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[christotokos]

Treat for dalpony🐣✨

you get lonely'verse

The present is beside Dallas' cup of coffee when he stumbles into the cafeteria, groaning. Even though they'd moved into a better wing of the facility, his body still remembers what it's like to be so damned dall and unable to really manuever in a bed. The lack of Ponyboy beside him was even worse, and for a second, Dallas isn't sure what he's squintong down at.

Sure enough though, it's been wrapped up and painted in those red, yellow, and orange spirals Ponyboy is obsessed with — sunlit pinwheels, just for Dallas. There's no sign of him at the moent, which meant he was on duty checking the latest flora.

Carefully, Dallas undoes the twine, runs his fingers beneath the brown paper, as neat as he'd been as a child when stealing things surreptitiously. It all unfolds properly, the sound a nice distraction from the sound of rain still beating against the walls.

What unfolds before him is a kit in front of him: brand new paint brushes, tubes of paint in varying colors, and a book about the history of art — an old one, at that, dated to be 1999 when Dallas turns it over.

It's in that moment that Dalals realizes that he couldn't have gotten this from just anywhere. He'd either ordered it behind Dalals' aback, risking further punishment, or he'd stolen it beneath Dallas' fucking nose at the Sun Dome they'd been to.

Either possibility ran straight against Bob's words, against everything he thought about that android.

He runs his fingers over the tubes, the new paint, and he knows that he's got to get up and end the loneliness between them now, himself.

[demon-witch05]

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[princessaltieri]

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[christotokos]

✨ 5, 9, 23, 37 ✨

5. lonelyverse���I’m going to take care of you, okay?” Ponyboy reassures Dallas, running his fingers through his hair. "You're just having a rut, I can help you."

Dallas groans, hating how his senses are utterly filled up with Ponyboy's scent, how soft his skin is against his own, how beautiful he looks beneath the lights. He shouldn't want him, shouldn't want this, yet every repressed feeling he's had is washing over him, telling him that Ponyboy is there, Ponyboy wants to kiss him, wants to take his knot, wants to satisfy his rut in ways that Johnny never has.

He wants to say no, should say no, and yet he doesn't push Ponyboy away.

9. trampsverse

“Don’t ask me that.” Antonio says, keeping his eyes focused on Cherry. He takes in the way she looks opposite him, the anger on her face, the disbelief. "I'm a lawyer; you and I both know that if we went toe to toe, you'd lose."

Cherry pulls herself away from the door, her eyes piercing. "No, you would. I know how your kind behave."

She sounds a lot like her father, Antonio thinks as he finishes washing his hands at the sink. The mirrors are as grimy as ever, and he keeps his mouth shut, not giving her another inch as she keeps on. "You'll grease hands anywhere you can, and you can't stand on your own if your money can't do it for you. I'm not going to just let you get away with —"

"Sweetheart, this isn't a comic book," he dismisses her, adjusting his tie, "Nor is this a movie. You can throw any accusation at me that you want; what matters at the end of the day is that you're not as smart as you thought and New York isn't Oklahoma."

23. peepshowverse

“Just pretend to be my date.”

That's what Dallas had said in New York, at the diner. That's what it was supposed to be, a simple con. Ponyboy doesn't feel it's simple as he looks around the lavish hotel suite they've gotten in Vegas. It's too fucking big, filled with too many things that could pay for his life for a year or more, too goddamn beautiful what Dallas gets him for it to be so simple.

He lies down on the bed, curling up in the fur coat, trying to just think about what they were doing, how crazy it is and he hopes to god he doesn't make a mistake here.

37. greekverse “Do you think they could have loved me?” Ponyboy asks, looking from the television set with the Browns game, and to Menelaus who was busy putting the tiropita in the oven.

It's been weeks since that visit to the deli. Most of them have moved on, haven't addressed the fact that it was Darry Curtis there, who'd recognized Ponyboy. Not beyond that one conversation with Pappo.

It feels like a good time to talk to Menelaus now, with Pappo out of the house, with the game on again and Menelaus closes the oven with a snap that told Ponyboy his mood right now: not annoyed at Ponyboy so much as he clearly was annoyed at the mention of Darry.

It occurs to him, then, that they might've met. Menelaus was about three years older than him, and it could've occurred.

He waits for Menelaus to exit the kitchen, his eldest brother looking at the television set and back to Ponyboy. "I don't know," he admits, still surely thinking about Ponyboy's description, "He was an asshole at the deli. Maybe if everything was different, sure. But someone like that, reacting to just you existing?"

He can see Menelaus trying to choose the right words like he'd done when they were younger and Ponyboy asked a difficult question about something like the arm or how Pappo was doing or their family history. How he always tried to say it in a way that wouldn't hurt and Ponyboy interrupts with, "It wouldn't be the same as you. I know it wouldn't."

[christotokos]

✨ 38, 43, 51, 53 ✨

38. red, white, and bruised — alt soc au

“Everyone keeps telling me you’re the bad guy.” Ponyboy knows that's a bad thing to say, to a greaser that was already pretty damn scary like Dallas Winston. He's also aware that there's no one around here to see them as he takes a drag from his cigarette. "So why'd you tell your friend. back there to back off?"

"I ain't say it cause I was trying to make good with a Soc," is the harsh response from Dallas, "I said it cause there's no way you're the one who did what he was accusing you of. Not much more complex than that."

