Alternate Universe - Soc Swap
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a river of honey, spirits, and blood by departures (sixties)
Fandoms: The Outsiders - All Media Types, The Outsiders (1983)
08 Oct 2021
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"Sometimes…. Just sometimes wish I could write to them. Let them know I ain't dead." His thumb runs along Dallas' own. "Tell 'em I'm happy, that I love you."
That's an impulse that Dallas will never get completely, even if it's been decades. There have been times where Ponyboy's broken, cried after a reminder of his brothers: someone with Soda's smile, someone who had that sharp tone of Darry's or his build. Times where Ponyboy has woken from a nightmare and Dallas knows it's about how he had killed the Cade kid, Ponyboy momentarily tensing up, afraid before the rest of him remembered everything else. Even if they've become less, faded over time, he can't forget Ponyboy telling him that he couldn't make them stop.
He can't make the nightmares stop, can't stop feeling for his brothers, his parents.
It's 1983, in a small town in Texas. Ponyboy and Dallas ran anyway after Johnny Cade was killed and now, the law has come to collect them, whether they want to go or not.
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- Part 12 of a land flowing with blood and honey
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the red shoes by departures (sixties)
Fandoms: The Outsiders - All Media Types, The Outsiders (1983)
19 Nov 2021
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cherry had planned well, had met dallas almost as soon as he'd gotten out of jail. she'd let marcia drop the bomb sylvia cheated, and she was the one who asked him to go to the movies. dallas had given them that usual grin, the alpha swagger and confidence that never waned that infuriated cherry and drew her in all at once. he'd agreed to come and cherry had felt so much excitement in her chest that finally, finally dallas would go out with her.
and now here she was, disappointed.
the past catches up with cherry in an unexpected way as she watches dallas winston be hauled to jail in 1983.
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- Part 13 of a land flowing with blood and honey
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your early morning company by departures (sixties)
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
10 Sep 2022
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Who thought that'd be him, doing that for a mate? That stories he hadn't believed — that having a mate could calm him, that being near them could really make him feel that he was exactly where he needed to be — were all true. All of it is real, Dallas feeling that calm he hadn't experienced until Ponyboy settling on him all at once as he watches.
A golden moment in 1981.
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- Part 10 of a land flowing with blood and honey
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tulsa prison blues by departures (sixties)
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
04 Apr 2023
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Mathews, Keith. “Tulsa Prison Blues.” Tulsa Monthly, 5 August 1983.
Eighteen years ago, Johnny Cade was found murdered in a park, with local heir Ponyboy Curtis missing and the suspect a known hoodlum, Dallas Winston. In April of 1983, Dallas was arrested in Mission, Texas in a desperate bid to save Ponyboy's life. Months later, amidst nasty litigation, bitter memories, and tragedies, Ponyboy and Dallas are still reaching towards each other in the darkness.
(Or: an article by Two-Bit, after the arrests.)
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- Part 18 of a land flowing with blood and honey
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exodus to eden by departures (sixties)
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
28 Apr 2025
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In Tulsa, Johnny Cade's body is getting colder and colder by the second — and Dallas and Ponyboy are hitching a ride out of town, to Jay Mountain to hide for as long as possible. Neither of them are prepared for the emotional fall out or how easy it is to fall in love with each other in their own Garden of Eden.
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- Part 6 of a land flowing with blood and honey
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bad news travels like wildfire by departures (sixties)
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), That was Then This is Now - S. E. Hinton
15 Nov 2023
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Cherry — and the rest of the greasers in Tulsa — spirals in the bloody aftermath of Dallas' murder of Johnny Cade.
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- Part 4 of a land flowing with blood and honey
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bad news like a sucker punch by departures (sixties)
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
20 Nov 2023
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Two-Bit stumbles home after a night of drunken fun, only to find his father waiting for him, something that's unusual.
The news his father delivers to him, is straight and to the point: Johnny Cade is dead by the hand of Dallas Winston.
Two-Bit's reaction is not straight and to the point.
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- Part 5 of a land flowing with blood and honey
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what if this storm ends? by departures (sixties)
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
05 May 2024
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He can never escape the dreams: eventually, he will wake up tasting blood in his mouth, gasping for air, thinking that Johnny's blood is splattered on him again and Dallas is kissing away the scream in his throat.
