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Lowkey wanna dm jpc on insta and ask what his Panera order is

I’m curious lol

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Bro would either not care and half ass it into a 5 or he would try so hard and get a perfect 5 then his answers would be used as examples later

The way Ponyboy would get an effortless five on the AP Lit exam.

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I feel the same about pauly shore in the son in law. Either think or gnc

Bill from bill and Ted gives off such twink vibes to me

Or maybe it’s just his fit

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One thing I feel most people forget about the Batman comics was that Bruce was in his 20s when he adopted Dick.

Like bro was barely an adult taking care of a baby child. He had no clue what he was doing and I just imagine them as like when a bunch of college kids raise a dog together and all their funny videos of it. But of dick and brucie

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The unsubtle way of knowing that one’s parents kinda care more about one child than the other.

My sister thinks I’m the favorite but it’s actually the opposite- she’s the one they always worry about and she’s the one they’re the proudest of because she’s actually achieved something.

Like going from a under grad degree straight to a phd is impressive - but not if it’s all that’s really talked about in your house- and all anyone ever asks me about is when is she coming home or things about her

Once I just want them to be proud of me for something out of the norm that I did. Not being proud of me for graduating high school or something minor.

My sister may hate going home- but I hate being in a gifted family. And one might be like well forest, they’re proud of you anyway, but not in the same way as her not in the same way they talk about her achievements”.

And like they never really worry about me doing something stupid- because I was the easy child- the one that grew up too fast and did most everything on my own. They worry about her all the time

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Ponyboy Curtis also writes poetry or angst lyrics on the white bits of his converse

ponyboy curtis doodles on the cuffs of his jeans thank you

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The movie “son in law” stars pauly shore.

And the amount of queer subtext around his character is I n s a n e. Like bro was so not worried about his concepts of masculinity, and like just kinda had an aura of queer around him.

Honestly dude gave off nb vibes in the way he dressed. Like they were amazing fits that only a gnc person could make and pull off that well.

I don’t really know how to describe it but people need to know that that movie is so queer and non binary coded.

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love the outsiders cause no matter what kinda day i’m having ponyboy curtis is having a worse one

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Having one’s Spotify on shuffle is the worst because it played me Stay Gold which is all sad- then jumped right into bootylicous.

Which honestly I kinda feel is very Sky Lakota-Lynch coded bc all the chaos of it but was very jarring for me

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Honestly giving us heartstopper s3 bloopers for Christmas is the best present ever.

Alice oseman really knows what the people want

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Honestly fuck the fact that I literally emailed a professor how to improve my scores on the work- that he only graded up til the midterm. And provided no feedback to or a grading rubric.

This man responded with “just do your best” and then proceeded to almost fail me

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Personally think Darryl makes more sense as that goes right to Darry. Also like that’s how literally everyone else I’ve ever seen w that name spells it.

hey so was anyone gonna tell me Darry’s name was spelled Darrel not Darryl or was I just supposed to find that out myself on my thirteenth read through the book

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Another firm believer that pony was named that bc of sodas obsession. 🙏

I KNOW PONY SAID "OUR FATHER WAS AN ORIGINAL GUY" BUT REALLY?? SODA AND PONYBOY. NO ONE NAMES THEIR KIDS LIKE THAT (NO ONE SHOULD)

YOU KNOW WHAT THOSE NAMES SOUND LIKE? THE KIND OF NAMES A 3 YEAR OLD WOULD CHOSE.

NOW IMAGINE, 3 YEAR OLD DARREL, HOLDING HIS FATHER'S HAND AS THEY WALK INSIDE OF THE HOSPITAL ROOM. HIS FATHER HOLDS HIM UP SO HE CAN SEE HIS MOTHER IN THE BED. HE HAD BEEN EXPECTING THE BABY FOR SO LONG NOW. AND HE SEES HIM, HIS LITTLE BROTHER, ALL RED AND SMALL IN HIS MOTHER'S ARMS. HIS FATHER ASKS HIM: "THIS IS YOUR LITTLE BROTHER, WHAT DO YOU WANT TO NAME HIM?"

AND HE SAYS SODA. AND WHEN IT'S PONY'S BIRTH, IT'S SODA'S TURN TO CHOSE AND THAT KID IS SO HORSE OBSESSED HE COMES UP WITH PONYBOY.

