#philly mentioned

[mitten-kittens420]

I love how Mac and Dennis are always like “eww u stink Charlie u smell so bad u smell dead and rotting” and then they sleep like this

Like guys make up your mind. Is he the grossest person ever or do you want his heartbeat to lull you to sleep?

[catfindr]

[soyouwinagain]

"your roommate, brandon marsh" | 3 may 2024

[yonpote]

as someone who wasnt here at the time (was a fan from about 2011-2013) what exactly defines the "softlaunch era" pre-coming out that i hear you and others refer to?

you've come to the right place cuz this is the era when i truly became a Phannie... "gay softlaunch" is generally considered 2017-18, but to be more specific it was october 31, 2016-june 13, 2019!

before they came out this was also referred to as "post-baking universe" referencing the halloween 2016 monster pops video that had an (at the time) abnormal amount of raunchy humor and just general derangedness. nothing like it is today, but that point felt very significant and dan even brought it up in liveshows like yeah idk what happened there and when phil called a peach an ass in a gaming video dan said "we live in a post-baking universe" (i believe fans coined the term tho).

people have also called it the "glass closet era" which is a divisive name for a lot of people cuz "glass closet" can be seen as kind of a mean term and it implies like, stereotyping or speculating or the "we been knew" behavior dan had talked about in BIG. which i understand that feeling, but i don't think that's what was happening, because the way i see it was queer flagging. ways they could show a little bit who they really were without saying it just yet. they weren't Out out, but they were just like. openly talking about attraction to men and finding men hot and not calling it a Man Crush or anything. dan would bring up queerness more often in liveshows, which hes mentioned queer artists and stuff before but now it was also making jokes about like.. being in a gas leak man porn fantasy in his first livestream of 2017 LMAO. phil would make a lot more innuendos, which hes always done, but now he wasnt pretending like he didnt know what he was saying. dan started wearing a single hoop earring on his right ear. this is an old school form of queer flagging, in The Olden Days (im too lazy to look up when but like my 70-something year old history teacher knew about this) if a man had an earring on his left ear, he's straight, and if he had one on his right, he's gay. that one's pretty subtle if you don't know much about queer history and there were Great Debates over whether or not we should take it to mean he is gay, but personally i saw it as like. he was letting us know without needing to say the G word out loud just yet!

i think a really important part of this era was even outside of directly discussing queerness, they were both trying to become more authentic online and figuring out how to do that without compromising their own privacy. dan stopped straightening his hair and rebranded and opened up about his mental health. phil's authenticity journey seemed a bit slower and wasn't as overt or seemingly drastic as dan's was, but it was happening! he changed up his hair!!! which yes its kinda silly to talk abt dnp's hair but the emo fringe was Their Brand. phil in particular said that, the emo fringe was a comfort place but he was feeling like he was trapped in having it forever because it was Who He Was, so it was a huge deal for him! he opened up a little bit about his physical health, both of them were a bit more honest about all the stress and anxiety they were dealing with (the mukbang is a pretty good video where they talk about that and an interesting one to watch in retrospect) and their whole 2018 tour was themed around whether they should Give The People What They Want or do what they wanted to do.

god i talk too much ANYWAY then dan disappeared in 2019 and phil was manning the helm for a good five and a half months and then the Big Gay hit! the Hard Launch Era if you will :) and now i would say 2023-present is the Unhinged Era so i have no clue what the hell their next move is gonna be...

[blossoms-phan]

someone ask about it in the phlit maybe it could've been phil and kurtis in an alternative universe

YOOOO WAIT I MIGHT DO THIS OMG ESP IN TORONTO???

[out-of-a-peat-bog]

Hemera (crack)theory(??)

Hemera has already proven that she'll do anything to keep the other patients out of trouble (even if it's harmful and makes the others hate her), so maybe she'll convert herself into a doctor, in the hopes she can do more to protect them?

Not 100% solid, but it could at least be an AU

Anyway, here's some random things that could point to this theory, in no particular order

The other doctors already trust her, so she's the most likely candidate for this to happen to.

Why would the FAQ include this if it wasn't relevant to any character? (could totally be related to someone else, but still.)

She seems to feel responsible for the death of the mystery green patient in her flashback. Maybe she views herself to be "just as bad" as a doctor, and decides to become one in part because of this.

She helped Funfi and Puppy capture the escapees.

