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“Soda gets drunk on just plain livin’.”

It’s been a hot minute since I’ve done any sketching, but what better way to get back into it than with my boy Sodapop 🥹

Movie star handsome!

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au where Dally got the train schedule wrong so Little Brother ends and he's just standing there like "where is train"

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Soda and Johnny as the friends who were once really close but then eventually grew apart. But they’re still forever a part of each others lives. Always existing in the same space but never each others first choice in a crowded room

Soda once knew everything about Johnny but now all he learns about him is stuff he hears from Ponyboy

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there’s so much untapped potential for tornado angst in the outsiders fandom. guys. they live in TULSA. OKLAHOMA. where is a tornado trying to rip away everything the curtis’s still have? where is instead of a train it’s a tornado the curtis parents couldn’t outrun? pony hearing the sirens at school and having to take shelter with the rest of his class not knowing if his brothers are okay? tornado and johnny is out in the lot?? dally’s first tornado??? GUYS-

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people talk a lot about Soda with ADHD and don’t get me wrong, I absolutely think he does, but I think ADHD Ponyboy is slept on a bit because that kid is the most textbook case of inattentive ADHD I’ve ever seen

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there are three kinds of outsiders headcanons:

it would make a lot of sense in canon

very sad. just. sad.

it wouldn’t fit based on what we know from canon BUT it would be really fucking funny

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What if we got a little group of seven together, disappeared into a cave when it was dark and read poetry together while doing weird goofy shit?

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oh neil perry you are so loved

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some outsiders hc (if anyone wants them):

soda has a tooth gap

Steve spent most of his youth trying to master the slingshot and is actually genuinely not sarcastically incredibly skilled

both darry and pony are not great swimmers and don't like to put their heads underwater. soda loves to swim and will forever taunt them.

curtis brothers are all unbearable nosy shits. they love to gossip. clinically incapable of not eavesdropping.

steve is afraid of horses but puts up with them because soda loves them so much

darry loves to sing (he is not very good) (constantly humming beneath his breath at work)

two-bit does the gang's mending. his mother taught him to sew.

johnny whittles little figurines of animals with his switch and pieces of wood he finds in the lot

soda talks in his sleep excessively

darry still has his stash of comics from when he was a kid under his bed. it's a beautiful collection. it secretly remains his pride and joy.

ponyboy and steve solve the saturday crossword together

soda likes to draw but only animals. he can draw the most intricate horse known to man but the second someone asks him to draw anything else he gets bored and gives up

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he can't be dead it december.

New trend! ‘He’s still dead’ December :(

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Love the dichotomy of Ponyboy Curtis. He smells like cigarette smoke. His hands are stained with ink, calluses on his fingers from writing and on his knuckles from throwing punches. He’s got a rep as a tough fighter. He’s too shy to notice when a girl is interested in him. He hot wires cars and steals from the corner store. He watches sunsets. He’s sensitive and thoughtful. He’s stubborn and rebellious. He looks like a hood and speaks like a poet. Beloved by his friends, protected by his gang, and the baby of his brothers. He’s lonely.

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something something Two-bit tries to quit drinking cold turkey and has a withdrawal seizure and the whole gang freaks out

something something Susie Mathews refuses to visit him in the hospital no matter how the gang or her mom try to convince her because how could he be so stupid, how could he almost leave her alone

something something Two-bit doesn't even want to get better because it was for Susie anyway and if she hates him now then why bother

something something Two-bit gets out of the hospital and can't stay away from booze no matter how hard he tries

something something Susie Mathews who expected it so much she isn't disapointed so when he comes home drunk she just turns him on his side so he doesn't choke in his sleep and kisses his forehead because she loves him even if she hates him too

something something

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When Curly decided to bare his soul to his malewife he was not expecting this.

“What,” Ponyboy says, “the fuck. Is that?”

Curly was expecting delight, joy, at the very least some fawning. It’s what should have happened, 

Instead Ponyboy is staring at Curly’s child with outright disgust. And look, Curly thinks Ponyboy is pretty tuff, that’s no secret, but Curly is a father now and he’s not gonna let his kid be slandered like this.

“This,” Curly glares, holding his beloved Princess Chunko closer, feeding her another McNugget because she will bite him if she doesn’t get at least two every time he springs for the evil arches, and she always knows when he’s holding out on her. “is your new stepdaughter, Ponybabe, so you could stand to be a little nicer.”

“That is the fattest raccoon I have ever seen.”

“It’s not her fault,” Curly defends, scratching Princess Chunko behind her velvety grey ears, “She’s got another litter comin’ soon.”

“She’s pregnant?”

“Yeah,” Curly grins proudly, “I think that fuckin’ mangy asshole under the Lewitt’s porch knocked her up, but I can’t even be mad about it ‘cause her last little ones stopped comin’ around a few months back an’ I miss ‘em.”

“You’re gonna get rabies.”

“Listen Pone,” he starts, as Princess Chunko finishes the nugget and attempts to munch on his fingers instead. He swats her gently on the nose, and then scratches the spot behind her front paw until she starts to purr, “if this is gonna work you’re gonna have to be ok with coparenting.”

“Y’know when you said you had somethin’ cool to show me I was expectin’ like, i dunno, maybe some sort of fuckin’ homemade bomb or somethin, not a monster of a raccoon.”

“Leave her be!” Princess Chunko is an adorable, cuddly, warm mass curled up in his lap, and yeah, sure, her tiny claws are absolutely digging into his thigh, but it’s not her fault. She doesn’t know her own strength. “I wouldna introduced you if I knew you was gonna be mean.”

“She’a a raccoon,” Pony repeats like he ain’t said it fourteen fucking time already, but his severe look finally cracks into a smile, “But I guess she is kind of cute.”

He offers his hand and Princess Chunko snaps.

Pony jumps back, swearing colourfully.

“I’m goin’ back inside away from that fuckin beast,” he storms back towards the house, still swearing intermittently, ”I bet you trained her to do that, didn’t you?”

Curly cackles. In truth, it was a lot harder trying to teach her not to bite, and she still bit him like 30% of the time.

“Y’know, Pone” he calls, still laughing as Pony gives him a final glare as he stomps away, “If you can’t accept her that might be a dealbraker for me.”

A two finger salute and the door slamming is the only response he gets. 

“Don’t worry, princess” Curly coos, stroking Princess Chunko’s soft grey fur, “he’s gonna love you in no time.”

He feeds her the last of his fries and watches her scurry away and squeeze her incredibly bountiful rolls into her nest behind the woodpile.

Pony’ll come around eventually. Probably when the babies are born next month, all round and fun before Chunko teaches them how to be fierce. 

For now though, Curly follows his disgruntled other half inside, ready to sing Princess Chunko’s praises until Pony starts getting proper riled and decides kissing him is the best way to get him to shut up. 

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Soda was the kind of guy in school who would try to see how many answers he could get wrong when they played review games in school. His record was like 20

Bonus points if he always was on Steve’s team and Steve’s competitive ass would crash out. Soda would open his mouth and Steve would like dive across the table to slap his hand over it like ‘no shut up-‘ 😭😭😭

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The Outsiders Broadway cast: Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade 2024

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Brody struggling to put his jacket on I’m sorry pookie I have to laugh

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One of the hardest things for Darry being Ponyboy's guardian is when he gets in trouble at school.

Like one time the school called him in because Ponyboy got into a fight at lunch with a soc because the dude said something along the lines of "you greasers are on thin ice" and Ponyboy said "at least I can stand on ice, you fat fuck" and they started swinging.

Poor Darry had to sit in front of the principal and act like that wasn't the funniest fucking thing he's ever heard.