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Steve Rogers’ New York is a period historical blog centred around the ever-lovable and admirable Steven Grant Rogers, better known as Captain America! It looks at a range of elements from 1920s - Mid 1940s New York and American culture as they would relate to, would have shaped, Steve and his world view.

Film

Top Grossing Films of the 1930s

Top Grossing US Films of the 1930s (Images)

The Golden Age of Film

Top Grossing Films of 1940 to 1945

Top 10 Grossing US Films of 1940-1945 (Images)

Film: Top Hat

Film: Top Hat (Images)

Animated Disney Films  — 1938 to 2016

Hybrid and Live-Action Disney Films  — 1938 to 2001

Radio

Radio Programme Ratings 1930-1939

Radio Program Ratings (History)

Radio Programme Ratings 1940-1945

Music

Songs by Decade Masterlist: 1910 - Early 1945

Songs by Decade: 1910s

Songs by Decade: 1920s

Songs by Decade: 1930s

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Songs from Post-WWII: 1940s

Chart-Topping Christmas Singles — 1920-1945

Books

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Books Released Post-WWII

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Science Fiction Books Released Post-WWII

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Fantasy Books Released Post-WWII

Art and Design

“The Brooklyn Bridge” by Joseph Stella

Valentines Cards

“Gift Dressing” — Early 20th Century Gift Wrapping

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Arcade Cards A.K.A “Exhibit Cards”

Tony Martin Signed Portrait

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Fred Astaire

Will Rogers

Cars

Cars of the 1920s and 1930s

Cars of the 1920s and 1930s: Popular Models (Images)

Cars of the 1920s - 1930s (Image)

Food

1920s Recognisable Food

1920s Recognisable Foods (Images)

1920s Recognisable Foods: Candy (Images)

1930s Recognisable Foods

1930s Recognisable Foods (Images)

Early 1940s Recognisable Foods

Early 1940s Recognisable Foods (Images)

Kool-Aid

Kool-Aid: Advertisements (Images)

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Jell-O: History and Development

Jell-O: Advertisements & Marketing

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Jell-O: Packaging (Images) (100th Post!)

Jell-O: Advertisements and Promotional Illustrations (Images)

Foods in Bucky’s Apartment (Civil War) - Based on @koubashii’s post

Grocery Spotlight #1

Grocery Spotlight #2

Clothing

Gabardine Jacket

Men’s Hats — 1920s to 1940s

Men’s Hats — The Fedora

T-Shirts in the Early-20th Century

Currency

Buffalo Nickel A.K.A. Indian Head Nickel

Amenities, Buildings, and Businesses

Ask: Automats

Automats: Food

Automats: History — Inspiration and Golden Age

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Automats: New York Predecessor

Automats: Social Significance

Automats: Brooklyn Branches

Automats: Map of Brooklyn H&H Automat Locations

Frederick Loeser & Co. Department Store Postcard

Old Brooklyn Fire Headquarters

Brooklyn Navy Yard

Brooklyn Navy Yard — 1920s and 1930s

Brooklyn Navy Yard — World War II

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Band-Aids

Band-Aids (Images)

Pre-WWII Television — Mid-1930s to 1945

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Origins of Black History Month

US Presidents — 1850 to Present

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Shirtless Bathers (Tid-bit)

Queer Comings Out in Early-20th Century New York

Federal Project Number One — An Introduction

What was the 1939 New York World’s Fair?

Teenagers - Mini Post

Health and medicine

1930s Fever Relief

@scientia-rex ‘s Addition

@raina16′s Addition

Children Receiving Diphtheria Immunization (Image)

Science Fiction

ASK: Ray Gun

ASK: Ray vs. Disintegration Guns

Science Fiction: Amazing Stories Pulp Magazine

After the War (Cultural Features introduced Post-WWII)

Seat Belts

Super Glue

Language

Words by Decade: General Pre-1900s-1910s

Words by Decade: General 1920-1945

Words by Decade: General Mid to Late 1940s

Words by Decade: General 1950s-1960s

Words by Decade: General 1970s-2000s

Words: Military and War Related

World War II

Canadian Rationing Display in the Canadian War Museum

Black Forces in WWII — Homefront

Black Forces in WWII — Army

“A Pocket Reference Guide: Army, Navy, Marine Corps Insignia” Supplement to the March, 1943 Reader’s Digest

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Valentine’s Day

Valentines Cards

4th of July

The Ten Greatest Fireworks Displays in NYC (Bowery Boys)

