#Con Keating

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1916 – The first casualties of the Easter Rising were on Good Friday in Co Kerry.

Three Volunteers, Con Keating, Charlie Monahan and Donal Sheehan, drowned when their car plunged off a pier into the sea while they were on the way to Cahirciveen in order to set up radio communications with Sir Roger Casement and the German arms ship the Aud. Five men set off from Dublin by train to Killarney, Charlie Monaghan, Donal Sheehan, Con Keating, Dennis Daly and Colm O’Lochlainn.…

[glitter-and-metal]

I have been having fun making gifs involving Dominic Keating. Just because I can lmao. Moments from Desmond's, Star Trek: Enterprise, and The D-Con Chamber.

Edited to add the Species: The Awakening gif because I completely forgot about it.

[dominickeating-source]

Check out The D-Con Chamber on Twitter and Instagram!

[themurdochmemesteries]

not dominic keating saying he’s “6/8ths gay, darling” on the new episode of the d-con chamber 😭 amazing

[feverofthyself]

one like and i drag my hardback complete shelley around london (where i will have no opportunity to read it)

[lingeringscars]

layla is someone who does need to weigh everything before making decisions, but, like any human, this doesn't always happen. she can be very guided by her heart and her emotions in a way that she usually tries not to be. she makes lists. she's organized. she needs everything to be Perfect. but she also wants to please people. wants to be worth not leaving. and that means that sometimes all the perfect lists in the world won't matter; all the warning signs will fly right by. she wants to do right by her friends and her family, and she'll fight for it, sometimes to the point where her logic fails her.

after everything with carrie, it is very hard for layla to not be instantly distrustful. she doesn't want to let people in for fear of being hurt again. this causes her to be so forceful that it seems like she's being ruled by logic and practicality, but she isn't. it's all emotion and fear.

[pier-carlo-universe]

La Luce del Lago di Fabrizio Gentili: Un Thriller tra Segreti e Cospirazioni Globali. Recensione di Alessandria today

Fabrizio Gentili ci porta nel cuore di un'élite segreta con un romanzo carico di suspense, dove il destino dell'umanità è in gioco.

Fabrizio Gentili ci porta nel cuore di un’élite segreta con un romanzo carico di suspense, dove il destino dell’umanità è in gioco. La Luce del Lago, scritto da Fabrizio Gentili, è un romanzo che intreccia magistralmente elementi di spionaggio, romanticismo e suspense in un avvincente racconto di segreti e cospirazioni globali. Ambientato tra il suggestivo lago di Castel Gandolfo e i Castelli…

[afftcrglow]

– ¿Has sabido algo de Este? –preguntó, balanceando la copa de vino en su mano, con la vista fija en la puerta. Le había marcado a la tercera amiga de su grupo, más de una vez, pero el teléfono la enviaba a apagado, cada vez.

➣ para: @p3ach3snplums​

[odessa-2]

Titbits and analysis 🖖

As promised, some more titbits from the Con yesterday in Melbourne as well as my interpretations. Prior to attending yesterday, I told myself to keep an open mind and attempt to leave any biases behind (even after having seen the funeral pics). Clean slate. To try and view Sam, the event, questions, and subsequent behaviours objectively.

I'm the sort of person who feels energy and is affected by it and in some ways governed by it. The energy of people, both individually and collectively. The energy of a group. I tend to couple this with objective analysis, which forms the basis of my conclusions about people and situations.

I applied this method yesterday in attempting to understand and view Sam, the OL money 💰 machine and everything else. I also just wanted to go there and bask in the audience and enjoy myself....and....I did like it Jamie.

So first thing I noticed off the cuff was how experienced Sam was in handling questions, and the women, and tailoring his behaviour to suit their desires. He was charming, charismatic, approachable, a skilled professional. I saw the veneer. I felt the veneer. I also saw and felt that he is a pretty decent bloke under that veneer. A man with a solid work ethic, who is mild mannered and working with purpose in his life.

I observed that his handler or Convention agent or whatever he is, Steve, was in full control. He managed Sam's performance in a sense. He asked the questions and even set the directions for some answers. Sam is controlled. I didn't like Steve. I didn't get the best vibe off him. Infact, I got a bad vibe off him. I observed that everything was a performance. Scripted to a large degree. The Single Sam narrative was pushed by Steve. Hard. It was a performance. That much was clear to me.

So Sam chose to mention that he was in Austria skiing 2 weeks ago....blah blah...something about singing a Ronan Keating song. So the script tells everyone nice and early that he is NOT with Caitriona ✅️

Later on in the panel, he mentioned that he "was at the theatre in London the week earlier" watching a play. Huh? Getting his timeline confused? Interesting titbit, I thought. Who would he go to the theatre with whilst in London? Who else likes to go to the theatre? Who have we seen him go to the theatre with before? Ding ding ding!!

