#AND IT’S NOT EVEN JUST PHINABELLA

[dademigod]

If I think about Phineas and Isabella for too long I start crying /j

[authenticcadence18]

can’t sleep. here’s doodles for an animatic I’ll never post. ✌️

[doverstar]

send me a one-word prompt and a ship and I'll write you a lil oneshot and post it on ao3, how's that? feed me

[galaxina-the-pyro]

Anyone thinking back a bit during the the movie across the 2nd dimension and mad about when isabella kissed phineas and he said waittt like bro what was the man gonna say you monsters :(

It’s clear he LIKED the kiss - no doubt about that. 😂 If he didn’t, he wouldn’t have smiled. But as to what he was gonna say…who knows? 😂 But I can’t fathom him trying to stop them from erasing her memories specifically so he could tell Isabella he wasn’t interested in her. What would such a response even look like?

But I gotta wonder also…was Phineas considering NOT getting his memories wiped? Like, I’m very against that cuz like…he had this heart-to-heart with Perry and everything. Just wouldn’t seem like him to be like “Oh. Whoops. I like Isabella more than I like keeping Perry as a pet, sorry guys.” But it has to be considered simultaneously, cuz why else would he try to stop everything? Was he up for finding an ALTERNATIVE to memory wiping - and if that’s the case then he would’ve specifically only thought of that BECAUSE of Isabella kissing him. Like, there’s so many questions I have with that scene alone.

I’ve written a fanfic about what would’ve happened if the Amnesiainator didn’t work and Isabella has to confront Phineas’s reaction to the whole thing after kissing him outta nowhere. If you’re interested, I just just leave a lil’ link right down here, lol

[writergracethepanda]

Reasons why Night of the Living Pharmacists is the best P&F special:

Phinabella content and Isabella just genuinely being a badass

Isabella. Just literally everything she does in this special is perfect and iconic and girl boss.

Candace and Vanessa’s friendship

Doof being a fantastic dad as usual

Buford just being iconic (him panicking at the house/I JUST LOST MY NERD IM NOT GOING TO LOSE THE REST OF MY FRIENDS TOO/i am soooo in love with her rn

The fireside girls (Gretchen especially my queen)

Triangulation/jump right to it

The lots of me remix

The giant floating baby head getting doofified

“I like to tinker* that’s a silly way to tell your daughter’s friend’s little brother ur an evil scientist

The Perry and doof BROmance

again phinebella

Doof and Buford screaming yippee kayay and running around as bait after the people closest to them get doofified (Baljeet, Perry, and Vanessa)

Episodes where the kids interact with Doof are always superior

STACY’S ENTIRE FUCKING PLOTLINE IT WAS SO SO GOOD AND SO FUNNY SHE WAS THE FINAL PERSON NOT DOOFIFIED AND SHE DIDNT EVEN KNOW IT

Edit: I CANT BELIEVE I FORGOT DOOF’S CALLBACKS TO BUFORDS STUFF IN YOUR FACE LOGIC

[phinjeet]

* i lov 2 uze ship namez az just liek duo namez . have u considered: i dont WANNA write “isabella and baljeet” “phineas and baljeet” “phineas and isabella” 1 million timez itz sm eazier 2 just uze the ship name az a duo name idgaf . ig keep in mind that when i say phinabella i dont mean the Ship . theyre just buddiezzzz

* on a bit of a roll w isajeet art lately so ill hopefullyyyyy b able 2 post som of that 2night

[cometcrystal]

guys. let's be real. phinabella is 10000% wish fulfillment. i say this as someone who casually ships them. phinabella is the comforting thought that every first love is Reciprocated. it's the comforting thought that every first love is True Love For Life and supercedes all that come after it. it's the comforting thought that things will ALWAYS work out in the end.

and this wasn't the original point of my post. i was just kind of being a hater. but i started wondering... why wasn't canderemy nearly as popular? it's ALSO kinda wish fulfillment. despite candace's astronomical bad luck, she got one thing right. she has a boyfriend who loves her unconditionally, who respects her, actively shows his interest in her, has fun spending time with her... and candace has this one thing in her life that she can rely on. one thing that never goes wrong for her. and their relationship lasts as they grow into adulthood because they have that foundation of respect, admiration, and unconditional love. doesn't everyone want that?? doesn't everyone want such a great partner??

