#ponyboy is so 14 year old

[socgf]

"you guys wanna give me a push start?😊"

"not really but we will😒🙄😑"

[sodapopper]

“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”

The one and only Ponyboy Curtis! Full sketchbook page beneath the cut.

[dallasgallant]

Love how Ponyboy is just…

“Dally is stinky nasty ugly man. He’s mean and he like kicked a baby or something Boo dally”

And then describing Tim is like

“He’s so hot. He’s like straight from a JD movie.”

Is so so fucking funny to me. Because the whole Greaser/hood distinction is nonexistent for both of them and yet… same with Steve getting one line of description at all! (Stay hating, Ponyboy. Stay hating.)

Now mind you Pony does come around to being nice about Dallas, calling him a friend etc but

[sodasletterrs]

Could you perhaps draw Ponyboy biting someone :3

Pretty please :3

GET OFF HIM PONYBOY!!!!!

send me asks / requests / just say what’s up!

[awweshuuks]

IN THE FUCKING THE OUTSIDERS TV SHOW DARRY SAYS HE HAD HIS FIRST TIME AT 15, WITH A 29 YEAR OLD AFTER WINNING A GAME??? BRO IS A VICTIM HELLO??? DONT DO THAT DARRY NO. AND HE SAID IT WITH LIKE A DMILE TO PONY AFTER HE ASKED HIM. LIKE NO DARRY DONT DO THAT?

I feel like he was either peer pressured by his team to just have somthing with a women or bc he’s a greaser he wanted to be cool and brag by “pulling a older women” . I would hope 🙁

im also pushing my Darry is into men propaganda so if that’s what u think then he just wanted to prove to himself he’s into women.

THEN BUCK HAD IT WITH HIS 14 YEAR OLD COUSIN AT 12

AND THEN PONY DID IT WITH SOMEONE WHOS LIKE 18-25 OR SOMTHING LATER I THINk. MY FRIEND TOLD ME THIs AND I CRODE. THEN HE SAID HOW HE DIDNT KNOW IF IT WAS THE RIGHT CHOICE AND I WAS LIKE 😧

[hyperfixations-and-stuff]

someone’s probably mentioned this before but it makes me so sad that during ggah darry is literally telling ponyboy to his face that he’s fighting for him (“you wanna be a fighter? then know just what you’re fightin for…speaking of which, i gotta go pick up my paycheck”) and pony still thinks darry hates him

[qprpbj]

you guys i love ponyboy so bad. i love him SO bad

[boysborntodie]

Hot fucking take: During the entire Pony and Darry fight, Pony was, at no point whatsoever, wrong.

Ofc I sympathise with Darry. He’s just twenty years old and had to give up everything because he needed to take guardianship of his younger brothers. Without his parents, he feels obligated to be a parental figure to Pony (not to Soda as much since Soda grew up early and found his footing) and struggles because he holds Pony to his own standards and doesn’t understand that Pony’s different. And he was so worried for Pony and cares for him so much even though he struggles to express it.

But in the end, that doesn’t change the fact that Darry does hurt Pony and there really isn’t an excuse for that. Darry’s not an abusive person but people do hurt each other. And, despite this not being his intention, he made Pony feel like Darry didn’t love him which is sad because Darry cares for Pony, of course he does, he’s struggles with expressing his feelings but he often shows it. But also Pony is not wrong for not recognising this and for feeling like he wasn’t loved because Darry was often unhappy with him (there’s many hints of Darry struggling with toxic masculinity, including this one; thinking he needed to be strict with Pony instead of coddling him like Soda does).

The point isn’t to make excuses for Darry (and esp put Pony down, it’s literally so wild to say Pony should’ve been more understanding from the start: he’s fucking 14, not only is he supposed to self-absorbed but he should be. And people who say he shouldn’t have ‘overreacted’ are plain weird); it’s to understand that Darry’s redemption isn’t in his reasons for acting, but in the fact he is genuinely apologetic (which allows Pony to forgive him) and strives to do better after. That he’s a flawed, normal person who is, in the end, determined by his decision to become better.

[nova-drawzz]

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SOMEONE’S HOME… SOMEONE FAMILIAR.

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Chapter 3 is out!! Hope ya’ll like it :333

Chapter cover Art Below!

