whats your favourite anderperry scene?

obviously its the "no?" "no!" scene.

thats such a basic fucking bitch answer

FINE YOU WANT A REAL ANSWER?!?! THAT ONE SCENE WHERE NEIL IS STARING AT TODD AND TODD LOOKS AT NEIL AND NEIL QUICKLY SCRATCHES HIS EAR THAT NOT MANY PEOPLE NOTICE BECAUSE ITS IN THE BACKGROUND. LOOK IT UP.

the scene where charlie is walking back after getting in trouble w nolan?

half french todd anyone? can anyone hear me.

I HEAR YOU I LOVE IT.

hi welcome to my essay

is this based solely in my insane brainrot? yeah probably. i’m doing it anyway

THE TIME TAYLOR SWIFT CONFIRMED ANDERPERRY LORE

This is Josh Charles

If you don’t know who he is, that’s cool. No one does. If you do know who he is, you’re probably gay, depressed, or both. Probably both.

And this is Josh Charles in 1989, in the critically acclaimed, cult classic film Dead Poets Society

Does he look familiar? Well, if you’re big on pop culture and/or a Swiftie, he should

Because THIS is Josh Charles in 2024

in Taylor Swift’s Fortnight music video

But who’s that standing next to him?

It’s Ethan Hawke

Who ALSO starred in Dead Poets Society (1989)

Kind of weird right? But whatever

UNTIL you remember that Fortnight is the first track off the latest Taylor Swift album

called The Tortured Poets Department

Now, the premise of the music video is that Taylor was in love with Post Malone’s character but only for a fortnight and losing him after loving him is what drove her into madness basically, so she’s been imprisoned in this asylum called The Tortured Poets Department where Josh Charles and Ethan Hawke are doctors that are experimenting on her to help her get over her love for Post Malone. Note that Post Malone is also there and is another one of the doctors.

Canonically in Dead Poets Soceity Josh Charles’ character Knox Overstreet is in sort of this awkward situationship with a girl named Chris Noel, who’s “practically engaged” to this idiot called Chet and it's assumed that after everything goes down at the end of the film, Knox stops pursuing her and Chris marries Chet to live out her horrific 1950's housewife prophecy.

Similarly, Ethan Hawke’s character, Todd Anderson, is in this tragic queer-coded homoerotic friendship with main protagonist Neil Perry (played by the lovely Robert Sean “Bobby” Leonard) that never manages to come to fruition because of Neil’s untimely death via suicide.

So back to Taylor. Obviously she's a patient in The Tortured Poets Department being treated for her hopeless love for Post Malone. She says she even took the "magical move-on drug" but "the effects were temporary," which implies that what Josh and Ethan are testing on her is this drug, this cure-all for lost romance, and they haven't quite figured it out.

Which makes perfect sense, when you think about what happened to Knox and Todd. They had these short-lived perfect loves with Chris and Neil respectively that ended before anything could ever happen. Love cut too short, just like Taylor and Post Malone. Which is wild when you realize that means TS basically just confirmed anderperry.

Not only this, but in the movie, the boys are encouraged to write and enjoy poetry thoroughly, and while all the boys take it to heart, Knox and Todd are the ones that are frequently seen actually writing poetry. Knox uses it to try and win Chris over, as well as working through his feelings for her, while Todd uses it as a guilty pleasure sort of thing that he's seemingly embarrassed by (which I could talk about for 25 pages but I'll spare you.)

So basically, just like Taylor, Knox and Todd are also tortured poets. Which means not only are they the doctors trying to come up for a cure for their own maladies, they're also patients in the Tortured Poets Department

THEY'RE JUST AS CRAZY AS TAYLOR.

If that seems too big a stretch, remember that Post Malone is there. From his bridge we see that he's going through the same thing as Taylor except on the opposite side, and he's also seen in the poetry room with Taylor, confirming that he himself is a poet as well, and in the lab he's also a doctor. So Josh and Ethan are patients just as much as Post Malone is, who's just as much as Taylor.

All four of them are locked in together, trying to get over these lost loves they are mourning.

By deliberately choosing not just Ethan Hawke to cameo, but also Josh Charles, and not say Dylan Kussman or Gale Hansen, or even MAIN STAR Bobby Leonard, it draws a direct parallel between Knox and Todd's characters, and therefore between Chris and Neil, and therefore, Taylor Swift has basically confirmed the ongoing implication that anderperry was the metaphor all along.

i might kms now

dont be shy

crying screaming throwing up i love anderperry </3

after hours of whining, begging, saying please over and over again todd finally agreed to go out on the boat with neil that night: "but if i catch a cold it's your fault!" and then, at midnight, after having to shake him awake several times, todd and neil were on the lake in the small boat. how neil had gotten the boat out at this time of the year was beyond todd, "it's so beautiful out here." neil whispered. todd looked around, it was beautiful. "look at those stars." neil said. but the only stars todd could look at where the ones in neils eyes. neil looked over and saw todd staring at him, "what?" he asked. todd face coloured crimson, "uh nothing." they sat in silence until neil broke it: "todd? can i ask you something?" todd hummed in reply. "but you have to swear not to get mad." "fine i wont." "no swear it!" "alright, i swear i wont get mad." todd sighed, "what is it that you wanted to ask me then?" "do you like me?" the question came out hesitant, and neil saw todd avoiding his eyes. "well uh, ofcourse i do, youre an amazing friend, and a great roommate." "i didnt mean like that." "oh.." the other replied. "what i meant is do you like me the way youre supposed to like girls?" todd began to stutter, "i- uh well, uhm?" "because i like you the way im supposed to like girls." neil confessed. "you do?" todd looked neil in the eyes, those beautiful eyes. "yeah, i have for a while now." "well i like you too, the way im supposed to like girls." neil smiled, feeling relieved. the silence returned, everything felt peaceful. "so.." todd broke the silence, "what now?" neil let out a chuckle, "i honestly dont know." neil looked at todd, "todd. will you be my boyfriend?"

After The Incident, Charlie and Todd get really close and everyone kind of grows up and moves on but they stay like best friends and don’t really hang out with anybody besides each other and whenever someone asks about it, they both just say “Neil would’ve wanted me to look after him.”

this is so sad im gonna throw up

I wholeheartedly believed they were in a relationship secretly the whole movie based purely off of THIS picture

looking at this brings a pain to my chest