Notes from the Neon Underground

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Short DPXDC Prompts #310

Danny is late 20’s-early 30’s. He’s at the height of his power and he’s seen some stuff. Danny climbs the job ladder until he is the Head Engineer at Wayne Tech.

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Danny gets mistaken for Bruce Wayne from behind at least thrice a week including by Lucius Fox who once accidentally mentioned batman stuff and nearly had a heart attack only for Danny to go, "Cool. I figured since the boss pays so much into the league we were probably an outsource. Do I have to sign a NDA?"

He's Lucius' favourite after that and he still sometimes gets confused from the back but funnily enough Bruce also gets mistaken from the back for DANNY.

So if they're walking through the halls personal assistants for managers try and tackle Danny because "Mr Wayne stop running from your- holy shit I am SO sorry!" And Bruce gets like a conga line of slap on the backs and a "mornin' bossman... Holy shit Mr Wayne I am so sorry don't fire me!".

Both find it hilarious. Nobody has told Bruce Danny knows about batman equipment so he has his own meltdown when he comes to see who this department head that apparently is his doppelganger is like and Dannys bent over Lucius' new blueprints peer reviewing them whilst said man sits there with a notebook.

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Maybe Tim has a problem with a new bat gadget so he brings it in one day and not only can Danny immediately tell what it is and what it is for but also improves upon it. He also casually says that he is happy he was able to work on a bat gadget and that's how Tim finds out that Danny knows. Shenanigans ensue.

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Bruce had run no less than twelve dna tests, but Danny and him hold no relation. It is LITERALLY the seven ppl look like you, in action.

Tim brings the gadget in and Danny fixes and improves on it so fast that Tim is just awestruck the moment he realizes this isn't Bruce. All because Danny's double-checking it and flicks his wrist to test it like.

"Never thought I'd get to work on one of Red Robin's tools, but after yesterday..." He shrugs and hands it back to Tim with a grin. "I'll have to see about setting up a feedback box on the window."
"Why?" He's running on a ten-minute power nap and a gallon of coffee, completely gobsmacked.
"easier and safer than trying to catch him or batman at night to see how it is in the field."

Now at this point Tim has no filter because his last actual sleep was three days ago, so he opens his mouth. He had intended to say something like, 'How did you know?' or 'haha what nooo this isn't, that..."

What he says instead is, "How do you feel about Spring for a wedding." Tim's god-damn heart stops when he realizes what just happened, and he said that out loud. and Danny just laughs! but oh wow he's really pretty when he does that and he doesn't look like he's mocking him over it.

"You know, Red Hood asked my sister the same thing as three weeks ago? How about we start with lunch and see what happens?" and fucking. WINKS at him like the Audacity!

"Oh yeah, yeah sure..." and now Tim's reeling because the 'how about lunch' is also word for word what they heard Jason's "Amazonian Goddess" tell him when he put his foot in his mouth ON COM.

Bonus someone sees Danny and Bruce in the same room and asks if they're related and Bruce says "No" at the exact same time Danny says "Oh I'm his clone." and Danny being the little shit he is Knew Bruce would say No so they both turn sharply to look at each other in horror for different reasons. Bruce "I've run every genetic test I can to cross off the familial ties to me or any of my kids" Wayne like "What!?"

and Danny "Giving billionaires a hard time is my greatest hobby even if they're pretty good dudes and probably batman" Fenton says "I can't believe you're going to Superboy me like that!" in the most heartbroken whisper. (it's okay everyone, it was Tucker who asked and just the three of them. it's a planned prank)

Bruce goes home early and is basically

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“You think Bruce Wayne is-- what the hell is wrong with you, man?”

“Wait, you don’t? I mean, come on. Batman obviously has a huge budget, he’s obviously got the resources of a corporate R&D team behind him, and have you ever seen Wayne and Batman in the same room?”

“I have! You remember the thing at the Iceberg? I was there! I got a gig waiting tables for this fancy do at the Iceberg and Bruce Wayne, I swear it, was there with some date, and Two-Face’s guys bust in and start shooting up the place.”

“Yeah, and?”

