in honor of everyone who discovers this movie for the first time every year :') every once in a while, i'll get a couple likes on some of my (very) old dps posts and it's such a sweet reminder of a film i hold so dear to my heart. i hope u guys like these as much as i liked making them! feel free to discuss !!!

neil has not shut up about the theatrical release of the live capture of hadestown starting the original broadway cast. literally went to london just to see the renewal West End production of the original broadway cast (of course it was like his eighth time seeing hadestown).

+ of course he stagedoors every performance he goes to

++ each time he sees the show, he drags along a different dead poet

gerard pitts is freakishly good at doing kpop gg dances. has a tiktok chain of him doing a gg choreo every day. he recently hit 1,000 days of consecutively doing dance the night away by Twice. has Never. Never Ever. missed a single day of his choreo--he's committed for life to Twice.

+ he doesn't even like kpop nor does he know the names of any member of Twice, but he has a deep admiration for their choreo

++ meeks is the special guest dancer for every big milestone (100 days, 500 days, 1k days)...and yes everyone loves it when meeks shows up

charlie can't stop and won't stop doing the brainrot 67 move any time he passes by a young kid. thinks it's so funny when he can hypnotize a group of young kids into yelling 67 frantically and bouncing their hands up and down

+ loves to say the phrase "rawdog" in completely inappropriate contexts

++ has an ongoing challenge with himself to see how often he can slip in the word "rawdog" without anyone noticing

todd runs a clay cracking/slime/wax cracking asmr account and takes it laughably seriously. will literally plan out video ideas weeks in advance and can be very frequently found awake at 2am preparing his paraffin wax-covered clay figurines for his videos.

+ runs his account like it's the military. never misses his weekly upload. has a whole sound production set-up in his room to maximize the "satisfying" crackles

++ uses the word "tingles" which gives all the other poets the ick (except neil)

meeks has a shit posting twitter account and everyone thought he was a girl until he decided to posted a face reveal at 10k followers. had to then make 17 separate clarification posts that he was in fact Not a girl and that Boys can like Matcha and Clairo and make kawaii edits of Robert Pattinson

+ prior to face reveal, he constantly posted about SuperBat yaoi which only further added to the confusion bc all his mutals just thought he was a he/him lesbian fujo

++ would tweet about pitts all the time, to the point where all his mutals thought pitts was his bf and every "hangout" was a date

richard cameron has an incredibly elaborate animal crossing island that he's been working on for Years. literally has hundreds of hours logged on his switch and is very serious about which residents he wants on his island and which residents he venomously hates. religiously checks the radish trading prices and prides himself on never cheating to get enough money to upgrade his island

+ hates Hawks with a burning passion for no good reason

++ associates each dead poet with a specific animal crossing villager

knox is a secret megafan of Justin Bieber. not just a fan since the Swag album, but actually had been a fan since the My World 2.0 album. he used to beg his mom to take him to the concerts and he would dress up in the same outfits as JB (think white on white denim and a purple snapback--backwards, of course--with a purple hoodie)

+ even had the same haircut as 2011 Justin Bieber for YEARS

i cant stop thinking abt these 😭😭 HELP

ugh u definitely know neil is never ever going to drive anywhere ever. got his license first out of all the poets, but absolutely refuses to drive places. would rather walk 45 min in the sweltering hot sun to get to the park than drive 10 min. he's trying to prove something but no one rlly knows what LMFAO

+ asks everyone for rides during the peak of summer cause he nearly passed out from a heat stroke while walking once

todd vs driving his mom's old minivan. that hunk of metal is busted beyond normal wear and tear but todd is forever convinced that his car is near mint condition. always takes 10 extra minutes to park bc his car is so fucking big 😭😭 designated driver for group trips bc his car is the only one that can fit everyone

+ he always says "i told u so" when his car is actually useful

ever seen one of those cars whipping it through a parking lot narrowly missing several small children? yeah that's definitely charlie. only knows where the gas pedal is, absolutely no breaking or slowing down. "bad drivers never miss their turn" is what charlie embodies. at least his car is always nice and cold though to distract you from your impending death via his driving

+ silly drink guy, always has a silly drink in his cup holder (sometimes it's a week old, nearly moldy starbucks matcha drink)

pitts is the most careful driver of the year, always at speed limit, follows code of conduct to a tee despite everyone in the car hating him for it. cares wayyy too much abt the opinion of whoever is in the passenger seat; will let the passengers dictate the ac settings, aux cord, windows up/down is all up to the passengers, he is just driver.

