#micheal holden

[smartsxylacyy]

never forget this.

[skateisawesome]

the way my mental health is being held together by one british gay nerd, his rugby lad boyfriend and his depressed older sister.

[pessimisticbreadslice]

I got bored (as one does) and decided to draw Micheal and Tori from memory :)

[aliceosemansolos]

“School literally doesn’t care about you unless you’re good at writing stuff down or you’re good at memorising or you can solve bloody maths equations. What about the other important things in life?”

-"Solitaire" Alice Oseman

[everythingsbetterunderthestars]

Im sorry but it had to be done

[aliciasfantasyxox]

[purpletrashcans]

I think about Michael Holden. Mainly about how he’s secretly angry all the time. I think that a lot of people are secretly angry all the time.

[solitaire-addict]

EVERYONE CODE RED I REPEAT CODE FUCKING RED

[jediwizard]

It's crazy how Alice creates the most diverse but also relatable characters. There are characters of different sexual orientations, different races, genders, mental illnesses, family life and eating disorders. They're all so different??? but there's something that binds them all together. For example, I relate to Tao but I also relate to Georgia and I relate to Tori but I relate to Frances but I relate to Lister but I... They're all different, but there's something so familiar about them and you can see similar traits in each of them in yourself. I feel like a collage or mosaic of my favourite characters. Not just the four of them, but all the characters, like Aled Last, Micheal Holden and Elle Argent. Alice Oseman's characters radiate comfort and warmth.

Her books give the same vibes as curling up in you're cozy messy bed after an exhausting day at school or work, buried under a mountain of blankets when it rains or snows outside. The months between September and February when the sun sets early and you get to wear extra layers of clothes or that oversized black hoodie. Returning to your room filled with artifacts from your childhood, old books you haven't touched in like four years, book reports and DIY science projects from 3rd grade and movie poster filled haven where you could leave the stresses of the real world behind.

All the lights are off, except for those fairy string lights above your bed. You're sipping a hot cup of tea or hot chocolate, rereading your old favourite books you loved as a teen and watching that old favourite film that you've seen so many times that you can remember the plot and all the dialogue to, but you watch it anyway. Listening to that carefilly curated 90s indie rock playlist from 2019 to drown out and forget the world outside. Staying up late, the only light being the screen of your laptop or phone, reading fan fiction on AO3 while you're whole family's asleep. That warmth and authenticity that you don't find much in modern media. The nostalgia. How she accurately portrays what actual teenagers are like, both the pros and cons. Even if you're reading it for the first time, @chronicintrovert books have the feeling of returning home.

[ani-bunnie13]

yay

[smartsxylacyy]

michael and nick singing and dancing to high school musical while tori and charlie sit watching in the back IS canon.

[stuffforme2]

Michael and Nick have similar issues with feeling lonely but also they are completely different.

Nick feels lonely because he changed himself entirely, his identity, smile, interests, etc, for the people around him. He feels lonely because he is without himself.

Michael feels lonely because he IS lonely he was without friends for most of his life but he never changed himself. He kept his identity, smile, interests, etc. But he was lonely until he met Tori.

The two, logically, would be become dependent to their important people, Charlie and Tori, but for different reasons that include their loneliness.

Charlie helped Nick wake up. He helped Nick realize that he was lost without himself that he was entirely unhappy and needed help. Nick is dependent on Charlie because Charlie was the only thing that Nick could find in himself. Nick is lonely without his identity and since Charlie is helping build Nick's identity back Nick is dependent on him.

Michael would be, logically, dependent on Tori. Tori is his first friend we can assume in years. The first person to get him and actually try to understand him. She is the first person to not immediate judge and then ignore Michael entirely. Michael would be dependent on her for companionship. Michael spending most of his time with Tori, thinking about Tori in a way that can seem obsessive, makes sense because Tori broke down Michaels immunity to feeling nothing to being alone. He wasn't alone finally and he got used to not being alone. So if Tori left for even a week or two he'd begin to feel lonely again which will cause him to break.

Anyway YUUUUHHH.

[pessimisticbreadslice]

I DID IT.(Happy birthday Tori)Nick still kills me though 😔

[roselandsrl]

[hugallurfriends]

The world needs more Micheal Holden fan pages

I mean he is a magical anime girl

[that-gay-thing]

So I was iceskating today and I saw a guy [also iceskating] who looked exactly like Michael Holden like exactly tall curly hair and about same face and I am pretty sure that it was Micheal Holden.