partner being punished so something they didn’t do! #the misunderstanding! how team skull (Skuntank) actually outplays the main duo with a clever yet rotten trick. I LOVE that it segways into- #one of the more sweeter scenes of guild members looking out for eachother. I LIKE APPLE WOODS CONFLICT. #but chatot just. not giving them a chance. is so dumb. #I’d personally fix this by having a lil montage of hero/partner fucking up on jobs. A LOT. and chatot giving them a pass every time. #and let the perfect apple incident BE the one where he puts his foot down and doesn’t listen to them. bc he’d given them loads of chances. #and doesn’t want to hear any excuse. #but yeah. I legit dont mind him during that chapter except for that really stupid and frustrating moment. #NOW. CHAPTER 17. #UGGGGHHH WHERE DO I BEGIN #Him not believing hero and Partner about Grovyle and the future being in ruin? FINE. ACTUALLY GOOD. BC CHATOT WOULD BE SKEPTIC. #IT FITS HIS CHARACTER!! #BUT WHAT DOES SUCK. IS HIM GOING ‘Dusknoir isn’t the bad guy. he didn’t do anything wrong’ #WHEN HE LITERALLY KIDNAPPED HERO AND PARTNER RIGHT I N F R O N T OF HIM. #(​NO LITERALLY. HIS CHARACTER IS IN THE FRONT ROW WHEN IT HAPPENED.) #and him. having the GALL to tell hero and partner they must’ve been ‘seeing things’ and downplaying the HELL they went through. #despite them being missing for hours/days. his own guild recruits. and his angry sprite showing up. #like. I think that’s when I genuinely despised him. #that and him going ‘OH I BELIEVED YOU THE WHOLE TIME HEEHOO :)’ shit was so fucking annoying. #just playing it off as a joke the second the guild started to believe hero and partner. #IMAGINE IF HE W A S ACTUALLY TESTING THE GUILD’S TRUST. SHOWCASING HIM AS THE MORE RESPONSIBLE AND RESPECTFUL RIGHT HAND OF THE GUILD. #and yes. Brine cave he saves hero and partner. but at that point I just didn’t care anymore. #he fucked those two over so much. that I didn’t care what ‘valiant’ sacrifice he had. #and he grills Team Skull for what they did OFF SCREEN. they couldn’t even give us THAT. #<<< THAT or him outright saying sorry would’ve been nice. IKIK his ‘actions’ or whatever but. #eughh again this is all imo. I’m not trying to make people hate him or change their mind. #I’ll get into positives in the second post cause I’m running out of tags

[cloud-based-and-rainpilled]

In goofy David Tennant/Michael Sheen Loud news, my husband stumbled upon an edit with David Tennant and Michael Sheen about how they’re In Love ® and he’s been solidly on the ‘Yeah, they’re prob fuckin’ train because of me & he was like, “I don’t get it, they’re not physically compatible at all, one is really skinny and the other is cherubic—“ and I was like bruh you literally described the one who plays an angel on TV as cherubic 💀 💀 💀 certifyibly Good ™️ casting big rare W to Neil Gaiman

#he’s not even in the fandom he just had a fancam recommended to him & it was almost all staged clips lmaooo #he didn’t believe me at first until i explained to him how aggressively bisexual michael sheen is and the heavily implied poly drama #he isn’t nearly as invested as I am but he’s a full believer now as an *outsider* lmaoko #*lmao (i am not retyping i cannae type on mobile) #also ‘not physically compatible’ made me chuckle like bruh these men are so thirsty #i love people (and celebrities) whomst’ve just cannot help but constantly reveal themselves lmaooo #also he thinks rpf is hysterical & we used to read livejournal beatles rpf in high school on school computers so he really is the one #good omens #bbc staged #ineffable husbands #aziraphale #crowley #david tennant #michael sheen #i must stress he is entirely outside of the fandom and skeptical on all ‘these ppl are fcking’ shit and even he’s like ‘oh okay lol i guess’ #incredible #also i don’t want good omens stuff on his computer like was it just listening to us?? help???