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And now, a sad concept that I pondered with friends before and I’m currently turning into a fic:

Darry hides spare cash on the rare occasions he finds it as a backup plan that way Soda and Pony aren’t as caught off guard financially as he was if something happened to him like what happened to their parents because dude cannot stop thinking about how abrupt death can be

He doesn’t tell anyone about it because 1) He doesn’t want to freak out his brothers and 2) While he trusts his friends he also doesn’t trust them enough to tell them about his makeshift life insurance

So one day Ponyboy goes to Darry’s closet to find some clothes that he’d ironed and he spots a beat up cookie tin that used to house their mother’s sewing kit and spare buttons. Out of curiosity he opens it to find it full of bills, mostly ones and fives, some crumpled up and some stacked and neatly folded in half.

At first Ponyboy’s just confused why Darry has money saved up when they’re always stressing out about bills until it hits him: all of Darry’s vague threats that he makes when he’s angry about leaving them and starting a new life for himself aren’t threats anymore. He’s saving up money. He has a plan.

And Pony rightfully panics and out of desperation to keep his older brother there, pushes himself hard than he ever had before. He stresses to get better grades, keeps the house clean, and stays out of trouble as much as possible to try and convince Darry to reconsider and stay.

The gang can tell he’s slipping, though. He doesn’t go out anymore and rarely hangs out with anyone. He’s always either hunched over an essay or reading a textbook while folding the laundry. He doesn’t see movies anymore. He barely cracks open a book that isn’t for school.

Darry can tell something’s off, but he doesn’t know how to broach the subject or ask what’s going on. And the house is clean and Ponyboy’s doing well in school, so it can’t be that bad, right?

Until one night Soda’s got a late shift at the DX and Darry comes home late to the echo of crying in the kitchen, Ponyboy having finally snapped after spilling food on his nearly completed semester thesis after trying to make dinner and do his homework at the same time.

Darry finally can’t take it anymore and has to sit Pony down and be like “You’re pushing too hard, chill out”

To which Ponyboy, still crying, finally crashes out with “No ‘cause I’ll have to do this anyway when you leave us!”

And Darry panics because what the hell is his little brother talking about and Ponyboy finally mentions the cookie tin

Darry finally explains what the money’s for, and has to reiterate that he’s not going anywhere, and he’s not planning for them to need the money anytime soon, but he works a labor intensive job that comes with risks, and anything can happen

Once he’s eventually able to reassure and calm Ponyboy down, they have a heart-to-heart about how Darry really wants Ponyboy to be a kid. That he’s pushing too hard and he and Soda didn’t even need to step up as young as Pony is trying to.

“I do really appreciate all the help around the house. But it ain’t just on you, okay? We might have work, but you got school. We had some time to be reckless kids. You get your time too. Please just let us worry about it.”

Anyway they cook dinner together after and Darry gives him money to go see a new movie since he’d missed so many he’d secretly wanted to see during it all

Cut to a week later and Darry’s explaining the newly developed “Curtis Family Chore Chart” to the gang, to guarantee Ponyboy doesn’t try to do everything by himself again

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Me.

Sodapop Curtis: Jack of all trades, master of none

Sodapop Curtis who’s good with cars, but not as good as Steve. Sodapop Curtis who’s good at cracking a joke, but not as funny as Two-Bit. Sodapop Curtis who has a giant heart, but not big enough to make to make the girl he loves stay. Sodapop Curtis who was given the passion but not the talent. Sodapop Curtis who has textbook ADHD but that wasn’t a thing so he just thinks he’s dumb. Sodapop Curtis with such textbook ADHD that he can never sit still, so much so that he couldn’t even sit still at his parent’s funeral. Sodapop Curtis who knows that he’ll never have as much in common as Pony and Darry do.

Sodapop Curtis: the dropout, who is fine at everything, but doesn’t have one thing that he’s the best at so he thinks he’ll never be good enough at anything he does.

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Makes me wanna cry bc I apply it to myself and my mental struggles w sewerslide.

“he was just too damn good for growing old” is maybe one of the saddest lyrics

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The worst possible place to have an open deep cut is in the webbing of one’s hand between thumb and pointer.

How do I know this? Because a saw took a chunk out of me today