Undiscovered Gems (2) Masterlist
part one
addict with a pen (ao3) - artdeficient
Summary: a sad boy loves oceans and sea breezes and the time in between day and night, so he sits by the sea with a sketchbook and sometimes, another boy joins him and sometimes, that’s okay
August (ao3) - glowingatmosphere
Summary: When Dan returns home and meets up with his childhood friend Phil after they’ve finished their first year of uni, he notices that things between them are different. As they rekindle their friendship, Dan completely immerses himself in the new feelings that he’s developing for his best friend. But when Phil starts talking about another boy, Dan begins to wonder whether Phil was ever really his.
baby blue and bubblegum pink (ao3) - phantasticworks
Summary: Dan paints his nails. Phil wants to try it.
Crossing Eyes, Dotting Teas (ao3) - indistinct_echo
Summary: A person isn’t supposed to just happen upon their comfort-celebrities in their building’s bin room. That isn’t how life works.
A fic about serendipity and what it means to be a good neighbor.
Dirty Little Secret (ao3) - A_Million_Regrets
Summary: There he was, sitting huddled next to his beautiful, absolutely perfect wife, looking calm and happy and peaceful and like he hadn't fucked up Dan's entire fucking life, like he had never crushed Dan's heart under his feet.
Human (ao3) - Nefertiti1052 (Succubusphan)
Summary: Phil is a Police officer and former Blade Runner who wants to be left alone, but fate will put him to the task of investigating a new lead regarding a Replicant. To his surprise, he's met one of the suspects before.
I Will Find You (ao3) - Amateum
Summary:
“But what if I make a complete fool of myself?”
“Then you’ll never have to see him again.”
“But I will. We literally pass each other every day, and once we know what the other looks like- “
“Then you will resolutely ignore each other and continue exploiting the Streetpasses to get more puzzle pieces.” PJ interrupted. “It’ll be okay. Besides, that’s the worst-case scenario. Most likely, you’ll have enough to talk about for at least one conversation. And maybe,” he added sarcastically, “you’ll make a new friend for once.”
Dan laughed. Right. Make a friend out of a complete stranger. Like that’ll happen.
Or: Dan and Phil keep passing each other every day and have managed to strike up a tentative friendship. The only problem is that they've never met in person.
i've seen tomorrow (i've seen yesterday) (ao3) - itsmyusualphannie (itsmyusualweeb)
Summary: “The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” – L. P. Hartley.
future time travel au in which dan and Phil's jobs are to fix fractures in the timeline. this particular mission will take them back to 2019, but how well will they work together when they've just had a fight?
ivy (covered in you) (ao3) - irrationalqueer
Summary: Dani’s job now is to be guided - she is used to living in the darkness with Fiona, but for once they are headed toward the light.
Life’s Beauty is in its Impermanence. (ao3) - phansb
Summary: Daniel Howell and Phil Lester live in Kingston upon Hull, and begin chatting after a moment of striking bravery at a café. Over the next few days, they become increasingly more attached to one another, until Phil must leave to Isle of Man for Christmas.
Metaphors and Phobias (ao3) - Alaz
Summary: Phil Lester has social anxiety but his dream is to go to his favourite author’s book signing and tell him what his earliest work means to him.
Dan is a famous writer of erotic sci-fi except for his first series that he abandoned for misterious reasons.
Kath knows famous writers need to eat.
never believe it's not so (ao3) - lestered (clonetrobed)
Summary: Dan, in his ten short years, has pretty much classed himself as a skeptic. The Creatures sound just about as real to him as any dumb old urban legend or cryptid. But it’s pretty hard not to believe in a certain type of magic when he’s watching Phil’s dad literally light a candle in the center of the table by carefully blowing a tiny flame onto the wick.
Ribs. (ao3) - embrcethevoid
Summary: Dan and Phil throw a party, hoping to change their normal/loser lives. In the middle of adversities and growing up, it did, but not in the way they expected. Way, way better.
"Sir, How Old Is The Boy?" (ao3) - fourthingsandawizard
Summary: Dan and Phil take a quick break from their world tour, staying in an Airbnb that Martyn and Cornelia rented for the week from an eccentric Australian wizard. When Dan wakes up one morning as his ten-year-old self after drinking a magical tea that Phil accidentally brewed for him, they're forced to look for a solution before their viewers—or Martyn—can find out about it.
The Road To Being Okay (ao3) - WaterHorseyBlues
Summary: All Phil wanted was for Dan to be okay.
The Season's End is a New Beginning (ao3) - transdimensional_void
Summary: Lady Daniela and her close friend Philippa take a fateful stroll in the park. (Fem!Dan and Fem!Phil, Regency romance parody AU)
The Sun, The Moon, The Stars (ao3) - ShippingFangirl26 (IceQueenJules26)
Summary: Lonely armourer Dan meets a strange human on his space travels and learns what cannot be long hidden...
wait for me to come home (ao3) - manchestereyes
Summary: The story of Dan and Phil, as told by their Starbucks sofa. (Or, the bits of it that the sofa could catch anyway.)
words don't come so easily (ao3) - heartsopenminds
Summary: When Dan agrees to be a celebrity guest on a reality show for artists, his only aim is to raise his profile a little and appease his agent.
That is, until he meets the artists who'll be painting his portrait, and one in particular catches his eye...
You're Not Alone (ao3) - AmazingDandroid (Stardust_Ti)
Summary: Phil Lester always loved finding things washed up on the beach.
This time. He found something worth a lot more than shells and pebbles.
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