#anyways went with a LIVEstream bc uhh

[achillean-knight]

METTATON MAY DAY 1: LIVE

I CAN EXPLAIN I CAN EXPLAIN CHAT

I WAS gonna save Final Fantasy for the crossover day, but I wanna do smthing else (KH) for it instead, but I just- I'm sorry I now correlate MTT with FF, I needed to do it, and I will most definitely do another FF themed drawing next year too, if Mettaton May is on DSHGFSDHJ

Also, sorry, my graphic design skills are so ass, so it ended up so botched LMAO The whole piece is a bit funky, but hey, I haven't drawn MTT in a hot sec, so it's a warmup piece :3 ANYWAYS, RELM IS THE GOAT, SHE CARRIED MY ASS THROUGH 4 PHASES WHEN EVERYONE DIED IN THE FINAL BATTLE AAAANDDDDD......

Here's the concept for what this piece originally was gonna be :D

[fullmoonfireball]

okay since there are a few characters that could be considered “the villain guy”, i’m gonna assume you mean Herbert, the primary villain guy, and if you dont then uhhhhh whoops 

so! Herbert Percival Bear, Esquire! he hated how cold it was at the north pole, so he tried sailing south on an iceberg... and managed to completely miss any actually warm places, ending up in the antarctic instead. he realized his mistake WAY too late, tried his best to paddle away, and tipped the iceberg (which is NOT supposed to happen). and, in another moment that makes you ask “how is this guy even a polar bear?” it turns out he can’t swim. what a fool. thankfully for him, though, he was pretty near the shore and Klutzy rescued him.

Klutzy’s great. he’s just a funny little guy! a crabby friend! but this post isn’t about Klutzy, so we have to get back on topic. sorry, Klutzy.

so yeah, Herbert’s stuck on Club Penguin. sure, he’s got a little crab buddy now, but that doesn’t really fix much for him. it’s even colder than his old home, and, even worse! it’s full of loud, annoying, constantly party-throwing birds! so obviously, Herbert has to stop them from being obnoxious, by causing a few  problems behind the scenes, before going “fuck it” to remaining hidden, stealing a bunch of stuff, and then planning to destroy the ski lodge so he can use it for firewood. of course, the player stops him... by distracting him with a seaweed pizza, and putting the machine he was going to use in reverse. did i mention that Herbert was a vegetarian? because he’s a vegetarian. he survived on the iceberg by eating algae. bc he couldn’t get any less “polar bear”, i guess.

the cycle of wrecking/stealing shit and getting thwarted goes on for a bit. the dude’s pretty bitter about both failing his plan AND getting thwarted by a group of silly flightless birds, so what better way to get what he wants than to absolutely fucking destroy that group of penguins

no, that is not an exaggeration. his plan in the final PSA mission is to expose the Penguin Secret Agency to the rest of the island and/or blow their headquarters up. with them inside. like, the mission starts with the typical “oh! herbert’s stolen stuff! gotta see what he’s up to!” and then his plan gets into motion. like, you have to override the projector by putting in a movie, track down where Herbert is basically livestreaming from because you can’t turn off his sound, and stop him by unplugging his computer... which fucks the player over! surprise! you just caused the ‘reset’ needed to give Herbert back access to the PSA’s computers when Gary locked him out earlier! whoops! so he teleports you back to HQ (using the Spy Phone he “borrowed” from Rookie in the last mission) with the Popcorn Bomb. Gary and Rookie are there! aaaand you’re all locked in. with the bomb. that is strong enough to destroy the entire building just by popping popcorn. and Herbert shut down any PSA tech that could possibly be used to get you out of there.

but like, of course, since it would be uhh Bad if the characters died, the EPF (Elite Penguin Force, an even more-secret and elite (duh) branch of the PSA)’s technology still works, and after a quick puzzle to unlock the entryway into the EPF Command Room, Dot saves everyone by teleporting them outside, just in the nick of time! the building is pretty busted though, including its more mundane exterior.

and like, of course there was more after that (System Defender stuff, the Battle of Doom, Operation: Blackout, other Operations I don’t really know much about, Halloween of 2015...) but like i went on for so long about like, two PSA missions (I considered going into more, but I felt like Questions For a Crab and The Veggie Villain were the only ones that really needed much detail here) and I feel like I’ve talked enough here without getting into stuff I’m kiiiinda fuzzy on. or yknow. those other Operations I genuinely don’t know much about.

anyways thank you for reading this dump all the way through if you did, have this:

they are friends.

