8 Bookmarks by Beautiful_Boy
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Conversations with Todd used to be long and purposeful, now they are short and filled with emptiness. The crackle of a landline, instead of the crackle of a voice.
OR; one late night when his wife is asleep, neil is missing his high school lover and they have an awkward call filled with unspoken words.
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21 Nov 2025
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The Weight of Words by I_Will_Grow_Wings176
Fandoms: House M.D., Dead Poets Society (1989)
03 Oct 2025
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Wilson is an expert on precision but sometimes it's not really a good thing especially when someone from his past shows up, catching a glimpse of freedom he once longed for.
Will they both risk it all for some game they lost years ago or will this be something else entirely?
In other words, affairs, drunken confession, and possibly more stuff these idiots will go through.
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12 Sep 2025
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Empty Space (where your lips still linger) by lacytopsandlongskirts
Fandoms: Dead Poets Society (1989)
25 Sep 2025
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It is quite the feeling when your (very new) best friend gets a crush, and maybe even has himself a date, without telling you first. It's a separate and wholly more intimate one when you yourself have a crush on that friend.
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Todd Anderson sees Neil with a girlfriend and goes (nearly) batshit crazy about it.
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29 Aug 2025
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life has moved on, as it always does. still, todd finds himself, even decades after neil’s death, reminded of him and their love wherever he goes.
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19 Aug 2025
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22 Jul 2025
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Love was the law and religion was taught, I'm not bought.
Todd has always been told what to believe: in God, in order, in silence. But nothing prepared him for how love would feel when it arrived like fire — in Neil’s laughter, in the quiet moments that said too much, in the forbidden thought that maybe he was never meant to live a life made of rules.
Then Neil died, and all Todd was given were "thoughts and prayers," as if faith could stitch a wound like this. He can’t pray anymore. He writes poems he’ll never read aloud. He keeps seeing Neil in the stars, in memories, in the breaths between stanzas.
This is a story about what’s left behind when the boy you love dies believing the world wouldn’t love him back.
Of guilt that feels sacrilegious.
Of grief that burns.
About a kind of love too pure for the world that condemned it.Tell me the fable where we got a happy ending. Please.
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- Part 1 of do not go gentle into that good night
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21 May 2025
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The year was 1974. Nixon was out of office. West Germany won the World Cup, to everyone’s shock. Todd Anderson was 31 years old.
It had been over 15 years since Todd had first walked through the hallowed halls of Welton Academy. The graduating class of ‘61 was now no more than a framed photo, shamefully hung in the far corner of the display case, out of sight of new students. Better that, than them asking questions about the “in remembrance” line engraved on the plaque. 1974 was a year of change, 1974 was a year of new beginnings. And in the early fall of 1974, for the first time in 15 years, Todd went an entire day without thinking of Neil Perry.
But just as soon as he fell asleep, after a mundane, standard, happy day, it happened again.
The dream.
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Or: Todd Anderson thinks back on all the unanswered questions from his complicated relationship with Neil Perry, remembering the weeks leading up to Neil's death, and the two dreams that have haunted the past 15 years of his life, and decides to get some answers for once.
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21 May 2025
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Dear T.A.,
Your voice kept me company last night. You made me cry, in the best way.
Please read Neruda next?
—Neil (the 8AM guy)As a soft-spoken college student with too many thoughts and too little confidence, Todd finds solace in the quiet hours of his anonymous late-night poetry radio show, Between the Lines. He never expects anyone to really listen—until someone does.
Neil Perry is everything Todd isn't: charismatic, popular, and the energetic host of Rise & Shine, the campus morning radio show that everyone adores. But when Neil stumbles across Between the Lines, he becomes captivated by the unseen poet who reads like he’s speaking straight from the heart.
Sticky notes begin to appear. Song dedications follow. And as the snow falls heavier outside, two voices begin to find each other through the static.
An Anderperry story about poetry, vulnerability, and falling in love with someone before you even know their name.
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18 May 2025