#richpoor

Black AmEx (ao3) - copperbadge G, 4k

Summary: Bruce isn't sure he wants to use a credit card Tony gave him. Steve isn't sure he even knows how.

Brooklyn Cats (ao3) - SushiOwl steve/tony E, 29k

Summary: (No Powers AU)

Steve Rogers is an art student who is comfortable being depressed and alone. Tony Stark comes along and messes that all up.

buy the brooklyn bridge (ao3) - plingo_kat steve/tony G, 3k

Summary: It’s a whole new world, and Steve finds himself fitting in pretty well. Especially with Tony Stark as a guide.

Can’t Stop Us RoboDads (ao3) - justanotherpipedream, rebelmeg T, 13k

Summary: The story of how a genius rich kid from New York and a poor military-bound kid from South Philly meet, get into shenanigans, birth a few bots, and forge a life-long friendship.

Discretionary Spending (ao3) - midgetnazgul G, 7k

Summary: Fill for a prompt on the Avengers kinkmeme.

Original prompt: Tony really enjoys buying/building the other Avengers things they mention wanting or needing. Natasha mentions this obscure brand of expensive chocolates she once enjoyed on a mission and can't seem to find? Tony orders some in bulk. Bruce misses a certain tea, or mentions in passing that he wants a piece of lab equipment? Already bought it, and here I made adjustments so the equipment is even better than it was! Steve wants a really old film that's only on VHS and is really hard to find? Oh, I just had it in storage… Clint likes perching up high, but lacks enough places to do so in comfort? Was just about to remodel the place anyway. Thor mentions some obscure Nordic food that he misses? Tony knows just the place…

Point being, they eventually catch on to the fact that Tony notices things, and proceeds to do what needs to be done to get those things for them. No matter how often he stays in his lab for three days in a row, or how much he throws sarcastic comments, or acts just plain rude, he cares a lot. This leads to the entire team being nicer as a whole to Tony.

Diamonds Are A Girl’s Best Friend (ao3) - camichats wanda/tony E, 14k

Summary: Wanda ends up as Tony Stark’s sugar baby to help get her through college. Getting into that relationship was the last thing she expected and falling in love came as a surprise to both of them.

Down On The Farm (ao3) - tellxmebby steve/tony E, 7k

Summary: Tony laughs, throwing an old rag at the blond man, who bats it away in the air. "Fuck you."

"Mm," Steve rolls back under the car with a newly fitted socket, "maybe later."

Steve grins up at the chrome above him at the lack of response. It must take Tony a minute to recover, but when he does Steve hears him huff.

Faithless (ao3) - TheZev mary jane watson/tony E, 7k

Summary: While living in Stark Tower, Mary Jane decides she’s had enough of being Peter Parker’s broke wife. Now she’d rather be Tony Stark’s rich sugar baby.

Living ain’t cheap (ao3) - Strength_in_pain N/R, 2k

Summary: “I thought our utility bill would be lower. Shit shit shit.” May cried, running a hand through her hair. Or Peter is worried about May because their financial struggles have gotten worse and he ends up needing Tony Stark.

people like you must be the world’s loneliest creatures (ao3) - avienexjel bucky/tony N/R, 96k (WIP)

Summary: Tony Stark is rich, popular, and an arrogant asshole. In other words: his IQ rivals Einstein’s, he’s slept with most of his friends at least once, and he’s so fucking lonely that sometimes he wakes up in the middle of the night in the dark and cries into the cold sheets on the other side of the bed.

It’s no different at his new boarding school called SHIELD, at first. Half of the students love him to death, the other half want to murder him, nothing new. That is, until Tony accidentally breaks James Barnes’s prosthetic arm and he finds the most vulnerable pieces of himself crawling their ways to the surface whether he wants them to or not.

peter’s stars (ao3) - IronPengu, parkrstark steve/tony T, 175k

Summary: Steve and Peter lose their apartment and are kicked out on the streets. Steve has to juggle between jobs to earn whatever money he can, take care of his son while resfusing to let him realize how much they’re trouble in, and keep them warm and safe on the city streets in winter.

So, he really doesn’t have time to date the billionaire that flirts with him everyday as he buys his cup of coffee. Even if he did, he can’t let himself fall for the man. Because if he knew that he lived from a backpack and showered in a public bathroom there’s no way he’d still want him…right?

Rich Man, Poor Man (ao3) - sassyfangs13 steve/tony G, 1k

Summary: Steve grew up in a time when sharing what little you had was the norm so when Tony starts buying him rediculous gifts he doesn't really know what to say.

the weight of water (ao3) - citsiurtlanu steve/tony M, 31k

Summary: Tony Stark is a rich socialite who’s reached a dead end in his life. Steve Rogers is a poor artist who works from job to job. Both of them are passengers on the biggest ship in the world. Yup, it’s a Titanic AU.

