#it’s apparently a thing at weddings

[doodle-storm]

Yesterday was my sister’s birthday, and the following warning was on the cake box:

[etchif]

Jesus imagine if we confirm the existence of extraterrestrial life the Taxonomy would be insane

[guinevereslancelot]

what was with cameron house md she spends 90% of the episode saying she wants their patient to die bc he's a genocidal dictator and her colleague husband says "babe it bothers me for ethical reasons that you want our patient to die :(" and she said "hm maybe you're right :/" but when it comes down to it the genocidal dictator lays a finger on her in an aggressive manner and chase instantly commits medical malpractice to murder the guy and then when he tells her she LEAVES HIM bc boo hoo he's a murderer now like GIRL he killed a man for you!!! he's wracked with catholic guilt!!! he's being crushed beneath the weight of his sins because he chose his devotion to you over his devotion to god!!! he literally could not get any sexier at this moment in time!!!

[purpurussy]

what is all of this like for post-hiatus phannies?

I've been trying to figure out how to phrase this for a minute. The most obvious comparison would be that it's like starting a TV show 10 seasons in, but that doesn't come remotely close to the amount of required reading necessary to understand even 5% of the references. This has not been a problem for me, as I love nothing more than a good all-consuming hyperfixation rabbit hole, but something I'm realizing is that you really just had to be there to fully Understand.

I got into d&p properly in December of 2023, when gamingmas appealed to my emotionally curious nature and then gave me some kind of irreversible brain damage which I'm still trying to process. Since then I've been consuming their back catalogue as though it's laced with cocaine, and obsessively lurking on phannie tumblr until I finally made this blog a few weeks ago.

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I actually watched Dan's videos for a little while back in roughly 2013/2014, but something about his content back then just wasn't working for me like it does now (I have such a clear memory of watching Reasons Why Dan’s A Fail and thinking "aw man why does this cute little twink hate himself so much 😔" and then going back to watching Jenna Marbles lmao. Funnily enough it did make me change my negative self-talk a little bit). I was very much a brief casual viewer who went off them pretty much after watching a few videos, and after that I was sort of vaguely aware of them as the cultural icons of the 2010s that they were, but I wasn't keeping up with them at all. 

I don't even remember BIG coming out, which is insane because I've always been extremely chronically online and it definitely broke containment as a cultural moment (although I think I was trying to minimize my social media use at that point in my life, so maybe that's why it went over my head). I feel like I must have heard something about it at the time, though, because I knew they were gay when I started watching them last year. What's really strange is that a lot of this stuff is kinda timeless to me. I don't remember it happening 5, 10 or 15 years ago - I just witnessed it very recently. For a lot of you guys, BIG happened 5 years ago, but I just watched it for the first time a few months ago. At the same time, in my mind they've just always been gay, since I wasn't in the trenches of the unhinged online culture surrounding them in the early/mid 2010s. It's so confusing to balance my weird temporal perception of these events with the impressions that I get from you guys. Oftentimes I have to judge roughly when something would have happened based on their appearances - it's not actually a *memory* for me, like it is for you. I absolutely love the dynamic and branding they have now, and the deep dives into their past are more of a curious exploration of how they got here, rather than actually nostalgic (or, I suppose, mildly traumatic) for me. It’s still very interesting and compelling to me, but because I love the current iteration of Dan and Phil, not because I’m emotionally invested in who they used to be. 

Sometimes I’ll be aware that an event happened, but I won’t realize how monumental it was until I see people talking about it (I hate to say it but I genuinely don't fully understand why the BONCAs thing was so earth-shattering, but like I said, I've always lived in a post-BIG universe, and I think you just had to be there). There are also plenty of references to stuff that's just been lost to time, which I have to piece together with context clues, as well as the more unhinged demonic stuff that I just don't have any interest in exploring whatsoever (I think I might have watched the v-day video if I'd been there when it leaked and I was a stupid teenager, but at this point, I don't even feel any kind of morbid curiosity for it. I just feel really bad for them that it got leaked. Plus, unfortunately, I think I've learned all I need to know about it through internet osmosis here). I feel like a lot of these events have a real emotional meaning for you guys, when to me, they're just interesting/funny/insane anecdotes which give some context to everything. Some of the shit that you guys lived through back then is absolutely wild, and I love and appreciate all of you for meticulously archiving and documenting everything and for being so willing to answer the same questions over and over again! Otherwise I feel like I wouldn't be able to really be part of this community, and posting my silly little memes on this blog is so fucking fun. So thank you all for that.

