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[reunitedinterlude]

dan pushing phil up hills (2024 // 2016)

[otamotone-dnp]

this is about phil lester

[pseudophan]

Why were they being so ominous about the dog thing? Why was Dan all *wink wink* about it all? What does it all mean Nora

100000% they're getting a pet after tour. presumably a dog, which makes them very mean for cat teasing 😒 but yeah i think it's finally happening guys

[muppetimpeccablylostonline]

is that a fucking kiwi

[ghoulish-art-tendencies]

i just got a message from my aunt that reads “You? A lesbian? When you simp for Dan & Phil 24/7? LOL” i fear i cannot do this anymore

[afditlodap]

this is so funny they posted like 3 instagram stories and called it a day

[justphillester]

ocean eyes

[xialing-gf]

dan is the blueprint for loverboys everywhere

[phil-lestifer]

I have come to the conclusion they are the cutest people in the world

[fruitycowboy]

I have a very important question, if amazingphil (Phil Lester) views a story you mentioned him in on insta, is that him or does he have a team of people running his instagram?

[reunitedinterlude]

friends <3 (2024 // 2018)

[momhowell]

I think what i'm really loving about the phandom right now is how responsive it is and how it feels like we and dip and pip are all weaving a story together

blonde Phil is a great example: phil posts the phlonde on instagram, we all freak out and start shipping blonde phil with sister daniel, dan freaks out about how that doesn't make sense in the phan twitter video, tumblr retorts that actually it does make sense because phil is putting on a persona in that photo, and then dan and phil respond to that in dan's birthday livestream, ultimately leading to the introduction of father phillip

there are so many other recent examples -- like we see the automatic smart bin in the back of the shuffleboard video, pj mentions how it's voice activated in a stream, someone mentions it to dan at the bath book event, people make memes about it, dnp react to those memes and its becomes part of The Lore

anyways i feel like this whole phagenda thing is really an outcropping of that -- we get excited that somethings coming so dnp get excited about hinting about it so we get more excited and it's all this big responsive feedback loop and i'm loving it

[manchestereyes]

ok y'all. i think i've cracked it.

after extensively searching the best dnp archives i know, i'm 99.9% sure their anniversary is today, december 3rd. the only time they've posted videos on that day was during gamingmas. (as far as i know) there have only been a few innocuous tweets, 1 phil instagram post from 2012, and a few insta stories in 2018, 2020, and 2022. they've never had a tour date on this day. the only time they've been apart this day was during wad.

i think this day 15 years ago is when they first said "i love you" to each other and decided that they would do whatever it takes to be together. and that's why they're almost always silent on this day.

[dandp]

Dan and Phil A-Z Ask Game:

I was craving a big ask game so had to go for the classic dnp format. Hope everyone enjoys!

A - Activity; You can choose to do one activity with Dan and Phil, what will you do?

B - Baking; Pitch a concept/outfit/etc. you want to see in a future baking video.

C - Conspiracy; What are your favorite and/or least favorite phannie conspiracies (past or present)?

D - Dan; What is your favorite video from Dan's main channel?

E - Emotion; What Dan and/or Phil moment has made you the most emotional?

F - Fashion; What are some of your favorite Dan and Phil looks?

G - Group; Dan and Phil are doing a collaboration video, who do you want it to be with and what will they do? (Could be someone they've collabed with before)

H - Home; What are some of your favorite domestic Dan and Phil moments?

I - Instagram; What are some of your favorite Instagram posts/stories?

J - Joke; What Dan and Phil moment(s) always make you laugh?

K - Keepsake; What type of merch item/design/theme/etc. would you most like Dan and Phil to make?

L - Lion; What is your favorite item/running gag/etc. that's ever been a part of Dan and Phil branding?

M - Manchester; What is your favorite early Dan and Phil moment?

N - Norman; If you could choose a pet for Dan and Phil to get, what would it be?

O - Opponent; What is your favorite Dan vs. Phil video?

P - Phil; What is your favorite video from Phil's main channel?

Q - Question; You can ask one question each to Dan and Phil and they will give you an honest answer, what will you ask?

R - Radio Show; What is the most iconic radio show moment to you?

S - Sims; You have to choose one of the three main storylines in the Sims (Dil/Tabs, Devan, Dalien) to never be revisited again, which one are you eliminating?

T - Tour; What is the best segment from each of their tours, in your opinion?

U - Underrated; What is the most underrated Dan and Phil video?

V - Video Game; What video game do you most want to see on dapg?

W - Wow; What have Dan and Phil done that surprised you the most?

X - Xylophone; What is your favorite music-related Dan and Phil moment?

