#paul holden

[gay-poet-gabriel]

Darry and Paul making out 🔥🔥🔥

gay men? from the 60s? on my blog? its more likely than you think.

does this satisfy the gay voices in ur head

#the outsiders #darry curtis #paul holden #forgor about him #men kissing #my art #MEEEEERRY CHRISTMAS #send me asks neeeow #darry x paul #wait what the heck is their ship name #DAUL! #historians say they were football buddies back in the day #fanart

[alittlebitofloveliness]

Darry Curtis hc because this day is shit and he's my comfort character

-Does that thing where he kind of dances/shimmies to music unconsciously. Steve made fun of him for it once, and ever since Darry’s tried to tone it down, but never really succeeds. (Steve never bugged him about it again because Sodapop got so mad at him for it)

-Doesn’t laugh often but when he does it’s the kind of laugh that’s completely contagious. Surprisingly Ponyboy’s sarcasm and Johnny’s dry quips end up making him laugh more than any of the rest of the gang’s bawdy or situational humour

-Makes the best scalloped potatoes known to man. Both Soda and Ponyboy practically beg him to make them for their birthdays or special occasions

-Ponyboy went with him to the gym once after windrixville when they were trying to find an activity to bond over and it ended with Ponyboy attempting to keep up with him and Darry having to practically carry him to the car. They decided Darry would teach Pony to drive as a bonding activity instead

-Was up for a promotion to foreman at his job that would have had a decent pay raise and didn’t tell Soda or Ponyboy about it. He made it to the final round of interviews but ultimately didn’t get it and was SUPER crushed. (Same Darry, same)

-His eye twitches when he’s pissed off but trying not to show it

-Sometimes when Ponyboy is out with friends or goes to bed early, Darry and Soda will have a mini conference where they discuss whether they think he’s doing ok because Darry is terrified of messing Pony up and needs the reassurance he’s doing a good job as guardian

-Taught Pony to shave and it was actually a really emotional time for him because their dad had taught both him and Soda how but wasn’t there to teach Ponyboy. It hurt even more because Ponyboy was so excited about the fact he finally HAD enough facial hair to need to shave and Darry was kind of punched in the chest remembering that Ponyboy is only fourteen, and that he’d had so much less time with their parents than he himself had.

-Doesn’t talk about the gang or his brothers at work. Not because he’s ashamed of being greasy or anything (a lot of guys on his work crew are east side guys) but because work is his only escape from being a leader/grown up and having to take care of everyone. In fact, he’s one of the youngest full time guys on the crew, and because of that he gets a lot of ‘shut up and listen to your elders’ kind of jokes from the guys in their thirties and forties, which he finds ironically funny on good days, and gets lowkey pissed off about on bad ones

-Has skipped meals when money is tight so that his brothers have enough food

-Didn’t regret fighting Paul at the rumble even though they’d been good friends in high school, because after the Curtis parents died Paul told him to let Pony and Soda go into care and to look out for himself and not ‘kids who aren’t your problem Darry’ and Darry never forgave him for it

-The gang and his brothers think he doesn’t have time for girls, and he doesn’t, not really, but he goes to the same diner during his lunch break each day to flirt with one of the waitresses there- a girl he went to high school with who was also meant for bigger things but got stuck in Tulsa just like him.     (listen I’m multiship trash who also has a soft spot for tarry but this idea lives rent free in my head ok)

-His way of dealing with issues when he’s unsure is to just ask himself what his dad would do and if he doesn’t know what his dad would do he panics

-Is TERRIFIED of the dentist and so its the only thing he’s kind of lax about with Pony and Soda because he refuses to be a hypocrite and not go when he makes them go, but also…he’s terrified

#darry curtis #the outsiders #ponyboy curtis #sodapop curtis #steve randle #two bit mathews #johnny cade #dally winston #paul holden #lovelythoughts

[deflated-leaf]

modern au of the outsiders but it's just the gang at darry's football game making fun of everyone there

"DAMN 46 IS CAKED UP FR WHAT BAHHAHA" "darry looks so stupid rn" "bro is arching for that ball" "I bet he's having flashbacks to last night" "I can't believe jesus died just for guys to pile on top of each other" "y'all why's the coach kinda..." "this is kinda gay tbh" "paul is so embarazada why is he like actually arching" "I bet 35 and 28 had a messy break up" "HELLO?? NUMBER 85 WITH THE MASSIVE DUMPY????"

