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racism, xenophobia, and death threats are not okay. saying things after a big crash is not okay. sending so much hate that people are concerned for your safety is not okay.

like i've been seeing all the racist comments towards yuki and i'm genuinely so mad as an asian person myself it's so disgusting and makes me sick to my stomach

franco needs to send a message to his fans that this is not okay but ultimately it's not his fault that the fans chose to say intolerable things

Gosh I wish motorcycles weren’t death machines they look so fun

The early Greek mythologysts transformed a world full of fear into a world full of beauty.

— Edith Hamilton; Mythology

"We need more complex and unlikable protagonists in novels!" You fucks couldnt even handle Holden Caulfield

was it casual when you shoved him off the cliff and then stood over his corpse watching the warmth and light slowly fade from his familiar blue eyes was it casual when his father said you made his son the happiest he'd ever seen his baby boy was it casual when his parents gave you the honor of being the pallbearer when you stood amongst his brothers and carried the corpse you'd made to the hollowed ground was it casual when you were so lost in your own mind standing above his grave that you smeared the dirt of his grave across your chest (you killed him. it doesn't mean you didn't love him.)

Neil Perry we understand 🙏🏼❤️

Masterlist

Dead Poets Headcanons - Games!!

Phone Games:

Todd - NYT games

Neil - Doesn’t play games, just reads ao3/watches slime tutorials

Charlie - Angry Birds

Knox - Episode

Cam - Trivia Crack

Meeks - iMessage games, a BEAST at darts (not irl, just on the phone)

Pitts - also iMessage games but destroys everyone in 8ball

Board Games:

Todd: Can’t pick a favourite, it changes depending on his mood (he has a HUGE collection!!)

Neil: Battleship (he sucks at it, but he loves watching the look of concentration on Todd’s face 🤭)

Charlie: Monopoly (He Cheats. A Lot.)

Knox: Trouble (really likes the popper, has an oddly good strategy?)

Cam: Clue (he’s SCARY good at processing the clues to get to the answer quickly)

Meeks: Hues and Cues (can’t play with Pitts because Pitts is colourblind (headcanons))

Pitts: Life (comes up with oddly elaborate stories that can put Neil to shame)

Card Games:

Todd: Cards Against Humanity (the first time they play, everyone is FLABBERGASTED, except Charlie, he’s cackling and celebrating)

Neil: BS (he takes advantage of the fact that he can act and does a damnnnnn good job of lying through his teeth (Todd knows his tells, let’s him get away with him unless he’s upset or feeling petty)

Charlie: Uno (has fist-fought Knox for playing a Draw 4 on him when he had Uno)

Cam: Phase 10 (loves the layers to it, has kept people up for HOURSSS to play with him)

Knox: ERS (has surprisingly good reflexes and dominates)

Meeks: Codenames (comes up with the most INSANE clues that only Pitts gets, but no one wants to play against them because they’re lethal together)

Pitts: Exploding Kittens (“They’re cute, Meeks!”)

love this deleted scene in general because i love dally and his two little brothers dynamic but what always makes me laugh is johnny trying his best to back them up 😭😭😭😭

him looking over at dally at the beginning like "here we go with this routine again" and then his halfhearted "more seltzer.. needs more seltzer 😕" and getting cut off by dally i can't stop laughing

also pony is so into it like "the health people are gonna CONDEMN this place 🤬" i know once they walked out dally was like "a little heavy on the theatrics this time pony"

anderperry au where they are happily married and and Neil becomes the actor he wanted to and Todd becomes the writer that he is and they have a meet & greet and they sing and play guitar—

I edited dps like it’s a cheesy reality tv show again :’)

The misunderstanding of carpe diem + physical harm in dps makes me absolutely crazy

Knox stalks a girl, doesn’t take no for an answer and gets hurt because of it (gets punched by Chet). He deals with physical harm. He ends up getting the girl, but he had a price to pay, a punishment to endure. Chet threatened him, he could have been in danger. Knox didn’t think he did anything wrong. He apologized to Chris, but with the stalking and such, it never went through his head “hey this might be kinda fucked up” while he was doing it.

