We actually have two masterlists dedicated to undiscovered gems! However, these are a few years old, so they may have a bit more hits now. But, i found some of these for ya!

A Trainride to Remember (ao3) - orphan_account

Summary: Dan and Phil meet on a train, this is their encounter (and the outcome).

Blood Moon (ao3) - AnxiousAsexual5

Summary: In a world where vampires and wolves are mortal enemies, your soulmate isn't always the person you expect. Wolf Phil has never fallen in love before. He has never even wanted to date, but when he meets a young vampire called Dan, everything changes. They realise that they are meant for each other, and must now begin to work out how to date when they are supposed to hate each other and maybe change society's opinions along the way.

Cherry Blossoms (ao3) - dansecistentialcrisispose

Summary: Phil has a surprise for Dan. It starts with a surprise trip to Japan. Phil has a special question for Dan.

I'm Fine.....I'm Not Fine (ao3) - trancelover99

Summary: During the apocalypse, Dan comes across an abandoned theatre. His curiosity gets the best of him, and he decides to explore it. While jokingly dancing on the stage and singing "Everything's Fine,” his subconscious reminds him of the impending doom that is about to occur, despite Dan's attempts to ignore it. Dan suddenly has a mental breakdown and can't take it anymore. One thought lingers in the back of his mind. "What do you truly think about the world?" Will Dan confront his problems or swallow them back, like he always did?

I never wanted saving, I just wanted to be found (ao3) - skygremlin

Summary: “Yazi didn’t need to be saved. She needed someone to find her, to speak to her, to understand her.” Yazi’s life had been a cruel and unhappy one, a charade where she never checked the right boxes and played the right part. The sea gave her a second chance, but it was a lonely existence of men and their egos believing they knew what was best for her, before they inevitably brought about their own end.

In The Spring (ao3) - im_an_amazingdan_fan

Summary: The world is full of corrupt beauty and false hope, but Dan and Phil find love through pain. the finally settle for a simple life, but it can never be what it seems. Dan travels through his life feeling like a stranger, but Phil becomes his saviour and gives Dan back the life he never knew he had.

Terrible Things (ao3) - doodlelester

Summary: While writing a letter to Dan, Phil recollects their adventures together but can’t seem to handle all of them.

The secret spanish rose garden (ao3) - kitkattaylor

Summary: I read the secret garden and want to go to spain

When The Day Met The Sun (ao3) - Stupid4youu

Summary: Daniel Howell is a young artist with a shitty minimum-wage job who begins to get trapped in a cycle. he'll wake up, get dressed, forget to eat, go to work, come home, scroll on his computer for three hours, eat something and then go to sleep. there was nothing about his routine that ever changed, he needed something more, something to bring his spark back, so he signed up for some cheap kid's art lessons to find something else to bide his time with.

Here’s my piece for @undiscoveredgemszine which is an excellent zine dedicated to shining some light on otherwise unknown artists from all the world over! It’s a huge zine and is full of a lot of great works!!

My piece was a test cover for my very much still in the works web-comic, Selene & the Pieces of Eight (formerly Selene the Pirate Queen). A classic tale about a quest to become the finest pirate these seas have ever seen while unraveling the truth of their sham of a society! What’s not to love?

The Pirate and the Banished Prince (on Wattpad) http://my.w.tt/UiNb/657lzhaduF

The Drage Empire has harried its enemies for over fifty years, bringing death and destruction as their forces strove to crush their enemies.

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Prince Kieran Lorcan of the Drage Empire was raised to believe that taking over the other nations would allow them to spread the prosperity of his empire. Despite that, Kieran had doubts but never voiced his opinion. Until one day, Kieran spoke out of turn by voicing his traitorous thoughts. This causes his father to strip him of his title and banish him, leaving only one way for him to return home: by proving that he is worthy of his title. For two years, Kieran spent every waking moment searching for ways to prove to his father that he is a worthy prince.

One day, Kieran overhears a conversation about a map that leads to the last dragon egg, a species thought to be extinct since his grandfather ordered the slaughter of the dragons. Seeing an opportunity to prove himself, Kieran decides to find the dragon egg and bring it to his father. Only problem? Captain Cai holds a fraction of the map.

