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Chapter 7: A Two-Way Street

Goodness isn’t measured just by your grades or how short your police record is. It’s so much more than that.

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All the Music Between Us

Fandom: The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)

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

Relationships: All friendship, no romance

Summary:

When Johnny Cade was five years old, flame took his hearing. One day, he could hear his mama screaming at his daddy and then the next, he couldn’t hear anything. Not even the glass bottle shattering against his bedroom door. A ferocious fever takes Johnny's hearing when he's little. With parents who couldn't care less, he lives an even quieter life - that is until a woman and her three sons come flying into it. They bring sunshine and joy and Johnny learns that love doesn't need to be heard to be felt.

Tags: Deaf Johnny Cade, Sign Language, Johnny Cade Whump, Follows Canon Events, Good Brother Darry, Darry and Johnny are Best Friends, Hurt/Comfort, Fluff and Angst, Found Family

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“shut up ace!”

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"when i was your age, i was working three jobs to help support my family" and "when i was in college i was sleeping on a mattress on the floor and living off of soup"

YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE HAD TO DO THAT. NO ONE SHOULD HAVE TO DO THAT. I DON'T KNOW HOW TO EXPLAIN TO YOU THAT THIS ISN'T A CHARACTER-BUILDING LESSON, IT'S JUST BAD

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Someday, I’ll look at now and wish I could go back there, somehow. - Submitted by fastman27

#562661 #824062 #BE6A6A #E3A084 #E6D4A4

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The Curtis Brothers in THE OUTSIDERS

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THE OUTSIDERS (1983) Dir. Francis Ford Coppola

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Chapter 6: Those Fragile Bones

It would’ve been so easy for them to break those fragile bones under their loafers and ruin Johnny’s entire life. Well, more than they already have. His hands were his voice. Losing them would mean losing Johnny.

Also featuring Johnny v. a bunch of raccoons

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All the Music Between Us

Fandom: The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)

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

Relationships: All friendship, no romance

Summary:

When Johnny Cade was five years old, flame took his hearing. One day, he could hear his mama screaming at his daddy and then the next, he couldn’t hear anything. Not even the glass bottle shattering against his bedroom door. A ferocious fever takes Johnny's hearing when he's little. With parents who couldn't care less, he lives an even quieter life - that is until a woman and her three sons come flying into it. They bring sunshine and joy and Johnny learns that love doesn't need to be heard to be felt.

Tags: Deaf Johnny Cade, Sign Language, Johnny Cade Whump, Follows Canon Events, Good Brother Darry, Darry and Johnny are Best Friends, Hurt/Comfort, Fluff and Angst, Found Family

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Well put. (Source: Writing About Writing Facebook page)

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fanfic writers are so fucking awesome man. they write novel length fics that are sometimes even better than some published bestselling books written by professional writers. like fanfic writers are professional writers to me and they gift us their masterpieces for free. they give us something we can look forward to after a long day. something from which we can seek comfort when life is hard. something that can be our own little getaway. in a world of capitalism, despite everything, they give us all of these for free. like holy fuck. shout out to every fanfic writer. I wish all fanfic writers a very ‘I love you with all my heart and soul. I thank you from the bottom of my heart’

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Chapter 5: A Damn Good Son

When the sun sets, neither of them can see it, sitting on the wrong side of the house. Pony really digs sunsets. It didn’t make sense for him to miss it. Nothing made a whole lot of sense now anyway.

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All the Music Between Us

Fandom: The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)

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

Relationships: All friendship, no romance

Summary:

When Johnny Cade was five years old, flame took his hearing. One day, he could hear his mama screaming at his daddy and then the next, he couldn’t hear anything. Not even the glass bottle shattering against his bedroom door. A ferocious fever takes Johnny's hearing when he's little. With parents who couldn't care less, he lives an even quieter life - that is until a woman and her three sons come flying into it. They bring sunshine and joy and Johnny learns that love doesn't need to be heard to be felt.

