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I've seen people make these intro posts so ig I'll do one? But i'm on a laptop so it's not going to be pretty ^^" just me yapping about myself lol also here's My masterlist of more important posts (link will lead you to a Google doc with links to my posts) no I don't know what counts as important to my brain :p
Boundary posts: I am NOT open to debating or being debated with!!!
Trust me Steveboy gets a cat when they grow up and name it Pepsi
Oh absolutely.
Steve loves having Soda over and then saying shit like 'Pepsi stop licking your ass on the counter!'
It makes Pony cringe and cackle every time
I’m so sorry if we already asked this and we just forgot but uhh what do we rhink of Hellenic polytheist Ponyboy 👀👀👀
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE THIS ASK THANK YOU!!!!!
Apollo devotee. No questions asked.
Would both love and hate Rick Riordan books and would keep every single one on his shelf and take immense joy in pointing out mythological innaccuraces
Owns an unreasonable amount of candles and incense. Drives his family insane because he lights them a LOT (based on me getting banned from lighting candles and incense after the 6th time the fire alarm went off in a month)
Books upon books on paganism, wicca, greek mythology, and hellenic polytheism
Carefully writes down everything he learns and does
Has a sun necklace that he wears a LOT
Hestia devotee?
Loves offering drawings and writings
Do Not ask him about the Greek deities or paganism, or you WILL be subject to 3+ hours of rambling
Guys I haven't touched an Outsiders fic in at least a week, meanwhile I've been OBSESSED with Criminal Minds </3 I feel like a traitor ToT
OUTSIDERS FANDOM I STILL LOVE YOU I'M JUST HYPERFIXATED ON CRIMINAL MINDS RN <///33333
I’m pretty sure I’m the og ending of the outsiders Ponyboy was supposed to like sit on the train tracks and like khs so let’s say that did happen how would the gang take it? Would it be similar to if he and Johnny swapped places or would it be some “living on for him” kinda thing?
OOH!!! THIS ONE IS GOOOOODDDD!!! OKAYYYYY!!! i haven't been super active obviously cause I'm going through a bit of burn-out, and I'm kinda rusty(james, hehe) with posting on here, so forgive me if this isn't as good as my usual angsty hcs/aus!!!
The very first thing I'm thinking of is TRAIN SYMBOLISM!!!!!! Trains, in both fandom and the canon medias for The Outsiders, represent a beginning or an end. The end of the Curtis parents' life, the end of Dally's life, the beginning of the end of Johnny's life (with him going to the church on a train). And then each appearance of the train brings about a major change or effect - the Curtis parents' death haunting the narrative, and Johnny and Dally's deaths irrevocably changing the gang and heavily impacting how Pony sees the world. So it stands to reason that Pony dying by train in particular would be a VERY large thing with a VERY LARGE impact.
I've talked before about how Pony is the representation of the East side's hopes and dreams and innocence. He's the one who lived through their struggles, saw their struggles, and made it out anyways. He is quite literally hope. The proof that greasers aren't just hoodlums doomed to die in alleyways and bars. This is one of the major differences between 'johnny dies and pony lives' and 'johnny AND pony die:' Johnny is someone who didn't deserve the hand he got but was doomed because of it and therefore his death - while impactful to the gang and Pony - was expected. As said in the musical: "Johnny has no kind of chance in this world | Not from where he's had to start | Who knows how far in this life he could go | If he played a different part." Meanwhile Pony is someone who didn't deserve to die, wasn't expected to die, carried the hopes and dreams of all who knew him (and even those who had only ever heard of the bright Curtis boy who would be one of the few to make it out), and died anyways. Johnny's death would cause grief in those who knew him well, Pony's death would cause hopelessness in those who had merely heard of him, because his death would be proof that no matter how good or talented or smart or privileged (Pony having an actually good family and inherent smarts and intelligence) a greaser is, the world will push them down anyways until they can't get back up.
Now!!! How would the gang in particular take this? I actually have a post on that! And actually I'm just now realizing as I write this that I have a post that basically answers this exact ask except it's Pony dying in the fire and Johnny survives, not Pony sitting on the train tracks after Johnny's already dead....
