#curtis base

[timdrakeinorder]

Batman #450: Wildcard!

Released: July 1990 Written By: Marv Wolfman Pencils: Jim Aparo Inks: Mike DeCarlo Cover By: Norm Breyfogle Synopsis (via dcuguide.com): A series of gag-based murders takes place in Gotham, and the chief suspect - the Joker - is soon spotted at the scene of one of the crimes. However, both Batman and Commissioner Gordon begin to suspect this could be the work of a copycat. Elsewhere, the Joker fumes at the misuse of his name and image, while the true culprit, businessman Curtis Base, begins to exhibit signs of insanity.

Part Two

[theblack-dog]

One time Ponyboy went to a party with some school friends and got super drunk. When the party ended and he couldn't find his friends anywhere, he called Soda to pick him up. Soda, being the good brother he is, says that he'll be there as soon as he can.

So, he drives to the address, finds Ponyboy, helps him to the truck, and gets back on the road.

Ponyboy then proceeds to sob (and I mean SOB, like hiccups, snot, tears) almost the entire way home.

He eventually calms down a little, and Soda asks him what the hell the matter was. Ponyboy looks over at him and cries out "Please don't tell Darry that I'm drunk! He'll be so mad!" before beginning to cry even harder, repeatedly begging Soda to "not tell Darry he was drunk.""

Soda rubs his back and reassures him over and over that he won't tell, and that nobody was going to be mad at him.

This calms Ponyboy down enough that he closes his eyes and passes out, resting his head in Darry's lap, who had been sitting in the passenger seat the entire time.

[tending-the-hearth]

never getting over the fact that at the start of "the outsiders" when ponyboy is getting jumped, while the rest of the gang goes after the socs who attacked him, darry is the only one who goes straight to ponyboy to make sure that he's okay, he doesn't even think to go after the socs, his only priority is going to his baby brother and making sure his baby is okay

[decentishoutsidersthoughts]

AU where Johnny survived the fire

Johnny: *slowly hobbling down the stairs on crutches during a fire drill*

Ponyboy at the bottom: *lying* That was fast, good shit

Johnny: …I’m cooked

[alaskan-wallflower]

Okay so here’s a silly little headcanon

So we know Darry was practically the golden child right? He was good at sports. He was in the top ten in his class. He’ll he was probably set up to be going to a very good college. Everyone loved him. Their parents were always proud of Darry. Teachers always talked about Darry. Darry, Darry, Darry.

And then there was Soda. Soda who could barely sit still in class. Soda who got reprimanded for every little thing he does (I stand by the ADHD Sodapop headcanon but it was the 60’s-he was probably just being viewed as rambunctious and obnoxious and that wasn’t the case at all). Soda who was constantly asked why he couldn’t be more like Darry by his teachers.

And after a while Soda started to resent Darry. Like…heavily. He started to absolutely despise his older brother. And Darry never knew about it until Darry came home one day and was talking about how he had earned an academic scholarship and Soda just exploded. He yelled at Darry to “shut up” and that he was sick and tired of the constant praises Darry was given while he himself was constantly told to just do better

Darry goes upstairs and talks to him. Soda immediately regrets blowing up and realizes it wasn’t Darry’s fault-more so the teachers and even his family to an extent for pitting them against each other because I know these guys had toxic ass aunts and uncles who would call Soda dumb and such but that’s another post for another day) and Soda just abolsyylej breaks down in Darry’s arms and apologizes for the four years of absolutely resenting him. He realized it wasn’t Darry’s fault. anyone of it was. And he spent time resenting Darry for nothing.

After that if Darry hears the word stupid and Soda in the same sentence he’ll go absolutely ballistic. It’s another reason Soda breaks down at the end. He sees how Pony seems to resent Darry and he sees himself in Pony in that regard. And that’s why he yells at them to get along post book.

[bookishswordfish]

One of the Stupid Teenage Boys things the gang does is seeing who can last the longest on the roof of a car at very high speeds in a parking lot

Darry holds the record for being on the longest

Soda holds the record for Most Fucked Up after falling off (Darry was PISSED when he saw how torn up Soda got. Two-Bit reminded him that Darry has, in fact, partaken in this tomfoolery and Two-Bit very narrowly avoided a broken nose)

[kaytheday]

Things that were a Culture Shock for Dallas Winston from New York to Tulsa

Being able to see the stars for the first time. He is so surprised about how full the sky is, not that he would ever tell anybody that.

No public transportation (there is no way baby Dally ever learned how to drive and no way that he has a drivers lisence now) Buck probably taught him to drive.

