#the poets

[inahallucination]

wrote a quick anderperry drabble, blacked out, woke up to this fic

summary:

Soon, Neil would stop checking, and Todd would fade into the background. This didn’t bother him. Generally, Todd preferred the background; it was quieter, with fewer expectations. It was almost nice. So, he wasn’t expecting anything with dread. It was a quiet sort of understanding that he carried himself with. / or: moments during todds first year at welton where he learned that the poets were here to stay

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very anderperry focused; its like 'neil and the poets' in todds head becuz gay ig

[ghostthewriter09]

Dps boys at the aquarium

Todd: Hey, Neil, look at the fish

Neil: And just like that I’m no longer depressed

Charlie: *running with his hands full of plastic bags* Steven: Char, what the fuck are you doing?

Charlie, who doesn’t understand the concept of aquariums: I have to free them!

Todd, whose special interest is fish: Oh and that’s a clownfish. They *insert 200 different facts about clownfish*

*They stop at the gift shop*

Steven: I’m going to get us best friend necklaces

Cam: We’re friends?

Gerard: Is anyone hungry? I brought-

Everyone: Y e s

Cam: If I fell in the water, would you save me

Charlie: Eh, i don’t know. Maybe

Cam: What do you mean maybe

*Charlie walks away* Cam: THE FUCK YOU MEAN MAYBE!

Knox: that fish over there looks like Chris *Sobs*

[joytri]

let's memorise poems together

[anxiously-obnoxious-poet17]

Just imagining all the poets living together and one day after a huge snow storm they’re all getting ready to go outside bundling up in their coats and scarves while the smiths (time accuracy is a myth in my mind) blasts through the house and they all dance and sing along together while laughing so hard they slip in their fuzzy socks on the hard wood floor and Neil turns to Todd and smiles cause he’s never seen him in a toboggan before and he thinks he’s the sweetest sight he’s ever seen and HEBSUEGEHDU (I just realized the lack of punctuation so just imagine this is a huge run on sentence)

[jo-icarus]

–[...] the poet stands in the remains.

★The Poets, Jo Icarus. (wip)

[springs-hurts]

ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴘᴏᴇᴛs sᴏᴄɪᴇᴛʏ 𝟷𝟿𝟾𝟿

Was this freedom?

[sonicandvisualsurprises]

1958

[skateisawesome]

set the homescreen on my laptop to be the poets in the snow after neil dies to remind myself that my friends will feel pain if i kms

[day-reveries]

Todd wasn't that religious before Neil died but after he did die, Todd would pray every night, begging every god in the universe to switch his and Neil's places. He would sob and say things like "he would contribute so much to this world so bring him back and take me instead please." through tears. Every night, even after Welton, after college or university. He'd never get married, telling the poets the only person he could ever love was gone and so was he.

the poets would check up on Todd every week, scared he was gonna do something drastic one night just to see Neil one more time.

Todd would have a note on his desk, just in case he ever did make the same decision Neil did all those years ago.

" I'm going to see Neil." is all it would say, he would leave everything he owned to the poets, even Cameron just so Cam knew Todd forgave him.

[guy60660]

The Poets

[bestfrozentreats2]

The Poets- Dead (1958) 

garage doowop?

[inahallucination]

for his birthday, todd gets 6 blanket hoodies becuz all the poets individually came across them and all of them thought "wow todd would love this"

he does

[ghostthewriter09]

Professions after DPS ends (non canon)

Todd: English teacher (canon), writer in his free time (my head canon) Neil: Broadway actor Charlie: Bartender (I cannot explain this) Meeks: Therapist Pitts: Either physics teacher or biomedical engineer Cameron: Writer Knox: Lawyer who ends up very unsatisfied with his job and ends up at his parents place

[daltonchronicles]

Band codes for the poets

I’m just stuck on thoughts about how a lot of the poets, if not all of them, are band coded.

Neil: Neil is most definitely Taylor Swift. More so a lot of her Folklore/Evermore stuff is so inherently Neil and both Taylor/Neil talk a lot about the pain life brings but the love that it brings in reward. 

Todd: Todd is hard because he in actual fact doesn’t come into his own until the end of the movie but most Fanon Todd ideas centre around his love for reading and writing. This might not resonate with everyone but I feel he’s Kate Bush. Whimsical, and taking inspiration from literature, but also so in tune with life ad how to create art, not just a song.

Charlie: I couldn't decide on just one. Charlie in the good old tunes is Queen. It’s that rock and roll lifestyle but teamed with friendship and unfortunate loneliness for a romantic. But Charlie also fits in with a lot of modern music, because he doesn’t fit his own time period. He’s so Matty Healy coded it’s untrue. Could you imagine Charlie at a The 1975 concert? He’d be fucking living. I had this dream where Charlie and the Poets go to the concert and, somehow, Charlie ends up on stage, singing with Matty on The Sound, and serenading Knox, and they end up kissing during Robbers, which forces Knox to go on stage and snog Charlie because he's jealous.

Knox (Fanon because Canon doesn’t exist in my head for him): The Beatles. Imagine early 60s Paul McCartney. He wants to be in a happy classy love story, and very upbeat, but also he’d appreciate all the pining heartbreak songs.

Meeks: ABBA. If Meeks wasn’t American, he’d definitely be Swedish and I just can’t explain it. Maybe it’s the friendship with Charlie but he’s the other side of the 70s music coin to Charlie. It’s the happiness of songs like Dancing Queen and Super Trouper. I could imagine him having a breakdown to Slipping Through My Fingers.

Pitts: Pitts would be Jersey Boys. He’s smooth and he'd break out those sweet dance moves while still remaining calm and collective. I LOVE IT. 

Cameron: Silence. Not because I don’t think he matches with any band, he just strikes me as the Poet that will listen to everyone else’s music taste and think it’s all just ok. He hasn’t got strong opinions on that and doesn’t care about whether music is on or not, he could live quite easily without music. That’s ok! Music isn't for everyone and Cameron lives his life with only a couple of things that makes him stand out.

[blushingxpilgrims]

1am is a hazy

string of persistent thoughts

—taunts

meant to

paralyze the mind

until you’re wide-eyed

and breathless

—restless

1am is trying

to regain control

of fleeting

daytime moments

1am is striving

to capture

what cannot be held

1am is liberation

1am is devastation

1am is for the poets

— 1 am, 2023