#akinatorphan

sorry it took me so long to answer this! i didn’t have internet until today. Here’s a few of my fave soulmate fics.

Shared Sounds - Fiction. Dan Howell is excited for his eighteenth birthday, excited to hear the sounds of his soulmate, though his journey is not destined to be an easy one. He hears the sounds as soon as he turns eighteen, but they don’t become clear until you hear your soulmate’s voice. And, well, Dan wasn’t exactly expecting his sounds to become clear when he heard an interview given by a member of his favourite band: Phil Lester.

Famous Last Words (tw) - In a world where the last words your soulmate will say to you are written on your wrist, fearful and introverted Phil works in a bookstore. His greatest fear? The words counting down the seconds until he meet his soulmate, someone called ‘Dan.’ But it isn’t until he befriends a university student that he nicknames ‘Bear’ that Phil realizes that surviving through fear isn’t the same as living.

Celadon (wattpad) -  Dan lives in a world of black and white, only to be brought to color when one is united with their one soulmate. But Dan found who’s supposed to be his soulmate… two years ago. So why is it that he’s finally seeing all the colors now, when he lays eyes on a boy he doesn’t know?

Let Me Feel Your Heartbeat -  (Soulmate AU) A year after the death of his parents, Dan finds that the only reason he’s able to get up in the mornings is because of the ring on his finger - the one that beats to the rhythm of his soulmate’s heart. Soon enough, Dan finds another reason to wake up in the mornings. And he supposes that’s due to a kind stranger who keeps invading his thoughts.

Grey - Colour isn’t really something that Dan understands, all he knows that from a young age he wanted to find his soulmate so he could see the world in the perfect light. But after meeting a boy with light grey eyes who doesn’t feel the same and spending most of his life never apart from him, maybe his idea can change to match.

I’ve devised a ten step solution:

locate moth

panic for half an hour

text everyone you know asking for advice

panic some more

close all doors so moth can’t escape

acquire 2 flashlights, oven mitt, paper towel, fly swatter and stepstool

sit on floor staring at moth hyperventilating

eventually gather courage to approach moth

kill moth in multiple steps while panicking and screaming

die

in my short time in the tumblr phandom i have come to notice that even though philphobia is real, people use it as an excuse to be danphobic (those terms sound silly when i type them but it’s true).

just think about when a new ap video is released, it is met with overwhelming positivity and support (2017 has been a v good year for phil’s channel i must admit) but, when a new dinof video is released, you will find about 30 different forms of discourse criticising and pulling apart everything dan has done. 

i just want people to know that by being ‘dan positive’ you aren’t ignoring phil. they are still two separate people who can be talked about individually. it’s tedious getting anons asking me to compliment phil more or ‘why didn’t you talk about how attractive dan and phil are?’. i don’t see what’s wrong with being supportive of dan and expressing my love and support for him on my blog.