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nonsensology · 2 months
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This was supposed to just be a rough sketch, but then I started getting really invested in it.
I hadn't initially intended to include so many picture book characters, but the nostalgia was overwhelming. Does anyone remember the animated short films produced by Weston Woods? My local library used to have a bunch of them on the Scholastic VHS tapes from the late 90s. (I know some shorts were released on the Children's Circle VHS tapes back in the 80s (🎶 Come on along! Come on along! Join the caravan!), and some were packaged in Sammy's Story Shop in 2008.)
Characters:
Max, from Where the Wild Things Are, written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak
Peter, from The Snowy Day, written and illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats
Brother Bear and Sister Bear, from The Berenstain Bears series, written and illustrated by Stan and Jan Berenstain
Pooh and Piglet, from the Winnie-the-Pooh books, by A. A. Milne, illustrated by E. H. Shepard
Owen, from Owen, written and illustrated by Kevin Henkes.
Mouse, from If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, by Laura Joffe Numeroff, illustrated by Felicia Bond
Louis, from The Trumpet of the Swan, by E. B. White
Mr. Toad, from The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame, based on the illustrations by E. H. Shepard
Mr. Tumnus, from The Chronicles of Narnia series, by C. S. Lewis
Pippi and Mr. Nilsson, from the Pippi Longstocking books, by Astrid Lindgren
Willy Wonka, from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, by Roald Dahl, based on the illustrations by Quentin Blake
Matilda, from Matilda, by Roald Dahl, based on the illustrations by Quentin Blake (with an homage to the Mara Wilson movie)
Peter Pan and Tinker Bell, from Peter Pan, by J. M. Barrie
Merlin and Archimedes, from The Sword in the Stone, by T. H. White, based on the illustrations by Dennis Nolan
Pinocchio, from Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi, based on the illustrations by Enrico Mazzanti
Alice, White Rabbit, and Cheshire Cat, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, illustrated by John Tenniel
Rupert Bear, from the Rupert stories, created by Mary Tourtel and continued by Alfred Bestall, John Harrold, Stuart Trotter, and others.
Arthur Read, from the Arthur series, written and illustrated by Marc Brown
Tin Woodman and Scarecrow, from the Land of Oz series, by L. Frank Baum, based on the illustrations by W. W. Denslow and John R. Neill
The Cat in the Hat, from The Cat in the Hat, written and illustrated by Dr. Seuss
a frog on a flying lily pad, from Tuesday, written and illustrated by David Wiesner
Charlotte, from Charlotte's Web, by E. B. White
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jaabane · 6 months
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Little Red Book Part 1 - Neil Perry x fem! OC
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Introduction: This is my first post so be aware of that! Also english is not my first lenguage so we'll see how this goes.
Warnings: my english, in this story Welton has an all girls school aswell that is in a seperate building next to the boys school.
Summary: "You never talk anything but nonsense! Nobody ever does." The story of how Neil Perry fell in love with that beautiful girl that always had her face buried in this little red book.
Monday Morning
Another year at Hellton. Nothing out of the ordinary.
Neil just sat down in his seat in Mr. Keatings class with the rest of the dead poets. The lesson went by normal. That is, if you can define Mr. Keatings classes as normal.
Towards the end of the lesson, Mr. Keating had a rather interesting announcement to make.
"Now boys, I have exciting news for you. For the duration of this semester, I want all of you to research about any writer. Could be an author, or a poet." he said. The boys began to whisper about the upcoming project. Neil could already hear some of his classmates arguing about the people they wanted to research about. His attention however, was full on Mr. Keating.
"Settle down boys, I'm not finished yet." he stated. "Every one of you will get a partner. This is a two person project, which you will have to present at the end of the semester." The chatter began again, this time louder than before.
"Sir can we decide who our partner is?" Charlie asked loudly as he had to talk over the whole class.
That question seemed to make all of the boys go quiet. All eyes now on Mr. Keating again.
"As I was about to say. You are not the only class that is going to do this project. I will partner every one of you up with a girl from my class at the Welton all girls academy. You will meet your partner next lesson on wednesday." he said and with that, the belll rang signaling for the boys to go to their next class.
Time skip, the dead poets are hanging out outside
"Which of these girls do you think will be our partners?" Charlie asked, eyeing the girls that were also outside right now.
That's when Neil first noticed her. She was sitting on a blanket. Her back leaning against a tree. She was wearing a pair of dark blue flared jeans and a maroon coloured hoodie. Her fluffy looking brunette hair that only reached her shoulders hung slightly in her face. Which was buried in a little red book that she was reading.
"Neil? You there?" Todd asked. He noticed his best freind zoning out.
"You looking at a pretty girl Mr. Perry?" Charlie teased. "What? No. Why would you think that?" Neil asked, his attention now full on his friends.
They all just laughed and the conversation changed course again.
However, as Neil turned his head to look at the pretty girl again, he noticed she was gone.
The following day he did not see the girl anywhere. Or maybe he did, he could not see much of her face because of the book.
Damn that little red book. He thought to himself as he met up with his friends wednesday morning to go to their english class.
Somehow they found themselves in the lunch hall, waiting for Mr. Keating to come back with their partners.
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I was nervous. What if my partner didn't like me? As my head filled itself with more and more doubts my friend Becca put her hand on my shoulder.
"Relax, it's not like you never saw a boy before." she said.
"No, but what if he doesn't like me and then I'm stuck with him for an entire semester?" I said, Worry clearly visible in my eyes.
However, we did not have time to finish our conversation as Mr. Keating opened the door to the lunch hall and we bagan to enter. I purposefully hid in the back of the crowd as Mr. Keating started talking.
"Let's start, shall we? Now, I will read the names of the partners out loud. If you hear your name being called, please proceed to come forward to meet your partner. I will first read the boys name and then the girls. When you have found your partner, please choose one of the tables here to start with the project, I want everyone to decide on a writer they want to present today." he said cheerfully.
