#catalystofthesoul

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(2 hours later)

Here is a list of my favorite DP fics! Most of them are not particularly recent, because I am Behind On The Times. For example, I still haven’t read “A Snapping Sound”, so it’s not included here, but I understand that it is very good. You may have read most of these already! But on the off chance you haven't, please enjoy perusing this lovingly hand-selected and alphabetized list.

*I haven't put Cordria's stories on this list. Everything by Cordria is amazing. Close your eyes and point at one, and you won't be disappointed.

**And if I had to choose 3 particular favorites from this list, I would say “Beyond Beasts”, “Exposed”, and “Shift” (by CaptainOzone). As in, these stories are going to stick with me forever. Please read them. 

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A Jock and a Hard Place - AnneriaWings Summary: Danny and Dash were silent, trying to wrap their mind around that stupid, simple fact – the door was locked. They were trapped. In a janitor's closet. Together. (Collab with Haiju) [one-shot]

A Misunderstanding - stuffedcrust Summary: A misunderstanding leads to Danny meeting Sam and Dean in less than friendly circumstances. [one-shot] [Supernatural crossover]

Alibi - MyAibou Summary: He was Dash Baxter. Football star. King of Casper High. The world was supposed to have been his oyster for at least another decade. So how did he end up in the basement lab of FentonWorks working for the dad of the kid he used to beat up in high school? And how far would he stick his neck out to protect that kid and whatever secret he was hiding from the government? NOT slash. [complete]

An Open Door - Workparty Summary: The Fentons have an understanding with Danny Phantom; they won't hunt him, and he tries to stay away from them. Danny hasn't exactly tested the limits before, but Maddie finding Phantom injured and bleeding on her son's bed probably wasn't what they had in mind. So why doesn't she want to talk about it? [one-shot] Beyond Beasts - CatalystOfTheSoul Summary: Danny's abilities are getting less reliable by the minute, Tucker can barely keep up with damage control, and it doesn't help that Dash decided to tag along. There's something fishy about this vacation, and it's not the lake. [complete]

Broken Ectoplasm - ghostanimal Summary: Jack came to a disturbing conclusion about the ghostly teen laying in his son’s bed. Somebody had tried to skin Phantom. But who? And why? [complete]

Connections - Lynse Summary: Maddie knows that the Booo-merang has keyed into Danny, for whatever reason, so what's she to think when she sees it collide with Phantom? [complete]

Daniel Masters - Ryuuko1 Summary: After the explosion of the Nasty Burger, Daniel has become the protege Vlad always wanted; however, Daniel's life is thrown into chaos when he is transported to a reality where the accident never happened, and it is up to him to divine his purpose in this alternate timeline...AU [complete]

Dawning of a Sun - pearl84 Summary: A twist in destiny makes the month old Danny F. half-ghost and places him in the hands of the ghost king: Plasmius. Stuck in between a Human and Ghost war, will this young prince find his true self? And most importantly, who will he fight for? [ongoing]

Disconnected - Workparty Summary: A freak lab accident leaves Danny Fenton reeling, just days before beginning high school. How can he pick up the pieces when he barely knows left from right? [complete] Disparaged - imekitty Summary: Unable to revert to his human form, Danny is held at gunpoint by his own mother. [complete]

Exposed - ADraconicScribe Summary: A mysterious caller has revealed that the infamous Danny Phantom is half-human, placing a five hundred thousand dollar prize to the one who exposes Phantom's secret identity. Coupled with Vlad's disappearance, the ghost fighting, and all of the efforts to capture him, Danny and Team Phantom must tread carefully if they are to make it out with their secrets, and their lives, intact. [ongoing]

From the Ashes - Phantomrose96 Summary: Danny escapes by the skin of his teeth after a daring rescue of his cousin. The details are still fuzzy, but when Danny falls ill seven months later, he learns precisely what horror saved him that day. [complete]

