so called 'alt' teens these days don't even know about rave time rave time rave time rave time rave time rave time don't step on the glass don't step on the glass tinsel in your foot bauble in your foot bauble in your eye everybody cries when you go to A&E with a bauble in your face (blood, blood everywhere)
pretty fucking queer
@danielhowell
Okay, okay. That was a wonderful, wonderful video. I can’t even begin to explain. They fact that Phil went through this trouble of getting Steve comfortable with the box, calling people on the phone (which he doesn’t like), and worrying over him so much is just freaking heartwarming. Phil is such a good person, seriously. All the little comments about masks and taking the pandemic seriously. The careful planning, and the skit with Phil with a blanket over his head. The walk to the vet. Dan making small appearances. Dan and Phil’s freaking laughter as they let Steve go and he went right for the seeds. It loosened something tight in my chest and it just made me burst out into laughter along with them. It was such a pure and wonderful video. It’s truly a Phil masterpiece. I loved it so much.
dan filming phil’s london pavement pigeon carry strut like:
why is this cameraman so obsessed with phil’s legs and feet
us: mr. fire pls show ur face it’s been four months
dan: okay here u go
he just looked good
I think that one of the things that made ‘that week’ so special is that they didn’t have any other commitments or external pressures. When they first met (Oct 19-21) they were both nervous wrecks. Phil’s mission was to show Dan around Manchester and impress him with a series of stops that equaled a very special date. The next day they filmed their first video together and sure there was downtime in-between to just be in each other’s space, but it was short with Dan leaving on the third day.
Their next meeting, the Halloween Gathering ten days later, was very public and also focused on meeting other YouTubers. Sure they were able to steal away a few sweet moments, but they had to go their seperate ways the next day. Insert some emo tweets, general angst, long Skype calls and longing for each other ‘#flymeto Manchester, then freeze time.’
The third time (Nov 6-9) Phil’s parents were home, so that would have been the first time Dan met them. But never fear they still squeezed in a furry nakedbooth and some light bondage (filming a scene for ‘How to Befriend Your Favourite Internet Stars’) under their noses. On the second day they had a friend to show around town. Stephen was in Manchester to film with Phil for ApartmentRED. They took him to the Apple Store for selfies, filmed a scene on the Manchester Eye with Dan as the cameraman and went to the skybar (anyone else find that weird/get a surge of secondhand jealousy?). Dan was originally supposed to go home on the 8th, but Phil boothed that he kidnapped Dan for another day, despite his feeble protests that he didn’t have any clothes. They took and posted a lot of photographs from that visit.
Then came the nineteen long days of pining, featuring the now infamous: ‘i wonder how biology can explain the physical pain you feel in your chest when all you want to do is to be with some D: ’ tweet, even longer Skype calls, sending each other sweet texts to wake up to and more obvious public (online) displays of affection.
Bringing us to ‘that week’ (Nov 29-Dec 4) when Phil’s parents were away the whole time and they had no one else they had to see. They still went out a couple times, back to the skybar the night Dan arrived and to a movie and museum (at least that’s what I assume seeing a dinosaur referred to). They made some promises to film a Q&A (what would have been the first AmazingDan) and blogtv, but they were too ‘busy being happy’. That week was full of three hour breakfasts and cuddles and snacks and sex, fooling around on the internet and playing video games and watching tv and falling asleep.
They were essentially playing house and they realized this was what they wanted their everyday life to be, together just occupying the same space, having fun. The times they saw each other after this made them realize how amazing it was to work together creatively and travel together, but ‘that week’ was just about *being* together. And that’s the foundation of their relationship <3
“Imagine Tony the triop arriving in heaven and telling Simon how much Phil has grown”
dan and phil, 🍑and legs out for the lads, living their best lives, putting the ‘ho’ in ‘homosexual’,
‘Pregnancy terminology with Dan and Phil’ with dnp being gay just adds another layer of hilarity that I didn’t know it needed
still believin’
mental health panel: dan talking about his hiatus