#M&M carlson

[jupitercl0uds]

glad ive been seeing the red m&m with his boyfriend once more, as the proud artist of these two masterpieces

theyve been using the peanut m&m less. i blame homophobia. love wins, however, as i've been seeing them together more often

[brat-pack-it-up-boys]

I’m once again going to bring up the fact that if the whole “Sodapop dying in Vietnam” was cannon than he would already (most likely) be dead around the time that that was then this is now takes place

[angelaa-shepard]

How M&M felt rolling around with the drip after he couldn't walk around bare foot everywhere anymore 😭🙏

[vampir3b0nes]

How it to be a curly and M&M fan

[bluemirrorangel]

the outsiders name HC's

Darry

Ok so I literally JUST found out that his full name is Darrel SHAYNNE Curtis not SHYANNE I thought his mother's name was Shyanne and that's why it was his middle name.

anyway Darrel was his canonically his father's name but I think his Mother's father was called Shaynne and that's why it's his middle name.

I think Soda was the first one to call him Darry I think his parents used to call him junior.

the sheer amount of times that he and Dallas have answered to each other's names needs to be studied.

Sodapop

so I know that his name isn't actually Sodapop it's just Soda but I also refuse to acknowledge that.

obviously named by a three year old Darry.

I think his parents gave him the middle name Patrick just in case he wanted a more conventional name.

doesn't just get called Pepsi-Cola he gets called a plethora of drink related nicknames.

mentioned wanting to go to medical school ONE TIME when he was like twelve and Two-Bit refused to refer to him as anything other than Doctor Pepper.

I think that Sandy used to call him Poppy but had to stop after the gang overheard and would not leave him along about it.

Steve sometimes calls him popsicle.

Ponyboy

I personally think Soda named him because of his love of horses.

his parents did the same thing they did with Soda where they gave him Michael as a backup option.

The gang start calling him horseman when he starts going through puberty.

he HATES it.

Curly calls him stallion.

actually does start going by Michael in college but has to stop due to accidentally ignoring people due to not being used to it.

Two-Bit

actually prefers Two-Bit to his real name because what teenager do you know named Keith?

when Pony was a toddler he couldn't pronounce Keith and called him everything but his actual name.

Key, Keef and one very unfortunate time Ket.

is named after his great-grandfather.

still goes by Two-Bit as an adult.

Keith means from the battleground, which I find interesting given how much he enjoys fighting and how he comes from such a rough and violent environment.

Steve

only goes by Steve or Stevie, never Steven because he is named after his dad.

his middle name is Daniel.

had no idea he even had a middle name until he stumbled across his birth certificate.

Steven means the crown, which once again isn't really relevant but is pretty ironic given how much pride he takes in his hair.

Johnny

his name isn't even technically Johnathan

it was supposed to be, but neither of his parents could be bothered enough to write the whole thing.

They still call him Johnathan, though.

to whoever discovered that cade means animal left by it's mother I AM IN YOUR WALLS.

not much thought went into picking his name.

it was the name of the hospital he was born in.

Dallas

was named after where his parents met.

his gang back in New York used to call him every southern state.

got called Houston so much that people thought it was his actual name.

has a middle name but no one in the gang knows what it is.

it's Eugene.

only started going by Dally when he moved to Tulsa.

Kathy

her full name is Katherine

she's named after her great aunt because they shared the same birthday.

her middle name is Dawn.

HATES her name because of how common it is

every time someone refers to her as Kathy K YEARS are taken off her life.

their are even more Katie's/Katy's than there are Kathy's/Cathy's

starts going by Kat in senior year.

Sandy

Her full name is Cassandra

Her mother was really into Greek mythology and wanted to study history in college but she got pregnant in her senior year of high school and ended up marrying Sandy's father.

people assume her name is Sandra and it PISSES her off so bad.

wants to go by Cassie but every Cassie she knows are terrible.

her middle name is Hazel.

hates it because Sandy Hazel sounds like a shade of paint.

