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no thoughts only him

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guess who made one of those ask game things :] yknow cause why not

you know the drill

#omg which mutual am i #giving you all permission to Percieve me #ask game

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i just know meeks and pitts would love the flightradar app

#shoutout to all my autistic aviation nerds #dead poets society #dps #dps boys #dead poets fandom #dead poets society headcanons #stephen meeks #gerard pitts

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For Meeks' birthday, I think the poets would get him one of those science experiment kits.

Charlie would suggest that the poets try one out right then and there.

It would blow up in Meeks' face and whatever it was, would be ALL over his glasses, because they had no goggles or gloves.

Neil would take a picture of Meeks covered in the experiment, and put it in a scrapbook.

Under the photo, he would write, "it was a blast"

Every year afterwards, the poets would buy him the same science kit, and try a different experiment.

(This is the first happy DPS post I've made in a while!)

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probs looking too much into it — but outside of their welton uniforms, todd’s casual clothing becomes looser and looser around his neck as he grows more and more comfortable. neil’s casual clothing does the opposite :)

#oh my god

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thank u for ur service king

charlie hi mr dalton sir

can you just confirm for the record real quick that you are in fact protector of the lesbians

sincerely, a lesbian

can confirm i am the protecter of lesbians

lesbians are awesome we can bond over liking chicks

plus them liking chicks leaves more guys for me

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i truly do believe that john keating would understand and sympathise with me if i were to explain the trials and tribulations of being the oldest daughter

#he'd for sure have poem on hand that just #put it all into words so nicely #i feel like niel would also get it #prev #YES you get it! #and neil would so relate

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i truly do believe that john keating would understand and sympathise with me if i were to explain the trials and tribulations of being the oldest daughter

#dead poets society #dps #john keating #dps headcanons #dead poets society headcanons #dps fandom #oldest daughter

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not to get deep on the dashboard but i don’t think i’ve ever related more to neil saying he feels trapped than right now

#i’m going through it #carpe diem i know okay IM TRYING #sucking the marrow out of life? #WHAT IF I CANT FIND THE MARROW #okay thats all thank you

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Todd Anderson, an interesting case of the younger child. He's fits the common stereotype of seen as a baby by his parents and older brother, while also being the furthest from the favorite. Where most youngest sons Todd knew at school, Balincrest and middle + elementary school, were their parents' favorite, Todd was no where near the same level of standing in his own family.

He was surprised to see the constant fretting of mothers and the encouraging words and claps-on-the-shoulders from fathers at Balincrest. His own parents never extended the same kindnesses to him.

When he was small, he remembered hearing his mother asking his father, an endless well of concern apparent in her voice, if he thought that Todd was too sensitive. She asks him if he thinks that she coddled him too much for a little too long. He hid at the top of the stairs and listened to his father's resounding answer that he would grow out of it.

Clearly he hadn't. And though his mother never got over her reservations of baby-ing him, causing her to be colder than she was in his childhood, his parents still thought him emotionally immature. Time and time again, he could sense their need and want for him to just "grow up". He didn't understand what he could possibly do to satiate that want in them. He was grown.

Todd often wondered how his life would've been if he were not the last of his parent's children. What if he had a younger brother, a younger sister, which through their simple existence, pushed his current troubles and insecurities onto them. Of course, he didn't wish his hypothetical sibling to experience the same things as he did, that would be cruel. It was just a thought experiment. Would he be different? Would he have been better?

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I know he isn't my teacher, I haven't even met him before, but I don't want to disappoint Mr. Keating. Whenever I see a post that includes one of his quotes, I feel compelled to live my life to the fullest and "suck out all the marrow of life."

No matter how many times I see "carpe diem" and "seize the day" I will remember Mr. Keating. I'll want to make not just him, but myself, proud of what I've done with my life.

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wondering if u guys ever look at the homies like this?

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1989: THE RECORD

Filming Dead Poets Was an Initiation For Young Actor

by Valerie James

The Record

June 6, 1989

Robert Sean Leonard, who portrays a tormented and misunderstood young man in the new movie, "Dead Poets Society," describes working with actor Robin Williams and director Peter Weir as "his baptism."

"I've learned so much," Leonard said the other day in a Manhattan restaurant as he talked about growing up in Ridgewood and his early fascination with acting.

The movie, which stars Williams, is being touted by Touchstone Pictures as the thinking man's alternative to this summer's crop of adventure movies.

Leonard, 20, moved to New York City two years ago and now lives in a studio apartment in Chelsea. His parents moved to Waldwick. Between acting jobs, he attends Fordham University in the Bronx where he is majoring in history. "I think studying history is much more interesting than studying acting," he says. "Besides, I learn more about acting by performing." Leonard made his film debut in "The Manhattan Project." He also appeared in "My Best Friend is a Vampire." He has a string of stage performances to his credit, including "Brighton Beach Memoirs" and "Breaking the Code," in which he played a British schoolboy opposite Derek Jacobi.

It's a brutally hot day and Leonard is poking at the shrimp in his seafood platter. He is dressed casually in a cotton shirt and slacks.

And yes, that well-scrubbed look and innocent eyes that are so convincing in the movie are very much in evidence.

He began acting at age 12. His first speaking part, he says, was belting out the song "Gary, Indiana" at the top of his lungs in a Ridgewood summer stock production of "The Music Man". He took morning classes at Ridgewood High School and pursued his acting career in the afternoon.

A few years ago, he said, his father retired from his job as a Spanish teacher at Pascack Valley High School. His mother still works as a private nurse. His sister teaches English in the Park Ridge school district, and his brother recently graduated from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan.

