dan and phil: super best friends and soulmates forever

• nothing is changing unless he asks us to change it. he clearly feels comfortable in this community, which is something to be proud of, and we’re solely here to support him.
• phil is not a part of this. unless he chooses to bring it up himself, we’re not to draw him in. this is dan’s coming out, not his.
• we shouldn’t shame anyone who was in the phandom during dan’s rough patch; it was bad, but there’s nothing to be done about it now, and these people have grown into modern times. hell, we don’t even know if they were the problem in the first place. respect each other.
• now that we have a “canon” for dan’s sexuality, this doesn’t mean any fanworks are “invalid”. nothing that was generally “disproven” by this video is now invalid. again, nothing needs to change unless dan (or phil) says it needs to.
• this video is not something to argue about. this video is not something to speculate about. this video, and dan, is something to celebrate. that’s ALL it is.
• the most important thing is RESPECT. this openness is truly the beginning of a new era, and that’s something to celebrate, but do it RESPECTFULLY. we still don’t know a lot of things, and clearly dan (and/or phil) doesn’t want us to. that’s okay. we need to respect them, and we need to respect each other. that’s true of now and of before the video.