phinabella never has that!! phineas might harbor a crush on isabella, too, but, if he's even considered it at all, he is just more occupied with other things, because they're kids! they're just 10! they've got the rest of their lives to worry about that; this should be a time for building rollercoasters. but isabella is very in-tune with her emotions. she is also just a kid, but one who is very emotion-driven. and that's fine! she knows what she wants. different people put different weight on different things.

and even with these two characters, that could STILL work out in the end, provided they both tried their best to use good communication skills (and i think they could). but AYA ruins everything. it ruins fucking everything. you're telling me ISABELLA GARCIA SHAPIRO stopped going to phineas and ferb's house for an ENTIRE SUMMER????? WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT!!!!!!! THAT'S HER BEST FRIENDS!!!!!!!!! THEYRE INSEPARABLE!!!! IN WHAT UNIVERSE WOULD THIS HAPPEN????

AND THEN THE FRIENDZONE LINE HAPPENS

[msnihilist]

I read something about adult/teenage Phinabella going back to Paris to redo their little trip to the "City of Love" that went wrong in Summer Belongs To You, and... I don't know, I just kind of hate that?

I hate it because it's boring. I can literally grab any book from Walmart with a shirtless man on the cover and read about a whirlwind romance in Paris or turn on the Hallmark channel and see the same thing set in some Christmas town, and blah blah blah, it's the same shit I've seen my entire life.

The whole point of the Phinabella arc in SBTY is that Isabella realized wanting a storybook, traditional romance out of Phineas is wrong. It's something she expects out of love, but not something she should expect out of him. Narratively, this is reinforced because every dynamic in Paris goes sour. Candace and Jeremy don't have their kiss until they're home (because he met her halfway, get it?), Vanessa leaves Ferb alone on the Eiffel Tower, Phineas is more interested in bolts and blowtorches than romance, and that's good because that's who he is.

He's not the kind of guy who's going to sit down, relax, and watch a beautiful sunset with the girl he loves, and Isabella doesn't want him to be that person. She loves him for his weird-shaped head, and how he uses big words to explain simple concepts, and even in her birthday song about wanting to be alone with him for one day, Isabella is perfectly content to help Phineas on one of his projects by handing him the tools he needs.

Phineas doesn't show his love by getting someone flowers or chocolates or a spontaneous vacation to Paris. His love language is acts of service and quality time. He is perfectly content to spend a whole day with Ferb, doing nothing at all. He will make an entire styrofoam town at the mere suggestion that Buford can't risk getting any bruises. He fretted like crazy over Isabella's birthday gift and felt so bad when he thought it had been ruined.

Phineas literally goes crazy when he can't invent, and Isabella would never want him to change that part of himself — because if he did, he wouldn't be the boy she loves.

He would just be another normal guy, and their romance would be another normal story.

And I think Phineas and Isabella would both hate that.

[radvimes]

My Phinabella Headcanon -or- Why Phinabella Wouldn't Drift Apart Before Getting Together

(edit: as a neurodivergent person, I'm probably going to just keep adding to this post, like, forever...)

I know I'm, like, almost a decade late to the party, so I don't know who's left around here to read this, but after watching most of Phineas and Ferb, including AYA, hearing other people's analysis of Phinabella, particularly in light of Isabella's bday episode, the picnic episode, the haunted house episode, NOTLP, and Summer Belongs to You, binging a large amount of Phinabella fanfics and art over the last week, and pondering on all of that, I just really feel the need to write out how I see those 2 crazy kids' relationship progressing through their preteen/teen years and into adulthood.

First off, as a technically inclined male (I'm a software engineer, and always loved tech as a kid) with ADHD/the neurodivergent grab bag who had to train himself to pick up on social cues, particularly cues from the girls in my life, I identify so strongly with Phineas. He is, in many ways, the kid I would have wanted to be growing up. Smart, capable, charismatic, with a good friend group, and best friends with the amazing girl next door. It really sounds like a dream life for an ADHD kid like me.

