#Dallas winston

[bittersweet-bumblebees]

‘Oh, damnit, Johnny, don’t die, please don’t die…’ 

[your-unfriendlyghost]

Tex, dally, and mark half bros where dally is bragging to Tim about his new brothers

“Lmfao Tim I have two brothers and you’re stuck with a dumbass and a … well. A girl. A sister. I don’t fucking know.”

“Very eloquent”

Lordy that’s so in-character I love it 😭

(AU origin post for those who dunno what I’m on about lol)

[bubblegumflavor]

'Cause each other is all we got..

A little doodle for @outsidersweek ♡

I believe Johnny knows a side of Dally he shows no one else. Johnny is where he finds comfort when he allows himself to get some. Johnny is the one where he can take his guard down.

[heartsforjohnnycake]

everytime i think about ponyboy’s nightmares i can’t decide if he wakes up sobbing or starts sob-screaming bloody murder until his voice is raw and he dry heaves until he passes out . i think it’d be worse on days he’s doing rlly bad mentally. i also think the entire gang is so used to it too like they’re UNFAZED

[foottoe101001]

DALLAS WINSTON AS JARETH FROM LABYRINTH

Chapter 1! 😋

@mitogyau @pookiepiss69 @cheryyy-valancce @cyaniashine @lizzy019 @sarcasticallyexplicit11 @saraluvsu @gr3ase-g0t-h0ld @thatonetotaldramaguy @snortoborto @nexternalknowsthingz @natsukosmxsez

[fangirl-docintraining]

what’s some soda cannons you have?

This is about to be the most random stream of consciousness so enjoy, also I’m doing modern AU but some might fit regardless of timeline

Talks in his sleep, Ponyboy likes to try and get it on video because he’ll sorta respond to questions sometimes

Will play in the pool for hours, doesn’t matter who’s with him he’ll peeking over the side of the pool like HEY WATCH THIS and then do some somersault in the water or something

Betty eventually gets all of them hooked on reality tv (ie 90 day fiance, below deck etc) but soda sees 2 seconds of it and is all in (Darry and pony take longer to come around but they do secretly love it lol)

Had many cavities as a child because he loved sugar but also was bad about remembering to brush and floss

HATES doing puzzles. Ponyboy tried to get him to do one with him when it was a really cold snowy day in the winter and he got so frustrated after like 5 seconds because he didn’t even have the patience to sort the pieces 😂

He loves taking 0.5 pictures of the gang from very unflattering angles. He does it constantly and without warning. It drives Darry nuts because he always gets the worst pictures of him

Actually a very good singer (I think all of the Curtis brothers can sing decently tbh but he’s the most willing to sing in front of people)

Gets a tattoo impulsively for fun and gets hooked. Darry was not amused by the impulsivity (Soda why didn’t you at least take a day to THINK about what you might wanna get???)

Would very easily go viral on TikTok just for goofing off and videoing it. Partially because he (and the gang) are hilarious, but also he def has a bunch of people who think he’s hot (let’s say this is once he’s an ADULT because leave the teenagers ALONE)

He and Steve became best friends in kindergarten but also would get sent to the principals office because of fighting each other (they were genuinely play fighting but the teachers didn’t believe them cause they were going all in 😂)

This is a Curtis bros one to finish this out but: I think all three of them get matching tattoos once pony is old enough (pls come at me with ideas)

I hope these are decent 😂

[thedeitywhoplayedwithbricks]

Does anyone have the offical SE hinton fanficton she wrote on the outsiders

[dxwinston]

dally being left handed is actually so significant to me pls

[dallasgallant]

I wanna know the choice behind the jump so bad, love how it was higher than they thought judging from their reactions.

[wassupmygays]

the way I've heard joshua boone's voice break on "if i aint got you, then i aint got nothin else" will haunt me forever. he sounds so broken and desperate idk how he does that Every Night

[dumbponyboykinnie]

quick dally sketch/concept for @outsidersweek day 3!

[eviesqueezie]

ponyboy ducked, hands covering his ears over his worn out hat. his scarf was wrapped tightly around his neck ontop of his thin jacket, jeans layered over his battered converse.

