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Soda and the Soc by Cetigapolo
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
16 Nov 2025
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Titled for Soda because story was not preplanned, but entire gang is featured. Focus is on friendships, trauma healing, (found) family, and romance for some. Canon-complaint. Adult themes are present including abuse, assault, mental health/suicide, references to sexuality.
Prompts welcome and some chapters can function as one-shots if you're looking for something shorter. Here's a list with brief descriptions of ones that can be read without any knowledge of overall storyline or OCs:
-11-Darry struggles with his first birthday after losing their folks, brothers help him through.
-17-Darry realizes Soda is Not Okay after events of the book.
-59-Darry breaks down in front of his brothers, panics about it, and they help.
-107-Soda and Darry grieve in different ways and support each other.
-123-124-Depressed Pony fights with Soda,
Darry comforts both
-145-Ponyboy comforts Darry over Dallas.
-146-147-Soda makes albums and reminiscing.
-153-Ponyboy in his head with anxiety.
-170-First half is bros crying over leaving Pony at college.
-196-7, 199, 208, 211- Two-Bit's dad returns.
-212- Pony and Darry talk about the book and rodeo/brother anxiety -
When silence hurts more by Kammly
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
10 Nov 2025
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Ponyboy was still so young—just fourteen, still soft around the edges, and too full of love for a world that hadn’t been gentle with him. Orphaned and aching, he clung to his older brothers with all he had. He gave freely. Unconditionally.
Darry and Sodapop loved him back—deeply, fiercely, in the only ways they knew how. But they forgot something vital:
Homes aren't only broken fists, blood, or broken bones.
Sometimes, a home loses its meaning in the quiet—
when the silences stretch too long, when the affection becomes rare, rushed, or reluctant, when shame replaces tenderness, and when presence becomes performance.This series is full of tenderness, aching warmth, and quiet heartbreak—each part a soft unraveling of how neglect doesn’t always shout… sometimes, it just forgets to hold on.
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- Part 1 of Finding Light in Dark Places
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I Think my Ways are Wearing me Down by emmmerz
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
09 Nov 2025
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Two-Bit doesn’t know what to do. His heart aches, his stomach churns, and his head pounds. He needs help. He’s so lost and he needs help.
But Johnny has it worse, his parents aren’t good at all. And Dally doesn’t have parents period; same with the Curtis brothers. And Steve’s dad is a raging alcoholic.
So what are his problems compared to theirs?
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6 times the gang didn’t notice Two-Bits cries for help, and 1 time they did.
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Silent Words and Quiet Reminders by Patroclus_Child_of_Apollo
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
04 Nov 2025
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Johnny hasn’t had food in a while because of his father. He thinks of asking the Curtis’ but doesn’t want to be a bother
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- Part 6 of Whumptober 2025
- Part 2 of The Inner Musings of Johnny Cade
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What They Tried to Take by emmmerz
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
02 Nov 2025
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He just enjoyed an escape from his home life, really. Even when he was at home, and his parents were screaming at each other, he could pluck the strings quietly and it would ease his anxiety riddled nerves.
Only when he heard glass smash he would leave the house, grabbing his guitar on the way out.
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Or, an exploration of how Johnny Cade fell in love with his guitar.
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Dallas doesn't run out of the hospital and rob the store after Johnny dies, therefore avoiding his death.
But now he has to learn how to live without him, and Dallas has never been good at that.
As he spends more time at the Curtis house, old memories (and feelings) are beginning to resurface. Ones Dallas would rather be left forgotten.
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~Across The stars~ (Johnny Cade x NB Reader) by HoneyMTea_Artz
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
29 Oct 2025
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Intro: You are from Texas. You are just visiting Tulsa to see your parents because you live with your grandparents. You are a soc with your grandparents, but your parents are considered ‘poor’ or ‘greasers’ However, they give you what they can. But then.. Your town has changed over the years.. Something happened..
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All The Things She Said by Alanis247
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
29 Oct 2025
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Things were finally looking up for the Curtis family after they lost their parents in an accident. Just as things were beginning to feel normal again a surprise visit changes their lives in ways they never could have imagined.
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A Gift They Didn’t Deserve by Cherry_Blooom
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
23 Oct 2025
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The Shepards had never felt true love. At least, not the kind that makes your chest ache with sweetness so sharp it steals your breath, not the kind that weakens your knees and makes you feel weightless and rooted all at once.
They had known fists and knives, alleyways and slammed doors. They had known hunger that clawed through their ribs, betrayal that cut deeper than steel, anger that kept them alive when nothing else would. But love? Real love? That was a foreign language, something they had only caught in glimpses—mothers holding babies close at the grocery store, a boy laughing with his brother as if nothing in the world could break that bond.
Not until Ponyboy.
And even then, it was strange.
Wrong, almost.
A thing they weren’t built for.
