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The second part is now up!

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Lives Told in Patchwork Quilts

Fandom: The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)

Characters: Johnny Cade, Ponyboy Curtis, Darrel 'Darry' Curtis, Sodapop Curtis, Two-Bit Mathews, Steve Randle, Dallas Winston

Relationships: All friendship and sibling bonding, no romance

Summary: Based on a scene in the musical where Cherry returns Johnny’s clothes to Ponyboy and he just sits with his knees to his chin, clutching the bundle of clothes to his chest and refusing to speak. It was so poignant, such a moment of raw and real grief.

Tags: Post-book, Grief/Mourning, Hurt/Comfort, Brotherly Love, Good Brother Darrel Curtis, Good Brother Sodapop Curtis, Sickfic, Everybody Needs a Hug, Fluff and Hurt/Comfort, Ponyboy's Grief, Canonical Character Death, Everyone's Struggling But They're Struggling Together

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scurvy has got to have one of the biggest disease/treatment coolness gaps of all time. like yeah too much time at sea will afflict you with a curse where your body starts unraveling and old wounds come back to haunt you like vengeful ghosts. unless☝️you eat a lemon

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I love seeing Silmarillian discourse. None of this means anything to me. What do you mean people are trying to justify/soften an act referred to as a KINSLAYING. what do you mean THE FIRST TWO.

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netflix subtitles are great for when you want to read a caption with like 50% resemblance to what's being spoken

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How do they choose which sand to be the glass and which sand to be the sand in an hourglass... Imagine you and your best friend were two grains of sand and you had to be in the hourglass and your bestie had to be the glass. Ur together but youve never been more apart. A Sick and twisted practice hourglassery is...

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“because you’re our little brother and we love you… did you hear what i just said? i said i love you”

whatever you do don’t think about how before everything ponyboy would have been ecstatic to hear that.

don’t think about how ponyboy tried to convince himself that since darry didn’t love him, he in turn didn’t care about him but he failed everytime.

don’t think about how ponyboy stayed up some nights asking soda how come darry changed and why he didn’t like pony no more. and soda doing his best to convince pony that darry does still love he’s just tired all the time and he’s still having trouble adjusting to their new dynamic too but pony just doesn’t get it.

don’t think about how if darry just said i love you a little more often they wouldn’t have been in this mess. if he said it a little more than maybe he and ponyboy wouldn’t have gotten in so many arguments and soda wouldn’t have to have been caught playing middle man

definitely don’t think about how upsetting it must’ve been for darry to finally bare his soul and tell pony he loves him only to be met with silence in return.

dont think about how he darry might’ve thought that a simple i love you is what would’ve brought them back to normal, because he didn’t realise just how bad their relationship got to the point of him needing that olive branch later.

except (and definitely don’t think about this part) ponyboy knows atp that his brothers love him. but he still thinks they love him but don’t really accept all of him. because up til this point his friends hated darry for nearly going soc, so to a kid his age the message he got was “we don’t want all of you; we just want the part of you that’s a greaser”. so when darry asks to read his story, when darry extends that branch, he asking to understand/get to know all of ponyboy. something nobody else did except for johnny (and maybe cherry for that one night).

sure soda asked to, but when pony said he wasn’t too sure about reading it too them, soda was seemed as if he was going to let the conversation drop. he was going to let pony keep hiding so to speak. but darry wasn’t. well he might’ve if only to keep the peace, but darry asking to read the story himself shows that he’s willing to think things through rather than instantly being worried/shouting at ponyboy in the future. it shoes that he’s trying to put himself in ponyboy’s shoes to he can figure out where his head is at (something that darry previously made fun of)

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ponyboy not wanting to cry in front of darry ponyboy thinking he doesn't deserve to cry after the socs jump him because he at least he have it as bad as johnny ponyboy going to sleep thinking that as long as he has soda he'll be okay ponyboy trying to convince himself that he doesn't care about darry ponyboy trying to convince himself that darry doesn't care about him ponyboy lying to himself constantly ponyboy trying to catch up with the rest of the gang so he's not seen as a little kid anymore ponyboy being forced to grow up too fast while darry's trying his hardest to prevent that from happening only to fail

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And there's now a fifth one posted (and a sixth one on its way!)

read ur “ashes to dust, but rust remains” fic on ao3 it was sooo good ): do you think you’d write more outsiders fics in the future?

Hi! I'm so glad you liked my fic! It means the world to me that people enjoy my writing. I've actually written 3 other Outsiders fics (not sure if you've read them already or not) but they're:

The Agony We Call Ordinary

Drowning in the Daylight

A Reckless Kind

All can be found here!

And yes! I do plan to continue writing for The Outsiders. I actually have a fic in progress right now! I hope you enjoy that one just as much.

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New Fic Alert!

Lives Told in Patchwork Quilts

Fandom: The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)

Characters: Johnny Cade, Ponyboy Curtis, Darrel 'Darry' Curtis, Sodapop Curtis, Two-Bit Mathews, Steve Randle, Dallas Winston

Relationships: All friendship and sibling bonding, no romance

Summary: Based on a scene in the musical where Cherry returns Johnny’s clothes to Ponyboy and he just sits with his knees to his chin, clutching the bundle of clothes to his chest and refusing to speak. It was so poignant, such a moment of raw and real grief.

Tags: Post-book, Grief/Mourning, Hurt/Comfort, Brotherly Love, Good Brother Darrel Curtis, Good Brother Sodapop Curtis, Sickfic, Everybody Needs a Hug, Fluff and Hurt/Comfort, Ponyboy's Grief, Canonical Character Death, Everyone's Struggling But They're Struggling Together

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from one chronically anxious person to another: the world is not going to go up in flames. What happens will be more slow, more bureaucratic, more boring. There is no catastrophe to end all catastrophes, no rapture, no sudden end. You can't give into the call of the void, because there is no void. So you just have to do the work to make tomorrow a better place, anyway. Because that's how it gets better.

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Read as many times as needed

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The other day I just decided to leave a review on a fanfic that didn’t have any reviews and today the author published a new fanfic saying that my comment motivated them to finish it. So yeah, leave reviews. They mean more than you may think.

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rip mythbusters you would've loved destroying cybertrucks

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— Mary Kate Teske

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and with your help it can rack up 700k notes on tumblr in 2024

no tumblr this doesnt need tags im releasing it into the wild as god intended