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pinofdnp · 1 month
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we are losing control !!
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dnpoll · 14 days
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my personal explanations below the cut!
also i scheduled this poll and i realised i forgot ARIANA GRANDE that's deep lore... GOD
muse: one of the things that dan and phil bonded over when they met each other - phil's favourite artist with his streams making it dan's top artist from 2014-2016. they have also seen muse at least five times! dan has played muse songs several times on the piano (specifically sunburn) + they did a lip sync video to muse for bbc radio. also they made fun of kristen stewart a lot when they were younger (they have since apologised and called her an iconic) and she was in twilight and muse supermassive black hole is famously in twilight so...
final fantasy vii: the soundtrack with interrupted by fireworks! dan said it reminded him of phil in a formspring answer <3 and that's all...
fall out boy: firstly "no but seriously imagine if:". secondly they have interviewed fob several times for the bbc! thirdly, specifically with pete wentz, he was dan's icon in his teenage years. he followed dan because of the interviews with him - he even prank called dan in call or delete. but as punishment in a best friend quiz video, phil tweeted "sometimes i dream about being one of the reindeer galloping through the sky with leather straps tying me to my friends mm yes carrots please" from dan's account - and pete wentz unfollowed fob. i am also convinced they think the milk fic is a petekey fic or something
the 1975: dan and phil called into the radio as fans when they were not hosting and the 1975 was there! dan said he was there with "his friend phil" and matty healy immediately recognised them as "dan and phil from the radio" despite them trying to be sneaky about it. dan also LOVED a brief inquiry into online relationships which he posted on his story and said he was "personally attacked by literally every song on the album". mm okay
my chemical romance: firstly "no but seriously imagine if". secondly dan specifically was/is a huge fan of mcr - although phil did sing welcome to the black parade (incorrectly) in a yasuhati video). mcr was also referenced in dan and anthony padilla's stop emo hate video, basically i'm gay and the dream daddy series, just to name a few (they g note a LOT). also hesitant alien featured in the tour of dan's brain video! gerard used to follow dan on twitter but doesn't anymore... beef?
panic! at the disco: firstly "no but seriously imagine if". also brendon and ryan are in the milk fic which they constantly reference. also there's a dnp edit with 57k views to house of memories
frank ocean: dan's top song in 2012 was "thinkin about you" by frank ocean which ppl talk abt a lot for many reasons. he also said his religion was frank ocean in 2016 LOL
troye sivan: YOUTUBE FRIENDS LOL - the iconic pic with dan, phil, troye and tyler! also dan and phil were the first people to play troye sivan's happy little pill on the radio, and are thus partially responsible for his success. troye sivan also led to chappell roan's success, so basically muse is responsible for chappell roan. troye also featured in a phil glasses video!
one direction: firstly, dnp interviewed them - a harrowing event that they outline in detail in tabinof. secondly, the iconic dan eating an orange picture behind a 1d concert. lastly, they talk about harry styles quite a bit - phil posed as him in a viewers pick my outfit, and of course the rotisserie chicken situation
nick jonas: hey buddy you in london #dick
smash mouth: more recent dan-based lore but mark (tour member) made an instagram story asking how to get all-star licensed. a phannie (royalsdnp on twt) then tweeted about it, and smash mouth (the twt account) saw it. dan then tweeted at the account asking for it, and it worked! smash mouth is now an official dannie, having tweeted orange for wad, and also offered the original demo for shrek to be used, saying it can maybe be for dan's next special. generally insane because dan has ofc always been a huge shrek fan as a part of his meme personality in the 2010s, even dressing up as him for a calendar
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Hello! Welcome to my blog!!! =D I figured I should probably have an intro to who I am bc I am so active on Tumblr now compared to before =p
Hi, so my name is [Sam], I guess this is my first proper introduction so wooo 🎉 •_• I go by He/Him, and I say I parallel Daniel Howell of how I present myself. I am an artist, and play a lot of video games. I am the stereotypical emo kid, and I reblog way too much and probably should have made a separate blog for art/actual account but its too late now =x
(main acc is @samissleeping though its mainly just reblogs unrelated to dnp)
My Blog Focuses On: Dan & Phil, my art, and maybe a little bit of other things
Things About my Blog: I post mainly my art (mostly Dan and Phil) and reblog mostly things in the Phandom. I do take art requests for Dan and Phil in my asks, but no guarantee that I will respond to it right away, but I will try to be AFAP =]
My Current Interests Are: Dan & Phil, My Chemical Romance, IT
My Side Interests Are: Good Omens, Supernatural, Stanger Things, One Direction, Five Nights At Freddy’s, Hockey (ik, contradictory to my entire personality)
Favourite Shows/Films: American Horror Story, Scream, Good Omens, IT, Stranger Things
My Favourite Music Artists Are: Muse, My Chemical Romance,
Favourite Song Right Now: Hollow Skies from FFVII
Games I Play: Dead By Daylight, Stardew Valley, Baldur’s Gate 3
I Am Often Found: Listening to music, watching Dan and Phil/Youtube, drawing, or reading fanfiction -.-
My Animals: 2 Cats, Aziraphale and Varen <3
My Favourite Colour: 🖤Black
Favourite Word Right Now: Homoerotic . . . I just really like the way it sounds when i say it . . .
Favourite Fanfiction: Monocrome by intoapuddle and All We Need Is Daylight by Helena_Hathaway
Weird Facts About Me: I have to sleep with 6-8 blankets on my bed at all times; I have spent 370$ on Dan and Phil in the past 6 months; I spell in british english even though I do not live in England (ie colour not color)
My Top 3 Albums:
1. Showbiz by Muse + Origin of Symmetry by Muse
2. Resistance by Muse
3. Absolution by Muse + Blackholes & Revelations by Muse
If you cared enough to read this about me, thanks!!! =D Means a lot, and heres a gif for your troubles -.-
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《What your fav Haikyuu!! Character says about you│Nekoma Edition》
Yo-hoo! Here’s another part to this potential(?) series! I hope you enjoy the possible call-outs in some of these lmao. Writers block been kicking my ass recently but I had a lot of fun writing these. Enjoy <3
You can find the Karasuno ver. here 
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Kuroo:
Have a hand fetish and will not say no to choking.
Daddy kink™
Will not accept anything below 6 inches.
More of a dog person but would love to own a black cat.
You drool over tattoos.
Your grades are mostly B’s but you know in your heart you deserve that A, and tbh you probably do. Chase ur goals bby.
Halloween is likely your favourite holiday.
You have to resist not to carve a dick into the pumpkin EvEry GodDAmN YeAr.
You either study for 6 hours consecutively or cannot study at all and you get very frustrated at this.
Have the potential to be a good leader and command the room but probably don’t put it to use as much as you should.
Your playlist parkours from sad 3am crying into your pillow songs to aggressive punk music you could rob a store to.
You like bad boys who hang around bars and look like they would put out a cigarette on your forearm and call you a slut. Just stating facts sweaty xoxo.
Either dress very feminine and girly with a ‘smol girl uwu’ aesthetic or a hardass punk who would kick your ass for a can of beer no in between and tbh both are equally hot.
You’re a big softie at heart either way and just want to be held and told everything will be okay.
Ur a hoe for when people stroke your hair or caress your chin it’s your ultimate weakness.
Watched Rick & Morty.
Twice.
Sleeves rolled up veiny forearms and donning a silver watch are your muse and something you fantasise about frequently.
Most of your memes are shitty top text bottom texts that are somehow funny and I don’t understand why lmao.
You call someone ‘bro’ even if it’s someone you’re immensely attracted to.
Did someone say ties? No it’s just ur dirty ass thoughts thinking about that hot business dudes attire from across the street and how you wish they were tied around ur wrists.
Probably had a crush on Jeff the Killer as a tween and are relentlessly haunted by your old Wattpad library. 
Tbh any dark-haired dude with bedhead that screams rugged and probably not good for you is something that draws you like a moth to a flame.
You often question why every person you’ve fallen for has been a Scorpio and curse that tendency of yours.
Dw man they’re hot so I feel u.
Kenma:
Went through a ‘I’m not like other __’ phase and it’s something that you think about a lot and wish you didn’t.
Watched dan & phil as a kid.
Any mention of Pokemon has you turning into a rabid beast you get way too excited.
It’s cute though dw bby.
Pretty antisocial but interesting to talk to.
Your family often question how you’re able to sleep in till 3pm and judge you heavily for it.
Nocturnal night owl gang rise up.
Frequently have bags under your eyes but somehow manage to pull it off.
Listen to ASMR on the down-low and will never admit it to a single soul.
Frequently go on BL binges and have many related book marks.
You pray that someone will never find your laptop bc holy fuck the amount of smut on that.
You wear scarves & beanies even when it isn’t that cold outside.
100% went through a scene hair phase/attempted to.
You dye your hair a lot or REALLY want to.
You have a voice kink low-key so anyone with a pleasant/soothing sounding voice just gets u goin’.
Cats are your favourite animal and you either do or want to own several.
Would name them after video game/anime characters u fuckin nerd lol.
Speaking of cats ,you fantasise heavily about cat-boys and have a folder dedicated to them.
Oversized hoodies are your vibe and always ball the sleeve hems in your fist as a comfort mechanism.
Shopping centres are your worst nightmare and trigger your claustrophobia or social anxiety and honestly I feel that spiritually.
Have a cute sticky note collection.
You like a lot of music consisting of guitar and slow/soothing beats.
You also fw EDM/ techno on occasions.
Honestly wouldn’t wanna anger you since you have a seething temper when pushed far enough.
It’s the kinda temper that’s eerily quiet but no less terrifying, like the other person can tell you are graphically plotting their demise.
You love sleeping to the sound of rainfall and often play those nature ambience videos while you sleep.
Never tidy your sheets and it’s just a big scrunched up heap of fabric in the centre of your mattress most of the time.
Make your fucking bed.
Lev:
Your ships are chaotic and shamelessly controversial.
Would do something just for the sake of creating mayhem lmao.
You were the fucker who stuck their chewing gum under the desk, I see you.
Your brain never stops whirring it’s a constant hurricane of crackhead energy and you have no idea how to turn it off. 
Would eat a stick of pencil lead for $2
You don’t help your situation with the amount of coffee/energy drinks you consume.
The class clown who cries themselves to sleep.
Such a wholesome dumbass but somehow kinda intimidating??? 
Even if you’re not confident you can do something you’ll try anyway and honestly I respect that about you.
You !! use!!! a lot??!! of!! random punctuation!!! so you always??!?!? seem!!111!! excited!!!!!11!?
Every time you’ve ever tried to make a sandcastle it has failed.
You tried to eat the sand once but we don’t talk bout that.
You would  also pick up slugs and snails and chase your friends around with them.
Can never tell whether people are laughing with you or at you and while you don’t let it show it high-key bothers you when you’re laying alone in your room at night.
Not one to hold grudges, you carry a ‘shit happens’ mentality which is v good but it sometimes leads to people taking advantage of it or walking all over you.
Your meme collection is both questionable and horrifying.
Like how many cursed images and heavily distorted pictures does one person need.
Never organise the files on your PC/laptop so it looks like a complete dumpster fire.
The one at sleepovers who persistently woke everyone else up with their snickering and refusal to sleep till dawn.
For the love of Asahi charge your damn phone.
I see that red bar and ‘12%’
Charge it now.
Bought a plant one time, gave it a name and talked to it frequently.
It died not long after bc u forgot to fucking water it.
No one better ever make you responsible for a pet.
Type of person that when someone asks you to tag along on an endeavour no matter how stupid it is you will agree.
2am skydiving in france? hell yeah.
Midnight shopping spree and spending over half your pay check? count you in.
Exploring an abandoned hospital and performing an Ouija board to summon the demons of hell? you’re damn right you’ll be there.
I hope you have a mum friend by your side bc if not how are you still alive.
You sometimes put the milk in before the cereal and it’s something I’ll never forgive you for.
Yaku:
Very responsible and usually make the right decisions.
You do have moments where you act like a complete dumbass though.
Like u go from 50 year old to 5 year old in the blink of an eye.
A hopeless romantic but it’s a side you don’t often reveal.
Prefer strawberry milk over any other flavour.
You’re the type of person to shower twice a day w/o fail.
Where that stank smell coming from? Not you clearly bc your skin is basically 90% The Body Shop’s rose scented soap at this point.
You get stomach aches a lot and you can’t figure out why.
Probably an allergy to everyone’s bs.
Really good at dirty talk even though you don’t seem the type so people are always taken aback.
You have to be really in the mood though otherwise it falls flatter than Oikawa’s ass, use your skill wisely.
You often call people clowns when you know you’re secretly the biggest one going.
Honk honk, hoe.
You send messages in one paragraph rather than multiple texts unless you are REALLY excited.
People underestimate you at times then are shocked when they realise you are capable of being a fire-breathing dragon from the flaming pits of hell.
You like spicy chicken wings.
Such a petty little shit at times lmao.
Enjoy the view from the top of mountains so you either hike a lot or really want to.
Way more of a cat person since it’s just much more convenient for you.
Usually pretty cheerful or calm and people are drawn to your stable/friendly aura.
Went through a phase of drinking mountain dew and your body still feels the awful effects
Fav element is probably air.
You’re 5′6″ or shorter.
Box dyed your hair brunette several times and can never get the pigment out to this day.
Yamamoto:
Whenever you smell something weird in the room you always internally freak out and think it’s you.
Head-butting walls is your hobby.
You fell off your bike as a kid and still have the scar on your knee.
Probably have tons of ear piercings.
Would tame a pigeon and call it Larry.
You get frequent nosebleeds and can never tell if it’s a medical issue or your extreme simping for fictional men/women.
Hopefully the latter.
You constantly chew your pen/pencil in class so you never lend them to anyone out of embarrassment.
I really hope no one ever lends you stationery bc 30 minutes later it’ll look like it was mauled by a rabid rottweiler.
You really want to own a dog and would call it something intimidating like Banshee or Diablo.
You bleached your hair that one time and it almost fell out so now you’re forced to stay at least 10 metres away from all at-home hair dye products.
You tried your best though bby so A for effort, even if it did look like dehydrated ramen afterwards.
Your grades are mostly C’s and you’re barely passing bc you just don’t care about your classes lol.
Still though you’re actually pretty smart so put it to good use you lazy oaf, channel that crackhead energy into something good.
Your phone screen has several cracks in it from when you dropped it on the bathroom floor while shitting and you’ll always be angry at yourself for that.
You have some really weird quirks but you make it work.
Actually a v chill person but you just kinda attract chaos/trouble wherever you go.
Carry a lighter with you even when you don’t need one.
Shy texter but once people see you irl you are the complete opposite, you just dk how to text without coming across as awkward.
One of those people that’s unintentionally funny and always get confused when you make someone laugh but it makes you feel good regardless.
Have a cool necklace collection and own at least one dog-tag/army style pendant.
Should really consider buying a rabbit you would look so cute w/ one.
You have really nice legs and people should compliment them more.
