#jamie collins

[neufer]

Hey has anyone checked on Jamie Collins.

And also earlier when she says that her dad doesn't think of her as a real person, just a girl who'll grow up to be a devoted little mother. . . the horrors of being a young teenage girl.

[takeasadsongggandmakeitbetter]

just finished Tex

It was SO GOOD.

honestly my favorite of the s. e hinton books other than the outsiders ofc

tex and mason = ponyboy and darry

i loved that we got to see more of like horses and rodeos because that’s in the outsiders too a little bit and it’s so fun to think about

I AM IN LOVE WITH TEX MCCORMICK.

why are there so many johnnys and bobs in these books?? like i know you can come up with “original” names, s. e hinton. just look at the curtis brothers. HOLY MARK JUMPSCARE- im actually so depressed why must he have turned out like that :( my baby :(

tex and jamie are cute i guess, i mean not really because jamie does NOT seem NEARLY as down bad for him as he is for her but whatever ig. if he’s happy im happy.

they do have some really amazing wonderful dialogue though and i love tex’s teenage boy thoughts about her they make me laugh

like why is the very first thing when she comes to see him in the hospital him getting hard. tex, come on man, really??? you almost died. 💔🥀

i want someone to draw johnny and tex on their motorcycle that would be cutesy - i would but I can’t draw

pop was giving rusty-james memory also i don’t like him

ARGHHH… WHEN I GET YOU BRYON…. it’s genuinely all his fault #IHateBryonDouglas if he hasn’t SENT MARK TO JAIL mark would have stayed okay

oh yeah and cathy was the teacher which was cool. i hope she beat bryon’s ass at the funeral.

genuinely who names their horse negrito though…

also the part where lem and everyone sneaks into johnny and jamie’s house to tell them about his baby was really funny.

like the mental image of tex literally like slithering around their house hiding from Cole because that’s just normal and jamie casually sleeping armed at all times

and them all randomly climbing through the window and giggling and trying to be quiet and shoving each other off the bed like STOP ITS SO CUTE

also there’s like a part where tex says it’s embarrassing that he’s never been drunk and he’s 15 which was flabbergasting because um, 15 year olds should not be drinking at all

i might love tex as much as i love ponyboy which is a lot

VERY VERY VERY VERY good book please read 👍

there are people who go places and people who stay… GAIGWUPGWUOCAHCOHCOC

[curtis-brothers-hug]

Jamie: “if you weren’t emotionally ready, would you want to have sex?”

Tex: “baby, I don’t even understand the question.”

[freakypbj]

I need more people to be aware of my headcanon that Mona Collins from Tex is a Shepard

She's described as having dark blue eyes, and the Collins kids have either blonde hair (from Cole) or black hair (presumably from Mona). Black hair and dark blue eyes are the Shepard family trademark and I remember when I first read Tex they were the first thing I thought of when I read her description.

I believe I did the math a while ago, and she'd have to be about 7 years older than Tim, which would make a sort of big age gap with Curly and Angela but it's not too unusual.

I also love the idea of Angela being Jamie's cool single aunt who teaches her all her feminist (womens lib ig since it's the 70s) stuff.

That is all thank you for coming to my Ted Talk

[your-unfriendlyghost]

How tall do you headcanon both greaser and soc girls to be?

Greasers:

Sylvia- 5'11. Tall girl rep lol. She still wears heels, but low-ish ones because she's lowkey insecure about being so tall. She's been mistook for a man before when she's not all dressed up and has a bit of a complex about it. Tends to dress hyperfeminine to make up for it.

Evie- 5'7. She's also insecure about her height but any time she complains about it Sylvia looks like she's about to start killing people so she doesn't talk about it much anymore. Her and Steve are the same height, technically, but Evie's maybe a little taller because unlike Steve she isn't rounding up

Angela- 5'2/3ish, but wears high heels to pass as like 5'5/6. She's got a very small build, but the kind where it's all proportional and you can't really tell she's tiny unless you're face to face with her. Like from a distance/in photos she looks average height.

Sandy- 5'4. Pretty standard height. Just the right amount of shorter-than-Soda. She sort of wishes she was taller but she isn't sure if it's because she actually wants to be tall or because she wants to be like Sylvia. She'd never admit that out loud though. It'd do more for Sylvia's ego than Sandy thinks she deserves.