Link to that post!!!
I think the only difference between the results of that ask and this one is that Pony dying the same way the Curtis parents do would be a huge kick in the gut to everyone who knew the Curtis parents, even in passing.
Just saw an outsiders hc where Steve eats Pony's leftovers on purpose (sometimes_347444 on TikTok), and because I love angst and torturing the foal, I immediately thought of how this would affect autistic!pony
Because let's be real, that kinda shit can fuck up your whole MONTH. And I'm speaking from experience - I once bought fast food, came home and put it on my counter, it slipped off and fell on the ground, and I had a meltdown so bad that the floor was cleaned for me and my parents went out to get me a replacement, and I STILL think about that years later.
Imagine Ponyboy - exhausted after school and track practice, having looked forward to eating those leftovers all day, only for him to come home, look in the icebox (fridge), and it's fucking GONE. He states at the space where it could be for 5 seconds, rummages through the icebox trying to find it, fails, states at the icebox again for another 5 seconds, and then runs to his room and bursts out into tears. The door is locked, he won't respond to anyone, and he doesn't talk to anyone for the next 3 days. He won't tell anyone why he's upset, even when Soda BEGS him to, and Johnny sits with him for hours, and Darry tries every trick in the book to get him to just SPEAK.
Steve has an inkling as to why Pony is so upset, but the idea fills him with so much guilt that he tells himself it's ridiculous and pushes the thought away and continues occasionally eating Pony's leftovers.
Fic idea that anyone can take on: TW - whatever people should be warned for in Lolita ig
Dalpony canon era but make it Lolita. I don't usually address the age gap in my Dalpony or DalOhNy (Dally/Johnny/Pony) fics, but it is realistically problematic and will be until Pony is at least like, 21-22.
I'm thinking it'll be set when they're 13 & 16 or 14 & 17, but I'm unsure. Very little tags and warnings for satire (is that the right word?), make it more implied. The entire narrative is going 'oh yes this is okay! its love they know each other they trust each other' yada yada yada, and it's written very seriously, as if the entire point isn't to show how people romanticize these kinds of age gaps and relationships without consciously acknowledging they're only okay in fiction.
Probably add in some kind of abuse or neglect, like Dally cheating on Pony, getting super upset when Pony asks if they can tell their friends, Dally guilt-tripping Pony, maybe even pressuring him into sexual acts. But make it complicated by showing that Dally has no clue this is truly wrong, because this is the same way he and the other boys treat women, and then apply that POV to the narrative itself. Keep it vague. Don't word it as Dally pressuring Pony, word it as him comforting Pony and helping him be more open. Don't word it as Dally cheating and gaslighting Pony, word it as him keeping their cover up so people don't kill them for being gay and oh he doesn't really enjoy it and its not as good as it is with Pony.
Perhaps it's canon compliant and Dally dies along with Johnny (or maybe only Johnny survives so he gets to be there for the reveal), and people don't quite understand why Pony seems so broken up about Dally to an almost theatrical extent, until he reaches under his shirt and reveals a chain with Dally's skull ring on it. He - in tears - tells the gang everything about his and Dally's relationship, and how much he misses Dally helping him be more comfortable with intimacy (aka pushing Pony's boundaries until he got a yes). How much he wishes Dally were here because who else would be willing to sleep with random girls just to protect Pony. And the gang isn't stupid right so they cotton on to the fact that Dally was manipulating Pony and not really helping him even though - while no one knows this - Dally thought he was doing the right thing, or at least not being any worse than usual. And of course they're telling Pony hey you've been manipulated this was NOT okay but Pony and the narrative double-down on this being okay for a while until someone (i imagine Darry or Johnny in the case he's still alive) really sits him down and says the right words in the right order and the entire feel and wording of the narrative changes to be dark and realistic and show that this wasn't some difficult but otherwise good relationship, but a toxic one.
And it kinda ends with Pony sitting at Dally's grave a year later and he's talking to Dally and wondering aloud if Dally himself even knew that what he was doing was wrong.
