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  Fandoms: Phandom/The Fantastic Foursome (Video Blogging RPF)  

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  20 Feb 2026

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  • Dan Howell/Phil Lester
  • Dan Howell
  • Phil Lester
  • Alternate Universe
  • Dan Howell and Phil Lester Are Not YouTubers
  • Dan Howell and Phil Lester Are Soulmates
  • Fluff
  • Strangers to Lovers
  • Falling In Love
  • Flirting
  • Title From a The Cure Song
  • dan is obsessed
  • phil is an english teacher
  • im so bad at tagging
  • Loads of Gothic Horror References
  • Bookstores

  Summary

  title from 'the lovecats' by the cure

  Dan Howell, a stand up comedian on the precipice of a career-changing writing opportunity for national television, meets a blonde-haired stranger at exactly 1:27pm on an LNER railway service from Edinburgh to London. The timing seems fated, to say nothing of the ease of conversation between the two; but with only the mental image of the stranger's blue eyes and the entirety of London at his fingertips, can Dan trace his way back to Phil in the midst of the city? Or was this once-in-a-lifetime encounter really doomed to singularity?

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