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1:20 hour to the start of tatinof

Kathrynxjane wrote:
Fits perfectly thank you!

No problem!! :^) I'm glad I can finally add some hq pictures my rotating desktop backgrounds.

vincentian wrote:

jhamba wrote:Yeah, the only way I wouldn't question this decision is if I found out that they actually got engaged in Japan (married, too, but that's more unlikely).

Apparently it's their 'anniversary' :



Agree with what phamnotof said regarding merch. Especially 2) - that's why the example with American band making merch with cyrillic doesn't work the same way.

Love the photobooth poster, much cute.

Echoing SquishPhan's super cute. I feel as if Dan added those hashtags to make his original statement less sincere and a bit more #ironic but pal we all know that japan was your dream trip you took with your original internet celebrity crush.

It's too bad they don't have any time to be on panels:

Maybe next year.

fancybum wrote:It's too bad they don't have any time to be on panels:

Maybe next year.

Truly a pity they can't be part of that.

fancybum wrote:It's too bad they don't have any time to be on panels:

Maybe next year.

That will be the dream panel. Can you imagine that?

majitzu wrote:

fancybum wrote:It's too bad they don't have any time to be on panels:

Maybe next year.

That will be the dream panel. Can you imagine that?

I want this so badly now, and yeah that seriously would be the dream panel.

fancybum wrote:It's too bad they don't have any time to be on panels:

Maybe next year.

this is literally making my heart hurt
and you *know* they would kick everyone's asses in that game...

greatnessflicker wrote: pal we all know that japan was your dream trip you took with your original internet celebrity crush.

Ugh, this is so fucking cute I can't even stand it.

They just used japanese characters. It's just one way to write something. I sometimes use them to write something I don't want others to read. Sure, I don't make money from it. But they didn't put Geishas, Sumo wrestlers or a Shinto shrine or something on the shirt. Relax. your anus.

kusunoki masashige wrote:They just used japanese characters. It's just one way to write something. I sometimes use them to write something I don't want others to read. Sure, I don't make money from it. But they didn't put Geishas, Sumo wrestlers or a Shinto shrine or something on the shirt. Relax. your anus.

trashqueen wrote:off topic but i checked the guest list for playlist and found out rose and rosie are attending (and i hope vloging) so now all i want is at least 5 seconds of them and deppy together

lol why am i so fixated with r&r and d&p becoming friends

Yesss I am right there with you!! Forever sad Dan never talked about the Christmas Takeover R1 thing (and therefore Rose and Rosie) in a liveshow, really hope they do end up working together again one day.

fancybum wrote:It's too bad they don't have any time to be on panels:

Maybe next year.

Incredible. Do we know who is lined up for this? had a quick look but am not familiar with the Playlist website

kusunoki masashige wrote:They just used japanese characters. It's just one way to write something. I sometimes use them to write something I don't want others to read. Sure, I don't make money from it. But they didn't put Geishas, Sumo wrestlers or a Shinto shrine or something on the shirt. Relax. your anus.

This!

internetakeover wrote: Incredible. Do we know who is lined up for this? had a quick look but am not familiar with the Playlist website

Hello! Whoo, my first post here after finally finding out where all the GG discussion moved to.

Re: new merch: I was so happy to see something I can finally wear without giant colourful letters screaming DAN & PHIL at everyone that goes past me. I thought the design was cute, and finally incospicuous enough for me. I never even thought some people might see it as 'problematic' in any way, though after reading here I see I was wrong. I see everyone's point, but I'm still going to happily wear it as I love Japan (welp, call me a weeb), and I love Dan&Phil and that we finally got merch that is so subtle.

Seeing people's reactions to it, I wonder if they'll address the cultural appropriation argument in a liveshow or sth. Dan might do it, but if it's a joint liveshow I have a feeling that he'll ignore it for the sake of Phil who usually stays out of anything even mildly controversive.