He probably misses the subway and hates the bus system that Tulsa operates under (which is why he’s stealing Bucks car all the time).

Lowkey the rats. He is probably overestimating quite how much vermin there is.

The first time Darry caught him stuffing a towel in the sink drain at like 10:00 pm before they go to a drag race he was very confused.

"Why are you doing that Dal?"

"I’m planning on sleeping here tonight and if you don't keep these things plugged up when you go to bed you're gonna have a full rat invasion on your hands. They can get through pipes smaller than these you know Darrel.”

"Ratvasion up in here!"

"Shut up Two-Bit!"

Streets with nobody on them and less crowded spaces in general. Dallas is constantly asking where all the people are. Everyone else just keeps telling him that this is a normal amount of people?

Another thing that I think about is how Dallas was probably on high alert right after he moved. He was constantly used to the noise and the fighting and he was pretty paranoid about people following him and things like that because of the crime he was involved with in the city.

He was jumpy and always ready for a fight. He also thought that most of the neighborhoods in Tulsa were run by gangs. They are not (if anything they are loosely run)

The prices of things? In New York things are just more expensive. This is why he is always treating Johnny and Ponyboy because he sees that paying for three people in Tulsa is as much as paying for himself in New York.

Also the first time he got paid for barrel racing by Buck he thought he was getting gypped because it didn't seem like a lot compared to what he was getting in New York. He literally almost punched Buck's teeth out on the spot.

The accent. He would always get annoyed with how slow people talked.

"Come on! Spit it out and get to the point! I don't got all day!" He's done this on many occasions to store cashiers, people at the bar, and so many others. He gets so sick of waiting for them to say their bit.

Also the southern manners piss him off as well. He hates responding to ‘how are you?’ Or the stupid ‘have a nice day’. He’s complained more than once on the unnecessary small talk and manners.

This could also be why he comes off as rude and cold to Ponyboy especially and many others. He is blunt and says what’s on his mind and he hates small talk and unnecessary interactions. (as most New Yorkers do!) He will almost always cut an interaction short doing anything he can to get out of it. This is often what differentiates him from other southern hoods.

New Yorkers talk fast and they use a lot of complicated slang that the rest of the United States doesn't use. A lot of people get confused when he's talking to them and we know how Dallas is easily frustrated.

"I've been schleppin' your stuff around all day Buck, it's brick out 'ere and I come home to this Schlock? I gotta go lie down!" (love you and your New Yorker accent Dallas 🥰)

Let me know if you guys have any more. I love this concept.

This is inspired by some tags left on a post by @damthosefandoms

[eviesqueezie]

darry curtis sat on the porch waiting for ponyboy to come home after he is late for his curfew:

“and what time do you call this?”

and ponyboy who just got done climbing three fences, jumping out four windows and sprinting seven blocks:

“sorry i forgot my watch darrel, i was busy esCAPING THE POLICE???”

[every-single-day]

The greaser gang if they were in an escape room:

- Soda and Steve break everything accidentally

- Dally breaks everything on purpose if he doesn’t solve it on the first try

- Darry and Johnny are the team leaders, they’re the only ones who actually solve it correctly

- Two-Bit flirts with the game guide the whole time

- Steve almost lost his life because he pulled another “all brawn no brain” joke when Darry got a code wrong

- Pony accidentally solves puzzles by just fucking around

- He also constantly slams the clue button for shits and giggles then gets yelled at by Darry + Johnny

- Dally threatens the game host with a heater to make sure they don’t lose points for getting said clues (literally just points his gun at the screen and shouts expletives)

- They get kicked out before making it to the final room

[golden-rolling-hills]

More Autistic Pony and Darry Headcanons

these took me a few days but here y’all go

*scatters headcanons likes they’re birdseed and runs away*

Pony has literally no sense of danger, bro ran into a burning church for christ sake he doesn’t understand danger at all. this scares the fuck out of Darry and Soda

Pony is a chewer, he has a chewy necklace that he uses when he’s at home but at school he literally devours the ends of pens like om nom nom

Pony is much more prone to meltdowns than Darry and he can get pretty aggressive during them. his stims when he’s upset are very self-injurious but if Darry or Soda did something to cause him to meltdown he will hit them

Darry was the kind of kid to heavily mask all day at school and break down as soon as he got home

he’s very routine oriented and if his schedule and routine get messed up then he doesn’t know how to cope

his meltdowns look a lot different than Pony’s. Pony’s are much more stereotypical autistic meltdowns but Darry’s are more yelling at people and stomping around. he’ll usually go off to his room alone and let himself cry and stim but he doesn’t let other people see him like that unless he’s so upset that he can’t hold it in

Pony had the worse sensory issues out of the two of them, he hates tags and seams but he especially hates long sleeves, this is why he cuts the sleeves off of all his hand me downs

he actually likes that most of his clothes are hand me downs because that means they’re already soft and broken in

Darry is the most literal thinker in the world, he can’t understand metaphors or analogies or sarcasm like at all, Pony doesn’t struggle with this as much though and it makes Darry lowkey upset

Pony has a really hard time with routine and time management. he needs to be guided through getting ready for school everyday or else he would just show up late and still in his pajamas

Pony has absolutely zero filter. he says every single thought he has out loud. his social skills are so unbelievably non existent. he really struggles with making friends and the only real actual friend he’s ever had is Johnny

Darry has always masked his autism a lot and he was actually pretty popular in school. if he wasn’t so handsome and athletic then his awkwardness probably wouldn’t have been as well received but since he was then people found his quirks charming and endearing

Pony is very particular about food, he likes to eat the same exact things every day and he’d rather starve than try something new

Darry definitely has alexythmia, he has no clue how he’s feeling ever and emotions make no sense to him

Pony and Darry were diagnosed in the same year, pony was 2 and darry was 8. Pony’s pediatrician noticed signs in him early has referred him to a specialist to be diagnosed and after going through the diagnosis process with pony, the Curtis parents were like “wait, hold up a minute. this all sounds like it applies to Darry too.” so they had him assessed too.

after a meltdown, Pony just wants to be cuddled. he loves deep pressure so tight hugs and weighted blankets are his best friends. Soda is always his go to for a good bear hug, not just because he’s his brother but also because Soda is the master of hugs

Pony always has his headphones on, he’s usually listening to music but even when he’s not he doesn’t take them off

Soda is not the token neurotypical sibling though, he canonically had the most textbook case of ADHD that i’ve ever seen, argue with a wall

[steifel]

Since i Just went on a roadtrip i thought i would put together some head canons of the gang going on a roadtrip

- ive seen people say that Darry would drive but i disagree

-Steve drives

-Soda is passenger princess

-Soda gets obnoxously car sick and nobody trusts him to drive so he has to be passenger princess

-Twobit is behind the driver because he likes to bother him

-pony is in the middle seat in the back because he also gets car sick (just not as bad as Soda)

-Darry is behind the passenger seat so he can pass Soda and Pony bags in case they throw up

-Dally and Johny are in the very back ether fighting or making out (no in between)

-soda controls the music

-everyone hates the music Soda picks but he throws a fit if he doesn't like the music

-Twobit is in charge of the snaks

-Ponyboy won't stop yapping

-Johnnys asleep

-Dally is absolutely incapable of sleeping in the car (me too)

-twobit mentioned that Soda hasn't thrown up once!!

-Soda throws up immediately after he says that

-Steve keeps speeding up and slamming on the breaks

-Ponys whole body gets thrown back and forth every time

-Soda has to stop to pee every 5 seconds (he has the bladder of a squirrel)

-everytime they stop for Soda to pee Pony begs Darry for a snack

-Soda begs for an Icee

-bro got an Icee one time but not only did he have to pee even more often but he also spilled it EVERYWHERE

-Dally always gets an Icee for him and Johnny to share (he rubs it in Sodas face that he cant have one)

-Pony asked is his boyfriend (Curly) could come and pouted when he was told no

-he tried to sneak him in anyway

-Twobit wanted to go to Disney world

-they went to the beach instead

-im not quite sure who but somebody wants to stop at every single roadside attraction

[cowboylikeevie]

darry would definitely make ponyboy leave his phone in the kitchen and not allow him to have it in his room at night

[brat-pack-it-up-boys]

Sometimes I forget Sodapop isn’t canonically dead in that was then this is now

[dallasgallant]

Roughhousing is a regular occurrence and so is tickling, it’s how they get Pony out of bed most of the time. Except there’s a point where he flips and Straight up attacks in return. You know it’s time to stop when he punches you in the spleen howling death threats.

[theblack-dog]

One time Ponyboy had a dream that Darry and Soda passed away and it upset him so much that he had to miss school the next day.

[johnnycakesswitch]

My controversial outsiders opinion is that I actually do not support cherrycola whatsoever. Soda going after his baby brother’s crush? Soda who got his heart absolutely torn to pieces after Sandy getting w a soc? Cherry who canonically said she wouldn’t talk to Pony at school and in the movie blatantly ignoring him when she saw him at school getting w a greaser?? Nah doesn’t do it for me 😭