#dead gay poets from the 50s

[henry-fox-biggest-stan]

“Cameron isn’t gay” and then this is Cameron

[franollie]

Young Justice as a conversation i had with my roommates (and our friends who are always in our dorm) while we were watching dead poets:

cassie: god, i want that to be me

tim: oh to be a teenage boy in the 50s sent to boarding school and sneaking out to read poetry

kon: honestly peak gender envy

cassie: REAL

tim: are we all bonding over wanting to be men in the 50s

cassie and kon: yeah

cissie: NO??

cassie:

cissie:

tim:

bart: this movie takes place in 1959 so my teenage boy would have the original barbie and be bullied for being gay

cissie:

cassie:

tim:

greta (looking up from her cross stitching): thats nice, bart

[l1ndseyper3z]

Hi there! Could you please write a dead poets society fic for Neil x Todd (anderperry) where they’re on a date and they’re playfully flirting/flustering each other? I think they’re neat.

Hey! They are neat, so thanks for the request. I hope you don't mind me making this slightly Christmas-themed, I'm just in the spirit !! I know it's short but I hope you enjoy it.

~ Regular Nights ~

Ship: Neil Perry X Todd Anderson (Anderperry)

Fandom: Dead Poets Society (1989)

Requested?: Yes!

Warnings: Sex references/implications ig? idk this is just very fluffy! I suppose you could consider this a modern AU as obviously a gay couple sadly couldn't go on a date in public during the 50s but apart from that it isn't laid on at all so the choice is yours

Dates had become something normal for Neil and Todd. At least once a month, always on a Saturday night, a play followed by food at the pair's favourite out-of-the-way diner. This was the set routine, it worked and they stuck to it. Today was no different.

"How did you not like it?! The way the lead portrayed Malvolio was near perfect!" With no hurry, Neil whined as the two walked, hand in hand along the snow-covered street.

"I dunno... it wasn't anything to do with the actors, the actual play was just boring." Todd chuckled as he pushed open the door to their regular end to a date night. One difference, this time the small building was decorated with warm white Christmas lights.

The pair walked inside, wiping their feet on the door mat to ensure they didn't walk snow all through the place. As Neil led Todd to "their" table in the corner, he sighed dramatically. "I can't believe I have a boyfriend who can't appreciate the beauty of Twelfth Night!"

"I'd rather appreciate your beauty," Todd uttered, almost too casually, especially for him. Neil's face flushed a warm tone of pink, juxtaposing the cool pale the cold rendered him.

Todd chuckled at his boyfriend's rapidly reddening face but chose not to torment him any more. Not just yet, anyway.

"Stop laughing! You know I'll get you back later tonight anyways" Neil retorted with a suggestive smirk. He was glad they could have back-and-forths like this. When the pair met, he was scared to say anything that could even slightly hurt his feelings. Now, they'd learnt each other's limits.

As Todd caught wind of what Neil was implying and a similar warm blush crept upon his cheeks, the darker-haired boy slipped up from his seat and headed over to the counter. He didn't even need to ask what Todd wanted, he just knew. It was the little things like this that made him fall more and more in love with Neil every day.

As he came back to the table, Todd pulled out his wallet. "How much?" he questioned with little emotion laced through his voice as he flicked through the notes, preparing to give the assumed amount.

Neil calmly rejected the other boy's money. "Nothing, you paid last time, remember?"

"So? I'm still loaded from my birthday cause my parents finally got the hint I didn't want the same desk set for the third year in a row"

Neil chuckled. "Seriously, babe, it's my turn to pay" He pushed the wallet away. "If anything I should be paying for the pretty company I've been graced with". Todd's face flushed pink again, this time deeper.

"You know calling me pretty makes me awkward.."

"That's exactly why I do it." Neil cooly retorted

Todd decided he wanted to carry on this little game the two had been playing. He grabbed Neil's hand, lifted it up to his lips and pressed a gentle kiss on the back of his hand. Neil's confident demeanour dropped at once.

"So cocky till you're not" Todd teased with a gentle voice. He could actually be quite sassy around those he was comfortable with, it just took time to get to that stage.

"Whatever" Neil muttered with a mock scowl, although there was no malice in his tone. The two smiled at each other and dug into their food. These regular nights were comfortable. These regular nights were simple. These regular nights were the best things that had ever happened to the boys. No matter how basic, they wouldn't change them for the world.

[just-1other-nerd]

Good Omens headcanon:

Aziraphale loves the film "Dead Poets Society".

We know from the Shakespeare scene in s1 ep3 that he likes tragedies just as much as any other well written story, so even though he's the more sunny one of the duo, that wouldn't stop him from liking it. Also the movie features a work of Shakespeare and he'd love that as well.

Aziraphale - being the bibliophile he is - loves poetry thus that aspect of the film really draws him in.

Also Aziraphale's aesthetic is very much vintage and light academia which fits in very well with the dark/light academia vibes of the film that's set in the 50s.

The movie is very gay (just like him), not only because of the character's that everyone says are gay (because they are) but also because of the subtext.