Either severely dehydrated or overly hydrated to the point you are peeing pure tap water so for the love of god please learn moderation, your kidneys and bladder will thank you for it.
Inuoka:
Your favourite character would be Hinata but you like people taller than you so your love for Inuoka spawned.
You really enjoy using the double spiderman meme.
Cannot correctly verbalise your feelings without creating a minimum of 10 misunderstandings but once people are used to it it’s kinda endearing.
You usually wake up in a good mood and people can never fathom how or why.
You either stay up till 5am or you wake up at that time no in between.
A morning person bc you love the sunrise.
Change your lock-screen very regularly bc you get bored.
Your humour consists solely of poop jokes.
When you don’t understand a joke you laugh anyway and hope they don’t ask you if you actually get it.
Happened once and you’re still traumatised from the cricket silence that fell upon the room.
Really like the taste of lemonade and drink it more often than you should.
Often think about what you would look like with a shaved head.
More of an extrovert but def have occasional introvert tendencies where you wanna be left tf alone.
Never allowed to pick up anything in stores bc the last time you did you sniffed a scented candle and it shattered to the floor.
Constantly have spontaneous ideas of what to change about your appearance.
You use a lot of hand gestures like thumbs up and peace signs.
‘Dude’ and ‘lmao’ is 90% of your vernacular.
Your nails are a disaster, some are down to the nub while others are pretty grown out bc you only bite a select few please sort it out.
Look really good in red.
Your laptop has way too many tabs open from random google searches of words you didn’t know the meaning to.
You read a lot of books but for like 10 minutes at a time bc you have the attention span of a walnut.
You are the type of person to nuke your AO3 tags with things that aren’t even relevant purely bc you found them funny.
Your Tumblr drafts are a nightmare, you have like 100+ in the works yet keep starting new projects why do you do this.
Happy sunshine but you have a LOT of mood swings like that shit comes out of nowhere.
Cry pretty often but no one ever sees and it’s usually because of said mood swings.
You always smile and pick yourself up again though which I commend you for.
TYPES IN CAPITALS IN SITUATIONS THAT DO NOT REQUIRE SAID PUNCTUATION SO YOU SEEM LIKE YOU’RE YELLING ALL THE TIME.
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lestered · 4 years
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"don't waste your time or time will waste you" Dan 🖤
“Knights of Cydonia, maybe,” he mumbles. 
They’re being quiet, like always, so Dan’s not even sure if his voice is going to be enough to drag Phil away from the edge of unconsciousness he’s clearly been teetering over for the past few minutes. He’s resting his cheek down on his pillow, eyes shut, but fluttering open just once in a while. It’s a bit delayed, but Phil does finally open his eyes fully in response, sitting up a bit and sweeping his fringe away from his forehead, only for it to flop back down again. Dan watches, smiles while he watches Phil grapple with the idea of trying to fix it again, giving up and just blinking at the screen a few times instead. Clearing away the haziness, Dan imagines. 
Phil’s voice when he speaks up is sleepy and about a thousand times more northern than usual. “What?”
Dan rolls his eyes. He has to. He has to balance out all of the fondness, all of the attraction that he can’t even be sure is reciprocated. He’s got a certain feeling about Phil, but his feelings aren’t always to be trusted.
“Before you conked out, you asked what my favourite Muse song is,” Dan explains. When Phil crinkles his brow defiantly, he doesn’t bother trying to hide the fondness again.
“I didn’t fall asleep,” Phil insists, clearly stifling what might have been a damning yawn. “You were just taking forever to answer.”
Dan just shrugs a little and lets his gaze settle into something relaxed and unguarded, because Phil has that effect on him. Phil rests his head down on the pillow again.
“Knights of Cydonia, then?” He asks. “That’s your favourite?”
Dan likes that. Likes it a lot, actually, when Phil asks him things. When Phil wants to know things about him, which he supposes isn’t really a testament to how nice Phil is, because it’s really quite a normal act of courtesy. It’s more of a testament to what a loser Dan’s been for God knows how long. All he knows is he can’t remember the last time someone wanted to know his favourite song.
He likes how Phil listens, though. How it doesn’t seems like he’s just asking him things to be polite. He likes how he nods along and asks him to elaborate or gives his own opinion, and actually remembers the things he says and brings them up in later conversations.
…God, he’s lonely. 
“I don’t know, actually,” he sucks his bottom lip in between his teeth and resists the urge to bite off a bit of dead skin. He’ll save the gross stuff for when Phil’s not looking at him so dreamily. “I don’t think I have a favourite favourite. That one got me through some stuff, though. In school.”
School. He shudders internally. He hasn’t told Phil about any of that yet. He’s not sure if he’ll ever be ready to unload that much baggage, at least without scaring Phil away in the process. 
He clears his throat and continues. “And I’ve been listening to it again, recently. There’s this one line in it that I really like.” 
Phil smiles a little and glances away. Dan can see him turning the lyrics over in his head, even mouthing a couple of the words once in a while before nodding to himself and looking back into his webcam. “Don’t waste your time, or time will waste you.”
Dan’s taken aback. Temporarily, anyway. “How’d you know?”
Phil just shrugs a little, reaches out and pulls his laptop in closer to him. “I dunno. It just sounds like you.”
He’s not sure how to respond to that. It gives him a funny, fluttering feeling in his tummy and a blooming warmth in his chest that he really hopes won’t spread up to his cheeks. Sounds like him. Phil thinks that some lines in a song sound like him. He doesn’t know why, but that makes him really happy. It just seems like a good thing.
“It’s a good quote to live by, I guess,” he offers instead of a direct response. “I guess I could stand to live by it more than I have been this year.”
Phil fixes him with that quiet, reproachful look that he gets any time Dan starts to get too doom-and-gloom about his future, so he doesn’t say anything more. Phil must be satisfied with that, because he glances away again. It doesn’t seem like he’s looking at anything in particular beyond his laptop screen, just kind of gazing off into the distance. He wonders what Phil’s thinking about when he does that. Phil’s got a very strange mind sometimes. It’d be nice to see a bit of what goes on inside, even if he probably wouldn’t quite understand it.
“Yeah, it is a good quote to live by,” Phil agrees, and then sighs out a tiny little hum before they lapse into a comfortable silence.
It’s great. It’s not awkward or anxiety-inducing, being silent with Phil. It’s nice to just be in his presence, coexisting peacefully. It’s nice to think that Phil feels the same way.
He wonders after a few minutes, though, if Phil might have drifted to sleep, because his breaths seem to be evening out and he’s closed his eyes again. But then he opens them.
“Hey, Dan?” He asks, tilting his head just a bit and looking almost contemplative. Contemplative, and maybe a little… nervous? Apprehensive? Whatever’s in that look, it makes the butterflies in his stomach kick up a notch. 
He breathes in deep. “Yeah?”
Phil opens his mouth, then closes it again, looking away like perhaps he’s changed his mind about what he’d wanted to say. Dan feels a strange wash of disappointment, but then Phil looks at him again. He looks a bit surer this time. A bit more determined. And then he finally asks:
“Would you wanna come up to Manchester sometime?”  
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combeauferre · 4 years
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kiss you until your lips turn blue
Dan’s confused about who he is, but what he knows is that he finds the quiet boy in his friendship group very pretty. 
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Dan's been confused for a long time. It's strange, how all his friends talk about girls and he just. Doesn't get it.
He doesn't think he's the only one. There's another boy in his school friendship group. He's pretty quiet, he doesn't join in with the girl talk. He doesn't join in with much of the talk at all, really, but at least with the rest of the conversations he'll jump in from time to time.
His name is Phil, and Dan thinks he's very pretty.
Which is his problem, really. Boys aren't supposed to find boys pretty. Pretty isn't even a word Dan's ever heard anyone use to describe a boy. Handsome, maybe. Is he allowed to find a boy handsome? He hopes so.
People come and go from Dan's friendship group over the years. He always manages to stick it out, hang around with the same people. So does Phil. He's thankful for that. But Dan is older now. He's not a quiet ten year old confused about who he is. He knows who he is now. He just. Doesn't want to say it.
Dan hates having to watch a girl ask Phil to the year 11 prom. He wishes he had the guts to ask Phil himself. But he's still not sure if Phil is... what Dan is, and it's too much of a chance to take. He's not confused about finding boys pretty any more. But one thing he's learnt is that his friends don't think boys should find boys pretty. Or even handsome. He has to keep it to himself.
Dan and Phil both take media to A Level, and they end up gravitating to each other on the first day in a class of new faces. It's not long before pairs projects begin, and when Phil is the only person Dan knows and vice versa, they end up starting a music video project together.
Phil's music taste is the thing that surprises Dan the most about him. Dan goes to Phil's most days after school now, so they can work on their project together. They find out they both take psychology too, in different classes, so study sessions begin out of necessity.
"Hey," Phil says. "Can we do this song?" Lonely Day by System of a Down starts playing and Dan raises his eyebrows.
"You like System of a Down?"
"Yeah, why?"
"You've always been so quiet," Dan shrugs. "I thought you were probably into Coldplay, or Enya or something."
"Enya?" Phil barks a laugh.
"Well I don't know, quiet kid with black hair, you could be into anything."
"Well I do like System of a Down," Phil says, "But my favourite band is Muse."
Dan's face lights up then. "Oh my God, same!"
"No way!"
They quickly find a playlist of music on youtube and spend the next hour belting out their favourite songs instead of doing work. They don't even hear Phil's mum knock on the door to ask if Dan is staying for dinner. Phil manages to convince him to in the end, and Kath lets them take pizzas up to Phil's room on the promise that they start working instead of just listening to music.
Dan ends up staying late that night, and the next night, and the next.
The day after that, Dan offers to host the study session.
His house is quiet, quieter than Phil's. Dan's dog greets them at the door and Phil is smitten immediately.
"You never told me you had a dog!" he says in a high pitched voice that makes Dan's heart melt.
"He's pretty alright," Dan shrugs. "Come on, we really have to get some work done before my grandma makes dinner."
When their project is over, there isn't even a question about whether or not their study sessions will continue. Dan goes to Phil's house after school just like always. They do a little bit of psychology homework, and then Phil manages to tempt Dan into watching the first episode of Buffy. Before he knows it, it's nearly ten pm and if he doesn't leave soon his mum will have his head.
The friendship that forms between Dan and Phil over the first A Level year is perfect. Dan had never had his go-to person in his friendship group, and as far as he could tell, neither had Phil. But they had each other now, and Dan's heart aches to think that things could've been this perfect since the beginning.
The only problem is that Dan still thinks Phil is very pretty. Prettier than he used to be, in fact. His shoulders have broadened as he's gotten older, he's taller, his arms have toned. Every now and then he pulls Dan in for a bear hug, and Dan doesn't know what to do with himself.
He's not sure which friend suggests they play spin the bottle at a birthday party. They've all been drinking, even Phil, which is another surprise to Dan. He even thinks about the possibility of sharing a kiss with Phil. It'd be fake, and the rest of his friends would laugh. But it'd be something, at least.
He hadn't even considered the possibility of someone else's spin landing on Phil. It hurts, watching someone else lean across and kiss Phil on the lips Dan so desperately wants to kiss. Phil doesn't look too happy about it, but he doesn't look too disappointed either.
Dan does his best to spin the bottle in such a way that it lands on Phil, but his luck was never on his side, and he ends up kissing one of the girls there. It feels awful. Wrong. He's never kissed a girl before, but it really solidifies it for him. He is. That word he doesn't want to say; he's it.
Then, Phil's spin lands on him. And Phil is leaning forward. Dan wonders, in the seconds before their lips meet, if Phil is a good kisser. He doesn't have anything to compare it to, but he thinks Phil is a fantastic kisser. His lips frame Dan's, in a kiss that feels a lot more intimate than any of the others have. He doesn't want to stop, but he can't even imagine how awful it would be if he kept going. There are people here watching them. He doesn't want to put himself, or Phil, in that position.
It doesn't make things awkward. It doesn't change anything, in fact. Dan hates that a little. He wishes it was like the movies, where one kiss opens the other person's eyes, and they realise what's right in front of them. But nothing happens. They go to each other's houses after school. They study psychology and media. They watch Buffy. They sing Muse.
Then, one night, Dan turns up on Phil's doorstep, in tears. His mum and dad had been in a big argument, his dad had left with threats that he was never coming back. Phil's parents are out for the night, so he lets Dan in without a question.
Phil's not very good at support, Dan finds. But there is alcohol in his house, and that's good enough for Dan. They curl up together on Phil's bed with Buffy on the laptop, passing a bottle of Malibu between them.
It doesn't take long for Dan to feel tipsy, and from there it's a slippery slope to being drunk. Phil tells him he can stay the night, and without thinking Dan gets up to strip himself of his shirt and dig around for some pyjama bottoms.
"You're pretty," Phil whispers.
Dan whips around then, a blush covering his cheeks.
"What?" surely, surely he heard that wrong.
"Stop it," Phil frowns. "Stop being so damn pretty."
Dan feels a little bold then, and crosses his arms over his bare chest.
"Only if you stop being so damn pretty."
Phil's jaw drops then. Wide eyes, flushed cheeks, beautiful lips. All Dan wants is to kiss him.
Phil gets up, and they meet each other in the middle. Phil presses a quick peck to Dan's mouth before he huffs a laugh and goes back in for more. It's only a few seconds, though, before he's pulling back again.
"Wait, wait," he whispers. "We need water, we need to sober up."
Dan steps away from him quickly, as if he's been burnt.
"Oh, sorry, do you not want-"
"Dan," Phil stops him. He reaches out to trace his fingers down Dan's bare arm to link their fingers. "I want this so bad. I just don't want to remember it as the time we were both drunk and something bad happened."
Dan softens, lets himself be led down the stairs.
They drink water, and then they drink coffee, and then they drink more water. And when Phil thinks they're sufficiently sobered up, he takes Dan's hand and leads him back upstairs.
When the door is closed, Phil steps forward, pressing a kiss to Dan's cheek.
"Dan, do you... do you want this?"
Dan huffs out a laugh. "I've wanted this for years, you idiot."
Phil laughs too then. "All this time, I thought it was only me."
Dan grins up at him, before leaning forward and tucking his face in Phil's clothed shoulder.
"We're idiots," he giggles, looking up again.
"We are," Phil agrees. "Can I kiss you, idiot?"
Dan laughs, and pulls Phil forward. They're kissing then. Laughing and kissing. Dan feels a tongue, and then a clash of teeth, and he's laughing again. Because it's Phil, of course it's clumsy and ridiculous.
He feels a little underdressed but the thought is gone from his mind the second he feels Phil's hand run over his chest. A thumb catches his nipple and his breath hitches. He feels it travelling further down, and pushes back on Phil's clothed chest.
"Phil, Phil," he breathes. Phil pulls back, runs his hand back up to Dan's neck. "Can we..." he takes a deep breath. "Tonight, can we just do this? Just kiss?"
