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My at this point pretty late opinion on phanfictiongate (lol) is that rather than whether or not DnP have the right to read fanfic about themselves, the problem was that the segments were a bit goache and came off slightly mean spirited, considering especially how big a platform they have, but it wasn't like, the worst thing ever.

#dan and phil #hard launch #phodcast #towel posting

pheelinghard

omg im going to the hard launch tour on valentines day... im so scared

#hahey me too!#we can get through it I believe in us #reblobegation

Some more clothes that would go hard at Hard Launch Tour (in my opinion)

#dan and phil #hard lauch tour #look mum a post

I think actually the worst thing about getting into Dan and Phil is that I now think this is acceptable:

#dan and phil #look mum a post

Oh these would go so, ahem, hard for showing up to Hard Launch Tour

#they're not really me #though for a split second I considered it #need to get some purple thing before feb 14th tho #dan and phil #hard lauch tour #hlt

Buying Dan and Phil tickets and my first roll of binding tape on the same day? I really am a stereotype

#nonbinary #dan and phil #hard launch tour #look mum a post

So the Europe rush is over, lets all take a breather and decompress, now we can all enjoy the lull until noon starts hitting the states

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I DID IT

#dan and phil #dan and phil cardiff #look mum a post

Anti Welsh and South West England discrimination right here

#dan and phil #look mum a post

Cardiff? Cardiff drop them. drop the tickets. droppppp. Cardiff be a good boy and drop the tickets. Drop them now. Bad Cardiff, bad.

#dan and phil #look mum a post

fatherphaniel

HELP HOW DO I BUY TICKETS FOR CARDIFF

"Elon Musk is a trillionaire who spends his money on riots in the UK" "Twitter is a Nazi Hellhole these days"- (Dan Howell comdedy shouting voice) THEN WHYYYY ARE YOU STILLLL ON THERE!?

#lowk it does actually annoy me #cause like all the other normal people fled #as internet celebrities the are promoting that site by being on there #you know there are users whose only reasom for having that app is because of them #and they literally encourage it with the react series #twitter is not an essencial service this isn't like having to use microsoft despite their ai bullshit #bro your target audience is not on that app #move to bluesky and I promise it'll be fine #i could rant about dans political posturing while not really following through on those ethics #but at the end of the day that would be getting to im the weeds #and the nuances of one youtubers politics are not my roman empire #dan and phil #hard launch #look mum a post

So I'd really love PJ and Sophie on the pod because I love them, and KickthePJ is basically my favourite youtube channel ever (and honestly the best thing about getting into dnp was that they introduced me to PJ), and the four of them have wonderful chemistry, but also I think it could be really interesting.

(This post is long so I'm putting it under a read more)

Obviously, in a podcast setting, especially one with a 'tell all' conceit like Hard Launch, there could be funny or interesting annecdotes we haven't heard yet- like for example we've heard about when Phil and PJ met, but how about when PJ and Dan first met? I think what could be really interesting though, is the ways in which their respective careers are similar, but also different. Like, PJ and Phil are both from the same era of youtube, and PJ and Dan have both said that Phil was an inspiration for them in the early days. They have seen youtube change in huge ways over the course of their careers. They were also, of course, part of the same fandom, with PJ being in the 'fantastic foursome'. Obviously DnP got it in the face pretty hard with the phandom, but on a few rare occasions PJ mentioned shit that he'd gotten from fans in that era too. It would be interesting to hear the perspectives of people who were in the epicentre of that vs slightly more on the perifary, or if we are being really spicy, if it ever effected their relationship. Back in 'the day', they were both very successful, with Phil, Dan and PJ hitting one million subs (although PJ took longer and stayed at that level), but how they've evolved since then they've diverged a lot. They were always pretty different in terms of content obviously, but I'd argue it's gotten even more different. Dan and Phil have had so many brand updates, they are catagorised into eras- the main being the creation, ending, revival and complete rebranding into 'Dan and Phil 2.0' of DanandPhilGAMES. Of course, not all of their 3 million subscribers show up for their vids, and they're not kings of youtube like they used to be, but they still pull pretty big numbers, and are relatively concerned with stuff like metrics and visability and sponsorships. PJ on the other hand, has probably objectively terrible metrics, where despite having a million subs, these days his videos rarely get above double digits K, but he hasn't really had any kind of major content shift, and seems content doing what ever he wants and having a small core audiece show up. I'm not even pitting the two against each other, I just think it could be interesting to hear about how they landed on the choices that led them to where their respective channels are today. Probably lastly, both Dan and Phil and PJ and Sophie are in the position of being partners in the creative, buisness and personal sense, with their partnership being pretty interwoven with their content- DnP in the very obvious, public facing way, but with PJ and Sophie there's the fact that basically every Kick the PJ video has Sophie behind the camera. That's a relatively unique position to be in. Dan and Phil's relationship was obviously a difficult and kinda unique situation that required them to deny, and then publically anounce it. PJ and Sophie to my knowledge have never publically 'aknowledged' anything, and so I guess have never felt they had to or wanted to, which lead to a small ammount of fan speculation, but nowhere near the level of Phan. I think that makes for an interesting comparisson, if they wanted to go in that direction. Also, we've seen the process behind their creative collaborations from PJ's end, and the final products in Dan and Phil's content, but a discussion about the ins and outs of those collaborations with both parties could be really neat.

#i mean maybe actually this is just me getting out my own thoughts #but anyways #what is a blog if not a place to yap #kick the pj #pj liguori #pj and sophie #sophie newton #dan and phil #hard launch #phodcast #look mum a post

#dan and phil #the thick of it #look mum a post

Dan and Phil you do own an optical media player, you have a PS5, don't you?

#well I mean techically it cant do cds if that's what they were on about #or they own the discless version (silly billy behaviour)#dan and phil #look mum a post

I'm cureous- sometimes I have these intrusive thoughts of 'what if I'm not actually nonbinary and I'm cis and confused/faking it' and they always make me feel reflexively awful because of course I'm not cis and the thought of detransitioning is unthinkable, but I still get them. Does anyone else get this- like is it actually a common part of the Transgender/Genderqueer experience, or is it a manifestation of the OCD?

#and I dont mean OCD in that flippant way I actually have it #and also for what its worth agonise over faking that too haha #transgender #nonbinary #genderqueer #trans #look mum a post

Hello phandom!

I've finished uni for the year! Yippee! So I now have a lot more free time on my hands, for quite a while. Idk really how these things work, but I'm offering my services as a Britpicker- aka a british person who proof reads fics for accuracy (because I am British, sorry lads). Basically I'm desperate to fill my time with stuff and things, and also an insufferable pedant who's imersion breaks the moment I read the word 'faucet.'- and I also like making friends and yapping! So uh, if you want an insufferable brit to nitpick your fic (haha that rhymes), my DMs are open.

Vital statistics:

Beth, 21, illustration student, nonbinary: they/them, autistic. Newgen phannie from the hard launch, but I've been brushing up. Also into: The Thick of It, Peep Show, Alan Partridge (aha), Sonic the Hedgehog, Pet Shop Boys, vintage computers and gaming, WipEout and Worms (game). Idk how much crossover there is there with DnP but I'm also massively into KickthePJ, he's my fav youtuber, like, ever, so that's something more related! But I'll basically yap about anything.

I'll read basically anything, including NSFW, but none of the archive warnings.

-And I don't interact with Harry Potter fans, sorry-

K bye!

#dan and phil #phan #phandom #phanfiction #look mum a post

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