Aka: A compilation of one-shots and two-shots about one of Tulsa’s most dangerous gangs… and Ponyboy Curtis.
Something that shouldn’t have worked out the way it did.
(But then again, God’s been in the business of making impossible things happen since the beginning of time.)
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- Part 5 of Finding Light in Dark Places
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Their Only Softness by Kammly
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
18 Oct 2025
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The world made Dallas Winston and Johnny Cade sharp, cruel in their survival, feral when it came to keeping what little they had. But in the middle of all the chaos, all the fights, and all the dirt of the streets, Ponyboy Curtis was different.
He was their softness—the only gentle thing they had left to protect. And God help anyone who tried to take that away.
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- Part 4 of The Warmth We Didn’t Know We Needed
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one time dress, full time mess by Avti_Sig, ghost_boi_05
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
13 Oct 2025
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Dally loses a dare and has to go to a party in drag. Johnny goes as well and accidentally falls for Dally in a dress. Johnny gets Hanahaki and almost dies because he was too scared to tell anyone about the disease and who he got it over.
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An oath. by Mileszcaelus
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp, The Outsiders (1983)
12 Oct 2025
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You know if you had asked Ponyboy Curtis hell the dreamer the one who had his heads in the clouds all the time 2 years ago if the living dead was real he would’ve shook his head and said no, that's nonsense just in literature. But here I was on a hunt to get resources in this fuck up apocalypse. hand gun shoved in the holster, Tulsa basically was a dead zone at the rate when this all had started and broke out, I’ve been looking for my brothers for the past 796 days got separated when we were outrunning the dead.
At least track helps me with my Stanium real well and distance because if not I’d be eaten by the herd behind me. I yelled out to see if curly was nearby.
“Curly! Are you near!!”
Curly and I have been at this for the past two years since we were with each other when the apocalypse started. It's stupid what we were doing after all; but I’m at least glad I got someone with me during this shitshow. Even if it's a curly Shepard and god he could be frustrating nevertheless at least it was someone I could stand.
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in the moment by llamaseatingmangoes
Fandoms: The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp, The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
08 Oct 2025
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i wrote this a year ago and never posted it because i'm a coward. so i'm doing it now. happy first birthday to the only fanfiction i've ever written
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Kid next door by rumblef1sh
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
04 Oct 2025
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Ponyboy is playing outside when a skittish kid appears in front of his fence.
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- Part 5 of Baby Greasers Rule Tulsa
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The Reason The Curtis Parent's Hair Is Turning Gray by certified_nonsleeper
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton
03 Oct 2025
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Each member of the gang being injured in some way and the Curtis parents looking after them
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- Part 2 of The Curtis Parents Are Alive
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With hearts of Gold by DD_Madara
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
02 Oct 2025
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"I want you to tell Dally to look at one. He'll probably think you're crazy, but ask for me. I don't think he's ever really seen a sunset."
That's what Johnny wrote in his last letter to Ponyboy.
Still mourning the loss of his best friend and with Dally struggling as much as he does, Pony doesn't feel brave enough to just ask Dally. But maybe he could start with making him aware that there was still good and beautiful things left in the world.---
5 times Ponyboy makes Dally look at the sky and 1 time he doesn't.
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Church Fire Aftermath -Whumptober 2025 by Patroclus_Child_of_Apollo
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp, The Outsiders (1983)
01 Oct 2025
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Ponyboy is resting at home after the fire but all he wants to do is go back to the hospital and see Johnny. He gets his wish, but not in the way he wants.
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- Part 1 of Whumptober 2025
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Only you, my boy by Cherry_Blooom
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
20 Sep 2025
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After a brutal fight leaves him dazed and sitting on the wet pavement, Tim is found by Ponyboy, who offers an umbrella and a touch so gentle it feels like a revelation.
Or, Tim Shepard experiences affection for the first time on the wrong side of town and he wears a brown jacket and scuffed sneakers.
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What's Being In Love Feel Like? by hot_cocoa_addict
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton
16 Sep 2025
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Pony actually got home before curfew. An hour or so later, Darry asks him to take out the trash. But Pony sees a familiar car drive towards the lot. Where Johnny is.
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Being sick fucking sucks by Lerix_0099
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders - Fandom
15 Sep 2025
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Johnny was warm enough to fall asleep, so with one last attempted glance at whoever was holding him, he just slowly let his eyes flutter closed. Right as Johnny was falling asleep, the voice cut through the fogginess of his brain, more panicked and concerned than he had ever heard it before.
”Johnnycakes I swear to god, if you do not answer me in the next five seconds, we’re gonna have a lot of issues-.....Jesus christ kid, don’t do this to me, not now”
Johnny recognized that voice, but from where? Just as he passed out, there was one last thought in his mind……
Dally?
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- Part 3 of The Outsiders Childhood Stories