Grieving Ponyboy Curtis
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eyes invite eyes by sixties
Fandoms: The Outsiders - All Media Types, The Outsiders (1983)
30 Aug 2020
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All at once it hits you: this guy has Dally's eyes.
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i don't want to rest in peace by sixties
Fandoms: The Outsiders - All Media Types, The Outsiders (1983)
26 Oct 2020
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"You’d better wise up, Pony... you get tough like me and you don’t get hurt."
It was one of the last things Dallas said to Ponyboy before he died. Two years later, one graveyard conversation does not turn out the way that Ponyboy expected it to, all because of some neighborhood kids.
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- Part 2 of the descent
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It was still protocol to identify the body. To collect effects. Ponyboy does something seemingly irrational.
Companion to other fic, "i don't want to rest in peace" but could be read as standalone if you like.
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- Part 1 of the descent
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i want us both to eat well by sixties
Fandoms: The Outsiders - All Media Types, The Outsiders (1983)
26 Nov 2020
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the way dinner was with your parents was like this: a creaky table with your brother's initials carved into and yours joining soon enough with a switchblade; chairs that were older than the house all settled in together, dishes that had once been just for marriage cobbled together with whatever your parents could afford after so many years of you and your brothers breaking them
or: food, ponyboy, family, and loss.
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this is my body and soul here by sixties
Fandoms: The Outsiders - All Media Types, The Outsiders (1983)
23 Dec 2020
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Things take a turn for the unexpected after Ponyboy's run in with Sylvia.
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- Part 5 of the descent
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and all that remains by sixties
Fandoms: The Outsiders - All Media Types, The Outsiders (1983)
26 Mar 2021
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Christmas wanes to the new year. Ponyboy still reaches for Dallas even in the anniversary of his parent's deaths.
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- Part 7 of the descent
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i will come back to haunt you by sixties
Fandoms: The Outsiders - All Media Types, The Outsiders (1983)
22 Aug 2021
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Ponyboy is going to get Dallas Winston back, by any means necessary. Even if he doesn't understand how possession works, even if it seems that every turn towards repossession is harder than before, he is going to do it.
The last part of the descent before Ponyboy goes to college.
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- Part 8 of the descent
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you run into the night from all you had by between (sixties)
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
31 May 2022
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"So that's it? You're just gonna go whenever you get pissed?"
Ponyboy keeps walking down the front steps, incensed. The whole neighborhood can probably hear them right now as he pushes open the front fence. He's sure that they're going to be gossipping in the morning, he's sure that someone might call the fights as Darry goes on, "Ponyboy!"
He doesn't turn around. The payphone is right down the block and if he turns around, if he goes back inside, he is going to punch his brother in the face in front of Soda. And he can't do that. If he does that, they'll get separated in a system that doesn't care for them, Soda will flunk out of school, and where would they be? How would their parents feel if he did that?
In September 1965, things are a little different. For one thing, Ponyboy is seventeen years old and an older brother to Sodapop Curtis. For another, he's not in college — not with his parents dead. And a third, he's dating Dallas Winston and has been for about a year now.
And last thing: it's two am, Ponyboy is alone, and Bob Sheldon is roaming Tulsa, drunk.
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- Part 1 of between two points, there is a map
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twice bitten by departures (sixties)
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
06 Sep 2022
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Truthfully, he wants to go back home, to Mission. He wants to tend to the calves, work beneath the sun alongside Dallas or the farmhands. And then he wanted to make dinner, draw a bath with Dallas, and go to bed with him, the way he used to do months ago.
He can't do any of that, so he concentrates on the neglected box in front of him, filled to the brim with clothes. Not just any clothes, but his mother's clothes.
Ponyboy, at home, unwillingly.
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- Part 14 of a land flowing with blood and honey
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There's no such thing as magic, no such thing as raising the dead back to their bodies and Ponyboy wakes up knowing this, even though he longs for something else, longs to be held the way Dallas had held him.
