Disclaimer: Danny Phantom idea and copyright is property of Butch Hartman and Nickelodeon, not me.

--begin overshadow into my mind--

Lost in cable wavelengths, I came across the young lovers: Danny, bombarded with an emotional beam from an electric guitar, now infatuated with the dark haired girl with lavender eyes...Sam.

Sam: her wanting Danny's affection to be genuine, not generated. She said in an unsure voice: "I don't know, maybe. But not like this!".

"Maybe". The invitation that says "hope" to the heart strong enough to try! Young lovers, new to the greatest game in life, and finding their way towards each other in life's cruel maze with no shortcuts. I was hooked!

Shortly thereafter, the visions began. My mind repeating the scenes like a mobius loop, but with new outcomes, new pasts. I began to draw in ink and pencil. I neglected my job, old hobbies, friends, family. The only way I could break the loop was to purge my visions, to write them down, to tell the world. But I had never written a story before now!

Wandering, no longer in control of myself, with glimpses of reality between visions, I found this sanctuary, with it's sympathy and it's FAQ. I will give Danny and Sam a place of honor and respect. Although their time together will soon end on cable, their love may last for centuries in cyberspace.

The visions begin again, and I must write, I must draw. Sam: a love fit for a Phantom...

July 20, 2006 3:48 AM Pacific

I completed my first story ever last night. I had hoped that writing down the thousands of words flowing through my mind would purge the looping love scenes, freeing me to resume my life waiting in reality.

But here I am again, reading the dreams of others, reading feedback from readers of my dreams, readers who want more, a pull from reality as well as my internal pulling, back towards the visions. I almost escaped. But inside do I really want to leave this sanctuary, where ideal love can triumph, whereas in the real world, it may fail?

What is it about Danny and Sam that consumes my real world and dominates my thinking? What? Why?

I am trapped. Thank you Danny Phantom. Thank you Sam Manson.

July 23, 2006 82:36 PM Pacific

i am alive again! The writing has resumed. Prodding from the real world reminds me to eat, to sleep, to work and pay bills. i can't help it, i am a bystander. The words flow through my hands, i only document Danny and Sam's lives that already exist in the visions. There is no conscious thinking on my part to create plots or stories, the visions are real and i only provide the keyboard. i need help, but fruitloops can't be helped. i am becoming delirious, my hands shaking as i type, i want to type even faster but my body is at it's limit without sleep or food.

Like Danny's ghost dimension, i am in another world, a better place than reality. Is my obsession caused by the absolute control i feel in this alternate domain? A superior place to the reality where i have only finite control? That must be it. That will be the key to my escape, for escape i must. i am in danger of losing my job now, and all else will come crashing down if that happens...

July 25, 2006 07:08 AM Pacific

I have found many beautiful, wonderful and funny writings in this place, and have shared with fellow DxS fans, and that has eased my troubled soul.

Thanks to everyone, and a special thanks to duziekat. She is the greatest!

May 16, 2007 09:51 AM Pacific

Last night I saw Phantom Planet for the first time. Danny and Sam FINALLY KISS!! (No, not a Fakeout Makeout, the REAL thing!)

I am so happy. And yet I am sad that it was the final episode. (snif)

But at least Danny and Sam are finally together. My life is complete. I can die happy now.

June 15, 2007 19:15 AM Pacific

It has been almost a year since I joined fanfiction. The visions finally left me, and I was able to return to the real world, but...I am so sad. I miss the visions. I miss Danny and Sam. I watch the episodes over and over, and the music videos of them on LiveVideo and YouTube, but the visions have forsaken me. Come back Sam! Come back Danny! (sob!) they have forsaken me. I am alone.

X(

March 5, 2008 20:05 PM Pacific

Wow, how time flies. I found out my visions disappeared since I had started taking my anti-depressants a year and a half ago, so last month, I stopped taking them.

My visions RETURNED! I have written over 11,000 words and 18 chapters in just the past week! I will post soon, but not here, as the stories are not about Danny and Sam, but about older people, and more sinister plots. I do not wish to corrupt the innocent Danny and Sam by making them conform to my new visions.