Hallowe’en

Dennison’s Bogie Book (Halloween and Thanksgiving - Images)

Kroger Grocery Store Publication, Your Wartime Food, 1943 (Images)

Hallowe’en Greeting from A&S

Goblin Game - From Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Hallowe’en Recipes (2016)

Halloween Activities (Tid-bit)

Recipe Wednesday #28  — Hallowe’en Special (2017)

Hallowe’en in the 1920-1940s (Response post)

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Recipes (2016)

“Franksgiving”: FDR’s 1939 Thanksgiving Date Change

Christmas

1920s Christmas Advertisements - Toys (Images)

1930s-1940s Christmas Advertisements - Radios (Images)

Christmas Music of the 1920s to Mid-1940s

Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree

Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree - 1930s (Images)

Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree - 1940s (Images)

2016 Advent Calendar Masterlist

Great Depression-themed Christmas Card, c.1930s

Art Deco Christmas card, New York Skyline, c.1930s

Christmas Windows NYC (Ephemeral New York)

Chart-Topping Christmas Singles — 1920-1945

New Years

New Years Eve Celebrations in Times Square (Images)

New Year’s Babies

New Year’s Eve in New York City (Images)

Recipe Wednesday Special: New Year’s Eve (2017)

Could Steve and Bucky Have Attended New Years Celebrations at Times Square?

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View of the Lower Manhattan Skyline (Image)

Hightstown Project: Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Soloman (Images)

Gas Station on the Corner of Vanderbilt Ave. and Pacific St. (Images)

Gas Station (Modern Google Comparison - Images)

View of Manhattan from Fulton Street and Debevoise Avenue

Aerial Photo of the New York Navy Yard

Docks below Brooklyn Bridge, 1946

Corner Middagh and Hicks, Brooklyn Heights, 1946

An intersection in Bedford-Stuyvesant, c.1940s

Men seated in Battery Park, 1941

Children playing on a New York City sidewalk, c.1940

Raised roadway onto Brooklyn Bridge, 1945

Men standing on Manhattan Bridge facing Brooklyn Bridge, 1938

Man and a Woman standing outside an apartment building, 1940

A boy and his dog under the Brooklyn Bridge, 1947

Stand-Alone Posts

Steve’s Age by Year

Dates for Stark Expo and Project Rebirth

Inflation Conversions

Research Notes

Brooklyn Visit Location Suggestions

Personal Purchases

1943 Map of Brooklyn - From Collier’s World Atlas and Gazetteer

1939 New York World’s Fair Matchbook for the Hotel St. George

1939 New York World’s Fair Official Postcards — Spiral Fountain

1939 New York World’s Fair Official Postcards — Hall of Communications

Tony Martin Signed Portrait

Recipe Wednesdays (And other Recipes)

Recipe Wednesday Masterpost!

Indexed Recipe Wednesday Masterpost

Hallowe’en Recipe Special (2017)

Hallowe’en Recipes (2016)

Thanksgiving Recipes (2016)

2016 Advent Calendar Masterlist

Recipe Wednesday Special: New Year’s Eve (2017)

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SUMMARY OF ALL THE LOA POSTS I EVER READ.

This is gonna be really vague 😭

1.) you can manifest anything and everything you want.

2.) there are no rules or things to do to manifest unless you assume it.

3.) you manifest/manifested anything you assume.

4.) just keep persisting until it materializes.

please tell me more about danny phantom lore

Delighted to see this in my asks~

I assume you know about the most common phandom lore, but to recap, I'll just describe a few and then go into other sources. Keep in mind that DP lore is super super flexible and up for interpretation (it's what makes it fun!), and that a lot of it comes from canon crumbs, or just complete fanon lol.

Ghost cores: The very essence of a ghost, described as an orb-like, glowing kind of "ghost organ." Has been interpreted as a soul, a place that stores ghost consciousness, or just a life source. Often tied to their obsession. (brief mention appeared In Urban Jungle w/this pic and we rolled with it lol)

Ghostly Obsession: The anchor that ties a ghost to the spirit plane I suppose. Or what holds them together. This is one of those with many interpretations. Mostly, I've seen it have great importance. It's something tied to their previous life (an interest, a passion, a yearning, etc.) that gives the ghost's existence a purpose, and is often tied with ghost health. For example, The Box Ghost's obsession is boxes lol. Some phans believe that not fulfilling an obsession can result in either the ghost destabilizing, great physical pain, a drop in the hierarchy of ghosts, etc. I've seen some say that blob ghosts are those without a proper obsession. And as mentioned before, I have seen a few who believe obsessions are mainly just an interest or theme without great importance. Personally, I'm on the side that does think they're very important, since it's a cool idea, and also one of the few most supported by canon. Plus it's pretty close to actual ghost lore, in how we believe ghosts are spirits stuck on earth because they have not satisfied a purpose.

