#outsider album

[mekk-u]

when hell breaks loose,

your arms are my cocoon

[youaremydearestdream]

the outsiders musical rant !! sorry if this doesn’t make sense, i just had to get it out there !

i find it interesting that despite being the main character of the outsiders musical, ponyboy does a lot of harmonizing with others instead of just taking the melody

he takes the melody when he’s narrating,, especially about his problems (tulsa ‘67, his solo parts in i could talk to you all night and far away from tulsa, etc.) but when he sings with other people, he is normally heard harmonizing

he opts up in grease got a hold and great expectations, leaving everyone else behind as they sing the melody. this shows his yearning for a life outside of tulsa, and a life outside of his problems. he takes the lower harmony in i could talk to you all night with cherry, and the highest harmony in throwing in the towel. he is always consumed by the need to get away.

cherry keeps him grounded. he can relate and connect with her, but it’s not enough. meanwhile, pony is disconnected from his brothers, but with darry most of all (darry sings the lower harmony, musically the furthest away from pony) while soda is the connector between the two, which is why soda is the one who takes the melody during the chorus of throwing in the towel when all three brothers sing together— soda is literally in the middle of them, stuck between a rock (darry) and and hard place (pony)

ponyboy is almost always harmonizing with everyone, except for when he’s with johnny. johnny is who he sings of running away with. by killing bob (in self defense!!) johnny is the one who makes running away a reality, which is why it’s fitting that johnny is the one takes the harmony when he sings with ponyboy in far away from tulsa and death’s at my door. he’s the one that pony feels the most safe and comfortable to be himself around because pony knows that johnny always understands him.

it’s only until after johnny dies that pony begins harmonizing with him instead, jumping between low and high harmonies during stay gold. this shows how affected he is by johnnys death— his harmonies are as “unstable” as he is. he finally comes back to the melody when he sings the last line of the song by himself, internalizing johnny’s message: to stay gold, to be himself, and to learn that there are so many more reasons to why life is worth living.

during the finale, he lets darry and sodapop read out the narration, showing that he has successfully mended the gap between him and darry. he sticks to the melody throughout the entire song. he no longer opts up like he did in the beginning because he has realized that running away from his problems (and running away from the melody) cannot solve anything. by the end of the outsiders musical, ponyboy has finally grown into his own skin and is no longer ashamed of where he comes from.

[panthermouthh]

Love dressing up to walk around town and listen to music and talk to nobody

[spow-ed]

*Coughing that only gets more aggressive over time*

[stew-skys-husband]

The crossover nobody asked for but I needed

[aeolianblues]

It’s gonna be a Chappell Roan summer this, brat summer that, cruel summer; stop it. I need the summer to stop. It’s so hot. End it. I wish I could go back to spring again

[disruptivevoib]

♫ Shuddup, you're STUPID! ♫

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7.15.23

[thewhizzyhead]

I don't have the proper words to like describe it aptly, but the song 'same train home', despite it coming right after a gruesome tragedy, is just so fuckin soft and warm and comforting and not just in the 🎶"Oh let them stare in judgment, let them witness this/ Swan leans into Mercy, pulls her deep into a kiss" 🎶 sense (though I will argue that section is one of the best written parts of Warriors). I mean it in the sense of the train being the only constant among the lives of new yorkers in the story and how both the warriors and us, the audience, enjoy brief respites in it. I dunno how to fuckin describe really I'm at a loss now, but I like the brief comfort everyone involved takes in it as both the audience and the characters near the end of the story. oh and it also does help that the song is like genuinely fuckin beautiful

[youdigokay]

The Outsiders musical lyrics that pierce my soul

“I could not save you, no I can’t even save myself.” Dallas, Little Brother

“We’ll sit around the fire after every day was through, we’ll be each other’s family Pony, start this life anew.” Johnny, Far Away From Tulsa

“Ponyboy, this house ain’t a home without you.” Darry, Soda’s Letter

“Darrel I need you, and anyone can see that Pony does too. I know you love him, that’s all you got to do.” Sodapop, Throwing in the Towel

“He was just too damn good for growing old, and in his memory I’ll stay gold.” Ponyboy, Finale

“I had no reason to live back in Tulsa, sadness was all that I knew. I don’t believe in the death that you’re bringing, the reason I’m living is you.” Johnny, Death’s at My Door

“I have known a love that many never know, and that love lives on no matter where I go. We all will meet our end, no matter if we meet it young or old, my friend, stay gold.” Johnny, Stay Gold

[stealreserve211]

"Friday night" digital collage, 2024

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[daenerys-targaryen]

i don’t know how I’m going to cope with debut tv. I might literally lose my mind.

[faunandfloraas]

No offence because they are nice pictures but that's just the 5 star photoshoot, 2 centimetres to the right

[stew-skys-husband]

"Folks go missing in the park at night"

[graedari]

what if i went to the aquarium with @radjerda a lot and then made an entire Dishonored AU around an aquarium that then became an entire modern AU? :)