One of the first things he spoke about (umprompted) and imo was part of his speaking program, was that Caitriona is back home in Scotland doing prep work and will be directing this season. He said that he spoke to her recently and that she is cold and miserable back home. No one seemed to give a shit. The women were there for their Jamie. Sam read the crowd. He understood.

Sam tried to bring Cait into the conversation again saying something like "Where's Claire?....Caitriona isn't here". Again crickets from the audience.

He said that he auditioned with a lot of Claire's, but they couldn't find the right fit and that nobody was as brilliant as Caitriona.

It sounded like he genuinely missed her.

He spoke of his audition with Cait, saying they were very physical and were almost wrestling each other. He said he was sweating all over her and that his sweat was on her. The crowd still only wanted to hear about their Jamie. I think Sam relished in being cheeky in saying that she wore his sweat that day.

Someone asked about "how do you kiss and make out with a costar and then just carry-on. Isn't it awkward"? Sam responded generally initially, saying that there's lots of checking in with the person and apologising afterwards (in a joking fashion). Then that prompted him to start talking about Cait saying that he has also "snotted" all over Cait and exchanged many body fluids with her (in an acting context presumably)and that there's nothing really left to do together that they haven't already done. I was like "whoooaa wtf Sam?". Shooketh that he said that really. The silence from the crowd was palpable. They really didn't want to hear about Cait and Sam and their shared bodily fluids whilst 'acting'. He is THEIR fantasy man. Not Caitriona's. Silence from the audience. Sam already knew that the crowd were Sam onlies but he loved telling this story. Relished in it imo. He loved the double entendre. It was an unrehearsed, unscripted conversation as it resulted from an audience question. I concluded it was an act of defiance on his behalf. That's what it felt like to me.

Steve the convention agent guy, was always bringing it back to Single Sam. "I worry how are you going to get a date" said Steve. With Sam understanding the prompt ...."I worry too" says Sam. Bachelor narrative secured ✅️

Steve spruked the Bachelor narrative again to Sam's thirsty and adoring fans....."Sam you remind me of that old show where everyone has to guess which bachelor is going to come out of the mystery door". And that's when I knew with 100 percent certainty that the bachelor talk was a ruse. It was so contrived and performative. I smiled to myself. The women in the crowd were eating it up.

Another thing that stood out to me was when Sam was searching for the right terminology when talking about Cait. "My......co star" huge pause.

"I love you Claire" is the line he randomly chose to say when explaining his acting.

When asked how he has time to foster friendships and spend time with his family he talked around it. Avoided the question and kept it about his friendships saying that they are strong friendships that endure. He diverged and started talking about how he still has his core friendships that he had when he was bunking and sharing an apartment/house with them in London when he was younger. The veneer was up. Inpenetrable.

At another point in the panel Sam asked "How many Sheila's are there here"? LOL. I found that amusing.

Now this next part captured my attention the most. It had a weird feeling (energy) around it . Sam gave off a weird energy. Almost hostile. Again that's just what I felt.

Someome from the audience named Toni with an "I" was selected to ask a question. I can't remember what the question was but Sam made a really big deal about her being named Toni. "There's always a Tony have you noticed"? Why is there always a Tony"? He said. He didn't want to drop it. He placed a little too much emphasis on it. I was laughing silently but Sam's double entendre didn't go unnoticed by me. Everyone else was clueless or at least that's how it appeared to me. Was that an Easter egg dropped by Sammy?

Asked about what does he do for self care, he seemed to struggle answering that too. He talked in circles about his way points hike and how he's learning how to live in the moment. There's that wall again.

There were many other things discussed of course but I thought I'd focus on the things that shed light on his situation and that resonated with me.

So my closing Analysis? Sam is controlled. He peforms. He caters. He's intelligent and in tune with people and aims to please but is private. Sunday just reaffirmed and solidified my beliefs. Caitriona snatched up that hard working gem of a man quick smart!

[stra-tek]

Dominic Keating in uniform at Creation's Star Trek: San Francisco con. Photo from Hero Within.

[cowboylexapro]

pros of the dps book:

book meeks is so funny and so in character. he makes me want more movie meeks

a lot of really funny charlie moments are missed out on like the “charles dalton cave for passionate experimentation”

ginny existing

todd being silly. we need more silly todd. like book todd with the lampshade on his head.

cons of the dps book

book neil is kinda an over dramatic bitch

book todd is really really angsty and self loathing to the point of it being annoying

a lot of keating dialogue missing to the point i can only assume the lines in the movie were robin williams’ improv

knox

todd and neil being strangely heterosexual

[glitter-and-metal]

Dominic Keating and the F-Bomb Plushie 💣

[dominickeating-source]

Snapshots from Episode 11 of The D-Con Chamber - The Best of Season 1

[cosmicbobatea]

Here are my thoughts on the DPS book organized into pros and cons because they’re buzzing in my head and I have to share them with somebody.

