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I'm Seeing Stars Sink (In These Dreams) by absurddino
Fandoms: Dead Poets Society (1989)
15 Nov 2025
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He straightens his coat, stepping up to the building. This is his future. This is where he'll be able to thrive, he can feel it. Without the strict rules, maybe he'll make some friends. And even if not, there is always fencing. The one reason he chose this place. His one goal.
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Or: Richard Cameron transfers to Welton to pursue his fencing dreams. (Along the way he falls in love, meets the people that will become his best friends, and much more). -
the poet and the pragmatist (there was happiness because of you) by rubylaurus
Fandoms: Dead Poets Society (1989)
07 Nov 2025
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a look at john keating's past, present, and future through the eyes of the one that knows and loves him best - george mcallister. an examination of patriarchal roles, belief in god, social order, and fatherhood. familiar faces make appearances and old secrets are brought to light in a race to emancipate the next generation of dead poets from the forces that destroyed the lives of the previous.
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When John House sent his son to Welton Academy to “make a man out of him” and “teach him how to behave”, Greg didn’t expect to find anything more than cold stone walls, boys in uniforms, and rules carved in Latin. He didn't expect Neil Perry — warm, theatrical, and nothing like him. A shared room becomes shared music, scribbled margins, and questions neither of them is quite ready to answer.
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“It's anxiety with rhythm.”
Neil shook his head in disbelief. “You voluntarily put this in your ears?”
“Better than glittery denial set to piano,” House smirked. “Which, I assume, is your genre of choice.” -
Tortured Thoughts (Why Do They Look Like You?) by Remus_Kin
Fandoms: Dead Poets Society (1989), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Marauders Era - Fandom
03 Nov 2025
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Remus Lupin was 17 when he was sent to Welton Academy for Boys. With narcolepsy and crippling social anxiety, Remus does his best to navigate the uncharted waters that are his boarding school. But when he becomes enraptured with poetry and it's vices, it's Sirius Black who will be his muse.
But will Remus and his friends be able to resist the temptation that the sucking the marrow out of life offers? And who will be left to choke on the bone? -
I Smiled Sadly, For a Love I Could Not Obey. by melanxholyhill for the other 10 cherry shippers out there
Fandoms: Dead Poets Society (1989)
30 Oct 2025
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And yet, in quiet moments, when no one was watching, Neil felt the ache of Charlie’s absence like a hollow in his chest. He remembered the warmth of that hand in his own, the nervous press of Charlie’s lips to his knuckles, and he wondered if he would ever be able to touch anyone without remembering the boy who had loved him so fiercely and lost him so cruelly.
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He Best Deserves The Name Of Father, Who Acts The Part Of One by Cunty_Cassandra
Fandoms: Dead Poets Society (1989)
27 Oct 2025
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When Neil Perry is hospitalised after making an attempt on his own life, Mr Keating and the Dead Poets aren’t willing to let the poor boy suffer the consequences of his actions alone.
Although Mr Perry, Principal Nolan, and the dire 1959 mental health care system aren’t about to make it easy for them.
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- Part 1 of He Best Deserves Series
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was I most complete (at the beginning? or the bow?) by potentiallyunlovable
Fandoms: Dead Poets Society (1989)
25 Oct 2025
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Todd drops his head down, lets his chin sit near his chest, and then looks across to Neil’s bed. No one’s made it while Todd’s been sleeping, and he climbs out of his own, sits down on the mattress, and grips onto the blankets. He feels the rough material between his fingers, and brings it up to his face. Presses his nose into it, longing to feel the heat of Neil in it still. He could go into the wardrobe, he thinks, and run his fingers along the edge of Neil’s clothes. Remember happier days of a time he wore each one.
He sighs, drops the blanket from his face, and opens his eyes.
Neil is watching him.
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A Ghost Story
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The poets if Neil didn't die
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Diana Fawn has two goals: stay with her uncle, John Keating, for as long as possible before she goes off to university, and develop her craft as an author. John's plans to continue teaching teenagers to suck the marrow out of life takes Diana for surprise when, after their sudden departure from London, he takes up a position at his alma mater Welton Academy. Diana never planned to attend an all-boys school, and she has no intention of letting it stray her from her goals; but what if it teaches her something greater, more all-encompassing, about love and friendship and the sweet gift of life to be lived; and what if it all comes crashing down?
Warning: the ending doesn't change.
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Freefalling For You by drpeppercreamsoda
Fandoms: Dead Poets Society (1989), Spider-Man - All Media Types
19 Oct 2025
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Neil Perry never asked to be Spider-Man.