[kae-karo]

Hi I used to be into the phandom so much but fell out in like??? 2017??? Maybe??? Has anything big happened at all? Has anyone died/caught on fire ( ;) )??

oh dear god where do i begin??? well fortunately both our lads are still alive. let me just start with saying 2018 has been like. probably the best year for dnp to date? i’ll try to go in some kind of order here but bear with me i’ll touch on a bit of 2017 stuff and then go into 2018 for ya

so first of all i’m not sure when you left the phandom in 2017 but the lads moved out of their previous flat in april of last year (x) (april-ish it was def before they posted the vid)

also our dear lil dani snot on fire is no longer not on fire (x) so uhh is he on fire now ig? i mean yeah that’s arguably true

*insert phil’s badaladala sound bc on the scale of Significant Things i don’t think anything else massive happened*

day one of demon month, we got this amazing vid from phil wherein viewers (aka dan) picked his outfits n he looked like a snacc and a half (would’ve been 2 snaccs if he’d embraced the quiff sooner but that’s getting ahead of things) (x)

!!!! then a week or so later dan posted his vid ‘daniel and depression’ where he opened up abt his struggle with depression (x) which was imo the start of him just being more open about himself in general. he also started working with young minds (a mental health org for young people in the uk) and shortly thereafter with prince william’s program to help prevent cyberbullying

then! on the day love was invented! dnp released their board game, truth bombs (x - yeah i linked the second vid and not the first, and wot) which u can buy if you’d like but it’s a lot of fun (x)

then these idiots did a conjoined jumper baking challenge and didn’t fucking wear shirts under the jumper like what dumb gays idk (x) but it was real funny and Good Content

then early nov dnp announced the interactive introverts tour (x) and then uhhh it happened (like 80+ shows??? in a ton of countries???) (x) and they’re releasing the filming of it along with some bonus content like a director’s commentary and u can preorder it (x)

also pinof 9 happened which as a legacy phan u know is always a Thing but this year it was especially a Thing so i recommend catching up (x, and the bloops - x)

and phew okay that’s the majority of 2017 Important Events but before i go on to 2018 i’ll just recap a few important events from dapg (basically just some gamingmas stuff):

wherein dan smacked phil in the face

and phil crushed the presents but dan helped him up

where phil pretended not to remember gamingmas was happening, leading to the most iconic simultaneous heart eyes howell/love eyes lester to date

dnp singing baby it’s cold outside together whilst playing yasuhati

iconic pinof 9 moment

dnp play charades but it’s phil’s turn, and he’s touchy

the not my arms challenge!!! playing mario kart

okay! and before anyone starts yelling i know there’s more but god if i put every iconic thing in this post would break there’s Too Much so let’s hop into 2018 bc it’s gonna be a long one

first i cannot believe dan fucking gave phil a philussy cake and phil’s parents asked phil what it meant jfc dan (x)

THE EARRING!!! dan’s first selfie with the lil hoop and it never leaves and we love it (x)

phil is just trying to take a selfie and dan ruins it (x) spoiler alert: phil gets him back in colorado (x)

okay big sigh two large events happen in march: the first, dan’s ‘trying to live my truth’ vid (x) it basically dan saying ‘i’m still figuring things out but i want to be more authentic and true to myself, and also authenticity is important for some people to feel happy in life’ vid that a lot of people hyperfixated on the end line of, where he said he would go ‘laugh at a joke with a chocolate bar and...something else in my mouth’ which people assumed meant a dick and therefore it was a subtle coming out vid, dan did a liveshow afterward (x) wherein he said that wasn’t the point of the vid and people got mad at him for ‘backtracking’ (if u want more of my Opinions on this feel free to check em out - x)

the second v v big event happened at the end of march when phil posted this iconic selfie that would be the downfall of the fringe (x) this has been titled the quiffening by some

shortly after that he began styling his hair in a quiff permanently which was probably the best decision he’s made since responding to one of his obsessed fans back in 2009

quick detour dan’s proud of his hubby (x) for winning fortnite and ‘fuxkung’ is now what ‘fucking’ autocorrects to in my phone

we also had dan releasing his merch (x) which is basically all black and themed around the eclipse logo and ‘don’t talk to me’, though he just released the exist line for world mental health day which has his quote ‘have the courage to exist’. he’s also mentioned possibly wanting to do more creative things like wide-necked or asymmetrical shirts dan just do a fashion line pls oh and he mentioned in a recent ls he might do an internet support group mug sometime soon

