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• i'm hopelessly hopeful (you're just hopeless enough) by izzyneedsabreak

  Fandoms: Dead Poets Society (1989)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  12 Jul 2023

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Todd Anderson/Neil Perry
  • Neil Perry
  • Todd Anderson
  • Knox Overstreet
  • Charlie Dalton
  • Steven Meeks (Mentioned)
  • Todd Anderson's Parents (mentioned)
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Fluff
  • Domestic Fluff
  • Established Relationship
  • there is literally so much domesticity in this
  • References to Period-Typical-Homophobia
  • anderperry are cat people i will die on that hill
  • neil is scared of bugs
  • i apologise in advance for making charlie straight it was necessary for the angsty neil monologues
  • Please Forgive me

  Summary

  'What’s wrong?' Todd asked immediately. He was beautiful and half obscured in the smoky limelight and Neil couldn’t do this right now. He let out a quiet groan, leaning against the bar as if he were trying to retreat into it.

   

  'Nothing. Everything. I don’t know.'

   

  'Specific,' Todd said with a wry smile, raising his bottle of beer slightly in Neil’s direction. A mocking toast.

   

  Neil pushed off of the bar again, rocking back and forth slightly on his heels. His gaze wandered briefly towards the dance floor before coming to rest once again on Todd. 'It’s just-' he let out a deep breath '-doesn’t it ever bother you?'

   

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  Or, post-canon AU in which the poets are all living in NYC after graduation, and Neil and Todd have some complicated thoughts about marriage.

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