P.S. love how this new forum works!! Finally no glitching

kusunoki masashige wrote:They just used japanese characters. It's just one way to write something. I sometimes use them to write something I don't want others to read. Sure, I don't make money from it. But they didn't put Geishas, Sumo wrestlers or a Shinto shrine or something on the shirt. Relax. your anus.

exactly this, #bless!

fancybum wrote:

internetakeover wrote: Incredible. Do we know who is lined up for this? had a quick look but am not familiar with the Playlist website

Thank you!! just got far too confused that Charles is now with a different person named Allie

kusunoki masashige wrote:They just used japanese characters. It's just one way to write something. I sometimes use them to write something I don't want others to read. Sure, I don't make money from it. But they didn't put Geishas, Sumo wrestlers or a Shinto shrine or something on the shirt. Relax. your anus.

vincentian wrote: Agree with what phamnotof said regarding merch. Especially 2) - that's why the example with American band making merch with cyrillic doesn't work the same way.

Isn't Russia's culture and especially its people fetishized to death though? With the ways they are represented fuelling stereotypes and denying the complexity of their culture?
Trashqueen, I also want Rose and Rosie and Dan and Phil to become friends (or just collab tbh)

trashqueen wrote:off topic but i checked the guest list for playlist and found out rose and rosie are attending (and i hope vloging) so now all i want is at least 5 seconds of them and deppy together

lol why am i so fixated with r&r and d&p becoming friends

I am too , I love Rose and Rosie and think that they adore DP! I want to see some couple vlogging

About the merch, I really like the shirts but can understand the controversy behind it. You don't know how many times I've seen shirts with Arabic calligraphy and gotten annoyed not only because it was on a random DIAMOND Co. t-shirt but that the language (which in itself is holy) is disrespected for the purpose of aesthetics. I understand the need for respect among cultures especially because Japanese culture hasn't always been portrayed correctly by the media. I actually live with a Japanese and Korean and have learned a lot about their culture. There is a huge disparity on what we see as Japan and what the culture really is and I'm sad that it's not understood.

[offtopic]jaej my roomate is also obsessed with Jaejoong[/offtopic]

As phamnotof said, eastern culture, especially east and southeast asia culture is heavily fetishicized in the west, and the world nowadays is very western centric, so multinatinalism and cultural appropriation is just have a fine fine line between them. Multinatinalism is builded on mutual respect and understanding. Cultural appropriation is one-day taking-without-understanding. It's different. I simply wish Deppy would treat such issue with sensitivity.

Looks like Dan is wearing his iconic eclipse shirt again to preform in, wasn't he like only wearing that outfit on the UK shows? lol Maybe that's the reason he bought a bigger one this year

hmm I wonder if they will go all Free! (anime) themed this year instead of brokeback mountain
"P-Philu sempai~"

IckleMissMayhem wrote:

I'm so excited about this, even though I have to wait until they come to Europe to see it. Hope it goes well for them.

taetaewl wrote:Looks like Dan is wearing his iconic eclipse shirt again to preform in, wasn't he like only wearing that outfit on the UK shows? lol Maybe that's the reason he bought a bigger one this year

Honestly, that's what I reckon was in the box between the piano and the door in his room through the liveshows recently. Tons of them so you can wear one onstage, then peel it off (eww, stage lights are effing HOT...!) and chuck it afterwards.

They're gonna NAIL it though.

There's some deep political conversations taking place here and here I am posting bad photoshop edits. (I enjoy the conversations, though. )

Anyways, I knew Phil's eyebrows were light/a different color than his dyed hair, but in those photobooth pictures they really stood out to me. Have some super bad photo edits of him with filled in brows: Note I don't mean these edits as like a "this is what 100% what he should start doing and this is the only correct way to manage your appearance," I was just interested in what the darker eyebrows would actually look like (as an amateur makeup artist) and I was bored and had 5 minutes to play on Photoshop.
I for one actually like the fact his eyebrows don't match, it's interesting and kind of quirky in a nice way