“pone, look!” sodapop grins next to him, gloved hand resting on his shoulder as he points the the flying sparks in the sky with his other. his smile is infectious, filling from pony’s eyes and pulling his lips wide until dimples form in his cheeks.

two-bit’s helping tim set off the fireworks in an unlikely alliance, shoving each other out of the way when they’re about to light one. pony can distantly hear them squabbling, threatening to throw the fireworks at eachother or set light to their hair so there isn’t that much of an alliance, but it’s enough for him.

darry wraps an arm around pony’s shoulders on the other side, pulling him close and pressing a hand to his ear so he can finally lower his own.

even if the cracks and bangs catch him off guard occasionally, reminding him of police with guns and the death of a friend. even if he’s making sure nobody drops the lighters in their hands. he’s doing okay.

“you wanna go back, pony?” darry whispers, leaning in close.

pony shakes his head, still smiling wildly.

“nah, i’m good.”

and for once, he wasn’t lying. he’d paint this picture later, depict the bright colours and how steve is covered with hot sparks he’s trying to get off. how sodapop’s smile doesnt waver and how darry’s worry lines fade. how curly is grinning off to the side, probably holding gasoline for the bonfire later. how two-bit and tim have stopped arguing to watch the show for a moment.

it was a pretty good picture.

[multiflixshelves]

Darry's gone through a lot in his twenty years, grown up too fast

Today is my 20th birthday, which means I'm officially the same age as Darry <3

But it also means that it's the last year that I'll be the same age as one of the characters from my favourite book :(

[decentishoutsidersthoughts]

do you have any headcanons for the gang's reaction to each of them getting their first dates?

like high school darry and his gaggle of younger friends being all up in his business or omg the first time ponyboy has a date I just know that poor boy is gonna have a red face from all the teasing and talks he gets

I love this it’s so funny, enjoy

Darry

I hc that his first date was a girl on the cheerleading team. He didn’t rly like her very much but he was a sophomore in high school so he thought he did of course.

He was the first one to get a serious girlfriend. Soda Steve and Two-Bit, who had just gotten old enough to care about girls idolized him even more than they previously had. Soda would come into Darry’s room and sit on his bed and ask him all sorts of questions because he just wanted to know.

Darry for a few weeks kind of had that thing where he got a girlfriend and forgot he had friends, so Two-Bit was understandably salty about that but Darry got over it fast and after that Two-Bit just teased him a lot

Dally did not give two shits. He saw Darry getting a cheerleader girlfriend as more of him straying from the gang. If he was still showing up to school he was side eyeing them in the hallways 24/7

Johnny was too scared of girls to be really jealous, but he was also a little curious. But he pretended to be apathetic to it cause Ponyboy was a HATER. In his mind this random cheerleader was making Darry spend even less time at home than he normally did and he was pissed. Also he’s like 9 and probably still thinks girls have cooties 💀

Soda

His first real girlfriend was freshman year. I’m of the firm belief that he has TERRIBLE taste in women and this was the first time it really showed

Darry and Two-Bit both didn’t like Soda’s girlfriend and they’d talk a lot of shit about it. But Darry was letting Sofa handle himself and hoping be would EVENTUALLY stop letting his girlfriend treat him bad and then go find a nice girl. Neither of those rly happened-

Steve hated Soda’s girlfriend with a PASSION. It was the only time him and Ponyboy got along because their hatred was so visceral it brought them together. Steve was lowkey mostly just jealous but it helped that she was mean as hell

Dally and Johnny weren’t THAT involved. Both of them stopped showing up to school by then and it wasn’t a shock that Soda had a girlfriend nor that it was a…weird relationship. Dally was surprised that Soda didn’t rly end up having commitment issues tho

Ponyboy

I feel so bad for this man when he gets a girlfriend. I’ve seen a lot of people say that Darry would be insanely strict about him dating. I don’t think so, he has bigger battles. Especially post canon when he’s trying to give Ponyboy the same amount of freedom he and Soda enjoyed when they were his age. (Possibly even more because let’s be real Ponyboy is the good quiet kid of that family-)

