[complete] i want to be there so you don't have to be brave ; copyright © 2017

swiggity sway these blokes are gayy.

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 with into seeing him as your average person. The isolation as he desperately tries to keep others from finding out, the bitterness that wells up inside of him each and every time he's reminded that he'll never be like everyone else, the fear that nothing will ever change. He's fated to be this way forever; a misfit from society. Isolation can only go so far though, so when he's struggling to make ends meet and he's faced with the option of looking into a serious job or taking on a roommate, he opts for what seems like the easier option at the time. It doesn't seem so easy ten failed roommates into the process, or when he sits down at a table to meet with prospect number eleven and ends up with a coffee spilled all over his lap. Potential roommate number eleven, Phil, turns out to be an insufferable optimistic ball of sunshine that Dan wants nothing to do with. His options are running out though, as are the savings he's been using to pay his rent, so he finds himself begrudgingly agreeing to let the other man move in. Neither of them have any way of knowing just what they've gotten themselves into as they shake on the matter, but time will tell.

Dan Howell has made many mistakes in life, the first of which was being born to Aphrodite (or maybe just being born at all, in his uncle's opinion). It's never made much sense that he was the son of the goddess of love, seeing as he didn't even believe in it. Still, maybe there's time for his mind to be changed when he finds himself going on a quest to retrieve his mother's "Cupid's bow" with Phil Lester, son of Ares. (thanks to @xSillyTilly for betaing and for making this cover!!)

~Written with @TheUntoldTales -DanXPhil~ When the Cirque de la Lumière comes to town, Dan is in for the most magical experience of his life. One night isn't nearly long enough, and all too soon the circus packs up and moves on, leaving Dan only with the memory of the magic and the magicians he met there. Mysterious PJ, with his glittering green eyes and curly hair; Chris, the comedian with jokes enough to split his sides in two; and, of course, Phil. The man with fire at his fingertips and oceans in his eyes. It isn't till Dan tries to return to his mundane life that he notices anything strange. What are the creatures that lurk in the shadows? And will the Fantastic Foursome be able to save the day?

acquaintance [uh-kweyn-tns] noun -a person known to one, but usually not a close friend. After years of Dan and Phil not talking since they moved out of their flat, they start to talk. Dan will try to make it up to Phil for ignoring him in the beginning. Phil doesn't know how it will go, but he goes for it and continues to talk to Dan. They try their best to make their old, broken friendship grow again and be golden as it use to be. However, all Dan is to Phil is an acquaintance, but Phil is more than that to Dan. Highest Rank: #243 Fanfiction - Definition from dictionary.reference.com

in which a demon named dan accidentally falls in love with an angel named phil. {phan au} highest ranking- #27 in danisnotonfire

You might have heard of someone called Dan Howell, the exhibition designer with a fixation for perfection. He's a control freak. If you know that, then you'll know you can't get close to him, nobody can. It's impossible. Not one person is as perfect as the paintings, or the sculptures, or the art that can retain its sublimity, it's purity. No one can match how constant and harmonious each piece is. But then this living embodiment of chaos, messy and disorganised, who's desk and hair are in a permanent state of disarray comes walk- stumbling in. Meet Phil. The new museum director- now Dans boss. Dan is going crazy. How could they hire him! He'll just make a mess of it all... And yet, although he's not sure why, he can't stand the thought of Phil ever leaving. But Phil isn't like the art, he's not perfect. He has his own problems, and isn't as innocent as he shows himself to be. Everyone has a history. Even Phil. And he can't escape.

Dan had lived a normal life. No good friends and no big problems but all this changes when he meets Phil. Phil was the new kid who always seemed to be happy and hyper, but was he really? Will their relationship ever be normal, because now it just seems to be broken. "Phil?" My body froze. My mind went in to panic mode. I removed my lips from hers as quick as I could, but the damage had already been done. I look at Dan and I look in his eyes and I see all the hurt that was already present in his heart. What had I just done? "Dan.. It's not.. um I can explain.." He looked at me and tears started rolling down his cheeks, and my heart broke as well because the next thing that happened was him whispering "We're done." TW: depression, ED, suicide, SH, sexual themes (i tried to put TW before specific chapters but a lot of the themes run throughout)

Highschool au Dan's POV COMPLETE - Phil is the new boy at Dan's school. He's so mysterious and captivating, and no matter how hard Dan tries to ignore him, Phil keeps popping up everywhere. And Dan can't help but feel like everything Phil does and is is worth a song, a story, a painting. Anything. But Dan is no good at those sorts of things.