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omegasmileyface · 8 months

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CATALYST: Table of Contents

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Written by @omegasmileyface, @ectolemonades, and @attackradish. Art by @crunchysart.

Crunchy's chapter 1 art can be seen in the chapter or here! Their chapter 3 art will be added later!

Summary:

Book 1 of 3 The world outside of Amity Park has learned about the existence of ghosts, and the time for first impressions has arrived. The delicate public consciousness could be disrupted by the slightest ripple. Danny Fenton is being ripped apart from all sides, and when he finally breaks, the ripples will be very big indeed.

Overall word count: 32,688

Warnings: Intentional similarity to real-life social justice issues (especially transphobia), mental health issues and breakdowns, swearing, minor character death, war, occasional mind control/coercion. Dark tone intensifies over time, so don't be afraid to quit reading!

Chapters (links go to Tumblr posts):

Characters are listed in rough order of appearance and may not all be in the same scenes.

Chapter 1 (September 28, 2006)

Characters: Danny, Ember

Chapter 2 (October 2, 2006)

Characters: Sam, Tucker, Danny, Dash, Skulker

Chapter 3 (October 6, 2006)

Characters: Tucker, Danny, Sam, Dash

Chapter 4 (November 8, 2006)

Characters: Danny, Jack & Maddie, Jazz, Vlad, GIW, Pandora, Observants, Clockwork, Frostbite, Valerie

Chapter 5 (December 15, 2006)

Characters: Valerie, Jack & Maddie, Vlad, Danny, Dani

Chapter 6 (January 4, 2007)

Characters: Sam, Tucker, Danny, Valerie, Observants, GIW

Chapter 7 (January 16, 2007)

Characters: Jazz, Tucker, Valerie, Maddie & Jack, Damon Gray, Fright Knight

Chapter 8 (January 20, 2007)

Characters: GIW, Ghost Writer, Valerie

Chapter 9 (January 23, 2007)

Characters: Tucker, Jazz, Sam, Casper High students, Ida Manson

Chapter 10 (???, 2007)

Characters: Valerie, Danny, GIW

#the forest the trees the fire #my writing #ftf catalyst

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ex0skeletal-undead · 6 months

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Campfire Friends by MatthewDobrich

#art #illustration #digital art #dark art #horror #fantasy #macabre #character design #creature design #trees #forest #horns #fire

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illustratus · 8 months

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Campfire Scene by Norton Bush

#norton bush #art #campfire #wildlife #landscape #nature #fire #forest #woods #moonlight #moonlit #night #evening #clouds #sky #trees #america #north america #american

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wonders-of-natur · 1 year

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#a place to get your mind right #therapy #breath of the wild #breath of fire #camp fire #fire pit #take my breath away #breath taking #forest #pine nuts #pine trees #pine tea #camp fire coffee #cristal clear water #cristal water #fishing #hiking

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ecoharbor · 1 month

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📍Alaska, USA 🇺🇸

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assassin1513 · 7 months

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🍁Autumn Fire🍁

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uncanny-tranny · 3 months

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Shoutout to those whose burnout never felt like a controlled bush fire, but felt as a forest fire consuming everything in its path. To those whose burnout didn't blossom into new life on the forest floors, but whose burnout has only left charred bark and silence in its wake. There's nothing wrong with you. Burnout can feel like a wound sometimes, a secret you keep to yourself out of shame. Your forest is not ruined. The fire wasn't your fault. If something will start to blossom in that forest, it will take time. It will be small. But it will be life.

#positivity #encouragement #encouraging words #burnout #i thought of the english class i took where i had to write and i panicked...#...and that just... makes me sad to know i'm still in that burnout. i grieve the time lost #my burnout never felt small or controlled. it was a forest fire that raged through the entire thing. the entire forest is on fire #and that fire drives out all the life - it saps it out like a tapped tree #i don't know if i will ever write again but whatever grows in my forest can be different but still just as good #it will be better but it will be different #i guess i just need to wait and cultivate my forest to be ready for such a case

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lesbianredhoodedmercenary · 10 months

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project moon is getting me with the girldads double whammy

ryoshu spider bud ego.... ryoshu getting the ego for the abnormality that's so fiercely protective of it's children to the point of murder... combined with how protective the artist is of his daughter in hell screen... she's the best dad on the bus

#i have a lot of feelings about ryoshu getting the spider bud ego #my horrible murderwoman who's also just a fantastic parent #my feelings about outis canto can also be copied over for ryoshu's canto. which is canto 9 #i need to see yuzuki. i know she is... probably dead considering uh.#“forest for the flames” is a reference to how she died (in a carriage that was set on fire)#(and a play on “not seeing the forest for the trees” which means focusing too much on detail not seeing the big picture)#(which is what the artist in hell screen was doing. he was so focused on each detail of the hell screen that. y'know)#(he didn't realize the man who commissioned the screen was going to kill his daughter. until it was too late)#and also considering ryoshu's cg from the tgs trailer is probably a nod to. how the artist hung himself after the screen was finished.#because of his daughter's death #i don't think limbus yuzuki survived. but we can hold out hope

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boringsideeffect · 7 months

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today i’m thinking about how every time Cabeswater protected Adam, it was, by extension, Ronan protecting him.

