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joytri · 4 months

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neil perry would've loved folklore

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comfortablynumb · 2 years

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Okay, so let me see if I understand correctly:

Boys wanting to write poetry is a metaphor for boys wanting the freedom to make out in the back of old bookstores and to wear lipstick while reciting Shakespearean sonnets without having to hear the constant disapproval of others

Men running away to become pirates is a metaphor for men running away from the safe, heteronormative lives society forced them into in order to start a more genuine, albeit more dangerous, life for themselves

Nerdy teens fighting monsters together is a metaphor for teens who were once outcasted by their community for being different helping each other to confront their trauma and to become the heroes of their own stories

And women playing baseball is a metaphor for women reclaiming their femininity after spending most of their lives being told they’re “not real girls” because they don’t fit the mold the patriarchy wants them to fit into

But ultimately all of them are just metaphors for a friend group being gayer than the fucking fourth of July

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elle8n · 12 days

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This movie changed my live <3

#dead poets society #dps #robinwilliams #robert sean leonard #ethan hawke #charliedalton #steven meeks #gerard pitts #knox overstreet #todd anderson #neil perry #richard cameron #john keating #walt whitman #tennyson #ilovethismovie

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glorious-destruction · 3 months

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“Tortured poets department?” Back in my day it was dead poets society

#Taylor swift really gave her new album the Walmart name of dps and I’m here for it #dps #dead poets society #Taylor swift #tortured poets department #dark academia #poetry #literature #todd anderson #neil perry #charlie dalton #knox overstreet #stephen meeks #richard cameron #gerard pitts #john keating

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yellowjackets96 · 3 months

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just father figures staring at their surrogate sons with all of the pride and admiration and affection in the world

#can’t stop thinking about this parallel #todd defending keating to cameron vs angus defending hunham to kountze…yeah #just sad gay boys and their dads #dead poets society #the holdovers #todd anderson #john keating #mr. keating #angus tully #paul hunham #mr. hunham #found family #anderperry #neil perry

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theartsyghost · 7 months

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It’s always “what is your favorite color?” and never “what are your thoughts on the intensely queer coded relationship of Neil Perry and Todd Anderson in the 1989 film ‘Dead Poets Society’”

#dead poets society #queer artist #todd anderson #neil perry #todd x neil #neil x todd #anderperry

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post-modern-prometheus · 8 months

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me when im trying to tell someone about the deleted scene in dead poets society where todd helps neil with his lines for the play and theyre laughing and joking and heading towards the dock, which makes the end of the film all the more meaningful and emotional when todd runs to the dock screaming neil’s name

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

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nixxieie · 4 months

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My man knew something

#dead poets society #anderperry #neil perry #todd anderson #mr keating #FORGOT TO ADD I SAW THIS ON TIK TOK #I'll add the id later #yes sadly I have tik tok #a very unfortunate fact #id: @imtoddanderson

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deadxregulus · 5 months

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I'm bitches too

#dps #dps fandom #the dead poets society #dead poets society #neil perry #todd anderson #dead poets fandom #charlie dalton #john keating #knox overstreet

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poetic-gays · 3 months

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The Tortured Poets Department in question

#the dead poets society #dead poets #dead poets society #taylor swift #ttpd #neil perry #todd anderson #anderperry #the tortured poets department

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aims-world · 9 months

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"Hourglass plot: A story arc in which two characters slowly, and involuntary, swap their positions in life."

#dead poets society #todd anderson #neil perry #anderperry #tv tropes

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poetsinnyc · 10 days

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things about the poets that i feel the fandom forgets

neil smokes

todd wants a car!

they're juniors

todd isn't super shy for the rest of his life--he's learning how to speak up at the end of the movie

knox + chris get together in the end

ginny kissed neil at the end of the play. make of that what you will

todd can shoot whiskey (?) without coughing (from the book)

cameron plays the clarinet

pitts is so sarcastic (please stop sleeping on pitts & meeks in fics 🙏)

charlie's family is stupid rich

keating also means a lot to charlie & presumably the others

todd canonically becomes a teacher! (this was the plan for the sequel)

meeks canonically fights & dies in vietnam (allelon ruggiero said this himself because he hates us!)

charlie would've used he/they (source: gale hansen's twt. he's said a lot of things on there go check it out)

#dead poets society #dead poets fandom #todd anderson #neil perry #jo's thoughts

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squash1 · 10 months

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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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glorious-destruction · 1 year

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the feminine urge to become fluent in every language on earth so I can read literature in poetry in their native tongues to get the full effect

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morfitties · 6 months

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A (possibly insignificant) detail I love about Dead Poets Society is the fact that Neil plays Puck, who is eluded to be queer/gay and Shakespeare himself was known to write about homosexual relationships. Neil compares Todd exclusively to Walt Whitman, a man known for having relationships with men. They are both comparable to other queer people/characters so easily and I feel like this isn’t pointed out enough??

#dead poets fandom #dead poets society #neil perry #todd anderson #the dead poets society #anderperry #dps #overthinking about dps

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