However that doesn’t save him from teasing. Two-Bit is the worst ofc (and Dally if we count them as alive but for the sake of this we won’t). Steve also participates but he’s kind of just an asshole. He tried to purposely give Ponyboy bad advice but then Soda yelled at him so he stopped 🧍‍♀️

Speaking of Soda this man was giving all sorts of unsolicited advice. Ponyboy pretends to listen but in his head he’s like ‘every single relationship you’ve been in with a girl has ended horrendously-‘. He listens to Soda's advice when it comes to flirting and getting girls to like him, but he just asks Darry for advice with the actual relationship stuff 

Johnny

Let’s pretend he’s alive for a minute. His first relationship is the only one that doesn’t crash and burn within 6 months. The gang is honestly flabbergasted that he’s pulling better than the rest of them 😭😭😭😭

Tbh they’re all rly wary at first. Especially Dally and Soda (Dally cause he’s Dally and Soda cause he’s still a lil sore from Sandy). The only one not rly freaked out is Ponyboy

Ponyboy either loves Johnny’s girlfriend or hates her. No in between. They’re either besties or he preys on her downfall. He third wheels them everywhere regardless tho. He’s like their practice kid.

Dally and Steve definitely threatened her 💀

Darry’s also wary but once again he has other things to worry about. He does keep track of their relationship tho so he’ll be ready to do damage control if they break up (he does that with everyone but he does it more with Johnny cause he knows from experience the longer the relationship lasts the worse the breakup is)

I don’t have many thoughts on the other three ngl. I think the gang is kinda just like ‘that happened’. Other than Soda being a massive hype man for Steve (until he gets jealous tee hee)

[kaytheday]

Dog Tags and Damnation

Soda steps through the door as quietly as he can. Unwilling to wake the boy on the couch. Ponyboy was so exhausted that he couldn’t even manage to make it upstairs so he’d simply dropped onto the couch, practically guaranteed to wake up tomorrow with a killer hangover. He twists over in sleep, groaning a little and revealing a silver chain that slips out of his shirt to pool on the cushion below him. 

Soda’s dog tags. 

Bile comes up his throat and tickles his taste buds as he sways. He puts a hand on the wall to avoid falling.

He didn’t take those tags off for nearly a year. He couldn’t. If he was killed they would need those same dog tags to identify his body. Those tags would be the one to tell his brothers he was never coming home. Those same tags that watched him defile his parents' memory of the sweet little boy they had raised. Those same tags that hung around his neck as he did horrendous things, things that he would never ever breathe a word of to his brothers. Even if it killed him. 

Those same tags that he had hurled at Ponyboy nearly five days ago out of anger and frustration. Why couldn’t Ponyboy just leave him alone about this? Growing up, Soda always knew when to push Pony or when to back off, why couldn’t Ponyboy just return the favor? 

Both Darry and Ponyboy knew he had come back different. Darry had noticed but never said anything about it, but Ponyboy had taken a crack at it a couple days ago. Accusing him of using drugs to escape himself or some bullshit like that. It was those damn psychology courses he was taking at his fancy university. 

Then Soda had just laughed at him. Trying to crack a joke and say he should become a psychologist instead of a writer. Ponyboy had only gotten more upset, the tips of his ears going red as he tried again to push the issue, all while Soda deflected. Instead jerking past him to grab the chocolate milk out of the fridge, taking a swig straight from the carton. He had just finished a shitty day of work, he didn’t want to have a conversation about how shitty he was at being a brother too. 

Obviously frustrated, Ponyboy trudged on, trying a different tactic than the blatant observation of how Soda was killing himself with drugs. 

“You can talk to me, you know Soda? About anything, you’ve always been able to talk to me, even when we were kids You can still talk to me, now isn’t any different.” Soda wanted to rip out his hair and scream and then maybe beat someone half to death because it was different. Of course it was different. 

Ponyboy was different from Soda. He was good. Despite everything that had happened in his life, Ponyboy still found time to look at the sunset and read books and even write poetry. Despite everything, Ponyboy was still the same smart, talented, sensitive kid he’d been all his life. Losing their parents hadn't changed that, losing their buddies hadn’t changed that, and Soda was sure that even if Ponyboy had to complete a tour in Vietnam, he’d still come out the same poetry-writing, sunset-watching kid he’d always been. And he would continue to be like that, no matter what happened. 

