#dan is phil's dan and phil is dan's phil. they're dan and phil. isn't that enough?

[pseudophan]

Dan has been more touchy with Phil since their comeback, but I specifically feel like in the last few videos he’s been EXTREMELY touchy! The door is opening more and more🚪👀

yeah........ dan is soooo calculated is the thing. phil is more likely to be touchy without thinking about it too much, but dan is like... he's so hyper aware. when he's getting extra touchy you know it's on purpose, it's deliberate, they are Up To Something

[sisterdanielstits]

both of my siblings have tumblrs and we all follow each other, even a few of our side blogs, but i have never told them about this one because i knew they'd judge me for it

today me and my siblings were in the living room and i didn't want to get up so i sent a post to my sibling and told them to open tumblr

a few seconds later they jumped up and yelled really loudly "who the hell is sisterdanielstits?"

keep in mind MY DAD IS STANDING IN THE ROOM WITH US

so i had to quickly start explaining things and backtracking like "IT'S A JOKE IN THE FANDOM! IT'S NOT AS BAD AS IT SOUNDS! IT'S A JOKE ACCOUNT! THE NAME'S A JOKE!"

...

oh my fucking god i need to walk into oncoming traffic

[antiadvil]

i hateeee that i love the drama of this poll too LMAOOO like it’s not that deep but them getting so heated makes it SO MUCH MORE FUN like at the end of the day at least our ship is full of whimsy and fun

It really is just like that post I made the other day... at least the phandom isn't full of people beating each other to death over their ships 😭 it's us against the world baby. Or should I say the world against us. Whichever one most clearly implies we are winning bc we are!

Like I went through the notes on the cockles vs j2 poll and holy shit 😭 stay safe out there

[dykephan]

i know this is an extremely unpopular opinion but some of the stereo shows make me cringe because dan was still in his ironic "phil sucks am i right" phase and even knowing it's all a joke doesn't make it... a funny joke

[dandp]

Aside from the obvious trust issues they've instilled in us, what's making me a little 🧐 about the philslion denial is I think it's very weird they kinda acted like it was an unexpected question and didn't comment on having seen this idea before or anything when between lurking on Tumblr and asking Twitter for conspiracies they've almost surely seen it come up recently

[levil0vesyou]

Honestly, not only is it none of our business and never was, but what in the hell is wrong with not putting a label on a relationship, even if it's by own admission the most important one in either of your lives. Dan and Phil are neither platonic nor romantic but a secret third thing (vibing)

[astradyke]

i have watched phil's animal crossing series like several times at this point how did i not realize that the latest one (#4 phil gets a boyfriend!) debuted the dyed green shoes...

[id: phil lester wearing a white shirt and a open button-up with brightly colored animals, holding and gesturing at a green shoe. end id]

ok first of all he's so princess baby girl here sorry

secondly this preceded the knowledge that phil dyed their bathmats and towels (and shirts but that's less shocking to me) green... like without the greater context this makes so much sense and then you get to the keeping/yeeting video and it unravels. also as someone trying to investigate the processes of dying clothing i can't fathom like... did he just have a massive tub of green dye and throw the mat in there? the mat and towels look so splotchy i'm just really perplexed.

sorry as i said i binge 2020-2023 phil solo content when i'm stressed and have also separately watched the keeping/yeeting video a lot so it's perpetually on the mind one might say

[melivora]

Olives, cheese, tomatoes, mayo, why does Phil hate the best foods

[mage8]

dan handles doll phil the same way he handles rl phil 🥹

phil holding his tiny dan

vs dan holding his tiny phil

[manchestereyes]

thinking about how phil was the first openly gay person dan had ever met. and how phil had so excitedly welcomed dan into his circle of old school youtube queers. and how being around that many queers at once (at the gatherings) was so exhilarating for dan, yet he still chose to spend most of his time with phil.