Bonus points if it includes feminist themes kinda along the lines of 'wait it wasn't cool that all this was happening to me/Pony, but isn't that what people/I do to women? Why did it only upset me when it came to myself/someone I knew?'
Hcs for Pony just being the clingiest guy on planet earth ? 👀👀 (can be agere or just in general whichever u wanna do ^_^)
-Ambrose
Love this i LOVEEEEE clingy Pony!!!
Lemme be clear - this boy is not clingy in the normal sense. He is FAR too insecure and self-conscious to be constantly latching onto whoever is around him. HOWEVER:
When he and someone else are walking together, he's following them. Even if they have a specific destination, he's not walking with them to said destination, he's following them and they are taking both themself and him to the destination. If they change course or take a wrong turn or get lost? Well Pony doesn't realize. He's just following them.
He kinda orbits people. He likes being alone, likes his privacy, but if the entire gang is in the living room and he's had a good/okay day, then he'll leave his room and linger in the kitchen. At school, he'll lean against the lockers and listen to the people around him. When walking through the halls, he pushes through the most crowded areas just to be around people. His eyes constantly search around, finding people he knows and following them because looking at them feels a little like being with them.
He doesn't like when people intentionally touch him without permission, but every time his shoulders brush against someone else's it feels grounding - like a reminder he's not alone in the world (and yeah he always gets a little tense when accidentally touched but he imagines that never be touched would be much worse so he puts up with and even enjoys the way his skin crawls (touch-starved Pony who thought he was touch-averse for the longest time, my beloved twin)).
With Soda and Johnny, he's clingy in the typical way. He leans against them when no one is looking, rushes to be the one to patch up their injuries, pretends to fall asleep when sitting next to them so they'll let him rest on their shoulder, etc. Of course, everyone knows he's pretending to sleep because in his sleep, he's constantly shifting and mumbling and his breathing wavers every couple minutes, but no one told Pony that so he just assumes he sleeps still and quiet.
Other than Soda and Johnny, he doesn't go out of his way to initiate physical touch with the rest of the gang, but he doesn't push them away either. Steve messes with his hair? He's scowling and huffing and gently slapping his hand but not actually trying to push him away. Two-Bit tackles him to the ground? He shouts, pushes him, complains about him smelling like beer, but never genuinely tries to get him off. Dally swings an arm around his neck? Pony doesn't even comment, just leans in unconsciously. Darry patting his back or resting a hand on his shoulder? He doesn't even tense up for a moment like he does with the rest of the gang, he relaxes.
love that no one ever talks about Dally going/not going to school. because the boy is 17 he still technically should be going to school, but the general assumption seems to be that he doesn't. Which makes sense! But I've never seen a fic or post where the WHY or HOW is explained, it's always just him subtly being excluded. In sick fics or whump fics where Pony needs his homework picked up, i've seen Johnny, Two-Bit, and Steve as options picking up his hw but never Dally. In fics where there's school scenes, Dally ain't there. It's just the general consensus that dally doesn't go to school. And not even in the way I'll see other greasers portrayed where it's like, they have classes, they're on the roster, they just don't show up more than necessary. NO, it seems like Dally isn't even ENROLLED at the highschool.
And again I get why, boy would NEVER go to school or do the work even if he was enrolled, and he's in and out of jail. But it's led to my favorite HC about Dally, which is he's not stupid, but not only is he not stupid, he's smart. Smart enough to have already graduated. Because lets be real, whether he ran away to Tulsa or was moved there by his father or whatever, he HAS to have documentation because he keeps getting arrested! He has a record! The courts know him! And I assume he has some sort of license. Meaning they have to know his age, meaning the authorities know that he's supposed to be going to school. But he doesn't go to school, and (i assume based off of both canon and the fandom portrayal of his life) isn't facing any truancy charges or consequences. Leading me to believe that he skipped a couple grades and was graduated by 17, and maybe even before he came to Tulsa. This is now my favorite headcanon for Dally.
ponyboy curtis would listen to the Dear Evan Hansen soundtrack, relate to Evan (especially Waving Through A Window), and then be BAFFLED when he actually watches the musical
POC Soc headcanons but make them at least somewhat realistic for the time (1940sish-1960s)
Randy is white-passing, half Mexican half white. Marcia is visibly mixed black and white.
