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oqua wrote:
Also, when I make a tumblr post about this, should I mention IDB at all? And should I include an image of the other transcribed rules (the first three, which are pretty certain), or just focus on the "Dan Lester" aspect of it?
1) Only if you want to
2) Would make you look like an even creepier stalker
But who the fuck am I kidding? I'm mostly just the rotting banana peel at the bottom of the phan trash can who genuinely gets excited over the thought of them snuggling in bed. Idgaf let a bitch live
- Manged
Dan's videos, twl, buttcrack and now married!phan? This has been a good week.
FAKE.
But who the fuck am I kidding? I'm mostly just the rotting banana peel at the bottom of the phan trash can who genuinely gets excited over the thought of them snuggling in bed. Idgaf let a bitch live
- Manged
I want to be sensible and look at this with my Phan goggles definitely off, but ... *squints* ... the writing kind of does look like Dan Lester. What. Also, catching up on this whole thread has had me in stitches.
Someone earlier brought up how Dan writes his 't's really short, not jutting above the imaginary middle line. By that logic, Dan's scrawl does not look like Lester to me, because the 't' should not be a tall letter. But I'm having trouble fathoming it as Dan Howell, unless the Howell part is cramped and has a weird squiggle after it. Idk...
@oqua: ahh, thank you, I'm a bad fan haha
I was just about to make my point... but then I realized that I was looking at the wrong picture. (the one where you tried to fit Dan's complete name onto the screenshot) Well done @me. Let's just pretend this never happened because now that I'm looking at the right picture, I can't unsee the Lester either. /goes back into hiding/
mysterylovescompany wrote:I want to be sensible and look at this with my Phan goggles definitely off, but ... *squints* ... the writing kind of does look like Dan Lester. What. Also, catching up on this whole thread has had me in stitches.
Someone earlier brought up how Dan writes his 't's really short, not jutting above the imaginary middle line. By that logic, Dan's scrawl does not look like Lester to me, because the 't' should not be a tall letter. But I'm having trouble fathoming it as Dan Howell, unless the Howell part is cramped and has a weird squiggle after it. Idk...
It's possible he drops some letters when he signs his name and just draws a line of some squiggles at the end. My name is 16 letters long, but in my signature only 6 of them are probably recognizable as the original letters. Usually l's and such do stay when that happens in most people's signatures, but I could possibly see it when he has three loopy characters in a row at the end.
The fact that any of you can get anything out of those scribbles in the first place is kind of amazing tbh.
mysterylovescompany wrote:Someone earlier brought up how Dan writes his 't's really short, not jutting above the imaginary middle line. By that logic, Dan's scrawl does not look like Lester to me, because the 't' should not be a tall letter. But I'm having trouble fathoming it as Dan Howell, unless the Howell part is cramped and has a weird squiggle after it. Idk...
This is true but there are only samples of Dan's printed handwriting. His cursive might look different. Anyone know if Tabinof or anything else has examples of Dan writing in cursive?
angrymob wrote:It's possible he drops some letters when he signs his name and just draws a line of some squiggles at the end.
If they aren't letters then the squiggles are written as long as his last name and at about the same height. There's not much space between the capital letter of the last name and the last tall letter for the 'owe' in 'Howell'. The last tall letter also looks like one letter and not the 'll' of 'Howell'. In his printed handwriting his 'l's are pretty tall.
aside it's hard to see anything other than 'Dan Lester'. 'Dan Howlter' at a stretch but the first letter of the last name looks suspiciously like an 'L'. 'Dan Lesthow' maybe.
spider wrote: aside it's hard to see anything other than 'Dan Lester'. 'Dan Howlter' at a stretch but the first letter of the last name looks suspiciously like an 'L'. 'Dan Lesthow' maybe.
Started writing Lester, realised it was wrong halfway through so he switched to his actual name, but then got distracted and didn't finish writing it.
i just caught up with the thread and i'm laughing so hard. i'm convinced it actually says 'dan lester', it looks like it so much and i can't see anything else
I just stared at it for 5 minutes, and I'm in. It looks so much like Lester. If that's the case though, I'm surprised it'd even show up multiple times in their videos. Would they be that entangled in each other's lives that they couldn't catch possible slip-ups imagine all the things they did hide then.
or it was a joke and it was before Dan was no homo.
