#the outsiders group chat

[staygolden-and-chaotic]

If the greasers had a group chat pt 2 👀💅🏻

Group Chat Name: “Greaser Shenanigans”

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Dally: Y’all are lame. Ain’t nobody tougher than me.

Y/N: 🤡 Tougher? Dally, I’ve seen you run from cops faster than Curly after shoplifting.

Curly: HEY. I don’t run. I strategically retreat. Big difference.

Tim: 🤦��‍♂️ Curly, you’ve “strategically retreated” straight into the back of a cop car. Twice.

Johnny: Can we all just not fight for like five minutes?

Ponyboy: Good luck with that.

Sodapop: Yeah, Curly and Y/N argue like an old married couple.

Curly: Take that back before I rearrange your face, Soda.

Y/N: He’s not wrong, though. You couldn’t handle me even if you tried.

Dally: 🫢 She’s got you there, Curly.

Curly: Shut up, Dally, before I remind everyone about that time you cried over a kitten.

Dally: 😡 That kitten scratched my face, okay?! I wasn’t crying i was anger.

Two-Bit: Still softer than a teddy bear. Cough.

Steve: Y’all are embarrassing. Real greasers don’t have time for this nonsense.

Y/N: Steve, last week you cried because your car wouldn’t start. Real greaser energy right there.

Ponyboy: Can we go one day without someone roasting someone else?

Tim: Nope. That’s the law of the streets. Survival of the toughest.

Johnny: …I just wanted to say hi.

Sodapop: Hey, Johnny! Ignore the crazies. You’re the only normal one here.

Two-Bit: Speak for yourself, Soda. I’m the life of this group. 🎉

Y/N: Life of the group, my ass. You’re the reason we all nearly got banned from the drive-in last week.

Two-Bit: That was a team effort, thank you very much.

Dally: Speak for yourself. I don’t get banned I get escorted out like a VIP.

Curly: More like “escorted out in cuffs.”

Y/N: Sounds familiar, doesn’t it, Curly?

Ponyboy: Can someone add Darry to this chat? He’ll keep everyone in line.

Sodapop: Darry doesn’t have time for this. He’s too busy keeping you in line.

Y/N: Pony’s grounded by association just for being in this chat. 😂

[waveridden]

weird day to have been an rt fan several years ago

[bowlofr1ce]

I have that Siffrin with a Fluffy Cape au by @pillowspace on the mind all day today

Fluffy cape…, With a really, really cool concept………,,,,

[theriverbeyond]

really sad to see nanowrimo™ fumble the bag so hard on this -- if their end point was supposed to be "we are neutral on AI, agree to disagree" then they could have literally said nothing instead of grossly insulting their entire target base like... I can't imagine how anyone thought that statement would go over well? IIRC their statement LAST year was that using generative AI would render the challenge meaningless, which is a true fact regardless of your personal thoughts on AI. the entire concept of the challenge month is that putting your words onto a page is good, even and especially when they are bad. you aren't writing a finished book, you're writing an intentionally shitty draft. making bad art is good for you. but more than that, nanowrimo was always a challenge within yourself. you could always copy-paste the bee movie into your doc and say you won. you could always lie and say you wrote more words than you actually wrote, whether that was because you were really SO close to the goal that it's probably okay to add enough to get you over the top, or maybe you weren't writing at all but wanted to impress your friends. it's like, whatever, because it's not about creating a product it's about doing the process even when that means doing it poorly. even their arguments about accessibility dont make sense because you were always able to make a lower wordcount goal to work twoards if the 50k goal specifically was not attainable, so you could still participate in the social fun of a writing challenge. I did that last year and it was still great fun and I didn't end up with a horrible repetitive stress injury. I mean I guess my expectations for nanowrimo™ as an organization were already rock bottom after last year but it's just. sad to see :/

[motsimages]

As per Tumblr recommendation, I started Kevin can fuck himself yesterday. I see people comment on how the sitcom part makes it look the way people see an abuser and how the abuse can be disguised. People think he is just a funny guy and the abuse goes unnoticed. I personally see it otherwise, although it's similar.

People know he is an asshole. He spends a whole episode being mean to the new neighbours just because. He meets a dangerous guy at a bar, in public. He is an alcoholic who throws weird parties with lots of other people at home. Patty's boyfriend tells her twice in the 3 or 4 conversations we see that he is an idiot. People know, and people avoid him.

And his bubble know, but they justify it and excuse it. And that's the sitcom. The sitcom is the theater of excuses Allison has (and then other characters too) about his behaviour.

"Can you believe it? We were in our anniversary, such a fun party, we were both super drunk and I don't know how it ended, that I was face down on the floor and the table was broken! Anniversa-rager we call it lol"

"He is such a clumsy guy that just as I was leaving the house, you won't believe that I don't know how he managed to cover me in chilli sauce! What a silly goose!"

"He is so helpless without me, he couldn't find the printer and he called me all day because he needed me to explain to him how to work it. And he worries too! He called the cops because he didn't know where I was, maybe I forgot to tell him".

The conversations with her coworker about husbands help drive this point. That's what mariage is. You find ways to justify it and to avoid certain fights and that's it. We got lucky.

But he did all these things on purpose. And the unreliable narrator of the sitcom makes the joke of it and makes the audience consider that maybe it isn't *that bad*. Allison needs to believe that's what it is, so it is. It really isn't that bad, she thinks, he is just like that.

And we can actually see the worrying things and the threatening parts from minute one. It's only a joke because we have been trained to dismiss it. To justify it and to move on. He isn't doing any heavy lifting here.