The parallels between the oppression of heaven and the oppression of the students by school and their parents are hitting close home with Aziraphale and that makes watching the film very cathartic, even though he's oblivious regarding that.

[artzychic27]

I can't not make a Clone High au

Marinette: Clone of a peasant turned royal tailor from ancient China who created fabulous garments for royalty and received praise for her work until her untimely demise when the jealous wife of the emperor poisoned her food

Adrien: Clone of a former beloved Parisian mayor from the 70s who won the hearts of all with his charisma, good looks, and natural charm… Then he got assassinated after he signed a bill to allow gay couples to adopt

Nino: Clone of a famous Moroccan director who gained recognition from his first short film which he shot in his home town. He made a name for himself, traveled, and won many awards, but then died in the 70s after someone drugged him… Because it was the 70s

Alya: Clone of a young runaway slave from Martinique in the late 1790s. She taught herself to read and wrote several books detailing the effects of Code Noir on her home. She was soon found and killed just five years before slavery was abolished. Her books were published decades later and shed some light on Martinique’s struggle

Nathaniel: Clone of a Jewish man from the 1930s who escaped the concentration camp when he was twenty and went into hiding, boarded a ship, and made it to America. He made his living as an artist, and was free to express his religion and tell his story when the war ended up until he turned 68, and died of a heart attack

Alix: Clone of a pro skater. Being female and Arab made her the target of a few choice words from competitors and spectators, but she rubbed her wins in their faces until her tragic “accident” at one event in 1978. Some jackass tampered with her wheels, and Alix landed in a horrible way. Fortunately, the asshole was arrested

Kim: Clone of a champion Olympic swimmer from the 50s. He took home gold twice and was ready to win his third gold medal. Right as he got in the water, shots rang out. A bullet hit his leg, and he sank to the bottom of the pool. (A jealous competitor resorted to drastic measures)

Max: Clone of a teenage genius from the early 70s. People thought he’d change the world with his brilliant mind. He even won a Nobel prize. The world probably would have been improved had it not been for the tragic lab fire

Juleka: Clone of a Romanian noble from the 1600s accused of kidnapping and draining young women of their blood to retain her youth. One night, the villagers stormed her manor and set fire to everything, even going so far as to lock her inside

Rose: Clone of a celebrated singer from the early 50s known for her pink rockabilly style. She died in her sleep when she was 83, and by that time, she had written over sixty songs

Ivan: Clone of a famed poet/song writer. He lived a pretty peaceful life, never got in any fights, attended protests organized by marginalized groups, and even wrote a book. He died peacefully in his sleep when he was 100

Mylène: Clone of an well known actress/activist who was protesting companies dumping lead into urban neighborhoods. Her words got their attention, but instead of being decent human beings, they poisoned her as a threat, but ended up killing her in 1978. To this day, those ass-bitches got away with it

Sabrina: Clone of a secretary from the 50s who had just about enough of her male colleagues treating her like less than the gum on the bottom of their shoes. She got up in the dead of night to paint their cars pink, filled their cars with women’s undergarments, and spiked their coffee with vodka. The cop was gonna let her off easy, but she demanded to be arrested… She shouldn’t have said that, because on their way to the prison, the cop car got t-boned bad

Chloé: Clone of a young aristocratic woman who was accused of killing her parents in cold blood in the 1800s. While she was acquitted of the charges, people still believed her to be a murderer, and she lived with that title all the way to her death

Lila: Clone of a scorned Italian woman from the late 1800s who sold out her village to a mob boss to live a life of luxury… And she did for about five weeks before one man from her village sought revenge for what the mob did to his family and shot many, including her

(Next Gen Clones)

Marc: Clone of a French writer and playwright from the 1800s whose stories mainly consisted of queer protagonists… Then he got arrested because being gay gets you in trouble in Europe during those times. He lived to be 102, and made out with so many guys in secret

Denise: Clone of a young enby from the 1960s who was part of Operation Pedro Pan to help Cuban youths escape from Castro’s regime when they were seventeen. They made it to America, faced some bigots, wrote two books detailing their life from Cuba to America, and advocated for the rights of Cuban citizens until they got sick and died in 1999

Simon: Clone of an Irish Catholic from the 1600s who hid with his family during Oliver Cromwell’s invasion and attack on the Catholics. They were going to escape together as a family, but his asshole parents left him to be killed at the hands of Cromwell himself. Prior to that, he wrote in a journal explaining the unfair treatment toward the Irish in great detail and it was soon published upon discovery

Ismael: Clone of a famed escape artist from the early 1900s. He performed all sorts of death-defying tricks until he performed one he didn’t survive- The escape from the water-filled tank trip… He forgot to hide the key on his person

Reshma: Clone of an Indian-American woman who lived a well off and made a name for herself as a fashion mogul. She used her influence to speak out against injustice against queer people and bring attention to current events in India. She died in her sleep when she was 70 in 1992

Jean: Clone of a beloved actor from the 1800s, most known for his “satirical” roles as women when really, he just likes wearing dresses, but they don’t gotta know that. However, someone found him making out with another man and killed him in his dressing room