Phil smiles softly. He reaches a thumb up to brush over Dan's jaw and cheek. A kiss is pressed at his forehead, then on the tip of his nose, then the corner of his mouth.
"Of course," he whispers. "This is more than I ever thought I'd get."
Dan grins, returns the favour of pressing a few wet kisses to Phil's face. "Me too."
They spend a long time just kissing. It's new, exciting. They giggle at their own ridiculousness, and when they hear Phil's parents come in Phil presses a kiss to Dan's neck and tells him to wait there a second.
Phil's parents are more than welcoming. They make Dan ring his mum and tell her where he is, and then they order pizza and tell Dan and Phil they can take it upstairs.
"Just this once," Kath says sternly.
"You always say that," Phil laughs, rolling his eyes.
"Any more of that cheek, child, and you can clean the dishes."
Phil shuts his mouth, then. He wants as much time alone with Dan as he can get.
They sit huddled on Phil's bed with Buffy on, just like normal. Only this time, every now and then, Phil will turn and press a kiss to Dan's shoulder, his neck, his cheek. On the time Dan decides to return the favour, he and Phil go at the same time and smack their heads together, earning Dan a yelp and a giggle.
Dan's not sure what his friends at school would say. He knows they think it's wrong, or gross, or something. He knows it's not, though. It's a lot easier to remind himself that when he looks at Phil and sees Phil looking back at him.
He's not confused about any of it any more. Maybe he still can't call himself that word he knows he is. But he knows one thing he can call himself.
Happy.
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you had me at hydrangea
Chapter 4/6 - hey how’s it growing
“I want him to see the flowers in my eyes and hear the songs in my hands.” ― Francesca Lia Block, Dangerous Angels
a phan flower shop/video editor au
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“Don’t be weird,” Dan told himself. He sucked in a lungful of air and raised his hand to knock. He rapped a few times and winced at the echoing sounds that ricocheted in the narrow hallway. His stomach was tight with anticipation, and he was nervous enough that sweat beaded on his forehead. He didn’t know what to expect - what did mostly-friends do on a video game and pizza night? Or...date? He still wasn’t sure about that. Phil’s brief text yesterday that had contained his address hadn’t been very informative.
There was a thud somewhere in the flat and frantic running, then the door was hauled open. “Hi!” said Phil. “Um.” He looked like he wanted to slam the door back in Dan’s face. “Er, sorry. I’ll...gimme a second. Wait, no, come in.”
Dan’s mouth had gone dry. He stepped inside, sweeping his tongue across his parched lips subconsciously. Phil was wearing nothing but a pair of low-cut jeans and colourful socks, his naked chest gleaming in the light from the hallway.
“Sorry!” said Phil again, closing the door and locking it. He looked adorably flustered. “I was - I forgot what time it was. I was trying to do laundry. Sorry. Hold on.” He scurried toward an open door near the back of the flat. Dan stared unapologetically at the ripples of his bare back. “Make yourself at home!” Phil called back as he vanished into the room.
Dan blinked rapidly to try to clear his thoughts. He’d wanted to bite. He wondered if Phil regularly wandered about his flat in nothing but trousers and socks when he was doing laundry.
“What do you like on your pizza?” Phil called. There was a crash from the room. “I’m fine!”
“Uh…” said Dan. “Anything, I guess.” He glanced around the living room, taking in the slumped sofa and matching ottoman that stood in front of Phil’s wide television set. There were a dining table and chairs between the sofa and the kitchen counter, which was open and visible from the front door. Houseplants, stuffed plushies, video game and movie posters, and candles were everywhere. It all seemed undeniably...Phil.
Phil came out of the bedroom, fighting his shirt as he tried to fit both of his arms through it at once. “Goddamnit,” he said. His head finally poked through and his hair looked wild. “Sorry, again,” he repeated for probably the fifth time. “I thought it was like an hour earlier than it is. I was trying to wash my bedsheets.”
“Why’s that?” Dan said. He winked and immediately regretted it.
A red tint was climbing Phil’s cheeks. He nudged a floor plant that was reaching for his legs with long leaves. “Uh, actually...I spilt milk on them. Like half of a cupful.”
“How?” Dan asked, disbelieving. It would have been a preposterous lie. He desperately wanted to make a joke about ‘cream,’ but resisted.
Phil waved a hand. “It involved a carbonating machine. Don’t ask.”
That just made Dan want to know even more, but he changed the subject and said instead, “So, pizza? Was there something that you don’t like on it?”
“Not too much cheese,” Phil said. “But I like all pizzas. Ooh, especially the Sizzler.”
“That was discontinued,” Dan pointed out.
Phil looked grumpy. “Yeah, I know. I’ve emailed them like fifty times. It’s my favourite.”
“Well,” said Dan, barely resisting a smile, “we could create a pizza.”
Nodding very seriously, Phil agreed, “We could. We will. But how hungry are you right now? We could play some Mario first before ordering. Since it’s only six.”
“Not very hungry,” Dan admitted. He couldn’t tear his gaze away from the shirt that clung tantalizingly to Phil’s chest. It looked like it was much too tight, but Dan certainly wasn’t going to complain. “What about you?”
“Not very,” Phil echoed. He headed for the kitchen, yanking open various drawers and looking hilariously confused at the contents of each. “Do you like Ribena?” he asked.
Dan had followed him and he leaned against the bar between the dining area and the kitchen. “Yeah, of course.”
“Good!” said Phil. “Because I don’t have anything else except water.”
Dan snorted a laugh. He watched Phil as he moved around the kitchen and prepared two glasses of Ribena. “So,” Dan said, for once feeling like a conversation might come relatively easily to him, “how did the meeting with your supervisor go? Also, how was your trip to visit your parents this last weekend? I forgot to ask while you were in the shop on Thursday.” It helped that he genuinely wanted to know and wasn’t just trying to make small-talk.
Phil took a careful sip out of one of the glasses and apparently deemed it worthy, as he offered the other glass to Dan. Taking it, Dan followed him back over to the living and sat down on one end of the sofa, avoiding the tiny cactus on the side table.
Phil hadn’t answered him the entire time, but he did now as he set down his drink on the side table that was on the other end of the sofa. “The meeting was...a meeting,” he said reluctantly. “I hadn’t finished my project in time so I had to ask for an extension. But that’s only because the client had requested more work and I didn’t have nearly enough time to do it.”
Dan nodded understandingly, taking a sip of his Ribena. “Yeah, that makes sense.”
“Anyway, totally exciting,” Phil said, rolling his eyes. He moved to the TV and began setting up the game. Dan watched him unashamedly, enjoying the sliver of skin that appeared between Phil’s shirt and pants as he bent over.
“But!” said Phil. “Visiting my parents was loads of fun. My brother and his girlfriend were there, as I think I mentioned, so we all spent time together and it was great. We played Monopoly and I won.” He looked pleased with that declaration. “I don’t win very often. My parents usually control the entire board and crush all of us, but this time my dad was trying to cook something in the kitchen so Martyn and I kept my mom in jail most of the time.”
Dan couldn’t fight the grin that had inhabited his face. “That does sound like fun.” He wished his family visits were like that. They weren’t bad, just quiet and familiar, with nothing exciting like board games or friendly competition, or just hanging out for the sake of being together.
“It was.” Phil nodded. He stood, stretched, and then yawned before settling onto the sofa beside Dan. “But what did you do while I was gone? Anything super exciting?”
Dan had to regather his thoughts. They’d scattered when Phil’s knee had pressed against his own. He absent-mindedly accepted the controller that Phil handed him. “Er...I mean, not really. Just work. And on the weekends I usually just sit around at my flat to play games and be lazy all day.” He mused internally, considering if that made him seem pathetic and lonely, and decided that it might, so he added, “And I went out with Louise.” He felt an urge to tell Phil about his attempts at writing an actual piece of music, but couldn’t make himself bring it up.
“Fun!” said Phil, when Dan said nothing else. He’d powered on the game and the familiar sounds of Mario Kart were chirping at them. Shifting in his seat, his leg fell away from Dan’s. Dan missed it immediately. He wondered if Phil had done it on purpose. “Okay!” Phil said. “Best of three?”
Dan narrowed his eyes at him, the thrill of competition surging in him. “You’re on, mate.”
~~~
They played for a solid hour, banter and threats flying, before Phil let out a loud whine of defeat, biting his controller as he threw himself sideways across the couch. “Why?” he moaned.
Dan let out a cackle of triumph, his arms high above his head. He stretched casually, smirking down at Phil’s posture of despair. “I am the Mario Kart champion!” he declared.
Phil was still angrily chewing on the corner of his controller. At least Dan knew where the teeth prints had come from that were on his own. “You didn’t tell me you were an expert,” he accused.
“I give my prey very little warning before I completely obliterate them,” Dan told him. “But that was pretty pathetic. Best out of twenty, and you still only won three.”
Phil sulked at him, a frankly adorable frown tugging at his mouth. He’d thrown his feet up onto the couch when he fell sideways and his toes were digging into Dan’s thighs. Even rumpled in casual clothes and teeth clenched tight on the plastic of his controller, he still looked unbearably attractive. Dan wondered if he could convince Phil to bite him instead of the controller.
“I hate you,” Phil confidently told Dan.
Dan just laughed and poked his toes. Phil screeched and yanked them away, and Dan filed that reaction away into the rapidly-filling ‘Phil’ box in his mind. “Sure you do. Best out of thirty?”
“No.” Phil looked disgruntled. “I’m ordering pizza. Then we can play something I’m good at. Like Mortal Kombat.”
Dan decided not to tell Phil the hundreds of hours he’d spent playing that game in his room as a teenager. There was no need to spoil the surprise of Phil’s imminent destruction. He stood, collecting the long-empty glasses on the side tables. “Fine. I’ll get more Ribena. Order the pizza. I like barbecue or the chicken bacon ranch pizza. Get it half-and-half with whatever you want.”
Phil had fallen back fully against the couch armrest, sprawling his legs across the still-warm seat Dan had vacated and pulling out his phone to tap at it. Dan pulled his gaze away from Phil’s impossibly long legs and headed to the kitchen. He found the Ribena, but almost collided with the still-open cabinet doors. He cursed colourfully when his shin banged into a drawer that was hanging out. He hadn’t even seen Phil open this one earlier. He considered reprimanding Phil for it but decided they weren’t yet at that point in their...relationship. Friendship. Whatever this was.
Dan was filled with a sudden resolve to figure out just what it was, so he hurriedly filled the glasses with a Ribena-water mixture and went back into the lounge. Phil was still stretched across the sofa, his legs taking up an intolerable amount of space. Dan reluctantly shoved at them instead of giving in to the temptation of just sitting on Phil.
Phil pulled his knees up against his chest in place of letting them fall off the couch. He squinted as his phone. “Okay,” he said. “It’s half barbecue and half Hawaiian. Do you like jalepeños?”
“Yep. In moderation.” Dan settled himself into his seat. He put one of the Ribena glasses down onto the side table and took a sip from the other, musing over how to actually bring up the subject of...this. Did he just come right out and ask if it was a date? Phil hadn’t exactly made it clear. And he hadn’t made any moves unless bumping into him and then quickly shuffling away counted as a move.
“It should be here in about thirty minutes!” Phil announced.
Dan considered that, maybe, he should just wait and see how the night went. Surely Phil would give him a signal soon.
Phil snatched the controller from where it’d fallen beside him and he shook it threateningly at Dan. “Time for battle, mate.”
“Oh, you’re on,” Dan assured him. He abandoned his Ribena and they were right back at it again.
~~~
It was a good two hours later. Dan was slumped across the side of the sofa, still feeling unbelievably stuffed full of pizza. His legs were tucked under him and he watched Phil half-heartedly direct his character through Skyrim. Dan didn’t understand the comfort level he had after so little time spent with Phil. Was it weird to feel so utterly relaxed after barely three hours spent in his company? They’d sort of gotten to know each other for the past three months, sure, but this was the first time Dan had felt like he was spending real time with him. He wanted to know everything about Phil. Maybe that’s what was weird.
“Ugh,” said Phil. He had just died on-screen. “Stupid wolves.” He paused the game and dropped the controller, falling sideways across his own side of the sofa and clutching his stomach with a groan. “I never want to move again.”
“We ate far too much,” Dan agreed. He couldn’t look away from the length of Phil’s neck as he stared aimlessly up at the ceiling.
“Hey, Dan,” said Phil, not looking over at him.
“Hmm?”
Dan could see the corners of Phil’s lips tugging up. “What does a flower therapist ask her patients?”
“Please don’t,” said Dan.
“Are you feeling bouquet?” Phil laughed before Dan could even react, his mouth breaking in a wide grin. “Get it?”
“You’re the worst kind of person,” Dan told him.
Uncaring, Phil hauled his legs up on the sofa and stretched them out across the distance between them. He stopped just before his toes hit Dan’s thighs, gaze still affixed to the ceiling above them. Dan wanted to poke his feet again to see how he would react but was ultimately too lazy to actually reach over and do it. Once more, he wondered if this was a date. He’d never been so at ease before with someone he might be on a date with. Then again, he’d never been confused if he was on a date or not.
The dip of Phil’s collarbone taunted him.
Fuck it, Dan thought. There was no way to know unless he asked. 
The moment he had decided this, his phone, abandoned on the ottoman, shrilled loudly at him. Phil’s head fell over to look at it. Dan glared at the buzzing device, willing it to shut up and give back his silent moment. It rang once, twice, three times.
“Are you going to answer that?” Phil asked. His voice sounded rough and tired. God, Dan wanted to know if this was a date.
“I guess.” Reluctantly, he leaned forward far enough to snag the phone. He scowled at the caller ID with bemusement. “What the fuck.” Louise knew perfectly well where he was tonight. There was no reason for her to be calling him. “Hello,” he answered it, no inflection in his tone whatsoever.
“Dan!” Her voice was high with nerves. “I’m so sorry!”
He sat up instantly. “What’s wrong?” Phil was watching him keenly.
“I’d never do this, you know me,” she insisted. She sounded fantastically apologetic and stressed at the same time. Something banged on her side and Dan flinched the phone away from his ear. When he brought it back, she sounded out-of-breath. “I just got a rush order for a wedding tomorrow morning! I have to make eighty different bouquets. Please, I swear I’ll make it up to you, but I need your help. They’re due at four o’clock.”
Dan glanced at the clock on his phone. It was just past nine. If he got there in the next thirty minutes, they might be able to get it done in time. There was no way she could do it by herself. “Christ, Louise.”
“I know!” she said. “I would never accept an order like this, but they’re paying like triple the normal amount since it’s an emergency and a big wedding. Their other florist dumped them because the bride’s dad tried to hook up with her or something. I dunno. Just. I’m really sorry, I know this is like your date with Phil but I really, really need help.”
Dan sighed. It was a very weighty, disgruntled sigh. “Goddamnit. Fine. You’re making this up to me.” And he would never get her flowers like Phil had gotten for his boss.
“I will!” she promised. “I promise I will. And tell Phil I’m sorry too.”
