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filisaceaf · 5 years

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oof ok i have a lot so you can choose (phan aus for the headcanons ask): detective au (one or both of them), au where dan is still a fan/never met phil in 2009, supernatural au (one of them is not human), x-men-type mutants au, hogwarts au (i had to :p)

You wanted only one AU you said? I’m sorry, Phan is my hyperfocus of the month so it looks like you win the headcannons of 3/5 the AUs and you know what? I’m not even sorry my homie.

This is long so I threw it under a cut.

Detective AU

1. Okay so, one would think Dan is the detective with his charming good looks who could get him into locations easily and charm people but Phil is actually a great detective because even though he’s tall, he just lives his life wanting to help people find something lost or someone missing or make sure people are not being unfairly treated. Dan is more his handler, part secretary (look someone needs to make sense of Phil’s notes, file them in a way that makes sense and is easily accessible to other people, and make sure Phil doesn’t overwork himself into a migraine like he has the past three weeks) and part paralegal at Phil’s little detective agency. He is very protective of his boss.

2. Phil loves being a detective. He doesn’t like to “spill tea” on clients like some people like to think he does, but he likes helping 80 year old women who were robbed get their wedding rings back or help someone find their missing child (he wishes those cases turned out a lot better than they usually do, but at the very least he helps people begin to grieve). He likes helping find justice and is actually pretty particular about what cases he’ll take. He hates doing cases about people thinking their spouses are cheating and really he does those if he’s desperate to make sure that he can pay Dan and his bills.

3. You can pry this one from my cold dead hands but Phil definitely has a corgi named Watson that he likes to dress up in plaid. Watson comes to the office with Phil because of long hours and has a little bed under Phil’s obnoxiously large desk that he bought specifically so he could have a bed for Watson there. Phil likes to pretend he’s hurt by Watson also curling up under Dan’s desk (but really he just goes soft for Dan’s voice going high pitched and “hello Watson”).

4. Dan is not a lawyer in the AU, but he did complete a paralegal program! As a paralegal, Dan can do legal research for anyone, but usually he does it for any jobs Phil did that end up needing to go to court. He can also draft legal documents and is also a notary; he just can’t legally represent anyone in court. Dan likes to joke that he is a slacker to the fact that “I’m a lawyer, but the bare minimum of one”. They met at college when Phil was in his last year of majoring in criminal justice and media studies and Dan was still on the track to wanting to be a lawyer. He took a gap (period) of years, had an existential crisis, became better friends with Phil during that time. Phil originally started his detective agency with another partner and when they left, Dan took over the secretarial side of things. It took him a few years, but he eventually went back to school to finish his paralegal certificate and Phil cheered the loudest at his graduation ceremony.

5. I don’t know how these two get together in the AU, but just know it is a slow burn. Like literal years and months and eons of mutual pining with them taking Watson on walks and late nights at the office and shared coffee runs and Dan always being scared Phil is going to do something super dangerous for his health like climb in a vent or park to close to a gangster’s house and get shot. After they get together, they do agree that Dan should get a another job because working together and living together with Phil’s unpredictable schedule was causing some fights for a long period of time (because they didn’t live together before this point). Dan does still stop by pretty often and double check the secretaries work and curl up in the corner of the sofa of Phil’s office (“Dan’s sofa crease” Phil affectionately calls it) and work on stuff for his other job at a nonprofit for mental health awareness.

Dan is a Fanboy and Literally the Biggest Philly AU (The barely alternate timeline tbh)

1. So, this is literally always my favorite kind of AU and I have a lot of soft feelings about these boys always managing to find each other somehow. But yes, Dan got discouraged after the like 100th time of subtweeting Phil and commenting on his videos and not getting a response, he never reached out to Phil for editing tips. Instead!!! He reaches out to a few other YouTubers years later when he’s going through his existential crisis and he’s like “you know, the last time i was happy was when I on YouTube all the time”. So he takes a gap year in university to try and see if it’s something he likes doing. He was not expecting for his channel to be well received. It takes him ages to figure out the jumpcut thing.

2. Because he never got to know Phil as young as he did, when they first meet at Summer In the City, Dan is actively trying not to lose his shit. Because holy fuck. This is Amazing Phil. This is the guy who he would play in the background while he studied and would donate so much on live streams and upvote and fuck he’s wearing some OG Phil merch with Lion on it. He walks around all day with his jacket zipped up because Phil can’t know he’s a fan; Phil is so smart and creative and funny and god. He’s completely turned upside down when Phil sees him and approaches him because “you’re danny’s snot on fire, right?”