thinking about how they didn't yet know they had found their person when they first met, but how they both had such massive crushes on each other that they were dearly hoping even then that they could be each other's forever. and how over the course of just a couple months, after hours and hours of skype calls and constant visits, they knew. maybe they didn't know at that point if they were forever, but they knew they were in love and it was the greatest feeling in the world.

thinking about how phil was dan's safe space after a lifetime of closing himself off from the world. and how they're both each other's biggest supporters, even now. and how thrilled they must be to still be so deeply in love even after 15 years. how they were stretched to their breaking points, yet still held tight to each other through it all and are now standing stronger than they've ever been.

what they have really is so special, isn't it?

[sidequestsinlife]

the funniest part about this, to me, is that twelve years isn't the official answer OR the real answer to this question. they officially moved in together in manchester in august of 2011 (which would mean 13 years plus a few months) but it seems to be generally assumed that dan was living in phil's apartment more or less all the time for months before that (putting the real answer likely closer to dan's initial response of fourteen years). but time isn't real, they're elderly tortoises, who cares

[pseudophan]

first of all very funny of dan and phil to actually answer apple's default About The Artist questions and take the piss out of it but my main two takeaways are

1. bringing up the ffvii soundtrack is diabolical and they know exactly what they're doing

2. drake isn't even safe from dan and phil LMFAO

[kitchensinkchronicles]

i legit thought it was like...a package deal. they announced them at the same time! i STILL remember the feeling of excitement i got at watching the book trailer and seeing not only tabinof (aka a cookbook with the bookjacket) and then seeing the tour ticket as a bookmark?? iconic.

i honestly thought that was on purpose. brand synergy and all that.

dan saying they shouldn't have put out tabinof around the same time they did tatinof because it got confusing but this whole time i thought it was intentional

[fuckingmeteors]

I have tried to make a transcript of the Radio Adelaide interview! There are a few places where I'm not quite sure what they're saying (especially when they speak over each other), so if anyone is willing to take a look at it, I would gladly welcome corrections! (Also I hope the formatting isn't too shit. If it is, I apologize.)

[introduction]

Host/Interviewer:

I spoke with Dan and Phil, who are on their Terrible Influence tour at the moment. I think they’re in Sydney right now, even though I had to call them on the phone via England [laughter]. They’re gonna be on at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre next week, Monday the 16th of December. And these guys, they’re British Internet Youtube radio hosts, they’re critics of games, they’re book authors, Dan and Phil, they’re currently in Australia having their Terrible Influence tour which lands in Adelaide at the entertainment Centre next week and they’re attempting to “take back what the internet took from them”!

So, it’s allegedly a screamingly hilarious live stage show. I have no doubt that it is hilarious. They’re “older, gayer and Phil’s gone blonde” evidently, and nothing is off limits. Now I was brought to their, uh, to the attention of them by some younger folk, who asked me to ask them certain questions, throw some sort of slightly strange questions at them, and I haven’t got time to include all of those questions and also I had a call after the interview from one of the duo suggesting that “oh, you might get trolled if you ask a question like that and people misinterpret it”, because I was asking, uh… I believe they’ve become a couple, I’m not sure if they’ve gotten married, but they may have gotten married or they may just be, like, going steady, but they’re a terrific pair of comic lads, in the vein of Kenny Everett, sort of. They don’t have a TV show as such, they were both youtubers, which means that they had a little bit of youtube shows, and then they started guesting on each other’s show, and then they eventually started doing stuff together. Very interesting lads. And I just really want to play the interview now.

[interview starts playing]

Dan: And I’ve got a mullet now that I’m in Australia because apparently that’s what people do. (?) Australians have more fun and I wanted to appropriate a little bit of the culture while we’re here doing the show.

Phil: I think it’s more of a micro-mullet, Dan, though, you know, you haven’t gotten to full mullet, it’s more of a micro-mullet.

D: It’s a mullet without the T, it’s just a mull-è.