“Yeah, whatever,” he said. He hung up and let the phone dangle from limp fingers.
Phil had sat up, his legs drawn to him. “Louise?” He had a resigned look on his face that Dan hated.
“Yeah,” Dan said. “Some flower emergency. She needs my help. She’s really sorry.”
“It’s fine. I mean, we were kind of in a food coma and barely doing anything, anyway.” Phil waved a hand as if it didn’t mean anything, but his expression seemed like it did, just a little.
Dan managed to get to his feet and Phil stood with him, nudging the empty pizza box to the side. Dan made his way to the door and let Phil get ahead of him to open it, but he didn’t leave right away. He hesitated in the doorframe. A plant by the door, the first thing he’d seen besides Phil’s naked chest when he’d arrived, reached its long leaves to swipe against his face.
Phil, too close, reached up and brushed it away from Dan’s cheek. He looked fond, and Dan hoped.
“Phil,” he said. He wondered if the tone of his voice had sounded strange, but it was hard to concentrate when Phil was this near to him, undoubtedly staring at Dan’s lips.
Phil’s gaze flickered up and met Dan’s. His eyes were warm in the light from the hallway.
“Is this. Are you…” Dan didn’t know how to say it. “Are we - what.” He stopped, frustrated with himself. “What is this?” That wasn’t how he’d meant to say it. He tried to regroup his thoughts.
But Phil had glanced down at the phone still in Dan’s hand and he took a hasty step backwards. He swallowed visibly. “This was fun!” he said. “We should hang out more often. I can - I’ll text you.” He smiled, and it looked sad, but it was a real smile. “We’ll be great friends, I can tell.”
“No,” said Dan. Or at least, he thought he’d said it. Maybe he’d only thought it. There was no way Phil only wanted to be friends, Dan was sure. There was a reason for all of this waiting Dan had done, wasn’t there? There was a reason Phil had come every week to the little flower shop where Dan worked, watching him when he thought Dan wasn’t looking. There had to be a reason Phil stared at him for too long, stared at his lips. 
Dan took a step forward, closing the distance Phil had made between them. “Phil,” he said, and this time he’d actually said it aloud. His voice sounded too firm, even to his own ears. “You watch me. It means something, doesn’t it?”
Phil skittered backwards. His blue, blue eyes were wide and panicked. “No!” he said. “Of course not. I’m sorry. It wasn’t supposed to mean anything. I mean, it doesn’t mean anything. Look, I wasn’t trying to…” His arms flailed. “You didn’t notice. I thought.”
Dan couldn’t make sense of anything Phil was saying. The words were scrambled together and made no sense in Dan’s head. Maybe they weren’t actually English.
“Look,” said Phil. He was still flustered. “I’ll stop.”
“Don’t!” Dan burst out. He couldn’t bear the thought of whatever Phil meant by stop. Stop coming to the flower shop? Stop talking to Dan? Stop giving him those wanting looks that Dan had evidently been misreading this entire time?  “Please,” said Dan. He searched desperately for meaning in what Phil had said before. He felt unmoored, flummoxed. Nothing was going the way he’d thought it would. “You can come to the shop. Anytime. We can be friends if you want.” That must be what Phil wanted.
Phil’s face was collapsing with relief. “Okay,” he said. “Friends. Yes.”
Dan’s phone buzzed again. Louise was impatient with her urgency.
Phil shifted from foot to foot, hand on the door. “I’ll text you,” he said, casting another inscrutable glance to Dan’s phone.
“Okay,” said Dan.
The door was shut in his face, Phil’s movements hasty with his desire to get away from Dan.
Dan waited for a few very long moments. Something felt tight and wrong in his chest. This wasn’t what he’d expected. He didn’t know what he’d expected. Anything but this.
“God,” Dan said then, a curse, maybe, or a plea to some higher power to give meaning to what just occurred. Either way, no answer revealed itself. That was fine. Phil wanted to be friends. Dan could do just friends. He could do anything if it meant Phil would still be near him. So, yeah. It definitely hadn’t been a date.
“God,” Dan said again. 
He left.
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too high (can’t come down) by @danfanciesphil
Suspending himself 7,000 feet above the rest of the world seems likely to be a sure-fire way for Dan to escape normality, and isolate himself for the foreseeable future. The Secret of the Alps, a small hotel tucked into the side of the Swiss mountains is too niche for most avid adventurers to have heard of, making it the perfect place for Dan to work as he sorts through his problems. Unfortunately, privacy is a coveted thing, and as Dan soon finds out, the hotel harbours one guest who values it more than most.
Rating: Explicit Tags: Enemies to lovers, snow, mountains, skiing, hostility, slow burn, secrecy, longing, repression, nobility, classism, cheating, eventual sex
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The night passes the same way - barely concealed crying, slightly ominous but mostly lovely music to drift him off to sleep - and then morning comes, stark and bright as usual. Dan gets dressed, begs Louise for coffee and sustenance - “did you find him?” “yes” “were you nice?” “I was a peach” “what did he say?” “he said he was sorry for yelling” “aw, told you he was a sweetie deep down” “mmhmm” - and is then rounded up by Mona for breakfast duty.
“I’ve already switched the heaters on and put out the tablecloths,” Mona tells him as he drains the last of his coffee. “Could you just go and put the mugs and cutlery out? I think we’ve only got two tables today.”
“Sure,” Dan says, giving Louise’s arm a small squeeze of gratitude for the breakfast and coffee; she waves a batter-y whisk at him in a shooing motion, but she’s smiling. .
Once he’s armed with a basket of silverware and crockery from the cupboard, Dan heads for the balcony and stops short, noticing that for the first time, someone is already sat out there. Stunned, Dan just stares through the glass at Mr Novokoric, who is transfixed on the blue-shadowed mountains in the distance. Reluctantly, Dan pushes through the doors, bracing himself for the cold, both from the frigid mountain air, and the attitude of his least favourite guest.
The door slams shut behind him, making Mr Novokoric turn. “Good morning,” he says, like an automatic greeting. For some reason - probably the cold and the pre-caffeine kick-in - Dan finds himself a little tongue-tied. He nods at the other man, struggling to hold onto the basket in his hands.
“Morning,” he manages, eyes sticking to the light wind-stung flush on Mr Novokoric’s high cheeks.
Mr Novokoric turns back to the view then, and Dan begins setting out the mugs, knives, forks, spoons and glasses on the tables. He assumes that Mr Novokoric must be one of the two tables having breakfast today, which makes sense, as the Stevens’ left yesterday evening. They’d hugged Dan tightly, promising to return before the year was out. It had, in a way, been rather sad to see them disappearing with Kaspar back down the mountain in the swinging cable car. Mostly Dan is glad that he no longer has to avert his eyes as they walk through the hotel with their omnipresent robes dangerously loose, but they were a parental sort of couple, and he thinks they might genuinely miss him too. Fumbling only slightly, Dan begins to place a setting out in front of Mr Novokoric. As he sets the mug down, Mr Novokoric reaches for it, and frowns as he tilts it towards him.
“Can I get some coffee?”
Dan pauses, flipping the question over in his mind. “Coffee?”
One of those jet black eyebrows springs upwards. “Yes. Is that permitted?”
Dan nods, blushing, and hating himself for it. He takes the mug and scampers off to the kitchen, managing to garble some request to Louise. For some reason his flustered state is amusing to her, and she pretends for a minute or two to have no clue what he’s asking - not helpful - but eventually he gets a mug of filter coffee out of her. He watches, curious, as she automatically adds soya milk and two heaped teaspoons of sugar.
“He’s lactose intolerant,” she says, by way of explanation. “And has a hell of a sweet tooth.”
“I didn’t say who it’s for,” Dan says, perplexed, as he takes the mug from her.
“Who else around here would have you blushing and stammering like a nun at a brothel?”
Dan chooses not to respond to this, mostly because he can’t summon anything except a mortified spluttering sound. He takes the mug of coffee back out to Mr Novokoric, cheeks still a warm pink. It’s just the wind flush though, at this point. Probably. 
“Would you like anything else, Sir?” Dan asks politely. “The chef is still cooking breakfast, but I could perhaps get you some cereal or yoghurt-”
“No, thank you,” Mr Novokoric says sniffily, and Dan replays what Louise just said to him.
“Oh, sorry, you don’t have dairy,” Dan says, shaking his head. Mr Novokoric turns his head sharply back to Dan, frowning. “I could get you some fresh fruit? Or-”
“No,” Mr Novokoric says again, though his voice is less hostile now. “I’m, uh, not hungry.” He pauses, mouth twitching. “...Thanks.”
“No problem.” Dan dithers, uncomfortably aware he now has a wedge of time to kill before the other guests emerge, and no other place to be. “So... um, why are you out here?”
“Excuse me?”
Dan shuts his eyes, cursing silently. “Sorry, I just meant- you’re normally out on the mountain at this time.”
“Oh.” Mr Novokoric sips his drink, looking away.
“Did you not fancy braving the snow today?”
Dan has absolutely no idea why he’s suddenly so intent on keeping this hellish conversation going, given that Mr Novokoric looks like he’d rather pour the coffee over his own head than continue it. Somehow it would be worse to turn away from him though, to stand off to the side and wait for more guests to turn up, arms folded, pretending not to stare as that blank, unhappy glare washed away any animation on Mr Novokoric’s sharp, striking features. So, Dan forces himself to stay rooted to the spot, letting Mr Novokoric’s icy look of contemptuous horror at Dan’s insistence on smalltalk slice through him like he’s snow beneath Mr Novokoric’s boot.
“My ski broke,” he says, unexpectedly.
A flashback hits Dan as abruptly as the cherry-red skis hit the wall of the lobby the day before yesterday. “Oh,” Dan says. “Is there- it can’t be fixed?”
“I highly doubt I’m going to find someone proficient at winter sports equipment repair at the top of this fucking mountain, do you?”
The curse word is shocking, and it takes Dan a moment to let it go. Phil’s accent is slightly Northern, but his diction and use of language is impeccable, presumably due to all the hobnobbing and schmoozing he has to do, as a ‘Royal’. Hearing him swear is what he imagines it would be like hearing the Queen swear. In a sense, it’s rather titillating - another reason Dan should abandon this conversation for good. Luckily, at that moment, the balcony door opens, and Mona ushers the two Bryce sisters through, leading them to the other laid table.
Relieved to see the chattering, marginally irritating middle-aged women for once, Dan excuses himself from Mr Novokoric, who barely bats an eye, and goes to take their breakfast order.
*
In a moment of downtime, while the evening film screening is going on, Dan goes hunting for two cherry-red skis, which he finds near the hotel entrance, leant against the wall. He takes hold of the left one, and examines it closely. Just as Mr Novokoric said, it has a broken appendage - the strap which secures the boot to the ski has come loose. The straps are peculiar to Dan, having no backs to them, but Dan can see where the front part used to fix to the ski itself even so. By comparing it with the other ski, Dan thinks it’s mendable. All too aware that he’s got nothing better to do for the next few hours, Dan takes the ski over to the desk and lays it over his lap as he sits down to take a closer look. 
It’s just because he’s bored, he tells himself as he hunts for tools in Mona’s office, and discovers a tiny screwdriver and screws in one of the cleaning cupboards, along with a pot of superglue. The film is a long one tonight - The Italian Job - so for a few hours Dan is able to work in complete solitude, listening to a faint Muse song through one headphone, and not stopping until the ski is fixed.
*
“I just don’t understand why you’re still holding a grudge against the poor man,” Louise says, scrubbing at a pot with a scourer. Dan, sat up on one of the kitchen counters sipping hot chocolate, rolls his eyes. “He apologised for being rude, didn’t he?”
“Some apology,” Dan counters. Since two days ago in the gym, Dan has convinced himself that Mr Novokoric’s words had been largely to smooth things over with the staff member he’d pissed off, considering that it would be pretty awkward seeing him around the place 24-7 if they were not on speaking terms. In no way, Dan has decided, did Mr Novokoric actually mean what he said. “Just because he’s eloquent doesn’t make him sincere.”
“Ooh-er,” Louise says, flicking washing up water at him. He squeaks, shielding his hot chocolate. “Sounds like he got under your skin.”
Dan’s next sip is too hot, and he burns his tongue.
“Anyway,” Louise says, tipping out the saucepan and laying it out to dry. She starts untying her apron, wearily. “There’s three hours until I’ve got to start on dinner, so I think I’ll have a little lie down. Can you hold the fort for a bit?”
“Uh…” Dan looks through the serving hatch into the empty mezzanine lounge. The Bryce sisters are the only guests staying here at the moment, though another couple are due to check in tonight. Right now, he’s pretty sure the Bryce sisters - an excitable, childlike pair of forty-something women on what they refer to as a ‘girls getaway’ - are in the jacuzzi. If they were anywhere indoors, Dan is certain he’d be able to hear their shrieks of laughter no matter which room they were in. “Sure, yeah. No worries.”
“If you need me, I’m in room three,” Louise says, already on her way to the kitchen door. “But Dan?”
“Yes?”
“Don’t need me,” she warns, and then exits the room.
*
About half an hour later, Dan is in the same position atop the kitchen counter, playing Crossy Road on his phone and polishing off a flapjack from the batch Louise made this morning. Suddenly, a noise like a throat clearing jolts him, and his animated emo goose is hit by a truck. He lowers the phone, head lifting, to see Mr Novokoric at the serving hatch, that cool assessing gaze chilling the temperature of the kitchen by at least two degrees. Dan swallows some flapjack the wrong way, and has to hide a mild choking fit.
In Mr Novokoric’s hand is a mug. “Is Louise here?” he asks.
Dan shakes his head, swallowing his own tonsils to cleat the flapjack from his airway. His eyes water, but he gets down from the counter one gangly leg at a time. “No, sorry,” he croaks. He wipes his hands of flapjack crumbs on a nearby tea-towel. “She’s napping. Can I help?”
Mr Novokoric appears troubled by this news, and takes a moment to reply, as if he’s mulling something over. Eventually, whatever wins out, and he asks, “any chance of some coffee?”
“Oh,” Dan says. “Have you run out of the instant packets in your room? I can find some in the stock cupboard-”
“No-o,” Mr Novokoric interrupts, as if he’s speaking with a half-wit. “I’m not looking for instant coffee. Louise usually makes me a macchiato, if I ask her.”
Dan’s blood runs cold, and he turns to eye the bulky coffee machine sat menacingly on the far counter. “Right,” Dan mutters. “Of course she does.”
Given his past failures to please Mr Novokoric thus far, he doesn’t feel he can say ‘oh, I’m not actually sure how to work this machine, maybe it would be best to wait for Louise to wake up’. So instead, Dan takes the mug, and steps warily over to the machine to attempt something called a ‘macchiato’.
“Caramel macchiato,” Mr Novokoric clarifies, at which Dan turns to blink at him, utterly bemused.
“Mhmm,” he says, for some wild reason. “No problem.”
