#like.. he WAS Darry

[nexternalknowsthingz]

Ya’ll it’s Patrick Swayze’s birthday! Happy birthday and rest in peace to him, he was a great actor 🫶🎂

[brat-pack-it-up-boys]

Do you think the roofers at Darry’s work call him “the kid”?

[tending-the-hearth]

actually thinking about this moment forever if anyone even cares

[theblack-dog]

One of the hardest things for Darry being Ponyboy's guardian is when he gets in trouble at school.

Like one time the school called him in because Ponyboy got into a fight at lunch with a soc because the dude said something along the lines of "you greasers are on thin ice" and Ponyboy said "at least I can stand on ice, you fat fuck" and they started swinging.

Poor Darry had to sit in front of the principal and act like that wasn't the funniest fucking thing he's ever heard.

[sodapopper]

We give Ponyboy a lot of crap for how he waxes poetic about Soda’s handsomeness while simultaneously throwing Darry under the bus at every opportunity. But. Have you considered how often Pony reminds us of Darry’s muscles. Have you considered. How. Often.

Ponyboy: “This is my brother Soda who is beautiful and handsome and nice and I love him more than anyone in the world and he’s just the most beautiful person EVER LOOK HOW HANDSOME”

Also Ponyboy: “This is Darry and he’s a jerk lol”

A secret, third Ponyboy: “Darry is absolutely jacked have you seen how big his muscles are I need you to understand how tight his t-shirt is right now he’s just super duper strong like he’s the actual STRONGEST I need you to understand”

[sodapopboy]

can we TALK about how abnormally huge darry’s hands are. must’ve hurt like a mf when he slapped pony

[stew-skys-husband]

I KNOW PONY SAID "OUR FATHER WAS AN ORIGINAL GUY" BUT REALLY?? SODA AND PONYBOY. NO ONE NAMES THEIR KIDS LIKE THAT (NO ONE SHOULD)

YOU KNOW WHAT THOSE NAMES SOUND LIKE? THE KIND OF NAMES A 3 YEAR OLD WOULD CHOSE.

NOW IMAGINE, 3 YEAR OLD DARREL, HOLDING HIS FATHER'S HAND AS THEY WALK INSIDE OF THE HOSPITAL ROOM. HIS FATHER HOLDS HIM UP SO HE CAN SEE HIS MOTHER IN THE BED. HE HAD BEEN EXPECTING THE BABY FOR SO LONG NOW. AND HE SEES HIM, HIS LITTLE BROTHER, ALL RED AND SMALL IN HIS MOTHER'S ARMS. HIS FATHER ASKS HIM: "THIS IS YOUR LITTLE BROTHER, WHAT DO YOU WANT TO NAME HIM?"

AND HE SAYS SODA. AND WHEN IT'S PONY'S BIRTH, IT'S SODA'S TURN TO CHOSE AND THAT KID IS SO HORSE OBSESSED HE COMES UP WITH PONYBOY.

[walmartbrandwhatever]

Whatever you do don't think about post-book darry accidentally setting out too many plates after a real long day and his mind is just utterly exhausted. Everyone looking at him all confused because they didn't have that many people left and soda having to softly remind him that Johnny and dally weren't alive. Weren't coming back. Darry just softly responding with 'oh..sorry' as he remembers that they weren't coming back.

[alaskan-wallflower]

ponyboy definitely sneaks into darry’s room when he has nightmares, especially post book because the nightmares slowly dissolve from his parents dying to darry and soda dying and during those nightmares pony just really needs darry, so he’ll sneak into darry’s room and gently tug the pillow out of darry’s arms (darry’s a sleep cuddler argue with the wall) and pony will just nestle his way into darry’s arms and wraps himself around darry and just presses his head against his chest and falls asleep to darry’s heartbeat and other internal sounds because he needs to know his big brother is alive and okay