I bring this up to say that, speaking from experience, those relationships, particularly the ones with Ferb and Isabella, would be everything to Phineas. We see this with how he wants to include as many of his friends as he can in his adventures. We see this in the fact that his adventures and inventions almost always have to do with helping a friend/family member or are inspired by them. And, as the show progresses, we see that this is never more true than with him and Isabella. Yes, it would likely take him a few years to pick up on what Isabella's crush meant, but we can see that, even from a young age, he absolutely recognizes that she is a close friend, wants to spend time with her and do things with/for her more than he does the rest of his friends, and is frequently and regularly attentive to her needs as he perceives them. He recognizes that she is important to him, even if romance isn't consciously a part of that for him when they are younger, which is fine, because he's just a kid. He'll get there. To say it a different way, the kid is neurodivergent, and has his passion projects. Once it registers that she's important to him, that fact becomes a bedrock of his existence, of how he experiences the world. That's just how his brain works. It then becomes a permanent passion project to demonstrate how she is important to him. The important thing is that their foundation of friendship is firmly established, and he will spend the rest of his life building on it if she lets him.

On the other side of that, I think we see, through moments like during Isabella's bday, the picnic, NOTLP, and on the desert island at the end of Summer Belongs to You, that Isabella is beginning to recognize this dynamic. She's learning to accept that he's not there yet romantically, and that the things she's loves about him don't require him to be there yet. She loves his dedication, his attention, and how he brings out the best in her. He always says and does things to build her up and show that she is important to him. He depends on her in many ways, and they always have each other's back and their best interests in heart. She can meet him halfway, accept the good in their relationship as it is, and let it progress naturally. I particularly see this in the desert island moment, when Phineas, who isn't used to things going wrong pretty much ever, finally sputters out and sits down. He could have had a breakdown or an explosive fit that things weren't going his way, could have continued to frantically brainstorm with Ferb, but he didn't. He sat down and quietly sought solace in a peaceful moment alone with Isabella. You can see the mix of emotions she felt as she processed what that moment meant, and then realized that she needed to meet him halfway and inspire him to get back up and keep moving, even though she had just said that she so wanted that quiet moment alone with him. And in so doing, as he leapt back up and gave her a big hug in thanks, that really cemented their relationship all the more. While part of her would love him to reciprocate her crush in similar fashion to how she wants to express her feelings, ultimately, she just wants him to show her she's special to him via preferential treatment, quality one on one time, and words of affirmation, and he can and does do those things all the time. She is learning she can wait for the rest. Also, let's not forget that she's been to the future. She knows that she gets to be Aunt Isabella eventually! Between that and the care that she sees him give her as kids, while it might be hard to wait sometimes, I have to believe that she would stick with her best friend.

The other piece I would throw in here is that, while society often puts a big wall between being friends and being lovers, my experience is that the best romantic relationships are founded on strong friendships first, before infatuation and physical attraction ever enter into the equation in a meaningful way. As such, I think it's really reasonable to assume that their path forward is what I recently saw described as the "friends to idiots to lovers" trope. They would absolutely continue to be best friends, having each other's back and confiding in one another, for years. Isabella would continue to try to profess her feelings from time to time as we saw her do in the show, and Phineas would probably assure her that he likes and appreciates her, too. If she felt down about things from time to time, he would absolutely sense that, even if he didn't understand the complete significance of it, and he would reach out, probably with an invention or adventure or ice cream date or 2, because those things always helped her out of her funks before, and she would appreciate his attentiveness and attention.

