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Legend says that to this day Neil Perry still cannot solve basic algebraic trigonometry despite Cameron’s blood, sweat and tears. What can I say? Most gays just cannot do math. 

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Modern Dead Poets Society except they vape instead of smoking cigarettes and the school staff just thinks they light candles in their rooms so that explains the weird cherry and tutti fruiti smell

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Imagine: Its 2025. You’re getting pulled over. A community representative approaches to let you know you have a taillight out. They don’t need your license and registration, they don’t write you a fix-it ticket. You’re back on the road in less than five minutes. You swing by the store and grab a new light, not because you’re afraid of what the city will do to you, but because you respect your community and know that having all your lights working is part of the driving privilege.

Your neighbors got into a loud spat a few weeks ago and without fear or hesitation, called a domestic assistance number. A counselor arrived and was able to talk the couple down and suggest solutions for their disagreement. No one was hurt, the kids participated in the discussion, and it’s been quiet ever since.

Your friend has been struggling with addiction and you fear they might be a danger to themselves or others. You call a substance abuse specialist and they talk you through ways to help your friend get treatment. They offer to send an agent out to speak with your friend directly and provide information on harm reduction centers in your area.

Black and brown people are no longer being exploited through tickets and fines to pay for police. Trust is slowly being fostered in the community.

Teachers are being paid a living wage and students are being given more time, attention, and education. Books are up to date and classrooms are optimized to keep up with technology.

Trump is out of office.

It’s been a very long time since the name of a murdered black person was used as a hashtag.

Casual racism is no longer tolerated. The KKK has been classified as a terrorist organization. The Confederate flag isnt flown and has been removed from any official state flags or insignias. Most Confederate monuments have been taken down and placed in storage or museums.

You trust the investigation force to deal with crime the same way you trust firefighters to put out fires.

That’s what ‘defund the police’ looks like. What we’ve seen in the last few weeks shows how overreaching and power-drunk many officers are. We asked too much of them and then called them heroes despite evidence to the contrary. We let them think that they could get away with anything, including murder. Its time for change.

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shout out to the og dead poets society fandom who named the ship ‘anderperry’. i’ve just spent the last twenty minutes laughing over how horrendous it would be if we had ended up with ‘teil’ or ‘nodd’

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“Fellas is it gay to write poetry about your roommate as he recites Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream under his breath from across the room?”

— Todd, at some point

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“Fellas is it gay to be a guy who falls in love with his roommate who kinda just so happens to be another guy? Asking for a friend of course.”

— Neil, at some point.

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Headcanon: Charlie Dalton raises his son Neil and as he grows up and moves out, Charlie feels like he’s losing him all over again

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bitches really be out here posting depressing shit about neil’s suicide while simultaneously denying the fact that he ever actually died.

,,,it’s me, i’m bitches

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“It’s funny because I really— I wanted to play Neil... I was a pretty gregarious young man, you know, so I thought that I was more right for that part and Robert Sean Leonard who played Neil thought he was more right for Todd because he was a very shy and withdrawn person.”

— Ethan Hawke, GQ Interveiw ‘Ethan Hawke Breaks Down His Most Iconic Charachters’ (2018)

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Richard Easton and Robert Sean Leonard in Tom Stoppard’s The Invention of Love

Lyceum Theatre, 2001

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I think it really sucks when you realise how alone you are because you only really talk to 1 maybe 2 people and when neither of them are available you kind of just lay there in bed hoping your phone will buzz with a text from them or something so you continuously check it and you try to distract yourself and then you get sad about how alone you really are

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no one:

me, rewatching dead poets society at seven am for the eleventh time: oh look i'm crying.

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[Character 4/8]

Neil Perry

Neil Perry was a true Romantic, his words and acting reflected his deepest feelings, towards life, towards society, towards his parents, towards Todd.All he ever wanted to do was live in the moment, seize the day, Carpe Diem. His presence onstage could move a thousand people, he could silence an entire room with one movement, line or look.

Neil had a stage presence that any actor would want to acquire. He used it in everything, whether it was cooking, reading, talking, or walking, he was an actor. That’s why Neil fell in love with Todd, they both had so much “wrong” with them, that they were both so right for eachother. Todd saw through Neil’s acting antics and Neil touched Todds heart like no one had ever done before.

Neil was truely a magician of life

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Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke and Allelon Ruggiero at the Dead Poets Society premiere in 1989.

Credit photo: Alan Glenn via Instagram 

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You’re in love with him