#from iom christmas 😭

[ahappydnp]

wait i'm sorry kath took this one

so did she also take this one 🥺

[yikesola]

@abbbby333

I love this, the ocean of time is wide and the waves beat back endlessly, and being asked this has made me confront that it’s really been 3 1/2 years since first pic and therefore it might need explaining 😭

So this is from an instastory cornelia posted while on the Isle of Man visiting the Lesters for Christmas2017. She was ostensibly showing off her dart skills but uhhh you will notice Dan is clearly shown in the background. Almost intentionally, practically posed. In a way that, with dnp closeted in 2017 and with the careful way they had always filtered their content and leant so hardly into plausible deniability at the time.

If I remember the exact timeline right (and I may not be! Sorry alsjds) the boys were in the middle of uploading gamingmas on dapg and the upload time as well as liveshow times were funky, Phil had confirmed with an Instagram pic that he was on IOM and m&c had also made social media posts about it but Danny was silent— and so the big question was if he was in London alone or on IOM as well, because he very notably waited every year until the last possible minute to get down to Wokingham (😢) and there was this feeling that the silence itself was confirmation enough. A kind of they-know-we-know thing.

And then corn posted the above instastory and it was 🤭

Dan was visiting Phil’s parents before Christmas, and they wanted us to Know about it!

That. Was. Huge. That was huge in 2017 ;__;

and I love that the general presumption is that they trusted Corn to spill those beans, just like that birthday wishes instastory could’ve been taken in front of a white wall or taken with no background shown at all, but it wasn’t. And Dan could’ve scooted over out of frame in 2017, but he didn’t. They want us to know, even while they don’t want things showing up in gossip rags. Plausible deniability meets living your truth :’)

dnp trusting cornelia with dropping us juicy truths via instastory backgrounds, a series :’)