#based on anderperry

[thechaoticpoetrysociety]

Sweet dreams riding down haunted roads,

Dead leaves sweeping down cobblestones,

I'm drifting further and deeper into this phantom town.

Ghosts following their old routines,

A hoax singing sweetly of beautiful scenes.

And I'd be sinking the whole way down.

They tell me to let it go,

Maybe move to a new city,

Get away from the winter snow,

But for me it's much too pretty,

Like falling disapating dreams,

Evanescent hopeful schemes.

Pathetic waterfalls burning at my cheeks,

Just bring it all back please...

There's a house down on old Perry street,

It stands like a tragic hero,

Beautiful and incomplete,

On the lawn there's a willow,

Yelling how we dont have to take the given seats,

So instead I'll make us a swing,

Where we can hide under the tree,

Just me and your ghost.

A singing hoax.

[misstwisted]

My new au is that tape is just the secret sequel of DPS revealing Neil faked his death and Todd developed sociopathy.

[to-indeed-be-a-godd]

La Vie en rose

Neil sighed his head beginning to hurt from studying the words against the script, he had practically all his lines memorized except for the few spoken in french, specifically when his character was meant to hold an entire conversation in the language.

“je…sais..que-que je-“

he groaned unable to pronounce the words taking a deep breath and repeating them.

“je sais …que je t'aime..” He said the words finally able to pronounce them as the familiar blond walked into their room raising an eyebrow surprised.

“You speak french?” Todd asked shyly setting his things down on the bed as Neil sighed toss the script back on his bed.

“I wish, i have to say things in french for this play i’m doing” the blond made a small o shape with his mouth before taking the book from his desk and playing his walkman as he read, his face focused as a stray piece of hair dangled over his eyes, Neil’s fingers burned to tuck the stray strand of hair behind the others ear but held back still reciting the words over and over.

“je sais que je t'aime”

Eventually it began rolling off his tongue a bit however his accent was anything but believable as he sighed his headache getting worse each time he repeated his he phrase till finally his roommate set down his book and stood up.

“You aren’t saying it correctly.” He said bluntly looking at Neil before holding his hand out for Neil to give him the script which he handed over.

Todd read it carefully, “je sais que je t'aime, n'est-ce pas suffisant?” the words rolled off his tongue leaving Neil in a state of shock and completely flustered, as if this boy couldn’t get anymore perfect.

“i’m sorry…you speak french?!” He stumbled over his words looking at Todd a mix of excitement and shock.

“I learned a bit growing up…” He replied sheepishly handing Neil back the script.

“wait wait so how do you say it?” Neil asked because he needed to know how to pronounce the words and not because his roommate speaking french was the most beautiful thing he’d ever heard.

“je sais..” he said waiting for Neil to repeat after him the two following along with the other through each word.

“je sais que je t'aime, n'est-ce pas suffisant” Todd said again and Neil repeated in a good enough way that Todd gave him a proud smile.

“What does it mean anyways?” Neil asked curiously noticing the slight blush against the others features, god this boy had Neil’s heart doing backflips every second.

“Oh..I know i love you…isn’t that enough?” He mumbled sitting back down against his bed as Neil thought for a second.

“so i love you is?” he asked knowing how dangerous this game he was playing was but so desperate to hear the words come from the others mouth.

“Je vous aime” Todd said softly his eyes meeting Neil’s and oh god Neil’s heart might have stopped.

“je vos-“ he tried to say it knowing he was butchering the pronunciation.

“Je vous aime” The blond repeated slower as Neil stepped closer as they both fell into a rhythm of Todd repeating the words as Neil stepped closer trying to mimic it until Neil was practically standing between Todd’s legs neither breaking eye contact.

“Je vous aime” Todd’s voice was so small practically a whisper that made Neil’s heart sing, there was little Neil loved more then acting but for Todd, Neil would give the world for Todd, he’d give anything to hear him utter those words once more.

“puis-je t'embrasser?” Neil had no clue what he had said all he knew it sounded like a question and all he could do was silently nod before he felt soft lips press against his.

It was sweet and soft but desperate and affectionate, like both of them had been wishing for this for an eternity.

Neil was kissing the most beautiful boy he had ever met, and who apparently spoke french.

[deadpoetsvntn]

[clavidy]

mouth agape, eyes on the sun.

