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  • The Benefits Project ; phan au
    2M 61.4K 34

    Dan Howell is a timid boy, who always does as he is told. He was once friends with Phil Lester, the 'bad influence' who soon ditches Dan for the popular group in Year 7. After five years of not talking to each other, they're partnered in a project and Phil's wants to win Dan over just like he has with most of their y...

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  • Relapse (Phan)
    253K 16.3K 29

    SEQUEL TO ALIVE Phil's life is in shambles. A third year university student, he lives a less-than-extraordinary life: ignoring calls from his ex-best-friend, working in a local shop, and sleeping around to forget the one thing always on his mind: Dan Howell. TW: language, sexual content, drug mentions ENTIRELY WRITTE...

  • trees // phan
    160K 10.1K 46

    I WROTE THIS A YEAR AGO; APOLOGIES FOR THE SHITTY WRITING AND THE CRINGE i know where you stand silent in the trees and that's where i am silent in the trees why won't you speak where i happen to be silent in the trees standing cowardly

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  • Alive (Phan)
    613K 34.3K 31

    Dan Howell is invisible. That's all he knows how to be. Terrified of standing out, he is happy going unnoticed by his peers, finding company in only the old rock and roll songs on his iPod. But Dan's life is turned upside-down when a boy in his drama class takes him under his wing, introducing him to a world of excite...

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  • Misfit (Phan AU)
    4.1M 101K 53

    Dan is different. He's learned to accept that. Well, as best he can anyway, considering he's never really had much of a choice. It's been this way for as long as he can remember, the constant runaround process of trying to feel normal. His life is built around it, trying to trick both himself and everyone he interacts...

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  • Polaroid (A Phan AU)
    430K 25K 52

    The polaroid photo - people say if you shake it, it will develop faster, but in truth it just ruins it. Phil is a working class, geeky, lonely boy toddling through life with his camera. When his family falls on hard times, he is forced out of his bubble and into the real world. Playlist: http://open.spotify.com/user...

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  • Demonic // phan
    460K 27.5K 27

    Phil is an ordinary guy with an ordinary life. Nothing very special about him, he's just normal. But it all changes when, on the weirdest day of his life, he meets the very quiet and recluse, Dan Howell. He's different. Phil doesn't usually do different, but something about Dan makes him want to try it. But when he's...

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  • Lacking [Phan]
    58.4K 3.7K 10

    Dan Howell has grown up wingless in a world full of wings. Old legends have twisted the views of his peers, leaving him utterly alone until he meets the strangely beautiful Phil Lester, who has a different view on their world. Phil may not have the ability to give Dan wings, but he can sure as hell make him feel as if...

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  • arms: a prequel // {phan}
    20.5K 877 3

    Summary: ARMS // PREQUEL Beginnings are always curious; they take you back to a time before you knew someone, back to when they were an entirely different person. Beginnings are dark, and messy, and new. This is before the smiles, before the grey, before the black black black and ohmygod blue. back to a simpler time...

  • arms // {phan}
    892K 35.3K 18

    Summary: Dan draws, Phil doesn't. Phil wears black shirts, speaks loudly, and glares at everyone. Dan wears grey jumpers, doesn't talk, and tries to stay invisible. Phil's reckless, Dan's not. This is as story about two polar opposites who mange to have a string of first times together, and maybe even a cute love...

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  • In My Dreams // phan
    280K 16.3K 14

    Sequel to Up All Night! Dan has finally found Phil, the boy he dreamed of, and maybe fallen in love with. But Phil doesn't know he exists. He's been trying to get his attention for so long, but Phil doesn't notice. Dan will do anything to get Phil to notice him, but that may just get him into major trouble.

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  • BLUE DOTS • PHAN
    263K 14.4K 48

    [COMPLETED] who knew a blue dot could save someone?

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  • Psycho
    94.9K 3.9K 34

    Deciding to play by his own rules, Dan embodies the dark part of his mind. Phil, wanting the best for him, tries to crawl inside his head to understand him... but Dan won't let him in so easily. *Inspired by Dan's video 'Psycho thoughts'.