[starry-teacup]

briefly considered introducing smitten to musicals but then had to close the mental tab because the idea was too dangerous

#I just know he'd love west side story #and wicked #hadestown would confound and destroy him #he would also fall in love with Romeo and Juliet but not actually understand anything that's going on the entire time #bc no way he gets shakespearian english #he would just think it sounds deep and cry during the Romeo death scene bc he thought Romeo was attractive and got a crush on him #probably regularly drops 'to thine own self be true' as the unbeatable argument for bad simp decisions #skeptic has to fight the urge to explain the original context #but he doesn't bc he thinks it's funny #voice of the smitten #smitty #stp #slay the princess

[gojoest]

i’ve been gone all day i know but i just got back from my date and it went surprisingly well and i kind of smell like him right now, we didn’t rly do anything just had tea in a super zen tea house + talked a lot and he sat next to me at some point and joked about asking the owner for a copy of the surveillance footage from this evening as a token of our first date lmao

#— ai rambles #he’s an interesting man…..i was so skeptical about this date #going back and forth all day whether i should cancel or not #but oh well….lets see where this goes i guess #we are so different but we kind of click in a way i can’t explain

[some-teeth-in-a-trench-coat]

yeah you like my autism post but are you normal about delusional people and narcissists? are you normal about multigender people? are you normal about Jews?

#Hey Maws why are you so hostile to new followers? #I'm just skeptical of people who see my post (which many people love to misinterpret) and immediately decide to follow me #without touching any other post of mine. Who are you? Are you gonna be nice? Are you willing to be nice? #I am tired I will not explain further

[spotsupstuff]

Anon from the karma flower ask here, just gotta say i have no regrets, hows sparrows recovery going?

according to doctor (Euros) she'll be just fine after grounding herself a lil. nothing bad essentially happened, she just wasn't ready for all those feelings

#Spot says stuff #rw #oc tag #to try n explain a bit: i mentioned it in an answer to alter from yesterday but basically the physical world is a muffler. absorber. #what the karma flower does is basically like. boosts the meditation effect. assists in the subtle bodies departing from the physical body #and since the physical body becomes eliminated from the equation everything will hit stronger and More. sparrows dad is a sore- #-subject for her normally already n getting any kind of input about him while in this Seeing projection state just fucking. rowed her over #shes ultimately okay. maybe even better off. just had to confront the feelings head on without anything to make it lighter or to hide behin #lookin at moons explanation of it fuckin... 'imagined worlds'... Bitch What If Its Real Tho. i like to think that moon is kind of- #-skeptical of the spiritual. the iterators cant experience the effect for themselves ofc so shes 🤨 but nah we already have folk gods in- #-here so the karma flower allowing the user to really See other planes? aiya true dat up in this bitch yeehaw #'have no regrets' tho you ASSHOLE /lh GLSKDCLSKDMLCK

[alchemiclee]

been looking in tags for a few days now to see if anyone else found the whole high cloud quintet and related story to be a bit.....poorly written, nonsensical, contradictory, full of plot holes and loose ends, etc. apparently i'm not the only one. (and i'm not even talking about shipping stuff, because any time I saw someone mad about bad writing, someone always replies to be homophobic and laugh about failed ships. weirdos.) it could have been so good but was thrown into the garbage for the most part (IF you noticed all the plot holes and contradiction. if not, then it's a fine enough story tbh. I expect most people to see it on surface level and not read all the little hidden lore bits and try to piece it together like my autistic brain did. which is ok! enjoy it if you liked it and ignore me 😆)