To Destroy a Legacy, to Ruin a Legend. (ao3) - AniAuthor N/R, 1k

Summary: Tony Stark doesn't need his armor or even to fight Steve Roger's team to destroy them. He just needs what he always had: his empire that he and his father built, his wealth, and control over the media. After all, you don't take a multi-million empire and turn it into a multi-billion empire by letting others walk all over you. Read to find out how Tony Stark destroys Team Captain America without even fighting after T'Challa uses his influence to pardon them in the States.

Trophy of a One Night Stand (ao3) - BurdenedWithPointlessPurpose tony/stephen E, 35k

Links last checked: May 29th, 2025

$ (ao3) - aby55al (abyssa1)

Summary: Rich boy Dan moves in with record store employee Phil while they attend university.

Beauty and the Punk (wattpad) - thatonewritingloser

Summary: Dan’s family is rich. But he doesn’t really care about money so he spends his life running amuck with his piercings and eventually tattoos. But, when his family has a guest over from France, it turns out to be a beautiful young man that Dan falls hard and fast for: Phil Lester.

Broken Silence - walruslovechild

Summary: Upper class teenager Dan Howell goes to live with a distant uncle, things change when he meets servant Phil.

come slow and overload (ao3) - jestbee

Summary: The first time he'd seen Phil, tending to the roses in the formal garden, his breath had caught in his throat and he'd stared for a little too long and wanted.

Dancing in a Snowglobe, Round and Round - notanannoyingfangirl

Summary: The last thing Phil Lester wants is to be forced to spend his Christmas break at school along with the other kids whose parents can't be bothered to spend time together, until he meets Dan Howell that is. Dan is everything Phil's not, rich, confident, (slightly annoying), and Phil won't lie, he's intrigued.  

Darkshines (ao3) - Julliecious

Summary: For years now, Dan and his friends haven’t let Phil be. He’s bullied and tired of it, but he can’t make them stop. But he stumbles upon Dan’s tumblr one day and decides to get back on him, only it’s behind the safe walls of anonymousity. What Phil doesn’t know though, is that Dan isn’t as strong as he appears in school, and the anonymous messages gets much bigger consequenses than he’d thought.

Falling In Love With The Enemy - doomedhowell

Summary: punk!phil gets dared by Chris to ask rich!dan out. They hate each other and Phil doesn’t want to do the dare but he loves challenges. He only has two weeks until the deadline to make Dan fall in love with him.

I’m stuck in winter and you’re my fire (ao3) - creamy_nuggets

Summary: Dan and Phil are in university, and get paired in a project which requires them to spend time together. Dan is a rich popular guy with a seemingly perfect life, and Phil isn’t sure about him

Incompetent (wattpad) - -phantasizing-

Summary: or the one where Dan’s a billionaire and Phil’s struggling to get by

It’s Just The Way It Is (ao3) - Fangirlcraze

Summary: Dan is a rich British teen with no sense of how to live and provide for himself. His mother's job forces them both to move to America. Among all the changes, his new public school is much different than the all-boys private school he attended back in England. The families are poor, the kids aren't as rude, and America is filled with amazingly weird culture that Dan is cautious to explore. Phil is an American teen with a weekend job and an average SAT score. For community service hours, he has to guide a snobby rich British teen on how to adjust to a new school and eventually, a new perspective on life.

Key Signature - lionsheart

Summary: the one where dan’s a piano prodigy and phil is homeless (but that’s a secret to everyone but himself).

Level Nine. (ao3) - heyitsnxel

Summary: No one ever sat at the bar, until one night someone did.

Living is Easy with My Eyes Closed (ao3) - TheUKAmazingDan

Summary: September 19, 1976

Dan Howell liked pretty things and a pretty guy, but not the one who was interested in him. No, Dan was infatuated with someone he couldn't have.

Lumos - andromehdas

Summary: Phil is sent to a boarding school to help improve his education and while he is there he meets Dan, who is an arrogant bastard but is a lot more than he seems underneath… supernatural! dan, high school au

Million Dollar Man (ao3) - metal_arm_metal_shield

Summary: An AU where Dan and Phil are both powerful, filthy rich, and just plain filthy men. At an extravagant business party hosted by Phil, Dan steals him away to give him a show.

No Strings Attached - phangirling-is-life

Summary: Phil is living in London and struggling for money.  He signs up for a sugar daddy website and meets Dan.  Dan has inherited his fathers company and hates the long hours. He doesn’t get time to go out and meet people.  He decides to get a sugar baby.