He just wanted to skateboard, avoid disappointing his father, and maybe star in A Midsummer Night's Dream again. Instead, he’s stuck at a science camp in 1996 Manhattan, pretending to care about Oscorp’s latest biotech marvels—until a spider bite changes everything.
Now there’s danger rising at Welton Academy, a secret poetry club in the making, and Todd Anderson—his soft-spoken new roommate, who sees right through him. With the city changing and power thrumming beneath his skin, Neil has to decide what kind of legacy he wants to leave behind: one of hiding, or one of heroism.
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"These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which, as they kiss, consume."
-Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 6A Romeo and Juliet inspired Dead Poets Society story.
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I know it’s over (and it never really began) but in my heart, it was so real by applesandpears226
Fandoms: Dead Poets Society (1989)
13 Oct 2025
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It’s 1959 and Welton's students have returned after summer break. Charlie begins and ends the year hating Richard Cameron. But things weren’t always like this…
Tracking on from the beginning of 1958 onwards, Welton's newest student, Richard, had been assigned a dorm room with Charlie, and despite being so different from one another, they can’t bring themselves to give up on a friendship and will fight for it until the very end.Yeah so this is a chameron fic… and heavily focused on Cameron
what happened before Charlie and Cameron fell out? Find out here!!!!!(Btw guys this is INCREDIBLY slow burn. Like it goes over the entire year of 1958.) also it's my first fic! So apologies for mischaracterising (if i do) and mistakes, i just wanted to feed the few Chameron fans! Plus they are my hyperfixation rn lol
Im also British so it was hard to achieve 1950’s America accuracy (i hope i did okay!)
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There are a lot of different types of people in New York City.
Aspiring actors, experimental jazz soloists, poorly paid interns at aerospace engineering companies who dream of becoming rocket scientists themselves, radio hosts, lovesick musicians who can barely play guitar, bland 9-5 workers, and even anonymous journalists.
Lots of strange things happen in New York City every day. But this story could maybe contain some of the strangest...
OR a Dead Poets Society Shitty 90s Romcom AU
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Star-Crossed Lovers [ A Charlie Dalton FanFic ] by Annstas_Peitidh
Fandoms: Dead Poets Society (1989)
11 Oct 2025
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Not all love stories are meant to be. What's the adage again? Right person, wrong timing? This is what the story of Charlie Dalton and Elizabeth Fitzgerald sums up.
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This Follows 7 girls in a prestigious prep school in the late 50s as they navigate passion, self expression, love, self discovery and things that come with being a teenage girl in the 1950s.
Nell Perry is filled with a new sense of purpose when Welton Academy's new english teacher inspires her to chase after her passions. Tori Anderson is stuck between her desire to seize the day and her fear of being perceived. All of the girls face struggles and have to learn to overcome them. They band together to fight against discrimination and become a true family.
I will be putting trigger warnings at the start of chapters where I feel nessessary:)
This is the official Spotify playlist for this fic:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/06hpwqBnAD6mFwaVb8vUaW?si=T3d9j91QQwigtLE8DeWOgg&pi=Jk4MGQGTRCefR&pt=0b0e6d9d962b4d8d2474023f9804b1e3
My Spotify account is bethany4565
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If you're intrested:)
(The title is a quote from Emily Dickinson)
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Neil wishes this feeling of unbearable dread that someone will tell his father about his 'secret' would just leave him. So he transfers to Welton.
Title from 'Lover, You Should've Come Over' by Jeff Buckley.
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Es vergonzoso, incluso, lo mucho que Neil gravita hacia Todd.
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- Part 1 of Dead Pirates Society
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Steven Meeks and Gerard Pitts slowly but surely falling for eachother, stubbornly refusing to confess even when it seems like they get pushed to do so.
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Empty Space (where your lips still linger) by lacytopsandlongskirts
Fandoms: Dead Poets Society (1989)
25 Sep 2025
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It is quite the feeling when your (very new) best friend gets a crush, and maybe even has himself a date, without telling you first. It's a separate and wholly more intimate one when you yourself have a crush on that friend.
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Todd Anderson sees Neil with a girlfriend and goes (nearly) batshit crazy about it.
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I Know There Won't Always Be Sunshine by He_doesnt_know_what_hes_doing
Fandoms: Dead Poets Society (1989)
20 Sep 2025
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After the death of his older brother Jeffery, Todd Anderson's parents enroll him at Welton Public High School in hope that he can, in a way, take his brother's place. When Todd meets the school's new English teacher, Mr. Keating, he and the rest of his class are pushed to realize that, in order to truly live, you must learn to live for yourself.
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a modern retelling of Dead Poets Society that I really don't think is very good but THAT'S OKAY