(bonus but darry always wakes up every time when pony does this but he never says anything, half for pony’s dignity and half because he’s so sleepy he doesn’t even register it-but some nights it’s real rough and pony starts panicking and he just sits up like “woah woah woah there, ponybaby-what’s wrong? you gotta talk to me, kiddo, i’m here…” and he NEVER gets mad at pony. ever. no matter how little sleep he gets. especially post book)

[sparklingcid3r]

u can’t convince me that darry wasn’t at least a little embarrassed to have been at that rumble. like no shit no one stepped up to u ur a twenty year old who gets an eight hour workout everyday staring down a bunch of bougie sixteen year olds. brother they do not want to get smoked in front of all their friends when they got to see them in algebra the next day😭

[specific-dreamer]

everyday i can’t help but think about darry and dallys relationship and his reaction (movie wise) when dally died

like steve was at standing with hands in the air and he had this horrified yet look of disbelief on his face. which is similar to the rest of the gangs reactions but darry ?

he’s jumping around pulling his hair and hysterically screaming at the cops that “he’s just a kid you stupid idiots”

[dallasgallant]

Something to keep in mind is that it’s the 1960s, long before we knew where everyone was all the time. It was more that common to just not know where someone was or when they’d get back. If they even called out about it there’s no guarantee you’d be there to answer the phone.

Ponyboy being out past curfew at 2am isn’t all that concerning within itself. Yes he did break a rule/request of him but it’s something I can imagine Soda or any of the gang had done a thousand times in their own homes.

What makes it something to blow up over is the circumstances… Pony just got jumped the day before so the memory is fresh on Darry’s mind added to their parents death- he’s terrified of making the smallest mistake… he says it himself “and I can’t even call the cops cause you two’d be thrown in a boys home so fast it’d make your head spin!”

He needs pony to be home on time. For his safety. For them to stay together. Something that may have been inconsequential or gotten him a talking to when his parents were alive turns into — well… what it did.

It’s so much more than just falling asleep in the lot.

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Darry is so much stronger than me because it my little brother had a tendency to be spacey, not think- disappear etc. (not that it’s pony’s fault he’s like that) I’d have had a nervous breakdown.

[brat-pack-it-up-boys]

Dally: “I don’t like little kids man, I just don’t like ‘em”

Also Dally: walking down the street with two bits sister holding his hand, Johnny wearing his leather jacket because he left his at home, pony trying to tell him about a movie he saw the other day, Angela on his back because she was too lazy to walk, and curly trailing behind and trying to flat tire him

[wassupmygays]

every day i think about ponyboy figuring out that he is queer, and being so scared, and being so adamant that he cannot ever tell darry. because darry is tough and hes always going by the rules and even after the events of the book i know it took a long time to get over how he felt about his older brother.

meanwhile darry is just watching his little brother flounder and start to pull away again, and at first hes not sure why but slowly he starts to connect the dots. and god does it hurt to realize that his little brother is going through the exact same journey darry went through all those years ago, and pony doesn't even feel safe enough to talk to darry about it. but also, its not like darry ever talked to anyone about him being gay either, because you just cant trust anyone with that in 1960s oklahoma. so he knows what pony is struggling with but he can't go bring himself to help pony, not when he clearly doesn't want darry to know. and just

ough. queer curtis brothers hurt me so bad and i think about them all the time

[theblack-dog]

Darry when someone wakes him up by gently tapping him on the shoulder

[sodapopper]

Outsiders Hollywood AU where Soda gets scouted for his movie star looks but Darry’s like “hell naw ain’t no way you’re going to perversion city by yourself.” Soda eventually wins him over by showing him that a single paycheck is like. Six months of roofing wages. But Darry’s still skeptical they’re gonna try and coerce his little brother into making p*rn or something, so he’s like… if you’re going, we’re ALL going.

And that’s how the Curtis bros end up in California, Soda becomes a movie star, Ponyboy discovers his true passion for scriptwriting, and Darry, through sheer suspicious nature and overprotectiveness, accidentally discovers a creepy producer on set and beats the tar out of him