Pros:

-the movie played in my head while I was reading because it’s incredibly similar despite some changes (you can see here which changes I’m happy and unhappy about)

-some scenes in the book were scenes cut from the movie, so I thought that was nice

-it made me laugh and want to be part of it <3

-it’s a fast read, but I was still immersed. the chapters are short and easy to follow

-Todd didn’t sign the paper condemning Mr. Keating at the end and stood up to his parents even though he was punished for it

-Charlie being tired of Knox ranting about Chris felt like he was lowkey pining for him even though he was enchanted by Ginny during the play (I am a bisexual Charlie truther)

-Charlie wanted to kiss Gloria after that one dead poets meeting but he had to read poetry to her late into the night instead (I love Charlie, but I was kinda glad he didn’t get to kiss her. lmao suffer)

Cons:

-the author likes to use the word “moan” a lot. I didn’t really care for that (it came up more than I’ve ever seen it in a book)

-no Meeks saying “yes sir” and getting jokingly ordered around by Charlie with his coat and whatnot

-no unmanned flying desk set (however I did find Todd opening up about his father to be nice)

-no Todd saying “what, me?” to Neil’s “God, I love this!” (it was, instead, “what, acting?” which probably makes more sense now that I think about it)

-the argument Neil had with his father after the play was cut short (it felt less impactful to me)

-Knox touching Chris at the Danbury house party. I wanted to believe that part wasn’t real, but it is (he deserved that punch in the face from Chet even if he apologized)

-in one scene, Mr. Keating gives his class a pop quiz while telling them not to be distracted by a slideshow of pretty college girls in suggestive poses (I really don’t think he would do that…)

-some things said by Meeks in the movie were given to Pitts (as much as I’m happy that Pitts had more character, it felt weird)

-grammatical errors in some places stood out to me like a sore thumb (my writer’s brain cringed)

-some scene locations changed and felt very jarring to me (for example, Todd didn’t yawp about Neil in the snow or run to the docks. he was in a bathroom and the poets left him to cry on the floor)

[elle-oh-ell3]

so i want all my friends to watch dead poets society with me and in an effort to promote it i gave it ‘tags’ as if it were an ao3 fic. these are all real tags lol (apart from the silly details in lowercase obviously), but also i made it kinda how i view the film *looks at the ship tags*. also there’s like no tags for keating which is annoying given what a big part of the film he is

Rating: 

Teen and Up Audiences 

Archive Warnings:

Major Character Death

Categories:

M/M, Gen

Relationships:

Neil Perry/Todd Anderson, John Keating/George McAllister, The Poets (Dead Poets Society)

Characters: 

Neil Perry (Dead Poets Society), Todd Anderson, Charlie Dalton, Knox Overstreet, Steven Meeks, Gerard Pitts, Richard Cameron, John Keating, Chris Noel, Chet Danbury, Ginny Danbury, Thomas Perry, Mrs Perry, Stick (Dead Poets Society), Tina (Dead Poets Society), Gloria (Dead Poets Society), Spaz (Dead Poets Society), Dr. Hager (Dead Poets Society), George McAllister, Gale Nolan

Additional Tags:

Gay Subtext, Child Emotional Abuse, Child Neglect, tw: relatively mild themes of suicide, only towards the very end tho, haha towards the end of that guys life too, Period-typical Racism, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Actor Neil Perry (Dead Poets Society), POV Neil Perry (Dead Poets Society), Neil Perry (Dead Poets Society) Is In Love, Todd Anderson Needs A Hug, POV Todd Anderson, Todd Anderson-centric, Anxious Todd Anderson, Writer Todd Anderson, Todd Anderson/Neil Perry-centric, Poetry, Inspired By Poetry, Walt Whitman, Walt Whitman Poetry, References to Shakespeare, Bisexual Charlie Dalton, Charlie Dalton needs a hug, Non-con Elements, Non-Graphic Non-Con, Teen Angst, Angst, Fluff and Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Hurt No Comfort, Teen Romance, Queer Themes, Minor Violence, veryyy minor, Mental Health Issues, High School, Boarding School, School Uniforms, Theatre, Sad Ending, Open Ending, 20th Century, Sneaking Out, Sneaking Around, Autumn, Slice of Life

[canesenzafissadimora]

Una volta ero una ragazza con un futuro.

Leggevo Orazio e Virgilio in latino

e recitavo tutto Keats a memoria.

Quando entrai nelle loro caverne, gli adulti

mi catturarono: cominciai a partorire

i figli di un uomo stolto e vanitoso.

Ora quando posso riempio il bicchiere

e piango quando ricordo un verso di Keats.

Una donna non lo sa, quando è giovane,

che non c'è nessun posto

dove poter restare per sempre.

E non capisce perché non arriva mai

quello o quella in cui trovare riposo.

Le ragazze lo ignorano: gli inizi

non sembrano mai la fine.

Joan Margarit