Paris Never Felt So Euphoric (ao3) - t_hens

Summary: Dan is a wealthy heir who is bored of the party life in California so he takes a spontaneous trip to Paris where he meets a mysterious architect named Phil. Older, fun, and mature, he is the opposite of everything Dan is used to. Could a stranger and spontaneous trip be exactly what Dan needs?

pity party (ao3) - lovekilla

Summary: Dan Howell thinks the world revolves around him, and when his 'friends' grow tired of it, they ditch his party. Except, instead of sitting home alone, someone comes to teach the brat a lesson.

Resistance - amazingdanielhowell

Summary: Dan moved up to Manchester after his already successful parents got a promotion and moved to be closer to work. Dan is lonely seeing as his parents are always too busy for him. Since birth, he’s had a life plan that he is to follow exactly, though he wants to create his own future. He meets a really quiet kid, Phil, who never talks to anyone and is known as “Freaky Phil” by everyone in school. Dan decides to give the boy a chance, though Phil isn’t exactly the easiest person to talk to…

Royalty - oakleysfthoying

Summary: Dan comes from a rich family. His parents had already arranged a marriage for Dan but Dan would much rather be with the boy who works at the town’s coffee shop. Things get complicated when Dan’s parents find out. Dan and Phil have to figure out how to be together.

That's The Beauty Of A Secret (ao3) - softsocks

Summary: 'You know you're supposed to keep it'

Phil loves being the only one to touch Dan. But sometimes, keeping their relationship in the dark, facing all the rumors from his peers - it can hurt.

The Real Reason Why (ao3) - maytheday

We have a huuuge, huge [richpoor] dynamic tag! Here are some more for you! 

Until I Find YouSummary: Eren remembered everything from his time fighting the Titans. Every shift, every battle, and every moment he spent with the love of his life, Levi. Many lives later, Eren is trying to successfully navigate the world as a college student, again, still searching for the man he loves and who he dare call his soulmate. He’s on the verge of giving up after so many disappointing lives he’s lived, but this time around he receives a wonderful surprise that makes up for all of those years he spent searching.

Wearing Sunglasses InsideSummary: The young man nodded at him with a wide smile, and Levi had never felt so flustered in all of his life. He was thirty-three years old, and was blushing like a damn schoolgirl in the presence of One Direction.     Jesus have mercy on his soul.

Harry Styles: Dom, rich, and very strict. Louis Tomlinson: Sub, shy, and very cute.

18 year old Louis has just taken the test that would pair him with the Dom he was supposed to serve. Harry Styles is who he was matched with. Harry Styles, 25 year old businessman and mega-millionaire, and very, very strict, with everyone but his new Sub, it appears. Through a whirlwind of moving in together, trying to please the paparazzi as well as each other, they fall even more in love. However, the one Harry wants to avoid most is the one thing that Louis wants...a baby. Lots and lots of babies.

summary: If you asked most people of Daniel J. Howell’s lot in life, they’d tell you it was pretty good. A small career writing for a fashionable magazine, the heir to one of New York’s most prestigious hotels, and the convenience of youth and an ailing millionaire father… what more could an 18-year-old ask for?

So when a night at the symphony turns into the start of a whole new double life in the city’s queer underworld, the heir to New York’s most fashionable hotel will have to learn what is what when you’re dating a cabaret singer, and who is who when that singer becomes a troubled star.

So it’s nothing but fate when things start to fall apart. The catch? It’s the last half of the 1920s–

And this romance is illegal.

word count: 60k+ to be updated weekly

warnings: war violence, angst like woah, period homophobia, thoughts of suicide, alcohol, smoking, etc.

Links last checked: June 25th, 2025

part one

American Psycho/American Beauty (ao3) - prettysweet

Summary: Dan, the new bad boy, who has been attending Phil’s high school for only a week has girls all over him and everyone knows he fucks girls almost everyday. Two weeks later Dan takes a liking for Phil. They fuck. Dan fucks other people. Phil doesn’t.

Bury Your Flame - botanistlester

Summary: After receiving a dragon egg when his grandfather passed away, Phil is forced to ask for help from the local dragon tamer. As he soon finds out, Dan Howell is nothing he’s been expecting. Infuriating, ludicrous, and completely lacking respect, Dan is everything Phil hates. But Phil will do anything to make his grandfather proud, even if that means getting help from the local cluck.