Pair after Pair found themselves and went ahead to sit at one of the many tables in the lunch hall. Becca was still standing next to me when I was called.
"Next we have, Mr. Neil Perry and Ms. Stefanie Krammer. Please come forward." Mr. Keating said as Becca shoved me a little to get me going.
Neil could not believe his eyes, before him stood the girl from monday afternoon.
"Hi" he said a little breathless
"Hi" she answered with a shy smile.
"You want to go sit down?" he asked.
"Yeah sure." she answered as the two began to walk to a table.
As they sat down, Neil noticed Charlie looking at him and wiggle his eyebrows. Neil just grinned and focused on the girl next to him. Now he could finally look at her face properly, her dark blue eyes were even more beautiful than he imagined. They even looked like a mixture of dark blue and grey. He could not stop looking at them.
Stefanie, the name suits her, he thought.
She began to unpack her things from her bag. That's when he noticed the little red book as she placed it on the table.
"The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde." he read out loud.
"That's what you were reading on monday." he said before he could stop himself.
"You saw me on monday?" she said, looking surprised. When I saw Neil with his friends on monday I didn't think he noticed me at all.
"Yeah, you were reading by a tree right?" he asked.
"Yeah I was." I answered.
"That book is very little." Neil said as he looked at it again.
"That doesn't stop it from having a lot of content." I said.
"Really? How's that?" he asked, intruiged.
"Well firstly it would be because it is actually a play, not an ordinary book." I said, confidently telling him about my favourite book.
At that point, Neil was even more intruiged. She liked reading plays, perfect.
"And do you only read plays or do you also act in them?" he asked.
"Oh god no. Acting is not for me, I almost had a panic attack when I had to sing a solo in choir in 9th grade." I told him.
He laughed. "Really? I love acting, I was in a play last year. Even got the main part." he said.
"That's so cool, but I can Imagine what your parents must have thought of that. They don't send their kids here with little expectations for them." I said, looking down.
Neil nodded.
"Let's do our presentation about Oscar Wilde. Maybe I could act as him at the end of the semester hm?" he said, trying to change te topic back to our project.
I laughed.
"I'm sure Mr. Keating would love that." I said, laughing a little.
At that point, Mr. Keating stopped by our desk to ask us if we decided on a writer yet.
"Yes, we would like to present about Oscar Wilde, Captain." Neil said.
"Good choice. Stefanie, I wouldn't expect anything else." he said with a knowing smile as he walked away.
Thats Part 1 guys! Hope you liked it!
I'm not sure when the next part is coming since I am in the middle of my exam season but I estimate it's next week or the week after.
Thanks for reading and have a great day!
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burningvelvet · 11 months
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Every Instance of Lord Byron Hating On John Keats, Listed in Chronological Order.
“No more Keats I entreat — flay him alive. If some of you don’t I must skin him myself.”
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To his publisher John Murray, 12 October 1820:
“‘I’m thankful for your books dear Murray / But why not send Scott’s Monastery?’ the only book in four living volumes I would give a baioccho to see, abating the rest of the same author, and an occasional Edinburgh & Quarterly – as brief Chroniclers of the times. — Instead of this – here are John Keats’s piss a bed poetry – and three novels by God knows whom [..] Pray send me no more poetry but what is rare and decidedly good. — There is such a trash of Keats and the like upon my tables – that I am ashamed to look at them. [..] – I am in a very fierce humour at not having Scott’s Monastery. – You are too liberal in quantity and somewhat careless of the quality of your missives. – [..] No more Keats I entreat – – – flay him alive – if some of you don’t I must skin him myself. There is no bearing the drivelling idiotism of the Mankin. – – – – – [editor’s note: ‘dashes degenerate into scrawl’]”
To his publisher John Murray, 4 November 1820:
“They Support Pope I see in the Quarterly. [Let them] Continue to do so – it is a Sin & a Shame and a damnation – to think that Pope!! should require it – but he does. – – – Those miserable mountebanks of the day – the poets – disgrace themselves – and deny God – in running down Pope – the most faultless of Poets, and almost of men – – the Edinburgh praises Jack Keats or Ketch or whatever his names are; – why his is the Onanism of Poetry — something like the Pleasure an Italian fiddler extracted out of being suspended daily by a Street Walker in Drury Lane – this went on for some weeks – at last the Girl – went to get a pint of Gin – met another, chatted too long – and Cornelli was hanged outright before she returned. Such like is the trash they praise – and such will be the end of the outstretched poesy of this miserable Self-polluter of the human Mind [editor’s note: ‘untranscribable scrawl’]. W. Scott’s Monastery just arrived — many thanks for that Grand Desideratun of the last Six Months.”
Note: “onanism” refers to masturbation.
To his publisher John Murray, 9 November 1820:
“Mr. Keats whose poetry you enquire after — appears to me what I have already said; such writing is a sort of mental masturbation — he is always frigging his Imagination. I don’t mean that he is indecent, but viciously soliciting his own ideas into a state which is neither poetry nor any thing else but a Bedlam vision produced by raw pork and opium.”
Note: “frigging” was slang for masturbation.
To his publisher John Murray, 18 November 1820:
“P.S. — Of the praises of that little dirty blackguard Keates in the Edinburgh — I shall observe as Johnson did when Sheridan the actor got a pension. ‘What has he got a pension? then it is time that I should give up mine!’ — Nobody could be prouder of the praises of the Edinburgh than I was — or more alive to their censure — as I showed in English Bards and Scotch Reviewers — at present all the men they have ever praised are degraded by that insane article. — Why don't they review & praise ‘Solomon's Guide to Health’ it is better sense — and as much poetry as Johnny Keates.”
