i know you're a crush x phan enjoyer. are you. hey. are you aware of how insanely them sonnet 17 by pablo neruda is. especially the last two stanzas.

need you to know this ask made me feel so many emotions last night i just stared at it so hard until i fell asleep because i was in fucking shambles. and now its morning and im awake and im STILL in shambles. are you trying to kill me? you want me dead? oh god where i does not exist nor you. oh god.

babes say more about daniel lester 💞

i just think dan has been fully adopted into phils family since they met him so like while i personally think they’ll keep their own last names, i think there’s a small possibility that theyre sentimental enough to be mr and mr lester 🥺

i have spent so much time thinking about a dan and phil tarot deck i genuinely think their lives have enough of a narrative to make it completely fucking possible to create one even if they never do. the fool is dan stepping off the train on his first trip to manchester. etc. i'd have to tweak it slightly if i went with only images we actually have of them but it'd still be completely doable

😭😭😭😭 no you’re so right!!!!!!!!!!! it could be actual picture of them or art and I think either could work so well. if only pictures of them, a pinof1 moment for the fool would also work

other thoughts: ii as the chariot (maybe something w a tour bus?), screencap/art of Existential Crisis for the hanged man. embrace the void wad moment for the world!!!!!!!! something with phil and his lion for strength obv. also perhaps my favourite minor arcana, six of cups, is so hometown showdown

literally the throughline btween pikachu boobs/becky and jessica & bowl tits PLUS the hair flip being the same in the kristen stewart wig vs now as sister daniel. SOS

YOU GET IT!!

heartstopper is SO sweet and it is SO easy to look at charlie spring and see how much of dan is in him like genuinely i reccomend the comic so much

aww yea that really does sound so sweet 🥺, i realize i did lie a little when i said idk anything about heartstopper because i did read a bit of the webcomic wayyyy back when it was still coming out but i dont think i stuck with it to the end, but! i do remember liking it 👀

your gifs are GORGEOUS and the comparisons are killing me - if you're still taking requests, one of sister daniel's 'hair' flips vs dan in the kristen stewart wig in the pinof 4 bloopers with a 'because you're worth it' hair flip?

thank you so much <3 i'm trying my best *hair flip*

such an insane galaxy brain parallel. again, sorry for the ugly coloring of 2023. and thank you for making me come back to pinof 4, my beloved <3

do you think they'll post if you change your url back

😭😭😭 it genuinely crossed my mind. i jinxed it by switching back 😔

oh your url is AMAZING

LMFAAOOO THANK YOU ITS BRAND NEW

>:( i swear to god i was following u

hehe dw it’s all good :3 happens to me all the time lol

hi katie hope life's been treating you well!!

hello same to you We Are So Back!!!!!!!!

I WANTED THEM TO DIE TOO. but i think this is more promising for a long lived return so i can't be too mad. i was getting so fucking psyched for a dil and tabitha funeral though oh my GOD i just remembered the urge. we were robbed

Ok but like that reminds me they could have literally just made dil and tabitha vampires liiiike. Where is the homoeroticism where is the Depth. Why are they playing the sims if they don’t want to get weird and psychosexual with it

posting here first. which of these evokes more emotion. i'll be putting the better of the two on my dnp blog

saying this on my other main as well but those of you who are my mutuals who don't have me anywhere else. well i'm never leaving tumblr but we could chat on discord or whatsapp too

gonna go back and tag literally all my reblogs from the last two days and establish an actual tagging system for this blog, bc I feel like that’s important

edit: original posts will still use ‘dan and phil’

DanandPhilCrafts + Fucked Up Queer Devotion + Christian Homophobia: An Essay

We’ve all been talking about the willingness of Dan and Phil to perform the ritual, we’ve all been talking about the intimacy of carving out your lover’s heart, but I have not heard anyone talk about the fucked up side of Dan and Phil’s (fictional) relationship with each other, and with Him, so here goes.

On the craft channel, Dan and Phil act overwhelmingly positive, like satanic children’s show hosts, but this is clearly a farce. We see them drop their smiles quite a few times during the crafting- most notably in Glitter Faces when Dan’s craft turns out wrong, and when Phil cuts Dan’s hand. “Don’t cry, craft” is directed towards the audience, but it seems Dan and Phil are following their own advice. Cults, after all, prey on vulnerable people. While they do seem scared of doing the ritual, and their involvement with Him, they are, however, definitely willing. In

The blood on Dan after he kills Phil is interesting; The handprint on his shirt isn’t a sign of a struggle, but rather Phil just grabbing his shirt- that’s pretty intimate, honestly. The blood on his face could’ve been caused by a bunch of things: blood splatter he wiped at? wiping at his face (eyes?) with a bloody hand? or Phil holding his face? (I like the third option) The blood on his nose might totally have been accidental, and just a thing that happened, but it could also be an allusion to the cat whiskers, in the spirit of bringing things back to the beginning and whatnot.

After the ritual is complete, there’s the obvious tarot symbolism. @freckliedan has a great post about this, but I’ve got more to add, so bear with me. Yes, Dan and Phil are framed as the lovers, but that’s not all. While the sexual deviance associated with the devil card has clear connections to queerness, it’s main association is usually unhealthy relationships and dependence. From this, and the obvious devotion displayed in the video, the craft versions of Dan and Phil are implied to be unhealthily dependent on each other, and devoted to the point of obsession. While the relationship certainly isn’t abusive, this obsession just isn’t healthy.

Furthering the unhealthy relationship idea is when Phil calls Dan “Sampson”. In the Bible or whatever (I’m not Christian sue me) Sampson topples these pillars, killing both himself and his enemies, which has a clear parallel to Dan’s stacked ingredients falling over, but the use of “folly” is interesting, and suggests a further connection. Sampson had married a prostitute, and she sold him out, basically, leading to his enslavement and later death. In this story, this is the clearest and most obvious act of folly by Sampson: marrying someone who he shouldn’t have, someone who it was taboo for him to be with. Connected to Dan and Phil, it suggests that their relationship is dangerous due to the social taboo, but it’s also implied that Phil will betray Dan. Perhaps we’ll see that in a 5th crafts installment, or perhaps it’s simply a commentary on being in a relationship with someone considered unacceptable.

Speaking of unhealthy relationships, that’s sure what they’ve got with Him! Leading up to the ritual, Dan and Phil are shown to be scared of Him, even though they call Him their friend. Dan’s head shake when Phil says “crafting has improved my life in numerous ways” is very telling. At the end, Dan’s shoulders tense at His first footstep, however, when He actually touches Dan, he doesn’t seem scared at all- forgive me for this next point, but from the way he kinda leans into the touch and tilts his head back, it seems more like he’s going for “turned on” rather than “scared”.

“Okay, cool” you say, “but what does it mean?” Well, Dan and Phil’s relationship in this series is not just about homoerotic undertones- this is an allegory for toxic queer sexual relationships. Why would they make something about toxic relationships when they’re in a healthy relationship? With the toxicity, and the power imbalances, and the satanism, Dan and Phil’s (fictional) relationship is a representation of Christian fears of queerness, and the supposed immoral/corrupting/anti-Christian effects of being in a queer relationship. The fear Dan and Phil show throughout the series is representative of internalized homophobia. They’re scared to align themselves with Him because it means accepting their own queerness. Dan shows more fear than Phil throughout the series (like after his glitter face turns out to be a pentacle) which parallels his real world internalized homophobia that he’s experienced. By holding hands with the devil (or baphomet?) standing behind them, Dan and Phil have embodied every conservative fear about queerness, but have come out on top. Through their YouTube channel, we get to do the same.