Lacey: Clone of a famed spelunker. She has several museum wings named after her due to her discoveries, and became moderately wealthy. She continued exploring caves until her 50s when she slipped and fell into a crevice in 1978. The only thing that remained of her was a video camera with her final words

Aurore: Clone of an investigative journalist from the early 1900s reporting the abuse of conversion therapy victims. She was set to publish her story and expose the people behind the practice until she was photographed kissing a woman and dragged to a facility. Fortunately, one of her most trusted associates published her story and she was freed due to public backlash and threats against the facility. She died when she was 79

Mireille: Clone of a boxer from the 1920s who won many competitions, stole the hearts of a few women, and was on her way to greatness until a party got just a little too crazy, and she “fell” of the balcony after an encounter with an ex

Cosette: Clone of a Civil Rights activist from the 1950s who has been arrested several times for protesting. They publicly spoke out against the blatant racism in the country, and because of this, they were a person of interest for the government. She would’ve exposed the cameras and microphones she found in her home, but got into an “accident”

Zoé: Clone of a New York heiress from the early 1900s who ran off to join a rebel group that provided resources for the poor… By stealing from the rich. She hasn’t been caught once and eventually eloped with a woman five years before her death in 1997

Clone High is in Paris, secretly being run as an elaborate military experiment orchestrated by a government office called the Secret Board of Shadowy Figures

In 2003, the school is entirely populated by the clones of famous historical figures that were created and raised with the intent of having their various strengths and abilities harnessed by the military for a project called, Operation: Mighty Eagle. And one day, they will have them take over the world

One night, during a dance where everyone was in attendance, the teachers flash froze the clones to keep them out of the board’s evil hands, and the board eventually forgot about them

In secret, but they made new clones in 2007, and raised them during the twenty years that they were frozen, making the clones all roughly the same age after the Gen1 clones were unfrozen to resume Operation: Mighty Eagle

Due to being frozen for twenty years, the G1 clones are so far behind, have missed many important events, and have to learn what they can’t say that was okay in the 90s, but wrong to say now

Chloé is very put off when she realizes she’s no longer popular by today’s standards and instead, Nathaniel, Max, and Juleka are

Mme. Bustier: So, how’d the kids take it when you told them they’ve been frozen for twenty years?

Mme. Mendeleiv: Oh, I think they handled it very well.

*Earlier*

Mme. Mendeleiv: For anyone who thinks it is 2003… You are wrong!

Clone Kids: … *Freaking out*

Nino: *Holding up a cellphone* WHAT IS THIS?! *Points to a laptop* WHAT IS THAT?! *Points to Kim’s sneakers* WHAT ARE THOOOOOSE?!

Mme. Mendeleiv: It’s not 2015.

Marinette: This isn’t real! I’m dreaming!

Alya: The world is so warm!

Adrien: Guys! Guys!… Blockbuster is gone!

Rose: NOOOOO!!

Chloé: WHERE IS DESTINY’S CHILD?!

Max: There was a brother in office?!

Nathaniel: I CAN’T HANDLE THESE SUDDEN CHANGES!

*Later*

Mme. Mendeleiv: … Yeah. They’re fine.

—

M. Damocles: Here to help get you all acquainted with the future is the most popular clone and the the most conventionally attractive by today’s standards in the school.

Chloé: Finally!

M. Damocles: Chloé… Please move out of the way so everyone can see Marc Anciel, your class president!

Marc:

Chloé: Who?!

Marinette: He’s what?!

Kim: He’s a guy?

Nathaniel: I don’t care what he is, but I am smitten!

—

Alya: *Holding up a cell phone* Okay, and this is a…

Aurore: Cell phone.

Alya: How is it different from my telephone?

Aurore: For one, it’s lighter, and you can take pictures of yourself.

Alya: … No… Way!

—

Adrien: You know who's gonna get canceled? Kim. You should have heard him back in the day. That guy's always saying stupid things.

Kim: I like men and woman of any shape or size!

Aurore: Wow, a bi Himbo.

Kim: *Laughs* No, I’m not a biathlete.

Jean: Refreshing honesty.

Mireille: So uninhibited.

—

Ivan: How can you stay so calm when the world is so warm, animals are dying, children are dying, everyone is dying, and so many wars are happening now?! You see it all on your weird telephone!

Cosette: Eh, I just channel all my anxiety into something meaningful. Like traumatizing white parents with lessons on how removing critical race theory from history books will mess their kids up.

—

Nino: Ismael, what gives you the confidence to be so good at skateboarding, and magic, and chilling?

Ismael: I don't know, Nino. Guess it's just hard work and practice.

Nino: Hard work and practice? Sounds like a fool's errand; You're stupid, Ismael. We tried practicing, but we failed.

Isnael: Did y'all try practicing a second time?

Nino: Oh, let me guess. "'Cause practice makes perfect."

Ismael: No. There's no such thing as perfect. Practice makes progress.