Additional ideas I've seen are that a ghost can be consumed by it if they're not careful, or that they can even evolve into having a different one if the circumstances are dire enough. An example of that is with ASharksReadingGlasses' MCU crossover where Vlad's obsession goes from a family including Maddie and Danny to (SPOILER) one where his obsession is solely having Danny as his son. Having a family -> being a father.

Danny's Obsession: Then for Danny, I see a general consensus that his obsession is protection due to the nature of his death. Part of the reasoning stems from how unstable he was the first month without a purpose, but once he realized he wanted to protect Amity, it stabilized his core. There are some other ideas though, such as how @imekitty has a theory that it's actually more specific than just "protection," but rather protection of himself. Others think his love for space is a contender, bringing us to the next phandom tidbit-

Dual Obsession: Some think there's a chance, a very rare one, where ghosts can have two obsessions. I've mainly seen this used for Danny, where people want him to have both a protection obsession, and a space one. Brings up some interesting ideas such as which would win out, and the complications that come with balancing them.

Ghost Speak: Idea that ghosts have their own dead languages that come naturally with dying. Often described as either guttural, or like wind going through branches. Spooky sounding, inhuman. Even a feeling, or a form of telepathy. Can be an umbrella term for multiple ghost languages, since many believe there's some spoken only by certain ghosts, depending on location, how deep they are in the zone, and how old they are. There's contemporary ghost languages, ancient ones. Just a lot to unpack here.

The Ancients: I've seen some phans distinguish ghosts like the Observants, Clockwork, and Pandora from others. They're just on a whole other level, sometimes even equated to ancient gods. This one's the most open-ended that I've seen. Very much a worldbuilding element.

Ghost King Danny: Belief that Danny is actually now the new ghost king since he bested Pariah Dark in battle. Some believe he has to die all the way to get the throne, but mostly I've seen that the zone doesn't care if he's a halfa or not.

The Ghost Zone is Alive: I've seen some describe the ghost zone as a living entity, comprised of human ideas that were so strongly held, they gained sentience. Also, many fics refer to the Infinite Realms as being the proper name for the zone. (thanks Frostbite)

Ghost Hunger: Often jokingly referred to as ghost vore lol. Just the idea that ghosts need to ingest a certain amount of ectoplasm to survive. There are harmless interpretations of this, such as Danny just needing to drink ectoplasm, or recharge in the ghost zone for energy. I've seen others go the Tokyo Ghoul route, where Danny needs to eat other ghosts. (typically smaller ones, like blobs)

Lairs: A place a ghost has claimed as their domain, place to feel safe, etc. Often like a haunt. Canonically backed as well, with Pariah's Keep, Skulker's Island, etc. Some believe Danny has a lair in the zone, that Pariah's Keep is now Phantom's Keep (ghost king Danny idea), that Amity Park is his lair, just Fentonworks is, etc.

....

There's honestly a lot of lore to go through lol. The Phandom is wild creative, not even mentioning the AU's since those are a whole other thing. I've barely scratched some of the surface here, but if you want to read more, I'll provide some links to other posts on lore. (some mine and a few others!)

General blogs to check out: @floralflowerpower (fun facts, lore, thorough posts), @five-rivers (lot's of worldbuilding and ghost biology), @redrobin-detective (lot's of cool analysis), @monotype-on-phantom (super insightful analysis too), @imekitty (lot’s of lore shown through fics and explanation posts), @liminalhollow (analysissss) etc. There's many others but I can't think rn lol, so if anyone wants to add to the post, be my guest.

Ghost Lore Theory Posts:

Proof Our "Ghosts Are Spirits of the Dead" conclusion is valid and canon

Ghost Hissing

Ghost zone adopts Danno

Does amity know about the portal?

