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perksofbeingpoet · 3 days

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on nights where it's hard to go to sleep, where todd's thoughts are all over the place and he needs to burrow his head in his pillow to try to get some quiet, neil will read him parts of his current plays as a good night story.

"No- Neil, it-, it's late and you, you should be getting sleep, Hager won't go easy with the-"

"It's fine, Todd. Look, I'll just sit here at your desk to read it, yeah?"

"Yeah but- Neil, no, it's silly, I'll sleep in no time, you just-"

"C'mon, that's a laugh. I can hear your thoughts when you look like that, they take up so much space that I won't sleep either, not with how much I can sense your restlessness from across the room."

"Sorry."

"Todd, no. I wanna help you. And i need to learn these lines anyway. Can I please do this for you?"

"Fine. Fine. I- Thank you. Really, Neil. Thank you."

And Neil will use his soft voice, his voice reserved for the smallest children at Welton and for animals and for shh, the squirrel will run off if it hears us. The voice reserved for midnight readings, for Todd.

And Todd will melt into his pillow, Neil's soft words, the melody of the scenes he's reading pulling his eyes closed, fatigue bleeding into every part of his being.

Neil won't read it perfectly, and Todd will still be anxious, but they're trying.

And Neil's voice will slowly fade, he'll misread things more often, take longer breaks between sentences because gosh, he's tired, but he won't stop until Todd's eyes are two fading moons, his eyelids fern on his cheeks.

Todd sleeps. And Neil smiles and crawls into bed and keeps himself from yawning the next day, because todd should never feel guilty about this.

And when these scenes come up in the play Neil's in, Todd is somehow able to mouth the lines along with him.

And they make him think of cold floorboards and warm blankets and a voice as gentle as honey.

good night, little poet <3

#dead poets society #dps #dps fandom #dead poets headcanons #neil perry #todd anderson #anderperry #todd and neil

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stevenmeeksfreeamericaradio · 3 days

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Richard this, Richard that! What about our biggest villian in dark academia, Mr Perry!

#dark academia #dark acadamia aesthetic #dps fandom #dead poets fandom #dps #dps boys #dead poets society #neil perry #dead poets headcanons #todd anderson

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groupmomlipton · 2 days

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so often i just think about how kind and compassionate neil was to todd. how accepting and including he was. todd must've felt so safe with him. like he wouldn't fall through the ground with one wrong step.

#dead poets society #dead poets headcanons #neil perry #todd anderson #anderperry

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jamespotterbbg · 2 days

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ash5monster01 · 2 days

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Dead Poets Society and what their favorite 80s movies would be

including my reasons for why :))

Neil Perry / Indiana Jones

Neil would watch this movie and all he would take away from it was another cool teacher that not only knows his shit but goes on awesome adventures and he’d dream of being him

Todd Anderson / Gremlins

Todd would not only relate to the uniqueness of the main character but he too would also be the only person capable of befriending a random animal while also unintentionally starting a rabid attack against his town

Charlie Dalton / Roadhouse

Charlie would WORSHIP Patrick Swayze, literally kiss the ground he walked on. Not only that but he would adore his tough and take no shit personality and dream of getting to hit people and not get in trouble for it

Knox Overstreet / Can’t Buy Me Love

Knox ever the romantic would look at poor dorky Ronald who is falling over his feet to help a girl he barely knows and relate to the character completely. He doesn’t care if it’s a chick flick, he watches it any chance he gets

Steven Meeks / Weird Science

a movie about two super smart guys scientifically creating their dream women from a barbie doll. He’d grab Pitts and go ‘when do we start?’ (side note a Meeks and Pitts Weird Science AU, obsessed already)

Richard Cameron / Top Gun

You cannot convince me otherwise that Cameron would be a war buff. History through and through and respect to any form of service a man can do. He would watch Top Gun and wish that was him. He would also partake in war reenactments but that’s a whole other story.

Gerard Pitts / Footloose

This man wants to dance and Ren Mccormick would be his idol. Pitts also dreams of being the sole hero to bring music and dance back to his small town and bagging the prettiest girl in school.

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charliedaltonssaxaphone · 2 days

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Dead poets as specific A-Level courses-

Neil- THEATRE AND PERFORMING ARTS! probably needed to convince Mr Perry to let him as long as he did Biology alongside it and sociology to defend the gvays. OR, he would go to the performing arts club or perform in the plays and beg his teachers not to tell his father. He stopped talking to his parents and applied to London's academy

Todd- ENGLISH LITERATURE (would hate english language, but that's just me projecting lmao) alongside textiles and would crotchet a final piece and maybe philosophy because im projecting again I JUST CAN'T STOP PROJECTING MYSELF ONTO HIM

Charlie- PHYSCIAL EDUCATION because he reminds me too much of the people in my sixth form who did physcial education, politics and criminology (but would go to smokers and hit his peach vape and sell them to everyone)

Pitts- He would do cooking and bring treats that he baked and shared it with everyone. Pitts would also english language because he got 1 grade 9 (or A*) in GCSE'S and art because he is intelligent but in a creative and artisitic way!

Knox- Knox would get an apprentenship at his local law firm and fall in love with every woman that comes in OR would work at a grocery store and have his Joe from YOU moment

Cameron- LAW, POLITICS AND SOCIOLOGY. He would try to defend right wing ideologies and be best friends with the teacher, probably stinks up the entire room! Yes, I would get annoyed with him and prove him wrong.

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home-ward · 2 days

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running away at dawn to work on projects, swift as a european hare

#dark academia #art #academia #light academia #studyblr #dead poets #dead poets headcanons #mine #study session #study time #study motivation #study blog #studyinspo #bookblr #public libraries #books & libraries #writer life #writing life #writing

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poetsconstellation · 2 days

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It bothers me that the dps fandom doesn’t have many fanfics we can use as a bible :/

#dps #todd anderson #dps headcanons #dps fandom #dps boys #neil perry #seizing that fucking day #anderperry #dead poets headcanons #charlie dalton

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joytri · 1 month

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A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

Robert Frost

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closetsof-backlogged-dreams · 8 months

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so i'm in the middle of a dead poets society breakdown/spiral/hyperfixation/etc, and something I really love about the movie is how nothing changes, if that makes sense. it's a story about a system, and it says, "this is the system. this is who it hurts. the end." there's no happy ending. there's no fix. the characters are left broken by the corruption around them, and by the time someone stands up for what's right, it's too late, the damage has been done, the people have been hurt, and nothing can undo it.

i think that's what i find so fascinating about it. in a lot of modern movies and tv shows, when confronting conformity and the systems that perpetuate it, they tear it down somehow. they make history, if that makes sense. dead poets society isn't history. nothing astronomical happened, truly—it's just a blip in time, a sequence of short events that really weren't important to anyone or anything. it won't be in any history books. no one will remember it fifty, sixty years down the line.

but it happened. and it mattered. and now that you know, now that you've been warned, it's time for you to make history:)

#anderperry #todd anderson #neil perry #dead poets society #dps boys #dps fandom #dps headcanons #dead poets #dead poets fandom #dead poets headcanons

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tragediesnotspokenfor · 3 months

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