and then little ten yr old pony is just tryna do his hw 😹

#this is so fucking stupid i'm so sorry #his parents are probably somewhere else in the bleachers #they know better than to sit with the boys #the outsiders #paul holden #darry curtis #darry curtis x paul holden #sodapop curtis #ponyboy curtis #dally winston #steve randle #two bit mathews #johnny cade

[crow2222]

in my head he would pose like this

#the outsiders #darry curtis #the outsiders fanart #fanart #nimona #art #theoutsiders #the outsiders darry #the outsiders art #theoutsidersart #artist #football #redraw #tim shepard #paul holden

[moondust-artz]

The Outsiders Swap AU

#art #the outsiders #the outsiders fanart #ponyboy curtis #johnny cade #dally winston #dallas winston #sodapop curtis #darrel curtis #darry curtis #steve randle #twobit matthews #twobit mathews #two bit mathews #keith mathews #paul holden #bob sheldon #randy adderson #cherry valance #sherri valance #marcia the outsiders #the outsiders au #the outsiders swap au #greasers #socs

[art1swork]

#the outsiders #paul holden #buck merrill #bob sheldon #tim shepard #Randy #curly shepard

[megajirachi151]

Obsession is such an ugly word.

#i absolutely hate the way i draw darry #my art #art #digital art #artists on tumblr #drawing #the outsiders fanart #the outsiders 1983 #the outsiders movie #the outsiders #darry curtis #darrel curtis #patrick swayze #paul holden

[newtdrawz]

Paul and Darry friendship (homo) headcanosn ?!?#??%?@

Omg omg ok,, I had to do a lot of rereading and searching to remember Paul and get the vibe of these two down 🙏😭

(Tried to find a picture and this is the only one I could get,,, the tension in here is INSANE. bro,, I'm like going insane)

Ok so these guys,, crazy. They DEF were on and off during high-school

Take that in a friendship way or another way, but they definitely had SOMETHING going on 😭

One week they're attached at the hip and the next they're not even talking to each other, no one knows why that keeps happening but they end up being fine the next week

When it comes to football tho, suddenly any weird feelings the two have are gone, evaporated from existence and they work perfectly fine with each other and communicate well

When they are talking and being normal they do try to hang out outside of school

In secret tho,, hm. Strange.

Is it cuz Paul's embarrassed to be friends with a greaser? Maybe. Is it cuz Darry doesn't wanna be seen with a soc? Maybe. Who knows definitely not them 😭

Paul does come over to the Curtis's tho for HW or class projects or to just hang out with Darry

The Curtis's like him! They like having him around and Mrs. Curtis likes how polite he is, there's only one member in the family who has a problem with Paul,,

It's Ponyboy. He cannot STAND him. No one knows why, Paul doesn't know what he did and he's constantly trying to get on his good side. Darry thinks it's hilarious cuz it bothers Paul so much

Imagine having beef with your situationship/friend/teammate's little kid brother 😭😭 (Pony: yeah well you're a poopyhead and you're ugly and I don't like you. Paul: oh yeah? Well- Darry: Paul. He's like 10, leave him alone. Paul: Darrel. He called me a poopyhead.)

(This part is inspired by @deflated-leaf 🙏 if you're not fine with your hc in here lmk!!!) Paul see's Pony drawing in the living room one day and makes a comment on how he used to draw a lot too (and Pony being the little hater he is probably says something sassy but he's kinda interested) so he shows Pony his old drawings (they're not perfect or amazing and half of them are of Darry but Pony's a little young to think anything of it) and that ends up with Pony showing Paul his drawings

So Darry walks in and sees them talking and showing each other drawings and this is the first time he's ever seen Pony not calling him names or flat out ignoring him

They try to have alone time though and it's always interrupted

It does not matter where they are they never get to be alone, it's like an on-going bit and they're sick and tired of it 😭😭

At Paul's he's either getting calls from soc friends or his dad is trying to talk to the both of them

At Darry's it's either Soda being Soda, just being loud or it's Pony straight up coming into Darry's room to talk to Darry or ask him for help with something OR it's someone in the gang (love younger versions of the gang 🙏😭) being annoying and wanting to talk to him

At school it's their own friends always popping up out of nowhere and they can't really go out in public to spend time with each other