#i love the ferocious way in which ronan lynch loves #he really is a force of nature #a forest fire a tidal wave crashing the howling roar of a hurricane lightning striking an ancient oak tree a heart and rows of teeth #pynch #adam parrish #ronan lynch #the raven cycle #trc

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axeandantler · 6 months

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7AM in Northern Maine

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omegasmileyface · 8 months

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The Forest, the Trees, the Fire I: CATALYST

Chapter 1

Let's get it started! This is the phic that @ectolemonades and @attackradish and I put together for Invisobang 2023! Our wonderful artist was @crunchysart, and you can see part of their work in this chapter! :3

For the full characters list, word count, content warning, and a directory to all the currently available chapters and related content, see the Table of Contents!

full summary: The world outside of Amity Park has learned about the existence of ghosts, and the time for first impressions has arrived. The delicate public consciousness could be disrupted by the slightest ripple. Danny Fenton is being ripped apart from all sides, and when he finally breaks, the ripples will be very big indeed.

warnings: none for this chapter

words: 1001

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There is no forest without its trees

and though the roots bind together

in ways you could never see

until no one tree is distinct from the others,

each green needle is a letter in the story.

And when they are blown off, one by one,

they become tinder.

One needle becomes one spark,

the spark becomes a fire,

the trees are gone,

and the forest is gone

because one needle caught too soon.

It is the work of historians

(and naturalists, and readers, and gods)

to trace the fire back to the needle

and to the tree that dropped it.

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September 28, 2006

Danny Phantom stumbled a landing on the gravelly roof of a building. He bent over and put his hands on his knees, catching his breath.

Danny had enjoyed fighting Ember for all of five minutes. She took control of a little gig at the record store, he showed up to save the day (with the Fenton Fones in, of course. He learned his lesson with her), witty banter, blah blah blah, now she'd end up in the Fenton Thermos.

It was almost a relief having someone to fight. Something to distract him and keep him from being crushed under the pressure of his reality. Something to make his life feel normal. Or— it was, until he spotted a clock and realized he was officially late for a history lesson with Frostbite. The Observants would no doubt be on him for it. He could practically hear them; he can’t even make it to a history lesson on time, how is he qualified to be King of the Infinite Realms?

“Look. You’ve had your fun, you got your attention… if you let these people go, I won’t put you in the Thermos today.” Danny tried to keep his stance somewhere between non-threatening and ready to pounce, just in case Ember wasn’t willing to back down.

Ember rolled her eyes and crossed her arms over her chest with a huff. “Fine. You’re off your game, anyway. There’s no satisfaction when your heart’s not in it.”

“Wow," said Danny, "you’re so thoughtful.”

“Hey, I may be a ghost, but I do have a little human decency left.”

Danny snorted. “Tell that to the media right now. Anti-ecto propaganda is making a comeback.” He cringed a little as soon as it came out. Why did he say that? He didn’t need to vent about his problems to Ember, and it’s not like she cared anyway.

“Hasn’t that… always been a thing?” Ember cocked her head and raised an eyebrow.

“Just go give those people their free will again,” Danny said with a dismissive wave.

“They’ll be fine for a few more minutes. Tell me what’s going on, kiddo.”

“I mean… in a nutshell, the ‘all ghosts are crap’ stuff stopped around the time I stopped being actively hunted every time I did anything,” Danny explained.

“Wow. Public opinion changed that much in the last— what, year?”

“I thought so, but there’s been all this talk lately about how ghosts and humans aren't 'supposed' to interact, and how ghosts are, like, 'scientifically unable to behave themselves' or whatever. They make it so it doesn't sound evil, but… it’s just a lot to deal with right now.” Danny ran a hand through his hair. He was exhausted, his body ached, and he really just wanted this conversation to be over so he could get to his last scheduled task of the day before he could go home and maybe get some sleep. “Look, I’m late for a meeting right now, appreciate the heart-to-heart, but if you’ll just work with me here I really need to get going.”

Ember stood back up, brushing herself off as if she’d actually been sitting on the roof and not hovering a few inches above it. “Alright, I’ll get outta here then. Thanks for not putting me in your stupid soup container.”

“Yeah, whatever. You might not get so lucky next time.” Danny gave her a half-smile.

They both made a move to go their separate ways when flashing lights in the distance caught their attention.

“What’s going on over there?” Ember asked, squinting.

“Uh, hopefully something that won’t be my problem,” Danny responded.

White vehicles had surrounded what looked to be the Dairy King on the edge of town. There was a moment of chaos as people in body armor rushed into the building and others ran out.

The pair glanced at each other, silently deciding that this wasn’t something they should get involved in.