Nino: That's a dumb saying. You're dumb. This is dumb. Everything's dumb. But, okay, we'll try.

[fanficfanattic]

Got tagged by several lovely people because no one knew I’d already been tagged. Because it took me several hours to copy/paste WIP titles/first sentences into a document lolol. Super happy to finally make it happen though @orbitalpirate @kvetchinglyneurotic and @jamietarttdodododododo !

Game: put the titles of your WIPs, reguardless of how vague or uninformative they are and let people send asks about them. Tag some people, maybe the amount of WIPs you have.

A) I’m big in Ted Lasso so I’m only posting the 120 for this fandom. If someone wants the list of 50 for Dirk Gently or 2 dozen for My Hero Academia; just holler at me!

Battler

Choir Jamie

Jamie v Nate

Back’s Against the Wall, Takes the Hit For Us All

Block His Number

Sam's Dad Take 1

You've Become a Good Person

Jamie Forgives Nate

Season 2 era Dani/Jamie

"Higgins ""well I think if you care about"

Playlist Fic

Keeley Got Pregnant Season 1

A/B/O: All Roy's Headbutts Damage His Scent

James Tart Sr Plants Drugs

Jamie to Ted But Kind of Everyone.

Memories

Dad Like a Hornet

Season One or Two

Henry Calls Ted So He Can Talk to Jamie

Bus Ride Nightmare

Soulmate AU

Beard

Jamie's Coming Out Movies Playlists

Decided on LCA Because Healing Broken Ribs

Jamie's Aunties

One of the Georgie Brings a Video A..

DANI sharing his father

Patty Comes to Dressing Room to D..

RoyxJamie wedding fic

JamieDaniSam

Roy Saying Jamie Threw Away His Career

Roy Realizes Jamie is Scared at the Gala

Roy Kent's Pet

Jamie Nightmare on Bus Season 1 A..

Trust

Why He Had to Push Roy's Buttons

Why He Has to Be Great

Tom O'Brien/Paul Reynolds

James Tart Hurts Jamie Before His First Game Back

Pussy

Will Sees Jamie Injured & Hears Convo With Dad

Jamie's Trent Impression

You don't know anything about me!

Simon Shows Up to Take Jamie to A&E

Georgie The Harpoonist

Jamie's Make-a-Wish kids

"Georgie ""I taught him to fight but not how to stop"""

Poet Jamie

Jamie being overwhelmed with pleasure

Amy from LCA comes to visit s2 Jamie

Dani starts dating Jamie S1

Jamie's First Day Back Had a Responsible Meeting with Team

Jamie's Mom RE His Dad

Car Park Kid Video

Mystical Team Building

Jamie Comforts Phoebe Gets Hit By Roy

Ransom Fic

Georgie's Video Memories

Jamie & Jan

Jamie flirts with Paddy on the Pitch

Show Up: Convo with Phoebe

Nonsexual A/B/O: Sam is Jamie's Alpha

Ted Lasso and Dirk Gentle crossover

Lads Watch Porn

James & Bug Attack Jamie

Collar?

Every Text is A Crime

Roy Asks Keeley for Jamie Advice and Doesn't Ignore It

Georgie Gave Jamie to James to Protect Herself

Roy Sees Jamie’s Ass in a Mirror and Goes Gay

Family Day Positive Georgie

Season 1 Jamie has friends visit

Zava Multi-Chapter

Jamie Thinks Ted sent him back b/c injury

Led Tasso

Princesses and Dragon

Social Worker Jamie

Coach Crash: Pinned

S1 Jamie, Simon Dies

Time Loop

1.10: Will tries to stop James Tartt Sr

S2 Jamie kidnapped for fighting ring

Ted Laskmaster

Roy's Extra Special Football Baby

Gordon Ramsay Reminds Jamie of Someone

Paddy Insta Live

Touch Issues

Georgie Turns James In Season 2

James Fakes His Own Death

Someone Talks to Roy About How He Treats Jamie

Sam Learns to Top Season 1 Team

Yeah? Me old man thinks you and he are just alike

Teaching Phoebe Art Fic

Early Season 2, Team Tricks Jamie

Ted DOES Go in the Treatment Room

Isolation

S3 Declan/Jamie

1.06 Jamie Collapses on Pitch During Cone Duty

"""Roy Won't Hurt Me"""

Jamie's Issue with Dead People

Family Curse

Sold After LCA

Investigative Journalist

Group Home

Belted

James Visits S1 Richmond

Dani Checks Treatment Rooms after games

"""I like history, it’s already happened so it’s easier to understand"""

The Stands

Keeley Teaches Roy How to Teach Jamie

Trick Plays

Pacifier fic

Fresh Back S2 Jamie Helps Ted with Panic Attack

S2 Jamie Saves Girl From Getting Drugged

1.06 Jamie Panic Attack

James Beats Jamie for Getting Benched

You Told Me You Saw It

S2 Roy Breaks Tartt Silence but to Yell at Ted

Mind Games

S1 Jamie Ices Out Colin and Isaac

[gustingirl]