Ponyboy looks at him from the corner of his eye as he leans against hte counter, his dark eyes still focused on Ponyboy, as if he knows that Ponyboy is a dangerous thing anyway, even if it isn't physical.

Maybe he is, given he knows exactly why Curly Shepard is in the hospital.

43. greekverse

“I am not losing you again!” Atreus' voice climbs the walls in intensity, in volume, in anger. "You're my son, you're my Daisy."

Ponyboy can feel his hands grasp his cheeks too tightly, can feel the tears burning at his eyes. His breath hitches, and he swallows, unsure of how to answer his father, unsure of how to reconcile with all the horrible things in their lives.

And he doesn't fight Atreus, doesn't fight his father pulling him into a bone crushing hug.

51. red, white, and bruised — alt soc au

“I see the way you look at me when you think I’m not looking.” Dallas says, turning his head to take in the weird little Soc that has popped up in his life, always coming around like a tagalong burr. "You got something to say, you can say it."

Ponyboy looks hesitant, scared. He wonders if it has to do with that black eye he's pretending isn't there or the wildness to his scent that seems stressed out, or the way he can tell he's not been around the other Socs. He's done something to be ostracized enough that they won't talk to him normally yet not something as heinous for them not to acknowledge he's above them on the pecking order.

To Dallas, it's suspicious.

Ponyboy doesn't do more than shrug.

53. peepshowverse

“I’m flirting with you," his fry is pushed through the ketchup, his voice careful, "Whenever I do something like that, if my pheromones are a little more intense, it makes all of that more intense. Which, I guess, is what you two both want?"

Dallas nods, leaning back in his seat. Ponyboy continues to stir his fry, as if it will tell him something. Dallas can't blame him for being overwhelmed by all of this; fifteen minutes ago he'd been working at a peepshow as normal and now he has two mobsters asking him to get in on a heist for an obscene amount of money.

Money they'd be stealing from a casino owned by a guy who'd ruined his life in Oklahoma years ago. A guy who Ponyboy clearly was repulsed by. "We do. We want to have you on my arm, and flirting with him. He has a thing about taking other men's broads, omega or alpha, man, woman or whatever the hell. It's a power play, and we needed someone who not only could do it, but who knows him well enough. You think you're up for it, kid?"

Ponyboy bites into his fry, and then another one in the diner. "Depends. Do you want me to give you the entire boyfriend sort of experience while we're out there too or is that not on the table?"

A half laugh leaves Antonio's mouth at the audacity this little omega has, even if it is a good question.

[christotokos]

☕ for paul/darry👁️👄👁️✨.

i can't blame the popularity solely on the musical, though i can say that it certainly had a hand in it's resurgence. i really don't think this is a ship that can really sail very well unless you have a good writer behind it and let's face it: darry stans don't really have any good writers that are willing to make him anything more than an overly lionized brother figure and certainly no one using the musical's characterization is going to be good given the musical seems to think he's the biblical figure of job.

one of the reasons a lot of soc/greaser ships fail in this fandom at the conceptual level is because many of the people writing it think that they're on the same level of fucked up and the hurdles they can jump to stick with each other are fairly easy to conquer. they are not; many of these people don't have a sense of scale with class or gender or understand what it is like to be disadvantaged in this situation. on top of that, a great many number of people do not care for the historical setting and what that entrails in order to make this work.

more than that, i don't think it's a great ship because we literally don't know anything about paul beyond the fact he's a twenty year old loser who shows up for a fight in his neighborhood when he's a junior in college. thus it makes him an unreliable character to write, with his characterization being very wild, unpredictable, and not very consistent. personally, i can't deal with characters like this; there needs to be a certain threshold for characterization or all the fic reads like it's just plug in play from other fandoms.

lastly, i think the people writing this are also focusing too much on a high school setting. the outsiders works in part due to it not being a high school setting and this pairing firmly seems to either be hinging too much on high school days or not enough work being put into what it's like to be poor and coveting the rich. so ultimately, it's a ship that i don't have investment in beyond "plot convenience" in honeyverse.

[christotokos]

SOBS.

MY WIFE COME BACK

[christotokos]

Love of my life, I just got back from the war and I promise to never leave you ever again💖✨

YOU HAD BETTER NOT

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@robinaltieri

Hey does anyone want to see the best birthday card I ever found?

It’s several years old now and I liked it so much I bought myself a blank one in addition to the one I gave my friend for that year’s birthday. It’s so perfectly weird.

[christotokos]

wip emoji meme

Send me an emoji and I'll write five lines of any of the following WIPs and share them:

💔 - Broken Bond AU, where Dallas breaks the mating bond and he and Pony separate ✝️ - Snake Cult AU 🏚️- Greekverse Beetlejuice AU 👶 - Kidfic AU — if you want a specific baby just state which one 🐺 - Wolfskin AU 🔪 - Scream AU where Mickey Altieri has wormed his way into Ponyboy's life 🌀 - Time Loop AU — Original, Parent Flavored, or Valance 😵‍💫 - Post Time Loop AU

tagging: @drfrenchiefacciano, @hearthouses-admin, @ladyculebras, @monstrology, @robinaltieri and anyone else who wants to participate at all.

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The colores and blending, omg.

@robinaltieri

💛🐚 Siren of the Times 🐚💛

(pls don't judge me for any mistakes in the guitar I tried my best 🙏) This will be available on inprnt and Teepublic linked below!

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