#the dead anon poets society

[sweaty-toothed-mad-woman]

god, i have my father’s eyes

but my mother’s when I cry

i can run

but i can’t hide

from my family line

[queeringclassiclit]

Puck

from A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

submitted by anon

[jamjjamm]

meeks and pitts

[excessive-linguistic-pressure]

rsl teeth

[brown-heart-anon]

hello!!!

im a new anon, so you probably dont know me

but im heart anon

im mainly going to be putting little messages in people’s ask box

let me know or just interact with this post if you would like to request a message!

my ask box is always open

inspired by @the-heart-anon1

stay safe and remember that you are valued

-🤎

[soullust]

Do you have any dps Neil hcs? Xx

boy do i- sorry it took me so long to answer this i don;t reaally have a reason, i just have depression

he is a an only child. he used to spend lots of time with his mom, who taught him stereotypically girly hobbies (crotchet, drawing, baking)

he started attending welton in 2nd grade and charlie was the first friend he made (they've been besties since)

relating to his father having to "pull some strings" for him to attend welton - has a full scholarship, so he has to keep getting near-perfect grades to keep going there

his family moved from wisconsin to a small as home in vermont for him to go to welton

has a "twin cousin" (a cousin that was coincidentally born on the same day as him) and they're best friends. they used to be inseparable as kids, but live far apart now

is always humming and/or singing to himself

[good--merits-accumulated]

how would you say you've come to hone or find neil and todd's voice in your fics? i feel like you characterize them really well. also, i just wanna say i love when people in academia write fanfiction because they have all kinds of allusions and technicalities and sort of bizarre premises and it's the exactly the kind of thing i look for because it's also how my brain works. everything i study in uni i can relate to anderperry😭

Thank you, anon! That's a great compliment. :')

Unfortunately the honest answer is: I spent a number of years (6? 7? Going on 8 now) thinking about Neil and Todd, and I have very severe fandom brain. Also I would like to note that my characterisation of them is STILL evolving, all the time!

Specifically, the way I started thinking about Neil and Todd's characters some years ago was to take the defining traits with which they're often assigned and start shoving nuance into them. Like, Todd is shy. OK. What kind of shy? There's infinite different shades of shyness! Find a core "type" that appeals to you, because those are more fun to write, and start building up layers of personality around it. (Personally, I really like writing a shy! Todd with a certain self-aware wryness, and an outgoing! Neil with a kind of affability.) I cannot stress this enough: if you're confident enough when writing your character interpretations, it will work!

(Another thing is to note is that characterisation is inextricable from environment by nature. You don't have to be zealously faithful to the movie if your guys are on, like, Mars. You don't even have to be zealously faithful to the movie if they're still in Welton IMO)

If you wanted serious advice that's more about characterisation in general, I think the main thing to remember is that Good Characterisation isn't as limiting as it seems from far off. In real life, shy people aren't shy all the time with one solid response to every situation, etc. Walt Whitman quote: I am large; I contain multitudes. You can make a character say anything or act in almost any way as long as you can explain it within the confines of the story, and in fact that's often what makes a story compelling - making someone act in an uncharacteristic way and then spending a bunch of time trying to make sense of why they did that. Just write a lot and see what sticks and what doesn't. Observe the people around you! Look at human behaviour! Take notes! It is the most fun thing in the world.

Also P.S. I wish I was in the type of academia which would actually lend itself to writing the type of fics I want to write! Unfortunately I've got no wish to write about Anderperry in the anatomy lab or doing cardiac exams or whatever. I agree with you - great fics invariably come from people on ao3 who are doing their PhDs or masters in incredibly niche subjects lmfao. Tell me about your niche area and how it fits Anderperry. I want to know :3

[knoxoverstreetluvr]

okay so i wanna do emoji anons/persona anons, so that people can talk to me/ask questionss/make requests, and I can like put an image to a person so yeah!! send me an emoji/name you wanna be through my inbox🙂🙂🙂

(and an edit so this message will get across😭)

[desire-mona]

pre-1995-ish rsl, 1995-ish-to-2001 rsl and post-2001 rsl are three different people in my mind

pre-1995-ish rsl is pretty baby gender-envy whereas 1995-ish-to-2001 is gorgeous theatre nerd intellectual era, and post-2001 rsl is grumpy bastard man (affectionate)

please offer revisions

yeah basically! in my mind those time periods arent impossible to be the same guy, but in a vacuum theyre kinda very distinct from one another.