They do end up drifting in senior year/near graduation tho :(

With the stress of graduation coming and choosing colleges they don't hang out or talk as much, those weird periods of time where they're not close lasts longer

Then Darry finds out he won't be able to go to college, scholarship or not he can't go and he's upset obviously

Paul and Darry had a plan to go to the same college and share a dorm or live together or something like that

Darry has to tell Paul and it turns into a fight that they're not gonna come back from, they leave on bad terms and they split up their weird off-on relationship they have with each other

Paul tries to reach out though

The first time he decides to reach out he hears about how Mr. And Mrs. Curtis died and now Darry's raising his two brothers on his own so he decides not too

But when he finally does his timings off all of the time, when he tries to call some kid named Dallas always answers and he's rude and hangs up, another time some guy named Two-bit (he sort of remembers Two-bit but he's not so sure, he never really hung out with the gang or saw them much) answers saying he'll let Darry know he called (he forgets immediately and ends up never telling Darry Paul called)

He ends up giving up on trying to reach Darry, when he comes home from college he sees him around though, he never stops and says hello or chases after him. He's not sure why he doesn't

He see's Darry with the gang sometimes or he see's him with his brothers (he's shocked to see how big Soda and Pony got, especially little guy Pony who was a menace to Paul all of the time)

Rumbles between them are crazy

Darry had no clue Paul has tried to reach out he's seen him around too but he's never tried to reach out or say hi either

During the rumble Paul was the one to go up to Darry and that was the first time in a awhile they've been fave to face

Paul gets to see Pony (who he thinks is a little young to be here but he's not gonna judge Darry's parenting lol) and Soda

When they fight tho, they fight HARD. It's all the pent up anger and resentment and jealously and,, dare I say longing. OH I DID. I SAID IT. Longing.

After the rumble they kinda just look at each other for a minute, Paul nods and Darry nods and they just leave (insane ik.)

The aftermath is a little weird

Guess who wants to reach out again? It's Paul. But guess what? Darry's two close friends just died so once again he feels weird and like it's bad timing to reach out

But he finally does this time and THIS time it's Pony who answers and when Paul says it's him and asks if he can speak to Darry you better believe Pony quietly calls Soda over so now they're both on the phone being nosey

Pony once again starts being a menace and once again Soda starts being annoying (PB: why do YOU wanna talk to him? Soda: yeah. Why do YOU wanna talk to him? Paul: can I just please- Soda: No you cannot. PB: he's not here. Paul: then why have I been on the phone for 10 mins with you two for both of you to tell me he's not even there?)

This post is already really long but I gotta add a little extra one/au where no one dies and everything ends up fine 😭😭

This is where Paul and Darry DO decide to meet up and catch up after the rumble cuz they both realize they both miss each other

When they do start talking more and seeing each other (hehehehehehhehe) he starts introducing him to the gang, once again no one has any problems (they do but they don't lol he's a soc but he makes Darry happy so it's whatever to them) but guess who has beef with Paul?

Ponyboy AND Sodapop.

Paul has like war flashbacks to all the times a younger Pony would call him names but 14 year old Pony is MUCH more mean 😭😭 (14 year olds are so mean bro 😭😭)

He's definitely not used to Soda being petty though, Darry just tells him to wait it out and they'll come around, which eventually they do

They don't really confirm what they are but they're both just together now and that's really all they care abt :)

ok,, I think that's all I have,, y'all... this Paul and Darry stuff is insane 😭

I hope I did them justice 🙏 I really tried, I never really hear much about Paul besides him and Darry going to school together and being old friends 😭😭 my fav part honestly is him having beef with like a 10 year old Ponyboy and then once again having the same beef but with Soda too 😭😭😭 (protective Curtis brothers 🙏) also once again sorry if Darry is ooc 😞 also dedicated to crow 🙏 I TOLD YOU NOTHING WOULD STOP ME 💪💪💪

Also the idea of them not being friends and one being able to get out and go to college while the other will be there forever and is stuck,,, hhh and they're only 20-21 plzz,, they're so young and ones literally raising his brothers,, 😭😭😭 I'm devastated man

#the outsiders #darry curtis #ponyboy curtis #sodapop curtis #paul holden #the outsiders movie #the outsiders headcanons #outsiders headcanons #rare pair #i think maybe #their dynamic is crazy

[guardedserum]

One sided parry; Darry slowly realises he likes Paul in a way he shouldn't like a man in!!@ this can work the other way too, they're just neat like that

IT’S BEGUN.

