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to be absolutely fair i never wanted them to fuck on youtube, i was more of a younow girlie, it fit the vibe better i think

#younow was the vibe in like 2013 tbh

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I hope that Dan and Phil know that at the heart of everything has always been a desire to see them happy.

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schrodinger’s hard launch

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the vibe we bring to the function

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dan and phil hard launch via a mattress sponsorship

#okay this might be the funniest thing that is actually possible

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i'm clowning on all of us for crying over their stacked jackets when i know full well that's exactly the kind of shit i would zoom in on in a fic as a poignant everyday symbol of intimacy and intertwined lives et cetera et cetera. we're just sensitive souls. okay. we find beauty in the little things

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For the love of god can someone explain the conjoined sweater halloween baking video to me

#dan and phil

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sorry i know what he's talking about is more important but the jackets just absolutely broke me. i need professional help

#had to look up the weather in london because i was like why tf they wearing coats still its MAY #but it’s like not even 50 degrees there i forgot im sorry im on the west coast its been warm for a month #but also like did he literally film this as we hwas about to walk out the door #why not film it not with phils bright ass jacket against the black entry #these idiots istg #thank you for coming to my tagtalk

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Returning to this fandom has really made me have to confront how much of their shit I absorbed when I was 20.

#dan and phil #genuinely forgot that the reason i have a tetris lamp is because of them #some of the things i say regularly that i’ve been saying for so long i forgot they were references #like oh damn i picked that up from them and just never put it down i guess #still carrying it around to this day #like something where the label has worn off the bottom #thank you for coming to my tagtalk #also i am 32 now thank u for respecting your elders

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Resorted to turning on notifications for fuckin everything because i got sick of finding stuff out from places that were not the source

#literally had to figure out how to enable notification for one app #i have completely lost control of my life thanks guys

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One thing about me is im not afraid to delete a post

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Omg he actually did go insane

#i love how he didnt answer the question but added to the info #like brother BUT WHY DID YOU DO THAT #did we ever find out????

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here's the thing. to outsiders it may seem like we're excited because "phan is real!!" or whatever. but they don't know... it's not about that. phan has been real this entire time. there's always been evidence that dan and phil were together, more or less (more evidence than I think some people realize). the reason phan™ is such a big deal is because two silly gay boys met online in 2009, but their fame quickly outgrew their comfort zone and they quickly went back in the closet. dan was so traumatized from being bullied in school that he had a public meltdown on tumblr in 2012 insisting he was straight after some very private stuff leaked (that he insisted was a unused prank). after going to therapy and meeting so many queer fans on tour, dan slowly began to hint again that he was queer. but it still took them until 2019 to officially come out! and like. dan essentially confirmed that yes all the public online flirting back in 2009/2010 between him and phil was very real and that they were "more than just romantic" at that point and were currently "real best friends, life companions, and soulmates." but that was it, they weren't going to share any more. which is perfectly fine, but some of that definitely had to do with dan wanting to explore himself outside of the Dan and Phil™ brand (which unfortunately he got fucked over by the pandemic and by YouTube in the process). however they did eventually make a very cute announcement that they had bought and designed a new house together. and bit by bit they started making some more coupley jokes about each other here and there and sharing glimpses of a bedroom with both of their stuff in it, though it was still fairly subdued. but then dan finally got to go do his solo comedy tour and when he came back, shit suddenly CHANGED. 2023 was wild. they brought back their joint gaming channel they hadn't touched in five years since just before they came out. and they basically started the public flirting again??? this time on camera??? maybe not as direct as the 2009 stuff at first but. it's definitely been building up close to it. and then Dan finally releases his comedy special for free on YouTube. Phil writes a gushy tweet about it. and dan just replies with 🧡. ...except for within a larger birthday tweet in 2023, dan had not used a heart emoji for phil since like... 2010??? and then suddenly he screenshots this interaction and POSTS IT ON HIS YOUTUBE COMMUNITY TAB with the caption "gay" and a link to his special. like. this isn't about confirmation... the people who have been saying that they probably aren't together or that you shouldn't think or wonder if they are were like, the twitter morality police, ex-phannies, and generally clueless people. tumblr phannies clearly have known that they've been gay for each other for the past 15 years. but this whole "gay 🧡" incident is the first time Dan Howell has very publicly said something like this about his relationship while being "unapologetically gay" as a very public figure (there's been some magazine interviews that technically have come close but, nothing as direct as this). like that is so fucking huge??? that he and phil are finally comfortable enough online, on YouTube, and in life, to go there!!! as we are now approaching fifteen years of them together too!!! like, it's so nice to get to celebrate such a happy queer relationship and expression of queer joy. and dan has hinted that bigger stuff is coming too... like. yeah phan is real I guess 🙃

#oh is THAT why i have screenshots of his blog where he is ranting??? #i was like clearly i took these for a reason but i didnt have time to sit and read #so i was like wtf why did i take these

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What's so funny to me is that as a phandom we could just very easily Not Care because technically Dan and Phil have no effect on our lives and yet we choose to care. SO MUCH about these two random British Homosexuals to the point of losing our minds and I love that for us <3

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This whole situation has somehow been a mix of loosing our shit and

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kitten i can’t lie mommy’s about to dan and Kill herself

#honestly

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Isn’t it beautiful how we as humans have the capacity to care so deeply for people we have never met

#dan and phil #i know they hate when we are parasocial #but isnt it incredible that we can?