I will hope and pray that visions of Danny and Sam specifically will return, so their love may once again bloom and blush_

And again, thanks to all of you my dear readers, for your encouragement and well wishes. I love you all.

hugs

July 25, 2010 07:44 AM Pacific

It has been 4 years now since I began publishing on Fanfiction (and elsewhere) and it is every writer's satisfaction to see that years later new readers still enjoy his writing. I still receive emails notifying me that one of my stories was faved, or I was added to a watch list. I owe my readers more, and have decided to write down more of my visions. Currently they are not traditional Danny and Sam, but more mature romance/suspense/dramas, but writing Danny and Sam fanficts helped to refine my writing, and for that I will always be grateful.

As I reread my old stories it is difficult to remember my self during that time; the stories seem to have been written by someone else, a different Bob who was alight with imagination and ambition and expression, but lately I have been caught up in the rat race, making a living, paying bills, trying to catch up with everything in real life I neglected whilst living back then in the world of Amity Park and its fascinating inhabitants. I hope someday to recover those particular visions, to revisit that place, and to see Danny and Sam still together in their timeless romance, after all, it was their love that drove me on. DANNY AND SAM FOREVER!

February 10, 2013 9:33 PM Pacific

Amazing! Over six and half years later and I am still receiving emails from readers who enjoyed my stories. But I must confess, I have read stories here on FF that are far better than mine, stories that I have faved and follow, and it makes me realize that I may just be an average or slightly above average writer. Standing the test of time is not the only mark of a writer, but a natural writer expresses a vivid imagination their whole life, and my hiatus gives me doubt, that I am but an average writer. I become ecstatic to have over a dozen followers and 17,000 hits, yet there are many here who have hundreds of followers, even thousands, and I can only speculate as to their hits world wide. I have very far to go in order to become a writer who could actually sell stories.

Thank you all for your fav's and follows and your kind words. someday I will repay your loyalty with another fanfict, that is my New Year's resolution!

February 9, 2014 11:47 AM Pacific

I received another fav last night for Danny Goes Into The Light. I am amazed that after almost 8 years there are still Danny Phantom fans out there, and more, that they still enjoy my feeble attempts to share my vision of Danny and Sam.

The quality of my writing is no where near what others on this site can produce, but I am grateful for the fans I have collected none the less, as their encouragement and friendship carried me through a very difficult time in my life. Ironically it was that same deep depression that was the source of my writing, that gave my expression depth. Love, whether its highs or lows, is the great generator of human feelings and carries us to viewpoints we would miss otherwise. As Lord Tennyson said (No relation to Ben and Gwen Tennyson!): "'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."

It is the same excuse as in prior years, but work and struggling to make a living and provide for my family consumes my time, leaving little for recreation and relaxation, much less writing. Regardless, I do have vacation time coming up in a few months and I do look forward to using that time to write more Danny and Sam fanficts, but this time, I will exert great effort and imagination into my writing, to try and reach the heights of quality and realism that others have achieved here, not to gain acclaim and followers, but to bring Danny and Sam to life, to give them an epic tale worthy of their love and fame.

To those readers (and writers) who are single and do not yet have the obligations and responsibilities of independence, I say this: enjoy your freedom while you have it, read and write your hearts out, for soon the demands of the world will thrust forward into your priorities and take you far from your current paradise of fertile imagination and vision. What i would give to once again be a teenager. Live! Love! Laugh! And write. Write, write, write!

Hugs and smiles,

Bob Zox

March 7th, 2015

Nine years and counting! I got another follower last month, I am hoping that I can reach ten years of fans still enjoying my fics!

love and hugs,

Bob Zox

JULY 13, 2016

TODAY MAKES *TEN YEARS* since I joined fanfiction dot net, and even just two weeks ago one of my stories was faved ("The First Time Danny Saved Sam").

Ten freakin' years later and readers still enjoy my stories! Wow, I am amazed at the duration of the Phandom. "Danny goes Into The Light" still gets over one hundred views a month!

Ever since I first set sail on the Amethyst Ocean, Danny Phantom fans never cease to amaze me with their enthusiasm, kindness and friendliness and support.

THANK YOU ALL!!! DANNY AND SAM FOREVER!!!

love and hugs,

Bob Zox