+ HIS SEAT SETTINGS ARE SO WILD. he's siting with his spine perfectly straight, head hunched slightly over the wheel to ""see the entire road""

knox took his test seven times. Seven. passing is passing though. even though charlie is an objectively bad driver, knox is somehow always worse. first one to get into a crash & first one to total his car. no one rlly knows how or why he is so bad at driving...who gave him a mfing car PLS

+ has a "hype" playlist for driving, except he's banned from playing it while driving bc during both accidents he's been in, the playlist was at the crime scene.

world's biggest mystery is cameron's car bc how can someone be so outwardly neat and organized by drive in such a chaos fire of garbage??? car floor has not been seen in years, actively pushing trash and wrappers off the seat to be able to sit in cameron's car. dont even mention the crunching noises that happen whenever u try to get in/out of the car bc of the shear amt of trash in that man's car. funnily enough, only the driver's side is ever perfectly clean,,, u think he does it to spite the poets? LMAO

todd is a teenage girl at heart bc he loves his iced vanilla oatmilk lattes <3

charlie religiously venmos every poet exactly at 12:00am june 1st for pride month

the comment section of pitts' tiktok is filled with girls commenting "i want him" which pitts definitely gets clowned for

neil is apart of That theater kid friend group who ambushes Denny's at 11pm after every show and proceeds to be every waitress' nightmare table

meeks always has a nice smelling car that is filled to the brim with anything you could ever need. napkins? in the glove box. straws? in the backseat pocket. mcdonalds sweet and sour sauce? check the basket in the trunk. charger? which phone do u have.

knox's iphone screen is shattered beyond use, i'm talking like chunks of glass actively fall out of his phone screen but he refuses to replace it bc he still has an iphone 6 and refuses to give up his home button. literally no one even understands how he reads Anything on his screen...it's half green lines

charlie never being the designated driver because he invokes the fear of god into everyone the moment he sits in the driver's seat

todd has a letterboxd account that he takes way too seriously. christopher nolan fanboy

knox refuses to drink water because "it tastes bad" and instead drinks a steady diet of coke zero and dr. pepper... u know his pee is radioactive yellow

neil is known to never text back and the only way u will ever get information to him is by calling him. texting is too ""impersonal"" or whatever tf neil likes to make up that week when he misses an entire dead poets gathering bc he NEVER checks his texts

meeks has 40k unread emails... no one knows what they are or who they come from

cameron has no social media whatsoever.. its an empty instagram page with one post from middle school. he follow approximately 20 people

it takes him weeks to annotate each chapter, and he has to do it in multiple sittings which allows you to see the range of hand writings neil has. from messy scribbles in the margins to perfectly written notes between the lines of text.

everything done in the same pen. he circles words that stand out to him and leaves "haha"s when he finds something amusing.

he would do little drawings in the free spaces and leave mini letters on the front and back cover. if he had extra time, he would make a one-of-a-kind bookmark specifically for that book.

sometimes he even asks you to draw something; especially on their bad days, they like sitting by you and watching you scribble away on his arms

they like looking over at his arm during trigonometry to see your little doodles of butterflies and smiley faces. or maybe a tree and some bees on top of a hill.

charlie would too, but it wouldn't be nearly as surprising as the todd anderson throwing a punch so hard you could hear an audible crack when his fist connects with someone's nose.

i think it's because todd surpresses so many emotions, eventually a snide remark towards any one of his friends is enough to trigger such a visceral response