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Has phil ever expressed an emotion publicly like this before?

it's RARE. it does happen on occasion but not enough for me to even come up with an example right now. they're both so shit at expressing emotions publicly in the first place (even dan who is significantly better at it than phil is, though he is worse at accepting and processing compliments lol) and much less To Each Other In Front Of Us, that this silly little twitter exchange is honestly monumental. phil expresses emotions and dan responds earnestly???? what the fuck

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i hurt my feelings so bad making this edit but its his song !!

@danielhowell

#dnp #dan and phil #daniel howell #danisnotonfire #phan #wad #we're all doomed #leanna firestone #my edit #Youtube

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fuck dan’s “what can i say?” compilation- i need to see how many times this man has pulled this move.

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i need her biblically

#oh i am dead #dnp

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When I’m scrolling through a blog and see they reblogged one of my posts

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hey sorry we put your boyfriend under a readmore

[GIF ID: Rick Astley singing Never Gonna Give You Up /end]

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🧡

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(I bring a sort of “Everyone has inherent worth regardless of their productivity” Vibe to every conversation that ableists don’t really seem to like)

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Diagrams are helpful to me

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be honest with me. what are the chances of a hard launch in june

anon this question goes back years. and the thing is. we have been right once before.

you ask me this this time last year? fuck no. i might even quip that dapg would come back before dnp would hard launch. well. look at us now.

and even then, you look back on the content they started with in the revival--it honestly kind of felt exactly like where we left off, only a lot more explicitly queer (we stan). and then... trying to see without my glasses 2. and bang, spooky week happened. and that shifted the balance. we suddenly got slo-mo replays of handholds. day, after day, after day, finishing with the absolute masterpiece of halloween baking cinnamon rolls. in all honesty it was so much more than i'd've ever expected from them. truly another post-baking universe.

and it never really slowed down. suddenly we had cat prom photos, catboy butlers, catboy dan w/ phil photography credit, theyre 'wrestling' --running us full throttle into gamingmas, the first since 2017. and every day we had a new thing to freak out over: standing close. golf jokes. and then... pinof reacts. i don't know what compelled them to do it but i do have speculations. genuinely, i think they wanted to defang a lot of their history. we treated pinof 1, especially, with this... reverance. and it wasn't talked about too publicly--and dnp didnt do it either. so if they really wanted to move on, to bring down the walls, open the floodgates, define this new era: they had to throw the first stone. and they did. quite heartily too. suddenly this almost taboo part of their history--almost too intimate to be perceived--was on the table. and we were talking about it. joking about it. giving clear signals of 'we see it, it's okay.' and suddenly we existed in a post-pinof reacts world. of anything, i would've never predicted they would've done that. absolutely wild. follow that with it takes two being so chill and fond. incohearant being so blatant and heartfelt. trombone champ being unhinged and chaotic. the genuine and sweet complimenting of each other in the red carpet video. devan wedding... happilyphoreverafter... we crashed forward in time. never knowing what would be next. where is the line? how far will they go.

they teased us with japhan honeymoon and we knew 2024 would be wild. but we didn't know how much. from wdapteo 2023, to specific reminiscing about japan w/ devan, WAD happening, and phil playing a huge role in it all--from the orange carpet hosting, to 'ive been in *sex noises* with phil from the start!', to 'remote crisis manager phil lester', to dan saying he can stay during the thank you.

one of the biggest videos so far this year was the tiktok likes one. i will be forever haunted by the dog eating cheeseburger and willy wonka tiktoks--theres some things i was never meant to know. and yet. they tell us. explicitly.

every single video on amazingphil since the return of dapg has mentioned or featured dan. there's been a palpable shift in the way they interact. have you seen the way phil has been glowing in videos lately? this guy is on cloud nine all the time. it's really not hard to see why.

the energy of keep or yeet w/ dan... the absolute Lack of pretense of it all. phan twitter... watch your step baby girl...