[smoosnoom]

the accumulation of unbearable things

“I don’t think it’s stupid,” Neil says, and there’s that ache again, the kind that keeps haunting him. “Do you think you’re just – ordinary to me?” Todd doesn’t look him in the eye. “I didn’t say that.” “You don’t say a lot of things,” Neil points out, and Todd huffs something between a scoff and a laugh.

Neil, Todd, and the intricacies of living together.

for @bookinit02 !

[puckspoetry]

why are we hating on dps swifties? like yeah sure a lot of Swifties can be super toxic and exclude people who aren’t “Swiftie enough” but isn’t that exactly what’s going on with dps right now?

we’re excluding people who got into dps because of Taylor or swifties who like dps. i don’t mean to sound cringey but I don’t think we can combat a community with toxic members with toxicity. just be accepting and kind guys seriously.

for a fandom that preaches love and inclusion a lot of you are acting exactly like toxic swifties who exclude and belittle other people. it’s just so disappointing to see, especially as a dps fan who is also a swiftie like why do we have to resort to toxicity and exclusion when we don’t like something?

[stedefxckingbonnet]

when the day met the night -- dead poets society anderperry one-shot

hi, all! slowly, but surely dipping my toe back into fic writing. i promise i see the requests in my inbox and am overjoyed to begin writing for them, and hopefully won't be making you all wait too much longer!

in the meantime, i actually posted a neil perry x todd anderson one-shot on archive of our own, and it would mean the world if you read it, left comments, shared it, all of that wonderful stuff :) i want to start writing for ships more and i feel like i'll keep that on ao3 so that i can keep the x readers here! thank you all so much for your love and support through this and your patience ESPECIALLY! will be putting up more x readers here soon, i promise.

[dead-poets-trio]

bet you rue the day you kissed a writer in the dark

[good--merits-accumulated]

i fear i am endlessly predictable (writing new dps au which is once again fantasy with Arthurian elements)

[olskuvallanpoe]

new fic: nothing in the world belongs to me (but my love)

anderperry, 4.3k words - angst *MCD*

summary: neil perry has never owned anything in his life, until he fell in love with todd anderson, until he discovered his passion for acting. / and then, then his father takes them both away. / [inspired by “my love mine all mine” by mitski]

[inahallucination]

if u've ever written a fic based on my prompts itd be so sexy of u to resend it so i can bookmark it w/ proper tags

[yourplaceinaugust]

bipolar & bpd with a side of adhd neil perry headcanons

when he's manic he gets the urge to start so many projects

he rarely actually starts them and when he does start them he quits five minutes in

the only projects he finishes are the ones hes extremely passionate about

one time when he was manic he memorized his current script in 48 hours

he got like four hours of sleep in those two days

usually when he's manic and has the urge to do projects his executive dysfunction gets in the way

when he's in a depressive episode he usually lays in bed

usually when he's in this state there's not much that can help

but todd always sits with him and reads either one of neil's favourite plays or one of his own poems

when neil is in between episodes his mood is all over the place

he could be extremely happy one minute and then suddenly at the mildest inconvenience he's suddenly extremely sad

meeks memorized a bunch of neil's favourite plays and poems and recites them when he notices neil is getting sad

when neil starts going from thinking his friends are the best to thinking they're the worst (splitting) he always tries to control his thoughts and actions

he tries to distance himself from them while he's feeling angry

the other poets notice when he starts getting distant and have learned it's best to just let him come to them

sometimes when he distances himself the poets take turns leaving notes in his books and pockets just saying how much they love him

sometimes on his bad days he can't control his anger as well as he wants to and he gets mad at the poets for small things

sometimes on these days he gets into a fight with one or multiple of the poets

it usually is over tiny things and after a while (could be hours or could be days) when he's calmed down he tries his best to apologise

the poets know about his bipolar disorder and bpd but they don't let him use that as an excuse and neil doesn't either

he always owns up to what he does in his bad moments and tries to make it right

[cowboylexapro]

jus a tiny lil thing i wrote abt neil being the worlds biggest todd simp <333

“Oh my god! Get over here you nerd!” Neil was memorizing his lines on the couch as Todd decided to walk through their loft apartment in Neil’s favorite green sweater, floral patterned sleep shorts and white knee-high socks, holding a cup of iced coffee. Todd rolled his eyes and set his cup down on the countertop and walked over to Neil, sitting next to him. “Not like that dummy!” Neil grabbed him by the waist and scooted him so Todd was straddling him. The actor pulled Todd in by the neck and started pressing sweet kisses to the poet’s pink lips.