To his publisher John Murray 26 April 1821:
“Is it true – what Shelley writes me that poor John Keats died at Rome of the Quarterly Review? I am very sorry for it – though I think he took the wrong line as a poet – and was spoilt by Cockneyfying and Surburbing – and versifying Tooke’s Pantheon and Lempriere’s Dictionary. I know by experience that a savage review is Hemlock to a sucking author – and the one on me – (which produced the English Bards &c.) knocked me down – but I got up again. Instead of bursting a blood-vessel – I drank three bottles of Claret – and began an answer – finding that there was nothing in the Article for which I could lawfully knock Jeffrey on the head in an honourable way. However I would not be the person who wrote the homicidal article – for all the honour & glory in the World, – though I by no means approve of that School of Scribbling – which it treats upon.”
To Percy Shelley, 26 April 1821:
“I am very sorry to hear what you say of Keats — is it actually true? I did not think criticism had been so killing. Though I differ from you essentially in your estimate of his performances, I so much abhor all unnecessary pain, that I would rather he had been seated on the highest peak of Parnassus than have perished in such a manner. Poor fellow! though with such inordinate self-love he would probably have not been very happy. I read the review of ‘Endymion’ in the Quarterly. It was severe, — but surely not so severe as many reviews in that and other journals upon others.
I recollect the effect on me of the Edinburgh on my first poem; it was rage, and resistance, and redress — but not despondency nor despair. I grant that those are not amiable feelings; but, in this world of bustle and broil, and especially in the career of writing, a man should calculate upon his powers of resistance before he goes into the arena. ‘Expect not life from pain nor danger free, Nor deem the doom of man reversed for thee.’
You know my opinion of that second-hand school of poetry. You also know my high opinion of your own poetry, — because it is of no school. [..] I have published a pamphlet on the Pope controversy, which you will not like. Had I known that Keats was dead — or that he was alive and so sensitive — I should have omitted some remarks upon his poetry, to which I was provoked by his attack upon Pope, and my disapprobation of his own style of writing.”
To Percy Shelley, 30 July 1821:
[First page missing] “The impression of Hyperion upon my mind was – that it was the best of his works. Who is to be his editor? It is strange that Southey who attacks the reviewers so sharply in his Kirk White – calling theirs ‘the ungentle craft’ – should be perhaps the killer of Keats. Kirke White was nearly extinguished in the same way – by a paragraph or two in ‘the Monthly’ – Such inordinate sense of censure is surely incompatible with great exertion – have not all known writers been the subject thereof?”
To his publisher John Murray 30 July 1821:
“Are you aware that Shelley has written an Elegy on Keats, and accuses the Quarterly of killing him?
‘Who killed John Keats? / ‘I,’ says the Quarterly, / So savage and Tartarly; / ‘Twas one of my feats.’ / Who shot the arrow? / ‘The poet-priest Milman / (So ready to kill man), / Or Southey or Barrow.’’
You know very well that I did not approve of Keats’s poetry, or principles of poetry, or of his abuse of Pope; but, as he is dead, omit all that is said about him in any M.S.S. of mine, or publication. His Hyperion is a fine monument, and will keep his name. I do not envy the man who wrote the article; — you Review people have no more right to kill than any other footpads. However, he who would die of an article in a Review would probably have died of something else equally trivial. The same thing nearly happened to Kirke White, who died afterwards of a consumption.”
4 August 1821, to his publisher John Murray:
“You must however omit the whole of the observations against the Suburban School – they are meant against Keats and I cannot war with the dead – particularly those already killed by Criticism. Recollect to omit all that portion in any case.”
To his publisher John Murray, 7 August 1821:
“All the part about the Suburb School must be omitted – as it referred to poor Keats now slain by the Quarterly Review — [..] I have just been turning over the homicide review of J. Keats. – It is harsh certainly and contemptuous but not more so than what I recollect of the Edinburgh R. of ‘the Hours of Idleness’ in 1808. The Reviewer allows him ‘a degree of talent which deserves to be put in the right way’ ‘rays of fancy’ ‘gleams of Genius’ and ‘powers of language’. – It is harder on L. Hunt than upon Keats & professes fairly to review only one book of his poem. – Altogether – though very provoking it was hardly so bitter as to kill unless there was a morbid feeling previously in his system.”
To Thomas Moore, August 27th 1822:
“It was not a Bible that was found in Shelley's pocket, but John Keats's poems.”
From his poem Don Juan Canto Eleventh written October 1822 and published August 1823. He was going off the popular gossip shared to him by Shelley (who believed it), which was that Keats health had sharply declined due to receiving bad reviews:
“John Keats, who was killed off by one critique, / Just as he really promised something great, / If not intelligible, without Greek / Contrived to talk about the Gods of late, / Much as they might have been supposed to speak. / Poor fellow! His was an untoward fate; / ‘Tis strange the mind, that very fiery particle, / Should let itself be snuffed out by an article.”
To his publisher John Murray, 25 December 1822:
“As to any community of feeling, thought, or opinion, between Leigh Hunt and me, there is little or none. We meet rarely, hardly ever; but I think him a good-principled and able man, and must do as I would be done by. I do not know what world he has lived in – but I have lived in three or four – and none of them like his Keats and Kangaroo terra incognita – Alas! poor Shelley! – how he would have laughed – had he lived, and how we used to laugh now & then – at various things – which are grave in the Suburbs. You are all mistaken about Shelley – – you do not know – how mild – how tolerant – how good he was in Society – and as perfect a Gentleman as ever crossed a drawing room; – when he liked – & where he liked. – – – – –“
The excerpts above are taken primarily from Peter Cochran’s transcriptions.
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my secretary informed me that welton should have more than more “social media”, so i am opening a tumblr.
salutations, my name is gale nolan and i am the headmaster at welton academy, a k-12 catholic all-boys boarding/preparatory school in vermont. we pride ourselves on our high standards on education and our ivy-league-bound graduates. don’t look at our suicide rates!
send in inquiries, we are here to answer your questions as well as reply to our student’s concerns. please consider sending your son to our school!
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ran by @asclexe, i also have a house md ask blog, @ask-the-ducklings
admin’s pronouns are they/them and they are a minor, so please no NSFW asks!
this is all silly fun!