( TW FOR GORE AND SLIGHT UNCANNY. )

[broareweabouttoviberightnow]

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starting a collection because every time I see one of these I think to myself well this is about Steve n Pony

[muppetears-stuff]

THIS THIS!!! IVE BEEN THINKING ABOUT THIS. FOREVER.

Ponyboy comparing his home life to Johnny's and believing that he doesn't deserve to complain because compared to Johnny's home life, his is heaven. And even still, he has a normal human reaction of getting angry when they just don't understand and he still feels bad because he believes he doesn't DESERVE TO BE MAD.

Ponyboy being scared to come home after making the honest mistake of sleeping in the lot and hoping that Darry and Soda are asleep because he can't deal with being yelled at right then because he knows he won't be able to explain himself properly.

PONYBOY NOT EVEN REGESTERING THAT HE SHOULDNT BE SMOKING AT 14 BECAUSE NO ONES TOLD HIM OTHERWISE. BECAUSE HES HAD TO GROW UP AND FIT IN TOO FAST.

PONYBOY FEELING COMPLETELY ISOLATED WITHIN HIS OWN SOCIAL CIRCLE BECUASE HE'LL NEVER BE LIKE ANY OF THEM AND HE KNOWS HE'S JUST AN EXTRA. A TAG ALONG.

ponyboy not wanting to cry in front of darry ponyboy thinking he doesn't deserve to cry after the socs jump him because he at least he have it as bad as johnny ponyboy going to sleep thinking that as long as he has soda he'll be okay ponyboy trying to convince himself that he doesn't care about darry ponyboy trying to convince himself that darry doesn't care about him ponyboy lying to himself constantly ponyboy trying to catch up with the rest of the gang so he's not seen as a little kid anymore ponyboy being forced to grow up too fast while darry's trying his hardest to prevent that from happening only to fail

[brat-pack-it-up-boys]

The gang as kids

A 14 year old two bit who used to wait until he was sure Darry’s soc friends were gone so he could hang out with him

10 and 11 year old soda and Steve playing little league together

6 year old ponyboy who spent every waking second asking his parents for a puppy

12 year old dally meeting one of the gang members and having to awkwardly introduce himself to the others

13 and 11 year old Johnny an Ponyboy going to the same middle and elementary school and only being able to see each other at recess

9 year old Johnny who would fallow Darrel Sr around and ask him things his dad should’ve tought him

17 year old Darry who used to rush though his homework to spend time with his brothers

12 year old evie with the biggest schoolgirl crush on Steve

8 year old ponyboy who used to be babysat by Ms . Mathew’s

13, and 14 year old soda, Steve, and ace riding bikes together and racing each other home from school

12 year old dally with a secret idealization for darry

15 year old two bit who would walk everywhere with his 5 year old sister holding his hand

Just the gang when they were all kids and didn’t have to worry about big people things

[nutsackx]

POKÉMON X THE OUTSIDERS AU

info under images lol

if anyone reposts these like the cowboy or scientist au I’m deleting my whole account watch your bakc

I’m gonna preface this by saying I haven’t played or even really indulged in Pokémon for like… 7 years so forgive me if any of this is off or doesn’t make sense…

ANYWAY!!

Original gang is just the Curtis brothers. Ponyboy, after years of putting it off to put time into school, decides he’s finally ready to try being a Pokémon trainer (he’s a bit of a late bloomer, starting at 14 instead of ten…yikes). Usually, their father would’ve helped him on his journey….but he’s, dead, so. 

Darry agrees to help him, eventually Soda gets dragged along too because he’s worried Pony and Darry fighting 24/7 will ruin the experience for Ponyboy. And, Soda, being a Pokémon ranger, has a lot more knowledge than even Darry about how to safely go about this. 

First they come across Steve. Soda and him are already besties, of course. And they have kinda a rivalry going on where they are constantly tryin to one-up each other (all in good faith lmao). It’s not until Steve starts talking about how he started with Pokémon that Darry realizes just how different it was than when he was starting out. Steve agrees to come along, mainly saying he thinks Pony’s gonna get himself killed cus’ he SUCKS!!

After all the yada yada and defeating his first gym leader, Pony finds a dead Radicate and REFUSES to move on until they give the poor creature a proper burial. Since they’re already relatively close, Darry redirects the group to Lavender Town. 