Evie

her full name is Evelynn

she refuses to use it because "Evelynn is an old lady name."

doesn't actually go by Evie either

she goes by Eve

Steve just calls her Evie because she calls him Stevie.

andthe two of them togehter are Stevie and Evie and that makes her laugh.

her middle name is Rose.

Sylvia

starts telling people that she's named after Sylvia Plath in college.

she's actually named after the midwife who delivered her.

her middle name is Marie.

because that's her mother's name.

everyone calls her Syl or Sylv only Dallas ever calls her Sylvie.

a lot of people misspell her name as Silvia.

Angela and Curly used to call her Silver.

Angela

her full name is Angelina, but get's called variations of her name all the time

Angeline, Angelica, Angelita.

she answers to all of them.

Tim was the one who started calling her Angela because Angelina took too long to yell.

only people close to her call her Angel.

her middle name is Lane

she is convinced it's a typo and it's meant to be Jane.

Curly calls her Laney to piss her off

she's called Angelina because she was her mom's little angel

she refuses to change her last name when she get's married.

Tim

his full name isn't Timothy, it's Timothée.

named after his father's best friend, who died that year.

his middle name is Walker.

most People just Call him Tim.

the first h ever got into with Dallas was because Dallas called him "Timmy"

Curly

his real name is Cyrus.

his mom named him after his dad to try and get his father to settle down and stop doing criminal activity.

Tim nick-named him Curly after their father died

he's called' Curly because his curls are the wildest.

Only his mom calls him Cyrus

His middle name is Theodore.

no one calls him Theodore though.

Cathy Carlson

her full name is Cathleen.

her mom just thought it was a pretty name.

her middle name is Grace.

starts going by Leena when she get's older.

M&M

his real name is Marshal.

his middle name is Mason, but get's shortened to Mace.

when he get's older people assume he goes by M&M because their his initials

he let's them believe that.

Sherri

her name is actually a double name

It's Sherri-Anne; she just tells people that Anne is her middle name.

Bob used to sing Sherry by Frankie Valli to her all the time.

her dad hates that people call her Cherry because he thinks it's Trashy.

Marcia

her full name is Marcia-May Weatherby

named Marcia because her mother loved the name.

has fancy embroidered handkerchiefs and everything.

[yetanotherthriftblog]

Today's Goodwill Outlet haul. Not a lot, only spent $8, but it was after a dentist appointment and I had some time to kill.

Caramel M&Ms plastic container (had to dump out some sort of chemical crystals from it) where the inner clear tray rotates 90° and slides then out a bit so you can share get a bag of candy out. Bought because you never see Caramel M&Ms stuff.

3.5" floppy. Status: Blank, formatted, never used.

Foley aluminum jar funnel for canning (or anytime you need to fill a Mason jar easily), vintage. Could not leave it behind.

VHS headcleaner. Actually need one of these. Wet/Dry method, no bottle of fluid inside but it's just isopropyl alcohol anyhow.

DVD+RW. Status: Blank, unformatted, never used.

8mm videotape, 120min. Status: Unknown, giving to my friend who has the equipment (either VHS adaptor or an 8mm player).

Spindle of blank CD-Rs and DVD-Rs, also for my friend.

Three "hello" cards with a Bakelite telephone on the front and this one typewriter "thank you" card. With their envelopes.

Two rubberstamps made by Tin Can Mail in ziplock bags. They have price stickers from wherever saying $11.99 on them and no sign they were ever inked.

Carlson & Sullivan "White Chief" 8ft tape measure, vintage. Appears to work, I have only pulled it out 2ft, but it could use a little cleaning/lubrication because it rolls a little hard in places.

USB-A to MicroUSB-A cord, 1 meter, still in package, obviously from Dollar Tree or the like. If this works for data, I will be happy because I recently had a similar cord's micro plug snap right off.

