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  1. Rec 96

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    Ponyboy Curtis hasn’t been home since he was 16 years old, it isn’t even home anymore for him.

    Home is a small apartment in New York City where his cat, Gatsby, lives with him. It’s walking distance from his favorite coffee shop and the office he works at with Mac Grayson.

    Home is also far away from Tulsa, and he is glad for it.

    But when his past pulls him back without warning, he’s forced to face everything he thought he’d left behind. Everyone he left behind. Even worse, theres a killer on the loose and no one can seem to figure out who it is or who’s next.

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    25 Feb 2025

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    I STAYED UP ALL NIGHT TO READ THIS BRO. ITS SOOOO GOOD OMGGG

  2. Rec 43

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    “Come on, let's get in the car,” Darry says, pulling away slightly. “Can you walk?”
    “Yes,” says Pony.
    “Okay, can you start walking?”
    “No.”
    Darry sighs, almost like he wants to laugh. “Right. Okay. Let me put my shoes on, and then I'll--”
    His stomach lurches, then drops. “Darry?”
    “Yeah?”
    “I think I'm gonna--”
    Before he can finish the sentence, his legs give way underneath him and he collapses to the ground. He hears his own body thud ungracefully to the ground, followed closely by Darry swearing under his breath, then calling for Soda. His heart starts pounding against his chest, beating furiously. The last thing he sees is Darry's eyes staring worriedly down at him, wide open, filled with fear, trying to keep him up right, before everything fades completely.
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    or the one where curly shepard picks a fight that leads to another concussion for ponyboy. pony wonders if he's changed. curly tries his best to be a good friend (he's still learning). darry and soda wonder how many brain injuries is too many.

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    13 Feb 2025

  3. Rec 20

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    ”It sounded like the title of a bad romance novel. “Love: Redefined” by Ponyboy Curtis.

     

    But it was his reality, and he wouldn’t change it for the world.”

     

    -OR-

    Ponyboy Curtis has had an idea of what love is ever since he was a kid watching his parents dance in the kitchen. Then Curly Shepard comes along and fucks it all up.

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    15 Jan 2025

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  4. Rec 59

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    Instead of saying anything, he reached over and plucked the cigarette from Pony’s mouth, and slid it in between his own lips. Pony flashed him a lighthearted glare, but didn’t start grasping for it back.

    Curly almost wanted him to.

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    12 Jan 2025

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    AHHHH I LOVE THEM SO MUCHHHH

  5. Rec 27

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    Ponyboy and Curly reunited at a flower child protest in May of 1970. Well, Curly has and will always make it clear that Ponyboy was at a flower child protest in May of 1970. Curly was touring the south — looking for a purpose he never did find — and just happened to be in Austin at the time. Ponyboy, without fail over the past decades, would then add that he was only there because his brother had been drafted (he never really gave much of a shit about the war itself after that), and explain how he left after things got violent. Then Curly would call him a hippie, Ponyboy would playfully smack him, and they’d link their pinkies together just like in the summer of ‘71.

    Or: Ponyboy and Curly reunite in 1970. Everything is changing, and so are they, but in the end they have each other.

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    06 Jan 2025

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    Actually cried while reading this. It's sooooo good