Randy is an illegitimate child, his father had a one-night stand with a Mexican sex worker, who found Randy's father's address and dropped Randy on his doorstep.
Randy's father never told a SOUL about Randy being Mexican, and wouldn't have taken Randy in if he wasn't 1) white passing, and 2) a boy.
Randy was raised mostly by his nanny and the people who worked in the house, because his father didn't want to raise a mixed child and his mother didn't want an illegitimate child but had no say in Randy staying or not.
Randy only finds out as an adult after having children that don't quite look white. He accepts them but is very reluctant to learn anything about his - and therefore his kids' - culture. Becoming a flower child and giving up fighting and trying not to judge people by their social class is one thing, learning about non-white races is a whole other. For the most part, he suppresses any feelings that come with this discovery and acts as though he's fully white. It's only once his kids grow up and try to embrace being part Mexican that he tentatively learns more, but he never fully comes around, although he loves that his kids are more open-minded and accepting than he is.
Marcia's father was filthy rich, like 'CEO of his own brand while also coming from a line of rich people rich,' as well as super well connected. That's how he was able to convince Marcia's mother to marry him. She was poor, living on the East side, and worked nights at a bar that Marcia's father would go to. He saw her working there one night, supposedly 'fell in love,' and said he'd give her and her family anything they could ever want, so long as she acted as white and upper-class as possible and married him.
Marcia was never close to her mother. As a kid, she tried to be, but she never understood why her mother always looked at her so sadly that eventually Marcia stopped trying. She was closer to her father, who praised her naturally-straight hair, bought her anything she could ever want, and gave her stories of her getting married to a white husband of his choosing.
She was basically raised to act like a proper white girl, and she fully believes that she and her mother are very lucky for all the privileges and lessons her father has given them on being proper.
She received a lot of threats as she got older, and was often treated with distain veiled in politeness because no one was willing to upset her father.
She dated Randy for years up until he became a flower child, and they were actually fairly happy together. He saw her as odd, and a little strange, but one of the 'good ones,' and he enjoyed her company. She was just happy that someone other than Cherry seemed to actually like and respect her, and she didn't mind him when he's away from Bob.
Upon becoming an adult, she married a man of her father's choosing who acted as though she wasn't there unless he needed something from her, and for her that was enough.
She had a few kids who she raised the way her daddy raised her, and stayed in contact with Cherry. She isn't faced with the idea that the way she was raised was wrong until she's much older, probably during the 2010s-2020s, but even then she never fully realizes it.
I have a short oneshot about her upbringing here
How would the littles act by themselves?
Oooohhh okay I like this one!!! Thank you so much for this ask!! I've honest to god been STUMPED on all my asks recently but this one has managed to intrigue my silly, illogical, unfocused brain!!
Darry: He's rarely regressed - only ever does it every couple months, once his stress piles up enough that he can't hold back the regression. Usually, he makes sure he's alone before he regresses, so no one is ever really there anyways, other than sometimes Two-Bit who seems to have a sixth sense for when Darry needs someone to support him. Generally, he's pretty quiet. Doesn't make a lot of noise, doesn't really play with toys, none of that. He was always a more athletic, quiet kid, and that shows when he's regressed. Not to say that he doesn't or can't like being loud, and playing with toys, and never throws tantrums or has meltdowns! It's just that when he's alone, it's less fun to push toy cars back and forth, and there's no one to cry to when he's upset, and he's also influenced by his big mindset to not want anyone to know when he's regressed, so he tries to be quiet even when he wants to play loud games. Besides, usually his regression makes his physical aches and pains a lot more prominent, so he spends his time napping, or taking a bath, or something equally relaxing.
