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[freckliedan]

can you believe it

[unloneliest]

thinking of you today

hey anon. thank u. 💛 if we know each other i might've been thinking of you too even if it's been a long while. sending u love.

[pansydean]

denj i’m afraid to ask but..what was the cockles tweet incident??

alsgaldglsgdsk i can't remember WHEN this happened but before i left the fandom back in the day misha accidentally tweeted the link to a cockles truthing masterpost or something in a completely unrelated tweet. like he just had it in his clipboard presumably from sending it to someone 

it reminds me of the destiel sausage shipping video he posted and there being a cockles nod in that too maybe? 

[freckliedan]

what do you think of their tarot pulls for the year? how scared should we be?

(This Answer Has Now Been Completed! i accidentally hit publish too early at work and then couldn't figure out how to make the post private while i finished it because i'm not used to the mobile app).

red thank you so much for asking i have a lot to say.

now. i have a preface for any skeptics: please trust that i have a nuanced view on and relationship with my spirituality, i'm just not premptively justifying or explaining myself.

and this is not what you asked at all, but my interesting thought is that like. dan and phil have insanely strong psychic protections.

essay under the cut. probable actual answer to your question in a followup reblog.

so. all people have varying levels of natural psychic capacity. phil is extremely naturally gifted. i am gifted. hana @danielbear is the most psychic person i've met in my life and i have known a lot of witches and psychics.

but natural capacity is just a starting point; any kind of practice like this requires you develop and strengthen your skills. someone can be born with perfect pitch but unless they actively practice singing they won't have the stamina/breath control/range that a classically trained opera singer has, you know? (hana has both. jsyk).

and like. when someone has a higher psychic capacity? that means they have both a type of energy and a connection: it's a connection that allows them to be psychically receptive, but at the same time so many things in this world are drawn to their energy. the connection works both ways.

it's why phil has so many stories about weird interactions with strangers (barking at him on the street etc), and this contextualizes the the insanely improbable experiences that dan and phil have shared (like seeing ball lightning).

phil individually and both of them as a couple have absolutely off the charts magnetic energy. us all being here is a testament to that. (i can't really speak to dan's individual presence or psychic capacity, because he's closed off to the possibility for the most part. could also be a minor essay i think. same as my thoughts on phil being best friends with his psychic grandma as a kid, but i digress).

the point i'm kind of circling here is that it's kind of difficult to reach adulthood without having developed some kind of either natural or intentional protections. a lot of people have very different framing for it, but it boils down to that psychic receptivity = having a joint openness + energy that appeals both to other humans and whatever else is out there.

developing a divination practice with tarot/other cartomancy/pendulums/runes/etc is a way of learning to open yourself up on purpose, and that often means learning the flipside: how to set boundaries, close doors, deny access. they are skills that develop jointly.

phil may have had some level of learning that in childhood! we know he's superstitious and i highly suspect there's some more earnest things we've never had a window into. but that's not where his and dan's extra strong psychic protections come from.

many many people's understanding of matters like this includes intent as an essential component of everything. and for years the absolute strongest intention both dan and phil were pouring into everything they did was to not be seen or recognized. to not have their privacy violated again.

i struggle to even watch phil's face for the length of an entire pre hard launch joint video. for personal reasons, seeing someone whose entire everything screams don't look at me because if you do you'll see how in love i am and that'll give us both away both hurts and is uh. it's very successful on me. i just don't look. i couldn't even come to this conclusion until after the hard launch.

i'm getting away from the point again. even though it wasn't the primary goal, the intensity of their closeting created very, very strong psychic boundaries.

now den i hear you saying. what the fuck does that mean?

well.

after dan and phil crafts: slime posted in april 2024, i posted a tarot focused analysis essay that kicked off a wave of tarot conversation & lead to a Bunch of people all reading tarot about dan and phil.

i was one of the first people to pull cards and it felt like it usually does when i read regarding dan and phil: big picture semi-obscured answers that require a lot of both capacity and background knowledge to recieve and interpret. there's more of a.. distance? between me and the answers i'm looking for when i pull cards about dan and phil (as compared to for people who asked me to read for them).

