‘O Me! O Life!’

love to be like 'neil was down bad so fast for todd' but literally all the poets were; like a week in of todd stuttering and avoiding them and they were like yes, our new best friend (whether he likes it or not)

I GET MY LIP PIERCED TOMORROW IM SO EXCITED AND TERRIFIED YAHOOOOO

THAT WAS THE MOST PAINFUL EXPERIENCE OF MY LIFE

I remember watching Dead Poets Society for the first time, and it never clicked with me in my first watch that Neil had lied to Keating about talking with his father. Because of that, I never fully understood the weight behind Neil’s final scene as Puck within the play. Thus, my second viewing of the film in which that realization did occur, made that scene of Neil as Puck, delivering his lines straight to his father, hit so much deeper. For just as Puck asks for forgiveness from the audience should the play have caused offense, so to does Neil ask forgiveness from his father. Puck also calls upon the audience to think of the play as nothing more than a dream should they take offense. Because Neil’s father could neither cast approval nor forgiveness, the play and, thus, acting would forever remain a dream for Neil.

i don’t think any of you understand that charlie would rather be expelled than lie about neil’s death…

what doesn't kill you makes you stay on tumblr for 13 years and counting

everytime someone says "neil should've just waited until after military school to continue acting, his death was so unnecesarry" i die a little bit inside