Danny hiding strength

pocket dimension

Danny is hard to look at

ghosts are like vampires

Danny power mimicry ability

nature of Danny’s relationship with ghosts

trio popular on social media

Danny has to train himself to compartmentalize 

More inhuman aspects of Danny’s biology

The Westons

Valerie isn’t totally human cause of the suit now

Ghost Portal Origins and Lakes Theory

Johnny’s Origin

Danny sheds hair and it turns white

OSHA analysis on the portal lmao 

Hand to Hand combat theory

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the first two photos were later sold to a local newspaper and the last one was posted on dick grayson’s instagram with the caption “opps want to see me fall 💪🏋️‍♂️”

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a vent

cw ; lots of swears and curses , mention of grooming

if i see another pick me shifter discussing the topic of aging yourself up and down i will claw my ribcage open

SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!!

IM SO SICK OF YALL FOR MAKING PEOPLE FEEL GUILTY FOR WANTING TO EXPERIENCE DIFFERENT DR/S OR EVEN IDEAS THAN YOURS. LET PEOPLE FUCKING LIVE.

'it seems like i'm the only one that doesn't wanna be a groomer' WHENEVER THEY SEE A POST OF SOMEONE AGING THEMSELVES DOWN!!! WITH ALL THE DISRESPECT IN THE MULTIVERSE/S FUCK YOU!!!!

YOU ARE NOT JUST ONE BODY. YOU ARE EVERYTHING. YOU ARE YOUNG AND OLD AND DEPPRESSED AND EUPHORIC AND SHY AND BOLD AND HUMAN AND INHUMANE AND BLUE AND RED AND PURPLE AND ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING!!!!

THIS REALITY IS JUST LIKE ANY OTHER FUCKING REALITY (UNLESS YOU DECIDE OTHERWISE) AND EVEN IF YOU DO DECIDE OTHERWISE YOU CANT FORCE EVERYONE TO BELIEVE THAT THEY ALL SHOULD FEEL THE SAME WAY AS YOU!!!!

everyone will age, you will outgrow your favorite shows and cc/s, so what? are you gonna just throw away these worlds, people, and lifetimes just because you're not in the same age? you won't. and don't come here lying to me saying that you will abandon everything you've ever liked // loved just because you're 'too old' for it.

and what if you're 60 years old and still shifting, are you gonna only shift to 60s appropriate shows because hey you're too old to be studying at hogwarts? NO TELL ME BECAUSE I WOULD LOVE TO KNOW.

you will shift and be the same age you script yourself in unless you state otherwise. i can promise you, you won't pull an esther.

how can you preach that shifting is unlimited and tell me in the same breath that you will be an adult in a child's body? and that it's impossible for you to be a child in the FUCKING MULTIVERSE/S YOU DENSE FUCK.

how you can be immortal fucking IMMORTAL but woah buddy hold your horses you can't be a child it's a crime in this county to be a child 😇

and also, not everyone is shifting to date if that's your concern, GENUINELY not everyone is shifting to date, tons literally just wanna live for themselves and tons as well have lost their childhood due to plenty of reasons and are simply shifting to relive them or live better one/s, and IF for whatever reason they happen to date someone THEIR AGE you shut your damn mouth.

how is it fine for a minor to age themselves up but no no no god how fucking horrible and awful what an atrocity that an adult is shifting to be a child. OH HOW HORRIFIC HOW COULD THEY EVER DO THAT AS IF IT'S NOT THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE TO MISS YOUR CHILDHOOD OR MOURN IT.

stop treating this reality as 'the universe's calling', it's just a reality UNLESS you decide that it means more to YOU. either way, don't shove it down people's throats that this is the only belief and the only correct one. your cr is not any more real than any reality.

y'all are insufferable for constantly shaming people for normal fucking things just because you are too afraid to open yourself up for how unlimited shifting is.

live. please, i beg you to just LIVE and let people fucking live.

i thought this cat is a cutie so here's that

literally so funny how there's people on this site that actually think it's a reasonable response in any situation to threaten others with the fbi like yeah that's the epitome of white queers as per james baldwin's evergreen quote lmao

I think it would be fun to go online shopping for your DR. Don't actually spend the money, but visualize that you are shopping in your dr!

This is especially good if you script you have unlimited money!! 😀

“who are you shifting for?”

“who’s your dr s/o?”