Then, somewhere along the line, I imagine that their friendship would naturally begin to evolve into something a bit more tender, though they would both be in denial about it. Isabella would have spent so long telling herself to keep expectations low that she would have conditioned herself not to consciously read too much into anything Phineas says or does, and Phineas would be all "we're just really close friends, this is just how we've always acted". Meanwhile, they, like, eat lunch together every day, work their schedules to have a bunch of the same classes, walk/drive to school together every day, etc. They have a standing weekly movie/dinner night where, over the course of years, they now pretty much always end up snuggling on the couch while Phineas tries out fancy new massage tools and techniques he's developed because he knows Isabella gets sore muscles from sports and Fireside Girl-related activities. They stay over at each other's houses until all hours of the night, and regularly sleep on each other's couches when it gets too late. He gives her lots of hugs when she does something he really appreciates or when she's down. She gives him little chaste kisses on the cheek when he does something particularly thoughtful (the first time she did it, she thought she was pushing the boundaries a little. It quickly became habit). Lots of unconscious hand holding. Of course, regular trips to the ice cream parlor to celebrate or just for a change of scenery. Along the way, he's just always making thoughtful things for her, new sports/outdoor equipment, a custom bike/scooter/car, accessories and stationary with butterflies on them because he noticed that she often makes comments about him giving her butterflies, and he thinks it's some sort of cute inside joke. She starts regularly baking treats for him (and Ferb), and before long, it seems like there's always something she made on the Flynn-Fletcher kitchen counter/in the shed. They work together to decorate the tree in each of their back yards, and probably also each other's tree houses. Pictures of them together are everywhere, and they kind of just roll their eyes and blush a little about it. No angst is needed, because their love isn't unrequited, it's just not fully recognized. Isabella wouldn't pull away, because as soon as she did, he would notice and reach out to try to understand what's wrong, and to comfort her and raise her spirits, and I truly believe that she would respond positively to that. Love comes in many forms, after all, and they would ensure that they both felt loved. In a lot of ways, they would fairly quickly get to the point where they are a single good DTR away from officially dating, with a lot of momentum in the way of making time for that DTR. On the other hand, as soon as that DTR starts, it's gonna go for hours, because they would both have plenty to say on the topic of their relationship, and I get the sense that both of them would exhibit the neurodivergent trait that this would be a topic of particular interest for them, so they would naturally be inclined to discuss it indefinitely.

As they get older, they both vehemently push back whenever someone makes a reference to their boyfriend/girlfriend, but neither one ever ends up going on a date with anyone else. They either don't go to dances because they have other plans, or they go in a group with, like Ferb, Baljeet, Ginger, and whoever Ferb has asked out that time. Then something happens. Either there's a dance where the rest of the group conveniently goes separately, or someone new makes a comment about them dating, or Ferb or Buford or Candace or someone finally gets tired of it and starts pointing out to Phineas all things they do that are totally the sort of thing you do with a girlfriend. Phineas' immediate reaction is to deny it like always, but then something kind of clicks in his head. It's not that the kid is totally oblivious to romance and dating, he's just never really thought seriously about how it applies to him and Isabella, because they've just always been them, and it's been great. Now, though, as he thinks back, things start to recontextualize in his mind, and he starts to wonder. Some time later, maybe a while as he ruminates on it for a bit, maybe the next time he sees her, he brings it up, mentions that people keep saying they're dating, or that it might look like they are dating, and are they? Should they? What would that change? He's trying to make some sense of the social cues and the intricacies of their relationship, you see. Or maybe this conversation gets triggered by emotions running unusually high and tender at one of their movie nights or something, and maybe they were suddenly looking at each other in a new light, maybe they even kissed. At this, Isabella is shocked and delighted, and asks if he is saying that he wants to define their relationship, if he's asking her to be his girlfriend. She sees it as him actually asking her directly about their relationship for once. He probably responds "well, yeah, kinda, maybe?" She might respond that, really, nothing much has to change, they would get to keep doing what they're doing, just as boyfriend and girlfriend, except that if she's his girlfriend, she can do stuff like this: and then she leans in for a kiss and/or an intentional snuggle, etc.

After that, they are truly insufferable/inseparable. They've been unofficially together for years at that point, after all. Now, it's just open and official and mutually understood how much they really mean to each other, forever. They probably spend a fair bit of time, at least at first, reminiscing about past moments where one or both were oblivious or in denial, thinking about how long they really have loved each other. Again, no angst in these conversations, just some wistfulness about missed opportunities, and joy in their shared history and future.

