Alternate Universe - Shepard Role Swap
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in the dollhouse by sixties
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Forbidden Game - L. J. Smith
03 Aug 2025
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There is a Shadow World, like our own but different, existing alongside ours but never touching. Some people call it the world of dreams, but it is as real as anything else....
Tulsa, 1967. It's the last spring break before Ponyboy goes to college. He's got more worries than what he thought he'd have, including his relationship with Dallas Winston. All he wants to do is have one last party before he goes to a future he's more than earned.
Too bad that the boardgame he brought to the party is not just a boardgame. It's a matter of life and death, to play against Julian. And it's not just Ponyboy who's a player in this game, but the whole gang, or what's left of it. They just have to survive their own nightmares, one by one and hope they'll all wake up in the morning, the victors.
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Life on Mars?: The Reluctant Return of Ponyboy Curtis by synthesizer (sixties)
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
04 Dec 2024
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Shepard, Angela. “Life on Mars?: The Reluctant Return of Ponyboy Curtis .” Vanity Fair, January 1990.
Ponyboy Curtis disappeared for five years — a solid feat for someone who was once the face of the 1980s, guiding almost every major pop movement, always came to the forefront with an opinion on the world whether it be poverty or the handling of overseas politics, and was always occupying that space with his bandmate, lover, and mate, Dallas Winston.
Now he's back, and he's ready to talk about everything that's changed since December, 1985. Starting with Dallas.
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- Part 1 of blue hawaii, 1979
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get busy living, or get busy dying by sixties
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
29 Nov 2024
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It's not until he sees the uniform that Dallas knows who he is: Ponyboy. The not-quite-Curtis who no one had seen in years. He stares at him as he comes to greet Buck at the bar, giving a rough handshake. Buck seems to fumble over his own words, Ponyboy nodding once or twice.
From his side of the bar, he thinks about how things could've been different, six months ago. Not that he knew much about him from Darry or Soda; by the time he'd come to Tulsa at ten, Ponyboy had only stayed a few weeks before he'd left. He'd only heard bits and pieces, mostly about the fact that he'd been the good kid, the oldest, the smartest. He'd been someone the whole neighborhood has talked about, the greaser who got out. At least until he'd gotten locked up.
Six months after Johnny dies, the prodigal son of Tulsa comes back home. Dallas has never exchanged more than two sentences with him. But... Ponyboy seems like a good place to start putting himself back together.
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earth angel (will you be mine) by departures (sixties)
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
10 Mar 2025
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Dallas makes his way down the hallway, looking for the right room, counting numbers until he finds it: 912. Curtis, Ponyboy M.
God. Only the rich could get away with a name like that.
1965 — Ponyboy Curtis survives the car accident that takes his parents' lives only because Dallas Winston was there. Dallas prefers not to dwell on things after – Ponyboy, however, wants to think of Dallas as more than a one off savior.
Then Johnny Cade winds up dead, and Ponyboy has to make a choice himself. A choice with more consequences than either of them were expecting.
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possibly, maybe by departures (sixties)
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), That was Then This is Now - S. E. Hinton
27 May 2025
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He used to think he knew the meaning of worn out — the feeling of unending grief on his shoulders weighing in on him every day, the monotony of having to go to endless parties he doesn't want to be involved in, the horrible dinners with Johnny's parents only broken up by the stiff dinners with Paul and Darry — as it turns out, no one really truly understands the meaning of that phrase until they've lived the same day for at least five years on.
Ponyboy is stuck in a time loop. It's not ideal when you're juggling your own murder, your husband's complicated history, and the want for someone else.
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oh joy, when you call me by sixties
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
06 Jun 2025
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"Who's cookin', you or Dallas? I heard he'd make a nice house alpha."
"Is that true?" Ponyboy turns his head and glory, he's so good looking with that smile of his. His hair is in a half ponytail, the auburn still bright in the fading light, the tattoos on him bold as ever. "You promise Two-Bit you'd cook for me, sweetie?"
Dallas moves out of Buck's, and in with Ponyboy.
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a fever i am learning to live with by sixties
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), That was Then This is Now - S. E. Hinton
30 Jul 2025
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"Ponyboy," is the reply, as he turns around, making his way back up the steps. On his back is another tattoo, of the Virgin Mary and Child, in bold black and red. "If you're lucky, you can ask Charlie about the Christmas special. Until then, you might wanna get out of here." A warm smile spreads on his face, and fuck does Dallas' teeth ache to sink into his neck at the sight of how crooked and sharp his teeth look, "Something tells me that if anyone 'cept me sees you, you'll get in some trouble. Twenty is almost old enough to drink but not quite."
Correcting Ponyboy about his age doesn't matter when he winks at Dallas.
It's the fact he winked at all.
What does mutual, all-consuming obsession between two people look like? Ponyboy and Dallas set out to answer the question with a camera, a canvas, and a decades between them.