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the curtises never go anywhere without their last words being “i love you”.

“i love you, mama,” pony says before finally letting go of her hand and heaving through the tears as she gently pushed him towards the kindergarten classroom.

“i love you,” soda rightly hugs darry, who huffs, but hugs him back with so much force he could feel soda’s back pop as he walked onto he football field, ready to make his family proud.

“i love you,” mr curtis tells soda, who’s currently in a hospital bed with his his leg propped up. he knows soda’s upset about his torn ligament, but he doesn’t miss the soft smile grazing his son’s lips.

“i love you, dad,” a young darry says, pulling his namesake closer after opening his last gift on his fifteenth birthday—a football helmet he’d been jonesing for for a while.

“i love you,” soda kissed pony’s forehead while his little brother slept soundly in their shared bed before going off to work, ready for whatever the day held in front of him.

“i love you,” darry says before closing the bedroom door. he knows his brothers can’t hear him-they weren’t awake. even if they were they probably couldn’t hear it over soda’s snoring, anyhow.

“i love you,” pony says with a quick hug to his brothers before sprinting back off to finish his track meet, hoping to bring home a win for his brothers.

“i love you,” mr curtis blurts out before everything goes white, and then a vicious shade of black. the last thing he feels is his wife’s hand squeezing his with a deathly tight grip, her fear palpable as she catches sight of the blinding lights of the train before everything goes black.

”i love you,” the brothers whisper one by one, grazing the caskets with their fingertips, wood mixing with tears as they held their grievances.

“i love you,” darry chokes out as he puts his hand the old, bedroom door, knowing it’s only resident was mad as a hornet and the other had run off because of him.

”i love you-“ three simple words, turned into a need to say. you never know when you’re gonna lose someone, and they want the last thing that person hears to be that they love them.

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I have no idea how these books are 12+... But that doesn't mean i won't let my little brotrer read them))))0))()))

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what do you think about Sandy?

I always imagined Sandy as something of a “girl-next-door” kind of person, not as wild as Sylvia or as stable as Evie, but oh so sweet. A flighty, smiley little thing, swears too much, smokes too much, flinches at raised voices, with bright, wary eyes.

They’re sickening, those two, Soda and Sandy, one of a kind—too much sweetness spilling out between them like candy melting from the heat. Soda is tough, and reckless, and good in a fight, but that girl turns him giggly, all sunshine. Sandy is a wildcat, quick to jump, quick to run, but that boy turns her bashful, all doe.

He loves her as much as he loves anything, with his entire heart—scraping out his chest cavity to give her as much as he can, pouring and pouring and pouring until she might drown in all the love. Even then, he gives more.

They’re sixteen. He wants to marry her. They’re sixteen. He’s gonna save her from her family. They’re sixteen. He’s in love. She’s the one for him, the only one, and he’ll do anything for her, he’ll die for her, he’ll devote himself to her, he loves her he loves her he loves her.

Maybe in the end, that’s why she did it. Soda loved her too much, and not in the way she thought she deserved. When that soc boy came around, calling her names and treating her like the trash beneath his feet, she thought finally, someone who saw what she really was.

Maybe that’s why she did it. As much love as Soda had to give, it would never fill the void of how little she had for herself.

Maybe that’s why she did it. In the end, Sodapop Curtis was shining, magnetic, too much, and she was not enough.

Maybe that’s why Sandy did it.

In the end, she was just a scared girl born on the wrong side of the tracks.

I’m not inclined to villainize her—she’s a kid, just like the rest of them. But I have no loyalty to Sandy, so I don’t have much interest in defending her, either. She’s a kid. She’s troubled, she’s complicated, she’s lost. She made a choice that hurt him, and ultimately, herself. In the end, I don’t know why she did it. But wherever she went after Tulsa, whoever she became, I hope she found happiness and healing.

I know Soda hoped that, too.

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In my head Darry somehow meets Mason McCormick, takes one look at this struggling, anxious, parentified teenager who so closely resembles his own situation when he was younger, and is like “…guess I have another brother now” and unofficially adopts him on sight.

And then he sees Tex who reminds him so much of Soda (except without the emotional intelligence and with Ponyboy’s obliviousness) and he’s like “FINE WHATEVER GUESS I HAVE YET ANOTHER BROTHER.”

(Mace is all for it until he’s fed chocolate cake for breakfast and the illusion that Darry is a respectable adultier-adult comes crashing down.)

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watched the outsiders musical a few nights ago (slime tutorial bc I'm broke lol) and was ugly crying at midnight so bad I freaked out my brother-

anyway eating the drywall thinking about Darry and how much he's separated from his brothers...

like obviously the fact that he has to be their parent and cant have that same uncomplicated sibling relationship Pony and Soda have with each other, but also even his name?? like. "Darrel Shaynne Curtis Jr." <- very much A Name. dare I say a normal name. and then "Sodapop" and "Ponyboy". like tf is that nonsense??

the age gap too!!! soda and pony are two years apart, and pony is a year ahead in school and soda's a dropout, so they're really close age and grade wise. and then there's darry! four (? I think) years older than soda!! he's literally Not as close with them as they are with each other!!!!!

and ofc the fact that he befriended the socs, he was kinda a part of their group, whereas soda is a hardcore greaser and even though pony is a little less so, they beat up his best friend and he probably blames them for johnny's death.

also I think he's a lot like Pony, in ways im too tired to articulate. (*cough including queerness cough*)

anyway sorry for ranting so much I just love darry to pieces and I wanted to ramble to someone abt him

Thank you so much for sharing!!!