10 films I love (not showing pictures lol)

tagged by my angie again @smythecriminal ilysm and you should know it.

ok this will definitely be long cuz i love talking about myself so after this break!

i. dead poets society (1989)

i think many of you have seen my obsession with this film oh my god it truly went through my heart and still does every time i rewatch it

ii. relatos salvajes / wild tales (2014)

i rewatch it every chance i have. there's something about watching humanity lose their mind over maybe mundane things, it's so weirdly entertaining. every story is written so beautifully, i can’t believe it didn't win an oscar

iii. velvet goldmine (1999)

i’m amazed not many people have seen this film, that's a whole crime. you got gay ewan mcgregor and gay christian bale, what else do you need? it's glam and it's fun to watch and i can go on but i already said what needed to be said

iv. esperando la carroza (1985)

one of the few films i can rewatch a thousand times and never get tired. i laugh every single time and i quote it at least once a day.

v. takers (2010)

it's a silly movie tbh but that makes it fun to rewatch. besides hayden christensen is hot as fuck and so is idris elba, the only problem is trigger warning chris brown but other than that it's such an enjoyable film

vi. hijo de la novia / son of a bride (2001)

i cried, i laughed, i sobbed, i enjoyed it so fucking much. i cannot rewatch it for the sake of my heart but please this movie is so perfectly done. it has a thousand life messages, they get to you the older you get.

vii. the budapest hotel (2014)

i’m sorry i really do enjoy wes anderson films. i’m obsessed with simmetry and he's the best at the cinematographic resource. besides, he does it so well, i’m surprised. it never feels forced and, adding to the palette he uses, it just has this feeling of comfortable and cozy, no matter the story.

viii. nueve reinas / nine queens (2000)

obsessed for real. well anything ricardo darin does but this one blew my mind. i just really enjoy watching films that completely distract me from the unimaginable ending. very well done, very easy to carry too.

iv. death becomes her (1992)

i've read that this film did not help meryl's career but i don’t understand how. i know she was doing many good dramatic movies with accents and strong scenes and this film was silly next to them, but it's so fun to watch. she's hilarious and so fucking beautiful oh my god and i had no idea bruce willis was this funny too!

v. el secreto de sus ojos / the secret in their eyes (2009)

had to leave this one for the end because i consider this film one of the few masterpieces i've seen on the big screen. i can’t even write down an opinion, it was outstanding. the ending still lives rent free in my head. deserved that oscar and many more.

little extra one just because: tacones lejanos / high heels (1991), i just love pedro almodovar's films so much

tagging @joon-rkive @mangoslixes @peachy-101 @zurdoabsurdo @50-cm @harryduboisbignaturalss @laucha-posting @70sturner @trashlord-007 @loser-user-noaccuser @guribel

[daisychainsandbowties]

I love your writing. I love how vulnerable you allow the characters to be. I love how you make ugly things beautiful and pretty things holy and reverent. I am extremely thankful for you and all that you do.

But I'm curious:

Are there any writers/works that you would say have had an influence on your style?

crying and crying. honestly yes! ugliness is very beautiful to me it’s very human & vulnerable & good to be ugly & i think life tends to be very imperfect & messy but we can be very beautiful (and yes, holy) inside of it.

hmm so first thing is that i’m mostly a poet & i came to that in my usual way which was deciding one day to teach myself how to Poetry. i figured it could not be very different from math and lo & behold it was not very different from math

i grew up using recitation of poems as a calming technique so those certainly influenced how cadence occurs to me, patterns of language (some poems were as gaeilge). some of the poems i memorised growing up were Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen; Ode to a Nightingale by Keats; a whole bunch of Dickinson & especially Persimmons by Li Young Lee. the waste land by ts eliot too. i did adore shakespeare & how easy it was to commit to memory in iambic pentameter.

but then when i was 16 i decided to ‘git good’ at poetry (i was, in fact, very bad at it for many years to come) so i picked up Ariel by Plath & a load of Anne Sexton. Richard Siken too. and i read those books about 50 times each. could never read them too many times.

realised that poetry should be kind of like eating good food or having good sex. an experience that bears repeating.

so yes Sexton & Siken especially i think are explicitly influential to my style. also recently have learned a lot from Ocean Vuong (Night Sky With Exit Wounds but also please read ‘Not Even This’. listen to Ocean perform it) oh & also very recently impressed with Hull by Xan Phillips, & Danez Smith’s ‘don’t call us dead.’

language was made for puncturing & those poets know how to turn a sentence, a stanza, a turning of thought into a lung collapse, a harpoon.

i do firmly believe that it’s pointless to mimic style. it can happen that other words bleed into yours but it should be an accident, like the mirroring of language that forms the basis of so many interpersonal movements. language IS an exchange but we all bring something to the table.