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
those affiliated with welton (idk if i have to do anything like offically im just silly okay):
(neil’s blog interact list is capped)
mr todd anderson: @social-anxiety-and-poetry
mr charlie dalton: @phonecall-fromgod
mr richard cameron: @therealrichardcameron
mr stephen meeks: @radiofree-america
mr knox overstreet: @knoxious-overstreet
mr gerard pitts: @pittsie-boy
mr george hopkins: @tthe-cat-sat-on-the-mat
mr stick: @head-of-the-dinner-table
mr john c keating: @ask-captain-keating
those affiliated with the previous affiliates:
mrs keating: @lady-keating
mr perry: @mrperry1920
miss ginny danburry: @ginnylovestheatre
miss chris noel: @miss-chris-noel
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rockymintscollective · 2 months
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Small Neil Perry Rant from Dead Poets Society (SPOILERS AHEAD)
Okay before I continue this I must reiterate the fact that this has spoilers and will also involve heavy subjects such as suicide, death, and grief of said death. This also involves parental issues and possible alluded-to abuse. This will be a heavy rant.
Continue reading if you're fine with said subjects.
Okay I have to say I don't understand what one of my other friends (I'll call them Friend C, Friend A being the one who said positive things, but I'll get to that) said about not getting/understanding what the end of the movie was like.
I understand that it would come as a shock for most, but... The signs were right there for Neil Perry to have at least some implied depression or something to make him so affected.
Like you see it in the first scene. Or well not the first scene but one of the first interactions that Neil has with his dad.
Most kids call their parents by "Dad" or "mom" or even "Pa" and "Ma", but you see Neil calling him "Father." Not even something less formal, he calls him father. All the time. Even whenever you see him talk to Todd later on when he finds interest in theater, you hear him call his dad by father.
Also adding onto this---You see most of the other characters, such as Meeks or as Knox say "dad" or "mom" if I recall correctly. It's been a few hours since I've seen the movie but you get what I mean.
Also, adding onto the fact that Neil outright lies to Mr. Keating about his talk with his dad? Like you know that there must've been something that made him that afraid to talk to his dad about wanting to become an actor.
Not only that but you see it. Especially so whenever his dad comes and picks him up after the show, takes him home, and tells him he's going to be sent off to Military school. That shit's NOT easy, and that's coming from someone who's had military family members confess how rough it is.
Adding onto this, you HAVE to understand the fact that you have to be in that kid's shoes and imagine what it must feel like.
You're about to lose all your friends. About to lose the one thing that made you happy. About to lose the one teacher you liked, about to basically lose everything. He's also aware of the fact that when he graduates, he's immediately being shipped off to medical school.
Which, by the way, I think everyone forgets that fact. His father was that engrossed with his own life that he was going to just send his son off to medical school as soon as he finished Welton. Like he genuinely had no say about his future or his life. I'm pretty sure if his father could, he would've found him a woman to marry. /lh
Anyway. You kinda also feel like there's no other hope left, right? Basically left alone and even if you try to cut contact, you're probably still going to have constant reminders of your father and he'll probably hunt you down, either way.
So of course your last option would probably be, as morbid as it is, to. You know. Stop the clock early.
Also, can I just say, the way everyone coped with everything is so understandable? Like oh my god.
Sure you don't see much of how they react or how they feel, mostly just seeing Todd and Charlie's reactions, but my god that's enough to see to know.
Todd's utterly broken self and puking into the snow in response to everything, while all the others have to try and distract him from blaming Neil's dad. (Which honestly, if I was one of them, I too would accuse Neil's dad to be honest)
Not only that but Charlie telling them all to back off and to stop to let Todd grieve in his own way?? My god. That shit fucking felt like a bag of bricks hitting my chest my GOD.
Also I'm bringing up my mutual Wildernezz's rant in here about the scene with the punching because oh my god. Yeah. I see why it's so underrated but I agree with every single one of those points he made. Like oh my god
Also, personal opinion: The ending where Keating goes to leave and Todd stands up, with an outburst, going "They made us sign it I'm so sorry-" was so amazingly shot. Especially the scene where they also all stand on their desks. Well not all of them but you get what I mean
Like they all clearly care so very deeply for Mr. Keating and care about how he teaches. They loved him as a teacher and you can tell with how they act.
Like.... You can just tell they adored it with his class. Like
My mind's dying (/dram) right now but I still so very much am in love with this movie and I heard they had a book they made based on this said movie and I'm so interested in reading it so I'll get back to you on that
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OK, SEVERELY rambly post incoming but - Anderperry Stardust (2007)/ The Little White Horse AU, anyone?
Rundown: I think many of us are familiar with Stardust, originally a Neil Gaiman book but also a great film, starring Claire Danes as a falling star and That Guy Who Plays Daredevil as the lad who promises to bring her to the girl he's infatuated with. The Little White Horse is, to the best of my knowledge, more unknown, but equally very good (for sentimental reasons, I think of it much more highly than Stardust). Published in 1946 by Elizabeth Goudge, it tells the story of thirteen-year-old orphan Maria Merryweather, who moves to her cousin Sir Benjamin's Moonacre Manor in the West Country, where she finds a) a thriving cosy community and a long family history, b) the little white horse of the title, c) a longstanding family feud cutting off Moonacre from the sea, d) her imaginary best friend Robin, real and in the flesh, and e) some of the most deliciously-described food that has ever been or will be. It's a great book even past the rose-tinted glasses of my childhood. Go read it. (The one (1) marring is that you can't find a bloody edition that doesn't have a JK Terfling quote pasted onto the cover, because apparently it was one of her favourite books, but fuck OFF, I'm reclaiming it now. Thou shalt not keep the cosy low fantasy from me.)
Anyway even though I mention Stardust this isn't really part of the AU I have in my mind, except for the bit with the Star, because Todd as a main character who thinks he's a very forgettable bland boy-in-the-corner until he finds out he's a star is a great thought to me. Particulars on /how/ he's a star to be fleshed out later! (I only thought of this AU about two hours ago, lol.)
