#Mark Curtis

[ringthedamnbell]

Back by popular demand (or maybe not) are useless professional wrestling facts. Some you may be well aware of, while others you may not know at all. In any case, they are all meant to be fun and perhaps...perhaps...learn something new that you never knew. So let's learn!

[anthonymhowellblog]

How the UK Security Services neutralised the country’s leading liberal newspaper

photo Scott Barbour/Getty Read this 2019 article on The Guardian here. The article came out in Declassified UK – A brilliant expose of how this paper became the tool of MI6. Brilliant sleuthing by MATT KENNARD and MARK CURTIS I used this article as a source of Book 11 of my epic poem The Runiad – attempting to put it into verse!

[jtophat]

Bisexual Ponyboy is someone who has the most impeccable taste in girls (head over heels with Cherry the second he met her) and the most god awful taste in men. He had the most intensely toxic situationship with Mark known to mankind and was actually boyfriends with Curly.

His brothers want him to date girls not for any homophobic or biphobic reasons but because every guy he brings home looks like he found them in the trash

[sodapopper]

It’s so funny to me that Ponyboy Curtis, literature enthusiast and probable poet, who soliloquizes on the futility of violence, who’s sick at the thought of fighting, tasked with the noble calling to stay gold, who dreams of peace, safety, and a future at college, Ponyboy Curtis—

Is friends with Curly Shepherd and Mark Jennings. The most gangster hoods to ever hood.

[your-unfriendlyghost]

cowabummer, man

Yeah this is what the Mark Jennings/Ponyboy friendship is to me

[specific-dreamer]

idk if i said this already but ponyboy didn’t start speaking until he was like four. between darry and soda he just never needed to; he babbled plenty like, he babbled so much his parents thought he’d actually start speaking early, but darry and soda learned his babbles and what they meant and they were always so eager to help that pony would just babble nonsense and his brother would be on the move.

like when youre kid isn’t speaking properly at the appropriate age but their communicating clearly, you’re told to pretend you don’t understand them (very old school and not very ada friendly ik but bare with me), the curtis’ tried doing that, they tried correcting pony’s babbles but darry would look at them like they were stupid for seemingly not understanding pony and he’d just go get whatever pony wants himself. and soda bless his heart would have whole entire conversations with ponyboy, that kid was a baby whisperer

idk ponyboy didn’t speak proper english until he was four years old because he didn’t need to; he had two big brothers who understood him perfectly and that was all he needed

[timothyolyphant]

FREAKY FRIDAY (2003) dir. Mark Waters

[hexmari]

That was Then, This is Now character designs!

I'm gonna do more later because I want to do M&M, Cathy, Curly, and maybe Tim.

[farawayfrom-tulsa]

are we js gonna move on from the fact that angela had a hit out on ponyboy???

[every-single-day]

I hope whoever decided to change this harmony in Death’s at My Door steps on a Lego.

[booksandchaos-world]

I love the Outsiders fandom for its ability to make everything out of little to nothing.

Paul and Darry get one paragraph in the book about them being best friends who played football and had a falling out. Now (partly thanks to the musical) these two have an entire lore, ship, and trauma, as well as Paul being a developed character.

Curly is mentioned a couple times in the book, mostly because of stupid stuff he did with Ponyboy and where that landed him. In TWTTIN, he is the one actively beating up the “protagonist”. Yet papercut is one of the most loved ships.

Even with the Pony, Cherry, Mark, Curly, and Scout friend group. Cherry never meets Mark, Curly, or Scout. Scout is a character from the TV show who really only interacts with Pony. Mark and Curly are beating each other up for half of TWTTIN. Cherry and Pony have a complicated relationship after the events of the book. These five have formed one of the most iconic friend groups in the Outsiders fanfiction.

These are just a few examples of different things that are pretty much canon to me now. There are so many different takes on the characters and events, crossovers, and different time periods which helps keep this fandom alive.

Outsiders fandom, you could never make me hate you!

[brat-pack-it-up-boys]

I’m once again going to bring up the fact that if the whole “Sodapop dying in Vietnam” was cannon than he would already (most likely) be dead around the time that that was then this is now takes place

[damthosefandoms]

there’s something so important to me about the part of the twttin dance scene where ponyboy takes his jacket off and puts it on mark and tells bryon he’s in shock. and it’s not from ponyboy’s point of view, so we don’t get to see his thoughts: how he knows what mark is going through because he went through it himself when johnny died. to when they found johnny in the park, his face bleeding from the socs’ rings. pony’s thinking how he’s not even that close to mark and doesn’t even necessarily like him all that much but mark is his friend, and oh god, is he about to lose another friend? he thinks how wow, this kid laying here on the asphalt bleeding looks a little like dally did that night he died. a little crazed and a little scared. he’s thinking all these things as he takes dally’s leather jacket with the burned sleeves off his own back and lays it over mark while they wait for the ambulance, and he looks at bryon, at mark’s best friend and pseudo-brother looking down at the kid, and pony wonders if that’s what darry and soda looked like when he passed out in the street the night their friends died.

[vinyl-lol]

Outsiders + TWTTIN designs!!!!

[curtis-brothers-hug]

Re: Bryon’s hatred of Ponyboy in TWTTIN

How funny would it be if Ponyboy also hated Bryon, and Bryon was just as unaware?

Think about it. Pony asks Cathy out after the dance, but she rejects him and then dates Bryon. Then Bryon calls the cops on Mark.

So from Pony’s perspective, Bryon stole the girl he liked and then sent his friend to jail.

[your-unfriendlyghost]

steviepop prom ‘66

Steve’s actually having a great time he just made this face ‘cuz Ponyboy was taking the picture 😌

also if you can’t tell, very few things bring me as much entertainment as calling Steve Randle short- it’s matched only by my love of massively over-exaggerating his height difference with Soda and Evie

Ref + (significantly) better quality pic:

(once again, this has a similar vibe to @mister-mickey’s twitter au, and also once again, YOU SHOULD CHECK THAT OUT IT’S HILARIOUS. I reread it often when I’m bored/tired, it always makes me laugh istg)