While inside Pokémon tower, they come across a decrepit, old, decaying black-belt class trainer (Mr.Miyagi ((yeah I put him in here, what are you gonna do about it?)),sorry for all the mean adjectives) who of course starts being an old man and going on and on about the boy he fosters there and how weird he’s acting lately (Darry refuses to interrupt because he RESPECTS HIS ELDERS!!!). 

Mr.Miyagi admits that not being around people his age has probably messed with his development, practically calling the boy a hermit, and asks the guys to bring him along in exchange for a very strong Gengar (for Pony, ofc). Darry, upon hearing that the boy is a strong fighter and MUCH quieter then the rest of the freaks he’s dealing with, agrees. 

They go from floor to floor looking for him, eventually finding a cloaked figure on some fuckass floor idk. It takes a minute but they’re like, damn, this hoe possessed! And they battle him, he’s hard to beat but they do it eventually, yada yada. Johnny then takes the hood off, apologizes profusely, and explains that he’s a channeler but not really good at his job yet. (also imagine him with the most fuckass stutter, like Shaky from rdr)

The guys inform him about their promise to Mr.Miyagi, Johnny’s upset for t-minus two minutes before he’s just like “whatever okay” and joins them. (Quickly becomes the favorite, ofc, because he can actually shut his damn mouth). 

They move on to the next gym, yk how it goes…but yeah they come across a traveling circus. And you’ll NEVER GUESS WHO IS A CLOWN!! 

So anyway, Clown-bit, we love him. They come across him, agree to fight so he’ll give them some food and pokeballs, and Pony beats his ASS. 

They don’t really invite Two-Bit along (they think he’s annoying…who doesn’t?) but he just joins anyway. Imagine like constant clown puns. Also he and Johnny quickly take a liking to each other cus’ they’re both kinda outcasts of the group (Johnny’s known the guys for like, a week…and Two-bit Just showed up. Also, we need more Johnny and Two-Bit friend content so).

They keep going, Pony defeats a few more gym leaders, and takes notice that a lot of them seem to recognize someone on their team. When he askes, Johnny admits to being the son of one of the elite four. At first, Pony is thrilled by the info, until he pries a little more and realizes Johnny’s father was an abusive asshole and pretty much sent him away to Pokémon tower to force him into becoming a trainer. Yikes. 

Anyway, on their journey they come across some UGLY blonde guy, like one of those biker trainer classes yk..? Anyway yeah it’s Dallas, shocker. He kinda just gets in their way and refuses to move until they ALL battle him. Obviously, they don’t wanna do that, a lot of work for some ugly freak (did I mention he’s ugly?). 

They agree to let Ponyboy fight him, but he uh…loses. After a bit of back and forth Dallas agrees to let them go if they help him get to the Indigo Plateau in Kanto, so he can face off against the Elite Four there (his bike is old, cus yk…he’s poor.) 

Darry at this point has an entire league of teenagers following him around, so he’s like what’s one more? And boom they move on. 

I don’t have much planned out from here (this was all pulled from my ass anyway). Maybe the Shepards can be like…the Team Rocket of this AU?? And Soc’s are the gym leaders. 

Also, Yeah Cherry and Marcia are both Kanto elite four cus I SAID SO!!! And uh…Johnny and Cherry are dating because it’s MY AU AND I DO WHAT I WANT!!!! She’s the breadwinner and that’s okay, we love her for it <3

twobit prolly falls in love with Marcia when he sees her but idk if she’d reciprocate with an actual clown. Mayeb Randy lowered her standards???

anyway. That is all. Might flesh this out more if the obsession grows, or it’ll die in a week like the Crazy Scientist stuff. Oh well!

EXPLANATION OF DESIGNS/MORE INFO—

Ponyboy

CLASS: Youngster 

Ngl his design took very little time…..oops

his cap hides a really bad dye job, and he refuses to take it off

He chose squirtle as his starter, idrk why but squirtle just suits him. Maybe cus he almost drowned!!

