#my brother’s keeper

[its-rat-time-babey]

I adore Spectra’s first appearance in My Brother’s Keeper. In fact I adore My Brother’s Keeper in general, as it’s my absolute favourite episode in the show.

One thing that I confidently say about the series as a whole is that it would be instantly improved if it leaned towards the more horror aspects of its concept. The show as a whole would be way better if parts of it were played for horror, and that goes DOUBLE for Spectra.

And that’s because Spectra in canon acts extremely differently compared to the other ghosts that Danny faces. Instead of being loud and flashy like the others, Spectra is a slow, creeping force.

Basically all other ghosts in the series are, just like how I described them before, pretty loud and flashy with their actions and fights. When they show up, everyone knows pretty quickly and Danny gets on the case not long after. Even villains that try to hide their ghostly attributes like Ember in her first appearance very quickly drop that facade once they’re face to face with Danny or once they get decently close to their goals.

But not Spectra. The only thing that gets Spectra to reveal herself as a ghost is being directly confronted with no other choice. Instead of being loud and flashy with her plans and actions, Spectra maintains her disguise through everything and goes about things quietly from the shadows. When she needs something loud and flashy, she has Bertrand do it for her to stay out of the spotlight.

And the results are terrifying to watch. Spectra latches onto Casper High like a parasite and we see her influence slowly creep through the school as the episode progresses. Students become more depressed as Spectra gives them the opposite of therapy and encourages negative behaviours, made even easier by her negative emotion generating presence, starting with just a few and ending with the entire student body being depressed. All while Danny struggles to figure out why because Spectra did what no other ghost even attempted to do and found a way to trick his ghost sense.

Not to mention that the final part of Spectra’s plan involved publicly killing Jazz (who from Spectra’s perspective is just some random student by the way) in front of the entire school to make everyone even more miserable.

When Spectra is defeated the school is described as “having a dark cloud over it lifted” because that sums up what Spectra is perfectly. A slowly creeping dark cloud that settles over an area and drags everything down.

My Brother’s Keeper is also perfect for Fridge Horror. Because I can point out three massive chunks of fridge horror right off the bat.

1. Spectra knows about Danny’s ghost sense and how to fool it, heavily implying that she’s been in the background for a while now stalking Danny from a distance to learn these things.

2. We very plainly see that this isn’t the first school that Spectra has visited and fed from, with multiple pictures of other schools that Spectra has worked at. There’s a 99% chance that those schools met the same fate that Spectra attempted to doom Casper High to, drained of all positive emotion with one or several student deaths before Spectra left. I say several student deaths because as Spectra states herself in the episode, one person’s spirit affects the next like dominos. The death of one student in a school full of extremely depressed and even traumatized teenagers depending on the circumstances could very easily lead to more deaths, which in turn lead to even more deaths.

3. Sidney Fucking Poindexter. It is very easy to understand the theory that he took his own life back in the 50s. He’s the ghost of a high schooler whose backstory involves constant relentless bullying with no friends or help, bullying so relentless that it became his main focus as a ghost. It’s all but directly stated that that’s the case. But stranger is the fact that a ton of his classmates also became ghosts. So many of his classmates exist in the ghost zone that an entire alternate version of Casper High exists there. So why are they here?

Because remember what I said about one student death causing several more? There’s a good chance that this isn’t the first time that Spectra came to Casper High. Sidney dying from suicide makes even more sense if Spectra was involved and a large amount of Casper High’s student body dying shortly after also has an explanation if she was there in the 50s.

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I also really like My Brother’s Keeper because in my opinion, that’s the episode where Jazz’s character goes from her initial characterization as a Skeptic, Know-It-All and Perfectionist at the beginning of the series to her much better characterization as one of Danny’s best supporters and one of the best characters in general. It introduces her to ghosts for the first time for one, but it also reveals Danny’s identity as Phantom to her, and I’m obsessed with how good her reaction is from a character and meta perspective.

When Jazz learns that Danny is half-ghost, she doesn’t confront him for keeping secrets or anything like that, but instead quickly and easily accepts that Danny has his own reasons for wanting to keep his identity a secret and decides to let him come out to her when he’s ready to on his own. She also tries her best to make Danny feel comfortable with his identity around her with her “you can talk to me about anything” speech.

