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Todd gently reached over and picked up Neil’s script, careful fingers smoothing over the edges.
“I’ll read it to you.”
Okay. Neil did not expect that at all. His head went completely blank, lips parting and eyes growing huge.
“…Seriously?”
Todd nodded, looking equal parts nervous and determined. “Reading has always helped me feel… safe.” He murmured, eyes fixed to his hands. “At home, I spend all my time reading books in my room, and- it’s like I- uh- disappear to another world. No parents, no Jeffrey, just me and my thoughts, it helps when I’m feeling overwhelmed. So, I’ll read your script out loud, i-if you like. All you have to do is close your eyes and pretend you’re on stage.”
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Neil is sick and sad about missing rehearsals. Todd helps him the best way he can.
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29 Dec 2025
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the hand behind this pen relieves a failure everyday by currentshitboy (chordedout)
Fandoms: Dead Poets Society (1989)
14 May 2021
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in which neil disappears for two weeks after his performance, and upon his return todd observes him becoming increasingly more affectionate.
(cw: they discuss the attempt but its brief and not very explicit)
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29 Dec 2025
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To Love and to be Loved is the Greatest Happiness by BeeDoingHerBest
Fandoms: Dead Poets Society (1989)
30 Sep 2021
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Six times Todd cared for the Poets (and one time the Poets cared for him).
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27 Dec 2025
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The classroom a theatre, his classmates the audience, everyone—everyone!—an actor—and he feels an irrational urge, right then and there, to stand up and speak. Something clenches in his chest, and elation hooks a chandelier over the dim, cold classroom lamps, and Neil becomes aware of a yearning, brighter and brighter, that implores him, begs on its knees to speak—and dear God—he wants, and wants, and wants so much that it clenches his hands into fists and his mouth into a line and squeezes life out of him, there to be found yet—and to be an actor, even miles away from a stage, is a prospect as heartbreaking as it’s possible, because now the stage is right in front of him and it’s almost pathetic, is pathetic, how much he wants to feel the words (drip from his tongue, like honey).
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In which Neil’s father doesn’t let him audition for Henley Hall, but A Midsummer Night’s Dream features heavily in Welton’s literature lessons—and when a performance opportunity rolls around (disguised as Welton’s annual Open House ceremony), it prompts Todd into directing that very same play.
And Neil, of course, wants to act.
(Or: In which Todd and Neil save each other.)
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26 Dec 2025
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Thursday evenings were, unequivocally, Neil’s favorite part of the week.
On the surface, the explanation for this was simple enough. It was his opportunity to turn his focus entirely to the topic that made him happiest: Shakespeare. He savored the time he was able to spend sitting out on the dock, overlooking the lake, reading and reciting the words he loved so much.
The other reason —perhaps the more prominent one— Neil wasn’t able to explain quite as easily. In fact, he could hardly admit it to himself. Thursday evenings… they meant being alone with Todd.
An Anderperry first kiss fic, set in a near-canon universe of the film (minus the death). Fluffy mutual pining.
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26 Dec 2025