PLS I’M SHIFTING FOR ME😭 WHAT’S THE SHIFTING COMMUNITY’S OBSESSION WITH EVERYONE HAVING AN S/O?

esp with those shifting methods “imagine ur dr s/o…” SORRY WHO?

and those shifting motivation things too like “answer these questions about your dr!!” and 95% of them are about your dr s/o and not your dr…

ofc nothing wrong with having an s/o but i think people focus wayyy too much on that rather than themselves

but if that works for you then it works for you sooooo idc it’s up to youu!! this has just been a silly rant

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G.I.W headcanons:

No one in Amity Park respects or trusts the GIW.

Civilians hate the GIW because they’re expensive, destructive and believe that they’re above the law and more qualified than anyone else.

For example, when it comes to payment and property damage.

Phantom and the Red Huntress work for free and don’t usually cause much property damage and what does get damaged can easily be covered by Amity Park exclusive “ghost insurance”.

The Fentons are loud and can be destructive sometimes, but they’re efficient, work at a very low price and are fully willing to pay for any damage not covered by ghost insurance. Plus they sell anti-ghost equipment at a low price and are more than willing to give tips on what to do if you’re the victim of an attack.

Ghost hunters from out of town are a mixed bag, because most aren’t equipped with actual equipment, instead bringing things made to communicate with the ghost and/or ward it off for some time (Spirit boxes to translate ghost speech, incenses and rituals to interact with them). Plus most out of town “ghost hunters” don’t even believe in ghosts and are usually just using the job as a way of conning money out of superstitious people. Prices can also range wildly. But those that take the job seriously can still be useful if an area is currently being haunted because they can still identify what exactly is haunting it and what you should do.

if your house contains a spirit the out of town ghost hunter could get it to identify itself or leave if it’s a weaker ghost, otherwise call the Fentons.

If it’s a ghost animal, treat it differently than a sentient ghost. Ghost animals are usually less dangerous than a sentient ghost but it’s still a wild animal. They can be dealt with easily and cheaply using incenses and Fenton gadgets that’ll make it leave the area or return to the zone. If it’s a large and/or dangerous creature, call the Fentons and tell them it’s a animalistic ghost.

If it’s a natural portal don’t bother calling the Fentons because natural portals cannot be closed or contained, don’t worry about it being that dangerous though, because natural portals are one way trips from the ghost zone to earth and can’t be seen or crossed from the human side unless you’re a full ghost. Just set up some incenses and charms so any ghosts that come though leave your house quickly or at least act respectfully while they’re here.

If it’s a collapsed portal, call the Fentons immediately and inform them of the situation. Natural portals that have collapsed may not be able to bring ghosts to the human realm, but for about a week after the full collapse, the area the portal occupied will produce high energy ectoplasm (H.E.E) that is extremely toxic and gives off an an astronomical amount of ectoplasmic radiation. Being in close proximity for too long can cause lasting health effects including ecto-acne. H.E.E such a powerful material that it’s used to power the Fenton portal. The Fentons are the most qualified people in Amity when it comes to dealing with the stuff. The GIW isn’t even allowed to do anything in this situation by both Amity Park and federal law. Just let the Fentons and possibly a hazardous material removal team deal with the stuff and stay with a friend or in a hotel for a day or two until they declare your house safe.

The GIW don’t care about public or private property and are loud, destructive and once again, believe that they are above the law and common decency. They also preform “mandatory sweeps” around the entire block of wherever they’re called in, raiding houses that they believe to have ghosts inside, ripping up lawns and damaging roads with their massive trucks and destroying public property either by accident or because a ghost was spotted nearby. They will also refuse to pay for any damages done and will secretly charge whoever called them with prices in the hundreds despite the fact that the propaganda posters advertising the GIW never mention a price.

Law enforcement in Amity hates the GIW because they get in the way of them trying to do their jobs, especially if someone has died. Multiple reports detail the GIW stepping in during cases involving sudden disappearances or murders and informing officers that the case is government business before removing all traces of said case’s existence. Multiple high ranking members of the GIW have been asked about this sort of thing and every single one of them claims that these cases “involved or resulted in the creation of an ecto-entity” making the case GIW business. It’s very obvious that the GIW uses these cases to locate and identify recently formed ghosts, but so far, no ghost related to a recent disappearance or murder has appeared and the GIWs meddling makes it impossible for actual law enforcement to figure out the causes of these crimes, meaning that murders and unexplained disappearances go unsolved.