and then,,,,,pigeonfest. we watched. five hours. of phil livestreaming their patio. and literally nothing happened bc someone was like down on the street feeding pigeons so there weren’t even any pigeons for like 90% of the liveshow. but he literally didn’t talk it was just five hours of their patio and we all watched it. we all just watched it like the whipped phannies we are (x)

and then we got a brief but overwhelming dose of,,,,,,something from the easter baking vid (x) phil was hopped up on sugar and also confidence from his quiff and probably smth else as well

everything just blows up from there we have giving the people what they want (x) where, in preparation for ii (for which the underlying theme was ‘giving people what they want’), dnp reacted to pinof 1, swapped clothes, did the ‘yoga challenge’, recreated ditl manchester, ‘got a dog’, and made phil say fuck. honestly it shook the entire phandom to its core at the time but like. i’m less shooketh now? it’s sort of just fallen by the wayside in terms of how unpredictable dnp have been this year

then phil drops week in the life of dnp shortly thereafter which is just very very domestic even for them and their ditl style vids??? (x) phil filming dan in bed being one of the big demon highlights at the time

it’s right around this time too that insta stories start and my god it just goes jfc like i don’t even have the mental capacity to recall all the Iconic ones but i recommend checking out this playlist (x) which has all the ii tour stories goddamn there were a lot though they really put out that content didn’t they

in early may we get phil talking about why he changed his emo hair (x) and arguably the first official vid of the casual rebrand - phil’s more open and genuinely vulnerable about his fears about making a change to his hair, and i don’t think we’ve ever seen him that open before. the vids don’t stop being open though, with what dnp text each other (x) giving us coop and doop along with other iconic stories, dnp basically sitting on top of each other in that and other gaming vids on the tour bus, phil being very open abt his attraction to men (x) and the iconic final google feud vid with way too much of a specific kind of Energy (x) (ofc again there are More Vids but i don’t have the time/mental capacity to recap them all so i’m pickin the Big Ones)

monochrome mates (x)

phew okay so the tour in general as well - like if u don’t mind spoilers, i did a big ol analysis of what that was all about (x) but one of many many highlights is dan calling he and phil “best friends and soulmates” 

finally finally finally after months of waiting we also get some phil merch! (x) plant and animal themed, and he even released a lion plushie which sold out like instantly and he claimed he’d do more of but we have yet to see that. he says he’s got more ideas for other merch as well

now okay fast forward to october after the tour’s over bc i think the insta stories and the analysis cover it but then. then. then we get the pizza mukbang (x) thirty three minutes of dnp being more open and honest and casual than literally they’ve ever been on camera maybe ever, and i’m including liveshows in this statement. no holds barred, authentic vulnerable dnp. a religious experience

end of october spooky week hits us and i think the key vid to call out here is the creepy mind of phil lester bc i think it was another open honest authentic vid (x) where they talked a lot, casual domestic w.e got some insight into phil’s mind it was v good

and then they carve pumpkins jfc which was an experience (x) there were a lot of innuendos but also one of the first years they didn’t do a halloween baking in a while (though they have hinted at possibly doing christmas baking) idk i’m fully overwhelmed at this point lmao like a Lot happened this year

phew okay and Then just yesterday philly dropped his vid on why he went to (the) hospital (x) idk soz that’s a british thing i think like we say ‘the’ anyway. which i’ve been talking abt quite a lot lately but it was another very open and honest vid in which he expressed a lot of vulnerability and fear and perceived flaws and it was just a quality like. open vid.

jfc okay hope that helps obviously there’s a lot i didn’t mention, but this should at least get you caught up on some of the big stuff!! and while i’m at it have a few more Important Gifs from this year

a very important moment of communication whilst on tour, deciding whether or not they’re okay with doing a ‘third wheel’ pose

dan flinging himself off the chair in anger whilst playing getting over it

nose boop from phil’s instagram explore pages vid

subsequent nose boop from the extreme tetris vid

and a cheek boop from the overcooked 2 vid

dan pulling phil’s hand off the mouse in fear during spooky week, swamp simulator (shrek slender)

touchy!dan during pizza mukbang

oh god. okay. again, this is not everything, just a big list of some big events over the past year-ish. i’m sure i’ve missed some important stuff but i think i covered most of it! hope this helps ya get caught up dear!