Todd pulled away. “You’re in a lovey dovey mood today.” The blond laughed, pressing his lips to Neil’s once more, tilting his head to rest more comfortably, bringing a hand to cup Neil’s face. The brunet’s hands went to Todd’s waist, then to his hips. “I should wear this more.” Todd pulled away and lightly chuckled, panting.

“You really should.”

[lazydogz]

my entire writing process is guided by whatever song is living in my head that week

[theshippirate22]

hi welcome to my essay

is this based solely in my insane brainrot? yeah probably. i’m doing it anyway

THE TIME TAYLOR SWIFT CONFIRMED ANDERPERRY LORE

This is Josh Charles

If you don’t know who he is, that’s cool. No one does. If you do know who he is, you’re probably gay, depressed, or both. Probably both.

And this is Josh Charles in 1989, in the critically acclaimed, cult classic film Dead Poets Society

Does he look familiar? Well, if you’re big on pop culture and/or a Swiftie, he should

Because THIS is Josh Charles in 2024

in Taylor Swift’s Fortnight music video

But who’s that standing next to him?

It’s Ethan Hawke

Who ALSO starred in Dead Poets Society (1989)

Kind of weird right? But whatever

UNTIL you remember that Fortnight is the first track off the latest Taylor Swift album

called The Tortured Poets Department

Now, the premise of the music video is that Taylor was in love with Post Malone’s character but only for a fortnight and losing him after loving him is what drove her into madness basically, so she’s been imprisoned in this asylum called The Tortured Poets Department where Josh Charles and Ethan Hawke are doctors that are experimenting on her to help her get over her love for Post Malone. Note that Post Malone is also there and is another one of the doctors.

Canonically in Dead Poets Soceity Josh Charles’ character Knox Overstreet is in sort of this awkward situationship with a girl named Chris Noel, who’s “practically engaged” to this idiot called Chet and it's assumed that after everything goes down at the end of the film, Knox stops pursuing her and Chris marries Chet to live out her horrific 1950's housewife prophecy.

Similarly, Ethan Hawke’s character, Todd Anderson, is in this tragic queer-coded homoerotic friendship with main protagonist Neil Perry (played by the lovely Robert Sean “Bobby” Leonard) that never manages to come to fruition because of Neil’s untimely death via suicide.

So back to Taylor. Obviously she's a patient in The Tortured Poets Department being treated for her hopeless love for Post Malone. She says she even took the "magical move-on drug" but "the effects were temporary," which implies that what Josh and Ethan are testing on her is this drug, this cure-all for lost romance, and they haven't quite figured it out.

Which makes perfect sense, when you think about what happened to Knox and Todd. They had these short-lived perfect loves with Chris and Neil respectively that ended before anything could ever happen. Love cut too short, just like Taylor and Post Malone. Which is wild when you realize that means TS basically just confirmed anderperry.

Not only this, but in the movie, the boys are encouraged to write and enjoy poetry thoroughly, and while all the boys take it to heart, Knox and Todd are the ones that are frequently seen actually writing poetry. Knox uses it to try and win Chris over, as well as working through his feelings for her, while Todd uses it as a guilty pleasure sort of thing that he's seemingly embarrassed by (which I could talk about for 25 pages but I'll spare you.)

So basically, just like Taylor, Knox and Todd are also tortured poets. Which means not only are they the doctors trying to come up for a cure for their own maladies, they're also patients in the Tortured Poets Department

THEY'RE JUST AS CRAZY AS TAYLOR.

If that seems too big a stretch, remember that Post Malone is there. From his bridge we see that he's going through the same thing as Taylor except on the opposite side, and he's also seen in the poetry room with Taylor, confirming that he himself is a poet as well, and in the lab he's also a doctor. So Josh and Ethan are patients just as much as Post Malone is, who's just as much as Taylor.

All four of them are locked in together, trying to get over these lost loves they are mourning.

By deliberately choosing not just Ethan Hawke to cameo, but also Josh Charles, and not say Dylan Kussman or Gale Hansen, or even MAIN STAR Bobby Leonard, it draws a direct parallel between Knox and Todd's characters, and therefore between Chris and Neil, and therefore, Taylor Swift has basically confirmed the ongoing implication that anderperry was the metaphor all along.