#paul the outsiders

[wr1t3w1tm3]

Bro at my school there was literally a girl obsessed because she'd watched the movie a year before.

Also as extra credit we got to do anything from a list of assignments so I made a Pokémon like game where you drew cards and played them to destroy the opponents. The teacher wanted to use it as an example for the next year so i let her, but I never got the game back.

I might need to remake this tbh.

The middle school adjacent to my highschool had a dress up day for the eight graders as the outsiders I did it in eighth grade too but I overheard the kids hating on the movie like I would kill to be back in eighth grade reading the book guys I was Steve it was great they need to be grateful for what they have 😔

[dallasgallant]

To give credit to Paul I’d also loose it if I fumbled my homoerotic situationship with Darry Curtis

[crow2222]

[greasegotahold]

Literally just realized that in Justice for Tulsa, Paul tries twice to falsely implicate Cherry. The obvious one is accusing her of, horror of horrors, holding hands with Pony at the concession stand when she didn't. But in the live performance he tries to make her testify to the Cop abt who killed Bob before he does when she wasn't a witness at the scene, and probably didn't even know it was happening until after the fact bc her break up with Bob stuck and presumably she went home with Marcia.

[theemosiders]

(2/2) the socs on bway!! i gave these drawings to the actors on bway when i watched them!! 10/10 show would recommend

[offbrandhandymanny]

The Argument

Here is pt 4 the argument between Darrel and Soda

Darrel knows caring for another human is one of the most stressful things in existence

He's scared that Soda's not gonna understand how much effort goes into caring for a child

Darrel isn't making enough money to support a baby and neither is Soda

Soda comes out of his room after Cherry falls asleep and goes back to the living room where Darrel is

Darrel explains to Soda that he doesn’t want to takeover for them if Cherry or Soda decide to dip

Darrel thinks about his next words really carefully

“Maybe Cherry’s dad was right about her getting an abortion?” 

Soda’s face dropped. “WHAT?!”

“Im sorry but even if Cherry wants to go through with the pregnancy, there's adoption”

Soda absolutely loses it

He begins screaming at Darrel about how dare he say that to him

The argument is loud and big

They don't argue often but when they do, it’s BAD

Soda explains how they can’t give her up, that's his flesh and blood 

But Darry is so adamant that this is the best option

Soda eventually just gets so fed up and says if he wants to put his daughter in a foster home then he can put him there too

Darry ofc does NOT want this but it only makes him angrier tbh. So then he is yelling at soda and reminding him that he is a high school dropout

Soda brings up the fact that a greaser kid would get treated worse in foster care than they would in a greaser home 

Darrel is adamant whoever took the baby in would never know they were a greaser to which soda bites back with “Bullshit, you of all people should know that being a greaser hangs on you like a stain”

Soda just leaves and goes back to his room and just watches Cherry sleep 

They don't talk to each other for a hot minute

[ponyboysponycake]

ponyboy: so uh .... paul?

Darry: paul?

Ponyboy: paul.

Darry: why?

Ponyboy: you now why.

Sodapop: Darry and paul had i thing going on.

Darry:soda!!!!

[too-damn-good-for-growing-old]

Hello hello HELLO my dear Outsiders community!

I’m Allison! I’m a Huge fan of this incredible story in all it’s mediums ☀️

Some quick fun facts about me:

I saw the musical at La Jolla Playhouse in 2023 and have seen it 7 times on Broadway! (Latest viewing: 10/26/2024) I try to go to the show at least once a month.

I directed the stage adaptation of the story (a straight play, not the musical) when I was in college! It was one of the greatest joys of my life.

I have seen the movie and read the book more times than I can count!

I have a beagle named Tulsa and I believe he should be the official Outsiders mascot

My current goal is to sit in the front row on Broadway and get that gosh 😤 darn 😤 book 😤

My asks and DMs are quite literally always open for anything and everything Outsiders! Or just anything theatre related at all, I’m not picky.

And it goes without saying, but….stay gold 💛

[rileyh20]

I should make a Darry x Paul fic...

[outsidersheadcanons]

is there any paul x darry headcanons you have?

