#zanley

[lavenderfroggii]

when they say they’re soulmates but they didn’t survive ~a week in the desert with no food or water together

when they say they’re soulmates but their fates aren’t cosmically intertwined because of the actions of their ancestors

when they say they’re soulmates but one has never carried the other up a mountain

when they say they’re soulmates but they didn’t learn two halves of the same lullaby as children without ever knowing

when they say they’re soulmates but they don’t have any parallels to the deepest, most beautifully doomed relationship in all of cinema

when they say they’re soulmates but one didn’t teach the other to read

when they say they’re soulmates but one didn’t try and steal a water truck to save the other

when they say they’re soulmates but one didn’t only ever talk to the other and nobody else

when they say they’re soulmates but when someone said that nobody cared about Hector Zeroni the other didn’t said he did

when they say they’re soulmates but one never watched a flower petal on the others face while he slept

when they say they’re soulmates but one never tried to strangle someone for him, or prepared to throw a pool ball at another persons head for him

when they say they’re soulmates but they’ll never be Stanley Yelnats and Hector Zeroni

[babybirdsandwolves]

Every so often I think of the Stanley/Zero and Kate/Sam parallels and feel like a deranged conspiracy theorist.

[rabiessnow]

"Fuck you, my child is completely fine"

Ma'am ur child likes digging holes

[loverblaze]

friendly reminder that stanley and hector both learnt the two halves to the same lullaby.

[pezboisworld]

Hector hates the word "lost"

Sometimes Hector will missplace something and he can't say he "lost" it. The item is "missplaced". He'll find it.

Losing things stressed Hector out so much he kept his spaces sparce and well organized.

When Hector has exhausted everything and needs help finding the item Hector asks Stanley for help first.

Stanley always finds the item, or hunts down a replacement.

[fagspeare]

happy pride to stanley and hector and stanley and hector only

[spindletoad]

Anyone obsessed with Holes in 2024?

I know a few people are, I've interacted with posts but I don't want to go spamming the whole tag lmao. I'm still pretty new to Tumblr, haven't been on it since like 2017, so I don't know if that's even acceptable.

EITHER WAY, please interact if you're still consuming content for Holes, movie or book.

You may be interested to know that I have four Zanley fics coming up. So far I have a 12K chapter written for an ABO fic, and I'm working on chapter two. I'll post the first chapter when I have three chapters written.

If ABO isn't your thing I have a soulmate au which I'm going to post the beginning of once I also have three chapters written. My other two fics involve Stanley dealing with nightmares, and a complete au fic.

[zero-braincells-left]

holes fandom IM BACK AND TODAY ILL BE DISCUSSING THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN BOOK AND MOVIE I LIKED AND DISLIKED

(future me, after writing this, it’s a lil weird i yoinked my name from zero but whatever he’s so gender so don’t mind that)

-1. first up, the things they didn’t have in the movie, my 2 fav scenes. the first one was when they’re on the mountain, after finding water—the flowers petal scene. in the book, zero is asleep, stanley is awake and watching him. there’s a good few paragraphs dedicated to stanley pretty much admiring him. basically for those who don’t know, there’s like a flower petal on zero’s face that goes back n forth as he breathes and Stanley notes that it’s like smth out of a cartoon. after a few MINUTES it falls and Stanley basically thinks “I wanna put it back but.. it wouldn’t be the same.” also he describes zeros face as “being lit in the moonlight” and if that aint romantic idk what is. THE MOVIE, MUCH TO MY DISMAY, DID NOT HAVE THIS.

-2. when they are walking back to the camp, they’re being stubborn lil bitches and are trying not to be the first to drink any water. their argument gives “you hang up first, ‘no YOU hang up first! 🤭” vibes. THE MOVIE ALSO DOESNT HAVE THAT AND I C R I E D

-3. however, the movie also has things the book doesn’t! for one, stanley thinking abt how he’s glad he’s on this mountain w zero, while in the book he’s just thinking it, in the movie him and zero are discussing it and it is so cute and fghkfjdjhdihbdhibdhibehibdi help

-4. also, the little things; in the book, after Mr. Pendanski says “nobody cares about hector zeroni” that’s kinda the end of the chapter or something. BUT IN THE MOVIE stanley walks in right after he says that, looks him dead in the eyes, and says, “I do.” and that broke me

-5. Another little thing—in that scene where Stanley gets his nickname of caveman, the the book, I don’t remember hearing from zero during that (I could be wrong tho). but, in the movie, as Stanley seems like he’s in a dangerous position, zero grabs a pool ball off the table (it’s implied that he’s gonna hit the guy antagonizing stanley) but after the situation cools down, there’s a shot of him putting it down. im telling you ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS AND THIS SCENE IS SCREAMING

-6.? idk if I misremember but in the movie they bring up like “damn Stanley, zero will only talk to you” and idk if that’s mentioned in the book or not but I don’t think so, the fact that one of the characters points it out like 2 or 3 separate times in the movie tho..

-7. the ending… pool party in the movie, boring normal ending in the books. end of story.

honorable mentions, both ONLY in the movie:

-I SQUEAL EVERY TIME I WATCH THE SCENE WHERE THEYRE OPENING THE CHEST AND FINDING OUT ABT THE MONEY AND THE.. THE WAY STANLEYS LIKE HOLDING ONTO ZERO AND JS MESSING WITH HIS HAIR?? I CANT

-also WHEN ZERO IS REUNITED W HIS MOM. Stanley is just standing there and admiring him I KNOW IT.

summary/tldr;

while some of my fav scenes from the book aren’t in the movie, the movie is SO much gayer and I love it so much and it’s the little things that bring me joy. they are so gay for each other in the movie I cannot even put this into words.

also zero def has a big gay crush on Stanley like immediately that’s just canon to me