As he surveys the contraption before him, Dan can feel eyes boring into the back of him - pure judgement coated in an intense, deep blue. He tries his best to ignore the prickle of skin this stare creates, and sets about mimicking what he can remember from watching Louise work the machine. He pours milk into one of the chrome jugs, shoves the spout into it and turns a dial. Droplets of milk immediately fly everywhere, and a monstrous hissing sound emerges from the beast. He quickly turns the dial back, abandoning that for now, and focuses on unfixing one of the espresso-filter-things from its lock. This takes a good two minutes of tugging and silently begging, during which time the milk in the jug seems to develop an appetising skin on top. At last, Dan pulls the thing free, dumps the used granules out and tamps some coffee into it, though he has no idea how much, and probably over-fills it. He does manage to fix it back in place, and over several agonising minutes the espresso drips through into the mug. When he can’t stand the waiting any longer, knowing damn well he’s being scrutinised, Dan takes the mug out, pours a dash of lukewarm milk into it from the jug, and takes it over to the hatch.
It looks.... pretty vile. But he has to hand Mr Novokoric something.
“Uh, here we go. One macchiato.”
He realises in the next moment that he forgot to add any caramel. Not that he’d have any idea where to procure it from in this kitchen. Mr Novokoric looks down at the coffee in Dan’s hand, sends him a look of something like pity, and makes no move to take it.
“Aaand suddenly I can think of nothing better than instant coffee,” he says, nose wrinkling.
He turns away, heading back towards the stairs, leaving Dan with an undrinkable mug of coffee, and a sudden urge to hurl himself off the side of the mountain.
*
“Dan, I need a word,” Mona says, beckoning him into the small office at the back of reception.
It’s early evening, and the neither the Bryce sisters nor the Lautrecs - a quiet French gay couple that arrived an hour or so ago - are interested in an evening film, so there’s fuck all to do. Instantly upon hearing Mona’s words, fear strikes Dan in the chest; he follows Mona into her office, heart in his throat. 
She gestures for him to sit on one of the wicker chairs in front of her desk, so he does, knee jiggling with nerves. “I’m really sorry Mona,” Dan blurts before she’s even sat down. “The job description didn’t say anything about being barista trained. If you received a complaint-”
“I’m going to stop you there, Dan,” Mona says, loudly and shrilly. “I don’t know what you are apologising for, but it’s probably best if I never find out, hm?” 
Gulping down the relief that surges forth, Dan nods emphatically, and relaxes back into the chair. Mona looks a little more polished than usual today, he notes. She has a high-collared white blouse on, which elongates her neck, and a pearl-encrusted scrunchie securing her usual bun. Dan has begun to notice that Mona dresses a bit smarter on the days the mail is delivered, or when new guests arrive, or leave. In other words, any time Kaspar is expected to be around. Kaspar dropped off the Lautrecs earlier, so today is no exception.
Right now she sits at the small desk, hands clasped, and clears her throat. Her cheeks are tinged with rosy pink, probably from Kaspar’s brief visit earlier. The idea of no-nonsense Mona having a teeny crush creates a warm glow in Dan’s chest, and he smiles. “I called you in here because I have some unfortunate news,” Mona says. Dan’s smile quickly vanishes. “I’ve been called away this weekend.”
“Oh,” Dan says, already confused. “Is everything-”
“It’s a personal matter,” Mona tells him, firmly ending his inquiry before it’s begun. “But the timing is poor, what with you having just started, and with it being Louise’s weekend off.”
For a few moments, the implications of this don’t quite settle in. Then, Dan stops being quite so dim. “Wait, do you mean I’d be here alone?”
Mona avoids his eye, neatening some papers on her desk. “I understand that it might seem rather daunting.”
“Mona, I’m nowhere near qualified to run this place on my own,” Dan says in a rush, blood starting to pound loudly in his ears.
Just the thought of such responsibility is crushing; what if he forgot to serve lunch? What if he overslept and nobody was available for the guests? He’s basically a glorified assistant here, he can’t be expected to handle real decisions.
“Dan, it’s just for a couple of days,” Mona says; there’s a pleading tone to her voice that Dan expects doesn’t rear its head very often. “Just until Louise returns on Sunday night. Kaspar can make it up here in a matter of hours if there’s an emergency. But you won’t need him. There’s only one couple booked in to stay, and I doubt they’ll be very high maintenance.”
One couple and a narcissistic rich twat-face whose snobbery extends right down to his coffee order, Dan thinks, but begrudgingly admits to himself that Mr Novokoric is unlikely to be very demanding either. The man seems to keep mostly to himself unless he truly can’t help it. Dan folds his arms across his chest, lip caught between his teeth. He can’t really refuse, particularly as he suspects that Mona is desperate enough to get down onto her stocking-covered knees and beg him. Perhaps he could manage to keep the place afloat without any major screw-ups. But the stress of it all might kill him, even so.
“I know this is completely unfair of me,” Mona tells him, and reaches up to tug the pearl scrunchie out of her bun. The hair spills out, revealing a shoulder-length bob; the sight is so shocking that Dan feels his fingers twitching at his sides, as if he wants to scoop up the loose locks and pull them back into position. Mona runs both hands through the mess of hair, eyes fluttering shut. “I wouldn’t ask unless it were really important. Normally I’d rather drop dead than leave this place in someone else’s hands, even for a day or so, especially without Louise to help. But I just can’t see another option. It’s… it’s my grandmother, you see. She’s ninety-four, and on her last legs-”
“It’s fine,” Dan says quickly. He can’t bear to see her like this; he doubts that even Louise, who’s worked here for four years, has seen Mona with her hair down. Dan’s never even seen Mona in plain clothes. She probably sleeps in her crisp skirt-suits. “I can handle things,” Dan assures her, hoping he has something akin to conviction in his tone, given that he’s speaking out of his ass. “Like you said, it’s just a weekend.”
“I’ll be a phone call away,” Mona promises, eyes reopening in order to look at Dan like he’s Christ arisen. “Thank you, Dan. I’ll remember this.”
*
The following morning, Mr Novokoric is sat at a table on the balcony again, just as Dan is about to set up for breakfast. He already has a coffee in front of him today, Dan notes, cheeks burning when he remembers yesterday’s fiasco. Luckily it’s windy again this morning, so he can blame the pink colour of his skin on that, if asked.
He mutters a “good morning” and starts setting Mr Novokoric’s table, asking him politely to lift his drink so that he can lay a tablecloth down. Dan can feel that hard, ultramarine stare as he sets out a knife and fork he knows will remain untouched - the man seems to live on coffee alone - and tries to resist the urge to spew some garbled apology for yesterday’s macchiato fiasco.
Before he can get it out however, Mr Novokoric speaks. “So, I asked Mona to order me a new phone, and some new skis.”
The last word makes Dan drop a spoon. He bends down to get it, but he’s not quick enough. Mr Novokoric hands it back to him, some curious sparkle hiding beneath his usual stern expression.
“More skis,” Dan echoes, trying not to let his expression droop. So, it seems he’s spent a good three hours of his life fixing a ski that will shortly be replaced. So much for being a good samaritan. “Right. Are you asking me if they’ve arrived? I can check, but I don’t think Kaspar has brought them up yet-”
“Strangest thing, though,” Mr Novokoric interrupts, as though Dan hadn’t been in the middle of a sentence. “I went to throw my old skis away, and there’s nothing wrong with them. The strap’s been mended.”
“Huh,” Dan says, turning back to his basket for a new spoon. He sets it carefully on the table, trying to remain composed. “Weird.”
“Did you fix it?”
Pinned in place by Mr Novokoric’s gaze, Dan feels his face turning from pink to red. “I didn’t mean to overstep. I had no idea you’d already ordered more-”
He breaks off, wary of the strange expression being aimed at him. Mr Novokoric’s eyes have softened, and there’s something close to a smile threatening to break forth. The idea of him actually smiling is enough to fluster Dan into taking a hasty step backwards. The man is uncomfortably pretty as it is, which is confusing enough considering he’s such an asshole. Dan doesn’t know if he could handle a dazzling grin on top of that.
“That was… unexpected,” Mr Novokoric says slowly. His smile still hasn’t quite broken through, but his face has lost the hardness Dan is used to seeing. Without the usual frown lines and turned down corners of his mouth, he could even be beautiful. “Thank you. Of course, your repair is unneeded now, but I appreciate the gesture.”
“Yeah, um, no worries,” Dan says, wondering how rude it would be to just run away. “I had a spare minute, so…”
“Not many people would have the initiative, let alone the intellect to do that,” he says, draining the last of his coffee. He hold the mug out for Dan to take. “I’m impressed.”
Feeling about three inches tall now, Dan just gives him a tight smile. “Thanks,” he says through gritted teeth, and takes the mug. “Another coffee?”
“Depends,” Mr Novokoric answers, arching an eyebrow. “Who’s making it?”
“L-Louise,” Dan says, cheeks hot again.
“Then yes, please,” he says, turning back to the view in front of him.
“Right away, Mr Novokoric,” Dan mutters, glad of the eventual opening to escape.
“Dan?”
Ugh, not so fast, it seems. “Yes?”
“Call me Phil, if you like.”
*
“Lou, I have an urgent problem,” Dan says, slamming into the kitchen.
She doesn’t look up from the eggs she’s scrambling. “It’s gonna take me a few hours to sort your hair out for you, Dan. I don’t have time right now, I’ve got to get breakfast out.”
“What? No, I need you to teach me how to work the coffee machine,” Dan says, smoothing his hair down self-consciously.
Louise looks up sharply, a smirk spreading over her mouth. “Oh, really?”
“Yeah,” Dan says. “I’m going to be here on my own all weekend. I need to know how to make fancy coffees for… guests.”
“Caramel macchiatos?”
“All the different kinds!”
Louise laughs in her long, pretty trill, and nods. “After breakfast,” she says. “Meet me here, I’ll give you a lesson.”
Dan grins at her, then plucks a raspberry from a bowl nearby. “Oh, and Phil wants another cup when you have a sec.”
“Sure,” Louise mutters, going back to the eggs. “I’ll get that for Phil.”  
Dan pretends not to hear the knowing smile hidden in her voice as he exits the kitchen. He jogs back outside then, just in time to usher the Lautrecs to their table. 
*
As it turns out, the coffee machine is going to take more than one lesson to master. Not because it’s especially complicated - more because Dan is utterly inept.
“Watch it!” Louise shrieks as Dan turns the wrong knob, and spurts actual boiling steam from the nozzle. Luckily, they both somehow manage to avoid getting scalded. “My God, Daniel, have you never watched the barista as they make your latte before?”
“I’m not really very attentive,” Dan says, sheepishly. 
He looks over the herd of coffees he’s made over the last hour, all huddled together on the counter. The argument could probably be made that his most recent is better than the initial attempts, but that would hardly be a compliment. He imagines each of the milky, sludge-coloured concoctions is silently whispering ‘kill me, please’. 
“Okay, let’s try a macchiato again.” He’s nothing if not determined.
“You seem to be under the impression that I have nothing better to do than dodge you covering me in coffee granules,” Louise says, wiping the nozzle clean. “I’ve got to get lunch going, so maybe we can pick this up tomorrow.”
“Tomorrow is Friday,” Dan protests. “That’s the day you leave.”
“Not ‘til the evening,” Louise says. “There’s enough time to squeeze in another lesson before that, God help me.”
“Just one more,” Dan begs, giving her his most puppy-dog expression. “Just show me the macchiato again. Please.”
She sighs dramatically, sort of groaning. “Alright, alright. Get the caramel syrup then.”
It’s not until Dan has the syrup in his hands that he realises Louise is insinuating that these macchiatos are for Phil. She aims a knowing smile at him, and Dan just ignores her, cheeks pink as he pours caramel into the mug. He’s frothing milk, Louise shrieking instructions in his ear - “tilt the jug!”, “you’re spraying it everywhere, push the nozzle down more!”, “not that far, Christ!” - when he senses someone watching him. Mortified at the idea his foibles might be witnessed, Dan drops the jug and hot, not-so-frothy milk gushes everywhere, soaking his and Louise’s shoes, and a lot of the kitchen floor.
“Dan, I’m about to write you off as a lost cause!” Louise shouts, tearing her hat off her head and storming to the sink to find a cloth. “If these shoes are ruined you’re buying me more.”
Dan barely hears her; he’s too busy meeting the curious stare aimed at him. Phil Novokoric is sat at one of the indoor tables in the mezzanine, chin in his hand, watching Dan through the serving hatch. For some reason, Dan lifts his hand in a semblance of a wave; this seems to amuse Phil greatly, though he doesn’t wave back. Instead, a small, barely-there smile graces his lips, presumably for himself, and then he gets up, and walks towards the stairs to the lobby.
“Right,” Louise says, chucking a damp cloth at Dan. “Clean this up, then get the hell out of my kitchen. Coffee class resumes tomorrow.”
(Chapter Five coming next Friday!)
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Always My Favourite Muse | Closed | PastelPunk AU
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                  --- --- --- Phil Lester, lead singer and guitarist for one of the schools alternate bands was sat on the wall outside school. His hair styled in the most perfect quiff and his lip bitten. Tongue ring just showing as he ran it across his lip. He'd been sat watching Dan for a while, the was something about the other boy that for some reason made him want to stop what he was doing and pay attention. Of course, the other boy would never give him a look. They were complete opposites. Phil with his dark clothes and piercings. and Dan...well Dan was beautiful. His soft curls and soft colours set the punk boys heart aflutter, and well, a few of his songs were based on Dan, not that he'd say that when he was asked, he always made up some reason why they came about. Phil was so lost in thought, but when he saw Dan's little flower crown fall to the ground as he was walking off, he knew he had to do anything he could to give it back to him. Jumping down off the wall he'd been on, picked up the flower crown and ran after Dan, he wasn't the best runner but he hoped that Dan wouldn't be scared, he caught up and he tapped Dan lightly on the shoulder and held out the crown a soft smirk on his lips. "Hey....sorry...but you dropped this, And I've never seen you without it"
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tagging game
tagged by ella aka @jeffreycombs - thanks so much dude!!
nicknames: lev IS a nickname, but my best friend exclusively calls me Bitch  gender/pronouns: nonbinary, they/them star sign: scorpio height: 5′6″ time: 11:08pm birthday: november 10th favourite bands: the mountain goats and the front bottoms are really the only bands i listen to consistently favourite solo artists: kesha + carly rae jepsen are my muses and you can fight me
song stuck in your head: none currently but during an english exam last week i had the full house theme on repeat in my head (i haven’t even WATCHED full house) last movie you watched: zombieland last show: i’ve been bingeing brooklyn 99 all week why did you create your blog: i had dumb shit from when i was 14 on my old one and all my followers were inactive other blogs: none, but i have some saved urls
do you get asks: yeah babey
how did you get the idea for your url: i’d seen a trend emerging where people made their urls “*insert man’s name* lesbian” and i was like...gotta jump on that i follow: anyone with good content i guess?? followers: around 450 average hours of sleep: about 7 hours, 9-10 on weekends lucky number: 6 and 17 instruments: i used to play keyboard but i’ve forgotten literally everything what are you wearing: my pyjamas (dan and phil tour tshirt and pj bottoms) dream trip: not to sound like a weeb or anything but i really wanna go to japan one day yikes significant other: lol last book i read: i literally haven’t read a book in well over a year, but i think the last one was salem’s lot by stephen king top 3 fictional universes: again i’m gonna sound like a weeb but bnha for the superpowers, fma for living in the same universe as alphonse elric, and not to be that loser but httyd cos.... dragons (i’m not very cultured in franchises that have deep and complex worldbuilding, i was a deprived child)
tagging: @hermann-thotlieb, @ksciencegay, @bae-science, @charliesbeer, @thecitylightshow, @blackwhistler, @the-apocalypse-is-cancelled, and @kaijuhoe
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Love; not wrong (brave)
Happy valentines day 💞💞 i hope u have a great day, where ever you are and whatever you do.