dan and phil fucking crafts. talk about an unexpected return. legacy defining, one might even say. we're still in this tailspin of what everything means and they drop this insanely iconic video on us. from the storytelling to the production to the aesthetic--and its all capped off by explicit handholding. yes, it was part of the sacrifice. but hand in hand, the heart dan ripped from phils chest in one, and the knife that did it in the other... oh boy. we're really in it now. and then they put it on fucking merch. genius. truly no one does it like them.

and the foot has been on the accelerator since. dan and phil connections, shuffleboard & mocktails, getting deep slumber party, acknowledgement & approval of fics (yes previously given but never like this)--hell, even the sims today was wild for 'is their love language horrible banter 👀'.

you didn't ask for an essay but i gave you one. all of this to say, they've been moving the line. quite intentionally so. they intentionally revived their joint branding. they are 'dan and phil' again, and seem happier than ever about it, and i think that means something. they're saying things they never would have before--out of the closet or not.

as for june... 5 years since coming out is a big deal. so is this year being 15 years of dnp. hell, so is this year for being the first out pride month where they're explicitly a duo and regularly making content together. they're sentimental, there will be something.

my craziest idea is reacting to their coming out videos ✌️😔 --but i don't think it'll actually happen. as for more realistic, i could see pride merch. and however that goes will be significant, in my opinion. i'm excited and curious.

i don't know if they'll hard launch. it's hard to put all of the implications, complications, and speculations back into the box once it's opened. dan's talked about it before--wanting to be able to fuck up and not be publically executed, instead, being able to learn and grow and work it out. i think that's a very understandable stance to have. very grounded. we'd have to ask him if tour/dapg has changed that now. i do think he's had some sort of life epiphany--whether it's about that specifically, only he can say. but i think it's there.

even if i portray a lot of level-headedness, i wear my clown nose with pride. sometimes the only option is to go with whatever is funniest at the time. they're both jokesters, so they could commit to a bit like that. but it's also like, it can be too serious for them to want to joke about. i don't know. i think we're in this almost beautiful state right now--the we know you know of it all. there's no expectations, no demands to be met, no obligations of types of content. they're happy. we're happy. it depends on if they feel ready. if they want to. we'll be here, always.

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ii tour phinsta stories — posting each other

#THE LAST ONE??? #OW?????? #dnp

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okay so basically my parent's parents are all divorcees who remarried right? so you got the regular two plus two for the step grannies. where do the other three come from?

great grandma (still alive !!)

step great grandma (my grandma's dad remarried)

great great grandma (died when i was like three but damn she did that)

dan's polyamorous lesbian grandma joke is really funny of its own merit but it's particularly really funny to me bc i don't think i realized before hearing it that most people do only get to use dead grandma as an excuse once or twice (i started with seven grandmas !!)

#but yea ive already got three dead grandmas and four more still alive so that joke DOES NOT APPLY TO ME LMAO #dnp

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currently going insane about dan buying phil the mega dilf shirt actually bc what do you mean dan (at the same time presumably still writing his stage show?? or at least editing/revising it) sees this shirt on twitter says to himself "that's hilarious, im gonna get that for him"????

"i just want an algorithm to be like... next time you're on pornhub, dive into the dilf tag for a good time." - dan howell (we're all doomed, 2024)

#I HATE GAY PEOPLE #dnp #dan and phil #daniel howell #danisnotonfire #phil lester #amazingphil #phan #were all doomed #wad

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Hi peeps, I'm writing my dissertation on the Dan and Phil community and the impact they and the fandom have on mental health. Whether you're active in discussions or a casual fan, I would greatly appreciate it if you could fill out this questionnaire <3

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IN A WORLD AFTER THIS TWEET MUCH LESS

Also Phil calling him Danny 😭😭😭😭

#dnp #dan and phil #phan #daniel howell #danisnotonfire #phil lester #amazingphil