Would’ve fought to the DEATH if he didn’t get squirtle. This boy knows what he wants 

He has a little pokeball necklace that his mom got him as a joke, will kill someone for it 

He deffo has a really nerdy messenger bag that he keeps all of his stuff in

He’s scared of his own Beedrill 

He does NOT need those glasses. But he likes them becuase he thinks they make him look more professional (everyone can tell they’re blue light glasses)

Sodapop

CLASS: Pokémon Ranger

LOVES his job and therefore is almost always seen in uniform

he loves electric/steel type Pokémon cus they reminds him of cars, so his hair is usually sticking up because of static electricity 

has a whistle, but Darrel stole it and tossed it into the forest VERY early into the journey 

yellow is his favorite color cus I said so

Raichu is his PRIZED Pokémon 

He’s kinda like Snow White the Pokémon love him 

His Flareon and Johnny’s Espeon are best friends 

Darrel

CLASS: Veteran 

Wanted to be a football player, but couldn’t because that wouldn’t keep the family afloat, that’s why his outfit has the numbers on it. 

Lot of scars, some from football and some from his days as a trainer 

His outfit used to have sleeves, but he found them annoying and just shopped them off one day 

Always keeps the spare pokeballs on him 

In highschool he had his hair grown out, but chopped it after their folks died because his father was always trying to get him to cut it 

I don’t really have a backstory for his necklace, buts it fire okay

Treats his Pokémon VERY well, if there was a trainer rating website he would be top 5

Picks his Pokémon based on size and strength

Two-Bit

CLASS: CLOWN

Obviously he’s a clown so, that explains the outfit 

NEVER seen without the makeup, even when it rains or he’s sleeping…that stuff is ON THERE

He has false lashes on his waterline, and yes they’re pink 

He is incapable of being quiet because of all the bells 

The hat doesn’t come off. if it did his hair under there would be hella matted 

All of Two’s Pokémon are just as annoying as he is, he hides earplugs in his shoes for people (they never take them) 

FATASS can and will eat anything in sight

Mr.Mime is his favorite of all his Pokémon….they ate both annoying together and everyone hates them for it 

Johnny

CLASS: Channeler 

the scar on his eye is from his father 😬 from when he figured out Miyagi wasn’t actually training him to be the next member of the Elite Four…. the eye is blue because of some psychic shit idk 

His outfit is from Miyagi entirely, the sleeves used to be connected, but he found it too annoying to fight in those so he tore them (Miyagi was secretly VERY unsettled) 

If you look really closely he has purple eyeliner

Johnny refuses to cut his hair, so it’s usually in a braid to be out of his way, he lets it down sometimes 

He has the little flower charm connected to his belt…what a cutie 

His hood is actually up a LOT, most of the time his face is obscured 

There’s flames on his sleeve….wonder why (not the reason you think okay. His father was a fire type trainer…JOHNNY LIVES IN THIS AU OKAY.)

also the metal things around his arm are like…incredibly heavy. Mr.Miyagi put them in originally so he could build muscle while doing everyday things, but Johnny insists on keeping the on forever. 

Loves all of his Pokémon equally, and they love him back. Always has atleast one out of their Pokeball so he doesn’t get lonely….my baby 

He doesn’t even like the color purple that much it’s just kinda his thing now 

Pokémon FLOCK to this man 

Dallas

CLASS: Biker

Tore the sleeves off of his jacket as well…they really like doing that 

YELLOW teeth and GREASY hair he does not take care of himself

Really likes dog-looking Pokémon 

Has an empty slot because one of his Pokémon just DIED LMAO (idk which one. Oh well) 

Has rips in his jeans, does not plan on fixing it 

Hand-carved his belt buckle. The ‘win’ in Winston is underlined. Ignore the fact that this idiot keeps fucking losing 

The bandages are protecting nothing. He thinks it makes him look cool

Pokémon are revolted by him. Like, his own literally hate him. 

Steve

Class: Hooligan

kind of an ass, but he looks cool

any cutscene of him he’s making sure his hair is still spiked trust

loves steel type Pokémon because…cars

his favorite color is green, making any green Pokémon his all time favorite

for being a little shit, he treats his Pokémon rather well

has studs ALL over his back, once leaned back on Soda and has never heard the end of the pain he caused

he has a tongue piercing….so….

when the gang is lacking resources, he and Dallas are the first to steal

[dallasgallant]

Pony: if you’re saying I play favorites you’re wrong. I love all the gang equally.

Pony, earlier: I don’t care for Steve.