In my mind this is how it goes - nebulously Olden Times setting (TLWH is set in 1842, so perhaps then). Todd is around seventeen/eighteen and Geoff has just graduated from university, and gone off around Europe, accompanied by their parents. Months go by. Something happens - he's never given the liberty of knowing, but Geoff and their parents stay in Europe, and the townhouse in London is sold, and Todd is packed off to stay at a distant relative's - Keating, as it turns out. It's a blessing in disguise, because Todd is finally away from his family for the first time in his life and around people that appreciate him. He begins to bloom under this new care - but there are strange family secrets only now being revealed to him, and dark forces beyond the valley which threaten to disrupt the haven he's found...
The rest is very cosy fantasy, featuring Mr Perry as the local uptight vicar locking horns with Keating at every opportunity, Neil as his withdrawn but friendly son just longing for a rebellion, and more! (Read: Charlie is here and he is Outrageous as usual. Read also: Pitts as a sailor because I think he'd like it.) Right now I'm thinking of adding an equivalent of Monsieur Cocq de Noir for a villain (Mr Perry is NOT the villain), and Cameron can play a part there so I can give him a good redeeming! Here are a couple of extracts from TLWH to show the kind of mood/tone we're working with:
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Thematically, I REALLY like the idea of Todd as a star because it allows me to work in a very fun trope, of "not of the rose but near the rose" - when a character perhaps is shy and a little quiet and reclusive, but inspires other people around them to brilliance and greatness. (Honestly I do think this kind of goes in with the film, where it's not just Keating's teaching but Todd's reaction to it and his presence that galvanise Neil to continue.) This ties in really well if Todd's a star and adds to the overall self-confidence journey - plus I was really thinking about the sun/moon motifs! They're very prominent in TLWH (Maria is a "moon" Merryweather and Robin is a very sunny boy), and I really want to implement them here with slight twists. I think of Todd as a sunny moon; yes he's warm and caring and cheerful but once you go a little closer it's more of a luminosity rather than a blaze, there's a coolness and quietness to him I like. You know, a quiet character doesn't always have to be quiet because there's something "wrong" with them, sometimes they're just like that. For Neil it's the opposite, he's a moony sun; under the thumb of his father he's polite and decorous and demure but somewhere under all of that there's a very loud and booming laugh and a healthy sort of ruddiness. I don't know, I just like sun/moon motifs!!!!!!!!!!
(On a more personal note: this AU, which I already love very much despite not having known very long, would be above all a careful love letter to the West Country. It's been lovely living around here almost all my life and by this time in September I'll be hopefully up very far north at uni, so I'm pre-emptively kind of :') about it. Mutuals who are at uni/college how on earth did you cope?)
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gamercats-fight · 3 months
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Welcome everyone to the Gamer Cats Tournament!!!
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Under the cut is a list of all the participants in alphabetical order!
I will come up with the bracket hopefully in a couple of days, and I'm aiming for the voting to start AT THE LATEST on Feb. 4th, but I'll keep you all posted!!
#'s
707's Robot cat from Mystic Messenger
A's
Alexander the Great from Identity V
Ankha from Animal Crossing
Ann's cat from Identity V
Ashes from Fallout 4
Astrid from Spiritfarer
B's
Big the Cat from Sonic the Hedgehog
Blaze the Cat from Sonic the Hedgehog
Bloodfang Sabertooth from Far Cry Primal
Bob from Animal Crossing
Bongo from Life is Strange
C's
Cait Sith from Final Fantasy VII
Castle Town cats from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Cheka Kingscholar from Disney Twisted-Wonderland
Cheshire Cat from Alice: Madness Returns
Chilly from Soul Knight
Cisco from Gotham Knights
Coco from Cattails: Wildwood Story
D's
Daffodil from Spiritfarer
E's
Ebony from Marve's Midnight Suns
Eevee from Pokemon
Elizabeth the 3rd from Mystic Messenger
Espurr from Pokemon
Eve from Professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
Evil the Cat from Earthworm Jim
F's
Frou-Frou from Scarlet Hollow
Fat Cat from Final Fantasy XIV
G's
Giovanni from Spiritfarer
Giovanni's Persian from Pokemon
Gizmo from Sally Face
Goomba Cat from Super Mario 3D World
Gouto-Douji from Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army
Grim from Disney Twisted-Wonderland
H's
His Majesty from Baldur's Gate 3
Hunter Slime from Slime Rancher
J's
Jean from Stardew Valley: Jorts and Jean the Helper Cats mod
Jibanyan from Yo-kai Watch
Jorts from Stardew Valley: Jorts and Jean the Helper Cats mod
Judd from Splatoon
Judge from Off
K's
Kabegami from Ōkami
Keats from Professor Layton and the Last Specter
Kiki from Animal Crossing
King Tom from Ni no Kuni
King from Tekken
KITR from ULTRAKILL
Kitties! from Rhythm Heaven Megamix
Kittyball from Chuzzle 2
Krampy from Cattails: Wildwood Story
L's
Léon from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Justice for All
Leona Kingscholar from Disney Twisted-Wonderland
Leopard from Shadow of the Tomb Raider
Lucius from Disney Twisted-Wonderland
Lumi from Cats are Liquid
M's
Mae Borowski from Night in the Woods
M'aiq the Liar from The Elder Scrolls III
Meowth from Pokemon
MEWO from OMORI
Minecraft cats from Minecraft
Mitzi from Overwatch
Momo from Love Nikki
Morgana from Persona 5
Mr. Mew from The World Ends with You
Mr. Midnight from Fran Bow
Mr. Whiskers from Identity V
Ms. Fortune from Skullgirls
N's
Neko from Genshin Impact
Nintendogs + Cats's cats from Nintendogs + Cats
Nyan Cat from Nyan Cat: Lost in Space
O's
Orchynx from Pokemon: Uranium
P's
Pepi from The Arcana
Pete from Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth
Pixel from Scarlet Hollow
Pocket from Boyfriend Dungeon
R's
Raymond from Animal Crossing
[REDACTED] from Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
Remlits from The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
Rover from Animal Crossing
S's
Saber-toothed Tiger from Sacred 2: Fallen Angel
Stardew Valley cats from Stardew Valley
Shoe from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Justice for All
Simba from The Lion King (video game)
Sims Urbz cat from The Urbz: Sims in the City
Slip from Cattails: Wildwood Story
Spider-Man/Bodega Cat from Marvel's Spider-Man 2
Spring from Lies of P
Steelclaw from Baldur's Gate 3
Stray cat from Stray
Super Mario 3D cats from Super Mario 3D World's + Bowser's Fury
Sushi Cat from Sushi Cat
T's
Tabby Bee from Bee Swarm Simulator ROBLOX
Tabby Slime from Slime Rancher
Talking Tom from My Talking Tom
Tally from American Acardia
Tango from Mega Man V
Tara from Baldur's Gate 3
Temmie from Undertale
The Beast from Slay the Princess
The Empress from A Hat in Time - Nyakuza Metro
The Star from The Arcana
The Tiger from Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist
Tiger from Tomb Raider 2
Toro Inoue from Doko Demo Issyo
V's
Vivi from Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! feat. Hatsune Miku
W's
Wagahai from The Great Ace Attorney: Adventures
Y's
Yuumi from League of Legends
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unpopularshipbracket · 11 months
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The bracket is here! I had A Time fitting everything on one page, but it should embiggen so that all the names are legible. Thank you to everyone who submitted! I'll try to have the polls up soon.