Dan never regretted a username more in HIS LIFE and this exact moment lead to his rebranding months later

3. But they exchanged contact information and eventually did a collab video: Phil is Not on Fire. And they whole time, Dan is trying not to breathe too deep or do anything annoying because he’s in Phil’s bedroom??? His filming area??? His pants are on the floor like two feet away??? And when the tackle happens, Dan hopes he didn’t get a concussion and hallucinated the whole thing because Phil is warm and grinning at him with his tongue sticking out and holy shit, this is better than any video, gif, screen redraw, anything. Seeing it up close???

4. Phil doesn’t even notice Dan’s a fan until him and Jimmy do a ‘What’s in my tumblr tag?’ and Dan’s blog comes up with some Phil gif reblogs from back in the day and Phil just messages Dan screenshots. Dan is mortified. He’s going to delete his tumblr. He’s not Tyler (not that Tyler is bad, they’ve messaged a few times, but Dan’s not a /fanboy/ ((lmao he is))). Phil just giggles on the video and says that Dan is such a nice guy. Kind of. Definitely cheats at Mario Kart. Dan is literally going to die, this is the second best day of his life

5.They get together when they are both traveling for Playlist Live and they hook up at a party one of the nights there. Dan would be mortified if he didn’t wake up and Phil was still there. He didn’t take off in the middle of the night; he’s wrapped around Phil and Phil is mumbling under his breath about how Dan needs to stop moving and just sleep. Their coming out video is on Dan’s Channel and is Titled “I’m still #1 phil trash” which is a throw back to a privated video called “#1 phil trash” where it’s Dan talking about how talented and funny and inspirational Phil Lester is for six minutes because someone had asked him on Formspring who one of his idols was .

Hogwarts AU

1. Phil is from a magical household and his brother is a squib with a banging music career. Maybe it’s latent magic? Either way, Martyn is a sick af dj and Phil loves it when it’s time for summer vacation because he can visit Martyn in London and see some shows (he can’t go every night) or just wander around during the day with Martyn’s girlfriend Cornelia, who graduated from Durmstrang Institute, while Martyn sleeps off a late night show. Martyn being a Squib leads him to take Muggle Studies though because he wants to be able to connect with the world Martyn lives in and someday, at the rate technology is expanding, he is going to have to leave the isolating wizarding world.

2. Dan is from a muggle family and it shows in the tenacious way he fights to be accepted by his fellow Slytherins. Every O on an assignment he gets is validation, because see I belong here, I’m one of you, I may not have families who can trace their magic past Bloody Mary or past the plague, but I am still one of Merlin’ people. He isn’t a braggart though; it’s more of an internal validation until someone asks him for help in a subject.

3. Phil first really approaches Dan in his second year. He brought a hamster to Hogwarts (look, they’ve gotten relatively relaxed since Harry defeated the Dark Lord and the Peter Pettigrew Incident) and didn’t realize she was pregnant. The hamster had five babies and Phil remembered the lonely looking Slytherin who sat at the back of three of their house’s shared classes and thought “the boy needs a friend” so he gives Dan one of the babies. Dan names her Suki and spends so much time trying to make her happy.

4. Dan and Phil first kiss in Hogsmeade towards the end of their sixth year. Because look, these boys are magical but you can’t expect magic to help them get a clue. But they are sitting one one of the benches in town during early March and sipping Butterbeer and Phil just looks over and knows he has to kiss Dan. It’s a biological need. And it’s a good first kiss, warm and syrupy from the butterbeer.

5. Look I love Phil but I’m 99% sure Phil is someone who splinches when he Apparates. He leaves behind clothes more often than not, but there was one instance he left behind his left hand. Dan is fond, but it definitely explains the 20000 socks just lying around the flat they get after graduating.

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madokasoratsugu · 3 years

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therefore you and me post-production notes (or: murphy’s law as a project that has been two years in the making)

ive had this idea for ‘therefore you and me’ and Fritz ever since i first played CindPhenon. nothing ever fell into place until i played Evermore though, so here we are!

drafting this project was pretty easy tbh (see: hubris). the parallel imagery and everything about the lyrics was right up my alley aha.

fun thing with the lyrics: TadanoCo uses ‘要る (iru)’ in the line ‘Which do you want (iru)? Or do you want neither (iranai; aka negative form of ‘iru’)?’