Jeez, what a topic to wake up to!
+1 on the "Dan Lester" boat. It's all I can see now.
Far-fetched idea, although I suppose this entire thing is far-fetched, but whatevs What if Dan was being a grumpy-poo and wouldn't sign the rules sheet, so Phil attempted to do it for him and wrote his last name instead?
Idk. At this point, I'm just trying to see the anti-phan side of this, but I really can't
Edit: Good idea, swofro, it would be mighty squished though.... and I have a feeling Dan would take up more space if he decided to write it like that.
I'm excited for the tipsy talk video though!!!!
Phil Lester wrote:"I'll rub myself in a mango before I eat a mango."
"Make no judgements where you have no compassion." -Anne McCaffrey
swofro wrote:I know this is just me reaching too far but I just got a new idea. What if it is DanJamesHowell but super condense?
Like this DanJamesHowell
By the logic that Dan write his l as tall as other letter, this might make more sense. But I can't explain why his H is like that. Hahahaha.
Those l-s have to be really-really small then, for that to work.
Nope, not buying it.
soma - Sorry for Up-Quoting you but I don't want to Spam - Howl has been disproven... There only a handfull of explanations and Dan Lester seems to be the most logical one. (tho I'm still totally agnostic at the idea)
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But who the fuck am I kidding? I'm mostly just the rotting banana peel at the bottom of the phan trash can who genuinely gets excited over the thought of them snuggling in bed. Idgaf let a bitch live
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Hmm Dans characters name in Guild Wars (at least I think it's him) is called "Howl", so maybe he drops a few letters when signing stuff like angrymob said? ...or let's just stick with Dan Lester
lilMango wrote:Jeez, what a topic to wake up to!
+1 on the "Dan Lester" boat. It's all I can see now.
Far-fetched idea, although I suppose this entire thing is far-fetched, but whatevs What if Dan was being a grumpy-poo and wouldn't sign the rules sheet, so Phil attempted to do it for him and wrote his last name instead?
Idk. At this point, I'm just trying to see the anti-phan side of this, but I really can't
Edit: Good idea, swofro, it would be mighty squished though.... and I have a feeling Dan would take up more space if he decided to write it like that.
I'm excited for the tipsy talk video though!!!!
I appreciate how we're trying so hard to find any other explanation than it being D Lester.
oqua wrote:
I tried this hours ago and rejected it, but now that you've mentioned it I'll post my attempt:
I don't buy it either.
1) That is a mess, if it is true.
2) It seems that it definitely says Dan not Daniel
3) I have to check on those l-s on TABINOF
But who the fuck am I kidding? I'm mostly just the rotting banana peel at the bottom of the phan trash can who genuinely gets excited over the thought of them snuggling in bed. Idgaf let a bitch live
- Manged
oqua wrote:
I tried this hours ago and rejected it, but now that you've mentioned it I'll post my attempt:
I don't buy it either.
1) That is a mess, if it is true.
2) It seems that it definitely says Dan not Daniel
3) I have to check on those l-s on TABINOF
Spider already posted a picture showing his printing l's. But yeah, I'm going to check TABINOF too and see if there are any cursive samples whatsoever.
And yeah, "Daniel" is a big stretch, but to me it's almost unthinkable that he would write "Dan James Howell."
oqua wrote:
I tried this hours ago and rejected it, but now that you've mentioned it I'll post my attempt:
I don't buy it either.
1) That is a mess, if it is true.
2) It seems that it definitely says Dan not Daniel
3) I have to check on those l-s on TABINOF
Spider already posted a picture showing his printing l's. But yeah, I'm going to check TABINOF too and see if there are any cursive samples whatsoever.
And yeah, "Daniel" is a big stretch, but to me it's almost unthinkable that he would write "Dan James Howell."
I mean, just looking at how huge the 'l' in Daniel would be compared to the 'll' in Howell... And his 'l' is rather tall, as previously discussed, which is why Howell just doesn't work for me no matter how we spin it. I'd sooner see it as 'Dan Fucker', tbh.