Socs:

Cherry- 5'5. Also a standard height. Idk I don't have much to say about it because I mostly just picture her verbatim as Diane Lane (who is actually like 5'7, but idk Cherry just gives me 5'5 vibes)

Marcia- 5'2. Pretty short! Doesn't mind it much. I’m split because a-part of me wants her to be taller but yeah idk in the same way Cherry has 5'5 vibes Marcia has 5'2 vibes to me

Miscellaneous:

Cathy Carlson- 5'8- I feel like she needs to contrast Angela, since Bryon emphasizes how different the two are in looks and personality. When she starts dating Ponyboy at the end of TWTTIN she's like two inches taller than him, and then within the year Ponyboy hits a growth spurt and ends up 5’10. They both think it's hilarious.

Jamie Collins- 5'3, because Tex calls her older brother short a lot so she's gotta be short too (even though that's not how it works irl. fuckin' hate when little sisters r taller than older brothers oml) (im. projecting)

[lavvziez]

Tex doodles bc its the cutest movie ever 🙏

I think jamie would put tex's hair in a cute lil ponytail and he pretends he thinks it looks dumb and that hes only wearing it bc she did it, but he loves it and thinks it suits him (it does)

[generic-enthusiast]

okay okay okay I know I said I would wait until I finish the book again until I made this post but, um. no.

also I can always make a more comprehensive one later

So. Idk how people generally analyse Tex (something I should look into probably), but I feel like a major theme is how interpersonal relationships tie into identity and the way people live? exist? are? in general.

Mainly through using Tex and Mason as foil characters, you can really see how this plays out.

First you have the horses. Now, there's the obvious aspect of Mason selling them, putting himself and Tex over the horses in importance (which, I mean, duh), but there's also something Tex mentions towards the beginning of the book, which is that Mason never treated Red like a human. Tex treated Negrito like a person, and in turn felt like it was a mutual relationship. Mason, on the other hand treated Red like a horse, kinda like you'd expect someone to.

Which is why this perspective is so interesting, because you have Tex, who is maybe too empathetic, too emotional, feeling like horses can respond to you like a human can, and you get into the idea of Mason maybe being ignorant or cold in the way he interacts with them.

Then there's the fact that it's mentioned off-handedly that Mason was dating a girl who was named Laurie (I think?) but they broke it off because she wanted to get married. And we get no description of Mason's emotions. Yes, Tex is the narrator, but he's fairly good at reading people and is emotionally intelligent. Unlike with Ponyboy, you can't explain away a character seemingly not expressing the feelings they should logically be having by saying "oh, well he just didn't notice" because he would. Mason seems almost unaffected by the fact that he and his girlfriend broke up and while, yes, he doesn't want to settle down, that doesn't mean he doesn't feel anything towards people.

And then you have Tex and Jamie. They weren't all that serious, but when they break up, Tex seems to take it really strongly. (I just noticed the Tex-Jamie / Mason-Laurie parallelism and I'm definitely gonna do a post about that soon). He gets attached to people really easily, so if they leave him, it hurts him all the more.

But the story is about Tex progressively losing everyone he cares about.

Mason sells Negrito and Red, Mason isn't friends with Lem anymore, Johnny gets into a fight with him, Jamie and him break up, and then the drop that made the cup overflow (idk how to translate that from spanish) is that apparently he isn't Pop's son.

And right after that, he almost dies.

I don't think that's a coincidence.

ALSO. When he's getting better, he gets a bunch of visits from people who care about him. He finds out Mason broke every single part of his facade out of worry. He finds out Jamie came to visit him. Johnny and him had already made up but Johnny doesn't seem mad that he's dating Jamie anymore. Even Cole seems to begrudgingly tolerate him.

Tex's identity is almost entirely built on other people. He's a horse rider and Mason's little brother and Johnny's best friend and Pop's son and Jamie's boyfriend. So when those connections fail, he doesn't know what to do with himself. In a way, he does die because he needs to build himself back up, he need to make a person where there used to just be relationships. Which isn't to say he can't have relationships, because that's the stance Mason kinda takes, but he need to grow to be independent from them and yeah.

That's all I have for now. But wow. I'm going to spend so much time obsessing over this book.

[brat-pack-it-up-boys]

When someone asks my favorite SE Hinton character and I have to pull out Tex McCormick