Also, feel free to submit propaganda or images for any of the ships. By the nature of the bracket, it might be kinda hard to find stuff lmao.
The masterpost for the first tournament can be found here
Round 1a
Aaron Soto/Thomas Reyes vs. Mr. Mistoffelees/Rum Tum Tugger
Claude von Riegan/Flayn vs. Magic Brian/Brad Bradson
Kodiak Celius/Ambrose Cusk vs. Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill/Marco
Sam Lloyd/Evie O'Neill vs. Sir Hammerlock/Wainwright Jakobs
Shang Qinghua/Noodle Guy vs. Dr. Alto Clef/Dr. Benjamin Kondraki
Jonathan Walsh/Ozzie Graham vs. Bart Curlish/Ken Adams
Blaze the Cat/Rouge the Bat vs. Grimlock/Starscream
Montrose/Ellis vs. John Doggett/Monica Reyes
Gwyneth/Huma Dragonbane/Magius vs. Luz Noceda/Hunter
Lulu/Yuna vs. Zachary Ezra Rawlins/Dorian
Vicki Appleby/Maureen Sampson vs. Todd Anderson/Charlie Dalton
Rosalina/Pauline vs. Tristan Taylor/Duke Devlin
Charlie Airstar/Tesla Magnets vs. Aone/Hinata
Haruto Keats/Theoto Rikka vs. Static Man/Nicholas Waters
Jeremy Fitzgerald/Fritz Smith (Not Michael Afton) vs. Breekon/Hope
Touko Kirigaya/Tsukushi Futaba/Mashiro Kurata vs. Death/Bunnymund
Round 1b
Rashmi Jamil/Amelie Macon vs. Liam Dunbar/Hayden Romero
Taissa Turner/Shauna Shipman vs. Milo/Piers
Kate Shadow/Emilyko vs. Jupiter/Neptune/Venus
Josh Levison/Sally Malik vs. Sasuke Uchiha/Suigetsu Hozuki
Frank Grunn/Harold Ivy vs. Kyo Sohma/Yuki Sohma
Haruhi Fujioka/Renge Houshakuji vs. Aleksander/Regina
Officer Lockstock/Officer Barrel vs. Mihashi/Tajima
Chad Cola/Deuu Dino vs. Dale Cooper/Harry Truman
Dee Eliade/Audrey Myers vs. Arthur Rimbaud/Paul Verlaine
Tsukuyo/Sacchan vs. Dark Mousy/Krad
Benjamin Deeds/Nathaniel Carver vs. C-53/Pleck Decksetter
Skeleteen/Ram Man II vs. Gundam Tanaka/Hajime Hinata
Kyoko/Ayaka vs. Char Aznable/Amuro Ray
Wocky Kitaki/Vera Misham vs. Robin/Demetrius
Norita Yuuji/Shiota Nagisa vs. Andrei Bolkonsky/Pierre Bezukhov
Terry McGinnis | Batman/Shaka Okoro | Stalker vs. Mina Murray Harker/Lucy Westenra
Round 2a
Mr. Mistoffelees/Rum Tum Tugger vs. Magic Brian/Brad Bradson
Ax/Marco vs. Sir Hammerlock/Wainwright Jakobs
Shang Qinghua/Noodle Guy vs. Bart Curlish/Ken Adams
Blaze the Cat/Rouge the Bat vs. Montrose/Ellis
Gwyneth/Huma Dragonbane/Magius vs. Lulu/Yuna
Todd Anderson/Charlie Dalton vs. Rosalina/Pauline
Aone/Hinata vs. Static Man/Nicholas Waters
Breekon/Hope vs. Death/Bunnymund
Round 2b
Rashmi Jamil/Amelie Macon vs. Milo/Piers
Kate Shadow/Emilyko vs. Sasuke Uchiha/Suigetsu Hozuki
Kyo Sohma/Yuki Sohma vs. Haruhi Fujioka/Renge Houshakuji
Mihashi/Tajima vs. Dale Cooper/Harry Truman
Arthur Rimbaud/Paul Verlaine vs. Dark Mousy/Krad
Benjamin Deeds/Nathaniel Carver vs. Gundam Tanaka/Hajime Hinata
Char Aznable/Amuro Ray vs. Wocky Kitaki/Vera Misham
Norita Yuuji/Shiota Nagisa vs. Mina Murray Harker/Lucy Westenra
Round 3
Mr. Mistoffelees/Rum Tum Tugger vs Sir Hammerlock/Wainwright Jakobs
Shang Qinghua/Noodle Guy vs. Blaze the Cat/Rouge the Bat
Lulu/Yuna vs. Rosalina/Pauline
Static Man/Nicholas Waters vs. Death/Bunnymund
Rashmi Jamil/Amelie Macon vs. Kate Shadow/Emilyko
Haruhi Fujioka/Renge Houshakuji vs. Mihashi/Tajima
Dark Mousy/Krad vs. Gundam Tanaka/Hajime Hinata
Char Aznable/Amuro Ray vs. Mina Murray Harker/Lucy Westenra
Round 4
Sir Hammerlock/Wainwright Jakobs vs. Shang Qinghua/Noodle Guy
Rosalina/Pauline vs. Death/Bunnymund
Rashmi Jamil/Amelie Macon vs. Haruhi Fujioka/Renge Houshakuji
Gundam Tanaka/Hajime Hinata vs. Mina Murray Harker/Lucy Westenra
Semifinals
Sir Hammerlock/Wainwright Jakobs vs. Rosalina/Pauline
Haruhi Fujioka/Renge Houshakuji vs. Mina Murray Harker/Lucy Westenra
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where’s my direct-to-dvd sequel of dead poet society where neil comes back as a ghost and makes julius caesar references, todd and charlie get closer as friends, despite him being expelled, but for some reason have to get knox’s head out of a tree, and there’s a c plot where mr keating is in england trying to win back his girlfriend because he just forgot to write back to her while dealing with a bunch of teenaged queers in vermont-
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heinekenskyw4lker · 1 year
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under the influence of a brisk vicious fruity urge to write for my love cathy keating as my eagerness for season 8 of grantchester is all consumming, mind brimming with disorderly ideas, still being crossed at geordie for being, well geordie, missing mrs C and leonard and daniel and the keating kids so fucking much & even ALL THAT fails to egg on my motivation to actually write anything thus it is with such great dismay seeing it an act of pure homophobic dare I say anti-wlw self-sabotageing stunt from my own brain and I will not have it.