So no, it was different. It was completely different. 

Soda was different. Anytime something terrible had happened in their lives, Soda had changed. A piece of him was chipped away and a mottled scar was left in its place. His parents death made him into the family bawl baby. His buddies' death had made him into a manipulating bastard with a colder outside shell. His tour in Vietnam had made him into a lot of things. It had made him into a broken shattered mess of himself, unable to find the pieces of his personality scattered on the ground. But the biggest and ugliest thing it had made him into was a killer. 

So Soda had tried to become some semblance of the person he was before this ugly stain on his life. He tried to say it kindly, he really did. 

“Yes it is Ponyboy.” He started gently. “I thought you were smart with all those fancy college classes you’re takin’ but you can’t seem to see that everything is different now.” He couldn’t quite keep the bitterness out of his voice. “I’m going to bed.” He decided with finality, having no desire to finish this conversation. Ponyboy gave a loud choked noise. 

“I don’t need those college classes to tell me something is wrong with my brother!” Pony shot back. “Why can’t you just tell us! Why didn’t you talk to me! Why didn’t you tell me you got shot!?” The last question comes out as a desperate hysterical scream. Pony is crying, but he’s trying so hard not to. Soda turned sharply from his spot on the stairs. 

“How’d you find that out?” He said quietly, almost dangerously. 

“I know when something is wrong with my brother Soda.” Ponyboy says simply before relenting the rest of the details. “I got your medical records pulled from the draft office. The officer there told me.” Before Soda can register what he is doing he is down the stairs eye to eye with Pony in some sort of stand off. 

“You had no right to do that you little son of a bitch!” Ponyboy doesn’t rise to the bait, insteading squaring his shoulders like he was expecting this sort of reaction. 

“Why didn’t you tell us Soda? Why didn’t you tell me? I could have helped you. I still want to help you.” Pony asks, grabbing weakly at Soda’s wrist. Instead Soda jerks away, shoving his brother a little as he bites out a curse. 

“You couldn’t have done shit!” He snarls. 

“Is this what the drugs are for?” Pony asks. 

Soda doesn’t answer, instead biting out another curse while Pony keeps trying. They yell back and forth at each other for a while before Pony brings up their parents. How they wouldn’t have wanted their little war hero turning to pot and heroin and god knows what else. Soda blanches, his fists faltering a little bit. Bringing up their parents was a low blow. Finally Soda does the only thing he can think of. He rips off his dog tags that had been hanging around his neck. 

“If you and mom and dad up there think I’m such a war hero then you can wear them!” He hurls the dog tags at Ponyboy and before he can see the aftermath, he’s trudging outside to the car and storming off. 

Now he’s still standing at the door. His eyes on Ponyboy's ungreased hair, flopping a little over closed eyes. This fight was five days ago, they had since made up. Soda didn’t know he was actually going to wear those dog tags. 

The same ones he’d rubbed while shooting at kids younger than Ponyboy. The same ones he stared at during the long rainy nights, nothing in his stomach, thinking of his middle name. Patrick, like his grandfather. His grandfather was buried at home. The same home he longed to be. 

Those dog tags had been with him through so much pain and misery. They had sat on his chest while he watched unspeakable horrors unfold, stories of destruction, blood, violence, and death. He hadn’t realized what those dog tags meant to him until he watched them tangle around Ponyboy's neck. 

Because he was glad.

He was glad Ponyboy would never have dog tags of his own. He was so thankful that Ponyboy would never have dog tags sit on his chest as he witnessed destruction and death. And though he knew it would never change the kid, he was glad it didn’t have to happen nonetheless. He was glad Ponyboy could go on reading poetry and looking at sunsets and writing books instead of sitting in an early grave. Or worse, coming back like him. Soda was so glad that the dog tags around Ponyboy’s neck read Sodapop Patrick Curtis instead of Ponyboy Micheal Curtis.

A second submission for day 3 of @outsidersweek