Leonard has just completed a nine-week engagement in a Philadelphia stage production which, he says, had a mercifully short run. He is preparing to audition for several parts in this summer's New York Shakespeare Festival, which explains why he's carting around a copy of Shakespeare's "Titus Andronicus."

Right now, he'd much rather talk about his role as Neil Perry in "Dead Poets Society." The movie, which opens locally this week, stars Williams as John Keating, an irreverent English teacher who challenges the rigorous academic life at a boys prep school in Vermont in the 1950s.

Keating urges his young students to free themselves from the shackles of conformity and live life to its fullest.

The idea appeals to seven young men in his poetry class, including Perry, who decide to revive the school's defunct Dead Poets Society in order to experience love, passion, and life through poetry.

Perry is a romantic who yearns for an acting career but is thwarted by disapproving parents who are hell-bent on getting him into medical school.

Perry goes against his father's wishes and performs in the school's production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream." His Puck wins tumultuous applause. But he is hustled out of the school auditorium by his irate father, who takes him home and informs him that he will be sent to another school and will become a doctor.

Perry's confrontation with his parents takes place in their impeccable living room, and the background music swells as his stern-faced father asks him to explain his undisciplined behavior. Perry searches for the courage to tell his father that he wants to be an actor. When his courage fails, the movie audience gasps.

"I couldn't believe the reaction," says Leonard, who attended a screening of the movie the previous night. "People were actually yelling at the characters on the screen."

To him the movie was wonderful, creative work. But it was an effort, he says, that would not have succeeded except for the talents of Williams and Weir. "This has been my baptism," he says. "Peter Weir taught me so much."

"Yes, it was hard work and the days were 14 hours long. But I've never worked with a director who was so intense, so creative, and so giving." Leonard downplays his performance as he talks about the filming of certain key scenes. The scene in which he urges a classmate to throw away a desk set, the second in a row he received as a birthday present from his parents, is his favorite, he says, because Weir allowed him to improvise.

The scene begins with Todd, the classmate, sitting dejectedly by the desk set. When Perry tells him to throw the desk set away, it's as if someone understands Todd's inner agony for the first time. "Don't worry," Perry says. "You'll probably get another one next year". This is Leonard ad-libbing, and the screening audience loved it. "I didn't think it was funny when I said it," says Leonard. "It just seemed to be the natural thing to say." Leonard says Weir encouraged the actors to perform spontaneously, although he kept a tight reign on the antics of Robin Williams. "Robin wanted it that way," explains Leonard.

And what did Leonard learn from Williams. "He told me not to become famous," Leonard said, smiling.

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charlie dalton lesbian protector pass it on

#dead poets society #charlie dalton #dps #dps boys #dead poets society headcanons #dead poets fandom #dead poets headcanons

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and for my next trick, i will delude myself into believing that neil perry lived and thrived and the poets all lived happily ever after

#it’s canon! (i’m delusional) #dead poets society #dps #dead poets fandom #dps boys #dps fandom #neil perry #anderperry #todd anderson

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"you suck" absolutely i suck the marrow out of life

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dead poets society theater au headcanons

so for context, i'm a stagehand, i've worked for events as well as in community theater, so this is mostly based off of that. doing my part to add dps to the dps tag, and this was what i could come up with

ok they're all involved in a small community theater production of the tempest over the summer

neil is an actor, he's playing ariel, this is one of the first roles he's landed. he'd done theater in school as puck, which didn't go so well, but it's been a while since then. he's graduated college recently after studying medicine and is finally somehow at a point where his father has less control over him. despite this, he's somewhat unsure what he wants to do now, if he wants to continue with medicine cause it's what he knows, or try to make it in theater.

todd is the assistant stage manager, he was really unsure about taking the job, but the stage manager, cameron, who he was pretty good friends with, and who he'd worked on a crew with before, specifically wanted him. despite this, he's worried that he's too anxious and not assertive enough to do it

cameron is the stage manager, and a bit of a hardass, which means the crew loves him and a decent chunk of the actors hate him. he's good at his job, he's very organized and really good at getting shit done and people together, but he'll also chew you out if you fuck up

meeks and pitts are lights and sound respectively, they've worked on a ton of shows together before and are pretty close. every show they work together, they bring a bag of snacks with them for the crew to eat during performances

charlie is the prop master, and a stagehand. he has a knack for finding weirdly useful shit in random places, and is brilliant at constructing props. despite this cameron is constantly having to bug him to get his stuff finished on time. he and cameron have a sort of love/hate relationship, they clash really bad at times but they both understand that the show would not be as good if either of them weren't there

keating is the director! he works really well with newer actors, i'd imagine he's pretty similar to peter weir in a lot of ways. he can take a little too long to reach deadlines, as getting the show perfect is a lot more important to him, which annoys cameron a bit

knox is also an actor, he's playing ferdinand and is convinced that he and chris, who plays miranda, are destined to be together or something. chris doesn't see him like that though

chris is miranda, she was originally interested in the tech/design aspect of theater, but a while back they needed more actors, and she ended up volunteering. she started as crew when ginny first started acting, because ginny was nervous to do it alone

ginny is iris, she has more free time this show since her role is smaller, but is always at rehearsal whenever chris is there, so she ends up sitting around and watching a lot. she quickly becomes friends with neil, who is similarly always around todd

anytime he's not busy, neil is hanging around todd. he's started doing parts of todds job for him, getting batteries, taping doors, sweeping the stage, doing other miscellaneous errands. he spends so much time with todd that he somehow ends up as crew in the program in addition to ariel. he starts getting to the theater early when the crew shows up just to spend more time with todd. cameron has started treating him as an extra stagehand