Invisible Stitches - Lynse Summary: Family bonding time might be less dangerous now that his parents know his secret, but that doesn't mean Danny is wild about being kept in the dark when it comes to his dad's plans for the weekend. [one-shot] Jumping at Shadows - sapphireswimming Summary: Dash has a problem and he needs Danny Phantom's help. So he decides to get it by... blackmailing Danny Fenton? Pre-PP, no slash. [complete] Little Earthquakes - A Perplexing Puzzle Summary: They say that a man is defined by what he does when he thinks nobody's looking. Does the same hold true for ghosts? [complete] Oddities - Lynse Summary: Jack can't deny that their ghost hunting equipment malfunctions around Danny-consistently and exclusively around Danny-and decides to get to the bottom of it, once and for all. [one-shot]

Planned - imekitty Summary: Maddie wants her own half-ghost specimen. Jack watches her rig the portal to shock and mutate their son. [ongoing]

Phantom of Truth - Haiju Summary: Locked away in a secret government lab with Phantom as her subject, nothing stands between Maddie and the truth... except, perhaps, herself. [complete]

Phantom's Sketchbook - AkoyaMizuno Summary: Mr. Lancer finds himself in an unparalleled situation, he has access to something which can give him incredable insight into the personal workings of Amity Park's local ghost teen hero, Danny Phantom. [complete]

Shift - Lynse Summary: Maddie's capture of the phantom was routine—until she saw the shift in colour that meant it suddenly, horribly, wasn't. [one-shot]

Shift - CaptainOzone Summary: In which Danny's secret is revealed to the world before he ever steps foot in Amity Park…and before he ever meets Sam or Tucker. Pre-PP AU. Post-reveal. [ongoing]

Somewhere private - Misaratis Summary: Dash found the Fenton thermos after Danny lost it one afternoon and when Phantom goes to retrieve it, he's accidentally pulled in to a not-a-date with the jock. It may take some time, but Danny will find that there's more to the bully than he thought. Swaggerbishie. (Very) Slow Burn. [ongoing]

Spellbound - Iymea Summary: "Maybe coming to England wasn't one of my greatest ideas." A stupid mistake lands Danny in the custody of Albus Dumbledore. With the Ministry on his case and a wonky-eyed wizard watching his every move, surviving the wizarding world might just be the biggest challenge of his half-life. [ongoing]

The Misadventures of Wes Weston - WastefulReverie Summary: The day-to-day struggles of Wes Weston as he is faced with the painful realization that he is the only person who seems to realize that Danny Fenton is actually Danny Phantom. Many plot ideas adopted from headcanons mixed with some original ideas. Minor DxS. Post D-Stabilized, no Phantom Planet. [ongoing]

The Right of It - The Wicked Wench of the West Summary: They stared at him, and suddenly, through the gaps in their arms, he spotted the camera. Danny choked, and found that he couldn't breathe. [one-shot]

The Suave and the Awkward - Dream Trance Summary: Danny splits himself to practice kissing, and while it is as awkward as you would expect kissing yourself to be, circumstances keep arising that are easier to deal with apart than as one. With so much time apart, the question sets in: who has more right to exist if Fenton and Phantom are no longer fragments of a whole? Character Study. Established Gray Ghost, slow burn Pitch Pearl [ongoing]

they say this place is haunted - LittleBlueArtist Summary: Danny Fenton is in college. He's left Phantom behind, and Amity Park with it. He's onto a better life now. A college degree. A daily routine that doesn't involve ghosts and fighting. That is, until someone from his past comes roaring into his present, and he might've taken all the wrong parts of Amity Park with him. [ongoing]

fic rec! 66K, Danny Phantom fic

Summary: Danny's abilities are getting less reliable by the minute, Tucker can barely keep up with damage control, and it doesn't help that Dash decided to tag along. There's something fishy about this vacation, and it's not the lake. The forest is playing tricks, water is appearing in places it shouldn't, and there's a vacancy expected at Algernon's Summer Camp for Boys.

