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This photo by Jordan, I'm guessing at Will Rogers High, is so 🥲

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY SG!!!!!! 💚

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Sooo are we going to talk about the fact that , somehow despite being centered around a book critiquing classism , the outsiders fandom has a HUGE classism problem?

Are we going to talk about how people like Ponyboy , Dallas , Darrel , Soda, Steve , Johnny, and Keith (yes, I used their real names) exist in real life and you literally pass them on the street everyday and would judge them without a second thought?

Are we going talk about the fact that most of you would be terrified to drive in their neighborhood?

I've lived in houses that look just like the Curtis house, and hell, even my parents would've told me to stay away from kids like that.

Are we going to talk about the fact that a lot of people do not understand or choose to ignore that even if the Curtis parents had lived , they would still be in poverty?

Darrel was never going to college; he got an athletic scholarship and it still wasn't enough. The only reason he thinks Pony could go is that good academic scholarships are usually a full ride or pretty close to it.

Are we going to talk about the fact that a lot of people view Darrel as the "good one" because both Pony and Keith align him with Socs , forgetting that he still does illegal things like drinking and going to rumbles with everyone else.

Are we going to talk about the fact that a lot of you can only empathize with the characters through your attraction to the actors (musical fans included)?

Are we going to address the fact that a lot of people think of soc kids as upper middle class and not the wealthy nepo babies they truly are? Again, Darrel couldn't go to school with the athletic scholarship, and he's shown to be a better athlete than Paul...but Paul's in college, and he isn't.

The Socs and the greasers are not on equal economic playing fields. They are not even in the same stadium. It's not as simple as differing aesthetics. Sherry Valance is a 16-year-old with her own Corvette, and the Curtis house is sometimes the only way the boys get food.

I'm not saying the pressures of capitalism don't harm the Soc kids too, but most of it is psychological. The gang is literally fighting and working to LIVE. The socs are attacking the greasers based on prejudice and entitlement.

This fandom, funnily enough, in the same way Ponyboy does in the beginning of the book, aligns being a soc with "being good".

It's why, regardless of the gender of the reader, so many fics have a soc self insert reader. It's not the whole "rebel x rule follower" thing y'all try to make it. The soc kids are also doing illegal shit and being just as violent and reckless, it's just dismissed because they're rich.

(Also, side note: greaser is a slur, even when Sherry says it Pony kind of cringes, it's not something that could be said/ interpreted with fondness coming from a soc partner)

Even with creating original characters, more often than not, there's a weird emphasis on their class, and it's rare that it's the same as the gang.

Even if the reader is supposed to be related to one of them!

And if the reader is explicitly feminine?

I think I've read 3 fics out of HUNDREDS where she isn't a soc or described with this dainty, wealth-adjacent, very overtly white kind of femininity, that is viewed as more "innocent" or "good" or "in need of protecting," and it's fucking weird.

And obviously, this isn't a problem with everyone in the fandom. And I'm not perfect either, like I said, I was also taught to try and avoid people who were viewed as a lower class than me or "bad" people. But I've also tried to unpack a lot of that. (But like I said, I'm not perfect, no amount of unpacking can change the indisputable fact that if I ever met a Keith Two-Bit Mathews, he would get on my very last nerve).

TLDR: I love this fandom and it can be really fun, but in people's habit of wanting to just turn their brain off and have fun and simp over characters (which isn't inherently bad), they have a tendency to perpetuate the very thing S.E. Hinton was criticizing.

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I’m not even joking, I’m beginning to think we might not get a fifth Charlie Thorne book ☹️

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this is it. I’m done.

i was about to go to bed (cause it’s literally so late where I am) and then I see a spider crawling over the blankets at the foot of my bed.

I promptly throw the blankets off my bed and jump out. the spider is still missing. i see it crawling on the floor and I’m just looking at it with my phone flashlight cause I am so tired. I’m about to grab a tissue to grab it in and bring it out of my room when it disappears again

it’s still gone. i want to cry.

Edit: it feels like there are bugs crawling all over me

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The left image as a rug and the right image as a ceiling poster

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land of stories art in 2025?? insane shit

someone help the twins they are going through it 🥀

who's your guys' favourite tlos character? mine is Goldie and Connor :3

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Literally the perfect Steve and Ace

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THE REST OF THE TOUR CAST WAS ANNOUNCED RAGHG

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THE OUTSIDERS MUSICAL WAS A JEOPARDY CLUE TONIGHT!!!

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I was reading the Outsiders Musical script (don't judge me ok) and thought I'd share some of my favorite italicized stage notes:

“He might do something fun with the hubcap. The greasers laugh” (my favorite I think)

“Ponyboy happens upon a cadre of immaculately dressed people”

“No peace for Darrel.”

“Darrel grabs a bottle of dove dish soap”

“Sodapop is lying in his bed with his shirt off. Ponyboy is lying in his bed, wearing a T-Shirt”

“This trifecta of Soc Girls is impressive”

“Bob tries to wedge his way to Cherry but she playfully rebuffs him. This is all about the girls”

“Darrel continues attacking the laundry, stops.”

“They find Dally, who is dancing intensely with a woman.”

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Who, me?

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god, i LOVE fear street 1666

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The tour cast is everything and I adore that they stuck with the Broadway decision and so many of these people are so young and this is a big step in their careers

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Y’ALL.

Y’ALL????

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YALL IM SO EXCITED!! TLOS MOVIE LETS GOOOOO!!!

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Finally!

Chris Colfer’s The Land of Stories was pick up by Warner Brothers!!