I: Mull-è hahaha, all right! Just with that sort of…

P: Yeah, without the T, yeah!

I: That sort of hard E at the end.

P: Yes.

I: How has your tour been going so far, gentlemen?

D: It’s been amazing to be in Australia, no offense, we loved having a great time in America, but we’re very happy to be in Australia. Although, I know it’s summer, why is it so hot? Nowhere on Earth should be this warm.

I: You haven’t reached Adelaide yet, have you?

D: No, God, don’t tell me it’s warmer!

I: Yes, Yes, we’re in the middle of a very dry, arid area, very isolated, a long way from anywhere, but there’s only about maybe thirty of forty tickets left at your gig here?

D: We’re happy for the people of Adelaide, they’re, you know, they’re out here, in that dry, arid desert, and there’s nothing to do but come to the Dan and Phil show, and we love them for that, they’re all making responsible financial decisions, so we’re very grateful for all the people that are coming to the show.

P: And if there’s forty people listening, come hang out with us, it’s gonna be a fun time!

D: Yeah, what else are you doing on that night?

P: We’re gonna be pumping the aircon out.

D: Yeah, just come to have somewhere cool to sit in the theatre, you know what I mean?

I: Are you collecting things from your hangouts that you’re gonna discuss at the next show? Like before a show, if people hang out with you, give you a piece of art, or a little letter, a note, something like that, do you then discuss it in front of the (?)

D: Oh, a big trendy thing these days, yeah Taylor Swift had started this trend of the bracelets that people, that have things on (?), so people would make these bracelets that say “Dan” or “Phil” in beads, and the other day someone gave me a bracelet that said “vegemite" on it.

I: Hahaha

D: And I was like “what the heck?” and they said, “you don’t understand, this is incredibly culturally important, so I was like “okay, thank you, I will cherish the vegemite bracelet”.

P: I got one that said “koala daddy”, I’m not sure what that meant, but (?)

D: (?)

I: Koala daddy?

P: Yep, I think that’s what they were calling me!

I: Have you actually dipped your tongue into any vegemite as yet?

P: Uh, I would have to say it was one of the most horrific experiences of my life, I’m sorry! [Dan laughter in the background]

D: What, Phil, you don’t like a yeast-based condiment?

P: No.

D: How dare you?

P: Dan loved it, though. (?)

D: I’m just a yeasty kind of guy.

I: Yeah, it’s kind of up there with marmite, isn’t it?

D: It is, but I only eat sweet things, so I couldn’t handle it, but Dan was eating a second portion of toast this morning, and loved it.

I: Yeah, it’s good for you!

P: And last time we were in Adelaide we did a vlog where we explored the town, didn’t we? We got Tim Tams, we did a Tim Tam Slam.

D: Yeah. The national sport.

I: The national sport, sucking coffee through a Tim Tam.

D: Yeah, yeah.

P: I can get down with that.

I: Oh yeah, it’s a lot of fun to do! You realise that our Premier is the one who started the ball rolling with the social media ban for under sixteen-year-olds? You’re lucky that you’re here now at this stage of your career rather than at the beginning of your career, because there’s a lot of young people who have grown with you, who will be able to come and see your show!

D: Yeah, absolutely.

I: Are you relying on them sort of moving forward with you?

D: People have been with us for a long time and people tell us some things that are very disturbing.

P: Yeah, we’ve had some people meet us that are like, “I’ve watched you ten years ago, still watching you now, and I’ve got a whole child now!” and it’s like, what, what is happening!

I: Hahaha!

P: Time isn’t real!

I: It’s kind of a historic moment, you’re probably the first English lads to have linked in to youtube, and the Internet, and gone off the way that you have.

D: Nah(?), we were just… well, we come from an early generation, Phil has been doing it for so long that you couldn’t even make a career off youtube yet, there was no monetization, he was just doing it out of boredom, that’s how terrifying it is.

