Bring back rec lists and telling everyone how much you love the works in your fandom. I realized most of my Bookmarked Phan fics are Angst/Whump or Hurt/Comfort adjacent, these include:
• No (Permanent) Major Character Death
• Happy Ending
• Frequent Whump
• Little to no smut
• Check the tags for each individual work
(Special warnings are added when the summary doesn't explicitly mention them)
Rec List bellow (15 fics):
A Very Palpable Hit by olivermirror
Author's summary: "Phil kind of nearly dies - well, he has surgery. Dan takes him home and takes care of him."
✓Physical ouch: 5/5
✓Emotional ouch: 2/5
✓Comfort: 4/5
Immortals by solarpower21
Series where Dan tragically dies in an accident, but it doesn't end that way: enters universe hopping.
☆ Personal fave is part two "And live with me forever now" from Dan's POV.
✓Physical ouch: 2/5
✓Emotional ouch: 5/5
✓Comfort: 3.5/5
People think love's for show (but I would die for you in secret) by Ren_Saxon
Author's summary: "(...) Dan leaves.
Phil doesn't know how to bring him back home - he just knows he has to."
✓Physical ouch: 0/5
✓Emotional ouch: 4/5
✓Comfort: 5/5
downtown lights by teethmotif
Author's Summary: "a story about the healing power of gay love and a great cup of coffee"
Warning ⚠️: Heavy themes of suicide and self harm
✓Physical ouch: 3/5
✓Emotional ouch: 5/5
✓Comfort: 4/5
I knew you'd come back to me by solarpower21
Author's summary: "(...) Dan almost dies and wakes up in a universe where he and Phil broke up in 2012."
Warning ⚠️: Mentioned suicide attempt
✓Physical ouch: 3.5
✓Emotional ouch: 4.5/5
✓Comfort: 4/5
A Little Fall of Rain by olivermirror
Author's summary: "Dan stands up too quickly and faints. That's fine, it happens, he knows how to deal with it.
This time, he hits his head.
And Phil, who does not know that head wounds generally tend to bleed like a faucet regardless of severity, freaks the hell out."
✓Physical ouch: 5/5
✓Emotional ouch: 4.5/5
✓Comfort: 4.5/5
we'll survive by thisisa (segmentcalled), AloofSociopathVibe (JustThePlanets)
Series
Author's summary: "A soulmate AU in which you only know who your soulmate is when they're close to death. Dan and Phil have totally normal feelings about this."
☆Personal fave is part 1 "actual soulmates" from Dan's POV
Warning ⚠️: Mentioned suicide attempt in part 2
✓Physical ouch: 3.5/5
✓Emotional ouch: 5/5
✓Comfort: 5/5
face the music when it's dire by alicek112
Author's summary: "(...)In which Phil is not a damsel in distress, but Dan still comes to the rescue."
Warning ⚠️: Omegaverse
✓Physical ouch: 1/5
✓Emotional ouch: 4/5
✓Comfort: 4/5
That week in March by Ren_Saxon
Author's summary: "In 2016, a younger Dan attempts suicide and wakes up in his own future."
✓Physical ouch: 3.5/5
✓Emotional ouch: 4.5/5
✓Comfort: 5/5
passengers by moonanonymous
Author's summary: "It was an accident. A stupid, avoidable accident but now Phil sits in a waiting room in rural South Dakota and watches the clock tick by."
✓Physical ouch: 3/5
✓Emotional ouch: 4/5
✓Comfort: 4/5
Third Degree by sierraadeux
Author's summary: "Dan sets fires. Phil puts them out"
✓Physical ouch: 3.5/5
✓Emotional ouch: 3.5/5
✓Comfort: 4/5
running you with red by waveydnp
Author's summary: "dan and phil are a&e nurses"
Warning ⚠️: Blood and Injury
✓Physical ouch: 3.5/5
✓Emotional ouch: 4/5
✓Comfort: 4/5
wake up buttercup by alooalex
Author's summary: "dan manages a low blood sugar crisis with all the grace of a half-asleep parent, phil mostly pretends to cooperate"
✓Physical ouch: 4/5
✓Emotional ouch: 3.5/5
✓Comfort: 4/5
stop the world by purpurussy
Author's summary: "(...) An AU where they never met in 2009, and Dan became a 33-year-old depressed lawyer living a secret double life as his marriage and career fall apart.
That is, until Phil shows up..."
Warning ⚠️: Heavy themes of suicide and self harm; Alcoholism
✓Physical ouch: 3/5
✓Emotional hurt: 5/5
✓Comfort: 5/5
Ceases To Be a Secret by TempestRising
Author's summary: "(...) Four times Phil confronts the reality of living with the secret of his and Dan's relationship, and one time Dan confronts it with him."
sure! everything written by drvcos is perfect. i also read everything ren_saxon posts, their current wip under the rose is amazing and this vampire fic changed my brain chemistry forever. and the attack dog dan fic being in electric-typewriter's bookmarks is a classic fork found in kitchen situation, i'm sure we all agree.
here's also a couple of fics by other authors lifted directly from my bookmarks. some of these are long and some are short and horny. or tender. or both. enjoy!
the second tetris block by dizzy
downtown lights by teethmotif
third degree by sierraadeux
stop the world by purpurussy
Push by ottertrashpalace
when the train came it was so big and powerful by Anonymous
"oh great, now im a furry" by cloej88
take yours, i'll take mine by chickenfree
in a cosmic spray by cityofphancester
don’t know whether you actually remember that interaction, but you encouraged me to read monochrome a while back. i‘m about half way through at the moment and i’m really enjoyed it so far. thanks sooo much for the rec!!!! :D
Hiii!!! yes i do remember don't worry! ahh thats so cool that you're enjoying it!! no worries for the rec - monochrome did a lot for me personally so I'm really glad you're liking it!! I'd love to hear your thoughts when you finish it as well!!
2 of my incredibly talented pals have written an absolutely masterpiece of a fic. It’s heart-wrenching and funny and lovely and a little bit smutty. The writing is incredible. Super super talented writers. I could say so much about it but my brain is mush I can’t form a coherent sentence just PLS READ IT IF YOU HAVEN’T ALREADY. I promise you’ll LOVE it <3
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
watching hometown showdown again and seeing the theatre bit in dans hometown makes me want to reread Merry and Bright even though it’s June. god i adore that fic.