& again it’s food - personal and cultural and loving and it’s about need and want and desire and death (food & death so tenderly intertwined in so many cultures). so i think reading good writing lends you instinct; the ability to look at what you make and know if it is good or at least true and therefore ‘getting there’ and therefore beautiful in the attempt regardless of imperfection.

i believe in purple prose and also Just Saying Things & i really think (i teach creative writing sometimes at uni) that i can bring out beautiful writing from anyone. it’s not always about skill it’s about heart, and then skill creeps up on you. i can always tell when someone is just performing writing and when someone has a story to tell.

so like!! the #1 thing that has influenced me is learning to love the way that writing makes me feel (powerful, stupid, profound, unoriginal, death-defying, mortal). i think reading so so much & just internalising different language-textures helps a bunch! i get so much inspiration from reading textbooks, wikipedia articles, random journals & i think poetry even if you are not & don’t wanna be a poet is very good at showing you the bones and sinews and connective tissue of meaning.

i am also so influenced by sci-fi & fantasy. particularly the Book of the Ancestor by Mark Lawrence (more gay nuns lmao) & N.K. Jemisin with The Broken Earth trilogy. 'the slow regard of silent things' specifically by Patrick Rothfuss (not a person to learn pacing from but astounding at sentence-level). also i am very influenced recently by This Is How You Lose The Time War. as a kid by Garth Nix (particularly Lirael, Sabriel) & artemis fowl.

of course on that note it’s usually the non-literature things that inspire actual writing from me. it’s principles in physics or math or thinking about Voyager 1 or philosophical questions that actually produce the sort of rabid pursuit of meaning that writing is. truly immersing in curiosity is an excellent way to approach making art. it's about reaching out & touching for a moment the fabric of everything - & you might find it is wet & sticky or dry and dusty or soft or that it hurts your hands to touch, but the chasing of meaning is worth it, & making meaning is divine.

i hope that is (somewhat) of an answer

[thatonedeadpoet]

i’ve got 99 problems and a hug from todd anderson could solve at least 87 of them

[its-a-show-stoppin-number]

A couple Dead Poets Society head canons but make it gay because it’s pride month

• Charlie was the first person Todd came out to

Todd had just fully realized his feelings for Neil and he was having a panic attack because it’s the 50s and people are homophobic and he just realized he was in love with his best friend/roommate

Charlie was actually looking for Neil when he came across Todd having the panic attack. He sat with Todd and calmed him down and that was when Todd (hesitantly) came out to him. Charlie reassured him that everyone else in their friend group was also a little bit gay and that Neil also had feelings for him

• Meeks and Pitts share a bed

It started one night because there was a bad thunderstorm and Meeks got scared (Meeks is scared of storms and no one can convince me otherwise)

Meeks tried to ignore the storm but Pitts could tell he was freaked out. Pitts turned on his desk lamp and scooted over so Meeks could get in the bed with him

This started a trend and it got to the point where Meeks would immediately go to Pitts bed instead of starting in his

Meeks’ bed just has all of their stuff for their radio piled on it and it’s still set from their first day

[arguablyacademic]

A non-exhaustive list of how people have described my outfits 

-Like the curious George clock dealer 

-Like Sherlock and Cas from SPN had a baby 

-A 50’s husband 

-Professorcore

-A mix of a medieval peasant and a university professor 

-As if I found a blazer in the dumpster and said “I can fix him” 

-A preppy schoolboy who is gay and mum sent him to boarding school

-Robin Williams in The Dead Poets Society 

-A Professor 

-Like a hobbit 

-Like I was going to church but also had to solve a mystery

[henry-fox-biggest-stan]

OPHELIA AND NEIL PERRY. AN ANALYSIS

Ok, one (1) person asked me to do it, so here I am.

Neil Perry from Dead Poets Society and Ophelia from Hamlet, and why Neil is so Ophelia-coded

No one can convince me they didn’t use Ophelia’s character as inspiration for Neil, because I will not listen.

Both Ophelia and Neil were given two alternatives to live as.

Neil had possible future 1, and possible future 2. One where he followed his dad, the other where he followed Keating and his dreams. And meanwhile the second seemed like the best and obvious choice for us, for Neil it was quite different. Not only because he thought he had to do what his dad wanted. Than he was trapped. Than he truly had no choice. But because, also, Neil was gay.

Let’s remember one line from Keating, specifically. What is language’s purpose? Why does it exist? He asked Neil of all people. Well, he asked Todd first (also gay) and then Neil. He asked both gay guys in class. Neil answered “to communicate”. Keating told him than, no, it was created “to woo women”.

Neil had no access to either of those futures, at least, in his mind.

He couldn’t become the doctor and masculine man his dad wanted him to be without being completely miserable. And he couldn’t follow Keating’s path either, since he had no interest in wooing women.

Neil knew it was a joke, he even laughed. It was obvious for both the characters and the audience than it was a sentence we weren’t meant to take seriously, and I don’t think Neil took it seriously either. But still, hundreds of the poems they read at the cave were poems from men to women, or about women. All the poets they read and knew of (at least, on Neil’s mind) were straight. We know Walt Whitman wasn’t, and than he wasn’t the only queer poet out there, but it was the 50s. Just as we know now, it probably wasn’t something everyone knew. They didn’t teach those things at school, so there was a big chance Neil (or any of the poets) didn’t know about it.

