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Part 3 of Family
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a one-line dm

Summary:

Dan's probably about to be fired from his job, his dad is really freaking pissed off about it, and life just generally sort of seems to be going to shit. Thankfully Phil has a knack for making everything better.

(A Twitter DM conversation between Dan and Phil in November 2009.)

Notes:

I've always been intrigued by Dan's 2009 tweet about having a "biblical-scale" argument with his father, and then his Dailybooth post later that night where he said that he "got some bad news, but then talking to people, and little jokes made it better :)" and that he especially <3's Phil, who "made everything bettwe with a 1 line DM." So I decided to write this!

I had fun over-using old-school emoticons and formatting the story's layout/colors/fonts to match what Twitter DM's looked like back in 2009; I hope you enjoy! Also, Dan is a terrible speller who literally didn't learn how to spell the word "minute" until he was 20 years old; all spelling mistakes in this story are therefore intentional and were included in the name of realism. lmao.

tw: swearing, description of an argument between Dan and his dad, references to being yelled at

(See the end of the work for more notes.)

Work Text:

danisnotonfire Dan Howell
just had a biblical-scale arguement with the father.
pah, ill find sanctuary on the internet.
3 Nov 2009, 16:26

Direct Messages:

AmazingPhil hey i saw your tweet are u ok?
3 Nov 2009, 16:26

danisnotonfire hey are you online
3 Nov 2009, 17:05

(And loving me.)

(And listening.)

(And somehow always making everything better.)

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Notes:

You can find me on Twitter and Tumblr :)

P.S. This is what butterfly cakes look like (and here is Phil showing one made by Mrs. Lester haha).

P.P.S. In case you were curious, Dan managed to keep his job that week — on Thursday he tweeted "HAHA I DIDNT GET FIRED. wow, I really know how to sound stupid and innocent when I need to." He did finally get fired two weeks later though, after not turning up to his contracted hours "for the third week in a row." lol, oh dan.

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