This is litteraly just 4k words of fluffy stuff (although phil’s lowkey drunk in one of the prompts, nothing happens other than him ranting about how perfect dan is, but if you dont like that stuff its the 14th. Theres also a few loose mentions of depression and feelings of anxiety but nothing dan and phil dont say themselves. Also swearing bcuz dan. Happy endings thoo, i mean its just oneshots lmao). I hope you like it tho it was v fun to write. All the prompts are from @inlovesuggest (i got their permisson).
(Also the numbers at the begining of some of them like “[10]” are what year it takes place in, if i think its important to include. If thats not there it can take place whenever makes sense but probably 2017/18)
Yeahhh hope you enjoy! @dan-matian (from @butterscotchwithwhitemalteasers)
(I’ll stop overexplaining now) ———- ———- ❝ i have a feeling im gonna love you for a long long time ❞ ———- [09] ———- It was the day after when Phil realised he might be in love.
After the anticipation, after the endless butterflies, after the sunset Skybar dates.
They were lying on Phil’s family sofa together, rewatching episodes of Buffy in comfortable silence. Dan’s head was laying on Phil’s chest as Phil ran his fingers through Dan’s hair, it was curling at the tips now.
Dan started giggling at some cheesy joke, and hid his smile in his hands. His red patch flared up, his dimples grew, eyes crinkled. He did have a pretty laugh.
Phil titled his head and gave Dan a look.
“I’m not laughing! Shut up.” Dan’s face turned red-rose as he pushed it inside Phil’s shirt.
Phil couldn’t help the huge grin that spread across his face.
“You were. But I was just thinking.”
“About what?”
“You’re kinda cute,”
“Oh.”
Dan’s face got even more rosy, if that was possible.
“And I think I might love you.” ———- ❝ The sound of your voice makes me realize everything is ok, as long as I’m by your side. ❞ ———- [16] ———- Even after years of doing tours and books, Phil still felt nervous on stage.
Thousands of people watching him live, expecting, hoping.
He knew they loved him, but that didn’t console the pit in his stomach whenever he was about to step on.
What did help, however, was Dan.
Dan being there. His slightly posh voice, his half-confident-half-slacking posture. His arm, brushing against Phil’s, as he rushed off to go do something; or just so they could touch for a brief moment.
It was almost time to head on. Phil could hear the audience and the pre-show music Dan set, he could feel the anticipation in the air.
Unlike Dan, Phil was a shy kid. He didn’t do drama, he didn’t preform. This wasn’t him.
Dan’s fingers loosely touched against Phil’s arm, pulling him out of his thoughts.
“We go on in five.”
Phil smiled nervously.
“Okay.”
“We’ll be fine.”
As long as they’re together. ———- ❝ when it works out, love is incredible. it’s not overrated; there’s a reason for all the songs ❞ ———- [16] ———- Before the past years, Dan had never cared for love songs.
It’s not that he thought they were bad, or that he wouldn’t listen to them, he just found them rather unrelatable and boring. How many times does one have to listen to someone sing about the touch of another person?
But then he fell in love.
Truly, truly fell in love. Not teenage romance, not a Saturday night hookup, not an unrequited crush. True, mutual, comfortable love.
And he found himself relating to the songs he found so boring.
Suddenly, every overplayed radio song was about Phil.
Every ‘his lips tasted like candy’ was about the specific sweet-sour wine of Phil’s lips on a loud Friday night and a calm Wednesday morning.
Every 'I could spend forever with you’ was not an over exaggeration, but rather, true.
Why wouldn’t he spend forever with Phil? It just made sense.
Every love song made sense.
He had girlfriends before, and a boyfriend too. But Phil was the first one to ever make him realise why people wished to be in love. ———- ❝ when i say “i love you” it’s not out of habit, it’s to remind you that you’re the best thing that’s ever happened to me ❞ ———- Compared to other people, maybe Dan and Phil didn’t say 'I love you’ much.
They decided, after a while, they’d rather show it.
So maybe Phil wouldn’t always say 'I love you’ before bed, but he would cook dinner more days a week than Dan.
He would take care of Dan when Dan couldn’t take care of himself. Phil would always cover anything for Dan, because he knew sometimes he needed it, even if he didn’t say.
He would make sure Dan got home safe, even when he only went out for milk. He’d even go out and get milk for Dan, if he was feeling far too overwhelmed to leave home that day.
And yeah, Dan might not always whisper 'I love you’ during early morning breakfasts, but he would take care of Phil when he was feeling poorly.
He would do more editing for the gaming channel, and he cleaned up the house far more. He tried to do most of their paperwork, because it often stressed Phil.
He would put his cereal in the same place every time, even when Phil always stole it.
But sometimes they would say I love you.
Sometimes, they would wake up and breathe it into each other’s ear.
Sometimes, they would make dinner and hum, in a tone, “I lovvveeee youuuuuuuu,” while putting it on the table.
Sometimes, they would sneak up behind each other while they edited, and scream it so loud that the other jumped off the sofa.
Sometimes, Phil would whisper it to Dan when Dan was too depressed to care.
Sometimes, Dan would mutter it to Phil when he was already far past asleep.
But they both always knew. ———- ❝ those knowing looks you give me from across the room are enough to make me want to stay in this place ❞ ———- Dan hated business meetings.
He hated going outside, he hated going into a building full of near-strangers, he hated talking to said strangers, he hated trying to understand complicated business concepts at far-too-early o'clock.
He wanted to leave.
Phil insisted, always, that he could go alone. It would be fine. Dan didn’t need to be there, and he didn’t mind.
Dan never took him up on the offer, he wasn’t that selfish.
So there he was, a Monday afternoon, looking out the window and bored out of his mind. He felt like he was in secondary school again; complicated concepts, boring statistics, and an unfocused mind. What was even so much better as an adult?
Dan felt Phil nudge his knee with a foot.
“You okay?” He whispered.
Right. That’s what was better. He had Phil.
“Yeah, just bored.”
“Me too, but there’s only fourty minutes left. You’ll be fine.”
Not for the first time, Dan admired Phil’s sensibility to always bring a watch to meetings.
They had both agreed that checking your phone looked quite rude, but checking a £3 Hello Kitty watch was a lot more subtle.
“Thanks.”
Phil gave Dan a small smile from across the table, and suddenly, maybe business meetings with Phil weren’t the worst place he could be. ———- ❝ we were dancing like idiots in the parking lot to our favourite bands people were staring but your dumb smile was enough to make me not care. ❞ ———- [10] ———- //“Change, Everything you are And everything you were”//
Dan never thought he would be the one slow-dancing in a parking lot at one in the morning, but apparently love mixed with sleepless nights is a hell of a drug.
//“Your number has been called Fights, battles have begun Revenge will surely come Your hard times are ahead”//
'Butterflies and Hurricanes’ played in the background, music surrounding them. It wasn’t a favourite Muse song for either of them, but it was perfect for the night.
Phil wasn’t the best dancer, Dan could admit. But neither was he, really. And it didn’t matter. They were together.
//“Best, You’ve got to be the best You’ve got to change the world”//
People were watching them, judging, or just confused. He was sure.
But when he looked up and saw Phil’s tired smile, and felt a soft kiss press his lips, he couldn’t bring himself to care.
And so they danced, a Saturday night, in a parking lot, to a Muse song.
//“And you use this chance to be heard Your time is now”//
And Dan had never felt so content. ———- ❝ maybe i could become a morning person if my mornings started next to you ❞ ———- [11] ———- It was no secret that Phil wasn’t a morning person.
Usually, he needed at least two cups of coffee and a bowl of cereal before you could even think about talking to him.
However, when he woke up with a sleeping Dan next to him, he found it hard to feel annoyed.
Dan was wrapped all around Phil, hand clutching his shirt tightly, their legs intertwined. His mouth was slightly opened, and although he didn’t snore, Phil could hear his soft breath.
He looked so young sometimes.
Dan started to open his eyes, having felt Phil’s body move.
“Mhmm?”
“Dan, I can’t reach my phone.”
Dan’s face scrunched up in distaste, “Don’t need it. 'Have me.”
Dan pulled Phil tightly into a half-hug, pinning him back down under the blankets.
He nuzzled his head into Phil’s neck, closing his eyes as his breathing steadied out again.
Maybe Phil didn’t actually mind mornings that much. ———- ❝ your laugh reminds me of all the good in the world ❞ ———- [15] ———- Dan had always loved Phil’s laugh.
From old videos, to Skype, to in person, to on the sofa next to him at three in the afternoon.
They were playing Mario Cart 8, and Dan wasn’t having the best luck. Despite being arguably worse, Phil had won every round so far, or at least gotten ahead of Dan.
Dan had managed to fling himself off the track entirely— for the fifteenth time that day— and Phil was laughing so hard Dan worried he might burst.
Dan’s favourite laugh of Phil’s.
His tounge-through-teeth laugh, where he tried to cover it with his hands but always gave in, ending up with smile lines and blushed cheeks.
Dan couldn’t stop staring. He had caused that.
He knew it was just a game of Mario Cart, that he made Phil laugh an endless amount of times, but occasionally it just hit him.
Not to romanticize, but Dan swore Phil’s laugh sounded like actual angels. It sounded like young children playing while their parents looked on; like every good thing to ever have existed, all at once. It reminded him of what happiness felt like.
“You okay Dan?”
Dan hadn’t realised how long he’d been staring for.
“Yeah. By the way, I like your laugh. Sounds nice.”
“Odd compliment, but thanks.” ———- ❝ wrapped in your arms, I feel so safe and calm. ❞ ———- Today had been a day.
Paperwork got mixed up, a venue had a miscommunication and lost a row of seats, and Phil’s birthday was in less than a week.
It was a lot for Dan at once, and he was so fucking tired.
“Phil! I need your help looking this over.”
Phil was on the phone, ordering dinner.
'Can it wait?’ He mouthed silently.
Dan shook his head violently. He was just about fed up.
Phil rolled his eyes, and muttered 'Be right back, emergency.’ into his phone.
“Alright, what?”
Dan squeezed his eyes shut tightly, shaking his head.
“I don’t know. Wait— Yes. I do know. It just is a bit blurry, in my head. Since I’m tired. Can you just explain what they said to call them for I’m really tired.”
Phil looked softly at Dan.
“It’s okay to take a break, Dan. It’s late. We can have dinner and go to bed or watch a movie.”
“No, I need this done tonight. You don’t understand. I need it perfect.”
“Not everything needs to be perfect.”
“Yes! Shit, yes. It does—”
Dan was exhausted.
Phil hugged Dan.
Dan eased into Phil’s embrace, hot tears rolling down his cheeks.
“I’m tired,”
“I know.”
“And so stressed.”
Phil kissed Dan’s forehead.
“I know, let’s lie down.”
Phil grabbed his phone, finished ordering their food, and lay on the sofa with Dan.
Dan nudged into Phil’s arms, closing his eyes.
Phil lightly kissed him, and held him closer.
“You can nap for a bit, if you want. The food is fourty minutes away. I’ll be here.”
Dan sighed contently.
“Thank you.” ———- ❝ my hands are cold, would you mind holding them? ❞ ———- [11] ———- “It’s snowing.”
Dan and Phil were sitting on Phil’s balcony, sipping hot coco.
“It is,”
“It’s cold.” Dan smiled innocently at Phil.
“Yes? Do you need mittens? I think I have a pair—”
“Can you hold my hand?”
“Oh-” Phil went bright pink, “Sure, yeah, okay.”
He reached out and tapped his fingers nervously against Dan’s free hand, before interlocking them.
“Thanks.”
“No problem. It is really cold, actually.”
Dan laughed, “Yeah, I know! It actually is snowing out, it wasn’t all a ploy.”
Phil smiled warmly.
“I like holding your hand.”
“We are doing this for warmth and survival only, you dork. But, I like holding your hand too.” ———- ❝ Just the two of us, cuddling at late night. Enjoying the silence, and the presence of each other. I fall asleep in your chest, hearing your heartbeats ❞ ———- It was 2am, they’re watching a Studio Ghibli movie.
Or at least, they were, until the credits rolled and they were too lazy to pick another one.
So now, they were lying on the sofa, listening to the silence and the others heartbeat.
Dan’s head was on Phil’s chest, a grin as he heard Phil’s soft breathing.
Phil was running his fingers through Dan’s curls, twirling each one.
Dan’s eyelids slowly difted closed, and his breathing evened out.
“Goodnight, Danny.” Phil whispered, pressing a kiss to his cheek.
Dan smiled within his sleep. ———- ❝ i never want to know what life is like without you again ❞ ———- [17] ———- In more ways than one, Dan and Phil ran on parallel tracks.
Their thoughts, but their actions too. Their daily lives so delicately intertwined.
They would wake up together, one kissing the other or just the sound of an aggressively loud alarm.
They would get dressed, take showers, brush their teeth, fix their hair, in turns. Perfectly in sync. A well oiled machine.
One of them would make breakfast, or they both would. Coffee, tea, cereal. A petty argument about stolen cereal, sometimes, then a slice of toast.
They would watch TV, or an anime, but today they watched Undercover Cops. Phil wanted to spice it up a bit.
After that, they’d sit in the lounge, doing nothing, editing, or any mix of the two.
Eventually, one of them would get hungry, and they would order or cook. Today it was order, burritos from a local mexican place and salads.
After they ate, Dan would take off somewhere else to do something else. Piano, games, or random things around the house. Phil might join him, but not always. This was as much space as they needed.
After that, Dan would return in exercise clothes with yoga mats. Phil would go off to change, and would return. Either yoga or some standard workout, nothing too much, but enough to make Dan okay. Phil never minded it.
After that, they would return to the lounge and relax for a while. Maybe catch up on a show. Other times, they might film a gaming video, or even a main channel video if one was prepared.
Then one would be hungry again, and they would make dinner. Sometimes they ordered, but less and less, since Dan’s therapist recommended healthy home-cooked meals. They decided on Indian food, Tandoori Chicken and Rice, with a Stir-Fry.
After dinner, Dan would go play games, and Phil might too. Or maybe watch a show Dan didn’t care for. Maybe clean up a bit more. Always something, though. Unless it was a nothing day.