i guess to go into more detail, late 80s to early / mid 90s rsl is best known for playing boyish characters (obviously teenage characters such as max (manhattan project), jeremy capello, neil perry, etc. but also boyish looking adults like chuck bishop, peter (swing kids), claudio dare i say, etc)

mid / late 90s to early 2000s rsl pretty much accurate with gorgeous theatre nerd but thats also just applicable to his entire life. in my mind this is the era i associate most with his friendship with ethan, probably because of tape and chelsea walls. i also think this was the time period where he fit the bill aesthetically for asshole-ish characters imo.

and ur kinda exactly right with post 2001, but id like to change that to post 2004 honestly. grumpy bastard is correct, but again i think its applicable to him as a person (said lovingly.) house era he was in much more interviews both written and video (from what ive seen) and he got to share more of his personality LMAO. ofc speculation since i dont know the guy but yknow. plus at this point he was settling down and starting a family so the good ol "i dont wanna work lol" sentiment started showing up more, which makes total sense.

[deadpoetperry]

hii, neil what is your opinion on Taylor Swift?

Hi, anon. I don’t listen to much of her music, so I don’t really have an opinion.

If you have any recommendations, though, maybe I’ll give them a shot!

[puckspoetry]

Neil’s dead btw

WHICH ONE OF YOU WROTE THIS

[anhonest-puck]

4. whats your favourite poem in the movie?

9. whats your favourite deleted scene?

4. honestly, i think todd’s poem is at the top of my list!! i have it on my wall and in my bio hehe!

9. i really love the “what, me?” scene because. he was NOT supposed to say that. rsl improvised that little part too which i think is funny but like ethan hawke was not supposed to say that. he purposefully made anderperry a thing. blame him /silly

[perksofbeingpoet]

dear nora, im writing this to you anonymously because i’ve went through a major life change and don’t want to be revealed. my father has passed recently, and your profile and your posts have given me so much strength and happiness. it’s hard to be happy right now, but your posts always make me smile no matter how i’m feeling or what i’m going through, so thank you.🩷

hi anon, thank you so so much for this message!! i'm really sorry to hear about your dad, i'm sending love to you and your family/friends, i hope you have a strong circle of loved ones supporting you <3 i'm so incredibly honoured to hear that my writing/posts have managed to make you feel happy and strong, this really is the biggest compliment anyone has ever given me. knowing my little posts have made you smile in this hard time is exactly the reason i write, and you don't know how happy this message made me. thank you!

[wistfulwisp]

I saw a post on your blog requesting writing prompts. Would/could you perhaps please write something hopeful about someone who has chosen to let go of their toxic/abusive parents from their life? Something that maybe could perhaps help someone stay strong in their decision... maybe something that can help with the pain... the fear...

I couldn’t imagine a life like this. One breath at a time, an inhale through discomfort and an exhale to everything else. Damn. I haven’t taken a breath this full in so long.

I couldn’t imagine a life like this. Ivy-covered lecture halls no longer ringing with shaky breathing and muffled conversations, half of it insults, half of it far worse, all of it dreadful, drying up the ivy and shaking the old bricks.

The first flower grew here the day I stopped talking to you, now the damn things won’t stop. I have a field of them. They know I won’t forget their scent, even if I picked them all this instant. It’s too fresh.

I couldn’t imagine a life like this. The air seems so still, so very still that you could cut through it and take a piece of it home, put it in a jar and open it only when you know things will go wrong again.

I couldn’t imagine a world where the winds weren’t so strong that they’d flood my mouth, filling to with salt, covering my legs, aching what was left of the space between my fingers as I gusted this way and that, back to our arguments or straight into your arms.

But I’m sitting in it now, an air seeped in freedom that hovers around me, lingering, waiting for my next move so intently I dare not open my eyes. An air of discomfort, sweet on the lungs, and clean.

I couldn’t imagine a life like this. A life with a choice, a life where something is going to happen next and, if I wanted it to be, it could be as soft as white petals and smell like spring flowers. It could grow forever, this endless garden of mine.

I couldn’t imagine it, but there was no need. One step and it was there — the something next.

[excessive-linguistic-pressure]

rsl name

His name is Robert Paulson

Jkjk it's Robert Lawrence Leonard aka Robert Sean Leonard

[rubeslovesthesmiths]

wait you played sax and clarinet

like Charlie from dps 🎷

Yeah im literally him

I’d play sax more if I owned one