Dan and Phil is the reason I started talking to my husband
We were both just deep in that Tumblr era like.. THE TUMBLR ERA you know? emo/pop punk stuff, Fall Out Boy, MCR, Panic!, lyric posts, reblogs, all of it. I remember we didn’t even properly “meet” at first, it was just constantly seeing each other on the dash because we had mutuals and similar posts.
The first time we actually spoke properly was kind of random. I saw him reblog Dan and Phil stuff one day and I messaged him like “wait you watch them too?” because I was obsessed at the time. He literally replied like “oh my god you do too??” and that was it 😭 that’s actually what made us start talking properly. Like Dan and Phil + emo music was our whole overlap.
After that it was just messaging on Tumblr for a bit, then we moved to Skype like everyone did back then. It was never like “we’re doing long distance now” officially… it just slowly turned into that because we were talking all the time and neither of us really stopped.
Then it just evolved over the years: Skype → Snapchat → Instagram → WhatsApp
We stayed long distance for years. It was very on and off, like we’d be super close for months, then life would happen and we’d drift, and then one of us would randomly reach out again and it would just pick up like no time passed.
Dan and Phil honestly feel like a weird important part of it in hindsight because that’s what made it feel normal to even have this internet friend in another country that you talk to all the time. It didn’t feel strange back then, it just felt like Tumblr life.
We eventually started meeting up in person, did the whole US/UK flights thing, figuring out money/time/schedules, all that messy real life stuff Tumblr doesn’t prepare you for.
We got married when I was 24.
It still feels a bit unreal thinking it started with Tumblr posts, emo music, and me randomly messaging him about Dan and Phil 😭 anyways the two gay guys loved Dan and Phil who would’ve thought now we’re going together finally to the hard launch tour and we somehow got gold can’t wait to explain to these two how the fuck this happened