‘ 要る ‘ as a verb can mean ‘to be wanted’ or ‘to be needed’.

hence, the line can also be read: ‘Which do you need? Or do you need neither?” or any other variation of the verb’s usage.

it’s halfway through drawing the lineart that murphy’s law began. 1) i drew ~15 panels on the wrong dimensions, and had to redraw them all (lol), re-grey tone (LOL), and re-ink (LOLOL). it was not a fun three days.

then i lost momentum because of lunar new year (happy late lunar new year btw! happy year of the ox :”) )

anyway: the moment i regained momentum for the project again, i hit a roadblock in the form of overconfident, sloppy drafting (see: hubris is my downfall).

because of the lack of clear drafting for certain panels (and changes to previous panels), i had to redraft two different sections of the PV while keeping in mind that there was the bridge still to be drafted. fun !

i decided to simplify the bridge. can you believe it was supposed to be another animation. i can’t. so i scrapped it.

(slight tangent. Evermore’s release honestly cleared up a lot of uncertainty regarding the direction of the PV and whether or not to include Fritz’s mother (who I still fondly call Beatrice). im really happy the PV never came to fruition before Evermore’s release, as im not sure i would have done half as good a job without Evermore’s content.)

back to the hubris of proceeding with a messy draft - there was a lot of push and pull internally for me as to how much i should keep to the original PV and how much i should just put my spin on things. i ended up doing a bit of half-and-half, i think.

but really, it only delayed things as i ended up redrafting and having multiple drafts of certain panels haha//

the last two choruses were honestly my favourite parts to draw. the shift from Varg’s clothes and colours to Fritz, Fritz’s acceptance of Varg and the soft way Varg looks at Fritz (and no one else). there’s something cathartic about acceptance and acknowledgement. i think that’s what i aimed to really capture.

also: in between drawing all the panels, murphy’s law 2) my Evermore itchio game file ? got deleted off my computer ?

it’s a very old, barely functional brick so im lowkey unsurprised but at the same time it was a crazy experience and setback when i needed to reference certain scenes. oh, and Steam decided to not download Evermore too. i still haven’t fixed that one. haha. ha.

i have screenshot posters to thank for uploads of certain CGs, although im still pretty sure its best not to post a ton of those publicly at one shot?

also, i had to scrap the recreation of the famous ‘did you love Varg’ scene because of this aha. looking back now, i think it worked out.

(another tangent: using referencing as an excuse, i actually took the opportunity to replay Fritz’s route for the third time. i ended up checking nothing at all and falling in love with the masquerade scene again.)

up till the very end, im still not sure if everyone got that the line “You are love itself.” was meant to be said by Lucette to Fritz. i colour-coded Lucette with her own unique blue for the PV, which was the same hue as the line. i hope that it got across, aha.

with that said, video production was a whole entanglement in and of itself. i think murphy’s law really took up a hammer and swung hard at this stage.

timing was actual hell. im usually not this bad at it, but this project in particular was tricky bc TadanoCo uses a lot of background beats that aren’t overt, which his PV also matches - i think? or maybe im just not good at recognising beats from lack of video/music production haha//

hence there were certain scenes i was stuck at and kept revising because i wasnt clear where the beat was meant to be, what transitions i should use, and when the transitions should be.

subtitling was actually really fun! until i rendered my first version and realised all the subtitles were completely off and blurry.

turns out my project properties were different from my video properties, hence the off-alignment. huh. didnt know those were Actual Things(tm).

also, quick tip to all vid-making amateurs like me out there: you may have to double the dimensions of the font’s media properties if you dont want them to come out fuzzy. another thing i didnt know lol.

anyway all this lead to: me needing to spend another evening to redo subtitles. haha. it was not a fun two back-to-back 3am nights + extra evening afterward.

in between all this was countless rendering tests to guess-and-check what’s causing numerous errors in the video btw.

and with those rendering tests came: glaring mistakes in the panel art that i only now spotted and had to fix, and refix, and refix again. then reimport into sony vegas, put it into the video, render and double check if it’s alright. rinse and repeat countless times ! haha ! PV making is fun !

i think i nearly redid a certain scene with the exact same panels once. like i said: not a fun two 3am nights.

that said: i dont know how all this technical issues (and more) popped up and were resolved over two 3am nights and one evening. im not about to question it either.

