Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Danny Phantom Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Danny Fenton/Tucker Foley/Sam Manson Characters: Danny Fenton, Sam Manson, Tucker Foley, Valerie Gray Additional Tags: Trans Danny Fenton, Future Trans Sam Manson, Future Trans Tucker Foley, Phantom is physically Male, Gender Questioning Sam Manson, this is my first attempt at writing anything about transgenderism, So I apologize if I get anything wrong, Phic Phight (Danny Phantom), Phic Phight: Team Human (Danny Phantom), Phic Phight 2026 (Danny Phantom), Hurt/Comfort, Attempt at Humor, mention of Sam's Hebrew heritage (I did a bit of research; sorry if it's not accurate), Other Additional Tags to Be Added Series: Part 3 of The Dragon joins Team Humans: Phight! Summary:

Sam is feeling particularly uncomfortable lately: she isn't sure why she's getting this ugly feeling every time she thinks too hard about how Danny got his ideal body by dying because of her, but she knows that she'll get over it sooner or later. ...Little did she know, she would get her Wish granted in a way or another... And who knew who else could benefit from that same "present"! Or: A Gender questioning Sam gets his revelation along with Tucker (who didn't know she needed it in the first place) and Valerie gets her eye-opening.

Almost too late to publish (you can blame my writer block, depression and executive dysfunction for that), but here I am! (๑•̀ㅂ•́)و✧

(Everything here is part of the transcript from the interview)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without AI, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems, or saying...

SIMON: You mentioned that.

SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.

SIMON: I don't think AI can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.

SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from Scene 5 to Scene 6 and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an AI and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition.

SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

SHAPIRO: You would rather put a gun in your mouth.

SIMON: I mean, what you're saying to me effectively is there's no original way to do anything, and...

SHAPIRO: No.

SIMON: Yes, you are.

SHAPIRO: That seems like a kind of absolutist take.

SIMON: Not only, I think, is it a fundamental violation of the integrity of writers and also of copyright - you know, when I sold all the scripts I sold - you know, 150 to HBO and, you know, maybe another 50 to NBC - I didn't sell them so that they could be thrown into a computer with other people's and be used again by a corporation.

SHAPIRO: So would you ever agree to a contract that saw any role for AI at all?

SIMON: No, I would not. If that's where this industry is going, it's going to infantilize itself. We're all going to be watching stuff we've watched before, only worse.

SHAPIRO: Do you think that position is where this is likely to end up?

SIMON: I mean, if a writer wants to play around with AI as the writer and see if it helps him, I mean, I regard it as no different than him having a thesaurus or a dictionary on his desk or a book of quotable quotes. Play around with it. If it starts to lead the way in the sense that a studio exec comes to you and says, AI gave us this story that we want, that's not why I got into storytelling, and it's not where I'll stay if that's what storytelling is.