The GIW also gives itself the authority to imprison and interrogate anyone that is believed to be involved with ghosts. In fact, for a while, the GIW made multiple attempts to arrest the Fentons and other ghost hunters because they fit this description. Some amendments were added to the anti-ecto law to exclude ghost hunters and ectobiologists (someone who studies ghosts for scientific purposes) to prevent this. This doesn’t mean they won’t try to push the Fentons and other ghost hunters around however.

The Fentons hate the GIW for of many, many reasons included but not limited to direct plagiarism of their scientific essays, multiple attempts to arrest them over tiny things that the GIW do not regulate and mass plagiarism of their gadgets and weapons.

The Fentons also hate how the GIW treats scientific research and the ghost zone itself.

The Fentons keep all of their research in the ops center and are more than happy to provide it if asked and actively want more people to be educated about ghosts. Their research is always kept up to date, and everything is meticulously covered. The Fentons want ectobiology to eventually be a subject that could be taught in a high school or college, mostly since when they were in college, their research was the first of its kind, often with nothing to go off of in terms of where to start or what to do and they ended up almost killing Vlad as a result.

Also, despite the “all ghosts are ectoplasmic copies of dead people and therefore are not and were never real people” stance, the Fentons are extremely against the idea of weaponizing ghosts and ectoplasm. You can’t control a ghost to do your bidding (freakshow is an exception, his staff was literally built by the ghost king and is therefore an outlier), You can’t create an ectoplasmic atom bomb (they tested if this was possible when they built the portal, you genuinely can’t) and any weapon that uses ectoplasm and works on human beings would be classified as either chemical warfare or biological warfare. They absolutely hate the idea of people using their research to wage wars.

The GIW on the other hand, keep all research a heavily kept secret and anything that is released or leaked is either outdated, details failed attempts at weaponization or is redacted to the point of absurdity.

The Fentons also disapprove of attempts to wage wars against, colonize, or damage large parts of the ghost zone. They understand that once the ghost enters the zone it has entered its natural habitat and home. Expeditions into the zone should not be used to capture or harm ghosts unless absolutely necessary. In the human realm they are entering our world with an actual motive (most ghosts need to be in the human realm to fulfill their obsessions), in the ghost zone you are invading their territory with no reason whatsoever, and due to the territorial nature of ghosts, showing too much hostility could trigger another Walker or even Pariah Dark level invasion. The Fenton’s may hate ghosts with every fibre of their being and want them destroyed, but they’re not idiots and they view what the GIW does as “swinging blindfolded at a hornet nest”.

The anti-ecto act details an ecto-entity as “An organism that relies on and/or creates ectoplasm and/or ectoplasmic radiation.” While ghosts, half-ghosts and plants native to the ghost zone fall under this jurisdiction, ghost portals, ectocontaminated objects, and devices powered by or made of ectoplasm don’t fit these requirements (mostly the “organism” part) and thus the GIW isn’t allowed to step in if it involves those things (For example, The GIW are not allowed to kick you out of your home and declare it a contaminated area if it contains a natural portal). The GIW likes to try and find loopholes around this.

Ectocontaminated creatures like Vlad and Danny in human form and anyone that’s been in an ectoplasm related accident do have ectoplasm as a permanent part of their bodies due to ectoplasm fusing with the cells in their bodies, but are actively excluded from the anti-ecto act because they’re still human beings, they’ve just got a tiny bit of ectoplasm in their bodies that cannot be removed. The GIW still treats ectocontaminated people like human beings because they’re forced to, but if a ghost is reported near where a person that’s been ectocontaminated lives, there’s a good chance they’ll bring that person into custody for “possible association with ecto-entities”. They do a similar thing to homeless people that are spotted near reported ghost locations.

Bringing people into custody for “possible association with ecto-entities” is basically the GIWs calling card, because “possible association with ecto-entities” is such a vague and difficult to disprove statement that just about anyone in all of Amity Park can fit that description and the GIW knows this. Anyone can and will be taken in from people that have witnessed a ghost fight to people that were briefly overshadowed to amateur ghost hunters and even to random people that have nothing to do with ghosts. Being taken in for “possible association with ecto-entities” is a popular meme around Amity Park, usually as a counterpart for sending someone to the gulag or Brazil.

The GIW may be partially government funded, but it has basically no governmental supervision and a good chunk of the GIW is self funded. They are extremely corrupt, breaking the anti-ecto laws amendments, several federal laws and most of the boundaries placed by the higher parts of the government whenever they deem appropriate. They aren’t even allowed to do half the things they do in Amity Park but get away with it because no one in Amity has the balls to stand up against them and even if they do, the government basically doesn’t care what some small government agency is doing in one tiny town in Illinois as long as they’re doing what they were sent there to do (research ghosts).