Tags: Deaf Johnny Cade, Sign Language, Johnny Cade Whump, Follows Canon Events, Good Brother Darry, Darry and Johnny are Best Friends, Hurt/Comfort, Fluff and Angst, Found Family

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“I have no master, except the wind that blows free!” - Submitted by: fastman27

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unicorn out of captivity, 2022

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I wasn’t crazy about this piece so I wasn’t intending on publicly posting it again, but it keeps getting stolen every five minutes so I figured I’d put it here so people at least know who to attribute the original thing to lmao

[Digital illustration, Procreate App, 2020]

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"Sometimes when animals die, they don't know they are dead. They simply roam the woods forever."

Edwin and Charles had been sent to a forest in the Southern countryside following reports of something taking unsuspecting ghosts that strolled through them at night, and thought it best to scope out the area and search for clues before it got dark.

On the outskirts of where the trees fade into country plain, they come across a summer home attached with vacant horse stables. The owners do not appear to be present and the land looks overgrown and unkept, so it's safe to assume the place is abandoned. As the two walk out and look to the vast plain outside the forest, they see something peculiar in the distance.

They've seen a few animal spirits in their years of investigating, but never have they seen one of a horse. Edwin looks at the creature with awestricken eyes and approaches it slowly.

"When i was alive, my family kept a a horse for me in a stable outside our estate." Edwin is careful not to startle the creature as he moves closer, Charles following a few steps back. The cool light it radiates contrasts with the orange hues in the now setting sky. "I never had many friends in life and my parents never kept pets, so i found her one of my only companions throughout my childhood. My father sold her once i began public school."

"And this one, it reminds you of her, does it?" Charles asks quietly, as not to disturb both the creature and whatever state Edwin is in that he feels compelled to open up about his past.

Edwin considers for a moment. "Yes, actually, I..." He pauses.

It's been so long that he doesn't realize it at first, but the summerhouse is all the sudden very familiar. It starts to come back to him, distant memories of the old cottage of the family friend his horse was sold to that he visited during summer break. The summer of 1915 was the last time he visited his old friend in these stables.

There's no evidence that this is his horse, there's probably been dozens of horses here in the years since. Still, the way it responds to Edwin's touch when he finally comes close enough to gently rest a hand on it's skeletal neck: relaxed, almost leaning into it, makes hope bloom in his chest. It's when she leans her head forward, pressing her muzzle against his chest, that Edwin knows it's her. It was a strange gesture, and one he used to complain would dirty the front of his vest, but it was always her strange way of greeting.

Charles rests a hand on his shoulder, and Edwin is startled out of his nostalgia-induced trance. "Y'know mate, i might have some horse riding equipment still in my bag from the case of the disappearing farm. Might be easier to get around these woods at night with a glowing horse." Charles's smile is bright, and Edwin feels impossibly warm under the companionship of his two oldest friends. Edwin turns to him with a sparkle in his eyes, only partially from the glow of the horse in front of him.

"Brilliant idea, Charles."

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The dead boys are detecting...!

Charles I said not to touch anything 😔 that boy's getting cursed by whatever's in there for sure

random extra stuff under the cut ↴

Here's just the background (this house has a suspiciously high quantity of lamps) from before I threw a bunch of random effects and color changes on it in davinki resolve. now we're rockin the cosmo and wanda color pallette

And some gifs that are an even BIGGER FILE SIZE as the other ones but they are eeeeever so slightly smoother in their slight camera shaking

Feel free to use any of this for whatever! :D For this one (1) artwork you have my permission yay thanks :)

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Chapter 4: The Sound of the Wind

"Johnny looks off to the twilit sky, You can miss things you’ve never heard. Pony misses the country even though he’s never been. He misses the ocean although he’s never left Oklahoma. He misses the cottage he sees in his dreams even though he’s never touched its walls."

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All the Music Between Us

Fandom: The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)

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

Relationships: All friendship, no romance

Summary:

When Johnny Cade was five years old, flame took his hearing. One day, he could hear his mama screaming at his daddy and then the next, he couldn’t hear anything. Not even the glass bottle shattering against his bedroom door. A ferocious fever takes Johnny's hearing when he's little. With parents who couldn't care less, he lives an even quieter life - that is until a woman and her three sons come flying into it. They bring sunshine and joy and Johnny learns that love doesn't need to be heard to be felt.

Tags: Deaf Johnny Cade, Sign Language, Johnny Cade Whump, Follows Canon Events, Good Brother Darry, Darry and Johnny are Best Friends, Hurt/Comfort, Fluff and Angst, Found Family

Available on AO3: