#ward stradlater

[minsu-the-cowardly-human]

Post-epligoue and they're friends now(plz let me live in fantasyland/lh /nm /hj) btw in this scenario the book is like shit he writes to his therapist that his therapist ended up sending to Stradlater idk why butbshdhdhdhsh-

Stradlater: Hey Holden! You must be happy today!

Holden: I guess..being back in Pencey is..kind of..comforting in a disturbing way

Stradlater: No it's Saint Patrick's Day dude, you can just ask people to kiss ya since you're Irish.

Holden: ...I never told you I'm Irish...

Stradlater: Yeah you did..*holds up a letter*

Holden: ...did you read all those letters?

Stradlater: Yeah? It was the only thing worth reading in this place

Holden, remembering how many times he called Stradlater hot: ...

[enginnwee]

holden if tcitr was popular in the 2010s

[driftingthruspace]

useless flit /derogatory

says me, also a useless flit

[classiclitshippingpolls]

Do You Ship It?

Reasoning: „its peak”

[pancakereportgerardway]

citr server join now

https://discord.com/invite/c4U4SrpXch

[minsu-the-cowardly-human]

Imma answer with my Holden Caulfield playlist because erm why not >:]

1: um...not really any...but the most plausible to happen in like an au would be Hansel by Soddiken or dumb dumb by maize

2: Your New Home by Gooseworx and His Theme by Toby Fox(my only explanations are your new home is just him realizing like holy shit I'm growing up and his theme reminds him of Allie :])

3: ok literally just added didn't know it was on Spotify but It'll be OK from fiw...ik what the song is about but the only part that applies is the "I always wanted my own brother" esp the "but then he signed that record label, a cute quinet of boyish sound. But now that everybody loves him, I'm just a face out in the crowd" when D.B got into Hollywood and kinda left their family in his opinion yk?

4: Monster by Skillet/This is not a Christmas Song by NEFFEX, enough said

5: Soft Bitch by Rio Romeo and God it's so good, his ass would never listen to it but I view it as him getting soft around Stradlater cuz yk I ship em

6: My R by Lollia with him wanting to be the catcher in the rye and stuff

7: Nobody Likes Me(Think I'll go eat worms) by ABC Kids. I can't explain it other than he would be an animation meme kid

character playlists always should have the following:

song that is pretty accurate to the character’s story

song that doesn’t fit the character at all but i was thinking about them while listening to it on loop

song that has one or two lines accurate to the character’s story

song that just kind of is the character’s vibe

song that i desperately wish they would listen to because i personally like it

song that fits the character so well that it’s scary

unsure why this song is in the playlist but it’s so ingrained in my mind as 'part of the playlist' that it would feel weird to remove it

[ethrealilies]

Scenario: post end of the book Holden and Phoebe using the train to go somewhere or something and then bro bumps with Stradlater in that same train cuz Ward abt to go on some date

Anyways my school year is ending sooooo have this thing

[phrogthegene]

At the point in my life where I'm legit considering making The Catcher in the Rye into a Diary of a Wimpy Kid book

Basically a DOAWK LLB with the text from CITR and I would swap the characters and all

Greg Heffley <--> Holden Caulfield

Fregley <--> Robert Ackley

Abigail Brown <--> Sally Hayes

Bryce Anderson <--> Ward Stradlater

Holly Hills <--> Jane Gallagher

Chirag Gupta <--> James Castle

Rodrick Heffley <--> D.B. Caulfield

Albert Sandy <--> Carl Luce

Last one's cursed

Manny Heffley <--> Phoebe Caulfield

[hcldn]

holden and stradlater kissed. i will not elaborate

[minsu-the-cowardly-human]

he's the typa guy to say "no more mister nice guy"

he's the typa guy to say "relax liberal" when somebody tries to argue with him

his ass is bi!!!

age regressor, to deal with his trauma and shit

probably at least *started* drinking and smoking to look cool, or at least the first time he did it

as a little kid he cried over getting Bs on anything because it was less than D.B or Allie was getting and he felt like expectations were put on him :(

argued with his dad during his emo/goth phase(he def had one/both of those!! maybe he still in it who knows)

would kin pity from gloomy bear and Mabel from gravity falls because I said so!!!!!!!!

only comic he will read is batman

goes to drive in movies with Stradlater <3

probably draws at least a bit so everytime he looks at it, it's the same[like the muesum] & to remember

says he's "insane" and "not like other kids" reading the most obscure book ever!!![the great gatsby]

all the catcher in the rye fans, what's your headcanon of Holden Caulfield?

