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  1. Rec 28

    in the arms of all i'm keeping here by

    Fandoms: Dead Poets Society (1989)  

    25 Jan 2022

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    I live in a one-room house. Everything I’m allowed to have goes in here. I want to bring you inside, but there’s so little space and you’re too big. I don’t know where to fit you. Look around, you’ll see what I mean.

    Neil won’t let himself have the things he wants. When he gets Todd, he doesn’t know what to do with him.

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    Or, an experimental look at Neil’s breakdown as he tries to save the parts of his life he’s allowed to have while fitting Todd in too, intercut with metaphors of his mindset.

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  2. Rec 36

    Your Love: Nourishment Aplenty by

    Fandoms: Dead Poets Society (1989)  

    01 Jun 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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    15 Jul 2025

  3. Rec 43

    When Love Begins by

    Fandoms: Dead Poets Society (1989)  

    09 Jul 2021

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    The year is 1968, nine years after Neil was forcibly removed from Welton Academy and enrolled in Braden Military School. As a practicing doctor working in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Neil has internalized everything his father once told him and lives a life devoid of any meaning or passion. Out of the blue, he receives a letter from someone he has never forgotten about: Todd.

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    15 Jul 2025

  4. Rec 52

    How to Save a Life by

    Fandoms: Dead Poets Society (1989)  

    28 Oct 2020

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    “He loved Neil so goddamn much.
    He loves Neil so goddamn much.
    But it wasn’t enough. Todd had never been enough.”

    The summer after junior year, Todd struggles with grief from Neil’s suicide.

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    14 Jul 2025

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    malt shop blues (scenes from a summer) by

    Fandoms: Dead Poets Society (1989)  

    02 Jun 2025

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    sepia-soaked and sunkissed moments from a vermont summer (circa 1959)

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    13 Jul 2025