The GIW technically aren’t even supposed to be fighting ghosts. They were founded with the intention of RESEARCHING ghosts as nonviolently as possible. It’s the Ghost INVESTIGATION Ward, not the Ghost DESTRUCTION Ward. Both the federal government and the GIW themselves ignore this.

The extremely wealthy are usually able to bribe the GIW into leaving them or certain areas of Amity Park alone and/or make them turn a blind eye to ghostly activity. People that do this include (in descending order):

Vlad and all of his companies.

Axion Labs.

A small family in the extremely high class area of Amity known as the Mclains.

Most large companies that just want the GIW out of their way.

The Mansons on rare occasions.

Freakshow and circus gothica. Not anymore.

Some others.

For the first few months of the GIW being in Amity Park, they were completely unregulated with a massive budget and literally did whatever they wanted just by saying it was “government business”. They didn’t even need to play the “possible association with ecto-entities” card, because they’d just take anyone in for no reason other than “government business”.

That was, until they got sued.

To make a very long story short, the Fentons sued the GIW for plagiarizing their research, plagiarizing their weapons and selling them as their own and the multiple attempts the GIW made at arresting them over “direct association with ecto-entities” (ie: all of their research) “direct summoning of ecto-entities” (ie: the portal) and “harbouring ecto-entities” (ie: having an ectocontaminated person (ie: Danny) living with them). Most of the GIWs unregulated actions in Amity were brought up and the GIW were found guilty of scientific misconduct, plagiarism, abuse of power, dozens of accounts of unlawful arrest, embezzlement, discrimination of all kinds and many other crimes.

In the end the GIW was completely restructured, received several massive cuts to its budget and had multiple restrictions put on to try and regulate them, the anti-ecto law had multiple amendments added to make sure that it only effects ghosts and the GIW was banned from ever using Fenton research, gadgets, weaponry and basically everything with the word Fenton on it. This ban includes the creation of ghost portals.

Eventually the GIW was mostly unregulated again but even now, they mostly won’t mess with the Fentons or their research, because the Fentons are some of the only people with the courage needed to stand up to them and the evidence needed to put the GIW in hot water, and if the GIW end up with another incident like the “Fenton vs Ghost Investigation Ward lawsuit” they could all be in serious trouble.

The GIW has a list of “high value targets” that are either extremely dangerous, have evaded capture for a very long time or both. The list (in descending order of importance) includes:

Spectra (extremely dangerous and impossible to capture, ATTACK ON SIGHT)

Technus (messes with all of their equipment, has managed to delete thousands of documents of research and has released a large amount of ghosts from their facilities)

Phantom (difficult to capture, plus most of the GIW is still salty about not being able to collect that bounty)

Johnny 13 (a whole bunch of factors make him extremely difficult to capture)

Youngblood (impossible for anyone except children to see him and his guardian is extremely protective and dangerous)

Ember Mclain (can appear extremely human and is therefore extremely difficult to spot, along with having the ability to hypnotize agents into letting her go. Also constant requests and a couple million dollars from the living Mclains state that if captured, she is to be brought to them instead of to a GIW facility)

All ghosts have some level of respect for Phantom. Weaker ghosts view the Red Huntress as a genuine threat that should be taken seriously, while stronger ghosts view her as a ghost hunter thats far out of her league but still shouldn’t be underestimated. All ghosts view the Fentons as serious threats that are not to be messed with, but also won’t hesitate to fight them if it means saving another ghost that’s been captured. Every single ghost, with exceptions made for ghosts like Spectra, Aragon, The Fright Knight and the ancients, shit themselves at the mere mention of the GIW. If you get captured by them, it’s over. No hope of destabilizing and reforming in your lair because the GIW will use devices to keep you stable as they experiment on you. And they WILL experiment on you. Dissections, Vivisections (it counts as a vivisection if the ghost is conscious during the process), imprisonment in cells that Walker would consider crimes against humanity and just straight up, cold blooded torture of all kinds. The few things anyone, human or ghost, knows about what goes on behind the closed doors of a GIW facility mostly comes from ghosts that managed to destabilize themselves and reform in their lairs, and most of the ghosts that come back from a GIW facility come back with massive changes to their forms that they can’t remove and will often refuse to enter the human realm ever again, obsession be dammed.

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