-"I think he's a lot like Pony" I think that Darry looks like their dad, soda looks like their mom and Pony looks like Darry. Pony and Darry's relationship is so much more important to me than Soda and Pony's because I can relate to it more. Like I know that at some point Darry pushed Pony aside to hang out with Soda or his own friends and that led Pony to believe Darry hated him. Something I've learned is that when you have siblings, you'll be at each other's throat when you're under the same roof but once one moves away, you'll become best friends. It's the same thing with them. They're so much like each other and that's why they can't stand each other, but the love the other so much but can never say it to their face.

-The greaser gang aren't Darry's friends, but Soda's. Darry's friends were the socs, he was friends with Paul and Bob and Chet and Brill and Trip. He saw them like how he sees the greasers, and then they hurt Johnny, and then they hurt his baby brother. He's stronger than me because i would've been the one to kill Bob.

-And with Darry being isolated: he didn't have someone to look up to comfort himself when their parents died. He didn't have the time to cry because Soda needed someone there for him. Because Pony stopped talking and he didn't know what he could do. He works from dusk till dawn and when he comes home, it's all trashed and nobody did their chores and they're all out partying or going to the movies and he's left alone. When he tries to protect and look out for his brother, he's brushed off as overprotective. And then, when he slapped Pony. He didn't mean to. It happened and suddenly he was 7 again waiting for his momma to scold him for not being careful with Pony. Because Pony was small and didn't understand everything he understood yet. And Darry staying up all nights, trying to tell himself it's okay but he can't.

-Can we mention again that their parents died on his birthday because Pony forgot the frosting? They BOTH have to live with this and look each other in the eyes and tell each other it's not their fault.

-this is me acknowledging that Darry and Pony are both queer and also the thing you said about names (although I hc that Darry chose Soda's name and that Soda chose Pony's name. IT MAKES SENSE)

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DC vs. Vampires

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I think it's so funny how we bred JOBS into dogs. I have two shih tzus and they were bred to be lap dogs. All they care about is looking cute and cuddling with people. Meanwhile my grandma has a border collie and that dog needs to feel so useful all the time, he acts like he will pass away if he doesn't have a job to do constantly

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Valentine’s Day is barely for couples it is most importantly for elementary schoolers to exchange candy and for thematic fanart and fandom events.

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ive lived in this state my entire life and today i found out alabama has its own groundhog day called possum day where they get a possum from the wild and name it sand mountain sam and make it predict the weather

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How we feeling Ninjago nation? because this is how I feel.

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Having a lot of feelings about her

And them 🥲💕

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Hello!

If you take requests, could you do a Battinson & Robin?

Hope you have a good day.

HERE YOU GOOOO! Matching panda eyes🐼

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We should talk more about shoes that Batfam wear with their suits. Like, surely, they have some special shoes that are made specifically for the vigilante activies, but imagine them forgetting to switch it on different occasions?

Bruce, hurrying in a place of crime after running away from gala, so goons die of laughter seeing Batman in rich-ass, patent leather shoes, and keep making fun of him.

Dick gets an emergency call in the middle of his salsa dancing classes, and everyone witnesses Nightwing's perfect acrobatic skills followed by a clicking of his boots.

Jason intentionally comes to the shootout in his cowboy boots. Was he inspired by Dante from Devil May Cry? Was it Roy's idea? Who fucking knows. But he keeps making awful puns the whole time.

Tim absolutely knowingly keeps putting on his favourite converses, because he doesn't give a fuck and other shoes make his feet hurt. Also, he looks cool, and teenagers adore Red Robin for that alone.

Cass fights in her ballet flats once. It should be funny, but the sight of her, kicking everyone's asses while acting like she is in the middle of the ballet practice, makes everyone shiver for another few weeks.

Stephanie buys herself those kinds of shoes that light up in neon when you step on the ground harshly. She decides she doesn't want to wear anything else in her whole life and gets excited when she they light up with violet, matching her suit.

Damian once woke up by his father in the middle of the night during some important case. He is so sleepy that he leaves for the patrol in his plushie, cow-themed slippers. Others are too sleep-deprived to notice.

Duke has the worst week in his life thanks to goons and finals. He is so frustrated that he just... throws his flip-flops straight in the criminal's head. The video made by some random civilian circulates in the internet non-stop.

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growing numbers of the glowy-eyed Wayne’s AND Tim and Dick sneaking out:

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I love you outsiders fandom! I love you book fans! I love you movie fans! I love you musical fans! I love you people who miss Randy and people who like musical Cherry better and people who don’t care at all! I love you soc fans with your little Ken doll ocs! I love you headcanon squad!! I love you book dally, and people who like musical dally, too!! I love you fan fiction writers! I love you artists! I love you high schoolers who’re just getting into the fandom!! I love you longtime fans! I love you swing/understudy fan accounts! I love you classic cars and leather jackets and historical accuracy! I love you lonely souls who’ve spent your life hungering for more than what you’ve been given! I love you artistic natures and tough exteriors and kids with the bone-deep feeling of not fitting in! I love you compassion! I love you empathy! I love you theater kids! I love you bookworms!!

Our fandom is so cute ☺️