It seems like this is one of the most ride-or-die fanbases I've ever seen. The fact that they could invent the concept of YouTubers doing world tours, successfully execute that multiple times, branch out into several other ventures, come out as gay not fully knowing how that would affect their careers, disappear for several years and then come back knowing that there would be a solid audience waiting for them even after their virality had died down, drop merch every 3 seconds - I don't know who else can really get away with that, for almost 15 years, in the extremely "live fast die young" culture of internet fame. And I think it's in no small part because you all have chronic "unconditionally supporting dan and phil" disease. (While we’re on the topic, I feel very lucky to have missed the hiatus era. There's kind of a compression in the timeline for me between the gaming channel going dark and Dan starting his WAD tour, where it's like that time just doesn't exist in the Dan and Phil cinematic universe for me. It took me a while to realize how insane it must have been when they came back in full force, I can't even imagine how that must have felt.)

Of course, there's a caveat in that I'm saying this only really knowing about the tip of the demon iceberg. I’m aware of people engaging in behaviours such as doxxing them, outing them and stalking their families, which is horrifying in and of itself, but I don’t know how long it went on for or how many people were involved. I think people are generally pretty well-behaved at this point, and most of the drama seems to be between different schools of thought within the fanbase itself. I assume a big part of the reason for that is people's varying degrees of involvement in (and remaining notion of guilt for) the boundary-crossing behaviour from the old days. Living with the spectre of this insanity is kind of strange - it makes me feel nervous sometimes that I’m gonna accidentally say something that hits a nerve, or cross a line I didn’t know existed, because there’s all this history that I don’t fully understand, beyond just the normal unwritten rules for interacting with fan spaces online. 

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The topic that got me writing this in the first place was the orange heart incident, and everyone’s subsequent meltdown. For me, the excitement in them soft/hard/semi launching is more about me just getting excited about any open, proud expression of queer joy - it heals something inside me every time I hear a man referring to his husband or a woman referring to her wife (excuse the gendered terms, ykwim. gay shit). It's just that sentiment, combined with the fact that I'm parasocially invested in them: I'd love to see that energy from my fave little guys who live inside my computer. I am basically rooting for them to become more comfortable with just talking about gay stuff more openly and candidly, and I guess that would require a bit of a hard launch, although I can understand that they don't want to potentially open the door to excessive questioning regarding their relationship. I feel like it ✨hits different✨ for people who watched them for years before they came out. Like, you guys are rooting for people who you watched in real time struggling with their identities and internalized homophobia for years and years, while to me, they’re just some guys who I’m a fan of. Sometimes I get caught up in the emotional frenzy of their hard-launch breadcrumbs even though I don’t feel quite as insane about it as you guys (I said in some tags a few days ago that it’s like the base instinct to turn around and start running if you see a crowd of people running towards you and screaming in terror, even if you have no idea what’s going on). Anyway, I would love to see them being more gooey with each other, and I am gobbling up the breadcrumbs they're feeding us atm, because I love seeing gay people expressing gay love with no shame 🧡 

I think my perception of them as a couple, or of their sexualities independently, is just kind of an extension of everything Dan said in BIG. I really have no doubt that they're a couple, and I don't feel any kind of weird Catholic guilt in saying that, since I neither witnessed nor participated in the insanity back then. I interpreted (I'm paraphrasing) "obviously we were more than friends, but it was more than just romantic, we're like, actual soulmates" followed by "as for the situation now? we're private people and we'd like to keep that part of our lives private" as him essentially saying that obviously they're a couple, but that their relationship is not part of the Dan And Phil™ Brand. The brand is 2 guys who have great chemistry doing comedy together (5 feet apart even though clearly they are gay and in love). And I think that's a completely healthy decision to make, even irrespective of their history. I think a hard launch would be subtle, and it wouldn’t realistically change the nature of their content that much. 

With that being said, to me, it seems slightly wild for people to adamantly insist they're not a couple, or that it’s “invasive” to assume that they are one (not that that really applies to anyone here, but elsewhere on the internet). If they were a straight man and a straight woman, and there wasn't a huge chunk of people on the internet struggling with this oddly conditioned aversion to seeing them as a couple, then nobody on earth would be insisting that it's weird to assume they're together. Dan confirmed that they became romantically involved around the time they met, and building a forever home with your ex is crazy, that's all there is to it.

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This is kind of a messy stream of thoughts (it ended up sort of becoming 2 essays for the price of 1) and I don't really know where I was going with it. In conclusion I think that day 1 phannies are braver than any US marine and you have all suffered more than Jesus on the cross, and I'm extremely thankful that I get to reap the rewards of your labour now without having lived through the dark ages myself. I also think some of you are holding onto a bit of unnecessary guilt for dumb shit you said on the internet when you were a kid. And Dan and Phil are gay and I love them and I reeeeaaaallllyyy want them to do a podcast so bad because this is all conjecture and I would parasocially love to hear their actual thoughts on it

[vind3miat0r]

happy shaw pack wedding, im never drawing people in dresses ever again

[rubenesque-as-fuck]

Well instead of the cancelled date, my new regular friend (that I met through a friend of a friend) swung by to hang out for a few hours instead. And honestly? Just as good if not better of a time. It's been so dang long since I made a new friend! We just sat and smoked and talked and it felt so wonderfully at ease. I didn't even feel obligated to wear a bra lol

Also she had never heard of Bill and Ted?? So I loaned her my copies of the first two movies, and showed her my small collection of B&T art and memorabilia, while feeling like a bit of a huge dork.