[glittering-gxld]

Nothing pisses me off more than when people treat Ponyboy like he was a bad person for how he viewed Darry at the beginning of the book. Their parents just died, Darry very quickly went from a brother to a guardian, and they fought all the time. Also, Ponyboy is naturally more emotional than Darry, so when him and Darry reacted to their grief very differently, of course it was hard for 14 YEAR OLD GRIEVING Ponyboy to understand how Darry was feeling. NOT TO MENTION the amount of guilt Ponyboy probably feels that Darry put his life on hold for Ponyboy and Soda. Ponyboy’s feelings towards Darry at the beginning of the book are not uncalled for at all. Ponyboy isn’t an asshole for how he talked about Darry, just like Darry isn’t an asshole for how he treated Ponyboy.

NEITHER OF THEM WERE THE PROBLEM AND THAT IS THE WHOLE FUCKING POINT,

[greasegotahold]

Lots of debate on the timeline of events in the outsiders and ages fitting into that, but according to Hinton Pony was born July 22, and he'd been 14 for about a month (line in the movie) when the main events kick off. That would put the murder during late August, which is exactly when that schoolyear would be starting. They only hide out for 5 days, which would put them at early September when they end up back home.

The rumble, Johnny's death, Dally's death, and Pony's concussion fainting happens the night after they get home.

Ponyboy comes to after 3 days, then ends up on bedrest for another week, where he displays delusional thought.

The Juvenile Court hearing presumably occurs shortly after that bedrest, as Pony is still not considered fit to testify on the murder, placing it squarely into the month of September.

It's not super clear how long the depressive episode lasts for Pony, but it's long enough that he is failing his classes and Syme is offering to bring him up to a C. Recalling my high school days, overall grades for fall semester were usually evident by like mid October, so I would give Pony 2-3 weeks, maybe a full month before Syme reaches out.

However, we also know Pony was procrastinating on his assignment, it's part of Darry's nagging iirc, so that + the theme being a final project for the semester, it was probably due mid-late November/maaaayyybe early December.

This is where ages come in bc some of the ages we have from the TV Show Bible don't align with the story's events happening in August.

However.

We know that we are reading Ponyboy's theme. It ends cyclical to the beginning, and there's also evident effort on Ponyboy's end to avoid writing profanity into his recollection. He's 14, been to Hell and back, and also procrastinated on his essay. That is to say, I'd believe it if the argument was made that for some of the surviving characters, he just mentioned how old they were at the time of writing.

Side note, too, that the musical does corroborate the main events happening in late August imo, as it explicitly ties the Curtis Parents' deaths to Darry's birthday; Darry was born January 5, and they died 8 months before the story took place; 8 months from January is obviously September, technically. However. Looking at the calendar year for 1967 (the musical is bumped up 2 years), Darry's birthday fell on the first Thursday of January. If Pony's birthday is July 22nd and it's been a month (not confirmed in the musical to have been a month, but confirmed that he would be 15 next July), the Friday Night Drive-In encounter would have been August 25 (literally the first week of school), 7 months and 3 weeks after the crash; technically not 8 months, but extremely close. If we want to push it closer and move the events a week later, then the drive in would have happened September 1.

In conclusion, my proposed book timeline, cross-referenced with calendars and given school start dates:

Tuesday, January 5, 1965—Darry's Birthday, potentially also the death of Curtis Parents

Thursday, July 22, 1965—Ponyboy's 14th birthday

Thursday, August 26, 1965—Pony gets jumped

Friday, August 27, 1965—Pony goes to the drive-in, Johnny kills Bob (technically this happens in the wee hours of Saturday, but the jumping that led to it was a consequence of the drive in so I'm lumping them)

Saturday, August 28-Wednesday, September 1, 1965— (technically the actual time of Bob's murder) + Windrixville hideout + fire + Hospital reunion

Thursday, September 2, 1965—Rumble + Johnny's death + Dally's Death + Pony's concussion

Friday, September 3-Sunday, September 5, 1965—Pony in feverish delirium

Monday, September 6-Sunday, September 12, 1965—Pony on Bedrest

Monday, September 13, 1965—Juvenile Court

Tuesday, September 14, 1965-Depressive fugue begins

Monday, October 11 or 18, 1965—Mr Syme alerts Ponyboy of his failing grade+presents semester's final project in the form of a personal theme.

Mid November, 1965—theme is written