P: Yeah, I’m a youtube dinosaur, so yeah, I think definitely(?) I was one of the first ones to do it, but it’s crazy that we’re still doing it now, 15 years later.

I: It’s basically become a career for you, hasn’t it?

D: Absolutely, and none of it was planned, it’s been a constant runaway train since day one, and the emergency brake stopped a long time ago.

I: What kind of experiences are you getting to have in your down time while you’re in Australia this time around?

D: Well, I wanted to go to the beach, and then Phil said there’s a high chance you’re gonna get eaten by a shark, and I was like, “a high chance? I don’t know about that” and then we asked a guy and he was like “oh no, they’re out there, I see them every week”; so… [laughter]

P: I am hoping to look into the eyes of a wombat and have an emotional connection.

D: A  Deep spiritual moment? Okay.

P: My favourite animal.

I: A wombat?

P: Yeah, I love a wombat!

D: Underrated.

I: Do you like the hairy-nosed wombat, or just the plain old brown one?

P: I’m not sure of the difference, maybe I should find that out, maybe that’s gonna be my quest.

D: (?) Make a decision.

I: Yeah, if you come face to face or nose to nose with a hairy-nosed wombat, he’s more likely to roll over and let you cuddle his tummy. The other ones have got a (?) and they’re a little bit more aggressive.

D: Okay. Sounds like me.

I: [laughter]. Have the audiences been laughing at all the right spots so far?

D: Definitely, and they’ve been laughing at all the inappropriate spots where they’re not supposed to, as well. But we’ll take it. You either have an audience that laughs all the time even at the inappropriate moments, or a quiet one. And I don’t want a quiet one.

P: Also, a good thing about our show is that we kind of give everyone a recap of everything that’s happened in the last fifteen years, so if you’re like, “oh, I used to watch Dan and Phil a while ago”, you can still come along and you’ll get right up to speed.

D: Oh, we know that people are dragging their husbands, their mothers, their older sisters to the show, and these people are like, “what the heck is going on?”, so don’t worry, we cover the base.

I: Sounds good to me! I hope you have a fantastic time in Adelaide, and you continue to enjoy yourselves.

D: Thank you!

I: Ride the wave, don’t worry about sharks.

P: Excellent, well, yeah, we’re looking forward to it. Thanks, nice to speak to you!

I: You too, cheers lads! Dan and Phil…

P: Cheers!

D: Bye!

I: They’ll be at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre next Monday, uh, coming. On the 16th. So, if you are keen to see them do their thing live on stage, go and join the masses that have already bought their tickets, get in while you can.

[bitchslapblastoids]

ok these screenshots suck and aren't suuuuper illustrative so sorry in advance, but @ingydar-phan asked for some examples of times i think they're wearing foundation/concealer, so here's what i've got. disclaimer- i think they're both the most beautiful men in all the land. no shade to either of them; this is just how i clock when they're wearing makeup! also i know lighting makes a big diff and isn't remotely standardized across the videos i took screenshots from. maybe i'll add more/better examples another time when i'm less sleepy and lazy!

i find that phil's undereye concealer is often too yellow and doesn't fully blend with his super pale skin tone. he wears concealer under his eyes often in videos, but otherwise i don't think he wears much on his face.

dan seems to have started wearing a matte foundation/bb cream more regularly this past year (seems like he used to only for important events). it evened out his skin tone, but i found the matte actually kind of amplified any texture/wrinkles he has. recently he seems to have switched to something dewier, because he's looking smooth in texture but glowy in tone, rather than washed out.

dan with no foundation:

dan with matte foundation:

dan with light, glowy foundation

dan with more heavy foundation:

phil without undereye concealer

phil with undereye concealer

both of them all glowy and made up:

[influencednp]

some phannies: omg stop saying they're together it's disrespectful

actual dan and phil: isn't saying we're brothers funny 😌 isn't it so funny guys 😌 it's hilarious to think we're brothers 😌