#ty grady

[flawelovegays]

Plz revive the 'Cut and Run' saga Fandom. I literally downloaded Tumblr just to see fandom stuff, because it is completely DEAD everywhere else, and everything here is from a long time ago.

[hsincerely]

ty wondering if zane merely tolerates him, meanwhile zane is already head over ass in love

[larchwood]

Pen Pals

So I was cleaning out my work computer this week (in case I get axed by The big Cheeto and his puppet master), and I found this Ty & Zane drabble I started years ago.

Pen pals

4th grade

“Alright class, get out your paper and pencils. We’ve got a new project to work on today!”

Tyler obediently did as the teacher asked, hoping the new project would be something way cool like drawing dinosaurs. He fidgeted a little while the slower kids in the class took too long to get ready.

“Thank you, class. You all are great at following directions!” Ms. Clancy praised them. Ty nodded his head. Yep, he was good at following directions. His daddy made sure he did. “A good Marine always follows orders!”

“Now, my best friend in college is also a teacher. She went to Texas after college to teach there. And she and I decided to collaborate on an assignment together.” She paused to deal with hands that shot up in the air.

“What does ‘collbrate’ mean, Ms. Clancy?” “Coll-AB-or-ate, Kelly,” she enunciated slowly and clearly. “It means to work together. My friend, Ms. Lassiter, teaches 4th graders too. So we decided that we’d have our two classes be pen pals together for the rest of the school year.”

The next flurry of hands waved in the air.

“Pen pals are friends who write letters to each other,” she plowed on. “You’ll each get paired up with a boy or girl that you’ll send letters and cards to. You can tell them about yourself, and he or she will answer and tell you about themselves. That way, you can learn about them and what it’s like to grow up in Texas, and they’ll learn about you and what it’s like to grow up in West Virginia.”

She passed out names on construction paper. Ty’s eyes widen when he got his pen pal’s name. “Zane Garrett.” He poked his neighbor to get his attention and waved the paper in his face. “Look at my name! It starts with a Z! That’s so cool! I didn’t know there were names that started with the letter Z! What name did you get?”

The boys and girls in the class chattered as they tried to pronounce their pen pals’ names. Ms. Clancy gave them a few minutes to settle down as she wrote some sentences on the chalk board.

“Okay, class. Letters have parts to them – a beginning, a middle and an end. The beginning of the letter is the greeting. So everyone at the top of the page on the left, I want you to write the word “Hello,” followed by a comma.” She waited until everyone had that part down.

“Since this our first letter to our new pen pals, we want to introduce ourselves. This will be our middle section of the letter. I’ve written some sentences on the board that you can use in your letter if you can’t think of any of your own. Everyone needs to write down five sentences in your letter. You can tell them your name, what your favorite color is, what you like to do for fun, what your favorite movie or book is. You can tell them anything you can think of, but you need to write five sentences, okay?” There was some groaning at that. Five sentences was a LOT.

“After you’re done with your sentences, the end part is the farewell. You’ll sign your name at the bottom of the letter, okay? Then I’ll collect them all and mail them all together to Ms. Lassiter. Once she gets them and hands them out, her students will write back to you. Okay? So let’s get started! If you need help spelling a word, just raise your hand quietly and I’ll come give you a hand.”

I can barely remember where this was going to go. I think a few scenes of letters through the years. Then video chats. Finally they end up going to space camp or something together, (that one time at space camp) around the age of 15, get all blushy and giggly and shy for each other. Go to each other's proms, then go to college together, then fade to black?

Maybe one day.....

[hsincerely]

BOOKS READ IN 2024: sticks & stones by madeleine urban and abigail roux

“You listen to me, Beaumont Tyler Grady. You are a wise-cracking, stubborn, annoying pain in the ass who lives to cause trouble. You’re also a brave, courageous, and valiant Marine who puts his life on the line for what he believes and for those he loves. There is no way you have ever been or ever will be a coward. It simply isn’t in you.”

[psychokillermp4]

heyyyy so. if you find this annoying or whatevs just say so and i wont send anything else lol but i've been thinking a lil bit abt the way ty grady was written.

the thing is, ik that ar loves cats and technically modeled ty's behavior after them, and that's why he's written the way he is, but the first time i read the c&r series, i couldnt help but think that ty was coded to have adhd. flighty attention span, constant and characteristic fidgeting, easily bored by dull things (computer work) he doesn't want to do and finds incredible difficulty on focusing on these tasks, etc. like am i the only one who thought this????

Hi!! 👋 I could never find getting asks about c&r or ty grady annoying, you're always welcome to throw some thoughts my way!

You are absolutely not the only one who thinks Ty has adhd! My friends and I are very big adhd Ty truthers, in fact one of my best friends, (brilliant psychology major and masters in forensic psychology haver) Robin, once looked through the dsm and went through the sort of textbook definition of adhd and categoried Ty's behavior according to the listed characteristics. Of course the dsm is very flawed and it was just for fun but yeah my man is for sure experiencing signs and symptoms. His impulsivity, his hatred of paperwork bc he gets distracted, tendency to zone out, constant fidgeting, inability to sit still, and the way his train of thought often jumps from unrelated topic to topic, just to name a few.

In conclusion, yeah you're absolutely right! Someone please get this man on adderall (affectionate)

[gunsandlove]

*shouts into fandom* HELLO

*tumbleweed rolls through the ghost town*

*in the distance, a handful of wavering figures are visible, as if standing on a road on a hot day*

*Distantly, they wave*