Sorry for the long wait for chapter one pookie..

#the outsiders #darry curtis #paul holden #darry curtis x paul holden #darry x paul #paul x darry #parry

[thereasonforsecuritysystems]

genderswapped outsiders names because my mind is genius

Greasers:

ponyboy - ponytail (IT'S RIGHT THERE GUYS AND IT MAKES MORE SENSE THAN PONYGIRL)

sodapop - sodapop (keep it bro)

darrel - dara (this one's hard ngl)

steve - stephanie

dallas - dahlia (i think this one just sounds cool)

johnny - julia (he seems like a julia)

keith - katherine

sandy - sammy

evie - evan

kathy - kalen (or keith they can trade)

sylvia - all i've got is sydney or sylvester poor girl 😭😭

tim - tiana (he seems more like a tiana than tina you know)

curly - curly (it's a nickname so idk)

angela - angel (i'm so creative)

buck - doe (i'm so funny)

Socs:

robert/bob - barbara's ugly (formal apology to all my barbaras) so he's rachel or bonnie

randy - riley

cherry/sherri - shawn or shane probably

marcia - marco but mercutio is tempting

paul - pauline (i'm so creative pt.2)

#the outsiders #steve randle #darry curtis #sodapop curtis #darrel curtis #bob sheldon #dallas winston #ponyboy curtis #johnny cade #two bit mathews #cherry valance #marcia the outsiders #paul holden #tim shepard #curly shepard #angela shepard #evie the outsiders #sandy the outsiders #kathy the outsiders #sylvia the outsiders #buck merrill

[lemons-bittersweet]

What I think their handwriting looks like pt2:

#dally winston #darrel curtis #johnny cade #ponyboy curtis #sodapop curtis #steve randle #the outsiders #socs #greasers #greaser #twobit mathews #two bit mathews #incorrect outsiders #incorrect outsiders quotes #incorrect qoute #incorret quotes #incoorect quotes #incorrect quote #incorrect the outsiders quotes #incorrect quotations #incorrect quotes #incorrect outside #curly shepard #tim shepard #angela shepard #cherry valance #bob sheldon #randy adderson #sandy #paul holden

[socdarlings]

the gang’s heights + the socs

from shortest to tallest, greaser edition: ponyboy -> johnny -> evie (not depicted) -> two bit -> steve -> sodapop -> angela -> curly -> dally -> darry -> tim

shortest to tallest, soc edition: cherry -> marcia -> randy -> bob -> paul

(these are all headcanons plz)

i know in the book twobit is taller but it’s funnier if he’s short. also i think pony had a growth spurt at the end of the book so i think he grew past soda’s height. making johnny the smallest in the group

#i could not fit evie on here but she’s 5’5 #the outsiders #the outsiders headcanons #ponyboy curtis #johnny cade #dallas winston #darry curtis #two bit mathews #sodapop curtis #steve randle #tim shepard #curly shepard #angela shepard #bob sheldon #randy adderson #cherry valance #marcia the outsiders #paul holden #luci’s rambling

[deflated-leaf]

these will never not be funny to me

#my pretty princesses actually #guys should i make a fic of this #like a crack fic #the outsiders #darry curtis #paul holden #darry curtis x paul holden #my otp ever

[crow2222]

Paul x darry

all his boyfriends !!!

#the outsiders #darry curtis #paul holden #tim shepard #twobit mathews #theoutsiders #the outsiders fanart #darry x paul #darry x twobit #darry x tim #pidbit #homos #gay #art #theoutsidersart #the outsiders art #ermmm #yeah

[moondust-artz]

And then they were roomates

inspired by @crow2222 's teen Darry x Paul post/ I’ll add some headcanons (soon)

#art #the outsiders 1983 #the outsiders darry #the outsiders fanart #the outsiders #darry curtis #darrel curtis #darry x paul #paul holden

[tigergirlpaya]

The reason Paul's so upset with Darry is because Darry abandoned Paul for his family and then expects Paul to abandon his family for Darry which like why would he do that for him when he knows it won't be reciprocated?

Obvi the dif is that Paul's fam is his emotionally abusive parents and Darry's is his two younger brothers who he loves dearly but Paul doesn't realize that there is a difference.

#paul holden #Darry curtis #having a delusional moment where paul is an actual character and not just someone mentioned once #i'm writing a fic about this whatever