[ponyboys-wife-fr]

why does no one talk about how the dingo was bombed

[broareweabouttoviberightnow]

what the hell?? back with some doodles of the losers?? me?? could NEVER be no way. (you guys know how it goes. yes my handwritin can be mistaken for another language entirely. yes the decoder is in the alt.) (also hi @kalied0skull!! the promised shitty doodles!!) (also first four are like. panels. from the same thing. the rest are just my doodles)

[3lliana]

in modern day Facebook would be Curly and Angelas OPP. because Tim would repost something from when they were in third grade with the caption being "Awhhh first day of third grade!! (don't mind how they're crying I had to whoop them for them to brush their teeth and get ready😂😂😂)" and add a new caption like "they were so little!! 🥺🥺🥺"

[sunkissedskull]

Not outsiders related but look at thrse cuties

[iamumbra195]

So I finally decided to read That Was Then, This is Now because I wanted to read some canonical Shepard family content and also because I kept getting Angela/Ponyboy content on my feed (I get why most people don't like the ship now lol).

I already knew most of what happened in the story but reading it and getting all the details absolutely gutted me. However, the thing that stuck out to me most was the relationship between M&M and his dad, Mr. Carlson.

Because at first, Mr. Carlson is a typical old-fashioned dad who criticizes his son for not being tough. But as time goes on and by reading between the lines, you can see he wanted M&M to toughen up and be a man so he wouldn’t bullied or jumped as we see happen to him in the first few chapters, but in trying to toughen him up, he became one of M&M’s biggest bullies and eventually drove him away from home. We can see him realizing his mistake even as he tried to reassure himself that M&M would come home and then finally when Byron and Cathy brought M&M home high off his ass and screaming about spiders, it clicked. He was torn up about it, realizing that it was him that had pushed M&M in this direction, that he was (at least partially) to blame for his son taking drugs and getting brain damage.

All because he had long hair and was failing gym class.

I would love to see someone explore their relationship after M&M returned from the hospital, especially since he's described as having short hair when Byron sees him again. The resentment he must feel towards his dad and the guilt Mr. Calrson feels about everything and their relationship as a whole is something I desperately want content for.

I'm also curious about the relationship between M&M and Ponyboy, especially since Ponyboy started dating Cathy at the end of the book.

[dr-gl0rbiez]

you think anybody who actually cares about m&m read this to try and understand a bit more

[brat-pack-it-up-boys]

Ponyboy that was then this is now headcanons

• I’m a big believer in ponyboy continuing to dye his hair blonde after windrixville for sentimentality (also I fuck with the character design aspect)

• so his hairs died blond but it’s also grown out, its the late 1960s and greased hair is becoming even less of a thing than it was before, so his hair is choppily cut above his shoulders and it has the worst grown at roots

• he is the KING of hand me downs, more so than in the outsiders because he fits into more of the clothes that darry and soda actually saved, soda’s flannels, pants, shirts, Darry’s old jackets, he owns his shoes and that it

• okay this one goes more into the au where sodapop is drafted and killed in the Vietnam war because it technically lines up with the twttin timeline. But ponyboy would wear soda’s dog tags literally every day

• more reckless than he was in the outsiders, partially because he’s grown up and partially because of his friends and the people he surrounds himself with

• his friendgroup basically consist of the remainder of the gang, curly and Angela, mark, scout, and two bits sister Brenda I guess

• on the topic of Brenda, ponyboy basically reacreats his and Johnnys relationship with dally with her, they’re so siblings you don’t understand, the brother and sister ever

• very unpopular in school, not in a way of getting bullied but in the way of a lot of kids in his grade being scared of him

“that Curtis kid who helped kill someone”

• the beef Bryon has him is entirely one sided to the point that Ponyboy doesn’t even realize it exists

• despite not having the best reputation he’s finally grown into his looks and if it weren’t for the events of the first book he would be pulling

• Him and Cathy start dating a little bit after twttin, Cathy had been at boarding school during the entirety of the first book so she didn’t have the same stigma against him that the other kids at school

• he actually gets pretty into the Beatles after he starts dating Cathy because they’re her favorite band, he likes the please please me album

• he also adopts M&M into his little gang with Brenda (pushing my M&M and Brenda as best friends agenda)

