Romantic Fluff Masterlist
Links last checked: June 6th, 2025
7 Minutes (ao3) - saraswords
Summary: "Moments, memories, that’s all that Dan had left to relive, but he could only pick a handful. He only had 7 minutes after-all. So…he picked. He chose his favorites, a compilation of small and big moments: lying in bed together, moving in together, slow dancing, life-changing questions, and simple nights.
And what they all had in common, was one person..."
A Different Kind of Philly (ao3) - NiniMeggie
Summary: Dan is getting to an age where he is meant to be looking for a bride from one of the neighbouring kingdoms. After messengers are sent from various kingdoms from both lords and kings offering their daughters’ hands, Dan has a lot to consider. His father sends invites to the interested parties of the top three kingdoms and tells his son to pick whichever filly his heart desires. After meeting them, he thinks the Philly he wants is one his father would not approve of.
all the memories i hold dear (ao3) - Ablissa
Summary: "It's not really our anniversary, though," Dan reasons against his own will.
"It's one of our anniversaries," Phil argues.
Dan snorts. "Yeah, one of like, ten."
"Four," Phil corrects him, fondness seeping from his voice.
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Nine years after meeting Phil for the first time, Dan thinks it's alright that they'll be spending October 19th apart.
But is it really?
beauty (ao3) - orphan_account
Summary: maybe there's something special about ferris wheels.
Bluebells (ao3) - worriedpeach (skeletonflowers)
Summary: Dan just really wants to put flowers in Phil’s hair.
clothes that look cute on you (ao3) - orphan_account
Summary: dan works at a clothing store and he helps phil pick out outfits to wear
Dearest, Dearest (ao3) - QuietBubbles
Summary: A collection of love letters written during the Great War between two young soldiers. Hope you enjoy! <3
Here's To Our Story (ao3) - orphan_account
Summary: Dan is a bored office worker with a crush on the cute IT guy - Phil.
Naturally Dan decides that the best way to get Phil's attention would be to fabricate a series of technical issues that he has to call Phil to help with. It's just a shame Dan wasn't a little less transparent.
His World (ao3) - Sinninghowlter
Summary: Dan opens the door and before him stands his world.
He's finally home.
Home With A Heartbeat (ao3) - JenCollins, WordsAblaze
Summary: Uni’s hard, so sometimes Dan ends up missing lunch. This time he goes to Phil, who gives him not only worried looks, a meal, and cooking skills, but also a home.
Memories in Manchester (ao3) - Spring_Haze
Summary: Dan and Phil feel nostalgic while in Manchester for tour and recall their earliest memories of one another, including their first kiss.
My Shipwrecked Heart (ao3) - outphan
Summary: After his heart gets broken, Dan Howell decides to chase one of his dreams: he enters a competition to go on a Mediterranean cruise! It comes true and along the way, something even better happens.
Pumpkin Pride (ao3) - ThoughtaThought
Summary: Phil's family runs a Pumpkin Patch on the outskirts of a small town. The Howells move into the house next door (but this is the country, so it's like... half a mile away) and Dan grows up hanging out with the Lesters. Each chapter is a moment in their life as they grow up and get together with absolutely zero angst. From 1996-2023.
Ridingstone Hall (ao3) - QuietBubbles
Summary: The turn of the 20th century. Much to his surprise, Daniel, an ordinary orphan, secures a position as tutor to an affluent family in the country. However, this stroke of luck soon runs short as he is thrust into a world eternally on the brink of scandal. Warring parents, unhappy children-and the eldest son, miserably engaged to a socialite, soon begins a beautiful secret scandal of his own…
The Admiral's Birdcage (ao3) - QuietBubbles
Summary: Daniel, an orphaned ward, has never set foot outside the Great House at the top of the High Street. His guardian, the powerful Admiral Malock, grows ever more obsessed with him, and hatches a terrible plan to keep him by his side forever. With Daniel approaching his twenty-first birthday and longing to see the world, Malock will go to any lengths to keep him prisoner. But when Philip, a young clerk, discovers Daniel trapped in his birdcage, a secret friendship leads quickly to love. Though there is danger at every turn, Philip knows he has to set Daniel free… Alternative Victorian England. Old-fashioned romance, fluff, obsession, danger, and smut. Also a cute kitty! Enjoy!
The right people (ao3) - ykari
Summary: Just the fluffy Soulmate AU you're looking for when you're sad and lonely. Dan and Phil live in a world where you get a mark on your arm on your eighteenth birthday with your soulmate's first words to you. Phil is an hopeless romantic and is quite surprised when his mark turns out to be that long.
The Wallflower's Guide to Love (ao3) - Art3misPlayerOne
Summary: Dan is a brilliant but painfully shy and awkward guitar player in a popular local band who prefers to hide from the spotlight. He's content to lose himself in his playing and avoids friendships and emotional attachments, but an accidental run-in with a mystery boy inspires him to reach out to him through anonymous texts.
Too scared that the boy will be disappointed in the real him, Dan doesn't want to reveal his identity and risk losing their surprising connection. When forced to choose between his anonymity and putting his heart on the line, help from an unexpected friendship pushes him far beyond his comfort zone, but will it be too little too late?
watermelon sugar high (ao3) - itsmyusualphannie (itsmyusualweeb)
Summary: Dan is the son of Hades, god of the Underworld, while Phil is the son of Hebe, goddess of youth and vitality. They couldn't be more different, but somehow they're friends (and maybe a little more).