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Don't get me wrong, I've read many fanfics that I've loved, including "Can't Help Falling In Love", "Is This About a Girl", "Sugar Rush", and "In Two Weeks", that deal with them realizing their feelings and/or confessing to each other after some time pining/growing apart, and what it means/how wholesome it is once they are together. The thing I love most about each of those stories, though, is the way each of them taps into how important their friendship and commitment to each other is to their relationship, and how, no matter the stage of their relationship, Phineas has a singleminded determination to consistently, matter-of-factly, thoughtfully show Isabella how much she means to him through everything he does. I would love to see more stories that explored the "idiots" phase I described above, though, since most of the ones that I have come across that do explore a similar theme do so assuming that separation/pining/unrequited feelings/obliviousness must be part of it, and I don't think it has to be. Speaking as a neurodivergent person, I can say with certainty that he wouldn't be oblivious forever, and the instant he noticed a cue or emotion or comment from her that he didn't understand, or started trying to figure out his own feelings, he would be talking to absolutely everyone about it, trying to get people who understand these things to clue him in on what he's trying to understand, and venting at them about the same. People would clue him in for sure. He'd be relentless in bugging them until they did.

As such, at the end of the day, I just have a hard time seeing them drifting apart in the first place. They are far too committed to each other for either one to bear letting it happen. They embody the sentiment shared by Harry at the end of "When Harry Met Sally": "When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with someone, you want the rest of your life to start right now!" That, to me, is Phinabella. I welcome your thoughts on this topic.

[dwampyverseawards]

AUTHENTICCADENCE18 VS PFTONES

@authenticcadence18

Relevant reason for being submitted:

Propaganda: Cadence made Can’t Help Falling in Love, perhaps one of the most influential pnf fics ever, and DEFINITELY the most influential Phinabella fic. Also her animatics and art slap.

@pftones3482

Relevant reason for being submitted:

not sure if it has influence on the fandom overall but it had an influence on me and I live by that

They create top-tier Phineas and Ferb content, from fics to thoughtful analysis of characters and episodes. The following link is a great showcase of just a portion of their current Phineas and Ferb fics;

Propaganda: Just their entire catalogue of Phineas and Ferb works on Archive of Our Own. This is my favourite fic of theirs;

And here are some of my favourite posts;

Vote for @/pftones3482!

Have you ever heard of the Secret Life of Candace? Aka best mermaid au ever? GUESS WHO WROTE IT?

Contestants may add their own propaganda however they see fit, provided it does not put down the person they are against, and if they continue it will be added to the next poll they are in. All round 1 matches were randomly generated, and anyone may drop out at any time.

[ursaribbon]

y'all remember that guy on deviantart who spent all of his time hating on marie flynn-garcia for no reason and then made his own phinabella fankid that was just the polar opposite of her and claimed she was somehow a better, more fleshed out character than marie, even though marie literally had/has an entire comic with a super elaborate story

edit: by "fleshed out", i really mean the story surrounding marie just had comparably more development. i felt like this person often insinuated that marie's creator(s) were just lazy, which is not true lmao

[cjracingpnf]

Hey Chris! How about 2, 10, and 18?

2. Where do you find inspiration for new ideas?

- I used to be able to think of ideas for new fics on the fly almost, especially when I first got into writing Phineas & Ferb fanfics, where I could think of new ideas on the fly almost every day. The inspiration has slowed down over time, but when I get an idea it usually pops up because of a conversation online that I really get into.

However, unless I start writing right away, it usually ends up either getting ignored or forgotten :/🫠

10. What is your most used tag on AO3?

- It has to be romance and/or fluff lol. Either #phinabella or #zelink romance/fluff hehehe🤭

18. How would you describe your style? (Character/emotion/action-driven/etc)

- Probably a little cheesy lol, very much romance forward, although I will say that I enjoy writing both developing relationships and established relationships, and it's fun to write both pre- and post- the pairing getting together 😁.

Also when I write I probably make the characters a little more easily emotional then most, possibly due to the fact that I myself get teary eyed reading fics even if they are just cute and awww🥹

Thank you for the ask @mistresslrigtar ! 😁

[doverstar]

A paltry 2 people have asked why I don't like Act Your Age, SO:

It doesn't feel like a Phineas and Ferb episode at all. It's too dramatic, nothing zany actually happens, Candace isn't even in it. (Yes, I saw her for five seconds on the screen too.) The only part that felt canon was Doofenshmirtz and Perry's subplot.