Crossing the Line (ao3) - dakogutin

Summary: After billionaire Phil Lester meets an unfortunate incident that ends him up in hospital with no memories, Dan Howell— a mistreated employee convinces Phil that he is Dan's working-class husband to get back at him with the many hardships he faced as an employee. What could go wrong?

Imagine Living Like a King One Day - pianodan

Summary: Southview Boarding School isn’t a castle and Phil Lester isn’t royalty, but he has everything. His father owns the school, he’s popular, has the best room, gets all the best treatment – there are very few things that aren’t handed to him on a platter. Dan is a cleaner/Phil’s personal maid there, and he isn’t as lucky. Everyone seems to take an aversion to the outsider, including Phil (at first).

Living is Easy with My Eyes Closed (ao3) - TheUKAmazingDan

Summary: September 19, 1976

Dan Howell liked pretty things and a pretty guy, but not the one who was interested in him. No, Dan was infatuated with someone he couldn't have.

based off of the Colors music video by Halsey.

Sail Away With Me - paradisobound

Summary: It was a fluke. Dan shouldn’t have ever gone with Sam to a party on a yacht. He shouldn’t have trusted her to go. But in a chance encounter, he ends up in bed with Phil Lester, a billionaire CEO of a luxury clothing company. When he thinks he’s screwed up enough, he realizes he’s in way too deep. Because Phil Lester has fallen in love with him. The catch: Dan gave Phil a fake name and all Phil has to remember Dan by is the tattoo on his hip and the necklace he left behind.

Sugar Daddy, Sugar Baby (ao3) - Spring_Haze

Summary: Dan Howell is a nineteen-year-old student who is going though the motions. He seeks guidance and companionship, finding it unexpectedly in Phil Lester, a millionaire filmmaker who happens to be seeking companionship and partnership. The two men enter into a consentual sugar relationship agreement that, over time, becomes much, much, more than paper.

Sweet Sugar Meeting - trysomecats

Summary: Rich CEO and businessman Phil Lester is fed up with being lonely, which is why he decides to become a sugar daddy. Dan ends up being the perfect candidate for a sugar baby. 

Take a Trip Into My Garden (Got So Much to Show You) (ao3) - thesassykels66

Summary: Daniel, a polite professional gardener, happens to be in love with someone he shouldn't be.

And his name is Philip.

The Mansion - trysomecats

Summary: Dan is oddly satisfied with his position as a servant for Phil Lester, until he finds out that Phil had originally bought him for things aside from housework. 

The Real Reason Why (ao3) - maytheday

Summary: The Howell family goes to Mrs. Lester's birthday party, where Dan meets a boy named Phil.

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bad summary (and title, really) but im proud of this one (at least i am rn) so you should read it maybe

The Starbucks Game (ao3) - aby55al (abyssa1)

Summary: Rich boy Phil puts an inappropriate word for his name at Starbucks and his barista Dan gets embarrassed having to say it. Then they have sex.

we’ll never be royals (extended) - phanimist

Links last checked: May 29th, 2025

Acknowledged - trysomecats

Summary: Rich CEO Phil Lester meets Dan Howell, an adorable pastel-colored boy who is looking for a job, and decides that he has to hire him immediately.

Barstool Fairytale - phandabbydosey

Summary: Dan is a thief and Phil is a liar, both boy’s making their way through life miserable and alone. One night they meet and, after sharing a few glasses of whiskey, realise they might have finally found someone to love.

Better With You By My Side - phanlight

Summary: Dan and Phil are both sons of rich families and are sent to ballroom dancing lessons. Because there is a shortage of girls, Dan and Phil end up as partners. Phil really doesn’t want to be there and Dan doesn’t either, but is so frustrated by the fact Phil doesn’t want to dance with him he is determined to get him to.

Blossom - crescendohowell

Summary: Phil is a rich businessman who decides to leave the city in favor of buying a house in the country.  He expected to find beauty in the house and the surrounding gardens, but he didn’t account for a cute gardener who loves flowers and hates him.

Caught In A Web - trysomecats

Summary: Dan was offered to join Willow Grove Academy, Britain’s most prestigious and renowned private school, on a full scholarship. All of the other students are rich, unlike Dan who comes from a modern lower class society. Things become complicated when he lies about his background to Phil Lester, the most popular and richest boy in the school.

Domination (wattpad) - StayStrongLittleLove

Summary: Phil is the head of a CEO and a dominant to Dan Howell. When they go to a BDSM party that one of Phil’s friends is throwing - and that Dan doesn’t want to go to - he tries to make Phil jealous so they go home earlier. Phil isn’t having it.

