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    Phil Lester goes back to university for his third year, expecting to live in the dorms with his childhood best friend PJ. That's how it's been for the past years, after all. However, due to a mistake of some sort, he finds himself with a new roommate to spend the semester with.
    Daniel Howell, three years his junior, has rich brown eyes, a laptop to hide them behind, and not more than two words to spare in Phil's direction. Phil is no fortune teller, but he foresees the upcoming months will be filled with a whole lot of awkward silence.

    Unless, of course, Dan proves him wrong...
    Could one little mistake lead to something entirely life-changing? Perhaps it could. After all, nearly everything changes when Phil meets Dan.

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    Excerpt: Dan's hair is soft against Phil's cheek, and his presence - gentle against his heart.
    Winner of Best Slow Burn in the Phanfic Awards 2016!

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    03 Dec 2025

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    A recent loss has ground Phil's life to a halt. At 33, he's static in his grief and living in the house he grew up in - until his mother kicks him out.

    In a fit of indignation and with nothing to lose, he answers the first listing he finds for a room to rent in London... a listing posted by a guy named Dan.

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    26 Nov 2025

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    Dan and Phil are a successful YouTube duo, best friends and next door neighbors. Phil's married with two kids and Dan's long term boyfriend is like the queen's cousin or something. Their lives are fine--perfectly acceptable--but when two unrelated emergencies land Dan and Phil living together for the first time since 2012, they're forced to examine the choices they've made and confront the feelings they've kept quiet for nearly a decade.

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    26 Nov 2025

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    “My– my name is Phil Lester,” he says and he shouldn’t. He shouldn’t pause to wait for a response, to wait for recognition, but he does.

    There is none.

    “I need some– I need some legal advice?”

    “Yes, that is sort of what I figured when you called my law firm."

    Phil wakes up in an alternate reality where Dan and he have never met and does the only thing he can think of doing: Finding Dan.

    (And then not stopping to bother him.)

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    26 Nov 2025

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    Dan and Phil are rivals in every sense of the word. The problem is that they're already madly in love.

    Or, where Dan and Phil fall in love on tumblr, unaware that the person they're talking to online is the person they hate in real life. A "You’ve Got Mail" AU.

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    04 Nov 2025