Selectively Mute/Mute!Dan Masterlist
Links Last Checked: September 1st, 2024
A Glass Wall and a Purple Flower (ao3) - Phandiction
Summary: "Highschool AU where Dan is a pastel sensitive cry baby who is a selective mute. His only friend Pj is the one Dan talks to. Phil is socially anxious but slightly talkative person who gushes over most plants."
Arms (ao3) - eqh27
Summary: Dan draws, Phil doesn’t. Phil wears black shirts, speaks loudly, and glares at everyone. Dan wears grey jumpers, doesn’t talk, and tries to stay invisible. Phil’s reckless, Dan’s not. This is as story about two polar opposites who mange to have a string of first times together, and maybe even a cute love story.
But It Takes Someone To Come Around To Show You How (ao3) - Phantastically (JellySquiggle)
Summary: Dan is born mute into a world where once in everyone’s life your soulmate will say the specific words that are tattooed onto your body, and bring you together. These words will save your life in more ways than imaginable. Whilst Dan resigns himself to the fact he will never have a soulmate, fate has different ideas…
Dear Diary...Signed, Daniel Howell - paradisobound
Summary: The Diary Entries of Daniel Howell.
Hearing You (ao3) - centroid
Summary: They were laying on Phil’s couch, watching a movie. Maybe watching was a bad choice of words.
His Unspoken Word (ao3) - ineffabledaniel
Summary: Phil Lester is the leader of a small town gang. He's got a mean attitude and a thing for the pretty new boy. In the middle of a turf war is he willing to work for him?
If People Were Colours, He Was Red and I Was Blue (ao3) - midnightskydan
Summary: In which Dan and Phil’s relationship hits a hard patch when Phil has troubles. Dan associates his difficult love with different “colors” like blue and grey. Feat. mute!Dan and depressed!Phil.
Listen - adorkablephil
Summary: Phil is a successful YouTuber, and Dan is a fan desperate for attention. Sounds like 2009, right? Except Phil is Deaf.
My Boyfriend, Dan - doomedhowell
Summary: Dan and Phil have been together for eight months. Dan isn’t a youtuber but Phil is. Dan’s also mute. But Phil decides to one day ask Dan to join his live show to meet his viewers for the first time.
Second Chances - doomedhowell
Summary: Dan is mute and Phil is the bad boy at school who picks on him and bullies him. The only problem was that Dan and Phil have been talking to each other online for months. But Phil didn’t know he was talking to someone that he already knew, until they meet in person. Things don’t quite go as planned.
Shut Your Mouth and Listen Closely (ao3) - SimplyUndead
Summary: (tw) Dan is mute with an unfortunate past. Phil is a nice boy with a warm heart and love to give.
Soundless - velarisstars
Summary: Phil Lester moves to town and attends a school full of cliques. He doesn’t see his life going anywhere until he somehow manages to befriend the mute kid in school. Now he’s beginning to learn that life can take you anywhere, and is full of friends in unlikely places. But in the wake of a tragedy, Phil must learn to understand not just words, but actions. Because sometimes, the loudest cry for help can be soundless.
Speak (wattpad) - phanci
Summary: the story of an overenthusiastic boy called Phil, who has trouble shutting up, and a reluctantly mute boy called Dan, who’s life is falling apart, and how they both come to realise that sometimes - actions can speak louder than words.
Strange Harmony (ao3) - rapier_puree
Summary: Dan is mute and Phil is deaf, which, as it turn out, works quite nicely.
Thunderstorms - oakleysfthoying
Summary: nonyoutuber+mute!Dan is terrified of thunderstorms. Popular youtuber!Phil is doing a live show when it’s storming and Dan needs comfort.
Weather With You (ao3) - Evening42
Summary: "The man’s arms dropped slowly to his side and he didn’t speak, just looking at Phil, the glare fading from his eyes. Phil opened his mouth to speak again but was stopped by the sudden realisation that firstly this man was gorgeous, and secondly that his eyes, despite the depth of colour, were the most dead and cold that he had ever seen, the previous glare the only speck of emotion present. His mouth remained open as he struggled to regain his thoughts and calm his now wildly beating heart, a sudden large breaking wave the only thing that brought him back to his senses."
Phil moves to an isolated cottage to start his dream of writing a novel. He meets a mysterious silent stranger on the beach who has a tragic history.
