#the outsiders (1983)

[your-unfriendlyghost]

arm wrestling

Steve s o r t a wants to let Evie win, just once, but he’s too competitive for that

He may love Soda and Evie but when it comes to arm wrestling they get no mercy

[canonickero]

Also the sun is ALWAYS in his eyes. He is constantly blinded by the light. He must glare or he will die.

pony thinks steve hates him because steve is always giving him nasty looks but actually steve just has the most aggressive resting bitch face in the world

[damthosefandoms]

On one hand, fuck the whole “Soda dies in Vietnam” concept (which is literally confirmed to not even be canon), and glorifying war is gross, and that whole part of history was Very Very Bad and I want that on the record.

But on the other hand, say there’s a timeline where Soda did get drafted, had to fight, and came home and the thing is that Soda was always the one to understand his brothers, not really the other way around, and now the roles are reversed for him and Ponyboy. He’s the one nobody wants to let sleep alone because of nightmares. Soda’s the one no one wants walking anywhere alone, less because they’re scared of him getting jumped and more because they’re scared of him getting lost or getting hurt because they barely got him back last time. And then there’s the implications of the doctor giving it a name for what’s going on with Soda—shell shock, because that’s what they called PTSD back then—and Darry realizing that that’s gotta be what Pony’s been going through since Windrixville. And now Pony’s going to college and Darry’s going to be alone with Soda and for the first time ever, Darry thinks dealing with Ponyboy was easier, because when it was their parents or what happened to Johnny and Dally, they all felt it, but this isn’t something either of them can relate to, and Soda’s different now, he’s not the “easy” brother to work through things with anymore. Darry remembers how Soda wore their dad’s dogtags (from when he went to Korea when they were all so little, before Ponyboy was even born) around town back after their parents died like they were a security blanket and now, Soda wears his own, one of them dented by a bullet that probably should’ve killed him but he got lucky. He got lucky and he came home and he’s never gonna be the same happy-go-lucky kid ever again. And his brothers and their friends who are still around are going to take their sweet time accepting that. Soda used to be a fighter because it gave him something to do, he liked the adrenaline. Now when a couple of socs corner him on the street after a year or so of being a soldier and fighting in a war more hopeless than even the rumble in the park after Bob’s death, he’s going to stand there and tell them “it just ain’t worth the fight” and they’re gonna be so confused by his sudden change that they leave him alone. But Soda kinda gets it now what Johnny meant when he was dying and he said fighting was useless.

And I think that concept is worth exploring in some way or another. Not “Soda gets drafted” but “Soda comes home not wanting to fight anymore even though that’s all he used to know, and his brothers have no idea how to handle it, and he just wants to be a person again instead of that lucky kid who got to come home when so many people didn’t.” but he left a part of him there that he’s never going to get back.

[foottoe101001]

DALLAS WINSTON AS JARETH FROM LABYRINTH

Chapter 1! 😋

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[dinosauring130]

The Outsiders Week (Day 3) - Sodapop!

[Image ID, from left to right: Jason Schmidt as Sodapop, the tops of three soda bottles, the DX gas station from the film, a line of flannel shirts, a shirt with a "Sodapop" label and a finger pointing to it, a pile of assorted tools, DX gas pumps, jeans sticking out from the bottom of a car, Rob Low as Sodapop. End ID]

[mimirose113]

😭

"Suddenly I realized, horrified, that Darry was crying. He didn't make a sound, but tears were running down his cheeks. I hadn't seen him cry in years, not even when Mom and Dad had been killed" (Chapter 6).

nah pony, you just weren't there.

tears running down darry's face, him looking back and forth at his palm and the door after slapping his brother.

tears prickling his eyes when the hospital called with a Curtis, Cade, and Winston under their care, saying something about one being badly injured.

darry holding tears in his eyes as he heard Dally's voice on the line when he called after johnny's death.

darry running, wiping his tears away as they ran towards dally running from the fuzz.

darry holding his breath as he watched the bullets being shot through dallas' chest.

darry letting the tears run as dally lay on the ground, knowing his buddy was gone.

darry continuing allpe them to flow as he watched pony fall to the floor, worried that he had lost someone else.

darry driving to take Pony to the hospital, wiping the tears with the back of his hand, watching soda hold pony in the backseat.

tears filling his eyes when he heard pony ask for his parents while delirious in the hospital.

darry cried, but never in front of him.

