#Todd anderson

[arrr-im-a-dead-poet]

Okay, but Todd jumping into Neil’s arms when they won the game 🥹

#dead poets society #dps fandom #dps boys #todd anderson #neil perry #anderperry

[armorangels]

i’m sorry everything i post about dps is sad AF but i’m thinking about charlie as he reaches for todd to wake him up and tell him the news. his hand is so fucking shaky, yet he’s so gentle with todd, rubbing him gently so he doesn’t startle him. he’s trying so so hard to hold it together for him because he knows how the news is going to impact todd and !!!!!

#what about CHARLIE #WHAT ABOUT HIS FEELINGS #UGH #charlie dalton #todd anderson #neil perry #dps #dead poets society #dps fandom #dps boys #dead poets fandom #dead poets headcanons #dps headcanons

[toddandersonsyawp]

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and they were roommates

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#oh my god they were roommates #anderperry #neil perry #todd anderson #dead poets society #dps #dead poets fandom #dps fandom #my edits

[flaming-green]

wdym people genuinely don’t believe neil and todd were in love

#i have this thing where #i when i ship characters i don’t read x readers #and now i just stop reading them altogether #it feels weird to me #like that character is cheating on the love of their life #is that crazy #anyways #dead poets society #neil perry #dps #todd anderson #anderperry

[ginny-danburry-is-a-lesbian]

A fellow tumblr user (who I'd tag but I don't want to bother anyone) just encouraged me to post my silly little drawing of Todd jumping into Neil's arms after winning the game in Keating's class so here it is ?! (I love these two)

Sorry for the horrendous quality my phone belongs in trash

Earlier version without the doodles if anyone cares

#i might be going insane #but like #who cares #? #anyway #i love them #anderperry #yes #i can't draw #dead poets society #todd anderson #neil perry

[desire-mona]

siiiigh. todd autism headcanons because im projecting.

(using they/he/she pronouns for todd in this post. will explain but also if u dont agree i dont care, tw for alcoholism. time period is vague but autism hasnt existed as a legitimate medical diagnosis for all that long, so keep it in mind i guess.)

- cannot for the life of him stand welton's blankets. so itchy, just thin enough to not warm you up enough but still make you sweat, not long enough to cover your entire body. yes im making the blanket line in their poem about actual blankets, a boy needs to vent somewhere.

- beyond terrible temperature regulation, ALWAYS just a little too hot which is made worse by her sensory issues when it comes to wet fabric. constant slight agony and it never really goes away. theyre about 5 minutes away from crying about how uncomfortable they are at all times.

- had god awful handwriting until high school, like his teachers could BARELY read his handwriting it was Bad. OOOOOH OH MY GOD THERES A TRAIN GOING BY I CAN HEAR IT HONKING this is a really ironic thing to be pointing out rn but its sooooo worth mentioning. its still honking this is fun. 🚂. anyway. her parents made her spend an entire summer fixing her handwriting bc that was like the One thing her teachers criticised. its Fine now but their motor function simply doesn't deliver in the handwriting department.

- had a VERY INTENSE special interest in aquatic life + marine biology growing up, like read every book about any ocean animal in any library intense. his parents eventually forced him to abandon it because its "not a good career focus" but he still perks up when anyone mentions fish. once talked neils ear off about the biodiversity of coral reefs for roughly 2 hours, neil took her to an aquarium for their first date. rip todd anderson you wouldve loved spongebob squarepants.

- looooves pets, namely cats, but they have Too Sweaty hands all the time so any animal fur sticks onto their hands and just feels. so awful.

- had a brief period in his 20s where he was definitely an alcoholic, started as a social drinker but got too addicted to the feeling of not having to adhere to social conventions quite as hard, especially around other drunk ppl. eventually went sober after they realised they just Cant Stand the feeling of a hangover anymore. autistic ppl r more likely to develop a dependency on alcohol if we do start drinking. just btw.

- gets a Pretty Expansive vocabulary after actually starting to pursue literature. sometimes his family lightly teases him about using big words but it confuses the hell out of him. its just a word she thought would apply best!!

- soooooo obsessed with what other ppls idea of them is, both in an anxious way and out of genuine curiosity. would never ask ppl what they think of her bc she thinks thats 1) very broad 2) seems compliment fish-y and 3) just gonna lead to "i think ur great/ nice/ whatever filler compliment." but the dream is to sit someone (neil) down and just ask him every single question possible about how he perceives him.

- asks a billion clarifying questions about anything someone asks him to do, gets anxious about how many questions he's asking, tries to just figure it out, freaks out about the possibility of getting it wrong, ends up doing the thing perfectly. weekly occurrence.

- never fully grasped the appeal of religion (most definitely grew up catholic or christian or Something) just bc she could NOT let the lack of proof go. ALSO not an atheist bc the vastness of space scares them out of it. religious beliefs r a weird topic for them.