“See ya, babypop,” Ember said with a mocking salute to Danny. She headed back in the direction of the record store while Danny gave the Dairy King one last, lingering look before leaving.

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Four in custody following Dairy King raid

Tiffany Snow | Staff Reporter

The Garrison Irving Walker Commission took four ghostly employees into custody following a raid at the Amity Park Dairy King Thursday.

The GIW discovered the four ghosts employed at Dairy King during routine patrols of Amity Park. GIW operatives raided the restaurant Thursday evening and took them into custody.

“By incorporating themselves into human society, ectoplasmic entities give the public a false idea that they can trust them like humans. They are posing as employees at businesses around town, high school students and who knows what else,” Operative Q, a senior operative with the GIW, said.

No current law explicitly forbids ghosts from working in customer service, but given that they are unable to legally obtain the required paperwork to be employed, the situation at the Dairy King is being investigated. There is currently no policy in place defining ghosts and their relation to living things. In addition, the GIW deemed their employment unsafe to the public. A GIW representative said the entities will be used for research and disposed of.

Dairy King management offered no comment regarding awareness of the employees being ghosts during the hiring process. The restaurant will be closed temporarily due to short staffing.

#invisobang 2023 #danny phantom #my writing #hehe dairy queen ghosts cameo :)c #the forest the trees the fire #ftf catalyst

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justalittlesolarpunk · 4 months

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Getting emotional about the salmon run again…

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ex0skeletal-undead · 6 months

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Happy October (cropped) by Austin Pardun on Instagram

#art #illustration #digital art #dark art #horror #fantasy #macabre #witch #halloween #pumpkin #jack o lantern #fire #trees #forest #occult

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rebeccathenaturalist · 11 months

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So on the surface this looks like a good thing. After all, we need mature and old-growth forests as they're havens for species dependent on that habitat type, and they are also exceptionally good carbon sinks compared to younger, less complex forests. (A big, old tree will still absorb and hold more carbon than a new, quick-growing one, and in fact for the first twenty or so years of its life a tree is actually carbon positive, releasing more than it absorbs.)

However, timber industries are trying to paint mature forests as fire hazards that need to be thinned out due to an abundance of plant life. They also tend to oppose leaving snags and nurse logs in the forest as "fuel", because they'd rather salvage what lumber they can from a freshly dead tree. So of course they're trying to push for cutting down trees as the solution to climate change's threat to mature forests.

Large, old trees are generally better adapted to surviving a fire simply by sheer size. Some have other adaptations, such as deeply grooved bark that can create relatively cooler pockets of air around the tree to help it survive, and the branches of older, taller trees of some species are higher up the trunk, away from lower-burning fires. And those old trees that survive are often important for helping to restore the forest ecosystem afterward, from providing seeds for new trees to offering wildlife safe haven and food.

When timber companies come in and log a forest, even if they don't take all the trees, they leave behind all the branches and twigs and just take the trunks. This creates a buildup of fine fuels that burn very quickly (think the twigs and paper you use to start a campfire), while removing coarse fuels that take longer to catch fire. In fact, an area that is subjected to salvage logging after a fire is much more likely to burn again within a few years due to all the fine fuels left behind by salvage logging.

Another factor is that not all forests are the same, even at similar ages. Here in the Pacific Northwest, as one example, the forests east of the Cascades live in drier conditions with slower plant growth, and low-level wildfires that can clean out ladder fuels before they pile up too high are more common. In those locations prescribed burns make sense.

However, the fire ecology of forests on the west side is less understood; because lightning storms are less common and the climate is wetter, fires just don't happen as often. And west-side forests are simply more productive, with denser vegetation that grows back quickly after even large fires like 2017's Eagle Creek Fire in the Columbia River Gorge. Historically speaking, west-side forests get fewer, but larger, fires. So the prescribed burns and other strategies employed for east-side forests aren't necessarily a good fit.

Finally, mature forests are much more biodiverse, and support many more species than a monocultural tree plantation. As climate change continues to affect the planet, mature forests and other complex ecosystems are going to become increasingly crucial to protecting numerous species, to include those dependent only on those ecosystem types. Thinning may seem like a great idea at first, but even if it isn't as destructive as clearcutting it will still damage a forest in ways that will take years to restore.

We really need to be wary of the narrative that thinning is the only way to curb climate change's effects on mature forests. It's a more complex situation than that, and we need to prioritize preserving these increasingly rare places as much as possible.

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lionfloss · 1 year

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by Justin Kern

#nature #photography #plants #trees #smoke #hazy #river #water #rocks #moss #grass #forest #woods #nature photography #landscape #forest fires #smoky #sun #sky #1k

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wild-raven-and-crow · 3 months

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Fire and Drought

Drought left the forest vulnerable to fire.

Still-living trees rise up from soot-black roots, a testament to the fire-resistant bark of the redwoods.

The silhouettes of former redwoods stand among those that still live, and the forest is made more beautiful by their company.

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