at this point: panel art - fixed ! subtitling all redone ! render works fine, everything checks out.

i make the mistake of uploading it directly to yt instead of leaving it unlisted first.

murphy’s law 3) when im watching the vid on yt, the yellow parts in the second verse were completely unable to be seen.

panic put it on unlisted. people are already watching it and leaving (very sweet) comments. panic delete it.

btw if you’re one of the first three commenters reading this: thank you for the quick response !! it means a lot and made me really flustered in a good way :”))

cue me re-colouring those scenes, redo-ing the section and oops, is that a panel in the masquerade scene where Fritz literally is missing his mask ???

i think i lost my mind entirely at this point. from then on i was fueled by spite to complete this cursed project.

at thereforeFINAL.mp4, (version five of the full PV, version maybe 10-11 of all the rendered videos, including tests) finally. finally it is done.

i upload it.

the end !

(except, not really. because here you are at post-production notes detailing the worst luck i’ve ever had with PV making.

i learnt a lot from this though, and honestly on hindsight i should have learnt all these from my first PV but nothing went wrong at this magnitude so i kinda just...shelved it aha//

but really, im relieved it turned out well, and that i took the time to redo scenes until i was satisfied. for a PV that’s been waiting in the background for two years now, i think this is the least it deserves.

if the comic about Fritz and Varg (which i referenced in one of the last choruses, i wonder if anyone caught that?) was meant to be a love letter to Fritz’s route, i think this PV ought to be a tribute to the character himself.

although - hm, this isn’t quite as good a tribute to Fritz as it is to his route, maybe? i don’t know, haha ! maybe it’s just myself wanting to make excuses to create more for him//

i was thinking of continuing on about the PV and it’s significance to Fritz and Varg, but hm. maybe not on this post. maybe some other one, some other time.

but at it’s core, at it’s simplest, most raw - i think i just wanted to explore what it means to Fritz to ‘want’ and to ‘need’ with this PV.

thank you for watching the PV, and thank you for reading this.

- blu.)

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jobsearchtips02 · 4 years

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Expense Stepien, Jason Miller attempt impossible mission to control Trump

Donald Trump’s 2016 project included Jason Miller (second from left) as a senior communications assistant. He’s back in a senior role in2020

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Bill Stepien, the brand-new Trump campaign manager, and Jason Miller, a senior advisor, have taken firm control of the 2020 effort, trying to salvage an operation with under 90 days left up until the election.

Stepien and Miller have actually been rundown President Donald Trump several times a day and assisting him to stay concentrated on the coronavirus pandemic and a particular attack on Joe Biden.

” I would love to pretend that I had some special impact,” Miller told Expert, including, “My task is simply to say that ‘I concur with you.'”

Republicans close to the Trump project state that Stepien and Miller have brought the discipline and focus lacking under the former project manager Brad Parscale.

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A tight-knit duo of long time Republican operatives has taken the reins of Donald Trump’s reelection bid in an attempt to restore one of the most filled projects in current history and achieve the almost impossible task of getting the president to concentrate on a single line of attack against Joe Biden.

Trump is getting briefings numerous times a day with Costs Stepien, his recently installed campaign manager, and Jason Miller, the senior 2016 campaign adviser now back for a 2020 encore, where they talk about method and how to target their Democratic competitor for the White House, according to Republicans near to the campaign who detailed the efforts for Insider.

Stepien and Miller have actually likewise overhauled Trump’s campaign operation, evaluating hundreds of millions of dollars in spending and redrawing the project’s on-air marketing strategy, the Republicans stated.

The new strategy shift follows months when the president and his campaign went to pieces through the federal reaction to the coronavirus pandemic, crippling unemployment numbers, and historical across the country protests over the death of George Floyd. Trump’s summertime of discontent reached a peak with his dreadful return to the campaign path in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in June– a sparsely gone to event right before a serious coronavirus break out in the Sooner State.

Not long after the Oklahoma rally, Trump benched his project manager Brad Parscale and elevated Stepien and Miller. Trump likewise brought back his regular press instructions, but this time he kept closer to the script by reading carefully from his notes and limiting his sparring with reporters. Previous exchanges had actually led to fumbles that threw the president’s team method off message, like his idea that people might be able to inject bleach to stop the infection.

” It was the president’s idea to reboot journalism conferences. He wanted them to be much shorter, much tighter,” Miller told Insider. “I would like to pretend that I had some special influence. It was the president’s idea. My job is just to say that ‘I agree with you.'”