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local idiot need beloved 50's wonder mamma ✨swinnerton's queen✨ to return to the yard with her milfshake por favor
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undated-vanitas · 2 years
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Duchess of Devonshire and Lady Georgiana Cavendish (1787) - Georges Keating, after Joshua Reynolds. Mezzoprint.
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Portrait of Mrs. Cyrus J. Lawrence with her Grandson R. Lawrence Oakley (c 1898) - Mary Cassatt. Pastel on paper.
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if-you-fan-a-fire · 1 year
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“Japanese Action in Manchuria Defended Very Successfully,” Kingston Whig-Standard. February 17, 1933. Page 2. ---- “Resolved that this house approve Japan's activities in Manchuria” was the subject of the Intercollegiate Debate between Ottawa University and Queen's last evening at Convocation Hall. In the opinion of the Judges, Father C. J. Keating, Col. W. B. Megloughlin and Dr. D. A. Mackenzie-McNaughton, E. H. Gilmour and John Parlor of Queen’s, upholding the affirmative, were declared winner over Mr. Dougaid, and Mr. McDonald of Ottawa University, who upheld the negative. 
As first speaker for the affirmative, Mr. Gilmour stated that Japan activities in Manchuria were a benefit not only to the rest of the world but expressly to China herself. Japan’s rights were legal, having been granted to Japan by international treaty rights which had been overlooked too easily through the sinister influence of Chinese propaganda. Japan had a moral and legal right to her occupation of Manchuria, stated Mr. Gilmour. With a population of 70,000,000 people to feed, Japan must have an outlet and Manchuria was the logical solution. The history of Manchuria was one of Japanese investment and enterprise, Mr. Gilmour emphatically declared that by virtue of her government and development, China was not a sovereign nation— China did not have the first principle of sovereignty: good order and the power to maintain that order. 
The first negative speaker, Mr. McDonald, said that the province of Manchuria was racially and historically a part of China. The inhabitants spoke one dialect and in custom and manners they were one. Great Britain and the United States both considered Manchuria as a Chinese possession. The fact that 96 per cent of the population in Manchuria is Chinese was proof enough to establish ownership. “China, too.” said Mr. McDonald, ” needs an outlet.” Japan has broken five major treaties: the Portsmouth Treaty of 1905, the Sino-Japanese Treaty, the Nine Power Pact of 1922, the League Covenant, and the Pact of Paris. By these treaties Japan had agreed to evacuate Manchuria with the exception of a small territory to withdraw troop from this province to respect the territorial integrity of China- all of which she has disregarded. 
Mr. Parker,  the second affirmative speaker, showed that China is guilty of systematic persecution of the Japanese in Manchuria and that by a treaty of 1930, Japanese citizens were to be allowed to settle in certain districts. Conclusive proof showed that not only were the Japanese residents repeatedly threatened but likewise the owners, should they lease the land to Japanese citizens. The affirmative objected to Chinese boycott only when it was an instrument of national policy. Mr. Parker told of the chaotic internal condition of China and said the parts when the Japanese Government has influence were undoubtedly the best ordered. 
The last speaker, Mr. Dougald, replied to the question of the boycott by saying that the Chinese boycott was the sequel to the Japanese massacre of Chinese citizens. Japan’s only excuse for warfare was the ultimate-control of China by first getting Manchuria. Her plea of self-defense was only a petty subterfuge - she was ready at the slightest provocation for military aggression. The decision of the Judge brought the debate to a close.
[AL: Not a surprise that the ‘affirmative’ side of the debate, which deploys pro-setter colonialism arguments that would be familiar and celebrated by Canadians (especially the elite judges, military, prison and medical officers) won this exchange, even as the League of Nations condemned Japanese aggression in China.]