Sometime at night, they would get tired. They’d head off to bed, maybe Dan would want to shower again. They would just lay with each other, until the comfort of the other persons presence lulled them both to sleep.
They worked well together, and had done for years. It was hard to remember a time before they were each others lives.
Rarely ever alone. ———- ❝ a concept: holding hands while walking along the beach as the sun sets next to us and we kiss and we kiss and we kiss and mmmaybe kiss ❞ ———- [10] ———- After four hours, Dan and Phil had finally managed to escape from the rest of the group.
Now they were walking down the sandy beach, awkwardly watching the sunset, side by side.
Neither one really knew what they were doing, neither really cared.
The sky had just reached that violet-red-orange ice-creamed mix when Phil intertwined his fingers with Dan’s.
Dan looked up at him, pink cheeks.
They glanced at each other for a second longer, then continued walking.
“You do realise we’re literally doing that romantic-walk-on-the-beach cliché thing?”
“Yeah, but it’s nice.”
“It is,”
Dan looked into Phil’s eyes a moment, then softly pressed their lips together. ———- ❝ i love the way you sound at 3am and how you look when you smile. it’s addicting ❞ ———- [09] ———- It was three in the morning, and Phil had decided that Dan was pretty.
And not the flowy-hair-model pretty, but the timeless one. The one where your features are just— perfect.
Phil couldn’t even think of a proper describing word; although that may be the three glasses of wine he had earlier.
He looked at Dan’s fuzzy image through his laptop, admiring. Dan had been attempting to play piano, but gave up and was just lying on his bed now.
“You’re pretty.” Phil whispered.
Dan blushed. How adorable.
“Thanks?”
“Really. Timelessly beautiful. And sexy, and handsome and hot and gorgeous and every other good word. You’re— Dan. That’s perfect. Dan is a good word.”
Dan grinned wide at Phil’s drunken rambles.
“I–”
“And your voice, it’s just nice. Calming. You think it’s too posh or whatever but it’s not. It’s great Dan. It’s Dan! That’s a good thing. I love it. One day I wanna fall asleep to it and wake up to it and—”
Phil teared up at this. He wanted to be with Dan forever, and he knew it.
“Dan, I,”
Dan was looking a bit confused now.
“Yeah, Phil? Are you okay?”
“You’re pretty, Dan. That’s all. But that’s not all at all.” ———- ❝ being old doesn’t seem too awful when i think about growing old with you ❞ ———- [18] ———- Phil sighed, rolling over in bed.
“I’m thirty-one now.”
Dan smiled, “Yeah?”
“That’s pretty old.”
“Not that old, honestly.” Dan laughed quietly, “You’re barely over your twenties.”
“People my age have families,” Phil stares at the ceiling, unblinking. “They’re married with a house.”
“Kids don’t make you old, Phil. People have kids at sixteen, my mum had me at ninteen for God’s sake. And anyone can buy a house, anyone can get married.”
Phil leaned on his side to look at Dan. “You know what I mean—I could. I haven’t done that much, I’m getting old. I could die tommorow.”
Dan’s turn to sigh.
“You could’ve died yesterday, Philly.” He smiles fondly, “And you have done so, so, much. Really. You’ve gone to University, had three homes, have four million fans, gone on tour—there’s more to life than just domestic stuff. And if you want domestic stuff, we can do that too. Forever home, dog, eventually marriage and kids.”
“I know,”
“What’s the issue?”
“I dunno. I just don’t wanna die. I don’t want to be old, really. I don’t know.”
Dan glanced at him.
“You’re gonna be old. We’ll be old together. Like the great poet Ed Sheeran once said, 'I’ll be loving you 'till we’re seventy,’”
Phil giggles, “Maybe you’re right. It’ll be fun with you. You make things fun.”
“Yup. I’ll always love you, even when you have grey hair that you still dye black, and wrinkles, and smell like bad cologne.”
“Always.” ———- ❝ when it works out, love is incredible. it’s not overrated; there’s a reason for all the songs ❞ ———- [16] ———- Before the past years, Dan had never cared for love songs.
It’s not that he thought they were bad, or that he wouldn’t listen to them, he just found them rather unrelatable and boring. How many times does one have to listen to someone sing about the touch of another person?
But then he fell in love.
Truly, truly fell in love. Not teenage romance, not a Saturday night hookup, not an unrequited crush. True, mutual, comfortable love.
And he found himself relating to the songs he found so boring.
Suddenly, every overplayed radio song was about Phil.
Every 'his lips tasted like candy’ was about the specific sweet-sour wine of Phil’s lips on a loud Friday night and a calm Wednesday morning.
Every 'I could spend forever with you’ was not an over exaggeration, but rather, true.
Why wouldn’t he spend forever with Phil? It just made sense.
Every love song made sense.
He had girlfriends before, and a boyfriend too. But Phil was the first one to ever make him realise why people wished to be in love. ———- ❝ How dare you make me smile so hard that my face hurts when you’re so far away? ❞ ———- “Well this feels like déjà vu.”
Dan was sitting on their bed, laptop opened to Skype, smiling at Phil.
Phil was at his parent’s house, sitting on a guest bed, smiling back.
“You’re right. I have too many memories of nights like these.” Phil laughs half-heartedly.
“I probably would’ve just come with you, if I didn’t have a video to film.”
“I know. And remember to send me the file when you’re done so I can watch over it.”
“Yes, Dad.” Dan rolled his eyes fondly.
“It’s your regret, Daniel.”
Dan sighed, “I miss you.”
Phil smiled back, sadly, “I miss you too. But it’s only a few days, don’t worry. Just edit.”
“I remember a lot of nights back then, saying how one day we would never have to Skype again, yet here we are.”
“Stop being melodramatic Dan, it’s only a weekend for my mum’s birthday. We’ll live.”
“Will we? Because I swear I’m dddddyyyinnngggg!” Dan flopped down on the bed, pretending to faint, and they both fall into a fit of giggles.
“Noooo Danny! Don’t go into the light!”
“It’s too late… I can—see God… she’s coming for me…”
“Dannnnnnn! Nooo!” Phil put his hand over his heart and sobbed dramatically.
“God is Ribena Phil, but you didn’t hear that from me.”
They both burst into uncontrollable laughter at this, tears streaming down Dan’s face, struggling to catch their breath.
“Oh my god, Dan!”
“Oh my—Oh my Ribena, you mean!—”
They both gasped for air, Dan’s cheeks hurt from smiling so hard.
“Of course, how dare I!?”
Once the laughter had settled down and they were both softly smiling again, Dan sighed.
“I still wish you weren’t so far. I want to be with you.”
Phil smirked, “Don’t you mean 'I wonder how biology can explain the physical pain you feel in your chest when all you want to do is be with someone’?”
“Shut up! Why do you even remember that?” Dan blushed and hid his face in a pillow.
Old feelings, old love. ———- ❝ in your kiss, I felt at peace ❞ ———- [09] ———- Butterflies.
Dan looks at Phil, Phil looks at Dan.
Dan tilts his head to the side.
His head is beating fast, but his heart is beating faster.
Phil is beautiful.
Now or never.
Butterflies.
Two lips, just two lips.
Soft. Phil’s lips are very soft. And sweet like honey.
Butterflies and honey.
A winning combination for your butterflies to get all sticky and trapped, and for you to feel brave.
Honey is sweet, like Phil’s lips.
Phil’s lips are better than honey.
This isn’t Dan’s first kiss, but it might as well be. This feels more important.
Honey.
Butterflies.
Honey is sweet.
Phil’s lips are sweeter.
“Thank you.” ———-
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dnpg · 6 years
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hey my name is alex, i really love the not my arms mario kart video, my favorite color is yellow (not BRIGHT yellow. like a muted yellow) and i’ve recently been getting into muse (for the edits thing)
Hello Alex! You can find the one I made for you here! I tried making it have a muted yellow aesthetic lol it was hard to get the colouring for the GIFs but it looks alright I guess :P 
I’ve been listening to a lot of Muse lately too! I’ve gotten into them recently as well thanks to Dan and Phil haha and my personal favourite song is probably Map of the Problematique (but I also really love Madness, Undisclosed Desires, and Panic Station + like 10 more but if I name them all this would be sUPER LONG)
Anyways I hope you like it! :D
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platonic-bellarke · 6 years
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Do all of the number asks
Wow ok 1: Full nameSarah Abigail Large 2: Age163: 3 FearsDrowning, being considered an annoying friend, being ignored 4: 3 things I loveMusic Frank iero Art5: 4 turns onTattoos Dark hair (on guys on girls anything)Blue eyes Being able to listen to me rant and talk about things I love 6: 4 turns offRepublicans Homophobic people Ignoring me Hypocrisy 7: My best friendShe goes to my school 8: Sexual orientationBisexual9: My best first dateI have never dated anyone lmao10: How tall am I5’4 and a half11: What do I missMy Chemical Romance and my best friend in elementary school and middle school 12: What time was I bornI think around 12:35 in the afternoon 13: Favourite colorAnything blue tbh (pretty much cool colors)14: Do I have a crushYes, I actually have 2 lmao here’s this girl and my school and this guy at this other school 15: Favourite quote“Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself and become a better person” or “All your quirks, all your problems-even your depressions and your failures-it what makes you, you” both by Gerard Way (or just “keep running” from danger days) 16: Favourite placeMy bed with my dog and cat listening to music 17: Favourite foodI love banana and grapes 18: Do I use sarcasmOccasionally 19: What am I listening to right nowThe white album by Weezer (specially the song L.A. girlz)20: First thing I notice in new personEither hair and facial features or, if I talk to them, their personality 21: Shoe sizeLike 8-9 (in US women’s)22: Eye colorLike blue, green, grayish 23: Hair colorbrown with some natural blonde highlights 24: Favourite style of clothingI love flannels and black jeans and beanies and hoodies (idk just like that aesthetic)25: Ever done a prank call?Yep27: Meaning behind my URLThe joke of bellarke being platonic and “platonic bellarke” being an oxymoron 28: Favourite moviePretty much any marvel movie (mcu) especially winter soldier or Ragnarok 29: Favourite songFamous last words, mama, the ghost of you, bulletproof heart, literally any thing by My Chemical Romance A Rush of Blood to the Head and Clocks by Coldplay Knights of Cydonia by Muse Jesus of Suburbia by Green Day Say it ain’t so and My Name is Jonas by Weezer Ode to sleep by Twenty One Pilots (I couldn’t narrow it down to one sorry)30: Favourite bandMy Chemical Romance (coldplay and Muse and close seconds)31: How I feel right nowAnxious (over nothing) tired, a little sad32: Someone I loveFrank iero, my best friend, my family 33: My current relationship statusSingle (hmu)34: My relationship with my parentsReally good 35: Favourite holidayHALLOWEEN 36: Tattoos and piercing i haveNone :(37: Tattoos and piercing i wantI want my ears and nose pierced. I want a My Chemical Romance, Coldplay, and muse tattoo (and many more)38: The reason I joined TumblrI made my first account in 2013 because my friends had tumblr and I want to blog about bands and tv shows. I made this one in 2016 because I want my tv shows and movie posts to be separated from my band blog. My band blog is less active now and has less followers lmao39: Do I and my last ex hate each other?Don’t have an ex. Never dated anyone 40: Do I ever get “good morning” or “good night ” texts?Nope :/41: Have I ever kissed the last person you texted?No42: When did I last hold hands?My sister will grab my hands randomly haha43: How long does it take me to get ready in the morning?For school like 10 minutes but like if I’m going out and actually care about my appearance like an hour to an hour and a half 44: Have You shaved your legs in the past three days?Nope45: Where am I right now?The bath46: If I were drunk & can’t stand, who’s taking care of me?I have never drank (and tbh don’t plan on it) but probably my friends (?)47: Do I like my music loud or at a reasonable level?In my headphones: loud. In a public area: reasonable bc I don’t want to bother anyone 48: Do I live with my Mom and Dad?Yep I’m only 1649: Am I excited for anything?YES I AM MEETING AND SEEING AWOLNATION, JUDAH AND THE LION, AND DAN AND PHIL 50: Do I have someone of the opposite sex I can tell everything to?nope. I have 0 guys friends bc I go to an all girls school 51: How often do I wear a fake smile?Lmao when ever I talk to someone who talks for too long or when I’m talking to teachers 52: When was the last time I hugged someone?Like 2 weeks ago not sure 53: What if the last person I kissed was kissing someone else right in front of me?I never kissed anyone lmao54: Is there anyone I trust even though I should not?Haha yep55: What is something I disliked about today?My body 56: If I could meet anyone on this earth, who would it be?Frank iero (or Gerard Way or Chris Martin) 57: What do I think about most?How much i hate my body and how much I miss my Chemical Romance 58: What’s my strangest talent?I don’t really have any talents (I can whistle really well) 59: Do I have any strange phobias?Ladybugs60: Do I prefer to be behind the camera or in front of it?Either (I want to become a film maker or an actor so)61: What was the last lie I told?Told my friend I was busy the other day when really I just wanted to be alone and watch Lucifer and runaways 62: Do I perfer talking on the phone or video chatting online?Depends on the person but usually phone 63: Do I believe in ghosts? How about aliens?No for ghost yes for aliens 64: Do I believe in magic?Nope65: Do I believe in luck?Nope66: What’s the weather like right now?Super cold but I like lt (like 33 degrees and sunny) (0 degrees if your a Celsius person)67: What was the last book I’ve read?I am reading the umbrella academy comic by Gerard Way currently but for a book... I don’t really like to read books (for school I just read summary’s lmao) so the last full book I read was probably the hobbit in middle school (I love that book)68: Do I like the smell of gasoline?Yes 69: Do I have any nicknames?Abea, Dabby, anby70: What was the worst injury I’ve ever had?I got a cut on the top of the head when I was little and my dad had to stick it back 71: Do I spend money or save it?I try to save it but it usually doesn’t happen 72: Can I touch my nose with a tounge?No 73: Is there anything pink in 10 feets from me?Yes, a shampoo bottle 74: Favourite animal?CATS75: What was I doing last night at 12 AM?Watching Stephen Colbert 76: What do I think is Satan’s last name is?Either trump or Morningstar (I have been watching too much Lucifer Help)77: What’s a song that