Journalists and political operatives tend to “overemphasize” the significance of political personnel in setting the Trump campaign’s course, he added.

” Ultimately, it’s top-down,” Miller said. “He says, ‘I wish to get this done,’ and we get it done.”

‘ He’s a lot smarter than all the other chimps’

Republicans in routine contact with the campaign have actually observed Trump staying with his notes more and attempting to prevent the wild asides that got him in difficulty before Parscale’s demotion unlocked for Stepien and Miller.

” The president seems to have more message discipline considering that Stepien took over the campaign,” one Republican near to the project said. “He is more focused on what matters to voters who are still on the fence, and that’s just doing a much better task on COVID.”

Republicans in the White House and on the campaign griped for months that Parscale and Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and a senior advisor, were too inexperienced at running the reelection effort. It ‘d be much better, these sources stated, if Trump engaged a new group of senior strategists to help guide something as sizable as a presidential reelection project.

Those exact same Republicans invited the news, initially reported by Expert, that Karl Rove, the previous George W. Bush master, had been informally recommending the project, though Rove minimized his efforts.

With Stepien and Miller, Trump has two seasoned Republican project experts running the program. Stepien was Trump’s White Home political director prior to transferring to the project. He has a long history in Republican politics, stressed by his work for previous New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie that resulted in a sharp falling-out over the “Bridgegate” scandal

Stepien has managed a complete evaluation of the project and its costs considering that taking control of. (Minutes before Insider broke the news that Trump’s project was performing an audit of all costs under Parscale, Parscale accused press reporters of working in a “criminal network.”)

Miller signed up with the Trump campaign in 2016 after dealing with Sen. Ted Cruz’s governmental run. He was set, upon Trump’s inauguration, to be the White House interactions director, however that was derailed after discoveries that he had actually been having an extramarital affair with another project staffer.

Now that he’s officially back on Trump’s project team, Miller has tightened its press and messaging operation. He sends one-page lists of talking points every early morning to senior project aides and top surrogates for Trump, like Mercedes Schlapp and Katrina Pierson. And he has actually helped the president focus more on reacting to the coronavirus break out and trying to tie Biden to “severe leftists.”

“He’s one of the very first men that Trump talks to in the morning … I’m not amazed it’s gotten more disciplined.

That strategy plays well to the strengths of Stepien and Miller, whose relationship goes back to their work together for Rudy Giuliani throughout the former New York mayor’s not successful 2008 governmental campaign. Republicans close to the brand-new group in charge of Trump’s project stated Stepien’s and Miller’s functions were a reflection of Giuliani’s renewed influence on Trump some 7 months after the Senate impeachment trial that ended in the president’s acquittal.

Trump had a hard time in his recent interview with Axios’ Jonathan Swan that aired on HBO.

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Nobody manages The Donald

Tightening up Trump and his operation and really getting the president to focus on a singular line of attack are still, in truth, miles apart.

Trump in current weeks has actually struggled to deal with hardball interviews with Fox News’ Chris Wallace and Axios’ Jonathan Swan Even a softball interview with the Fox News contributor Marc Siegel went viral when Trump flaunted his capability to pass a test suggested to evaluate for dementia.

One former Trump adviser stated he ‘d never ever seen anybody genuinely control Trump. The person noted that a string of project managers and chiefs of staff had actually stopped working at the task, from the previous White Home senior strategist Steve Bannon to the current chief of personnel, Mark Meadows. The only people to have come close are Kushner and Trump’s oldest child, Ivanka Trump, the previous advisor said.

” Nobody can tell that man what to do,” the previous advisor stated.

Still, present and previous Trump consultants applauded the work Stepien and Miller are doing to check the president wherever and whenever it’s possible.

” Stepien and Miller are having an effect,” a 3rd Republican close to the campaign said, discussing Trump’s recent schedule of talking with local TELEVISION reporters that had assisted the project get extended favorable coverage in battlefield states.

Optimistic Republican politicians have firmly insisted that the swing-state ballot gaps in between Trump and Biden will begin closing around Labor Day when more voters begin paying closer attention to the election and Biden’s frequent verbal missteps. In a letter to the Commission on Presidential Disputes on Thursday, Giuliani asked for a guarantee that Biden would reveal up to dispute Trump in individual– a dig to reinforce the Trump project’s characterization of its Democratic opponent as hiding in his Delaware basement throughout the race because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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