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  1. Public Bookmark 22

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    Dan's life is everything that could be described as miserable: he hates his job, his family doesn't really know him and he's barely ever lived. That is, until they tell him he's about to die.

    OR, Dan Howell finds out he has twelve months to live and decides to make the most of it.

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    26 Jul 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 19

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    Phil uses his first camera to shoot a viral music video with his emo band in 2008. Their first album „Northern Anecdotes“ focuses on growing up in Northern England as queer teenagers, exploring self-identity, embracing diversity, friendship, and the power of vulnerability.
    Dan is a suicidal teen and the album saves his life. It sets him on a path to study social work and he finds his home with the queer community at university. He starts a mental health YouTube channel and becomes a YoungMinds embassador.
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    Or: Dan and Phil meet as adults. They fall into it hard and fast in any universe.

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    21 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 10

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    Prince Phil Lester and his personal Guard Dan Howell have been in a secret relationship for the last 16 years. With Phil's parents pushing down on Phil getting married to a princess, Dan and Phil do something to prevent that from happening.

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    14 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 94

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    When you watch a man shave his face in the morning, mutter to himself while he looks for his shoes, bang his shin into the coffee table for the second time in a week and cry out in irritation—how can you help but love him?

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    In a sense, Dan has known Phil all his life. Others have known him longer, known him since he took his first breath in front of a live television audience, but it seems to Dan that no one has known him better.

    or: phil’s life is a tv show, and he’s the only one who doesn’t know. dan—actor, fan, hot for a badly dressed bottle blond—auditions for a leading role. this goes about as well as dan howell + reality tv stardom could possibly go.

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    14 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 92

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    Dan is 32, working as a paralegal while still in school to become a lawyer, and closeted. On a trip to Vegas, he gets incredibly drunk and blacks out, not remembering much other than a blond man and Elvis. A month goes by, and in the mail arrives the surprise of his life.

    A marriage certificate. Signed by Dan.

    And Phil.

    His ex boyfriend from over a decade ago.

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    19 Mar 2026