It’s an amazing bit of character that not only shows how much Jazz trusts, respects and just cares about Danny, but it’s also amazing out of universe because I seriously struggle to find any other character in fiction that’s acted this way when discovering someone’s secret identity, especially when that person is close to them.

Also the episode in general shows how much Jazz cares about her brother. Right off the bat at the beginning of the episode Jazz is talking to Mr Lancer about wanting to help him and Jazz mentions that she’s been worried about him ever since the accident (also giving us the lore that all the Fentons know about the accident and it wasn’t just a secret thing that only Danny, Sam and Tucker are aware of).

Also My Brother’s Keeper is absolutely RIPE with Trans Danny material. Jazz’s reaction to learning about Danny’s identity, Spectra’s quotes of “What are you? A ghost trying to fit in with humans? Or some creepy little boy with creepy little powers?” and “You're a freak! Not a ghost, not a boy! Who cares for a thing like you?”, it’s got some gems in there.

Also Trans Danny combined with Spectra’s quotes in this episode make her Danny’s only explicitly transphobic villain and that’s remarkably in character for her.

#danny phantom #My brother’s keeper #penelope spectra #jazz fenton #analysis #an I being pulled back into the Danny Phantom fandom? #I don’t know at all #enjoy word vomit about my favourite Danny Phantom episode

[apesoformythoughts]

“What winter floods, what showers of spring Have drenched the grass by night and day; And yet, beneath, that spectre ring, Unmoved and undiscovered lay

A mute remembrancer of crime, Long lost, concealed, forgot for years, It comes at last to cancel time, And waken unavailing tears.”

— Emily Brontë

#emily brontë #epigraphs #my brother’s keeper #poetry

[berf-a-smurf]

Been playing Control while I still can before I start my new job on Monday and I’m still stuck on Salvador in the Panopticon :(

Replayed the level like 20-some times in the past month and I’m going positively insane! Die you effin’ Hiss-infected POS >:(

#Control #Remedy Control #Control Ultimate Edition #Control Remedy #My Brother’s Keeper #Like seriously‚ at this point‚ I’m completely losing the plot #I’ve forgotten what I started fighting for

[spn2006]

i created a sideblog just to talk about samdean so fr where are all the samdean girlies (gender neutral)…if you’re a samdean enjoyer pls like or reblog this post i’m trying to find mutuals

#wincesties please interact #samdean #wincest #sam/dean #supernatural #spn #2x11 playthings #kripke era #sam winchester #dean winchester #my brother’s keeper #the love story of sam and dean #rambles

[primagiedi]

I rather deal with your troubles than deal with mine

#my brother’s keeper #twinnem #personal

[thethcministry]

#My Brother’s Keeper #f-yourblog.com

[self-conscious-author]

“What’s wrong with Stiles?” There’s a shake in her voice now too. Her mind feels like it’s going a million miles an hour trying to think of what could be wrong. He’s on the lacrosse team and it can be a dangerous sport, so she supposes he could have broken something. But he almost never plays, and their dad wouldn’t sound so emotional if Stiles just broke a bone.

He and Scott got into so much shit when they were younger. They still do. A broken bone wouldn’t be too left field.

“You know he hasn’t been sleeping well..”

“Yeah..”

“And he had that sleepwalking episode..”

“Uhuh..” He’d called her the next morning and told her. She’d obviously been beyond worried, the last time having been when their mom died. But he’d said they found him and he was fine. Just cold and shaken.

“We uh- we had a brain scan done, and..” He takes another deep breath. “it’s dementia, honey.”

The Newton’s cradle clicks on her desk, and all the air is suddenly gone from her lungs. They squeeze painfully when she takes in a shaky breath, and then another.

”Like-“ Her throat seizes up, and she clears it before speaking again. “Like mom?”

”Yeah, sweetheart. Like mom.”

#My Brother’s Keeper #writer #writing #blurb

[roblingoblin285]

i love when ppl ask writers questions about their ocs and they're like "uhh i think so?" as if they didn't invent them. like they're just mild acquaintances we have

#someone asked me something about rob the other day and i responded with “am i my brother's keeper?” #ocs #writing memes

[creoastra]

Redraws from Danny Phantom Season 1 Episode 9: My Brother's Keeper

This was my favorite episode for the longest time!!! (It's still my second favorite)

But there's are all older art I made while I was hyperfixated on Danny Phantom for the first time earlier this semester

But they were still cute so I thought I'd post them!!

