#prophet Dan

[hiatedateus]

Is everyone on tumblr a prophet or are dan and phil just predictable

[ithinkivegoneferal]

I think the outsiders pride playbill should just be Paul and Darry kissing

[concretdandelion]

don't know if anyones mentioned it but phils not wearing his glasses in slime despite wearing them in the other videos, like the only other time we see him without them is near the end of potato prints when he takes them off in preparation to be sacrificed.

dans "you don't need these were you're going" as he takes off phils glasses a literally sign of phil putting his trust in dan and Him.

as many have pointed out dans left handedness is "fixed" as he wields the knife with his right, in the same vein phils eyesight could have also been "fixed."

he is no longer blindly putting his trust in dan, nor his he blindly believing in Him. phils let dan sacrifice him once and it led to assumedly good things (dan being right handed, phil being able to see).

there is no need for his poor eyesight when he sees nothing but the truth.

[xwilbatx]

there's nothing like watching a dan & phil near death video when not even 12 hours ago you had your own near death experience!!

[ange1sang]

my 2024 in media 🌟

[phovaries]

FINAL PHUPLOAD THEORIES

🏝️ -> dan channel phupload: tour storytime that also a vlog so it’s like a semi ditl witl but mostly the storytime; nord sponser

❓ -> phil channel phupload: post tit qna pizza phukbang 3

🏙️ -> gaming channel phupload: sims focusing on evan and dab in the city and they say that they’ll check back in with everyone else (referring to the sims 25th bday livestream chaos); dragon city sponsor and they talk about the phan dragon and make jokes about soulmates etc.

[mage8]

That awkward tongues out joke kissing they did kept reminding me of something

- and then I realized - it was reminding me of an illustration I did in 2015, back when I had no idea DNP even existed. 😂

[totalincandescense]

Here’s the thing. And I have talked at length with @bassband with this and they concur. I would LOVE to hang out with Dan and Phil individually. Like. Going to a farmers market or an arts fair with Phil is a dream. Getting coffee and talking shit with Dan is a dream. But you could not PAY ME to hang out with them both at the same time. They are literally the worst couple you know. They are all over each other. They speak exclusively in inside jokes and their fucked up little language that only the two of them know. They are stupidly in love and they make it everyone’s problem. The poor fools who have to share a tour bus with them deserve a goddamn Purple Heart. Stronger than any US marine fr.

[itsmymeaningoflife]

Dan and Phil are gonna cosplay as Crowley and Aziraphael on Halloween I can just feel it in my bones

[bubbydear]

Had a dream Dan posted an ig story (bereal style) where one photo was of his laptop screen with a video uploading and the other was him wearing Phil’s glasses and caption “guess what video is about to drop”. Anyway here’s how we can still get what dnp text each other

[tetrapaec]

Fell asleep watching Dan and Phil compilations and had a dream I woke up and they uploaded a 1 hour long video called Phan Wedding After Movie, the thumbnail was their face badly photographed onto a PewDiePie and Maria's wedding pic 😭😭😭😭

[hiatedateus]

Im saying it!!! We are getting a Phupload tonight

[dnpg-hiatus-survivor]

THEYRE GONNA MAKE OUT ON THE COUCH

[afditlodap]

had a dream last night they just dropped tour dates out of the blue. all dates all at once which meant i could see the melbourne show was on my birthday next year (so nov 2025). it had like a pastel green pink and blue colour scheme like kind of springy which was cute. other than that have no idea what the tour was about.

[lyledebeast]

For @kijilinn since you got me started on watching new (to me!) Jason Isaacs content.

Since watching Sweetwater (2013) and Look Away (2018) over a couple of days, I've been reflecting on how Jason Isaacs' villains have changed over the years. While he certainly has played a variety of characters, and not all of them villains. Captain Hook from Peter Pan (2003) and Colonel Tavington from The Patriot (2000) have more in common with each other than with Dan from Look Away, Prophet Josiah from Sweetwater, and Dr. Volmer from A Cure for Wellness (2017), who likewise share several traits in common.