Yes!! (so this isn't so much shippy as it is unrequited love, but tbh it fits the characters more (hope u don't mind anon))

Darry met Paul in high school during football tryouts. They started talking and quickly became friends (despite Darry being a greaser and Paul being a soc they had a lot in common personality wise)

Paul always liked Darry. Ever since they first met. But he never told him (or anyone for that matter) his feelings, though Darry could kinda tell?? that Paul liked him. He didn't like him back but he was OK with it and still didn't mind hanging out.

In the musical Ponyboy mentions that Darry used to spend the night at Paul's house, which I thought was interesting (given their different social standings. It was even mentioned that Paul had bought Darry a madras shirt. I think he bought it for him bc he liked him). When Darry would stay over they'd just sit on Paul's couch and talk for hours. Paul's pretty quiet so Darry was surprised that he was so talkative when it was just them.

They were really close until senior year, when the socs figured out that it was Paul who gave Darry the madras shirt (he had been wearing it to school pretty regularly cause it was one of the nicer shirts he had) and Paul told them he only gave it to him because he felt sorry and because Darry was "obsessed with him". Darry was really hurt by this and got into a huge fight with Paul the last week of school (no one really talks abt it but it was so bad Darry almost wasn't allowed to walk at graduation).

They didn't talk after that for like. a good decade 💀 until one day Paul reached out to Darry and told him everything that had happened over the years (his parents had written him off for being gay) and he even apologized for humiliating him. I like to think after that Paul had a nice life and him and Darry became friends again (the latter even attending his weddings in the 2010's.)

[alaskan-wallflower]

really debating on having paul be the one to out darry as being wretched like

paul was out with some friends once, it was him and some other soc guys (bob, trip, brill, i can’t remember the other socs guys names…) and they were out kinda just drinking and hanging around when suddenly the topic of ‘darry’ comes up-everyone with eyes can see that paul has a massive thing for darry but he’s obviously gonna deny it (idk if i’m gonna have their relationship be a thing in wretched, i need y’all to sway me or smth-i’m easily swayed lol) but they kinda just keep teasing him and in a drunken and absolutely flustered state he just blurts out ‘i could never love a wretched beast like him’ and they all pause like ‘tf did you say?’ but then he tries to kinda joke about it like ‘oh yeah tou wonder why he never takes off that dang pendant.’ and they’re like ‘shit you’re right’ and paul just feels sick but he can’t tell them not to do it because his status is that important to him

now cue the night where darry is outed to the whole community, it’s a football game, biggest and most important one, it’s halftime and a group of socs surround him and start up with ‘a little birdie told us that you’ve been hiding something~’ and darry immediately gets whiplash because ‘holy shit did paul seriously out me like that?’ but in the stunned brief he takes they just rip the pendant off his neck and shive him back outside where he ends up going to his normal gryphon size abs he’s just absolutely embarrassed and infuriated and mortified and betrayed and he just takes a quick glance at paul with the most hurt look ever

should i draw this ���🤩

[the-greaserhood]

in another life darry and paul are mitch and cam from modern family and lily is ponyboy

[dallasgallant]

I know it’s been a second since my last rewatch but I’ve always confused the soc in the white shirt for Paul and it’s not, this is Paul:

So like what’s the white shirt guys deal then because he like absolutely one hits pony the second the fights on

[thembrooklynboysbig]

shipping parry is so weird because what do you mean paul fucking holden is my fourth favorite character (my version of paul, not canon)

WHAT DO YOU MEAN I LIKE PAUL MORE THAN JOHNNY. WHAT DO YOU MEAN.

[this-hopeless-war]

DARREL CURTIS AND PAUL HOLDEN DARREL CURTIS AND PAUL HOLDEN

[wildmrmix]

I wonder what happened with Darry and Paul (I think that’s his name?). I mean if they were good friends, I don’t think it would just fall apart when the Curtis parents died and Darry became the provider for his brothers. Was there a fight? Maybe Paul was angry at how Darry was throwing his life away so easily when he had a good future ahead of him. Did Darry, stressed while trying to get used to his new job/s, say something to break their friendship off? Did they just drift apart when Dar became “just a greaser” and not “fellow football player”? I’m curious