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Remote Crisis Management by WatchingTVbutItsFire
Fandoms: Phandom/The Fantastic Foursome (Video Blogging RPF)
11 Jul 2026
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"Dan looks around the apartment, the cheery decorations they put up together. If Dan was living by himself he knows he’d never put up a tree, little colorful lights, when they wouldn’t even be here for Christmas Day. Phil had insisted. Maybe it was all worth it, to be loved like this."
5 times the boys had a crisis when they were separated, and 1 time they managed to have one together
Or, Dan and Phil relying on each other through the years.
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Because I adore you so by WatchingTVbutItsFire
Fandoms: Phandom/The Fantastic Foursome (Video Blogging RPF)
17 Apr 2026
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Dan finds himself alone in a spaceship, far from Earth, with spotty memories and a spottier idea of his mission. All he remembers is that microscopic aliens are eating Earth’s sun, and in fact most of the stars in the known universe. All save one: the one Dan’s spaceship is fast approaching. But before he can do anything about that, he meets a different alien. Phil, Dan calls him, has traveled to this star for the same reason.
They might as well team up to figure out a way to stop the sun-eating aliens. It’s an added bonus that Phil has beautiful blue eyes, a killer sense of humor, and makes Dan feel safe in the terrifying void of space. If only Dan didn’t have the little problem of being incompatible with Phil’s atmosphere. And mid-suicide mission. Just his luck.
Or: a Project Hail Mary AU.
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Another Love by WatchingTVbutItsFire
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
26 May 2024
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“Ugh, I wish I could drive,” she says, paying him absolutely no mind as she climbs into the passenger seat. “Riding down the highway with the windows down, blasting music.”
“Get caught in traffic,” Joel says. “Get a flat tire. Pay for a new alternator.”
“Yeah, yeah, you don’t even know. You have a car. You can go wherever you want. You have everything.”
Joel grips the wheel tight. Kids never have anything to worry about. Their whole lives laid out in front of them like a highway. Everything, everything.
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Joel gets a contracting job at a school. Being around kids all day is bad enough--and then a brazen, foul-mouthed teenager keeps showing up at his work site. Joel doesn't care why she's sleeping at school instead of at home. He doesn't.Or:
The foster kid AU where Ellie's foster parents are the least of her problems. -
September by WatchingTVbutItsFire
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
10 Feb 2024
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September has always been Ellie’s favorite. Favorite month-name, favorite time of year, favorite feeling. In Jackson, September is golden and sweet. Yellow leaves, red apples, the dew in the high grass cold on her ankles. Everyone is ready for things to begin.
It never bothered her, before, that September is when things start to die.
Or, Ellie is trying to begin again, but the past won't stay past.
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The light blinds me to the light by WatchingTVbutItsFire
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
05 Jun 2023
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“You did do good,” Joel says. “You did almost all of it. That’s how you learn. If you got it right the first time, what would you need me for?”
Ellie grins for real at that. “Who says I need you, anyway?”5 times Joel can't tell the difference between love and dependence +1 time he can
Or: Season 1/ part 1, the live feeds. Featuring sick fic!, yet another post ep 8 fic, a little bit of fluff, several more puns, and even more danger for poor Ellie & Joel.
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Tomorrow Everything Goes Back to Normal by louiser
Fandoms: Phandom/The Fantastic Foursome (Video Blogging RPF)
06 Sep 2026
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Phil storms out after a fight. Dan expects him home within the hour.
Instead, he disappears.
Hours later, Dan is forced to live with the crushing reality that the last thing he said to Phil was his worst nightmare.
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08 Sep 2026
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So Here's the Thing... by asomina
Fandoms: Phandom/The Fantastic Foursome (Video Blogging RPF)
11 Sep 2026
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“We can be away from each other for a week easily. We do it all the time.”
“Fifty quid that you wouldn't even last a day.”
In which Dan's family think he and Phil are far too co-dependent and challenge them to spend a week apart, completely unaware that they're secretly together. What could possibly go wrong?
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20 Aug 2026
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Nothing like Notting Hill by Strawggle
Fandoms: Phandom/The Fantastic Foursome (Video Blogging RPF)
26 May 2026
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Phil lives a simple life in his family’s bookstore. He doesn’t have big dreams, his friends and his little bit of stability are enough for him. Until one day, Hollywood star Daniel Howell happens to walk into his bookstore by chance. And from that moment on, nothing is ever the same again.
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Or... who doesn’t love rewatching ’90s romcoms like Notting Hill?
Phil is the Hugh Grant of the story, Dan is the Julia Roberts, and the vibes of the movie are definitely there (though there are still plenty of surprises along the way).- Language:
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31 Jul 2026
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i would burn the world to bring some heat to you by phacochere_9
Fandoms: Phandom/The Fantastic Foursome (Video Blogging RPF)
24 Jun 2026
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“Sorry, sorry-”
“What are you sorry for?”
Phil can’t breathe for long enough to say: for being lazy and unhealthy, for never cooking you dinner, for being sick and scaring you, for worrying you right now instead of dealing with it myself.OR: In which a doctor makes Phil feel inadequate and they both become a little bit insane about it.
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24 Jul 2026
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You can almost see the strings by emo_axolotls
Fandoms: Phandom/The Fantastic Foursome (Video Blogging RPF)
08 Sep 2026
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Phil has known so many versions of Dan across time, and he has loved them all in their own ways.
But none of them was this one: his Dan, sprawled beside him in a Las Vegas hotel room two weeks after his twenty-first birthday, who is sharp and unsure and sometimes infuriating, who gives hickeys to his older self and then pretends it was nothing. This one, tonight, is the one Phil loves most of all.
A canon-inspired time-travel AU featuring secrets, yearning, self-hatred, self-love, a three-way in Vegas, and Phil Lester's unwavering belief in the red string of fate.
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14 Jul 2026