(mostly) meeks headcanons because he deserves them
this boy values his hair above anything else
he needs a solid 30 minutes and a lot of hairspray to get the swoop just right
he tried contacts once but he panicked and couldn’t get them out so he’s sticking to his glasses
he sometimes sneaks out of the poets’ weekend study sessions to go to the record store because he doesn’t really need to study
the boys wondered where he kept going to every session so they followed him one day and caught him quietly humming along to sh-boom in a record listening booth
they teased him for weeks after that, loudly singing “life could be a dream, sweethearttt” every time they saw him
he did his own research about poetry outside of keating’s classes because he’s an overachiever like that
and found out about the Beat Generation of poets that was happening right then and he got so excited because they’re living through a transformative moment in the history of American literature
he excitedly told the poets about it at the next meeting and they started discussing the works of Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Herbert Huncke, and Lucien Carr
through the influences of the Beat Generation the boys started to become more open with their sexualities and not be so confined to heteronormativity
this is when meeks found out that he was ace
and neil and todd became a thing
the rest of the boys mostly figured themselves out too: cameron is ace and aro, charlie is bi, knox is straight, and pitts is still unsure but he knows he’s queer
he likes to write poems in latin and have charlie translate them during their tutoring sessions
“meeks what the fuck does this mean” “do you want me to keep tutoring you or not”
his name has always been spelled as “stephen” until his parents dug up his birth certificate and found out that his grandmother spelled it as “steven” when writing it down and so now he’s very confused and doesn’t know which one to use
can you tell that i just wanted an excuse to write about the beat generation because oh my god it was literally right there the writers could have done so much with it