That’s not what Keating said. He didn’t told them to be careless and act on their impulses even if that might get them in danger.

Charlie pulls his “phone call from god” prank and many things happen. One, when he first published the article he revealed the club (although not its members or activities) without anyone else’s permission. Two, he could have gotten expelled. Three, he got hit by Nolan, a physical punishment. Just like knox, he dealt with physical harm and risked expulsion. Charlie didn’t think he did anything wrong.

Keating himself told him that he flew too close to the sun, than he didn’t mean that in his lessons. Carpe diem is not choking on the bone.

Neil seemed to understand Carpe Diem, he was just desperate. It’s not than he was impulsive, or careless, he was just incredibly desperate, and that’s somehow worse. Neil goes behind his father’s back and joins a play. He writes a letter pretending to be him, sneaks off to rehearsal. When his father finds out, he has a price to pay (his father enrolling him on military school and forcing him to stop acting) and ends up dying by shooting himself (physical harm). Neil definitely knew, and thought about what would happen if his father discovered, but he was so desperate to live, to do something he wanted for once, he didn’t care, he began hoping he would manage to keep it hidden. Neil thought he was in the right (which, honestly, he was). He didn’t see anything wrong in what he did, simply wanted to fulfill his passion, passion than didn’t hurt anyone, passion than didn’t involve anyone else other than himself. The contrast with Charlie/Knox and yet, still having the same consequences… Peter Weir I’m hunting you down.

This is not what Keating encouraged. Remember how Keating asked him to talk to his father? Remember how he asked him if he talked to him (and Neil lied and said yes) and he was very happy and supported his decision about the play? Remember how, before knowing his father “agreed” Keating didn’t tell Neil “oh you’re already in the play, go through with it, carpe diem, who cares what your father says?” but instead told him “talk to your father. If he says yes then you can continue with the play with no worries, and if he says no then wait until you’re out of school and he won’t be able to control you as much anymore. You have options, this is not the end of the world. Either talk to him and come to an agreement or wait.” Remember that? Keating didn’t want Neil to go behind his father’s back, because he knew the consequences this would have.

(Interesting how, out of all the physical harm than the misunderstanding of carpe diem caused, Neil’s is the only one inflicted by himself to his own body. I’m definitely very normal about this.)

Charlie, again. He punched Cameron. Acted on impulse, didn’t think of the consequences punching another student on school grounds, on school hours, actually meant. He got expelled. He suffered a punishment. But now he didn’t receive any physical harm, but rather caused it. To Cameron. He didn’t think he did anything wrong, he thought Cameron deserved it.

Cameron. He’s the hardest to understand. He wants to seize the day, in his own way. After all, he joins the club despite not really having to, but he simply seems too scared to actually carpe that diem. He ends up seeing this as dangerous. After what happened to Neil (dead), and after seeing what happened to Charlie (almost expelled) and Knox (ended up with a bloody face) he gets scared. Damn, this might actually be dangerous. It’s a good reasoning. 3/7 members got hurt. Not half of them, but almost. He misunderstood carpe diem based on the consequences seizing the day had in the others (the others who misunderstood what it actually meant) and so he snitched to nolan. And this is what causes him physical harm, what causes him to be punched by Charlie. He loses something (his friendship with the other poets) and gets physically hurt. So, so, sooo interesting how despite this being considered the complete opposite to seizing the day, it’s framed in the exact same way as all the other instances where carpe diem takes part. He suffers the same consequences as everyone else. He believed himself to be doing the right thing, to be saving the others’ academic lives and doing now what he couldn’t have done for Neil before (protecting others from keating’s influence).

Keating never meant for carpe diem to be dangerous, or hurtful, or scary.

But then Todd.

Todd’s carpe diem is just becoming more confident. Reading his poems aloud, becoming more sociable and comfortable around his friends, accepting than he’s allowed to receive love, to rely on others, to believe in himself, to stand up for himself and his beliefs (refusing to sign the paper and saying no to his parents and nolan).