Hook and Tavington are, on the surface, a pair of campy, sword-wielding child killers, but if we look deeper, they are each singularly obsessed with one man (or boy) who has things they lack, and if we look deeper yet, they are both queer men whose peripheral relationship to society at large has left them anxious and resentful. With the last of these in mind, I'm tempted to throw Michael Ryan of Dangerous Lady (1995) into the mix even though he is not a villain. Of these three, Ryan is the one is most clearly attracted to men and hurt by them, though that is also true of Hook and Tavington to different degrees. Ryan was molested as a teenager by his mafia mentor, Tavington's father squandered the fortune he was to inherit, and Hook lost his hand in a fight with Peter Pan, all of which have redefined their connections to masculinity and to other men. They are all surrounded by men and unable to trust any of them. They all desire connection with and recognition from other men, particularly recognition as men. What allows for Hook's temporary triumph over Pan is that he has experienced adulthood and knows something of its pleasures as well as its pain, both things Pan will never know. Tavington could have ended Martin easily had he not insisted on making Martin acknowledge that he could. Ryan, having killed two of his lovers deliberately, is unwittingly killed by the man who infects him with AIDS. Ryan is definitely the outlier here as he is written to be sympathetic, despite his numerous crimes, while Hook and Tavington are fleshed out primarily through Isaacs' performance. He manages to make even flatly written characters feel human and even sympathetic.

As Hook, Tavington, and Ryan are all primarily interested in males, so their violence is primarily directed against them. Thus their relationships with men are very fraught, which is not the case in their relationships with women. In Ryan's case, the only consistently loving and somewhat healthy relationship he has is with his sister, the titular "dangerous lady" herself. Meanwhile, Hook and Tavington are completely indifferent to women (and girls) except where they can be used to manipulate the man/boy who is their true objects of desire. Intriguingly, Isaacs' straight villains also see women primarily as objects to manipulate for their own ends, even as a couple also believe they love women.

Dr. Volmer, Dr. Dan, and Prophet Josiah: oh, what can I say about these three? The first and most obvious commonality is that they are all fathers of daughters, and the second is that they all, to one degree or another, have incestuous desires for their daughters. The only one who attempts to act on that desire is Volmer, but Josiah's comment that Sarah "could teach [his daughter] how to fuck" hints that he might be interested in benefitting from that knowledge when she gets a little older. Dr. Dan--who, to his credit, is the only one of these three who is not a rapist--goes on "bonding dates" with his daughter maria and announces that he is giving her plastic surgery, of his choice, for her eighteenth birthday. He views women more as his artistic medium than as people. He left one of his twin daughters in the snow to die from exposure when she was born deformed, an act that haunts both the surviving girl and her mother. Like Volmer, Dan believes he loves his daughter, but what actually manifests in both cases is a selfish desire for control over women's bodies, medical and otherwise. At least Josiah is honest in his misogyny. When one of his men describes Sarah as a "female whore," he asks, "is there any other kind?" While I first interpreted this as implying that there are no sex workers who are not women--which has never been true, but that's a different point-- it could also imply that there are no women who are not sex workers. The second definitely fits Josiah's view of women generally. All of his converts are men except for his wives, and he has promised them wives of their own. That the women might not agree to being wives does not appear to have crossed his mind. Josiah is a collector of beautiful things: china, mahogany tables, and women, and, like the others, he sees little difference between them.

I wonder if it's a coincidence that Isaacs played the first three characters near the start of his screen career and the second group of three after he became a father himself. His first daughter with partner Emma Hewitt was born not long before filming on Peter Pan started; by the time he starred in Look Away, he had two daughters just a few years younger than his fictional one in that film. By then he was well established as a screen actor, and likely had greater ability to turn down roles that did not appeal to him. It's also possible that the new worldview parenthood brings about led him to rethink who the real villains in our society are. Even the most fantastical of these three, Dr. Volmer, exudes the kind of cold, cruel, selfish misogyny with which so many girls and women have to contend in their medical treatment even today. And it is by no means rare for a girl's first experience of misogyny to come from her own father.

I want to end this depressing meta by acknowledging that the first father Isaacs played after becoming one in real life is also, from my limited knowledge, the best. George Darling tries to suppress his natural gentleness to become the kind of stern, decisive, powerful Victorian father his sister urges him to become for his children's sake, but, fortunately, he fails. The best thing by far about this version of Peter Pan is its assertion that a father who can connect emotionally with daughters and sons alike is far better than one that cannot.

[deepestconnoisseurmoon]

Apostle (2018)

Dir. Gareth Evans