This isn't a part of the ask, but it's just an aspect of Darry's regression I'd like to yap about and can be skipped over if you want just the ask: Part of the reason Darry doesn't regress a lot is due to how grounded in reality he is. He's tried zoning out, repressing memories, forgetting his responsibilities so he can relax, and he even tried indulging (for lack of better words) his regression a couple times, but he just couldn't do it. He's too aware of everything. At all times, he can feel his broad shoulders and how they make his arms hang kinda awkwardly at his sides. Can feel when the sun is beating down on him at work, even when he tries his hardest to conjure up memories of winter. Can remember every moment where he wished he'd done something differently. Even when he tries just staring at a wall and getting lost in thought, his mind is analyzing every mark and dent in the wall at 1000 miles an hour. He's insufferably aware of everything, and always has been - even when he was a teen, out partying, and trying to ignore the clock so he can truthfully say he lost track of time and didn't mean to come home so late. It's why he's so frustrated by Pony's (and anyone's really) forgetfulness and thoughtlessness. The way his mind is always aware, and thinking, and observing, makes it impossible for Darry to let go of himself and relax and regress willingly. It always has to be involuntary. (based on my own experiences with escapism and regression)
Two-Bit: I've talked about this before, but people can't tell when he's regressed. He doesn't regress too young, and he's always been the 'comic relief'. The one laughing and joking and stumbling over nothing due to both clumsiness and alcoholism. He started drinking pretty early too, so even when he's regressed he's drinking and playing cards and cursing. The only sign he's regressed is that he drinks more, both because his regression gives him all these weird, twisted up feelings, and so he can excuse any slurred words, clumsiness, or childishness. All that to say, whether he's big and with someone, little and with someone, big and alone, or little and alone, he's gonna act the same, because even as he grows and changes, the happy mask he wears doesn't.
Dally: Cries. He cries. A lot. He's a baby regressor, with the oldest he gets being 5-6, and he hates being alone. He'll cry until someone comes for him. If no one does for hours and hours, his cries will quiet and he'll just quietly sob himself to sleep.
Steve: He's usually pretty quiet when he's without Sodapop but still has company. However, when he's without Soda and fully alone, he's surprisingly loud. As a kid, he liked taking advantage of the times his old man was out of the house to do whatever he wanted - eat the food his dad won't notice is gone, watch TV on full blast, make super loud special effect noises when playing with cars, etc - and he does the same when regressed. When he's alone, he can let himself be as loud or quiet as he wants without worrying about the consequences. Sometimes, of course, he prefers to be quiet when he's alone, but he kinda thinks of it as a wasted opportunity, since it's rare he's fully alone, and he can be quiet anytime, but he can't always be loud.
Soda: Loud. This boy is loud. It's rare he regresses, like super super rare, but if he's regressed and alone? He's looking for someone. He wants to play with his brothers, or dig in the dirt, or run up and down the streets of Tulsa until he collapses from exhaustion. The only thing stopping him from just going around on his own and finding something to do is the fact that the caregivers will scold him into next month for it. Sometimes, though, when he's not doing too hot, and he finds himself regressed and alone, he'll just find a corner and sit there. Usually in his and Pony's bedroom. It feels scary being alone, but he needs the time to decompress and think and regulate himself, and he'd rather be alone for that.
Johnny: Quiet constantly. Maybe he's crying softly in a corner because he's upset, or maybe he's completely fine and playing with a stick, but either way he's quiet - alone or otherwise.
Pony: Quiet. He's so constantly surrounded by loud people, and loud environments, and his thoughts are loud, so whenever he's alone it's like something shifts in his brain and he completely shuts down. Leave him alone for long enough and when you come back he'll be limp on the ground staring at nothing.
Genuinely hilarious to me when people say that Mike “fumbled” Will like Will wasn’t the one who took himself off the market and basically rejected Mike cause of some shit Vecna showed him (that we didn’t see cause the Duffers are morons)
Like you cannot tell me this wouldn’t be Will’s reaction upon finding out that he fumbled Mike hard and basically self sabotaged himself for the millionth time
They get together later on tho cause I refuse to give them a sad ending fuck u duffers.
NO but Mike just....NOT BEING TOLD THINGS AND PEOPLE ASSUMING SHIT ABOUT HIM???? Is a reoccurring thing in his relationships!!!