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toindeedbe-agod · 4 years
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random hcs for the deeply complex modern au i still thinj abt sometimes
neil:
hes in keatings class n hes a peer tutor for one of his lower grade classes AND in mr keatings secret club (dead poets society)
dads still forcing him into a career path n he gets so stressed trying to stay on top of all of his classes n he started emailing mr keating late at night, first it was like Teacher Approved venting but now he sends him memes at 3 am. mr keating always responds.
he n charlie got "married" in kindergarten
endlessly watches howls moving castle. he pretends that he only watches broadway bootlegs or artsy gay films but he literally watches howls moving castle in class all the time
hes on good terms with all his teachers so sometimes hes allowed to just... leave and take a nap in keatings class. keating repurposed the classroom closet to be full of soft things n a quiet space for kids because hes a good goddamn teacher
unironically still listens to be more chill
has a secret tumblr account bc his dad only lets him have a heavily monitored instagram
adores rent but pitts is rhe only one who will watch it Willingly with him anymore bc when he made them all watch it they were all so devastated. charlie didnt talk to him for 3 days
todd:
just moved here, hes neil's neighbor. charlie also lives in the neighbohood, and knox spends more time around there than his own home
his brothers the all star american boy meanwhile todd won the spelling bee in 3rd grade and gets star stickers on his creative writing assignments
has had like 3 interventions from teachers and he has to be like im really not super depressed i promise im just quiet
draws on himself a lot. hes not a spectacular artist but like... neil loves it
unfairly good at soccer but was too anxious to try out for the high school team
rlly rlly likes samurai jack. he keeps it a secret but hes absolutely obsessed
has a tik tok n most of his videos are of the dead poets its very sweet. he manages to get on the weirdest sides of tik tok tho, involving prison tik tok, serial killer tik tok, cartel tik tok, glitchcore tik tok, and one memorable time, bdsm tik tok
half his playlists r full of hozier.
shares his spotify premium with neil
that cool guy at school whos parents dont care about him so he can do whatever but unfortunate hes lame so he does nothing about it
charlie:
tik tok famous
keating lets him grade papers, and doesnt say anything when charlie fixes his friends mistakes, and once let him get away with erasing cameron's name from his paper so he had to redo the assignment
adopts freshmen
advertises parties on his snapchat
throws parties but not at his own house
horror movie fanatic.
obsessed with the sonic movie
his phone is full of selfies and really cursed memes
all his contacts have emojis
calls mr keating mom with confidence
has a massive crush on jim carrey meeks thinks its the funniest shit in the world
on a first name basis with the principals
meeks:
ppl paypal him to do their work for them
goes randonauting with pitts n sometimes charlie
little witch boy, but on the downlow
rlly into bugs
has every single streaming service but also watches more stuff online than charlie does
teaches all the boys abt queer media and teaches underclassmen or anyone who needs to know abt actual sex education despite being ace
office aide so hes rlly tight with the principals
watches a lot of bad tv from the 80s
has a terrible taste in music
eats sticks and rocks and mud
has 2 pet rats. secret rats. their names are rice and piss
says he shoplifts to look cool but has never stolen anything more than 2 dollars
has a rlly overbearing mom like he loves her but jesus christ please get a life other than watching over ur child all the time hes trying to be cool
hosts all the dead poets on holidays when he can. halloween is a blast
cant drive. none of them are very good at it but he doesnt even have a license
pitts:
so mad that thats his name
owns 4 different radios
actually in robotics. all the poets try to come to his matches, despite meeks being the only one who even vaguely understands it
2nd best driver. picks up neil if he ever gets stranded somewhere by his parents. it happens a lot.
owns a car
has been hunting a lot?? he doesnt even like it
bakes for the poets
takes cooking lessons sometimes, he likes to be self sufficient
likes to get into what all his friends r into so he can talk about it with them :) pitts is such a good guy id die for him
always packs snacks n stuff to feed to the boys throughout the day bc neil is physically incapable of eating at lunch time and the rest of them forget a lot
has a respectable amount of twitter and tik tok followers. is unaware of the significance of this. he just likes giving ppl helpful advice
gives good life tips and has high grades but hes stupid. set his hair on fire on a dare but it was mostly an accident. crashed a car into a brick wall. consistently has a burn on his hand
knox:
twitter bio definitely has "sad boy" in it
no thoughts, head empty
disaster in heelys and a cute top
LOVES tik tok
hydroflask full of pepsi
wears skirts bc fuck toxic masculinity
either shows up to school in a fit meant for the met gala or a hoodie and pants that are half on. there is no inbetween.
has tutoring after school like hes not behind in class or struggle too badly but he doesnt grasp what teachers fucking say half the time so they cover what he may have missed. good teachers. ideal world with teachers who care. jk only keating and his math teacher do it meeks helps with science
watched a livestream of a tv screen with the little blue ray video thing bouncing around for 6 hours and missed it when it hit the corner and cried about it for a day and a half
broke his wrist sophmore year in a heely related incident
has a snap score of like 30,000 idk i dont use snapchat i just know ppl who dont shut the fuck abt their snap score being like 30,000
goes thrifting a lot! barely owns fitting clothes
he n chris are bffs she taught him how to skateboard. is skateboard a verb? taught him how to skate using a skateboard
oh yeah. skater girl chris.
has a lot of anxiety about the state of the world anyways hes a vegetarian and tries to be zero waste to manage it. like he knows its corporations but it makes him feel good
plays lacrosse!
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sweetbrunch · 2 years
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when mrs. c gathered everybody and told them what was going on with her, I cried...
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inactive20011968 · 3 years
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guys i think im in some kind of a parasocial platonic relationship with my english teacher from last year lol i cried for like two hours last night cause I was a really bad student in his class and also because i dont have him this year and might never have him again what is wrong with me
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ierogenvy · 4 years
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dps kills me. if it wasn’t a late 80s gay romcom then what the fuck was it. why tell todd last and show his breakdown even tho everyone else has known neil longer. why have mr perry tell keating to stay away from neil like that if it was only about keating encouraging neil to do theater. why have keating be so empathetic to these seven boys, who he sees himself in, if he’s only an english teacher that has nothing else to relate to them with other than his experience as a straight white male that attended the same school
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