“And so listen, all of a sudden Batman’s there, and I swear to you the man walked through a wall. Seriously, one second it’s just a wall with a Picasso on it and the next Batman’s there, full cape and cowl, going ‘Hᴀʀᴠᴇʏ ᴄᴏᴜʟᴅ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ᴀsᴋᴇᴅ ғᴏʀ ᴀɴ ɪɴᴠɪᴛᴀᴛɪᴏɴ.’ Honest to god I’m pretty sure Wayne nearly shit himself.”

“Yeah, all right, what’s your theory, smart guy?”

“Who Batman is? I mean, it’s really obvious, isn’t it?”

“Well, who?”

“The tech guy he hired a couple years ago, the one who looks just like him? Fenton?”

Fenton? The guy who made headlines for tripping on his shoelaces?”

“Look, it all adds up--”

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WGA's asking people interested in all the tree law fun to also sign this petition about a god damned bitch of an unsatisfactory situation on another street on the Same FUCKING lot. NBC Universal (whose CEO is Mike Cavanagh just btw in case Ron Pearlman is listening) has started a construction project that completely removed the sidewalks from five different gates, in two cases forcing pedestrians to literally walk into oncoming traffic. In addition to being an ADA violation, it's just flat out despicably evil of them and WGA's asking for public support on this issue.

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Can you link where you saw the WGA asking people to sign this?

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Fair question! Sure thing! Legit great instinct to make sure! Here's the tweet I got it from:

Tweet from Writers Guild of America West @WGAWest, it reads "Say...while you're here, sign the petition being ciruclated by WGA members picketing at @NBCUniversal" followed by a link to the same petition linked above, as well as the hashtag "WGA Strike"ALT

It's both described and linked so that you can be sure it's the real deal, and if you click through you can see it's in response to Kenneth Mejia's tweet about investigating Universal for the Tree Law stuff, hence the specific connection I cite at the start of the post

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I painted these color keys for this scene in Across the Spiderverse between Gwen and her dad!

The idea for the initial color palette was that because Gwen's world is colored by her emotions, she's cool blue despite the warm light of her surroundings - to symbolize her internal isolation from the rest of the world and her father.

Upon entering Gwen's room, we see an inverse of the color relationship that was set up previously. Gwen and her environment are in harmony, contrasting against her dad's warm colors. When they embrace, their colors mix together to create something new.

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Just a quick request for my mutuals: if you’re making or reblogging a post where there’s a video of an animal dying or being eaten, or discussion of an animal’s death, would you please tag that post “#animal death”?

I have that tag filtered, as well as “#pet death”, because posts like those upset me badly and as a result I try to limit my exposure to them.

Thank you!

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SAME GENDER MARRIAGE PLANE FLIES IN TOTK

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SKILL ISSUE

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[ID: Link uses rewind on a contraption of two Zonai wings connected to each other in a row, with a log connected on the right and a fan on the end of the log. He jumps onto the log and controls a steering stick on it, wobbling but then getting it upright and flying correctly. Below is a political cartoon titled "Marriage vs 'Gay Marriage' - Pat Cross, Cartoons, July 21 2022". Shown is a plane labelled "marriage" with one wing on one side labelled "man" and another wing on the other side labelled "woman". Next to it is another illustration of a plane with two "man" wings on the same side of the plane labelled "gay marriage" /End ID]

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Fun fact: Pat Cross retired from cartooning almost exactly a year ago (July 16, 2022) to become a Catholic priest.

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SAG-AFTRA and the WGA are now filing labor complaints against NBCUniversal for attempts to disrupt their strike efforts.

This includes not only trimming trees that were providing shade to picketers, but tearing up the sidewalk on the picket line, forcing picketers to walk in the streets, which resulted in two picketers being struck by cars.

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This is cartoon-villain territory, which is a pretty good indicator of how scared the corporations are about the striking workers (very).

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Look, I get that Tumblr’s leadership thinks that the site needs to grow in order to become profitable*. And attracting new users seems like an attractive way to do that. But the thing that corporate media doesn’t get, I think, is that the existing users are here because Tumblr has major differences from other platforms. If it didn’t, we’d be on those platforms! If Tumblr’s management homogenizes Tumblr, there’s no reason for the existing users to stay.

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