rip “games”

you know i’ve always liked you, phil, you know, since the day we met.

Both of them saying if the other person said they were breaking up they'd laugh 'cause they'd know it wasn't serious.

Phil looking at a guy he'd known for months and knowing that he would do whatever he needed to do. He would WORK FOR THIS. And god has he. God have they both.

Thinking about Dan thanking Phil for being patient. Thinking about how Dan was safe with Phil for so many years and Phil knew that together as a team they would make it work. Thinking about both the effort and devotion in took to get through the trauma they went through with the internet and homophobia (which went beyond the internet as it started out there). The love and support and patience. Like yeah it's a christian traditional marriage phrase which i'm kind of like dan on, but truly, love is patient and love is kind.

“we can make it work”

a flat they couldn’t afford for the first year they lived in london

“we can make it work”

separate hotel beds on tour because they were closeted

“we can make it work”

staying together through years of public speculation and people trying to out them

“we can make it work”

Dan and Phil talking about touring York together when Dan was trying to figure out where he would go to university, and Phil knowing that wherever Dan chose they would make it work.

bonus, around the same time (within months) that Phil was helping Dan choose a university, Dan was also involved with Phil doing first apartment hunting in Manchester: