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“fandoms are dying”

yeah well here’s a cool idea: start creating and start reblogging. leave nice comments to your favorite creators. send them prompts. start interacting with others. sounds wild, right? start it today. keep these fandoms alive.

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ghost themed lgbt lockscreens for @theholeinyourship

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some chameron content on this fine evening <3

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desks.

inspired by this pointing out the desk symbolism in dead poets society starting at the end of pg 10

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me going to sleep knowing there's another young royals season

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boyfriend material

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you know what. at least we're self aware at least we KNOW this is how we look explaining chameron

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you know what. at least we're self aware at least we KNOW this is how we look explaining chameron

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Here you go homies

Those are all the pictures I have of him from the movie so far, I’ll get more later but yeah <3

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The Dead Poets Society as things my best friend has said:

@nivoleo

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DEAD POETS SOCIETY: Costume analysis, Uniform and Non-Conformity (Part Two)

Part One - Opening scene & Historical Analysis | Part Three - Casual Wear, Chris & the Play

Introduction to the Dead Poets

Todd

He wears a brown suit instead of the Welton uniform, yet he wears the Welton tie (or at least one closely resembling it). This highlights his position as the new kid - the odd one out - while the tie provides a hint of similarity and future belonging.

When he does wear uniform, Todd obeys the dress code and leaves only his blazer undone. However, he is mostly dressed in layers and does not remove his blazer. This preference for the ability to hide his body is perhaps a visual manifestation of his anxiety. There is only one exception (other than grief), the flying desk set scene, where Todd's emotional disarray alongside his vulnerability is reflected in his more stripped down, messy and under-dressed state.

Pitts

He is seen zooming through the corridor and stopping to greet Neil on his whirlwind social tour. Pure, untameable chaos and its hard to see the state of his uniform. There is a similar scene later on as he runs down to dinner with his shirt untucked and blazer half-way down his arms. He complies with uniform codes seemingly just as often as he break them, much like his attitude towards most school rules.

Cameron

His uniform is worn in perfect adherence to the dress code with his watch and badges on display. His study group conversation, combined with the significant number of badges, suggests that his friendship with Neil initially developed over academics.

Cameron's absence from the gathering highlights his position on the fringes of the friendship group.

Throughout the film, Cameron is shown to obey common uniform rules such as wearing his blazer around school grounds. He only removes his blazer in class. This contrast shows a level of comfort within the traditionally structured learning environment.

Neil, Charlie, Knox, and Meeks

These boys represent a sliding scale of conformity in this introductory scene through their uniform.

Neil and Charlie's difference to the uniform of the other boys marks them for a more distinct path.

Meeks

Unlike the others, Meeks is introduced with perfect uniform much like Cameron, but his presence (and acceptance into the group) for the alternative four pillars suggests a level of quiet rebellion beneath his image of conformity.

With six badges, Meeks bridges the gap between Neil (the overachiever), and the group average of five badges. This middle-ground is reflected in the consistency of both his uniform (which remains unchanged throughout the film) and his sustained behaviour of secret rule-breaking (radio free america).

Neil

Initially, he seems like the archetype of the overachieving (several badges) yet popular (converses happily with many) student. He appears in almost perfect uniform with only his blazer left undone to separate him in the eyes of audience from the more stereotypically nerdy students.

Unlike Meeks, Neil's uniform changes throughout the film. As the school day unfolds uniform becomes more relaxed. His blazer, rather than being purely undone, is often removed. And in the first English lesson where the students are exhausted, Neil is without a blazer or jumper in one of his most minimal looks. It is also a moment of vulnerability and foreshadowing with the close-up of his stricken face at the mention of death.

This variation in garment layers can possibly be linked to stress or tiredness, therefore working as a visible deconstruction of Neil's projected image of excellence. His uniform is potentially a sign of the variation in his mental and emotional well-being. This is consolidated by the scene at the Perry house where Neil systematically removes his shirt and crown while at his breaking point.

Generally, Neil is positioned as the second most visually rebellious, only one step above Charlie in uniform standards.

The exception to this trend occurs during the flying desk set scene. Here, Todd is underdressed while Neil is composed and wearing layers including a coat. This switch in costuming techniques emphasises Todd's vulnerability, and highlights Neil as a good influence since he is clear-headed enough to dress appropriately for the colder weather.

Charlie

"You've just illustrated the point," Keating tells Charlie after he exercises the right not to walk, "swim against the stream." And swimming against the stream describes Charlie's approach to school uniform.

From his first appearance in Neil's room, Charlie consistently wears his tie loose and his top button undone. He is often seen with his blazer, or both his blazer and jumper off, leaving him in either the least layers of the group, or with the most below standard uniform.

i saw someone claim the tie thing is because of a choking kink. one of you is going to suggest it, so i'm jumping in to say that's not this conversation

Knox

While Knox is happy to leave his blazer undone or make himself comfortable in class by ditching his blazer altogether, he never joins Charlie in violating dress codes during class.

After the Danburry dinner, Knox is at his messiest. He walks into the common room with his blazer thrown over his shoulder, his sleeve buttons and top button undone, and a loosened tie. It serves as a mirror of his self-declared internal state of 'tragedy' over Chris.

Badges

I made another post speculating on the badges which has a lot of discussion in the notes but:

Looking in more detail, I realised that at 0:02:59 it's clear that while Neil has seven badges, many other older boys only have one. So, either the costume department was running low, or the dead poets are a group of nerds.

Teachers

Much like their students, the teachers appear to follow a standard (perhaps unwritten) of dress.

In the famous mashed-potato scene, the camera zooms out to show the staff table, and most are wearing black, grey, or brown suits. Keating wears green corduroy, signifying his own non-conformity to the expectations of Welton.

Keating's metaphorical walk along a knife's edge as teacher is clear in his costuming. In the montage of English lessons, Keating often wears elements of Welton approved clothing, such as a brown suit, mixed in with more unconventional items like his purple shirt, blue patterned tie, or the cosy jumper and beige trousers outfit that I examine the significance of in part three.

The Showers

Only Todd remains fully clothed in this scene to emphasise his lacking confidence through his avoidance of being seen in a vulnerable state of undress. Again, the wearing of more layers symbolises anxiety.

In the following scene, Todd is alone in his room with damp hair and a towel slung around his neck. The lamp being on suggests the approach of evening, and these details combine to indicate that he waited until the changing rooms were empty to shower.

This scene and costume choice along with his preference for wearing layers is the source of many trans Todd headcanons.

Poetry-ball with Coach Keating

Mr Keating is dressed like a British farmer. I don't know what to do with this. He even has the flat cap. Sir, is teaching boys like herding livestock?

Anyway, Meeks and Pitts are showing off their duo status in almost matching outfits. Their minds are on the same wavelength; a perfect team.

Once again, Todd wears a substantial amount of material with that extra cosy hoodie to put distance between himself and being perceived (or to hide a binder if you headcanon trans Todd). Plus, no one else has the option of a hood to pull up and hide their face in.

In this scene, Todd stands apart from the other dead poets which highlights Neil's absence. The fact that this costume covers more skin than those worn in any other sports related scene is significant, it implies a need for more protection from the outer-world without Neil to help him navigate it.

Charlie wears his rowing outfit - backwards jumper included as a mark of both his refusal to conform, and his internalisation of Keating's lesson to look at things in a different way. In the close-up shot the label stitched into the back of the garment is visible through the material on his front. Perhaps the deleted scene where the boys eat left-handed for a new perspective inspired Charlie to wear his clothes backwards.

Knox is dressed somewhere in-between his friends. He wears a similar outfit to Pitts, but his shorts cut-off awkwardly above the knee like he's taken scissors to full-length sweatpants. I get the impression that he isn't very sporty beyond soccer.

Neil's absence can be explained by his audition. I couldn't spot Cameron so perhaps he was at a club or tutoring, or maybe just away from the others in the back?

Game day with Coach Keating

In this more traditional game, all of the boys are in matching black shorts and red sweaters with a white 'W' on the front. The exception is Charlie, he remains unique in a red and white striped shirt as goalkeeper.

Keating's favouritism is obvious in the costumes as all the dead poets (plus Stick) are on the same team. Since Stick is also present at the dead poets lunch table (and is perhaps Knox's roommate), I can believe he had some idea about their activities. If not the cave, he likely knew about their habit of doing things in new ways. Putting these more familiar students on the same team indicates they work well together towards a common goal (literally in terms of the game, and figuratively in terms of having more open minds).

The opposing teams is marked by yellow bibs. At my school, these general sports bibs always smelled of wet grass and sweat so students didn't want to wear them. I am willing to speculate that these students unknown to the audience are those less willing to accept poetry and independent thought.

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“boys will be boys”

you are absolutely correct, boys should go to a cave and recite poetry and fall in love with their best friends, AND THEY SHOULD INVITE ME

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Dead Poets Society Boyfriend Scenarios

Hanging Out With Him

Charlie Dalton: You and Charlie liked going to the lake near his school. Sometimes when it’s safe enough you two would ice skate late at night and just talk.

Gerard Pitts: You two went to different schools and had different schedules, being able to hangout was rare but not impossible. You sneak out of your school and go to him where you two talk for hours.

Knox Overstreet: You liked to take Knox to visit your favorite tree where you tight him how to climb it and how to get down from it. He was scared at first but got the hang of it quickly.

Neil Perry: You and Neil liked to read and write poetry, you liked to draw him and got a lot of inspiration by looking at him. You liked to draw a sketch of him and write a small poem next to it.

Steven Meeks: You and Steven were huge nerds and liked to make experiments, you had an eye for painting. You liked to paint him and the scenery you two were in. You drew him when he was in the river dipping his feet in the water at night.

Todd Anderson: Todd and You spent every walking minute with each other and loved to be together. Inseparable, much to the dismay of your friends who had to put up with you leaving them to hangout with Todd.

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OCEAN’S 8 (2018) dir. Gary Ross

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Stimboard of Todd and Charlie studying together from the newest chapter of my fic, Reinventing The Wheel.

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Charlie Dalton - “Bubblegum B*tch” MARINA

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