In episode 1, just the fact that he ends up standing on the table (when she doesn't want him to even put glasses on without protection) says a lot. But then the table breaks and he fixes it poorly and visibly. It would be bad enough just like this, but I personally think there is more to it. It's just that Allison doesn't want to speak about it or look at it so it is just the table, but it's the switch that turns on for her, the last drop. But she did end face down on her living room, on top of the broken table. It's a very elegant narrative tool where we don't see, but if we wanted to see, it's there.

And the more she notices, the more off-putting the sitcom is. It's still played as a joke, with the laugh track, but she is more aware now, so we can notice too.

We start the series with her turning point, but if the series started a year before that, it would only be happening in her house, as it is her life, her only frame of reference, and it would only be a sitcom because isn't he such a clumsy but caring guy?

[goodlucktai]

so i have a very self-indulgent au in the works and im torn between posting it in increments as i write it or just waiting and posting the whole thing once it's completed

[guardbo]

new laptop new drawing tablet new pvp evbo ref!!!!! yayyyy!!!!

i cant wait to draw him over and over omgggg :33

[transmechanicus]

What the fuuuuuuck

[beldamdoll]

The Outsiders Groupchat

Greasersss 👊🤟

Dally 🥰- Hey..Y/N...miss you..

Dally has sent an attachment

Y/N 🧚‍♀️- Dally. This is the groupchat..

Steve🚗 - Awwoooga 🤩🤪

Two-bit 🍻- Dallas oh my 😍

Tim👊 - Come here lemme buy you a drink 😆😘

Dally🥰 - Awh shit how do you delete this

Y/N🧚‍♀️- Leave him alone guys..

Evie 🧜‍♀️- Wowza.

Steve🚗 - EVIE GET OFF🤬

Angela 💅- Y/n you were harsh on him

Dally 🥰- WHAT?

Y/N 🧚‍♀️- ANGELA😲

Angela💅 - JOKING! 🤣

Tim 👊- ANGELA GET OFF🤬

Johnny 🔪- Dallas get out of my bathroom right now....🤨

[finniestoncrane]

hello apologies for not getting back to replies or messages or asks, i'm running on a queue so i'm not ignoring anyone i'm just going through it

i'm going to take some time off work next week to try and rejuvenate myself but this has been a loooooooong ass period of the blues

[mercymaker]

you know those nightmares where you're running and no matter how hard you're trying, how stressed you are, how much you're exerting yourself, you still can barely move?? ?? i realized that most of the time conversations feel like that to me

[staygolden-and-chaotic]

If the greasers had a group chat together 👀💅🏻

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Group Chat Name: “Leather Jackets and Bad Decisions”

Dally: Alright, who’s free to hit up the DX later?

Two-Bit: Only if Y/N promises not to start another fight with the cashier.

Y/N: HE CALLED ME A KID! I’m not letting some pimple faced punk disrespect me.

Curly: You punched him over that? I’ve seen toddlers taller than you, Y/N.

Y/N: Say that to my face, Shepard. Oh wait, you can’t I’ll knock you out.

Tim: Both of you, knock it off. I ain’t bailing anyone out of jail this week.

Dally: Bet you five bucks you’ll change your mind by Friday.

Johnny: Do we have to fight every time we hang out?

Ponyboy: Yes. It’s basically our group activity at this point.

Steve: Fighting and bad decisions. That’s what we’re good at.

Two-Bit: Speak for yourself I’m also good at stealing beer. 🍺

Sodapop: Yeah, and drinking half of it before you get back to the group.

Y/N: Priorities, Soda. Two Bit’s just a thirsty man.

Curly: Unlike you, who’s just desperate for attention.

Y/N: Careful, Curly. I’ll send that photo of you crying over your broken switchblade to the whole gang.

Curly: YOU WOULDN’T.

Y/N: Try me.

Tim: …Why are you two always like this?

Dally: She likes him. It’s obvious.

Y/N: 🤮 Please. I’d rather kiss a snake.

Curly: Feeling’s mutual. You’d probably bite harder than the snake.

Johnny: Guys, can we just talk about how Pony’s the only one who hasn’t said anything dumb yet?

Ponyboy: I’m just here to observe.

Sodapop: And judge us all silently.

Dally: You’re no saint, Pony. Don’t act like it.

Two-Bit: Yeah, I saw you sneaking out of the house last weekend. Where were you going, huh?

Ponyboy: …I don’t know what you’re talking about.

Y/N: Pony’s got a secret girlfriend!

Curly: No way. Pony couldn’t talk to a girl if his life depended on it.

Ponyboy: Oh, and you’re an expert?

Dally: Pony’s got a point. Last time I saw Curly try to flirt, the girl ran in the opposite direction.

Curly: At least I try! You’re just scary, Dally.

Tim: Can we focus here? What’s the plan for tonight?

Dally: Same as always. Cause trouble, maybe hit a party, see what happens.

Y/N: Sounds good to me. Let’s roll.

Curly: Fine, but Y/N buying snacks this time.

Y/N: Over my dead body.

[cutebisexualmess]

love living in australia!

[welcometomybraincomics]

Shockwave, Father of Decepticons

Not bc he started the faction, but bc he is the father of many, many Decepticons

[bmpmp3]

i do wish i was better at communicating with people online and through technology. i wander into conversations and make new ones all the time irl with random people and its fun but im like hyping myself to type out a single response to a Post. and to say nothing of how difficult it is to get me to say something in a discord server

[lordsardine]