the distance increases if i have any intention to post about it, or even message about it in a groupchat.

the thing is, i pulled cards more than once during that window of time. and as soon as more than the first few people both pulled cards and posted about it? there was an reflexive energetic shutdown on dan and phil's parts. people were able to get basic things, but there stopped being new information and the chance to discern more specific details dropped to zero.

it was very tangible!!! i believe i talked about this with @yonpote at the time but probably hana too? i know i'm not the only one who's noticed and it's just the most dramatic example of something that has happened at other times, too.

i genuinely didn't try reading about dan and phil for a few months after that with the expectation that they would still be locked down. i knew i'd both get nothing from trying and that the chances of me being able to read accurately about them in the future would decrease, because i'd no longer be as neutural a presence to their automatic safeguards if i kept pushing.

on the other hand.

the most psychically aligned with them i have ever been—like, the most able to gain insight in ways that i cannot explain away, i am not joking about being tormented by visions—was in 2018/19. it increased through december and continued in waves afterwards, but was harder to measure as the hiatus started.

i was very active in my spiritual practices then (my capacity was strong) and what i experienced happened in a way that hugely indicated a higher level of openness on their end of things, too. which like. yeah. that tracks. their energy had shifted into choosing to be seen.

i haven't tried reading for them since the hard launch. spiritual practices kind of fell by the wayside when i started working again last fall while staying part time at college. i had the very unleasant realization that i am currently too disabled to do both at the same time, let alone engaging in hobbies.

but even then i've still had some experiences post hard launch. (very notably, a dream that is uncannily similar to one i had in early spring of 2019). i suspect the intensity of their psychic boundaries may have relaxed to some degree, especially in the closest window of time post hard launch, and that they'll raise again but not to the level they were in the past.

there's nothing but momentum building for them right now, with the openness they've been experiencing. i can't look away from phil these days. quite genuinely there are improbable wonderful things coming down the line for them. they've got luck on their side.

[freckliedan]

"THIS GIRL"

it makes me so so so so crazy. i've been saying for years (but like during in person conversations so you're gonna have to trust me) that before a dan gender video ever reaches the world, if it ever does. phil would just start occasionally gendering dan in videos in ways besides he/him / man / boy. and that they'd just include it like it's nothing out of the ordinary and not comment on it.

for YEARS ive been saying this. and like. it is so so so clear to me by phil's expression when he says "this girl" that they talked about it before filming. not in the sense that it was scripted but in the sense that there was a conversation to be had. and the complete nonreaction from dan just feels like. it's normal. it's just new that it's happening on camera.

[freckliedan]

This is is very plate of corn coded but I thought it’d fit your fuck energy tag. I was watching phil’s old videos and noticed that in some of them there’s a pillow (or a bedsheet? sometimes even a plushie) very blatantly shoved in between the headboard of the bed and the wall like he was Umm.. trying to stop the bed from making noise/banging against the wall…???? You can see it in A to Z of me, The Change and The Holy Mother

anon i'm obsessed with you how is this plate of corn coded. come back. please elaborate on that.

this ABSOLUTELY fits my fuck energy tag. i literally never would've caught that but you're so right.

it's killing me that even less of the same pillow is visible between the change and a-z of me. hey. um?????? really good catch.

[freckliedan]

do yuo have a link to the liveshow u mentioned with dan in a candy necklace i dont remember it 😩

halloween pumpkin carving + this liveshow are fully why my url was briefly dumbslutdan. they were so horny it made them stupid and dan decided they were going live because he's an evil twink who was torturing phil. if memory serves.

for full effect watch them in linked order.

[freckliedan]

was it just the two of them on the jamaica trip?

no! they were there with a group of other vloggers and iirc there's footage of them in the background of other videos posted during the trip. it was actually sponsored by a company selling waterproof cameras or something & was a really early example of that kind of thing?

dan actually wasn't originally included but phil insisted & so dan replaced one of the other people who was going to be a part of things because they really wanted phil.