always makes me happy when I hear it?Vampire money, famous last words by My Chemical Romance Mr. Brightside by the Killers 78: How can you win my heart?Liking the same music or shows and movies as me/Being able to listen to me rant about things I either love or hate 79: What would I want to be written on my tombstone?Idk something meaningful not sure yet 80: What is my favorite word?Idk I like the word nonchalant81: My top 5 blogs on tumblrI refuse to narrow it down to 5 82: If the whole world were listening to me right now, what would I say?Listen to conventional weapons by My Chemical Romance 83: Do I have any relatives in jail?Nope84: I accidentally eat some radioactive vegetables. They were good, and what’s even cooler is that they endow me with the super-power of my choice! What is that power?Either teleportation/Shrink and grow at will/or change my appearance and look like whoever I want 85: What would be a question I’d be afraid to tell the truth on?Why I am sad86: What is my current desktop picture?I have like 10 back grounds but my main ones are my meet and greet with 30STM, a pic of frank iero I took at his show, and a pic of Matt Bellamy I took at a muse show 87: Had sex?No but I would like to 88: Bought condoms?Nope89: Gotten pregnant?Nope and hopefully I never will90: Failed a class?Nope91: Kissed a boy?Nope, but I would like to 92: Kissed a girl?No, but I would like to93: Have I ever kissed somebody in the rain?Nope94: Had job?Nope95: Left the house without my wallet?Yep96: Bullied someone on the internet?No97: Had sex in public?Nope98: Played on a sports team?Yep, I swam and played soccer when I was younger 99: Smoked weed?Nope but I would like to100: Did drugs?No101: Smoked cigarettes?No and I don’t want to102: Drank alcohol?Yes, my parents will let me try their drinks. I have never liked them 103: Am I a vegetarian/vegan?I don’t eat any meat besides occasionally chicken 104: Been overweight?Yep105: Been underweight?Nope106: Been to a wedding?Yep107: Been on the computer for 5 hours straight?Yep108: Watched TV for 5 hours straight?Yep 109: Been outside my home country?Yep110: Gotten my heart broken?Kinda, one of my friends told me some pretty awful shit that made me hate myself and convince my self I have no friends so I hate her now and we used to be very close but whatever 111: Been to a professional sports game?Yep112: Broken a bone?I broke my finger once113: Cut myself?No but I have tried 114: Been to prom?No but I will this year !115: Been in airplane?Yep (was actually on one yesterday haha)116: Fly by helicopter?Nope117: What concerts have I been to?Boi so many. I have been to over 15Including Fall Out Boy Three Times Panic! At the Disco 3 times Twenty one pilots 3 timesWeezer 3 times (a 4th this summer)PVRIS 3 timesMuse30 Seconds to Mars Coldplay Frank iero and the Patience Bastille twice Judah and the lionBlink-182Green DayMaroon 5 118: Had a crush on someone of the same sex?Yep, I currently do119: Learned another language?Nope 120: Wore make up?Yes, I love makeup 121: Lost my virginity before I was 18?Nope, I’m only 16 though 122: Had oral sex?Nope123: Dyed my hair?Yep124: Voted in a presidential election?Nope125: Rode in an ambulance?Nope126: Had a surgery?I got my wisdom teeth removed does that count (?)127: Met someone famous?Yep, 30stm(Jared Leto), Tyler Joseph of twenty one pilots, panic! At the Disco, misha and Jared and Jensen from Supernatural, and Victoria justice 128: Stalked someone on a social network?Yep129: Peed outside?Yep130: Been fishing?Yes I hated it 131: Helped with charity?Yep 132: Been rejected by a crush?I have never asked anyone out 133: Broken a mirror?Nope 134: What do I want for birthday?Concert tickets, a s.o.135: How many kids do I want and what will be their names?I never want kids omfg 136: Was I named after anyone?I don’t think so 137: Do I like my handwriting?Hahah no 138: What was my favourite toy as a child?I loved Thomas the train shit139: Favourite Tv Show?Either the 100, sherlock, or Gotham 140: Where do I want to live when older?I would like to live in Europe for some time in my life but I’ll probably stay in Tennessee for most of my life but I would love to travel everywhere 141: Play any musical instrument?No but I am trying to learn bass 142: One of my scars, how did I get it?There’s a scar on my knee from when i was climbing rocks to get to a rope swing and I scraped my leg on a rock 143: Favourite pizza toping?Extra cheesy haha (also cold pizza is better)144: Am I afraid of the dark?No I love the dark145: Am I afraid of heights?No I LOVE heights omg 146: Have I ever got caught sneaking out or doing anything bad?No bc I don’t really like doing bad things 147: Have I ever tried my hardest and then gotten disappointed in the end?Yep haha148: What I’m really bad atTalking about my feelings 149: What my greatest achievments arePassing some hard classes, swimming a 50 freestyle in under 30 Seconds 150: The meanest thing somebody has ever said to meOh boy that “friend” to me that:-no one cares about me-I have no close friends -I’m selfish -I take what I want from others -I pride myself on being nice 151: What I’d do if I won in a lotteryUse most of it to have a safe future but some for concert tickets and band stuff 152: What do I like about myselfTbh nothing, maybe the fact that I am ok at makeup (?)153: My closest Tumblr friendDon’t really have any close Tumblr friends. MESSAGE ME IF YOU WANT TO 154: Something I fantasise abouta My Chemical Romance reunion, what it would be like to be in a relationship 155: Any question you’d like??
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flippin-phantastic · 7 years
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i was tagged in two posts so i thought id just post them in one lol
Tagged by @rain-boy-lester
rules: answer the questions and tag twenty of your followers you’d like to know better!
name: poonam nicknames: pook, pookster, pookie, etc. zodiac: Sagittarius
height: 5′3”
age: 27 orientation: bi ethnicity: Asian (indian/Punjabi) american favorite fruit: strawberries and cherries favorite season: fall favorite flowers: roses favorite scent: my burberry perfume favorite book series: harry potter coffee, tea, or cocoa: all three? lol cats or dogs? cats average hours of sleep: ffffffffff like 10 favorite fictional character: im so bad at picking favorites omg. Jon snow? D: otp: phan lol dream trip: japan blogs: just this one
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tagged by @wyrneck
Rules: Answer the 30 questions then tag 20 blogs u would like to get to know better
1. Nicknames: pook, pookster, pookie, etc. 2. Gender: female 3. Star sign: Sagittarius 4. Height: 5′3” 5. Time: 10:53 pm 6. Birthday: November 26 7. Favourite bands: my chemical romance (rip), muse, linkin park, top, etc
8. Favourite solo artists: the weeknd, Kendrick lamar, ed Sheeran, etc 9. Song stuck in my head: ae dil hai mushkil
10. Last movie watched: the conjuring
11. Last show watched: the fosters, but only one episode. Before that it was game of thrones. 12. When did i create my blog: jfc I don’t even know D: *checks* ok according to my archives my first post was in may 2012 omg. 13. What do i post: lol. Well I mainly reblog dan and phil, animals, pretty stuff, funny stuff, etc. and I mainly post my art.
14. Last thing i googled: how to check when I joined tumblr (lol) 15. Do you have other blogs: nope 16. Do you get asks: nope ;( 17. Why did you choose your url: because im dan and phil trash and it had a nice ring to it 18. Following: 3,304  19. Followers: 3,362 20. Favourite colours: red, blue, purple 21. Average hours of sleep: 10 22. Lucky number: 11 or 111 23. Instruments: I have a piano but still need to learn it ;( 24. What am i wearing: snoopy pj pants, supernatural shirt, and giant sweater cardigan thing 25. How many blankets do i sleep with: mainly 1 26. Dream job: artist 27. Dream trip: Japan
28. Favourite food: burgers  29: Nationality: american 30: Favourite song right now: hmmm it’s usually the latest one I download lol so I’ll go with “when it’s cold I’d like to die” by Moby
I tag: ​ @pandamanda @strawberrie-tea @emeraldblaster @limitlessphan @secretly-me @eroticgropefest @justalittlebitofphan @fringeboyes @eww-get-away-from-me @ginger-tea-enthusiast @just-a-touch-of-phan ahhhh and anyone else who would like to!!! im terrible at tagging people ;(
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ronxnb · 5 years
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task no. 1 
PREFERRED NAME — ashley or ash, either works 
PRONOUNS — she/her
AGE — turned 24 in april! 
PINTEREST — as0471 
DISCORD — ashleys#1515
TUMBLR (PERSONAL/MUSE/RPH) — clderparts
MYER-BRIGGS — i always forget lol 
HP HOUSE — hufflepuff to the extreme. my patronus is facking badger 
ASTROLOGY — taurus 
DO YOU BELIEVE IN ASTROLOGY? — truthfully i don’t know much about it. although, i do find it very interesting 
HOW OLD WERE YOU WHEN YOU STARTED RPING ON TUMBLR — ooh 15, i think. wow. 
WHAT YEAR WAS IT? — that would be...... 2011 
NAME A RANDOM ROLEPLAY THAT STICKS OUT IN YOUR MEMORY — pll cast roleplay; my first roleplay 
WITHOUT GOOGLING IT FIRST, WHAT DO YOU THINK SIR ELTON JOHN’S NET WORTH IS? — literally no idea 
NAME THE FIRST SONG ON YOUR DISCOVER WEEKLY ON SPOTIFY OR THE FIRST SONG THAT COMES ON APPLE MUSIC / ITUNES SHUFFLE — vicodin by cvbz 
NAME A BOOK THAT YOU READ IN SCHOOL THAT YOU SURPRISINGLY LIKED — i think it was called in the woods?? 
NAME A BOOK YOU HATED THAT MOST PEOPLE LIKED — i hated the scarlet letter, but i think that’s cause i’m dumb and struggle with old english 
WHAT TV SHOW DID YOU RECENTLY BINGE? — i just started lucifer! 
FAVOURITE QUOTE — mmmm probably “you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
LINK TO A VINE THAT EXUDES YOUR ‘ENERGY’ — oh god, it has been so long 
DO YOU WRITE OUTSIDE OF RP? WHAT DO YOU WRITE? — not really, actually 
THREE YOUTUBERS YOU STILL TRUST — dan and phil, the try guys, ryan and shane 
A CELEBRITY CRUSH THAT JUST WON’T QUIT — camila mendes!!
EVER MEET A CELEBRITY? SHARE YOUR STORY — aaron paul came into my work once with his wife and baby, and i think my soul left my body for a full 20 seconds. it was so hard to keep a chill face 
WHAT’S YOUR PICTURE-PERFECT NIGHT? — laying in bed, reading, with a candle burning 
A CONSPIRACY THEORY YOU KINDA BELIEVE IN — i feel like something fishy happened with marilyn monroe tbh 
ARE ALIENS REAL? — i think it’s possible 
GHOSTS — my policy is i don’t know and i don’t wanna know 
BIG FOOT — maybe 
THE LOCHNESS MONSTER? — maybe 
WHAT WAS THE GENRE OF YOUR LAST DREAM? — it’s rare that i have pleasant dreams. they’re not usually full on nightmares, but i’m happy when i wake up. i’m not sure what genre that falls under  
DO YOU STILL PLAY POKEMON GO? — i never hopped on that train 
WHAT’S A FILM YOU LOVED WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG AND RECENTLY WATCHED, ONLY TO FIND OUT YOU DON’T ANYMORE — i can’t think of any examples 
DO YOU COLLECT ANYTHING? — i have a lot of books and lipstick, but nothing officially 
WHAT’S SOMETHING YOU WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT BUT YOU’RE TWO LAZY? — mythology! 
THREE LANGUAGES YOU DON’T SPEAK, BUT WISH YOU COULD — spanish, sign language, french 
A GUILTY PLEASURE MOVIE — probably any old disney movie 
A GUILTY PLEASURE MUSICAL ARTIST — i’m not sure i have one 
TELEVISION SHOW — ........river.....dale............ 
NAME A FICTIONAL CHARACTER FROM TV/FILM/MOVIE/GAME/BOOK THAT YOU FIND YOURSELF PROJECTING ON / YOU RELATE TO — i feel like i usually relate to book characters more, but a name isn’t popping into my mind 
DO YOU FOLLOW ANY SPORTS? WHO DO YOU ROOT FOR? — none at all 
HOBBIES BESIDES WASTING AWAY HERE? — reading, making gifs 
PLUG A TV SHOW / MOVIE / BOOK / VIDEO GAME / ETC… YOU WISH MORE PEOPLE WOULD CHECK OUT — JELLICOE ROAD BY MELINA MARCHETTA 
WOULD YOU EAT A STRANGER’S FINGER FOR A MILLION DOLLARS? — no
TEAM EDWARD OR JACOB?  — edward
LIVE-ACTION DISNEY MOVIES, YAY OR NAY? — i haven’t seen all of them, but i’ve like the few i’ve seen, so YAY 
ON A SCALE OF 1-10, HOW MUCH DID YOU HATE FILLING THIS OUT? – it has served as a reminder as to how boring i am 
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reaaqer · 7 years
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I was tagged by @assasins, @my-dark-shines, @140smashedguitars and @problemxtique to answer some questions. thank you so much for tagging me :’)). Answers are below the cut! sorry for answering so late.
1. Rules: Answer the questions and tag 20 blogs you would like to get to know better.
A - Age: 22
B - Birthplace: Mexico City
C - Current Time: 7:00 pm
D - Drink you last had: water
E - Easiest Person To Talk To: @meli-the-muser
F - Favourite Song: atm tunder by image dragons (i’m seeing them in September)
G - Grossest Memory: i have really bad memory LOL 
H - Horror Yes or Horror No: hell yes!
I - In Love: what is love?
J - Jealous of People: sometimes
K - Killed Someone: …
L - Love At First Sight Or Should I Walk By Again: walk by again 
M - Middle Name: karen (technically it’s part of my first name but i dont really use it)
N - Number of Siblings: 2 brothers and 1 sister
O - One Wish: more money in my bank account 
P - Person You Called Last: my dad 
Q - Question You Are Always Asked: when are you getting a boyfriend? shit i hate myself so much who would love me? 
R - Reason to Smile: my doggo cici :D
T - Time You Woke Up: 1pm lol i didn’t work today 
U - Underwear Colour: turquoise 
V - Vacation Destination: japan 
W - Worst Habit: overthinking 
X - X-rays: none
Y - Your favourite food: too many to name 
Z - Zodiac Sign: pisces 
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2. Rules: answer 20 questions and tag 20 people
Nickname: anita or anners
Zodiac: pisces
Height: 5′3″
last thing i googled: usps tracking website 
Favorite music artist: muse for sure lol
Song stuck in my head: thunder by imagine dragons
Last movie i saw: i don’t remember 
What am i wearing right now?: shorts and my tokyo ghoul shirt
Why did a chose my URL?: reaper and reaqer were taken already RIP and reaper solo kills me 
Do you have any other blogs?: yes, @deadstarlester which is my dan and phil blog with occasionally other youtubers and @sadmemeingjpg which is my anime, aesthetic and shit post blog. a mess of a blog but yeah. 
What did your last relationship teach you?: never been in one LOL
Religious or spiritual: religious
Favorite color: purple, red and black
Average hours of sleep: 6-7 hours
Lucky number: 7
Favourite characters: yuuri katsuki, victor nikiforov, otabek alitn, kaneki ken and so many more 
How many blankets do you sleep with: well i have 2 but i use 1 or sometimes none since its so fucking hot at night in AZ
Dream job: don’t know 
I’m gonna tag: @meli-the-muser, @shield-your-beliefs, @nopnop-carlie-sge, @rasberryhall, @cityofdelusion and @icantgetitright-sinceimetyou
feel free to ignore !  
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