A day in the life.
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- Part 20 of a land flowing with blood and honey
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alone, surrounded by departures (sixties)
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
07 Aug 2024
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He can always pinpoint when he and Ponyboy became friends, yet he cannot remember how or why he and Bob became friends only that when it happened it seemed natural, to find another Soc boy that understood him.
Johnny Cade's short life in fifty sentences.Series
- Part 22 of a land flowing with blood and honey
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sculptura by departures (sixties)
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
03 Apr 2025
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Drabbles, prompts, tumblr fills, first drafts and other pieces of on earth we're briefly gorgeous, an different take on an omegaverse dalpony soc au.
updated whenever the mood strikes.
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hard odds to beat when you're on all fours by departures (sixties)
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
10 Apr 2025
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"No dress this time?" Dallas loves how Ponyboy's omega scent — never dancing on that edge of sweetness like most, muddled up in Dallas' own ever since they mated so long ago — is everywhere, loves how he recognizes it as home as he waits for Ponyboy to beckon him in. He leans against the door jamb, folding his arms, liking the way the St. Christopher glimmers on Ponyboy's bare chest. "Or you figure coming home to you naked as a bear was enough?"
Dallas and Ponyboy at home in 1970 on a summer afternoon, with reminders of the past.
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- Part 26 of a land flowing with blood and honey
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mea máxima culpa by departures (sixties)
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
07 May 2025
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"Winston! You have a visit from your legal counsel!" One of the older guards barks out from the door. Dallas frowns; the assholes probably sent another public defender who was going to hem and haw.
The last three had been less than competent, and he hadn't trusted any of them. What was one more?
In 1983, Dallas meets with his legal counsel and is not expecting who he gets.
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- Part 27 of a land flowing with blood and honey
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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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'round the bend by departures (sixties)
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
14 Jun 2025
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The moment his father walks out of the grocery store shaking his head, his hands in the pockets of his coat, Ponyboy knows that the cranberry sauce they're looking for wasn't found. He knows they should've expected this — that they wouldn't have found it at any of the big stores out here, that had Christmas food. It was a miracle that everything was still open for Christmas Eve anyway.
"What are we gonna do?" Ponyboy asks, moving over in the car as Dad opens the door and slides into the driver's seat. "Mama's gonna be real upset that we went all this way to get it and didn't find it."
Dad taps at wheel, half humming along with the radio as he thinks. "Well... I think we still have some options, my boy."
"Like what?" Ponyboy asks, wondering what kind of crazy plan his Dad was cooking up now. The moment an easy solution was off the table was the moment Dad did his best thinking. "We've been to every store they've got. What're we gonna do, go over on to Texas and look?"
Freshly home from his time at finishing school, Ponyboy and his Dad make a last minute run on Christmas Eve, 1956. Ponyboy meets the greaser Dallas Winston for the first time.
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- Part 1 of alike in dignity
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Critical Missing: Ponyboy Curtis by departures (sixties)
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
15 Aug 2025
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In an unprecedented move, the podcast Critical Missing, an award-winning true crime podcast that focuses on missing persons cases, has announced two new seasons coming out this summer and this winter, respectively.
The podcast will be covering, in two nine episode seasons, the case of Ponyboy Curtis, the youngest heir to the Curtis family fortune, his kidnapping in 1965 and his rescue in 1983. Each episode will cover the kidnapping and rescue from multiple angles, including brand new interviews with some of those closest to the case.
They have stated that a season three is on the way, but will be announced within the oncoming weeks.
A glimpse into the future of Honeyverse. Or: a questionable podcast from the future.
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- Part 28 of a land flowing with blood and honey
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my unworthiest hand by departures (sixties)
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
01 Sep 2025
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"I don't know who I am anymore, around them," Ponyboy exhales smoke slowly, so happy that he'd allowed Dallas to buy him different cigarettes to test and taste, happy to be out with him in their own little hideout, "I feel like I ain't a Soc anymore. Feels like I was a greaser born in the wrong body."
Dispatches from a Tulsa embroiled in a Romeo and Juliet inspired conflict.
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- Part 2 of alike in dignity