Youtuber!Phan (AU’s)
Links Last Checked: July 1st, 2025
A Dying Art - lovebuglester
Summary: Phil has been a technician at Radio 1 for a few years after graduating uni (he doesnt do youtube) and Dan is an up and coming vlogger who’s just got his own radio show. They meet at work and sometimes Phil has to wander to the desk (in front of cameras) during a show and he and Dan always joke around/flirt during songs so people start to ship them and things snowball from there.
Butterflies and Hurricanes - phillestatos
Summary: Phil Lester, also known as AmazingPhil, ends up falling for the cute piano player who likes to play Muse on his recitals, even when he kept telling himself it would never happen. youtuber!Phil/pianoplayer!Dan.
can't breathe when you touch my sleeve (ao3) - dvp_95 (somerdaye)
Summary: Dan keeps making a fool of himself in interviews, to the point where it's basically a meme. Now he's got to sit down for the better part of an hour and sell his show to the YouTuber he'd had a massive crush on when he was a teenager.
Curiosity - placingglaciers
Summary: In which Phil is an amateur urban explorer/photographer/YouTuber who encounters Dan, an amateur graffiti artist, in an abandoned hospital by surprise. They decide to explore together and find a lot more than just empty rooms and random chairs, if you know what I mean.
Fell In Love With You From The First Note - doomedhowell
Summary: Phil has always been entranced by the piano covers uploaded by howell music on YouTube, it was a daily routine of his to play covers of his favorite ghibli songs while getting ready in the morning. Imagine his shock when he finds the pianist sat in next to him in his English Class…
friday night placebo (ao3) - kishere
Summary: Phil Lester never thought that he was going to be here in his life: successful, healthy, a little lonely, and helping produce his own Netflix show. Dan Howell, YouTube fanboy and food aficionado, just wants to get a job in television acting. One audition could help both of their problems.
Galaxies and Greenhouses (ao3) - fourthingsandawizard
Summary: When Dan meets a boy with piercings and a dragon tattoo while shopping in Diagon Alley, he’s pretty quick to jump to conclusions, much to his own embarrassment. But as they become fast friends, they both come to see that sometimes the most important lessons learned at Hogwarts are the ones that happen without a wand.
Heavy Rain - gravityplant
Summary: A tale about a maverick writer whose audience doesn’t yet breathe outside of his mind;
And a lost soul uploading stray youtube videos that don’t seem to belong in this world.
On the other hand, since when does lost-souls meet under heavy rain, and what does belong if not strange circumstances when two misfits dare to reach out and touch.
home is where the heart is. (ao3) - orphan_account
Summary: Daniel Howell had always felt out of place in his dad's clinically fancy apartment or under the Singaporean sun. Life was good, but with all the changes that came with being a tagalong of a British expat banker, there was never a home. Inspired by the only constant in his life, a similar aged British youtuber by the name of Phil Lester, Dan decides to move to his supposed homeland Britain on a whim, in the hopes of escaping his bubble of isolation, and maybe find the place where he truly belonged.
Somehow Dan landed himself in one of the few notorious all boys boarding schools in Britain, one that has bizarre traditions, vicious inter-house competition and way too many attractive boys; and a roommate who had been Dan's best friend all along, even if Phil Lester hadn't known it.
Dan finally found home.
Hot Tea and Chocolate Biscuits (ao3) - vaudevillian_girl
Summary: "In his twenty-nine years of life Phil had never seen a hybrid, well he did see one but he had been to little to know what that person was. Growing up, Phil had learned to not judge them and to not hate those poor things."
Phil is a youtuber with a monotone life, he's still trying to find his place in society and he just likes to be by himself. Until, one night, Dan shows up at his door, alone and lost.
Listen - adorkablephil
Summary: Phil is a successful YouTuber, and Dan is a fan desperate for attention. Sounds like 2009, right? Except Phil is Deaf.
Not Quite Perfect - doomedhowell
Summary: Dan is a famous youtuber who’s getting his own tv show and touring around the UK. Phil’s a youtuber as well, but not quite as famous as Dan. When they finally meet, things aren’t as perfect as Phil hoped it would be.
One Day - doomedhowell
Summary: pastel!dan is a kindergarten teacher and is married to punk!youtuber!phil, who he hates and doesn’t get along with at all. They’re parents forced them to marry each other. Dan is unhappy but things finally take a turn.
Phil Lester & The Downfall of Dateable London Men - gorgeousdan
Summary: Phil’s a YouTuber who’s certain he’ll never find love. Dan sends penis enlargement emails and wants to change Phil’s mind.
Purple - washedoutgay
Summary: Everyone’s aura is black until the age of 18 when they get their own personal colour. No one’s is ever the same. Except Dan’s. Dan is 23 and has been waiting for 5 years to wake up with his own colour. But when he meets someone who’s aura is so bright it nearly blinds him, he believes he might be the way to finding his real aura.
The Pianist Everyone Is Talking About… Is My Husband (ao3) - natigail
Summary: YouTuber pianist Daniel James Howell is thrown into mainstream media’s awareness with the release of his first album. Phil works at BBC Radio 1, who increasingly play Dan’s songs more and more often, and he couldn’t be prouder of his husband. However, no one knows that Dan and Phil are married as they have chosen to keep their relationship private.
By accident, Phil is thrust into his husband’s fandom when his colleagues learn that he likes the pianist. Phil isn’t sure how to tell everyone that he’s actually married to the guy everyone is either praising or swooning over.
The Prince and the Youtuber (ao3) - koleen
Summary: Dan Howell is the Prince of England and the first grandson of a late King, and Phil Lester is a famous Youtuber who turns out to be the first grandson of a late King’s Hand, the best friend of the late King. On one night of celebration of their daughters’ pregnancies 18 years ago, the best friends made a drunken pact to marry their first grandchildren to each other the year they both turn 18, completely forgetting to consider that their first grandchildren could both be male.
Where We Belong - livelaughlovelester
Summary: Dan Howell aka danisnotonfire, is a famous youtuber. With his over 6 million subscribers, the fans go crazy when they see him. But Dan would’ve never gotten to where he is now without AmazingPhil, the youtuber who inspired him to start making videos. He’d never even talked to Phil, as he had left YouTube before Dan even joined. So what happens when Dan randomly bumps into Phil on the streets of London?
