#tex book

[hesmydrugstorecowboy]

I finished Tex yesterday and I can’t stop thinking about how much S E Hinton likes torturing 14 year old boys

[your-unfriendlyghost]

 Save me Steviepop-adopting-Tex AU…

Been playing with this, thought y’all might like a tiny sneak peek at what I’ve been thinkin’ ‘bout lol

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It is a month after Mason left, and Pop is going back to the rodeos.

Tex isn’t surprised, not really. And maybe he’s not completely disappointed, either. There’s more space in the house now. 

  But it’s quieter, too.

  “It’s no big deal. He’s left before,” Tex explains, brushing Casanova, one of the horses, with an old blade. 

  Sodapop Curtis, an older foal trainer Tex has grown to like, frowns. “So it’s just you? …Alone?”

  Tex frowns. “Well…I mean, I still got Johnny,” he says, brushing a dust cloud off the horse.

  “Johnny…right,” Soda says, eyes darkening briefly.

  “You know Johnny?”

  “Naw. Just…used to know a guy named Johnny. Different Johnny. It’s nothing,” Soda says. He undoes the cinch on the saddle with a click, and fumbles with it for a minute before buckling it back on its hook. “You’re just…home alone, then? Other than your buddy?” he repeats, brows knitting together.

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That’s all y’all are getting rn, but know there’s a lot more lol. I’ve got pages. I’ve got so many ideas lol, I’m having such a good time.

I do hope it doesn’t take too much from @bleucheeeeeese’s Horse Story. (Which is one of my favorite fics btw it’s AMAZING and you NEED to read it rn I adore it) There’s some similarities, by merit of having Tex and Soda both work at the Kencaide Ranch, and that I am having Soda be a ‘Nam vet, but the themes we’re tackling and the plot I’ve planned are very very different. (I’ve been thinking abt/planning this AU since before I read Horse Story.) That said, if you like this blurb from my AU, please read Horse Story anyhow because it is amazing, incredibly well written, and really damn good at portraying Soda

[damthosefandoms]

you guys don’t even get it. the parallels between darry soda pony and mason tex. the ways they’re different that reflect how their parents were different. the way the curtis boys’ parents were young but they were in love and they were doing it together. the way mason and tex’s mother was a child, the way she was so young both times somebody hurt her—one time blinded by love and the other by spite. and her husband blamed her. and then there are the curtises who are struggling but making it work and they love their kids. they love their kids’ friends who need someone to love them. they love eachother. clare’s husband can’t even love her son. he claims the kid but he can’t love him, and she’s starting to realize maybe he never really loved her either, or even if he did—she’s starting to realize she was just a kid. and maybe compared to her husband she still is, so she wants to go dance, and he won’t, but she’s stubborn. clare was a greaser once and she never outgrew that because she never got a chance to outgrow anything when she was forced to grow up fast. so she walks out without a coat. and darrel curtis and his wife go to get frosting. and so it goes

[tex-aintdeadyet]

do you have any tex mccormick hcs? :>

OHHGHHH OH MY GOD YESYES

Worst fucking rizz ever. (Pretty much canon). Gen shakes in his boots if a pretty woman walks by

He tried asking Mason for advice with pickup lines a few times but genuinely was a horrible idea

Masons as bad wit women as he is (Mason might be gay but Tex is completely oblivious)

He'd 100% be one of those guys to make voices for dogs. He talks for them

For any animal in general. He thinks it's fun

If he had social media his posts would consist entirely of people and animals at weird camera angles (mostly Negrito but also he took sooo many photos of Lem's baby like that)

If he ever got another horse and Mason didn't he'd still miss Negrito (Negrito was his heart horse ong) but I think he'd miss going for rides with Mason more

Like to believe he went on to be a buckle winner at rodeos like his dad

Also btw not a head-cannon but I think about Tex and Mark being implied half siblings so often btw.. I like to wonder what their relationship could've been if the events post twttin didn't happen. <- love unfriendlyghost's au

Actually the WORST driver if he's alone or with a rowdy group.

He's kinda forced to concentrate if he's driving a girl or somebody but alone? Jesus fuck he's taking up like 4 parking spaces somehow.

He's worse if there's a lot of people in the car cuz then he can't focus well either.

Type of guy to turn his music down cuz he can't see

Backseat driver. Yes my guy, Mason knows the turn to take to get to McDonald's you do not have to tell him.

Kinda guy to be like "you could've made that yellow light 😒😒😒"

His insta story would be so crowded cuz he's sharing like any cool rock or stick he finds trail riding

Like a dog bringing you sticks but instead it's reels.

"Hey Mason did you see the reel I sent you :D" "which one you sent me 50..."

He'd also send the MOST ominous messages on accident just cuz he couldn't be bothered to write the full thing or got distracted.

Was a bit late coming home riding Negrito one day and Mason sent him a text asking him if he was alright and he just responded wit "can't come home."

Mason was so fucking panicked thinking Tex got thrown of Negrito and hurt or something. (Tex got caught up because Negrito was refusing to cross a river he'd crossed hundreds of times before)

[slvt4dillon]

Unpopular opinion: in the“Tex” movie, they should’ve left the part in where Tex and Mason get stoned.

[chaotic-starlight24]

I finally borrowed Tex guys, my first Hinton book with little to no spoilers

I’ll let yall know how it goes

[brat-pack-it-up-boys]

The 80s was an evil time

[acmeoop]

Happy Birthday Bugs “A Wild Hare” (July 27th 1940)

[sodapopper]

Vibing in Outsiders land with my four fellow Tex fans, it’s us and our microscopic fandom against the world

[patheticblorbloscholar]

S.E Hinton said class consciousness but I will make you cry over kids on the wrong side of the tracks. I will make you see how hard people have had it for longer than your existence. I will open you up to empathy you never knew you could have for fictional characters long after you read her books. Iconic of her.

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Texe Marrs - Dark Secrets of the New Age - Crossway - 1987 (cover design by Britt Taylor Collins)

[hesmydrugstorecowboy]

Just finished ‘that was then this is now’ S E Hinton what the fuck is up with you

[your-unfriendlyghost]

ugh I needa work on my WIPs...but my heart wants to work on a super self indulgent unrealistic “Steviepop semi-adopts post-book Tex McCormick” AU….

[damthosefandoms]

bryon calling ponyboy conceited and then calling mark golden in the same book will never not be funny to me. like you can’t just insult a man and then steal his whole entire shtick.

on a somewhat-related note (at least to me): there’s so much to unpack in how mark and tex have gold eyes, and the way they see the world.

there’s also a lot to unpack in how dally didn’t share that trait with them, and how pony never did get him to watch the sunset. but mark and tex? I think they would.

[tex-aintdeadyet]

Pirate Darry thing I drew for an art trade :DD

[two-entire-bits]

The Outsiders Extra Material Scans 4: Photos

(The scanner I used isn't the most high quality, so transcriptions are in image IDs)