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On the other side of the world is Captain Cai, the most notorious pirate in the world. Keeping her real identity and gender hidden, Cai goes gallivanting around the world, searching for lost treasures, pillaging villages, experiencing unforgettable adventures and ignoring the war raging around her. Maybe once, she would’ve cared about the innocents dying in this unjustified war, but she’s changed over the years so instead, she learned to suppress her emotions and protect herself and her crew only.

Links Last Checked: December 18th, 2025

part one

addict with a pen (ao3) - artdeficient

Summary: a sad boy loves oceans and sea breezes and the time in between day and night, so he sits by the sea with a sketchbook and sometimes, another boy joins him and sometimes, that’s okay

August (ao3) - glowingatmosphere

Summary: When Dan returns home and meets up with his childhood friend Phil after they’ve finished their first year of uni, he notices that things between them are different. As they rekindle their friendship, Dan completely immerses himself in the new feelings that he’s developing for his best friend. But when Phil starts talking about another boy, Dan begins to wonder whether Phil was ever really his.

baby blue and bubblegum pink (ao3) - phantasticworks

Summary: Dan paints his nails. Phil wants to try it.

Crossing Eyes, Dotting Teas (ao3) - indistinct_echo

Summary: A person isn’t supposed to just happen upon their comfort-celebrities in their building’s bin room. That isn’t how life works.

A fic about serendipity and what it means to be a good neighbor.

Dirty Little Secret (ao3) - A_Million_Regrets

Summary: There he was, sitting huddled next to his beautiful, absolutely perfect wife, looking calm and happy and peaceful and like he hadn't fucked up Dan's entire fucking life, like he had never crushed Dan's heart under his feet.

Human (ao3) - Nefertiti1052 (Succubusphan)

Summary: Phil is a Police officer and former Blade Runner who wants to be left alone, but fate will put him to the task of investigating a new lead regarding a Replicant. To his surprise, he's met one of the suspects before.

I Will Find You (ao3) - Amateum

Summary:

“But what if I make a complete fool of myself?” “Then you’ll never have to see him again.” “But I will. We literally pass each other every day, and once we know what the other looks like- “ “Then you will resolutely ignore each other and continue exploiting the Streetpasses to get more puzzle pieces.” PJ interrupted. “It’ll be okay. Besides, that’s the worst-case scenario. Most likely, you’ll have enough to talk about for at least one conversation. And maybe,” he added sarcastically, “you’ll make a new friend for once.” Dan laughed. Right. Make a friend out of a complete stranger. Like that’ll happen.

Or: Dan and Phil keep passing each other every day and have managed to strike up a tentative friendship. The only problem is that they've never met in person.

i've seen tomorrow (i've seen yesterday) (ao3) - itsmyusualphannie (itsmyusualweeb)

Summary: “The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” – L. P. Hartley.

future time travel au in which dan and Phil's jobs are to fix fractures in the timeline. this particular mission will take them back to 2019, but how well will they work together when they've just had a fight?

ivy (covered in you) (ao3) - irrationalqueer

Summary: Dani’s job now is to be guided - she is used to living in the darkness with Fiona, but for once they are headed toward the light.

Life’s Beauty is in its Impermanence. (ao3) - phansb

Summary: Daniel Howell and Phil Lester live in Kingston upon Hull, and begin chatting after a moment of striking bravery at a café. Over the next few days, they become increasingly more attached to one another, until Phil must leave to Isle of Man for Christmas.

Metaphors and Phobias (ao3) - Alaz

Summary: Phil Lester has social anxiety but his dream is to go to his favourite author’s book signing and tell him what his earliest work means to him.

Dan is a famous writer of erotic sci-fi except for his first series that he abandoned for misterious reasons.

Kath knows famous writers need to eat.

never believe it's not so (ao3) - lestered (clonetrobed)

Summary: Dan, in his ten short years, has pretty much classed himself as a skeptic. The Creatures sound just about as real to him as any dumb old urban legend or cryptid. But it’s pretty hard not to believe in a certain type of magic when he’s watching Phil’s dad literally light a candle in the center of the table by carefully blowing a tiny flame onto the wick.