So, if all the poets were supposedly straight, writing poems about the opposite gender, that was also a reality Neil had no access to.

Now, Ophelia.

Poor Ophelia, sweet Ophelia.

She had two choices. She could become two things.

She could be maiden and pure as everyone wanted her to be, or, as Hamlet told her (whether he meant it or not) she could get herself to a nunnery. She could be a whore as Hamlet told her.

She didn’t want to be either of those things. She wasn’t either of those things. She wasn’t as pure as they claimed she was, neither she was a whore.

Those were the two possible things she could be, the two options for her to be.

“To be, or not to be” those were Hamlet’s words, I know, but don’t they fit?

We have two common factors about their deaths (aside from the fact than they were caused by themselves). And that is, than something else lead up to them. Something caused them to do it. Some specific event. For Neil, it was his father telling him than he will take him out of Welton and send him to a militar school. For Ophelia, it was his father’s death. Ophelia had no mother, at least, than we know of. Her brother was away, and it was only her and her father. Unlike Neil, she had a good relationship with her father, so his death affected her, obviously.

Ophelia was a puppet on their hands, they told her to ignore her feelings for Hamlet than were reciprocated, they told her to be pure, to be maiden. Taking her life, she also took control of her life.

Just like Neil. He had no control over his life, he would do what his father wanted him to do, no fighting. By taking his own life, he took charge of his destiny.

As we know, neither of those factors were the only reason they killed themselves, it had been building up (after all, Ophelia did said so beforehand “Larded all with sweet flowers / Which bewept to the ground did not go / With true-love showers.” Hamlet and Laertes fighting over her grave)

Now, after they died.

I mentioned Hamlet and Lartes fighting on Ophelia’s grave, well, let’s return to that.

On Ophelia’s funeral, the Queen said “I hoped thou shouldst have been my Hamlet's wife; / I thought thy bride-bed to have deck'd, sweet maid, / And not have strew'd thy grave.” Once again, putting Ophelia in that pure, maiden box she did not fit in, neither she wanted to fit in.

You know what does that remind me? “If it wasn't for Mr. Keating, Neil would be cozying up in his room right now, studying his chemistry, and dreaming of being called doctor!” After Neil’s death, Cameron putting him on the same box than his dad tried so hard to make him fit on, and than took part on his death.

Todd is the only one who said something about it (because they were in love!)

“That is not true, Cameron! You know that! He didn't put us up to anything! And Neil loved acting!”

After,the whole Cameron and Charlie thing. Charlie punched Cameron, which got him spelled.

Who else fought after Ophelia’s / Neil’s death? Hamlet and Laertes.

Kind of for similar reasons. Laertes for vengeance, Hamlet because he thought he loved Ophelia more than Laertes did.

Or, Cameron telling Nolan as a way to protect himself and his friends (even if it was a horrible decision) and Charlie, punching Cameron out of anger, grief, and maybe, if looking too deep, also vengeance. Vengeance for Neil, because Cameron told everyone, because him telling everyone caused Keating being fired, even if he was the only adult in Neil’s life than helped him, even if the club was Neil’s idea.

When Ophelia’s death was announced,some said she accidentally drowned. They left the detail than she drowns herself (at least,in my copy. Mine is translated from English so it might be different idk). When Neil died, they blamed Keating. Letting out the whole mental manipulation from Mr Perry and Neil’s depression.

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ferris buellers day off dead poets society and uhhhhh day and age (the album)

YESSSSS yess. thank you for this. i’m gonna try to start making these shorter because they have been. you know. #long post.

1. ferris buellers day off has been my capital F capital M Favorite Movie since i was like....11!! so good and so cool. one time i went on a road trip with my dad and watched it upwards of 50 times in the car. like it would end and i would be like “alright! time to start over!”. just insane person behavior. ANYWAY lol. there are a lot of moments/scenes that get passed around here a lot that rule so very much (a big one being cameron staring at the painting) but something small that i love & cherish is this dialogue from the sears tower:

sloane: the city looks so peaceful from up here. ferris: anything is peaceful from 1,353 feet. cameron: i think i see my dad.

and i don’t know why! but god i love it. it was my email signature in middle school. it just lays out all of their characters really neatly and also in a way that makes me tear up sometimes! also the parade scene. imagine one of those kermit memes with all the heart emojis. god. there’s this couple of seconds of danke schoen where ferris stretches his arm up into the air and kind of looks up at it -- transcendent. also the plot’s repeated reliance on fake phone calls & answering machines. also jeannie’s sock/shoe combo. so so so good. wadda picture!

