#curtis who

[your-unfriendlyghost]

some weird punk from ny

How I think Steve and Dally became sworn enemies (and then later friends, bc Dally met Tim Shepard and hated him twice as much as he disliked Steve)

ref pic under the cut lol

[sodapopper]

your darry art gives “if you frown so much your face is gonna stick like that.” except he’s got such bad rbf he never had a chance (this is a compliment btw)

This man will never live down the rbf allegations, and who can blame him when this is his daily experience.

[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

[brat-pack-it-up-boys]

If your ever having a bad day just remember your not Darrel Curtis having to read his younger brothers theme where he’s called heartless and a bitch a hundred times per page while his other brother is being called hot and perfect every time he’s mentioned

[confession-session]

my roman empire is reading classic literature involving two male protagonists and yelling "GAYYYYYYYY" at the poor unsuspecting pages

[horsegirlsodapop]

arg! the outsiders fandom should all collectively talk more about poverty! ah! talk about cps. talk about food stamps talk about government cheese talk about stealing and not in the fun way talk about fear of going hungry talk about the reason the gang is a gang and not just a friend group. um. talk about dallas living in buck merril's like spare room talk about soda giving up his paycheck to darry so they can stay together talk about MORTGAGE talk about the vietnam war and poverty and enlistment and the draft! ah! talk about the class divide! talk about debt! talk about how darry could never "go soc" because no matter his skill in football or the way he wore his hair he could never rise above his socioeconomic class enough to be considered one of them! talk about paul holden punching him in the face! talk about county lock up! talk about police brutality! talk about pony craving escape!

[marciavalance]

crying at this photo, trevi pony looks so 14 year old boy and josh johnny looks like he lost all of his hopes and dreams

[frisbee-in-orbit]

i know a lot of depressing material in this fandom is associated with darry but i think it’s also fun to acknowledge that a huge thing making him stand out from people like dally or johnny who were always inherently tragic is that he was a genuinely happy person before the events of the book. in fact, he was in his prime. he didn’t have a sad backstory or endure as many adverse experiences prior. he was just some relatively normal guy who got smacked in the face with life’s unexpected twists. his circumstances don’t have to define him, but it does demonstrate how anyone’s downfall can easily happen. and in a way that does make him more tragic because all the events are a much bigger shock for him, as opposed to someone who’s known struggle their entire life.

[starcraftt]

no jst because i've ran into two or three people who didn't notice a couple of the bigger / smaller moments like two flipping someone off nd steve reminding soda of his shoes;

i'd like to point out this detail when dally's calling the curtis house, on the payphone, it says johnny. it's hard to see in the light, but it does.

pls tell me someone else has noticed this. or maybe i'm jst really attentive to things like this.

[dairyfairyy]

20 years isn't that old.

18 (and 1/2) is only two years less than 20. At eighteen, Two-bit lived in his laughs and jokes as the world around him deteriorated. The two kids he once babysat would be torn apart. He would say his goodbyes to one without knowing it, leaving the other dead inside.

17 is three years younger than 20. Dallas Winston and Steve Randle would have been in their last two years in high school. The two, instead of worrying about their futures, were forced to run, both taught how to keep their hands visible and keep their heads low when sirens passed by them on the street.

16 is four years younger than 20. Johnny Cade and Sodapop Curtis, the second youngest group in the gang. One dead in an attempt of being a hero, the other working to the bone to be the other pillar of support to help sustain a household. Sixteen is much closer to twenty, but still not far from ten.

14 is six years younger than 20. Ponyboy Curtis, not even fourteen for over two months, living through the unthinkable. Nearly burned alive, five people dead in less than a year, all but forcing him to live a nightmare.

20 isn't far off from 18. 18 isn't far off from 17. 17 isn't far off from 16. 16 isn't far off from 14. 14 isn't far off from 20.

Darrel Shaynne Curtis Jr. was 20 years old.

[hexmari]

Only real ones get it.

[your-unfriendlyghost]

if there is one thing outsiders adaptions be doing it’s giving soda scary blue eyes 🙏

no for real tho

book soda v. movie soda:

get that boy some contacts stat

No offense to folks with blue eyes, but y’all scare me (/j)

[alaskan-wallflower]

prematurely born ponyboy and unplanned darry will always be special to me

[tending-the-hearth]

little baby ponyboy immediately latching onto johnny the second they meet and hating being separated from him, giving johnny the feeling of being so purely and truly loved by someone that he hadn't experienced before

little bitty ponyboy who isn't even ten yet looking up at dally with big, wide eyes that are full of awe and so completely curious and giving dally the spark of feel like a real person again, something he thought he lost

little bitty ponyboy shrieking with laughter every time two-bit tells a joke, making two-bit feel like more than a clown, making him feel like he's got someone who relies on his jokes to get through the day

little bitty ponyboy who loves his brothers more than anything in the world, and clings tight to darry when their parents die, and screams when the social worker tries to pull him out of soda's arms, and begs the judge to let him stay with his brothers because they're his only family

little bitty ponyboy who is a beacon of joy, and innocence, and hope, who holds the gang together like glue despite the fact that he can't even see his own importance and sees himself as a nuisance to his brothers as he grows older.

johnny, who doesn't waste a second before shoving ponyboy out of the burning church to make sure he lives.

darry and soda, who drag themselves out of the house in the middle of the night because they got word that their boys are in the hospital and all the way there they're praying that it's not happening again, they can't lose anyone again, but then they see ponyboy sitting in the hall and the entire world rights itself again

just... ponyboy who becomes the final linking piece between the gang that makes them feel like a family, a single unit.

[sodapopper]

No thoughts, head empty, just Darrel Curtis Jr. every time he calls one of his brothers baby or honey.

[girlishwhimsies]

obsessed with this image. why does dally look vaguely pissed at everyone. why is soda so far above everyone. why is johnny GLARINGGGGG at cherry. i love it