His final stand, his seize the day moment, is at the end of the film. He’s the first one to stand on the desk. This is the perfect rebellion. Meaningful, happens for a reason (Keating getting unfairly fired), doesn’t harm anyone else and doesn’t harm himself (doesn’t cause him nor anyone else physical pain). No danger (he might get in trouble, but I doubt he could face expulsion for standing on a desk). Charlie’s act on Neil/Keating’s memory was one of anger, impulsive, one that drew blood and ended in expulsion. Todd’s was one of defiance, impulsive, but that hurt no one and ended well. It’s more, it caused happiness (Keating felt better, saw his contributions).

The one who felt more scared to go through with it at first is the only one who truly understood it.

Then with Meeks/Pitts idk honestly. They don’t really have a big moment. I guess at the end, standing on the desks, but they’re not the ones who start it or are particularly important in that scene. The radio scene, perhaps, but I don’t really see what was stopping them from building a radio before. If the radio scene was their carpe diem, though, then another example of someone understanding what it truly meant. The scene ended well, didn’t hurt anyone or involved anyone who was unwilling, they didn’t get any punishment after, etc.

“What if I write it and it’s bad-”

WHAT IF YOU WRITE IT AND ITS GOOD? WHAT IF YOU WRITE IT AND ITS EXACTLY WHAT YOU WANTED? WHAT THEN????

GET. AI. OUT. OF. FANDOM. Stop making headcanons with it, stop making fanfic with it, stop making fanart with it. If I see one more "asking chatgpt *blank* about *character/characters in a fandom* I'm going to lose my goddamn mind. Use your own fucking brain, stop asking AI to do everything. You could even ask other real people what they think. Just. Stop. Using. AI. In. Creative. Spaces.

Hey guys, I finally finished my Anderperry fic where Neil goes to military and medical school while Todd becomes a semi-famous poet, and they don’t run into each other until years later!! I fear I was subconsciously writing for this to be the saddest Anderperry fic ever; maybe give it a read and tell me how I did on achieving that :)

Here’s the summary if you’re interested:

“I’ve read your poetry, you know,” Neil admits casually after a few beats of silence, as if he’s discussing the weather and not revealing earth-shattering information, while his eyes remain trained on the football game playing on the TV in the corner of the bar.

Did he know? Could he see right through all of Todd’s poetry, see all of the desperate clinging onto his glory days which were limited to five brief months because of his disappearance? Todd almost wants to lunge at him, wants to throttle this boy-turned-man for getting to know all of the agonies which traced his mind while he was stuck in this dingy bar still not even being able to tell if a smirk or frown was pulling at Neil’s lips.

Of course he doesn’t lunge, – when has Todd lunged for anything in his life? – just struggles to not choke on his spit while he rasps out a simple “yeah?” as if it’s a full question. This will be the death of him, he’s decided.

Or in which it’s 1981, New York Times bestselling poet Todd Anderson has run out of words to say, and he just so happens to run into the only boy who always knew how to speak up for him.

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Dead Poets Society in NYC + Allelon Ruggerio Outtakes GIFSETS

haha yes

Article clipped from The Philadelphia Inquirer. Sun, 9 Jul 1989. Page 503.

Brief overview: interview with Jim Christy ‘Spaz’, and Jonas Stiklorius ‘Jonas’, classroom extras in Dead Poets Society.

Newspapers.com

Article clipped from The Philadelphia Inquirer

Clipping found in The Philadelphia Inquirer published in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 7/9/1989.

Robert Sean Leonard and his character, Neil Perry.

Song: We Hug Now - Sydney Rose

Robert living the life of Neil's dream, the life he never had 🍂

This is the funniest email I have ever received from a professor

Table of Contents from Dragons by Peter Hogarth and Val Clery

Todd needed Neil, but Neil needed freedom over his life.

erm another edit just this time it’s anderperry 💔

scenepack - yes.scenepack on insta

tiktok - dead4poets

just saw this on pinterest and it hit me like a truck