#fallinginlove

Life had been monotonous for months. Work, sleep, gym, eat, repeat. You loved your job at the domestic violence shelter, loved helping people rebuild pieces of themselves that had been broken. But it didn’t change the fact that your life outside those walls felt empty. Nights alone on the couch with a half-eaten takeout container and a streaming service queued up didn’t exactly scream excitement.

So when Macklin Celebrini’s name popped up in your messages one Tuesday evening, you couldn’t help the small thrill that snuck into your chest.

"You free tonight?"

part one, part two

Advent Calendar 2021 (ao3) - Phantje

Summary: Phil lives and works in a town in the North called Lylchester. Well, 'works'. He does charitable things in the name of being nice and his (adoptive) parents. Things are fine. Yeah. Fine. Meeting Dan who has strong opinions about peculiar things shakes up Phil's life and he is falling before he can help it.

Dan lives and works somewhere, or anywhere really. By fate, or call it the British Railway train running times, he ends up in Lylchester. Before he can help himself, he has made the first real best friend he has ever had - Beatrix. And suddenly, life does not seem so difficult anymore. Dan appreciates the work he can do, even if it has him interact with the rich idiot Phil more often that he would personally choose.

All My Friends Are Falling In Love (ao3) - expiredlove

Summary: All Phil's friends are falling in love and he just can't seem to understand what exactly the feeling that they are talking about is, until he experiences it himself.

Set in 2009.

baby just take the chance to love me (ao3) - gotnobodytolove

Summary: falling in love with your best friend isn’t easy.

Carpets, Pokemon and hugs (These are a few of my favorite things) (ao3) - DownDownFangirl

Summary: "Is everything ok?" The tall guy stops. The elevator starts to close. The guy reaches for the door and it opens again. He looks into Phil's eyes and it’s strong and focused and confusing.

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Phil works at a motel and Dan is a guest who comes and goes. There are many thoughts to think and many delicate conversations to have... And it can get confusing, especially when you live hundreds of kilometers away from each other.

Deceit and Devotion (ao3) - Thatonefunhun

Summary: Phil Lester has it all. A successful career doing what he loves, a “bestie” who's always got his back, and a can-do attitude! He’s living the life! But what goes on beyond the camera? And is everything as it seems…

Electronics and the Phil’s that break them (ao3) - Fictropes

Summary: The first time’s an accident, a proper accident— a Phil forgot how to hold his cup and now he’s watching his coffee seep into his keyboard type accident.

Golden Boy (ao3) - hygge

Summary: Phil takes a drawing class in university and needs a subject for his drawing final.

good night bear (ao3) - loveforlester

Summary: “good night bear i love you”

dan howell loves phil lester. phil lester loves dan howell. you know the story two soulmates who met on the internet. just something is different.

dan can’t sleep without watching phil’s videos. oh and phil stopped filming videos

home renovations (ao3) - possumdnp

Summary: Phil is a new homeowner with a knack for getting himself into awkward situations around cute guys. Dan is a builder who's always working on renovations around Phil's house. What could go wrong?

(An alternate meeting YouTuber Phil/builder Dan AU.)

How Far We’ve Come (ao3) - angelszn (artbabe)

Summary: Phil asks Dan to move in with him.

i will never know a sunday (how slow the moments go) (ao3) - beaniebopbaby

Summary: Phil was mesmerized. He had no idea how anyone in the room was talking. How could they not listen to this beautiful piece?

Phil continued to sit, listening, overcome by the joy of the music - a smile plastered on his face. He did not realize when the others began to leave. If anyone walked by him, he did not see. But soon, he was the only one left in the concert hall. He had no idea how long he sat there and listened.

Somewhere midway through the piece, the notes began to change. The pianist began slowing his notes, and their progressions were no longer full of joy. The song became sad, melancholy. It took Phil’s breath away. He felt cold all of a sudden, like the pianist was further away somehow isolated.

The man hunched over the piano, and Phil felt like he couldn’t breath. He looked around the room, to see if anyone else noticed this shift, when he finally realized they were alone. The notes grew slower and slower as Phil stood, drifting closer to the man playing the piano. The pianist looked as mesmerized as Phil, absorbed in his playing.