Ribs. (ao3) - embrcethevoid

Summary: Dan and Phil throw a party, hoping to change their normal/loser lives. In the middle of adversities and growing up, it did, but not in the way they expected. Way, way better.

"Sir, How Old Is The Boy?" (ao3) - fourthingsandawizard

Summary: Dan and Phil take a quick break from their world tour, staying in an Airbnb that Martyn and Cornelia rented for the week from an eccentric Australian wizard. When Dan wakes up one morning as his ten-year-old self after drinking a magical tea that Phil accidentally brewed for him, they're forced to look for a solution before their viewers—or Martyn—can find out about it.

The Road To Being Okay (ao3) - WaterHorseyBlues

Summary: All Phil wanted was for Dan to be okay.

The Season's End is a New Beginning (ao3) - transdimensional_void

Summary: Lady Daniela and her close friend Philippa take a fateful stroll in the park. (Fem!Dan and Fem!Phil, Regency romance parody AU)

The Sun, The Moon, The Stars (ao3) - ShippingFangirl26 (IceQueenJules26)

Summary: Lonely armourer Dan meets a strange human on his space travels and learns what cannot be long hidden...

wait for me to come home (ao3) - manchestereyes

Summary: The story of Dan and Phil, as told by their Starbucks sofa. (Or, the bits of it that the sofa could catch anyway.)

words don't come so easily (ao3) - heartsopenminds

Summary: When Dan agrees to be a celebrity guest on a reality show for artists, his only aim is to raise his profile a little and appease his agent.

That is, until he meets the artists who'll be painting his portrait, and one in particular catches his eye...

You're Not Alone (ao3) - AmazingDandroid (Stardust_Ti)

Summary: Phil Lester always loved finding things washed up on the beach.

Links Last Checked: December 18th, 2025

and maybe we’ll work this out (ao3) - localopa

Summary: old habits die hard. sometimes those habits can make your flatmate kiss you and realize, shit, you're in love with them.

anything hurts less (than the quiet) (ao3) - redlastlove

Summary: A short drabble in which the quiet suburbs of London aren’t as peaceful to Dan as he’d wish.

been about you, since i met you (ao3) - smallbump

Summary: Dan is the boy at school that makes Phil's heart jump and do a flip at the same time.

But Love Is Overrated Anyways (ao3) - DumpsterDiving101

Summary: Dan is an angry mutant with ability to control the cold. He shares a tent with a man Phil, who has powers over fire, but refuses to use it for evil. Dan has no such moral qualms.

cause even the stars they burn (ao3) - localopa

Summary: phil has alcoholism and dan's desperate to get him better.

Midnight Whisperings - manchestereyes

Summary: Snapshots of Dan and Phil’s history, from 2009-2016, told through Dan’s moments of 3 AM introspection.

Saturday Night Fever (ao3) - TheUKAmazingDan

Summary: It's the 1970s, and Phil is just looking to have a little fun.

Such a Heavenly View (ao3) - TheUKAmazingDan

Summary: Hoping to escape the front lines, Phil Lester quits his job and trains with the medical corps, months before the war started. When all is not what he thought it would be, and a small tragedy occurs, he finds himself back home as a volunteer at a war hospital. He meets someone, someone unexpected, who offers him a heavenly view of his circumstances and helps him believe that just maybe the world isn't so bad after all.

The Boy From Singapore - tbfhlmao

Summary: Phil hasn’t taken a decent picture in years, but after meeting Dan, a struggling artist halfway across the world, he finds himself inspired and completely, utterly enamored.

The One Where Phil Dates Dan (ao3) - jfcmartin

Summary: It's been a long time since Dan last dated someone. Eight years, to be exact. Phil offers that they go on a date, to save each other from the dreadful feeling of being alone. But no homo though.

The Story Of A Little Boy And An Angel On Earth - crescendohowell

Summary: Once upon a time there was a little boy that wished he could grow wings.  He wished that he would be able to fly and escape.  Only he didn’t expect to find a best friend who was, in the little boy’s mind, an angel on earth.

Yellow Roses (ao3) - DumpsterDiving101