[minsu-the-cowardly-human]

Gay gay homosexual gay

[enginnwee]

he smokes when he has a panic attack

[driftingthruspace]

the stradrizzler featuring @ethrealilies' citr god au

[classiclitshippingpolls]

Hey I know this isn't related to subs but I need to confess this somewhere

I dont like Holden x Stradlater

I know a lot of the Catcher in the Rye fandom like it but personally I just prefer Jane x Holden

Yes I know that "they were roommates" and the way that Holden described him in the book was weird but like; considering they are roommates the way that Holden talks to and about Stradlater can be seen in a friendly way since they did HAVE to get along.

Now I don't have anything against people who ship it but I just don't really like it

I don’t have much to add since I’m a fan of Holden x Stradlater but that is completely understandable 🙏 Of course nobody should force you to ship things, if they do then GET BEHIND ME (I say with shield in hand)

[see]

ward stradlater oh how i wish i could save you

[catcherintherye09978]

entry 4

Surprise dummies!!!

I finished the book. Earlier than I thought it would. I have many things to say. One of the things I would like to do ASAP, is my book review. So here it goes.

Holden, the narrator and protagonist, relates the account of his travels before Christmas from what appears to be a sanatorium. Holden is at Pencey Prep School when the story opens, making his way to Spencer, his history teacher's home , so he can say goodbye. He informs the reader that he was expelled as a result of failing the majority of his classes. Following his visit to Spencer, Holden runs into Ward Stradlater, his roommate, who asks him to write an essay for English class while he goes on a date with a longstanding Holden acquaintance. Holden writes about his younger brother Allie's baseball glove after they had agreed to this. Allie passed away from leukemia. Holden is informed by Stradlater upon his return that the essay. Holden becomes enraged when Stradlater refuses to reveal if he had sex with his date. Holden storms out, leaving Pencey in New York City a few days early for Christmas break. He is unable to return home after he gets to New York since his parents are still unaware that he has been expelled. He decides to stay at the Edmont Hotel instead, where he sees some sexually graphic events through the windows of other rooms. He then seeks out social connection at the hotel's nightclub, the Lavender Room, as a result of his loneliness. He visits another nightclub after speaking with a few women there, but leaves after spotting his older brother's ex-girlfriend. Once he arrives to the hotel, he asks a prostitute to attend to his room so he may speak to her. He gets punched in the stomach as a result of what happened. Holden contacts his ex-girlfriend Sally Hayes the following morning. After sharing the day together, Holden makes a rude comment, and she breaks down and pulls away. Later, Holden meets up with Carl Luce, a former classmate, at a bar, but Luce departs early after becoming irritated with Holden's crude remarks. Holden stays behind and consumes alcohol on his own. He lingers around Central Park after he departs until the cold forces him to go back to his family's apartment. Still hesitant to confront his parents, he sneaks in and discovers Phoebe, his sister who is 10 years old. When she learns that Holden has failed, she is angry and accuses him of being uninterested in anything. At this point, Holden tells his sister about his dream when he heard a little child singing the song "If a body catches a body comin' thro the rye," he was inspired to create "the catcher in the rye." According to Phoebe, the line is from a Robert Burns poem called "If a Body Meet a Body Comin Thro the Rye." Holden sneaks away as they hear their parents arriving from a night out. Holden makes contact with Mr. Antolini, his ex English teacher, who offers Holden to stay at his house. On Antolini's couch, Holden drops out and wakes up to see Antolini petting his forehead, which he perceives as a sexual drive. He leaves right away and spends the rest of the evening at Grand Central Station. When he wakes up, he goes to Phoebe's school and drops off a letter asking her to meet him at a museum at lunch, informing her of his plans to flee. She insists on coming with him and shows up there with a suitcase packed. He declines and offers to take her to the zoo instead. Outside, in the cold rain, he sees her ride the carousel. This indicates the ending of the flashback. Holden explains that he has "fallen poorly," but that he hopes to attend a different school next fall as the book comes to an end.

Woah. Heavy, isn’t it? Well, for you lazy boys that are so useless in life that you are unable to read a book by yourself and need me to summarize it, there you go. Now I ask you to get prepared for the next entry, because I decided to write it in a stream of consciousness. Just like my J.D. Cheers, mate!!!