Learning Curves (ao3) - winstonlives

Summary: Dan, a youtuber, sees an old A levels teacher in a gay bar years after he left school. That same teacher is Phil Lester, the hunkiest teach Dan ever did see. He makes a plan to subtly bump into him and reintroduce himself as a successful adult. While the reintroduction doesn’t go quite as planned, the two end up in bed together, much to Dan’s delight. Phil on the other hand has some reservations about the whole thing, throwing a wrench into Dan’s lustful plans.

names of collision in the dark (ao3) - Anonymous

Summary: Of enemy kingdoms, Prince Dan and Prince Phil meet one fateful night, leading to a surprising friendship that evolves into something more. As the looming threat of a major battle grows stronger, both princes grapple with their roles and the burdens of leadership, all while their growing bond forces them to confront their own kingdoms’ expectations and the possibility of peace in the chaos.

(aka the dan and phil royal au fic they wrote for the gaming channel but taken seriously)

nine years of love (ao3) - natigail

Summary: There are a hundred ways to say I love you and a dozen of word for love. It might not even require words. Actions can speak louder than words, so every little touch, every shared glance, every joyful laugh, every tear shed and every seemingly normal moment.

It should be the most fun you’ve ever had and for two boys it had been exactly that. Nine years of love. Shared struggles and successes. They had shared ten 19th of October in each other’s company with no sight of stopping yet.

Phan Funeral Meet-Cute (ao3) - bogdaddy_owns_my_ass

Summary: Dan Howell meets a tall, mysterious man at the funeral of a dear friend of his who had died under mysterious circumstances. What Dan doesn't know is that this man is who he is destined to be with for all eternity.

Purposeful Permanence (ao3) - artbabe

Summary: Dan hates doing his laundry at the university laundromat, so he takes his dirty laundry to Phil's place.

the man of my dreams (ao3) - mel_m_a_o

Summary: He first dreamed about this man maybe two months ago. The dream wasn’t really something out of the ordinary and Dan didn’t really remember what it was about, but it stuck out to him, because he wasn’t usually someone who remembered his dreams. He often thought he just doesn’t dream at all, but that certainly changed. He keeps dreaming about the same pale, black haired man and his bright eyes that make Dan wake up in a sweat. He starts to see the face everywhere all the time until he actually does.

would it be a sin if I can't help falling in love with you?(ao3) - resurrectdead

Summary: “Hey.”

Phil reaches over the counter. Leaning one elbow on it, he puts a finger underneath Dan’s chin, gently tilts his head back up. Dan tries not to tremble. He darts his eyes up and they catch at his lips, stay there as he speaks. (He wants to taste them so bad.)

“I don’t know what kind of people you’re friends with,” he starts, “but if they aren’t nice to you, maybe you should consider switching them out for some that are.”

or: it's 1978, everything is a bad influence, catholicism makes you a bit sad sometimes and dan finds the answer to all his questions

you bewitched me (ao3) - orphan_account

Summary: dan is a waiter at a restaurant that often serves a regular customer, phil. as their flirty exchanges continue and become more steamy, dan shoots his shot through a post it inviting phil to a nearby cafe.

little does phil know dan works at that cafe as well.

You Send Me (ao3) - Portia331

Falling in love has always been portrayed as something mystical and beautiful—a spark that may or may not truly exist. I adore falling in love, yet I despise how much it hurts. They say love comes easily when it is true, but for me, it never has. No matter how breathtaking the view is while you fall, love turns bleak and painful when you realize you will eventually crash—alone.

I have fallen so deeply, embraced by a boy’s arms only in my mind. For three years, I chased him through endless fields of tulips—his favorite. I ran through those meadows beneath a golden sun, his smile lingering in the sky. I danced in the rain, frolicked with butterflies, convinced he would come. But eventually, I saw the truth: I was alone in the meadow, alone with the tulips and the butterflies. He never loved me. I had built a world of solitude, mistaking it for something shared.

Love, when real, is not a prison of waiting and longing. It is not the quiet insanity of weaving lies so tightly that you remain trapped in them for years. I love falling in love, but the bliss has never lasted more than a fleeting moment. Falling out of love, however—that has brought me satisfaction, even pleasure.

