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whoever you are holding me now in hand by celestial_kitty
Fandoms: Dead Poets Society (1989)
13 Nov 2025
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Neil Perry was six years old the first time he felt the sting of his father’s cruel words seep like poison into his skin. In a local supermarket in the small town of Wilmington, Vermont that the Perrys called home, the neatly stacked apples on the quaint wooden display were fresh and crisp.
“Rose, what are you doing still holding his hand in public like that? He’s in the first grade now, he ought to start to become more independent. Boys don’t hold their mother’s hands at this age,” he sneered.☆☽☆
Todd Anderson knew all about shame. If there was one feeling that always returned to him like home, year after year as he got older, it was shame. Shame for feeling different. Shame for hardly being able to get a sentence out without stuttering. Shame for being inferior, inferior to Jeffrey.
A mostly canon-compliant DPS story, following the major events of the movie, but focusing more on the inner thoughts of characters (mostly Neil and Todd). Focuses on Neil and Todd's relationship, Todd's issues with anxiety, Neil's issues with depression and not being able to follow his own path.
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25 Nov 2025
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From the desk of Robert Anderson, early 1960.
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06 Nov 2025
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was I most complete (at the beginning? or the bow?) by potentiallyunlovable
Fandoms: Dead Poets Society (1989)
25 Oct 2025
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Todd drops his head down, lets his chin sit near his chest, and then looks across to Neil’s bed. No one’s made it while Todd’s been sleeping, and he climbs out of his own, sits down on the mattress, and grips onto the blankets. He feels the rough material between his fingers, and brings it up to his face. Presses his nose into it, longing to feel the heat of Neil in it still. He could go into the wardrobe, he thinks, and run his fingers along the edge of Neil’s clothes. Remember happier days of a time he wore each one.
He sighs, drops the blanket from his face, and opens his eyes.
Neil is watching him.
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A Ghost Story
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29 Oct 2025
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He'll just keep his head down and get on with his life, like he always has.
A solid plan, if not for the unaccounted for variable that Neil Perry, his roommate, turns out to be. His roommate. Not even Nolan's comment about Todd having big shoes to fill invoke the same surety of doom as Neil Perry.
Or, Welton ends up being so much more than Todd Anderson ever signed up for. But maybe, he doesn't hate it as much as he'd expected to. And maybe, he even falls in love along the way.
(Or, or, I meant to write a short anderperry getting together fic and blacked out and ended up rewriting like half the movie but the gay is text instead of subtext.)
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- Part 1 of picking the faded blue
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29 Oct 2025
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Todd hardly spoke of his family. Neil knew them as the holes in the fabric of Todd’s life- as the worn stitches and loose threads, inconsistent and shoddy, unable to support him the way Neil knew he deserved to be supported. Todd regarded the subject of them as something Neil shouldn’t concern himself with; Neil did so regardless though only from time to time. After all, they were domestically happy as they were, Todd’s family never visited, and their home was slowly coming together.
That is, of course, until the Jeffrey Anderson himself decided to pop by.
Or in which Neil has a terribly right and terribly wrong perception of Todd’s family; Todd is trying to master the art of baking, which ‘No, Neil, this isn’t a stress response!’; and Jeffrey Anderson is actually not a mustache-twirling villain.
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- Part 1 of DPS fics
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29 Oct 2025