Comments: There’s a few things that made me just click this. One is Ace!Danny, I’m 100% all ace rep. And two is the author calling it a ghost story for ghosts.

Ah, unfortunately (spoiler) Dash will not be one of the featured sides! 

I was diagnosed with ADD at age 8, and I was in the third grade.

I was prescribed ritalin, but as an 8 year old I was horrible at taking pills, and they left me gagging. In a hotel room outside of Disneyland, my parents discovered that I had been flushing my 100$ medication down the toilet. I was subsequently grounded, and I didn’t consider medication again until I was in my second year of college. At that time I was holding down two jobs and going to school full-time. I had a mix of 12 and 16 hour days every day.

Adderol helped me finish school, but not without hardship. Here are 3 problems that I had to deal with, what they caused, and how I solved them.

INSURANCE: These cheese heads cut me off every 3-6 months. First, they need my doctor’s personal phone call giving “permission” for my medication. They later decided that I “didn’t need” two pills a day, and I got cut off again. New reasons every time, but I usually go a month without pills while I deal l with the insurance company. AFFECT: HOMELESSNESS. Twice, believe it or not. I can’t deal with impending deadlines, and my medication loss lined up with my needing to move and withdrawals get really most. I made bad choices. The first time, I stayed with my mom. The second time I lived in a rusty van. This wasn’t the only result of medication loss, but it paints a picture of just how much it mattered. SOLVE: It’s hard to remember to keep calling the insurance company, and they can bounce you between five different numbers to call, and you might be on hold for hours. Keep calling.

APPETITE: During an insurance debacle, I switched to all-day release adderol. Goodbye food. I became repulsed by the smell of most foods, the textures were uncomfortable, and chewing became a dry chore. AFFECT: I lost 20 lbs in 2 months. I underwent a few symptoms of starvation (painful late night spasms began in month 2). I would make 1 small meal last me three days, and I never felt hungry for more than 5-10 shakey minutes at the end of each day. SOLVE: Marijuana and Indian/Asian food. Unagi sauce, hot sauce, and ordering the hottest thing on every menu at “please pretend I’m not white” 10+ heat. My friends rated my food inedible. I eventually got off all-day release meds. I still use marijuana to sustain my appetite, and my taste for spice still exists, but it’s not “the only appetizing thing in the world”.

ANXIETY/PANIC: I’m not predisposed to an abnormal amount of anxiety. Because of this, there was no hole in my self esteem for the new medication-anxiety to focus on. At first, it floated ambient through my head, and I would be stressed with no discernable cause. AFFECT: Suicide considerations happened at the very worst of it. When I was contemplating throwing my car off the side of the freeway, 2 years into medication, I realized that my anxiety had spiraled out of my control. I started counseling. SOLVE: Marijuana. My suicidal tendencies ended the first month that I became a stoner, and my daily 2-5 hr anxiety bursts are now quelled on the daily. My muscles no longer contain months of stress knots - or any stress knots at all.

FACTS FROM AN ADHD STONER: When adderol is active, a hit from marijuana is not the same as an unmedicated hit. The high is much shorter (for me 15-30 minutes), and then that THC gets to work fighting my anxiety, the high goes away, and I’m a little hungry by lunch time. If I want to get inebriated, I wait until evening, when my medication has mostly worn off and I can get high for the fun of it. I do not cross-fade with alcohol well, but I never have, so I don’t drink at all.

WHY MEDICATE? I’m often asked why I continue to take adderol when it is “so horrible” to the mind and body. The answer is a no brainer. It works! My brain functions pretty well, I can accomplish tasks AND long-term goals (something I have never experienced before). I’ve tried other medications, I’ve tried other homeopathic remedies, and I went 13 years learning to cope without medication. The cannabis/adderol combination that I have come to is so far the best solution for me and my life. I can’t say it’s right for everyone, but it’s right for me and that’s what matters.