For so long, I looked at him and saw someone beautiful, someone I longed to love, someone forever out of reach. But I grew weary. The meadow, once boundless, withered. The tulips bowed and died, the butterflies fled into the dimming sky, the sun sank below the horizon without the warmth I had once mistaken for his touch. I lay there as my love faded, as my obsession fell away. It was sad, it was dim, it was empty. Yet my shoulders, once burdened by longing, felt lighter.

Like a caged bird, I had sung of love and freedom, believing myself unbound until I saw the bars that confined me. I sang, hoping to be set free—only to realize I could never leave until I accepted that I might never stop loving. Only then did I let go. He became a part of me, but I could set him free. And in doing so, I set myself free.

do u know any fics like "Sunshine baby" not necessarily the trope just no drama(ar at least close to none) no nothing just babies falling in love w each other 😊

Hi, anon! I'm having a great day! Hope you are, too! So I think what you're looking for are falling in love fics without angst. Here are some that fit what I think you're looking for!

Teach me how to love by @perfectdagger

Louis can’t believe he’s third wheeling, again, so he scans the bar trying to find something better to do.

And as he does, he recognizes a face.

That face looks angry, almost fuming and Louis takes a gulp from his beer and looks to the other side, pretending he didn’t even see the bloke, pretending he has no clue who that person coming over his way is.

“You’ve told everyone and their mother that I’m a bad fucker?!”

That’s how Harry greets him.

Smooth.

Not really.

The one in which Harry is bad at sex and Louis spreads it all over town and to make up for it, decides to help him with no agenda of getting anything from it, but in the end, he ends up getting more than he bargained for.

Gemma's Dad (Could Use A Guy Like Me) by @lululawrence

The summer before Louis and Gemma's senior year of college was supposed to be their last big hurrah before they graduate college and become Real Adults in the workforce. They had it all planned and it was going to be filled with mornings skateboarding, afternoons at the pool, and evenings hanging out with as many of the neighborhood kids they grew up with as they can.

Of course, Louis wasn't planning on getting home and learning that Gemma's dad had gotten the house in the divorce and was dealing with things by focusing on work, the house, and his newly planted garden. It becomes obvious early on that Harry is a bit lost and Gemma is worried about him. To help both of them, Louis is more than happy to help Harry find himself again.

As the summer goes on, the adventures and day to day happenings allow Harry and Louis to spend a lot more time together than either of them ever anticipated and Louis finds it more difficult to keep his growing feelings in check than he ever thought it would be. After all, there wasn't a chance that Harry would ever be interested in Louis... right?

No Going Back by jacaranda_bloom / @jacaranda-bloom

Sales reps Harry and Louis are bored with their jobs and their lives. After meeting at a conference in Cardiff they hook up, have a few too many drinks, and jokingly apply to become remote lighthouse keepers. Six months, just the two of them, looking after the southernmost lighthouse off the bottom of Australia. It’s not like their applications will be accepted. Right?

Letter:

I miss you. A sweet feeling lingers in my heart, and all I can think about is your smile, and the fact that we can never be friends anymore. But this sweet feeling, sweet as sugar, stubbornly stays there my heart and drives me crazy. It won't go away. I've got the sweetest little crush on you, it's so sweet, so so sweet. You got me so drunk on your poison, because your poison is as sweet as honey. I want to know what your lips taste like, I want to get drunk on your smile, I want to fall into your eyes and stay there for hours.

But despite all this, I know it isn't just a crush; I developed a crush on you only after falling in love with you. For many people it works the other way round; but for me somehow, I realized I was in love with you first.

The gentle feeling of love came first - the peaceful feeling of being in your company. The calm feeling I felt when listening to you tell jokes and stories. And the way the world seemed to fall silent, when I watched as you walked happily alongside your friends.

It was only after that, did every little thing about you start to make my heart race, did every single thing about you seem cute beyond words. It was only after all this, did I get a little drunk in your eyes that always seem to be thinking.

But this "dizziness", this blinding crush, will lessen eventually, and in the time that it will take for it to reduce, I promise to hide most of it from you to respect your comfort.