#apparently one of the writers did it on purpose. wont explain here. you can find it elsewhere. but it makes sense now #that's why it fell apart and didnt make sense in the end #ive seem people say anyone mad about it is a shipper and thats why. they use it as an excuse to be homophobes #youre gross get out of thos fandom. im here as someone upset about the story who was very skeptical about any ship theories and focused #more on plot theories and overall friendship and stuff so its not even about shipping you het weirdos!!! #the contradictions and plot holes are bd regrdless of who you ship lmao stop reducing it to that #aure its fine if you ignlre those plot holes. but it happened to be the little plot holes that interested me the most so its obvious to me😅 #cant wait until a talented writer in the fandom rewrites the whole story a lot better and fills in the holes and ties up the end better #please someone do this 😭 #words #hsr #i just wanted a close found family who met a tragic end #my idea for a better way to write it is dan feng wanted free from the high elder cycle and yingxing helped him create a new elder #but it went wrong and failed because the preceptors fed him wrong info hopong it woukd destroy dan feng since they hated him #instead it was yingxing that died and dan feng selfishly brought him back somehow and thats why hes immortal and hates dan heng now #they created a monster in the process that made a mess and baiheng died trying to kill it maybe but hit its weak spot #so it was weaked enough for jingliu to slay it #maybe for a plot twist jing yuan somehow knew the preceptors were up to something and didnt stop the two because #they were too stubborn and he knew it would do nothing #we know the dragon heart disappeared so either it ended becoming bailu in the end #or it could be inaide blade bow. another fun possible plot twist. they never explained where it went so it coukd be a n y w h e r e #i had other ideas but i forget now. bht baiheng deserves better as well. just being a plot mechanism to make two dudes be stupid #is kinda bland and boring and wasted her character. she deserves better too!!!! #id write this if i had the time and brain power but ill hope someone else does it instead #OH yeah i forgot a big idea. dan feng and yingxing perhaps try to also kill the arbor and end the abundance and long life/reincarnation #and maybe that was one part that led to it all going wrong or something. since yingxing wanted revenge on the abundance for destroying #his home and family???? and dan feng wanted to escape the cycle? similar wants that worked together snd failed #these are all ideas from past theories i read and my own ideas i came up with all of which are better than what that bad writer did! #these are very incomplete ideas that im sure someone else can write better #lee rambles

[moonsaurora]

yall know anyone can do the knocking method right..like are yall forgetting queen mary where they had a 30 minute knocking conversation? or literally any time there’s a random knock in a haunted place? like just cause cody was doing it alone awhile ago doesnt mean they’re faking

#sam and colby #bc some skeptics are so annoying 😭 coming up with crazy ass scenarios to try and debunk how theyre doing it #like if youre just like. i personally don’t believe or you have to experience it tourself then whatever but.. #these fucking stubborn asses or people who are wcared cause their whole belief systens are collapsing.. #like why come up with random ways they coukd be faking instead of letting yourself believe? #they felt the knocks on the ground #how would anyone know where jaqueline was pointing? like even if they were looking at the cameras ir something #still doesnt explain them feeling it #literally no explanation you come up with explains hearing them walk in and out of the room #even if they did do research…they most likely would’ve found libby’s full name and said that. i’m not sure how easy it us to find that tbh #like even if it is extremely easy..zach? like you look up sam golbach and one pops up #same with colby. but zach and his last name..there’s probably multiple people with that name. so unless they knew beforehand that zach was #coming they probably did not have enough time to research to find this specific zach. #like some of the knocks being louder than others? #even if the timeline doesn’t add up or whatever..it doesn’t mean that theyre faking the whole thing #i literally dont know how they could be faking it. like maybe they get some details mixed up or not right but that doesn’t mean they’re #faking the whole thing #ok i’m done now lol #cody and satori

[captainjonnitkessler]

People will dismiss the importance of interpreting the Constitution because “maybe we shouldn’t care what a bunch of racist sexist slaveowners would have thought 200 years ago”

But bring up one passage from a holy book that hasn’t aged well and people will trip all over themselves to say “well, actually, in this translation, and if you use this interpretation, and if you listen to this crackpot theory that no theologian takes seriously but that I’m going to present as established and widely accepted, then -” instead of just following through on “maybe we shouldn’t care what a bunch of racist sexist slaveowners would have thought 2000 years ago”

#i'm so sick of hearing religious people explain to me why actually leviticus doesn't ban gay people y'all #it DOESN'T MATTER. it literally does not matter if it does or doesn't #i am not going to respect the moral authority of a 2000 year old book regardless of how well you justify its slavery #and people don't make moral choices based on bible interpretations. they choose bible interpretations #based on moral choices they've already made #atheism #skepticism umbrella

[hideawaysis]

remember through all of this that it's important to support victims. also remember through all of this that it's important to do outside research if you're skeptical of a claim or a story that seems fabricated. believing things blindly is how things like the situation with kwite and orion happened. it's not disrespectful to research things you're unsure of, not doing so is how misinfo spreads, and with the waycthis misinfo spreading resulting in actual innocent people being harassed? yeah, no. give support where support is due, but critical thinking is important as well.