Max encouraged El to dump him and El did dump him, but that's because no one took the time to really sit him down and be like 'hey this is a safe space I'm not gonna be mad at you just please tell me why tf you're lying?' and he wasn't able to tell anyone about Hopper telling him to stay away from El!! If Max had known that Mike - as far as he knows - really does love El and the only reason he was staying away is because of a perceived threat from an older man, I'd like to think Max would've taken his side in this and they and El would've figured something out.
Mike and Will and their fight in the rain has always frustrated me because guys just COMMUNICATE!!!! Will your best friend has just been broken up with this isn't the time for D&D. Sit Mike (and Lucas) down and explain that you've been feeling neglected, and want to enjoy the things you used to do! And Mike's "its not my fault you dont like girls!" is something ive ALWAYS seen as 'you just havent gotten to the point where youre dating yet' and NEVER seen as 'YOURE GAY AND IM SHOVING THAT IN YOUR FACE.' And then they NEVER speak about it ever even after Mike goes to Will's house in the rain to apologize?????
Then Will calling Mike his Tammy even though Mike over here clearly has NO CLUE what's been going on because he trusts that the people around him are telling him things straight-up and being honestly with him, and so he's completely oblivious about Will's feelings about their fights and the painting and all of that because legit NO ONE EVER SAT HIM DOWN AND WAS LIKE 'yeah Mike Will may be saying this stuff be he doesn't actually mean it.'
How would Johnny react if Ponyboy came out as transfem to him in an AU? (I just red your girl!Pony rant lol)
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE I LOVE TRANSFEM PONY!!!!
First off, it's the 60's. This boy has never given a single thought to trans people, and probably doesn't even know the words people use for them. He's vaguely aware of how queerness isn't accepted, and knows the general populace's opinions on trans people, but not much else, and he hasn't given thought to it cause...yknow...he has bigger problems. And he never really thought anyone he knew would be queer either, so Pony coming out to him is a very surprising thing.
Pony probably doesn't know the terminology used for trans people at the time either, so she's just kinda like... 'Johnny, I dunno how to say this, but I think I'm a girl...' and Johnny stares at her for five seconds and whispers something baffled like '...did- did your penis fall off????' because, again, it's the 60's, his first thought isn't 'oh Pony is trans!'
Once Pony explains it, Johnny and her kinda sit in silence for a little bit while Johnny thinks.
It takes Johnny a couple minutes, admittedly, but he wants to fully untangle how he feels about this and how he thinks he should respond to Pony, because he knows Pony is gonna dissect EVERYTHING he says, so he has to be careful with his words.
In the end, he probably says something along the lines of 'I don't really understand, but that's okay....Do you still want me to like, call you 'Pony' and 'he' n stuff? Are you gonna start wearing heels because those seem really painful-' and Johnny's sheer panic at the idea of wearing heels makes Pony burst out laughing
to kinda go hand-in-hand with my belief that Ponyboy represses any traits/desires that could be seen as feminine (wanting to bake, humming under his breath, reading things other than classics and textbooks, letting himself be emotional, etc), girl!Pony would be opposite yet the same. She's very feminine and acts the way people expect her to (the way Ponyboy does) - she wears what's expected, patches the guys up when they come to the house injured, shrugs off their teasing nicknames of 'doll' and 'sweetheart' and such, bakes, cleans, etc - but is hiding her more 'masculine' traits. She swipes manuals on cars from Soda and Steve and reads them when alone. She wrestles with Johnny when no one is around (he doesn't really understand why she likes wrestling since she's a girl, but he knows it makes her happy and he'd rather she come to him for a fight rather than someone who might hurt her). She swipes cigarettes from the guys and can go through a pack a day, if only she didn't have to hide it. She steals jeans and shirts from her brothers and swipes a leather jacket and hair grease, all so she can make herself look like a boy and sneak out when the gang isn't watching her. A couple of times she follows the guys to a rumble and watches them fight, wishing she could be there. She has a switch she stole and keeps hidden in her pocket, and she's always fidgeting with it and practicing how to fight with it.