Love That Passes (Is Enough) (ao3) - nihilist_toothpaste

Summary: Phil is a sad divorcee who lives in a mansion. Dan starts as a nervous and weirdly loud law student hired to work part-time as Phil’s poolboy-slash-housekeeper and turns into so much more.

Magic In The Hamptons (ao3) - t_hens

Summary: Phil is bored with going to parties every weekend with people he doesn’t like. Bored of going to school for a degree he hates just to please his parents. Bored of pretty much everything in his life, until he meets Dan, an inscrutable college student, who shows him that maybe he can have the things he wants in life - he just has to be brave enough to pursue them.

Million Dollar Man (ao3) - metal_arm_metal_shield

Summary: An AU where Dan and Phil are both powerful, filthy rich, and just plain filthy men. At an extravagant business party hosted by Phil, Dan steals him away to give him a show.

Paramour (ao3) - dannihowell (iguessicantry)

Summary: Phil, a wealthy businessman, is having an affair with Dan while married to a woman.

Professionally, Yours (ao3) -  deletable_bird

Summary: Dan is an overworked, underpaid, very homosexual uni student in need of an easy job. Phil is a successful, rather lonely businessman in need of a housekeeper. This is their story.

Rags And Riches - phandabbydosey

Summary: Spoilt brat Philip Lester is used to having all his problems solved for him, even his problems with the law. Fed up with his attitude and behaviour, Phil’s parents refuse to buy him out of trouble and Phil soon finds himself sentenced to community service where he comes across a homeless boy with deep brown eyes who might be able to change the way Phil sees the world entirely.

The Bad Boy Experiment - excessivephan

Summary: Teenagers Dan Howell and Zoe Sugg work together to find out what the effects of changing nerdy invisible good boy Dan to sexy popular bad boy Dan will have on the public. Dan isn’t too excited about the experiment until the rich and popular goody goody Phil Lester notices him.

Treat Me Gently (ao3) - Leswell

Summary: An university student who's mastering as a pianist, Dan Howell, is out of the money to pay his next semester's tuition and there is Phil Lester, a CEO of famous company, who offers Dan 'special job'.

Trust Me, I’m Broken Too (ao3) - natigail

Links Last Checked: March 30th, 2025

Acknowledge - trysomecats

Summary: Dan has been working at Lester Global Inc for two weeks now. His co-worker Louise is absolutely sure that their boss has a massive crush on the newest employee, but Dan has trouble acknowledging it. Contains pastel!Dan + rich and successful Phil. 

Blossom - crescendohowell

Summary: Phil is a rich businessman who decides to leave the city in favor of buying a house in the country.  He expected to find beauty in the house and the surrounding gardens, but he didn’t account for a cute gardener who loves flowers and hates him.

Born To Die (ao3) - sheriff_lester

Summary: Lonely businessman Phil Lester and lonely stripper Dan Howell.

Fool with Feelings (ao3) - cockwhoredan

Summary: Cam boy Dan has never been this obedient for a guest who hasn’t tipped. Businessman Phil has never been this happy with a misclick.

Holding Onto You (ao3) - xxxwhy

Summary: Dan Howell is a thief, a pickpocket, who has a surprisingly kind heart. His life has gone haywire for as long as he can remember, but he's trying to make the most of what he's been given. Phil Lester is a young uprising businessman who is close to his final breakthrough to the world of fortune and wealth. This is a story about the time when Dan just so happens to steal something from Phil and their paths cross, turning their worlds upside down.

losing the feeling (of feeling unique) (ao3) - orphan_account

Summary: dan is homeless and phil is a wealthy business man.

Million Dollar Man (ao3) - metal_arm_metal_shield

Summary: An AU where Dan and Phil are both powerful, filthy rich, and just plain filthy men. At an extravagant business party hosted by Phil, Dan steals him away to give him a show.

Paramour (ao3) - dannihowell (anotherdaughter)

Summary: Phil, a wealthy businessman, is having an affair with Dan while married to a woman.

Professionally, Yours (ao3) -  deletable_bird

Summary: Dan is an overworked, underpaid, very homosexual uni student in need of an easy job. Phil is a successful, rather lonely businessman in need of a housekeeper. This is their story.

Sweet Sugar Meeting - trysomecats

Summary: Rich CEO and businessman Phil Lester is fed up with being lonely, which is why he decides to become a sugar daddy. Dan ends up being the perfect candidate for a sugar baby.

The Business Man (ao3) - gaywizard

Summary: Dan is homeless, and everyday Business!Phil walks past in his fancy suits. The have never talked until one day Phil walks past and farts, and Dan can’t help but laugh.

you just accidentally fell asleep on my shoulder, but i don't mind (ao3) - what_the_gosh_dang