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- Part 2 of the last of a dying breed
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quarter and a dime by sixties
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), That was Then This is Now - S. E. Hinton, Rumble Fish - S. E. Hinton
23 Oct 2022
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Lots of things in Tulsa have changed. Of all of them, Ponyboy had expected that Buck Merril's place would've changed the least.
Instead, as he squints up at the sign that reads Quarter Bar, with a flashing half naked woman in the center of said quarter, he wonders just what in the hell was in store for him here.
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- Part 3 of the last of a dying breed
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vertebrae by vertebrae by between (sixties)
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
02 Oct 2022
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Sodapop looks like he's about to start bawling if Ponyboy asks him another question. He doesn't want to; he's all of fourteen years old, he's exhausted, and it's almost two in the morning. Darry went to bed three hours ago, and Ponyboy knows he's sound asleep right now, having left this up to him.
Ponyboy helps his baby brother the night before a test.
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- Part 3 of between two points, there is a map
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all this bad blood by sixties
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, Rumble Fish - S. E. Hinton, That was Then This is Now - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
20 Feb 2023
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The gangs are over and Rusty-James wishes they weren't. So he finds it's an exciting, good thing to hear that Ponyboy Curtis — one of the most important, legendary, toughest greasers to ever exist — is bringing them back.
Bringing the gangs back won't be as easy as everyone thought it would be, and Rusty-James is going to find out that Ponyboy Curtis is a lot more than an omega with a tough, larger than life reputation.
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- Part 5 of the last of a dying breed
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a different path led by a beating heart by departures (sixties)
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
09 Jan 2023
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His father's study used to be a sanctuary. Ponyboy enters it, looking for hope, for memories.
He finds something very, very different about his future he didn't anticipate.
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- Part 1 of a land flowing with blood and honey
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this is your heart (can you feel it?) by departures (sixties)
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
23 Mar 2023
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In September 1965, the movie Who Killed Teddy Bear? is playing at The Nightly Double.
In the drive in, Cherry Valance has a plan to finally make Dallas Winston notice her, to finally be his girlfriend now that Sylvia is exposed for the cheater she is.
Instead, Ponyboy Curtis shows up to the drive in, looking for an escape from his grief, from his pain. Dallas Winston catches his scent, and his eye.
None of them know that by the next morning, the Soc Johnny Cade will be dead all because Dallas Winston decides that maybe he should be kissing Ponyboy Curtis, instead of Cherry Valance.
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- Part 2 of a land flowing with blood and honey
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the stars are faded by between (sixties)
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
26 May 2023
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Ponyboy puts down the dollar needed to buy the toy for Soda, knowing that he'd love it, something small in the midst of all this; now wasn't the time for Soda to think about the bills, about what it'd cost.
Fifty sentences, in a world where Ponyboy is the middle child and Soda the youngest.
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- Part 5 of between two points, there is a map
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until my ribs get tough by sixties
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
16 Jun 2024
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She had sat there, her eyes huge, seal-like in her face, desperation and nervousness there. It might've been the first time he realized that her eyes were a little bit like Johnny's only where the memory of Johnny's panic and fear overrode everything else, this girl — this woman had determination there, a pleading. The bitterness that had overrode Dallas, it hadn't taken hold there and he thought to himself that he couldn't hurt her. He never could hurt her.
Ponyboy has never known someone like her, and he never will.
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rather do it myself by between (sixties)
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
05 Sep 2024
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"I got a job. Full time, and I'm gonna try tutoring on the side, so we can get the bills paid. I figured — I figured I haven't been doing enough around here, and Dally can't keep giving us money when I can, too."
Still, his brother's eyebrows furrow together as if he can't actually believe Ponyboy's words, as clear and concise as they are.
Ponyboy has to do the right thing for Soda. Darry still has issues with what he's chosen.
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- Part 8 of between two points, there is a map
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king of the marquee by between (sixties)
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
16 Sep 2024
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The laugh from Ponyboy is so genuinely gleeful and cheerful that Dallas almost thinks they've gone back ten months in time, back to before all of this started.
Ponyboy settles into his new job. Dallas makes a choice.
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- Part 9 of between two points, there is a map
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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