#things I would not verbalize without a gun to my head irl. love you phannie tumblr

[phanyu]

ur post about saying dnp make you believe in love is so true and actually illustrates what i think is a huge part of their appeal. like this is maybe duh, but i think a lot of us were very lonely as kids/teens and seeing them made us believe we could find someone someday. especially cause a whole part of their branding was like ooh im awkward im a fail im a nerd etc.. it was like sameee so maybe like dan and phil i will find a best friend soulmate lover. so we fixated on their relationship/lived through them in a sense as escapism/source of hope. and im saying this past tense cause the phandom has aged but its def still true

i agree so hard it’s actually making me a bit emotional….. and like so much moreso to your point in that we and our romantic fantasies (lmfao. such an inherently cheesy topic) have grown up with dnp. there was that idealization of them back in the day of like the rush of love that stays young and quirky forever, just living and loving your best friend in the now no matter what people say is wrong with us or what the future holds, as a bunch of tumblrina teenagers. but now, you have a huge influx of people coming back because the idea that that love CAN last forever and the element of them that felt sort of precarious (in a quintessentially teenage way) has turn into something so…. safe and home. it’s almost even more of a ridiculous escapist fantasy than it was at its peak. it’s so fucking wild it’s a storybook trajectory. and also idk if this part is universal but for me, instead of the feeling of watching them have something I want too driving me crazy, it makes me kind of love and appreciate the types of love I do have around me more. something something i love everybody because I love you.