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  • Outcast ✧ Phan
    1.2M 60.2K 23

    Dan Howell has telekinesis - a power just like out of a comic book. Yet instead of protecting the universe as a brave superhero, he hides. He hides his power and himself, fearing nothing more than getting attached to somebody and dragging them down. Of course, Phil Lester, the new kid in school, just had to come waltz...

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  • The Textbook - Phan
    255K 14.8K 18

    It's my first fanfic, I'm sorry in advance. Basically a high school au where Dan and Phil are in different French classes, and the school has a limited budget, so they have to share textbooks with someone in another class. Surprise (you guessed it) Dan and Phil end up sharing, and Phil leaves himself little notes in t...

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  • Bad Boys Don't Smile / phan
    2.6M 126K 24

    Phil Lester is sweet and cute; known for his kindness and enthusiasm. Dan Howell is a tough, cold outsider; known as the school's stereotypical 'bad boy'. But if he's so bad, then why on earth did he rescue Phil Lester and give him a smile which would melt anyone's heart?

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  • Find Me Again // phan
    527K 28K 17

    Sequel to Discovering Love! Dan is only just now aware of the fact that he loves Phil Lester, but at the wrong moment, because Phil hates him. He makes that very clear, in the way he successfully ignores Dan. But Dan is desperate, because the longer he and Phil are separated, the more his heart is breaking, and pretty...

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  • Discovering Love // phan
    1.1M 53.9K 21

    Dan is a firm believer that love doesn't exist. Not in adults, and definitely not in high school. He detests silly love stories and petty relationships, posing as 'love', and nothing could possibly change his mind in that. But when new student Phil takes an intrest in Dan, he can't deny that he's interested in the boy...

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  • My Name Is Dan➸phan
    156K 7.8K 28

    phan au. - -inspired by 'transgender' and 'call me dan' - - started:september 23 2015 ended:december 10 2015

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  • The Exchange Student ➵ phan
    223K 11.6K 18

    Dan Howell takes up a opportunity to travel halfway across the world to be an exchange student. Phil Lester is appalled when his parents decide to tackle the challenge of housing an exchange student to 'straighten him out' from his aggressive teenager ways.

  • Up All Night // phan
    792K 42.1K 21

    Dan Howell is an insomniac....who's scared of the dark. Only a little bit. One late night (or early morning), he decides to venture out and explore London at its quietest. He meets Phil Lester at an all-night coffee shop, and the two quickly become friends. As the friendship continues to grow, Dan has to begin facing...

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  • A Helping Hand (Dan and Phil phanfic)
    2.9M 108K 90

    TRIGGER WARNING. THIS STORY CONTAINS MENTIONS OF RAPE, SELF INJURY, DEATH AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. Can Dan save Phil? Phil is suicidal and Dan is the only one who's there for him. Can he alone save Phil?

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  • Rollercoaster AU [PHAN]
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    Abandoned at Alton Towers for an extra large milkshake, Dan decides to try out Oblivion for the first time. But when it breaks down, and he meets someone friendly, what will he do when left to his own devices? (more friendship than lovey-dovey stuff)

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  • The Street performer. Phan au
    22.3K 1.1K 5

    Both Dan and Phil are 18, Phil is a second year college student and Dan is a talented street performer. Their two worlds collide when Dan moves his location away from his past life and into Phil's present. This will probably be quite short but tbh I don't know where this fics going, I will try to update every week an...

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  • Speak [ phan ]
    1.7M 99K 32

    " we're friends right? well, you can't really tell me otherwise anyway, which is probably why we're friends. " Or the story of an overenthusiastic boy called Phil, who has trouble shutting up, and a reluctantly mute boy called Dan, who's life is falling apart, and how they both come to realise that sometimes - actions...

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  • Haunted (Dan Howell/Phil Lester)
    211K 7.8K 25

    When Dan dies from a sudden sickness Phil finds it hard to let go. //Don't steal\\

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  • moods / phan
    2.3M 127K 39

    in a world where your moods are visible above your head, displayed through pictures and icons, it's impossible to hide your true feelings. however dan howell seems to be lacking this. labelled as an emotionless freak, dan is outcasted because his moods are never visible. that is, until an endlessly happy boy named phi...

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