[dumbponyboykinnie]

quick dally sketch/concept for @outsidersweek day 3!

[rileyh20]

I think Ponyboy would like musicals

[thefandomchaos]

I’ve seen so many people post about Outsiders Newsies AU and I’m so happy more people are on board with it, so I’m contributing my part.

(Also BTW this are all characterizations wise and not about who the Newsies characters actually are)

• For obvious reasons, Darry would be Jack. His the leader of the Curtis Gang, his the one to put things into action.

• Ponyboy would be Davey, he comes up with the ideas, knows how to put them in words

• I said it in another post but Darry & Pony share Jack & Davey personality wise. Darry is smart, smarter than Pony; but Pony knows how to put ideas into words, Darry knows how to execute them.

• Also, Jack & Pony dreaming about leaving,(Darry too, but is more obvious that Ponyboy constantly wishes for more in life than Darry does, doesn’t mean Darry doesn’t wish about leaving) and Davey & Darry working to help their family (Darry doing everything he does for his brothers). (+ Pony and Jack like painting/drawing)

• I’ve fully made Two-Bit Racetrack (+ some Albert) in my mind, but the rest of the Curtis gang definitely are just a mix of the Newsies boys;

• Soda has been mixed as Les and Crutchie (and the other boys as well)

• Johnny also gives Les and Crutchie vibes tbh so (like I said, all the boys would be a mix of the newsies boys)

• Steve gives Romeo and Racetrack vibes (and again, all the other newsies boys)

• Dally is one I can’t actually think of, probably Spot personality wise

• Tim Shepard’s Gang as the Brooklyn Newsies

• Randy and Bob as the Delancey Brothers, Paul as Wiesel.

• Cherry as Katherine (without the romance)

[jtophat]

Modern day Ponyboy would be the type of guy to pop a zyn in the middle of track practice.

His zyn addiction wouldn’t even stop his cigarette addiction, he’d just double down on needing nicotine to function

On top of that, since Johnny started smoking when he was nine that would also be around the time he would start using zyns. And I just can’t help but picture little nine year old Johnny (who’s so small he looks more like he’s seven) popping zyns during recess

[your-unfriendlyghost]

Tex, dally, and mark half bros where dally is bragging to Tim about his new brothers

“Lmfao Tim I have two brothers and you’re stuck with a dumbass and a … well. A girl. A sister. I don’t fucking know.”

“Very eloquent”

Lordy that’s so in-character I love it 😭

(AU origin post for those who dunno what I’m on about lol)

[cheezy-whizz]

[cowboydarry]

love how darry and pony both have the same reaction to being told to shut the fuck up and get along

[damthosefandoms]

one of the biggest fights darry & soda have ever had—and i like to think they fought like cats and dogs as kids, the sibling rivalry was so so strong between them, and that’s brotherly love—was whether or not to bury their parents with their wedding rings. and then pony was on darry’s side, wanting their parents to always have a piece of their love for each other, but soda wanted that piece to himself. to remind him how much his parents loved each other, and so one day he could show somebody that love too—so soda either 1) slipped them off and pocketed them during the wake or 2) made up this whole story about how he was going to go get them polished before the burial and got mugged on the way there and lost them. but they’re hidden beneath the floorboard in his old bedroom and soda’s gonna use them to propose to sandy one day. and then when sandy leaves, he cries for days to the point where darry’s eye is twitching and he snaps at soda to get over her and soda blurts out that it’s not about sandy, it’s about the fact that he secretly kept their parents’ rings despite his brothers’ wishes so he could marry her, and now he can’t undo that they’ve been laid to rest without them, and it’s making him sick. and still some part of him doesn’t regret it, because he likes having a piece of them and never wants to let it go.

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the outsiders (1983) except soda and pony find a stray kitty that they name rocky, and darry immediately says NO to keeping her but ended up becoming best friends with her (canon event)

[livfordoodles]

Outsiders based off book descriptions <3