Grieving Ponyboy Curtis
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confirmation by tantalides (sixties)
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
18 Jan 2025
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Darry takes the papers, trying to steady his breathing, trying to think around his feelings of betrayal, of anger, of confusion. "How long will it take to notify?"
"It will be done by the end of the day. Possibly, the hour," Mrs. Crenshaw says, her voice thinner than ever.
Darry confirms who his brother's father actually is. A phone rings in Philly.
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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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in dreams by departures (sixties)
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
01 Mar 2025
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"Where'd you go, tracking in all that mud?"
The only good thing about that sentence is that it's not Darry who's saying it — it's Soda instead, coming to sit on the bed next to Ponyboy, slow and easy like he was gonna spook like a horse.
A cut scene from earth angel (will you be mine?) between Ponyboy and Soda.
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betrayer, betrayed, betrayal by theotokos (sixties)
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
22 Apr 2025
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In life, he'd never known his mother to be anything except honest, forthright.
The mother he is burying today is not that mother; this is a version of her he doesn't understand, who carried secrets in her that he never had considered before. Secrets that were now coming to sit in the pew behind him, with Dallas in tow.
Funerals are a messy thing. A triptych from Darry, Atreus, and Ponyboy.
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- Part 4 of mariolatry
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between darkness and light by sixties
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Crow (Movies 1994-2005), That was Then This is Now - S. E. Hinton
22 May 2025
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"Shit — Sorry, Dal. Fuck, I thought – I was having dreams about Johnny."
The alarmed look on Dallas' face fades at that, the alertness bleeding out of his scent, relaxing more into the couch. His hand reaches out, his fingers warm against Ponyboy's skin. "It's about that time of year, ain't it?"
The anniversary of Johnny's death haunts Ponyboy as he and Dallas get ready for another day.
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- Part 1 of every night i call your name
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fever dreams by tantalides (sixties)
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
31 May 2025
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That's all it was. Differences. Like the shade of honey blonde his father had and the brighter, more sun tipped blonde his mother had. That's all it was.
All it used to be.
Ponyboy presents, and dreams.
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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
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inquiries by between (sixties)
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
14 Sep 2025
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"Well — I guess it's about girls and stuff," Soda admits, and Ponyboy shifts in bed more, wondering what Soda is going to say, what he's trying to say. Soda is never one to really beat around the bush; he also wasn't as blunt as Darry could be. "I mean —"
"You know I ain't into girls, right?" Ponyboy teases and Soda grins at him. "I don't think they're all that dissimilar though."
Soda nods, biting at his lip. "I just – I was wondering what it's like? To – to be in love, I guess."
Soda asks his older brother, Ponyboy, about love. Ponyboy tries to answer.
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- Part 10 of between two points, there is a map
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tangled up in merrigold by tantalides (sixties)
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
21 Oct 2025
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"Do you have any plans for Spring Break already?"
"No, I figure we weren't gonna do much," Ponyboy doesn't tell Menelaus that usually that just meant sleeping in or them going to help Dad work or going on a hunting trip. And that this year, it wouldn't be any of the latter at all. "I was just hoping to go to the library and finish a book. Maybe go see a movie."
"Think you'd want to visit the library here in Philly?"
Spring, 1965. Ponyboy adjusts to having two families.
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None of them are the person he wants to see, craves to see, dreads to see. All he can do is watch mutely as the bus keeps on, hoping still for a glimpse of a familiar fur coat, short blonde hair and blue eyes – blue eyes that are probably translucent now, easy to see through.
Ponyboy goes to the other side of town for a little bit of comfort.
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"Could say the same about you, Roger," Ponyboy says, his voice cold and menacing as he can make it despite Roger being several inches taller. "It's greaser territory here. You ain't real welcome."
"Where else was I gonna keep up cheap broads for the sock hop tonight?" Roger fires back, clearly looking at Angela and Ponyboy's chest, his scent obvious in what he wants.
Halloween, 1956. Roger Sheldon thinks that he's got his new date in the bag. Ponyboy begs to differ on that subject.
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