It feels unfinished and out-of-character. Phineas crushed on Isabella all of high school but never did anything about it? Isabella gave up? That doesn't sound like either one of them. But! I'd have been willing to go with it if they'd explained it or delivered it better. But they didn't.

The Fireside Girls were cringe. Ferbnessa suddenly getting confirmed at the end totally out of the blue, especially on the heels of Montessa doing so well, was cringe. All of the dialogue was basically cringe. It was bland and awkward the whole way through.

The things I did like:

What Might Have Been is such a good song!

Again, Doof and Perry's subplot, perfect.

Incorporating the fandom's unanimous, decade-long headcanon that Ferb talks regularly when he gets older.

Hiring Ashley Simpson to design the main cast of teens! What an homage!

I actually do like the idea that Phineas pined for Isabella in high school and she had no idea, because she had stopped trying so hard after a while so it wasn't even a possibility in her mind. I do like that. [I just don't like that, in-canon, it's made so that between the two of them, they basically stopped being consistent friends and never communicated, and that's the reason they never got together. Ridiculous.]

The episode was basically a love letter to the fans, in a way, which you can clearly see with all the pandering in it, and I appreciate that! But in the end, I personally would have rather seen what Dan and Swampy could have done with a teenage!PnF episode that made Phinabella canon without the fandom's influence. Just theirs. A purely Phineas-and-Ferb-esque episode that wasn't trying to do anything for the fans, just write a good story for their characters. (In my opinion, that's Night of the Living Pharmacists. To me that's the Phinabella episode, made all the better because it's not primarily about Phineas and Isabella.)

[lavs-ve]

Okay but we, the platonic relationships lovers deserve better, especially in the pnf fandom

Like, c'mon.

Yes, I don't mind Phinabella, or Bujeet or fuck even Perryshmirtz for that matter! But sometimes i just want to read some Baljeet and Buford fic that is NOT a Bujeet one and guess what? THEY PRACTICALLY DON'T EXIST.

[pftones3482]

I, Z, and P

I: Has tumblr caused you to stop liking any fandoms? If so, which and why?

Voltron. It wasn't just tumblr doing it, but tumblr was where I saw it all happen because I wasn't really on any other social media at the time. The show, while it had it's faults for sure, was not bad overall! But the way the fandom treated the cast (especially Jeremy Shada and Steven Yeun) and the show runners was despicable. Like, when half the cast is embarrassed to even talk about the show they starred in? You fucked up as a fandom. And don't get me started on the ship wars, jfc. The Voltron fandom was worse than the show, and they were the start of fandoms truly going downhill.

P: Invent a random AU for a fandom.

Okay, AU within an AU, but AU after the end of the Star Wars special of Phineas and Ferb where Ferb keeps getting flashes of evil thoughts/desires and is struggling to combat them because something with Darthenshmirtz's machine was fucked up (what else is new?) and it messed with his head. And last time that happened, he almost killed his brother, so he doesn't want to tell him. So he confides in Candace instead, because she's probably the only person who would really understand despite the fact that they barely know each other. Cue an adventure with the two of them tracking down Perry to help them fix Ferb while also finally getting to bond as siblings (meanwhile, Phineas is back home trying to figure out what Isabella's flirting really means [it means she's flirting, dumbass])(the only AU in which I ship Phinabella lol).

I'd write it except for I know literally nothing about Star Wars.

Z: Ramble about something fan related

I'm skipping this one lol, sorry! I never know what to say for the "talk about anything" options - too open ended for me.

[ferbellalove]

Hey Folks!

I just wanted to say Hi.

Well, that and to put out there that even though this blog is primarily Ferbella, I do still have a love and appreciation for Phinabella and Ferbnessa!

Heck, I am down for any PnF ship.

I may not read fics outside of my little tiny row boat of a ship but I am happy for all of us that the show is returning.

Every single fan of this show deserves the love and appreciation for all their hard works in fic and art.

Extra love for those who consume the fan content and support the artists and writers.

I hope that you all have a burst of inspiration!

I can’t wait to see what everyone creates!