2. dead poets society

god for all that i am a gay person on tumblr dot com i haven’t watched dead poets society since the day robin williams died. just looked that up and apparently i was 13. wow. does not feel that long ago! wow! wow. so what i have to offer here is maybe a little obvious, but. it IS the thing that happens toward the end of the movie. the big, sad thing. you know! i’m trying to keep it vague for the 3 people left on here who have still somehow never seen it. at the time it felt earthshaking, which makes even more sense now that i know i was 13 at the time. middle school sienna had never seen anything that devastating in a movie before!!! what a way to start. but, yeah. god. like 7 years on i am thinking about it now and i am hearing his voice in my head and i am really, really struggling to remember if i’ve seen a movie do anything so completely unfair since. but also it’s almost 1 am, and i’ve never seen atonement, so what do i know!!!!!! wow. haha !!!! thanks for sending this i like really want to rewatch it now. will probably do that soon thanks to u <33

3. day and age

im UHHHHH god this is hard. GOD this is hard. i associate day & age (& every other killers album) really strongly with summer camp, & if you'd asked me 5 years ago i probably would've said something from a dustland fairytale or spaceman, but i gave it a fresh listen on the way to work the other day and i was like ... LOOOVING joy ride. just having an awesome time speeding down the interstate. idk if it would stick out as much again on a relisten but it was cool to connect w something i had kind of passed over before!!! also always been a fan of that little synth bassline in this is your life. & also yes. the bridge in spaceman. still hits. & i mean HITS. perfect dip & buildup. awesome awesome awesome. thank u for this these were GREAT !!!!! choices :) <3333 sorry it took so long to finish lol

mutuals do this!!:)

[greeds]

do you have poetry novels youd recommend? ive seen u mention "on earth we're briefly gorgeous" but do u have others that hit hard? im cravin new things that scratch a cathartic itch

ohohohohohohohhoho *sits in front of my bookcase* OK LETS DO THIS

night sky with exit wounds - ocean vuong

a place called no homeland - kai cheng thom

when my brother was an aztec - natalie diaz

bright dead things - ada limon

77 fragments of a familiar ruin - thomas king

in the shape of a human body i am visiting the earth - a poetry collection by many poets!

oculus - sally wen mao

magical negro - morgan parker

unincorporated territory [hacha] - craig santos perez

tsunami vs the fukushima 50 - lee am roripaugh

catalog of unabashed gratitude - ross gay

ink knows no borders - a poetry collection

thrall - natasha trethewey

from turtle island to gaza - david groulx

kingdom animalia - aracelis girmay

teaching my mother to give birth - warsan shire

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i would deeply recommend purchasing poetry magazines from time to time! its a great way to keep up with contemporary poetry that may not yet be published by the writer! most of the poetry on my shelves is in poetry magazines

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stuff to watch/listen to/do at halloween !!

movies:

- jennifer’s body is comedic horror with megan fox and amanda seyfriend in which megan fox gets possessed and starts eating boys

- zombieland is also comedic horror. it’s gorier than the stuff i’m used to but funny in a kinda trashy way

- creature from the black lagoon is one of the earlier full length horror movies and it’s mostly funny now, but it holds up in a way

- what we do in the shadows is a taika waititi vampire mockumentary that is SO sweet

- if you can get your hands on zombi child or the vast of night pleaseeeee let me know, zombi child is a horror movie half about school girls and half about a slave in the early 1800s who dies and gets turned into a zombie slave. the vast of night is a beautifully shot sci-fi movie set in the 50s in southern america about the young man who runs the local radio station and a 16 year old girl who works at the call center and the ending BLEW my mind i literally lost it. it’s so good

- dead poets society is tragicccc but such a good autumn movie. it’s also a gay classic so like.. watch it

- movies i’ve heard are good but haven’t seen because i’m scared of them: hereditary, it & it 2, get out, us, rosemary’s baby, the exorcist, blair witch project, suspiria, the witch

tv:

- over the garden wall is a cartoon miniseries about a 15~ year old boy and his little brother who get thrown into some kind of alternate reality. it’s really cute and cozy, and has a beautifully bittersweet ending

- the buffy the vampire slayer halloween episodes are all really good, my favourite is s4e4, fear itself

- the brooklyn 99 halloween episodes are also really cute

- buzzfeed unsolved episodes are always rly good, my favourite is either the goatman one or vulture mine

- some murdoch mysteries episodes are really good, i think they have up to season 7 ish on netflix

podcasts & music:

- lore is about myths/stories/creepy true historical tales. my favourite episode is ep 47, it made my jaw DROP at the ending

- welcome to night vale is a surreal fiction podcast in the style of a radio show, you probably know it. it’s equal parts funny and eerie

- i haven’t listened to it makes a sound but i want to and it seems eerie !

- the over the garden wall soundtrack is so lovely and charming to listen to

- in the aeroplane over the sea by neutral milk hotel provides good autumn music for colder days

- i’m wide awake it’s morning by bright eyes is good for a slower chiller time

- both hozier albums are really sweet with some good chill songs and some more upbeat ones

- a lot of alt-j music is good for fall

more stuff:

- peach crisp recipe

- pumpkin pie recipe

- gluten free pumpkin bread

- spicy ginger cookies

- apple cheddar turkey burgers

- apple pie

- pattern for a hooded cape

- basic embroidery stitches

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the other thing that’s weird about it is?? we’re reading a/llen ginsb/erg and the reason i have to put slashes is because he has this weird slashfic fandom and i’m like/?? why????