She splices plants together, which is similar to what the doctors do when they stitch new limbs onto the patient. It's mentioned "ask the swag and safety squad" that she also zombifies them, which (if you squint) could also be compared to what happens to the patients (they go through things that normally would kill them, but they are kept alive)

On a related note, the hospital is totally crappy enough that they'd be like "Oh you can combine plants and stuff? Yeah, you're totally qualified to do that to people too!"

The X symbolism (can't find the image, oh well) could potentially relate to this. Like maybe it could mean that she has become completely cut off from the other patients.

Yep that's the theory. It's probably not correct, but outlandish and strange theories are fun. Also, sorry if this makes me look like I hate hemmy. I don't, she's really interesting.

Sorry for any grammar or spelling issues.

[wehadagathering]

[nonaonann]

You ever think Dick goes around to the Dick's Sporting Goods stores, dressed as an employee and everything, pretending to be like some higher-up visiting locations for inspections just to see how long he can get away with it. Like, how are you gonna tell someone named Dick to get out of Dick's store? The people love him. They love going, "Oh, your name's Dick? Haha, like the store! It's like you were made for a job here—or, haha, named."

He probably does this outside of Gotham before he's like, it's been five years, time to go visit, and then the Gotham news tabloids and channels are exploding with, "Dick Grayson, Son of Billionaire and Philaptoyhch Bruce Wayne, Invading Dick's Sporting Goods Across the East Coast" and "Dick's Sporting Goods' Surprising Employee the First Son of Billionare and Philadelphia Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson" and, "Beloved Dickie Grayson is a Dick's Sporting Goods Employee," and so on and so on.

[paddyspubdollars]

The look he gives Dennis…the dream sequence…everything about this…also Dennis is evil for this though.

Dude knows that Mac is in love with him and does this..

[note-a-bear]

I'm actually a little wet rn

[cookinguptales]

So there's a bottle shop not too far from me that delivers to my house. This is nice because booze, in general, is too difficult for me to carry without hurting myself. I don't drink a ton, but I like having something delicious (that'll help with my joint pain) every so often.

So I've been trying a lot of different kinds of beers lately. For many years, I thought I hated beer, but I've realized that honestly I mostly just hate a lot of the beers that are popular lmao.

This time of year there are a lot of sour beers, which is nice. Those are my favorite, I think, especially the fruity ones. I'm drinking one right now that was brewed with raspberries and rose hips and it's really, really nice. Really refreshing in this warm weather.

I think the funniest thing to come out of all this, though, is that I've ended up trying a lot of beers from Anderson Valley Brewing... which is like an hour from where my parents live. So it is a little funny that I only realized I liked their beer while roughly three thousand miles away.

Dad and I are planning to go for a visit next time I'm in California to try a bunch of samples. Should be a nice day trip. I always like going down to Anderson Valley, not least because we always stop at Pennyroyal and pick up cheese. Sometimes they let us pet the baby goats, too. *_*

I'm not really going anywhere with this, I'm just excited by the prospect of petting baby animals and eating that one goat cheese they have that's mixed with blueberry preserves.

[lupaeusarc]

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[saltygilmores]

Hey Salty Whatcha Thinking About

The other day I was thinking about my family's yearly vacation destination, Wildwood, New Jersey (my dad has been going there every year since the 50's and our family had gone every year up until I was in my 20's, and after a hiatus we started going back yearly a couple of years ago). Anyway, it's very close to Philadelphia (about an hour and a half drive) and recieves a large influx of Philly tourists every summer. What is my point... of course I'm thinking about how Jess Mariano has definitely spent time there after moving to Philly. Also thinking he's not much of a beach person but he would still come to the Jersey Shore for the boardwalks and to cruise for chicks and have a good time and get a hot dog.

(Pictured: Grab A Wiener, Wildwood, NJ)

Here’s me in WW last summer

[hell-hospital-blog]

the main four patients, polly, and jandy aren't that much in focus but I still want to make them different from canon sparklecare outside of collars so!!! :3

[billpottsismygf]

Still thinking about how someone at the party I was at last night mentioned Always Sunny in a conversation with someone else on the other side of the room and I was suddenly Activated.

Had a lovely time trying not to be too weird, but also definitely being weird and getting to explain the insane context for some of the stuff on the show to @pog-mo-bhlog, then realised that I had apparently got so excited that I was no longer overstimulated, as I had taken my headphones off and didn't need them for the rest of the night.

It's like a special autism bonus. Activate my special interest and I will successfully cope with an overstimulating environment.

Of course, I did then go home and watch some Sunny.

[yonpote]

i'll be in that 9th circle getting [extremely censored] thinking about how phil lester was so goddamn hot and witty and hilarious and sweet