• in the end all that really means is that he helps M&M with kids picking on him (his reputation from the whole bob incident makes him pretty intimidating), M&M and Brenda also get to tag along on some of Pony and Cathy’s dates to the movies

• honestly I could talk about him and Cathy for hours but as the youngest him dating her and realizing how much she has to do as the oldest makes him gain more of understanding for darry

• also him and Cathy’s song is definitely Do you want to know a secret

@izaacs-notdeadyet because you mentioned you wanted to hear them, sorry it took me thousand years to actually get around to posting this

[ramenwritesss]

The self restraint it takes for me not to literally spoil my entire fic bc I know you guys would be pissed is almost as dead as M&M Carlsons brain

[not-karl]

cathy & m&m... my babies...

@kalied0skull cause i KNOW you'd love this❤️❤️

[mister-mickey]

Outsiders (and twttin) crying hcs because I’m terrible and evil

Darry

- he only cries when he has time to. Like, if he’s busy he will push those feelings down until he isn’t

- when he does actually cry, it’s very quiet. He’s just laying in bed letting the tears stream down his face

Soda

- low key a crybaby. Like he cries even when he’s happy

- blubbery, needs someone around. Like he won’t cry when he’s alone because that’s not what he needs

Pony

- he’s 14 he’s def a bit of a crybaby too. He’s more embarrassed about it than soda

- he, like Darry, wants to be alone and cry when he has time, but he, like soda, emotionally needs the company even if he doesn’t want it

Johnny

- canonly rarely cries. If he does, it’s a big deal

- he’s like empty inside if he’s at that point, probably hugging his knees and hiding away. He’s trying to be quiet too

Steve

- somewhat similar to soda in that he will cry at any extreme emotion, not just sadness. However, he has to be at a much further point than soda does

- he wants to be alone when he cries because he’s embarrassed, but often conversations with soda will pull some tears out that he’s been holding in. Sometimes their hangouts end with soda holding him while Steve just cries

Dally

- he doesn’t cry. He’s too tough to cry (lies)

- he does cry, just not often and certainly not when someone else can see. Usually it’s just a few tears and it’s over, and it’s not for any particular reason.

Twobit

- big baby. He can also fake cry if he needs to

- he ain’t ashamed of his tears, but he won’t cry in front of someone he dislikes or in front of someone he wants to be tough around (like someone younger or something) he will cry in front of his mom though because they have a very open relationship. He’s a mommas boy

Tim

- doesn’t cry, according to himself and also curly and Angela. (Also a lie)

- he won’t cry in front of anyone because he refuses to be weak. But like, it still happens. Usually he’s in bed thinking and he makes himself cry because of that (so me)

Angela

- she has no qualms about crying in front of people, especially her brothers. She has used Tim’s shirt as a tissue and then scolded him for getting his shirt dirty

- she’s a loud crier if she’s with someone, but by herself it’s those silent choking tears that genuinely hurt

Curly

- hates crying but doesn’t have the self control to not cry in front of people. He usually cries when he’s in pain or very very annoyed (maybe Tim and Angela keep pestering him) he doesn’t really cry when he’s sad

- you know those studio ghibli tears? Where they’re round and they just keep coming? That’s him

Bryon

- honestly it would take a lot to make him cry, not because he’s tough, but because it isn’t really thing he ever does. Like he generally just sleeps his feelings off

- if he did cry it’s probably sniffly and gross, and he’s wiping it off on his sleeve and stuff

Mark

- also doesn’t really cry, but that’s more because he’s never really given a reason to, at least not as a teenager

- when he was a kid though he would cry sometimes, probably cuddle up to Bryon’s mom. (That bitch) he’d still get over it fast though.

Cathy

- she cries a lot but not really in front of people unless she knows they can make her feel better.

- she will cry around M&M but not her parents, she will cry with bryon but never around mark. She lets the tears roll down her face as she explains what’s wrong

M&M

- I can’t imagine him crying, but if he did it would be with Cathy because he trusts her and she won’t ever judge him for it

- he leans against her and talks with her as he sniffles and wipes his tears away