"I fell in love with your soul before I could even touch your skin. If that isn't true love, then please tell me what is."
dan and phil choosing each other through the years (in quizzes)
happy @phandomgiftexchange to @philsbignaturals! hope you enjoy <3
In all seriousness, I really appreciate how blunt Dan was in this video. Often people who don’t want to have kids need to have a profound reason for society to accept it. Saying they aren’t in the right place for a child or they want to focus on themselves. While in reality, it’s okay to not have kids because you’re lazy. Or you don’t want to spend money on them. Or you want time all to yourself. Or you don’t want to be tied down. In my opinion, admitting you don’t want kids for “selfish” reasons is way more responsible than having those feelings and still having children. Recognizing you cannot give a child the love they deserve is so fucking important. And I just really liked it
It’s ok Dan once said “I’ll find you in any world Phil” so even if Phil moved to Portugal as a kid we’d still have Dan and Phil
When dan said “It's so lucky to find someone you can be THAT compatible with,” I think about this picture:
Well maybe not this exact picture but this particular cross-hand autograph signing thing they do at every joint meet n’ greet.
Of course their compatibility goes way beyond this. It’s what Dan himself described, “two people - if you just get on with someone really well, someone you can spend time with... is that a soulmate?”
I would agree.. but let’s just talk about the hand thing.
I’m sure it started coincidentally. It began when they decided Dan and Phil sounds better than Phil and Dan. From that, it’s the unwritten rule of TV that dictates Dan should always stand on the right side of Phil. It’s so that audience could naturally see from left to right, Dan and Phil, just like how they’re called. I think they talked about this in one interview, citing Ant and Dec as an example.
And it just so happened that Dan is a lefty. When they signed things at the same time, it became natural for them to cross their hands to sign, so that their autographs read Dan and then Phil from left to right as well.
I said “natural for them” because it’s actually quite ridiculous when you really think about it. They can just do it one by one just as easily and only a few seconds slower (if even that.)
But yeah, natural for them might not make sense to anyone else, like when they decided rubbing cat whiskers out of the other’s face simultaneously backstage in tatinof is easier than having a stage hand do it for them, which still baffles me to this day.
The most important thing though, is it works for them. It has always worked for them. It still works for them like many of the life manoeuvres they probably set for themselves but we’re not privy to.
It’s just them, perfectly slotted into each other’s life in more ways than one.