[amid-fandoms]

“they spend all of their money on the front end and then the back end is a decrepit mess, am i right brother?”

“it’s correct”

why did i just get the innuendo i hate them

[jellydragons]

May the whole sky fall, may it all come down, waste it all for the truth, for the fool in her wedding gown

[carcarrot]

kate bush if she used letterboxd: ill put it on the watchlist

[reyesranch]

i think tim minear got the show back to where he wanted it to be to tell the story he wanted to tell. ppl think too deeply on it. truly.

[mellohiizz]

i love how you barely changed anything in your genderbend parrot design

like yeah, parrot's a pretty boy and a pretty girl, and honestly massive fan of that, massive fan of gender

yeah i was considering giving her a skirt or something because i love skirts if you couldn't tell, but i decided against it.

because, 1) i don't think she'd be a big fan of skirts in general. she'd probably prefer something more comfortable that she doesn't have to worry about with how much she's moving. and 2) it simply didn't look right. i like my parrot's design the way it is, and i just think she looks perfect either way. ^_^

parrot is both a pretty boy AND a pretty girl, and honestly, i'm the same way about my wifies. both a pretty boy and a pretty girl, and i love them for it.

[xx-psych0-rabbit-xx]

DUDE KIRBY HAD A BRAZILIAN DUB???

[mini-uzzy]

RAAAAHHH RAAAAHHHHHH!!!

[averseunhinged]

wip wednesday! a much smaller offering than usual, because i'm a stress writer, but not a stress editor. like i have 73347384658 new partially completed wip from the past few weeks, but they all look like my brain got wasted in vegas and woke up married to a stranger. lolsob :)))))

anyway. this is the only part that's even remotely readable. it's set in a vague s5 if the spinoffs hadn't existed, and a very lonely caroline had ended up hanging out with klaus and rebekah all summer. like feral cats who suddenly live under her porch. it was supposed to be simple smutty literature, but then there were feelings and no one would just stfu and bone.

“You're going to put your butt on your couch thingy?” she asked.

He stilled. She had a moment's grace period to hope he'd let it go before his entire upper body convulsed. His mouth discontinued the lovely things it had been doing to her jawline, slid down and came to a rest, grinning teeth against the curve of her neck. He made a wheezing, choking noise and shook.

Of course, she thought with soured humor. Of course she was here in nothing but her best lingerie and a killer pair of heels, with a guy who'd consistently been cuckoo for Caroline for almost a year, and she still made him laugh at her.

“Hey!�� She pinched the small amount of body fat he'd accumulated on his tummy. She'd wondered about that from the first time she'd seen him half-naked. Thought about it at night when she couldn't sleep. Had it been a good year, the year he died? Had he hunted fat, happy game and eaten well and laughed and lived? Caroline wanted to know, but it didn't seem the sort of thing you asked. Would he even remember? It was so long ago. Would she remember the year she died after a thousand more had passed? “It's fancy! You could at least put down a towel.”

“Furniture tends to lose any particular value once you've discarded at least a few centuries of it,” he explained in the gentler, rolling cadence he took on when he was trying to describe aspects of living forever he knew she'd eventually experience. It was equal parts endearing and exasperating. 

“Oh, is that how it works once you've discarded enough of something?” Caroline pulled out of his loose hold and rested one hand on her hip. She raised an eyebrow and tilted her head in feigned offense.

“Ah. Well, no. It's not a universal constant.”

[quasarkisses]

I hate driving. I hate the car. I hate losing everything in the car. wallet, important keys, anything that matters I will apparently lose it in the car. it makes me want to tear my hair out

and there are ALWAYS a million little terrible cracks and crevices to convince myself things could have fallen into while I was busy paying vital attention to the road. no security except compartments that turn invisible when you close them so I will also forget they exist

no clear containers. no spot to even put a clear container. kill me

[kvmnamjoons]

You're invited to the wedding of Min Yoongi and Kim Namjoon

When: Saturday, August 17th, 2024 at 2pm Where: Pardisus Princesa Del Mar Resort & Spa Reception to follow!

EVERYONE IS INVITED!

@hollywoodfamerp @tvnymontana