I particularly like the drawings I made from the intro (especially especially the first one)

Redraws are my favoritest kind of art to make lol

#danny phantom #danny phantom fanart #dp fanart #fanart #danny fenton #screencap redraw #art #penelope spectra #my brother's keeper #jazz fenton #creoastra

[morepeachyogurt]

Cain by José Saramago translation by Margaret Jull Costa

#cain #cain by jose saramago #jose saramago #abel and cain #cain and abel #am i my brothers keeper? #quotes #words #books #1k #5k

[thedearidiot]

- William Fargason, Cain.

#william fargason #poetry #am i my brother's keeper?

[apesoformythoughts]

"Come walk with me, come walk with me; We were not once so few But Death has stolen our company As sunshine steals the dew…"

— Emily Brontë

#emily brontë #epigraphs #poetry #my brother’s keeper

[loversofthegrave]

"Lock the doors, the windows, close the shades. Most important..."

"Watch out for Sammy."

#🖤 #finding these screencaps makes me want to rewatch so many early episodes #my brothers keeper #wincest #spn #supernatural #sam/dean #sam winchester #dean winchester

[deuynndoodles]

[ID: A colored, digital two page comic featuring Danny and Jazz from Danny Phantom. Danny wears a baggy hoodie over a shirt and jeans. Jazz wears a v-neck sweater and shorts.

Fentonworks, after curfew: Danny reaches for the doorknob to his bedroom, breathing out and gripping his shoulder.

"Where were you?" says Jazz, hands on her hips, making Danny jump. "Look, I know that Mom and Dad don't really care, but I do. You can trust me." She looks sad. "What's going on with you?"

"None of your business, Jazz." He looks irritated. He reaches for the doorknob again, muttering, "Just lemme sleep."

"Wait!" is written in all caps. Jazz reaches out, pulling at the hood of his jacket. Danny turns and raises his arm out of his hoodie, revealing an ectoplasmic injury. "Fuck off!" he yells.

Jazz pulls her hand away, startling backwards. Then, she looks sad as she says, "Oh, Danny…"

Fade out. They now stand in the Fentonworks bathroom, with Danny sitting on the toilet and Jazz hovering over him, cleaning a wound on his left shoulder. He's now in a binder and the original ectoplasmic wound has been treated. She scolds him and he grins nervously, curling in on himself. End ID.]

happy holidays @torscrawls !

#doodles #dp #danny phantom #danny fenton #jazz fenton #phandom truce 2023 #12/18/23 #i tried to include as much prompts as possible but it didnt work out too well #i still ended up burning myself out anyway 💀 #basic thought was: new fentonworks security device (activates at night/when ppl arent home) targets danny when he comes home late #jazz catches him and promptly freaks out when she discovers his injuries #this is SUPPOSED to be in an au where she finds out before my brothers keeper or just. never finds out #but i wasnt able to fit that in #even still; i hope u like it! #this was done in my 'dey needs to loosen up and not care abt their lines' brush. shoutout to that. wouldnt have gotten it done otherwise

[wastefulreverie]

girl wake up im writing a no one knows au sequel

“Danny, one of these days you have to tell us what’s up,” Sam said. “You can’t stretch yourself thin like this forever. Whatever your secret life has you doing.” “I don’t have a secret life.” Which is exactly what someone who had a secret life would say, but Danny obviously evaded this with the loophole that was being dead. His secret half-life was also none of their business.

#this is very early stages dont expect me to post for a while #if you're new here the link is to the first no one knows au fic i wrote and the bit ABOVE is now from the sequel #Danny Phantom #anyway following the spirit of the original 'excuse this monster' fic this will ALSO be an AU rewrite of a DP episode. but !! #instead of my favorite episode (my brothers keeper <3<3) it will be one of my least favs #which is also like one of the most popular episodes but like we hate it here because of it's wasted potential #i know i know it's pretty funny to talk about wasted potential in the DP fandom since that extends to so much of the show BUT CONSIDER #i don't care

[marril96]

The Vampire Diaries 4.07 | My Brother's Keeper

#delena #damon salvatore #elena gilbert #tvd #the vampire diaries #vampire diaries #delenaedit #tvdedit #tusergabs #tvedit #4x07 #my brother's keeper #my gifs #edit