#hideawaysisposting #this isnt to say you should be skeptical of ALL victims obviously #just if you notice inconsistencies in a story that cant immediately be explained by memory issues from the event or something #giving victims the support they need is so so important and researching things you arent sure of is too #these are two things that can coexist #also obviously not saying you should harass victims you dont believe. thats just a heinous thing to di #*do #why are my thumbs so big </3

[sgkjd]

ppl sometimes say to me "u think you're always right" and i sit there confused because yes? i usually AM right. because i have researched the topic more than you, and i have thought through both arguments and counterarguments before speaking up. moreover, my anxiety and fear of being misunderstood simply doesn't let me speak anything out loud which i haven't thought 150% through. so technically yes, i am more right? i don't understand what's the problem? i'm not talking about my personal opinion though? i'm just stating the facts? and the facts tend to be something that's "right"? don't they?

#like please #just engage in a proper discussion w me if u want to share what u know and what u have researched #i also don't understand how i talk about history facts or political ideas and ppl are like 'these are just your beliefs' #and i have to explain how there actually exists a sort of objective reality #and that political views and moral values are not really equal to 'personal beliefs' that are the sort of 'oh i think pineapple on pizza #is the most delicious food' #how are these the same #ppl who don't like pineapple on pizza aren't oppressed #and it makes me so genuinely frustrated #i realize each person sees the world differently but that's why we have science and the sort – bc humanity is trying to reach some more #objective pov #that's why we have 'big words' that mean some specific thing and we define those words via dictionaries #while our explanations of 'objective reality' are still flawed (bc everything is mostly just plausible guesses) i still think it's better t #try and define it #and try and come to agreements on things of what certain things mean #idk even if the 'objective reality' can't exist isn't it still better to pretend to have one? bc if u only think how #'everyone has their own reality' and that's the answer/explanation u say to anything happening in society that u don't understand #or that u think is wrong #i feel like such skepticism makes ppl prone to not having hope in a better world #and i think that hope is soso important to have bc it's what drives the activism #just a big rant....i have many feelings ... #i don't understand how some ppl don't have such sense of justice like it's literally a separate feeling #; words generated by me #actually autistic

[starlit-mansion]

every time people bring up that ghosts have to exist because there's no other explanation for some things.............. there are many explanations. and most of them are that the human brain has a huge capacity to see things that aren't there and make meaningless connections

#i'm not saying that people don't experience things they don't understand and can't explain #i am saying that ghosts aren't real #idk i'm trying to edit myself less about not wanting to be seen as a buzzkill skeptic... i'm allowed to say that unproven things aren't rea #i find it hugely comforting for there to be no afterlife and nothing supernatural and i know that some other people do as well #not everybody who wrings their hands over how sad/scary/hopeless they think it must be to not believe is correct #why are you characterizing me like a chick tract strawman? i'm like. a person with feelings.

[eric-the-bmo]

Jeremiah: ...Hey doll, what are your thoughts on vampires?

Leo: [IMMEDIATELY bolts upright, launching into a rant/infodump about early folklore and the origins & explanations for tales of vampires]

Jeremiah [a vampire]: ...oh my god.

#(he's essentially saying he doesn't believe in them and is bringing Receipts to prove it) #jeremiAH YOUR GHOUL DOESNT BELIEVE IN VAMPIRES /HJ #is this canon?? idk but this idea wouldnt leave my head #anyway if this IS canon i feel it would be early in the relationship #since leo took a Monsters class a bit in college and thus has ways to Explain Shit #anyway this is Early bc he's clearly a Skeptic in this bit #so his mental collapse and his spiral into conspiracy theories hasnt started yet here #vtm ocs #leo vibes

[wingsandpetals]

tried to reach out and make friends with my coworker by starting a conversation about tarot but we both are complete ameteurs and i am now nervous that i am the blind leading the blind

#our post comrade. #it was fun talking about it since i never really knew anyone who was into tarot reading beside my ex #and i only learned about it to try to get on their good side. but thats a long story #but now im nervous about having to try and explain what i dont really understand myself #i guess its not like i had anyone experienced to teach me. maybe girls hanging out trying to figure out how to do it is part of the fun #how'd i get here? im a proud skeptic yet here i am nodding along realizing i probably understand more about crystals and candles than #any of our coworkers