#Paul Holden

[curtis-brothers-hug]

Paul: “you still got that purple and gold madras shirt I gave you? I remember it looked pretty good on you. Really brought out your eyes. And the way it fit across your muscles…..I still scream into my pillow haunted by the image.”

Darry: “yeah, I still got it. I use it to mop up the shards of my broken heart.”

Greases and socs: “………………..”

“…………do we still need to be here?”

“Yeah, kinda feels like we’re intruding.”

“Hey guys? Um, the rest of us are gonna head out….you two can stay here and talk about…….whatever this is.”

[crow2222]

[greaserdreams]

victors “realllllllllll” 🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲

(amandasantillan16 tiktok)

[thembrooklynboysbig]

PAUL WEARS MATCHING YELLOW SOCKS??!!?!!)!??!!??!?? OMG

[aforeffective]

paul has never really cared when people are mad or upset with him. his friends will get over it, his parents don’t actually care, it’ll all be fine. but when cherry is upset with him, he hates it. that’s his sister, he always says he’s there to protect her so when she’s mad at him, it’s just proof that he’s failing to protect her

when bob dies, paul is so upset and he’s never really been great with his words or showing how he’s really feeling. he just wants to protect cherry and he needs her to understand that that could have been her

the boys she was talking to just killed his friend, HER BOYFRIEND. what’s to say that couldn’t have gotten violent with her, killed her?

he understands why she’s upset with him but he just needs her to understand that he’s trying to protect her

but unfortunately he’s not good with words and he isn’t good at dealing with emotions so he can’t get it through to her that he loves her and just wants to protect her and just wanted to defend her

[starvrs776]

So in one of my classes we made a toast for change and we had to make a goal and mine was to read for at least 15-30 minutes a day so I'm asking for a friend

Does Ao3 count as real reading?

Again asking for a friend...

She really likes parry (again definitely not me)

[maggiekuntzs]

another snippet for the 0 and a half people who care

[nutsackx]

pid-bit commission for @crazability

they’re so gorgeous….Tim and Paul are there too

[bl33d1ngheartz]

“You still got that purple and gold madras shirt I gave you? I remember it looked good on you” okay Paul I know what you are pack it up queer ass. GUYS THEY’RE BITTER EXES OKAY HEAR ME OUT

[trevination]

the outsiders musical + text posts part 2! (rbs are appreciated!)

(accepting requests for certain characters, pairs, etc! also feel free to submit a text post u think is funny/fits a character!) (also -- would u guys like character themed posts like this? like a whole post of just a certain characters/pair + text posts?)

[alittlebitofloveliness]

"He looked at Darry and said quietly, "Hello, Darrel." Something flickered behind Darry's eyes and then they were ice again. "Hello, Paul." I heard Soda give a kind of squeak and I realized that the blond was Paul Holden. He had been the best halfback on Darry's football team at high school and he and Darry used to buddy it around all the time." (The Outsiders, 1965)

I completely forgot about the Soda squeaking line, that is the reaction of a little brother who got ALL the tea on Darry's relationship with Paul and was NOT ready for this crossover episode

[l0stfoster]

GAY PEOPLE JUMPSCARE

I can’t lie, I’m pretty much set in stone on making this now. It’s not the whole song but it’s a good minute and a half I think. Thought that I might as well get myself some solid designs down so I don’t get too inconsistent, especially since I’ve never considered a Paul design before.

He paid for Darry’s varsity jacket :silly:

It’s fully sfw btw. I know that one pose is fruity as fuck [ok maybe the second one kinda is too] but it’s not gonna be anything else. They’re just two dudes making out, as they should. I really love the musical for giving us the lines about them n stuff, really makes me want more of them.

ALSO. THE ‘BROTHER’ ANIMATIC ISN’T CANCELED ORWHATEVER I’m just,, so burnt out on it. If anything I’ll cut down the audio and it’ll be a lot shorter than it was gonna be. Love you to death Darry but my style fluctuates so much that multiple frames of line-art is a struggle. I might be drawing more of these to

[crow2222]

[a-drewid]

They’re talking shit

[thembrooklynboysbig]

paul and darry call each other darling. and i have a sneaking suspicion that “calls his brother ‘baby’” darry curtis started it.

@sunshine-on-marz you know what im speaking on

[aforeffective]

thinking about paul holden and cherry valance who’s parents are close friends, maybe their dad’s are business partners or something

when cherry is born, the holdens bring paul to go see the new baby in the hospital. both sets of the parents are kinda hoping that they’ll grow up to get married and they can take over the business together (even though paul is 4 years older than her and like she was just born, let her live a bit before you plan out her whole life🙄)

but paul sees the newborn baby sleeping in the bassinet and just goes oh that’s my new sister

and neither set of parents are great so paul takes over taking care of cherry the way he’s seen other parents do with kids (never his own parents but he’s seen some of his friends’ parents before and how they act)

and to little 4 year old paul, this makes him her parent. so he begins calling her his baby. he’ll wake up for the day and pack a bag and get ready to walk down the street to the valance house by himself cause, as he tells his parents, “gotta go take care of my baby”

the parents get into the habit of just bringing one over to the other’s house and just leaving the two of them alone while they go out drinking and gambling and “doing business stuff” (it’s actually just partying with their other rich friends but they don’t want the kids to drag them down) (and i mean, if paul wants to call her his baby, then he can take care of her)

paul, who is 4, has absolutely no business being home alone to take care of himself, let alone taking care of a few month old baby but he manages to handle it

and as he gets older and he continues to be left alone with her for hours at a time like 4 or 5 days a week and he begins going to school and then going straight to the valance house instead of his home so that he can watch cherry, he realizes that he is the one raising her, so the nickname of “my baby” just sticks

cherry acts like she hates it when she’s like 2 or 3 and understands the connotation of being a baby but the older she gets, she realizes that paul is pretty much the one who raised her so she lets it slide (doesn’t mean she doesn’t pretend it annoys her though, especially when he does it in front of other people) (darry knew cherry as paul’s baby before he ever knew her name)

and while he does have other nicknames and pet names for her (he calls her princess and sweetheart a lot and he’s also the one that started calling her cherry), there’s something so special to them about him calling her his baby because she really is