- suppresses a good chunk of his stims in public bc One total time someone looked at him weird while he was chewing on a sweatshirt string and he was like i gotta stop NOW. eventually develops tics and has to mask THOSE in public too. dear god someone let this girl unmask. also i started ticcing while writing that bc my body does this great thing where i only tic when im reminded of the concept of ticcing. its great and totally doesnt make me think im faking them (faking for who? dunno bc it usually happens when im alone)

- DOES in fact stim around neil bc NEIL STIMS TOO!!!!!!!! joyous day when they found THAT out! gets vocal stims of random lines from whatever play neil is practicing for. YEAA ART THOU THEEEEREE was a vocal stim for a solid week and a half which made neil VERY excited (autistic neil. how i love u autistic anderperry)

- velcro is The most evil vile disgusting material to ever grace this mortal realm. he hates it more than anything ever and i mean that fully. the feeling of BOTH sides, the noise, how easily it comes apart, she hates it all.

this is the gender part

never really viewed gender and gender roles as anything to adhere to beyond the fear of punishment if they dont. finds any social convention relating to gender to be Really dumb and meaningless, bc gender isn't (scientifically) real in any capacity, so why treat it like that? for the longest time just shrugged and said "eh, i guess im a boy" bc thats what she was used to being told, and didn't feel particularly drawn to agree OR disagree. eventually realised on a late night that Wait. i dont Actually care what i am. like yeah im a Male i guess but also im just me. my brain doesnt have a gender and i basically am my brain, right? and then never really thought about it again because that's genuinely how little he cares. adhering the most to canon with that mindset, she never really tells anyone (for obvious reasons on top of the overall apathy) and just lets the he/him happen to her but. in my dream world? agender they/he/she todd anderson. and this is MY blog so those are the pronouns im using from now on. i will forever love talking abt how autistic ppl very often view gender differently than allistic ppl, will forever love talking abt how autistic ppl are more likely to be trans. autism!!!

also yes that entire paragraph is just my view of gender, change the pronouns and the todd mentions and its just me. what of it.

#desire mona #YAYYYYYYYY TODD AUTISM POST #do yall want a seperate autistic anderperry hc post cuz i can do that #genderqueer todd i love you so much #dead poets society #todd anderson #anderperry #the todd spectrum #actually autistic #banger

[hunny-mustard104]

How often do you think Todd cried over Neil? Do you think he developed irritated red marks on his face? How long do you think they stayed there? Do you think he was upset when the skin finally healed? Like it was somehow a sign he no longer cared? Do you think he broke out from touching his face too much? Do you think he always had a headache? Do you think he bottled it all up? Trying to push it away until everything poured out of him? Do you think he hated crying? Hated Neil for making him cry?

#dead poets society #neil perry #todd anderson #dps #anderperry #ive been crying a lot latly #and i always get these red marks on my cheeks from the constant rubbing #and i thought of this because i love pain lmao #i feel like crying is something that can be so helpful and embarrassing at the same time

[fantasticduckchaos]

A few dps portraits I did! I know it's not a lot but I'm hoping to get more art out soon :]

#dead poets society #todd anderson #neil perry #charlie dalton #I luv them #I also posted these to tiktok a while ago haha

[notafraidtodissapear]

who needs mental stability when i have them?

#they make me SICK #anderperry #if my partner doesnt look at me like that i dont want it #they are so in love its not even funny #on my 100th rewatch rn! #dead poets society #dps #neil perry #todd anderson #neil perry is alive i swear!!!! #todd and neil

[cowboylexapro]

this is actually why todd left balincrest for welton

#dead poets society #dps #todd anderson #anderperry #todd anderson x neil perry #neil perry x todd anderson #dead poets #todd x neil #neil x todd

[puckspoetry]

ok so the only two scenes where we see Neil crying are in the comfort of Keating’s office and (a little bit) right before his death in the room with his father. Keating’s office is evidently the only place Neil felt safe as it’s where he went throughout the film to find comfort. So is it far fetched for me to say that the only places Neil found comfort were with Mr. Keating and in death?

#just a thought #it’s midnight in my city rn #loving it #dead poets fandom #dead poets society #anderperry #dps #neil perry #todd anderson #charlie dalton #Steven Meeks #Gerard Pitts #Knox overstreet #john keating #held hostage in mr keatings english class posting this rn #Mr Keating #I hate Mr Perry #gay marriage ftw #writeblr #writers and poets #writers on tumblr #puckspoetry

[prettymuchborin]

one time my roommate had to sleep with her coat on because our window was jammed open and it was peak winter anyway I feel like that’s something Todd would do because he’s afraid to tell Neil he’s too cold

#anderperry #dead poets society #neil perry #todd anderson #dead poets fandom #dead poets headcanons

[filmdps]

#the outsiders #the outsiders fandom #ponyboy curtis #dallas winston #darry curtis #dead poets society #dps boys #dead poets society fandom #neil perry #todd anderson

[toddandersonsyawp]

I haven't seen anyone actually talk about when the Latin teacher is shown outside with his class waving at Mr. Keating, but it happens to be one of my favourite moments.

In the beginning of the film, Mr. McAllister's teaching was very monotonous like the rest of the staff. (Looks exactly like my Latin classes haha)

He was exposed to Keating's way of teaching, and at first was opposed to it. But by the end of the film, he took his class outside of the classroom, showing the students Latin and where it applies in life, not just repeating it for them to copy like a broken record. (Sound familiar? Yeah, that's exactly what Keating did with his class)

Whether this was intentional or not, I do think it conveys how messages are contagious, and Keating was able to affect even people who were a part of the system; not just his own students. This part, and the last scene, shows how Mr. Keating's legacy at Welton Academy isn't limited to what happened to Neil. While the entire film, especially the last scene, followed the stories of the boys' change for the better, this brief segment tells the viewer that he changed the teachers as well.

He threw a stone in the still pond, and the ripples will only grow bigger as time goes on.

#these are just my thoughts! #dead poets society #dead poets society fandom #dps #dps fandom #mr keating #neil perry #todd anderson

[toindeedbeapoet]

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

[pencileraser1]

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

#this was originally just anderperry then i realized cameron would be a GREAT stage manager and now here it is #i've never done headcanons like this before sorry if it's a bit choppy #dead poets society #dps #neil perry #todd anderson #richard cameron #stephen meeks #steven meeks #gerard pitts #charlie dalton #john keating #knox overstreet #chris noel #ginny danburry