Unlike Ponyboy, however, she's not ashamed of these traits. She hides them because she knows that they won't be looked favorably upon and would be discouraged, but unlike canon!Pony who is a 'feminine' boy surrounded by guys who he wants to fit in with and knows will make fun of him for his 'feminine' traits, she's a 'masculine' girl who is surrounded by guys she'd be happy to fit in with if only they'd let her and not many women who can make her feel shame for her 'masculine' traits. She'd maybe feel the general shame that comes with not living up to what society and the people around you think you should be, but with so many male role models and not many women role models, plus the increasing popularity in the women's right movement, she wouldn't be as ashamed about it, and would get over it a little quicker - maybe soon after canon, whereas with canon!pony we never really see any major hints of him accepting who is and finding his place in the gang despite the major growth he's done after Bob and the fire and Johnny and Dally's death.
Just in general, Ponyboy's character has always represented freedom, which is why when I see girl!Pony who wants to be more feminine, I enjoy it and the possible social commentary, but it doesn't ring true to me. Ponyboy sees the molds he's supposed to fit into (a boy/girl, a greaser, a smart kid) and tries to fit into it - whether due to shame and a desire to be acknowledged (Ponyboy) or due to an awareness that the people around her may not accept her 'masculine' traits (girl!Pony) - but will eventually have to come to an equilibrium. Will eventually have to realize that these a boy/girl doesn't have to adhere to masculine/feminine traits, and that allowing yourself traits that society doesn't see as masculine/feminine doesn't make you any less of a guy/girl.
It's hard to explain, but when I see girl!Pony who's starting point for character growth is being stereotypically masculine not feeling like a girl, it clashes with my view of Pony (canon and genderbent) where their starting point for growth isn't 'a boy/girl who has been surrounded by men his/her whole life and is trying to accept his/her femininity' (although i can see why that's some peoples' starting point) but is instead 'a boy/girl who has had society and the people around him/her tell her how to act and is slowly trying to handle the fact that he/she is more feminine/masculine than is socially acceptable.'
TLDR; boy!pony's gender expression journey is 'tries to act masculine and tuff but has a few prominent feminine traits -> slowly accepts the feminine traits -> will end up swinging back and forth between extreme masculinity and femininity for a bit -> finally comes to an equilibrium' and girl!pony's gender expression journey is 'tries to act feminine and like her mom but has a few prominent masculine traits -> slowly accepts the masculine traits -> will end up swinging back and forth between extreme femininity and masculinity for a bit -> finally comes to an equilibrium.' This is because I don't see Pony's character (as both male and female) as a person who has/is grown/growing up surrounded by boys and trying to escape the stereotypical masculinity that comes with that, but instead a person who is surrounded by society's gender-based expectations of them and wants to break free from them.
Lines that the fandom just breezes right past:
Okay guys so this isn't Outsiders related but- WAIT DONT YOU SCROLL PAST ME I HAVE SOMETHING IMPORTANT TO ASK!!!!
...Okay so!! I'd love it SO MUCH if ya'll could fill out a Bullying/Harassment survey of mine. I explain why I need this in the form, but to summarize, I'll be making a google slideshow about bullying/harassment. It won't be anything special, just a short slideshow meant to show people that bullying/harassment is prevalent in our society. I'll be presenting this slideshow in a classroom of my peers on Friday (less than two days!!!) so it'd mean a lot if you either filled it out, or shared it so I could get more responses!!!
This survey is for a project of mine that I'm doing for Fearless! It's a non-profit organization and shelter that is currently hosting a wee
Thank you guys so much and have a good day!! <33
Thank you to everyone who shared this and/or filled it out!! Yall have been so helpful, especially since EVERYONE said I could quote them! I'm really confident in this project and so happy with how it turned out, especially since I only had a day to do it. Thank yall again SO much, i genuinely thought i wouldn't get enough quotes or participants, and while i obviously didn't get like 100 people, i got just enough to make this project and I'm SO happy about it. Thank yall for being vulnerable, and helping me spread awareness <333