Y - Youtube; If you could choose one YouTube video for dnp to make, what would it be? (Solo or joint content, your choice!)

Z - Zebra; What words or phrases have you picked up from dnp and/or always make you think of them?

[ghoulish-art-tendencies]

Can you draw the new Instagram story (please)

Here you go! :D

send in dnp doodle ideas to my inbox and ill doodle them n tag it phan! 🧡=]

[freckliedan]

wait can you talk more about christmas 2018?

Anonymous asked: Just what you said in your post! "the first christmas where they publicly spent that much time together" did they usually keep quiet about where they were?

i can't speak to the 2014-16 era because i fell out of touch with the fandom at that time, but i was absolutely around during 2017 & 18. both of those years marked HUGE shifts, and both of those huge shifts came at the tail end of gamingmas/dilmas. you can check out my original frog theory post and my frog theory tag for elaboration on the function of gamingmas irt all of this. as just like. prerequisite framework reading.

ANYWAYS. the thing that was such a big deal was that dan was openly visiting the lesters with phil. yes, you can visit friends' families during the holidays. but it's much more frequently something you do with a significant other. so the ruckus was because dan and phil knew the conclusions people would jump to if we knew dan visited the lesters at christmas, and they still let us know that it happened.

(this got disgustingly long, so i'm putting the rest of this post under the cut.)

part of what made that such a big deal was having that happen after the no homo/closet era, the "we're not together we're not even that close of friends we're just roommates" era. the significance of their trust & openness was MUCH more tangibly felt. a way larger percent of the fandom at that time had been present when the vday video leaked/had joined shortly afterwards when that was one of the biggest things impacting both phandom culture and our relationship with dnp.

so in 2017 when we got a glimpse of dan up north at the lesters' in a couple of cornelia's instagram stories? we lost our fucking minds about it. it was only 2 (i think) background cameos, but it was quite literally unprecedented. it's not something that qualifies as openly spending time together at the holidays because of the method throug which we found out about it, but like. there's no way they didn't know that cornelia was posting those, and no way that they didn't know we'd know about it.

when i say we, i mean dedicated phannies. people who could possibly be reading this post, not casual subscribers to the gaming channel. because when it comes to casual viewers, or even people who aren't a part of dan and phil's usual audience at all? there's a lot of methods of communication that they just plain aren't paying attention to and won't be aware of.

the most direct, permanent methods dan and phil have for communicating are videos on either of their individual channels or on dan and phil games, and after that is instagram grid posts or tweets, as well as videos on their side channels. twitter replies, insta stories, livestreams, and their public likes on any social media platform? those are for a more private audience. their appearances in other people's posts reaches a similarly small audience.

knowing that they were starting to be more and more open through the communication channels only open between them and dedicated fans, and that it was a trend - december 2017 is also when phil, in a liveshow, read out someone's "you and dan are so married" comment and just.. laughingly said "it-it's a useful thing". (link to gifs of that). it wasn't a one-off. it was a trend.

and compared to 2018, it was dust. they spent the whole year becoming increasingly open with us, through increasingly direct methods. it was a whirlwind. even for people who've watched all the videos and liveshows, you don't have the whole picture. the onslaught was coming at us from every angle at all moments. you'd have to also explore the full archives of social media posts, insta stories, meet and greets , social media likes, and like.. the archived recordings of every interactive introverts tour date. it was batshit.

it was genuinely one of the most insane years of my life. i was having physical symptoms. we all knew what was coming, we all could tell they were working up towards coming out, but nobody wanted to trust that we were right about that. my dashboard was regularly at a fever pitch.

and december 2018 was the culmination of everything. and then they were talking directly to us in a liveshow and being. insanely open. they told us that dan was going with phil to visit the lesters. and they told us that pinof was ending. and then dilmas started dropping, aggressively cementing the fact that dab and evan were sim-universe proxies for dnp, while dan and phil posted instagram grid and story updates about visiting the lesters. and then dab and evan came home to the howlter house for the holidays. and got engaged.

and then they went on hiatus, and we pretty much did not hear from dan until he came out.

the point is. we knew there was a fucking insane energy. we KNEW something big was coming. we fucking knew. it was a two year build up to dan and phil being the most publicly gay they'd ever been on the gaming channel and every single other platform - and part of that insanity was them being open about dan visiting the lesters, which coincided with them having their proxy sims get gay engaged while visiting family.

"did they usually keep quiet about where they were?" anon, the last time before all this that they had openly acknowledged dan visiting the lesters during the holidays was 2009.

the way they were acting over christmas of 2018 had me experiencing shrimp emotions to such an intense degree i was having verifiable psychic visions.